On Saturday 27 May 2017 23:42:17 Todd Zuercher wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > > And people wonder why I run plumb out of patience. 2 steps fwd, slip > > and > > 6 steps back. Sigh... I see the light at the end of the tunnel and > > it > > runs me over. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > You've the patience of Job. I'd have pitched that Pi in the rubbish > bin a long time ago and bought something like this to throw at it. > https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-13-157-729
Unforch, with that in the box, I'd have to buy another box to put the 7i90 and 7i42TA's in. And eventually I am out of space behind the lathe. Not to mention the board might be $65, but memory for it, and a psu that might fit in this nice new box, and I'm north of an additional $200 to switch back to a wintel system and a fight to get it installed with the UEFI bios. I thought of that when I bought an "up" board with a quad core atom on it, no bigger than the pi. But it comes with a UEFI bios enabled so you can only install windows 10 on it, and if you turn off the UEFI, you've bricked the SOB, and I am not about to throw another $350 in a jtag programmer and 50 more for the flashrom clipon just to rescue a 100 dollar board. UEFI is something microsoft shoved down our throats in another attempt to create a captive customer. Why the industry as a whole, didn't sue them out of existence is beyond me. They promised it could be turned off if you wanted to install something else, but they by damn didn't tell American Megatrends it had to work if it was turned off. Just one of the reasons there are only glass windows in this house. I'll stop before the air gets even bluer. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
