Hi Jon, I have had my Ben a little while. I just got a micro sd card (2 gb). 4 buck for the card. I have not flashed latest os yet. I'm leaving for trip soon and have not had time. I am going to bring the Ben along. Have usb charger. Not sure charger working properly. At least I can charge via laptop. Will be laptop I can use to charge it up on the trip, though could run out of juice at airport or on plane. I got to admit that I would have gotten a cheap linux netbook, but they almost all don't exist. I heard Microsoft squashed them by lowering price of bundled os. I didn't want to spend lots of $$ on tiny netbook. That is where Ben came in. $94 via amazon for Ben is cool! I think the updating os is a little ridiculous, though probably cool as a learning exercise. Remembering back to days of slackware floppy disk installation, not as bad as that! I found some ogg files on internet archive and I suppose I can convert other sound files to that format. As I mentioned in earlier email, I primarily will use Ben as music player and just to experiment, in general (i.e. python, gcc etc..).
Although most people getting Ben have linux on another machine, for me, it kind of defeated the purpose of having to buy Ben and then get ahold of a linux machine to updated it. That is wifi is so important. Who cares if it is partially proprietary - at least I don't... Linux for home use has not been big for me with owning a Mac os/x laptop and normal windoze machine. Use linux at work. Has not worked at home for anything useful yet.... But, my complaints are minor considering how cool the Ben is and it is a full fledged computer and not a cell phone you need to hack. > From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2012 17:01:46 +0800 > Subject: Re: My Ben Nano probably arrives tommorow - some thoughts > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > > Did you get your Ben? What do you think? Let us know! Welcome to the > community! > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Wolfgang Spraul <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stratman2, > > welcome and thanks for posting here. > > First order of business: lower expectations :-) > > > > When you get your Ben, we should try to update the software to the > > latest release. You are subscribed to the list now, which is > > good. In addition for quick replies or to walk you through an > > upgrade, I suggest the #qi-hardware channel on Freenode. > > If you don't have an IRC client, you can try the webchat at > > > > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=qi-hardware > > > > Cheers, and thanks for buying a Ben, > > Wolfgang > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qi Hardware Discussion List > > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion > > > > -- > Jon Phillips 王✳爻气 http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon > +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) > > _______________________________________________ > Qi Hardware Discussion List > Mail to list (members only): [email protected] > Subscribe or Unsubscribe: > http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
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