Don't forget the cheap and DRM unencumbered ink and toner. From what I understand, the page counter in their toner cartridges is entirely mechanical and easy to reset.
The Nook Color is nigh-unbrickable since you can boot from alternate media and completely reformat internal storage, no matter how screwed the image is.
The worst that can happen is that you blow away the partition containing the MAC address, battery calibration, serial number, and the certificate that identifies the device to the BN store. For custom firmware, these aren't all that necessary, and from what I understand the BN stores have a magic SD card that can recover this all from a server based on the printed serial number.
The Fire has a newer OMAP CPU with similar boot capabilities, and although it doesn't have an SD card slot, OMAP3 and 4 can be booted over USB. If Amazon is smart they'll not try to lock that down and avoid a long string of RMAs.
True, it's a little stale, but manufacturer refurbs run between $150 and $160 and are expected to plummet as soon as BN announces their next-gen Nook Color. For that money it's a great deal if only as a web browser and media player.
What will be interesting is if the follow-on is as hacker friendly as this model.
If you look at the photo, the frame is through-hole. What they're slashvertising is a connector with a second frame that resists torquing the PCB when stress is put on the connector.
I forgot to mention that most of these things are accessed easily through MSRs or PCI config space, both of which are easy to access from an OS driver.
Nevermind microcode. Most of the silicon bug workarounds that BIOS implements are in the form of "chicken bits": undocumented (or not publicly documented) configuration bits that the chip designers put in to turn off or tweak new features to a design. Also, a lot of features in modern processors and chipsets have a large analog component. A CPU could have hundreds of SERDES links, each with DLLs, equalization, not to mention chip-wide PLLs, power supply controls, voltage references, and more. Similar adjustments can be done to many of these during BIOS startup to correct for manufacturing or design issues.
Samsung (and Micron I think) sell a multi-chip BGA with flash and DRAM stacked in the same way. Some of these models are meant to fit on top of an SoC like Samsung's Hummingbird or TI's OMAP in a scheme called PoP
Except by now flash manufacturers have the stacked die process down pat, fitting many geebees in a single BGA. Presumably this is using the same manufacturing process, using bond wires on one edge of the stagger to connect to the substrate.
Hopefully this means bringing the kit price down to under $500 and cheaper feedstock. I had just saved up enough money for the Cupcake kit when they were discontinued in favor of the new version at twice the price.
-there are thousands of chips out there that have a built-in SATA interface -BIOSes and kernels already know SATA, and developers are already used to working with it -MMC/SD/eMMC doesn't come close to the throughput of SATA -manufacturers don't like vendor lock-in, and SATA is the most popular non-embedded SSD interface
Not to mention all the pre-RoHS leaded solder gracing the big fat solder points on those flyback bearing PCBs. I don't think many CRTs were manufactured with "unleaded" solder if any at all.
Great camp! I have to credit the electronics lab there for cementing my career path. Though the dirt bikes and tour of a nuke plant were a good time too.
"We're traveling faster than the speed of light. That means, by the time we see something, we've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown-trousers time"
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By that measure, Richard D. James must make the most relaxing music ever, given that he also makes some of his own instruments.
Until that happens, enjoy the increasingly more garish whips the buggy drivers will be brandishing.
Don't forget the cheap and DRM unencumbered ink and toner. From what I understand, the page counter in their toner cartridges is entirely mechanical and easy to reset.
The Nook Color is nigh-unbrickable since you can boot from alternate media and completely reformat internal storage, no matter how screwed the image is.
The worst that can happen is that you blow away the partition containing the MAC address, battery calibration, serial number, and the certificate that identifies the device to the BN store. For custom firmware, these aren't all that necessary, and from what I understand the BN stores have a magic SD card that can recover this all from a server based on the printed serial number.
The Fire has a newer OMAP CPU with similar boot capabilities, and although it doesn't have an SD card slot, OMAP3 and 4 can be booted over USB. If Amazon is smart they'll not try to lock that down and avoid a long string of RMAs.
True, it's a little stale, but manufacturer refurbs run between $150 and $160 and are expected to plummet as soon as BN announces their next-gen Nook Color. For that money it's a great deal if only as a web browser and media player.
What will be interesting is if the follow-on is as hacker friendly as this model.
Not to mention that Amazon will ship that WD2002FAEX floating around in a cardboard box as part of their "Frustration-free packaging" program.
It's anybody's Gauss when this will be commercialized.
If you look at the photo, the frame is through-hole. What they're slashvertising is a connector with a second frame that resists torquing the PCB when stress is put on the connector.
This.
I forgot to mention that most of these things are accessed easily through MSRs or PCI config space, both of which are easy to access from an OS driver.
Nevermind microcode. Most of the silicon bug workarounds that BIOS implements are in the form of "chicken bits": undocumented (or not publicly documented) configuration bits that the chip designers put in to turn off or tweak new features to a design. Also, a lot of features in modern processors and chipsets have a large analog component. A CPU could have hundreds of SERDES links, each with DLLs, equalization, not to mention chip-wide PLLs, power supply controls, voltage references, and more. Similar adjustments can be done to many of these during BIOS startup to correct for manufacturing or design issues.
I hope somebody finally got fired for buying IBM.
Samsung (and Micron I think) sell a multi-chip BGA with flash and DRAM stacked in the same way. Some of these models are meant to fit on top of an SoC like Samsung's Hummingbird or TI's OMAP in a scheme called PoP
Except by now flash manufacturers have the stacked die process down pat, fitting many geebees in a single BGA. Presumably this is using the same manufacturing process, using bond wires on one edge of the stagger to connect to the substrate.
Hopefully this means bringing the kit price down to under $500 and cheaper feedstock. I had just saved up enough money for the Cupcake kit when they were discontinued in favor of the new version at twice the price.
At least some of their set-top boxes run Microsoft Mediaroom DVR software. I imagine that will change in the near future.
SD, as in SD Card, SDHC, or SDXC, the fastest of which tops out at 312MB/s. Not SSD.
SD, as in SD Card, SDHC, or SDXC, the fastest of which tops out at 312MB/s. Not SSD. Next time try harder to read the text you quote.
Because:
-there are thousands of chips out there that have a built-in SATA interface
-BIOSes and kernels already know SATA, and developers are already used to working with it
-MMC/SD/eMMC doesn't come close to the throughput of SATA
-manufacturers don't like vendor lock-in, and SATA is the most popular non-embedded SSD interface
e2... How quaint.
HP-UX. Your argument is invalid.
Not to mention all the pre-RoHS leaded solder gracing the big fat solder points on those flyback bearing PCBs. I don't think many CRTs were manufactured with "unleaded" solder if any at all.
Great camp! I have to credit the electronics lab there for cementing my career path. Though the dirt bikes and tour of a nuke plant were a good time too.
Long long ago:
Long time Jedi I am. See machines wielding a lightsaber I do not. Hmph.
"We're traveling faster than the speed of light. That means, by the time we see something, we've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown-trousers time"