Oh, don't get me wrong, the Soekris (and it's ilk) are great play boxen, but I don't expect to have a box (any box) that I pieced together out of random parts do the same job as a specific-purpose box at a business set-it-and-forget-it level.
I do enjoy seeing and hearing of the weird things people have done with the Soekrii (is that the plural? It's the one I normally use anyhow *grin*), and I know most of this is stuff I have no idea how to do, but I also don't think it would be fair to any company to expect them to support some of the weird things I've done, or seen people in this list do. And just because I do my own weird things, I have a box in my house with about 10 net4801's with 4GB CF's and 25watt? 50watt? *shrug* the 110/220v power supplies they had when I bought them. I use those for my weird-sciency boxen and when I break one, I toss it and move on. And that reminds me... I need to get the net5501 I b0rked somehow out of the pile of spare machines here and see if I can't get it booted back up again when I get time :) I can't even remember why it was thrown in the pile... -- Cass On 12/1/2011 9:19 PM, Mouse wrote: >> [...] 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 _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
