> [...] to me, I have to buy something that works first time, not > requires hacking, [...]
> We buy the platforms based on our needs, and don't try to replicate > hardware that already exists elsewhere (eg. trying to stick WLAN > cards in and using them as wireless routers, or something like that). > I have seen some great hardware tweaks done by people in the list, > I've also seen plenty of really strange things (to me) done by people > who probably should just be buying something else Who by your lights probably should be buying something else, maybe. But not everyone shares your point of view. There are people - me, for example - to whom doing something like your example (sticking both WLAN and CDMA cards into a machine that wouldn't normally take them) is an interesting thing to do in its own right, quite aside from whether the result is useful, or provides functionality that could be obtained otherwise, or sometime even whether the attempt succeeds. It's also possible someone already had the pieces lying around for one reason or another and found assembling them to be worth trying rather than spending more money on another device. (I don't recall enough of the incident you refer to to do more than speculate about whether either of these was the case there.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
