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Mar 04 12:31:07 <mjl-> yay, my new sheevaplug+esata just came in
Mar 04 12:31:14 <mjl-> newit is fast
Mar 04 12:53:29 <Reedy> Anyone compared to globalscale is fast :P
Mar 04 13:44:59 <chemicaloliver> mjl-: yeah newIT are pretty amazing
Mar 04 13:45:09 <chemicaloliver> glad I live in the UK not US
Mar 04 15:51:56 <tinker-f595> chemicaloliver: newIT purchases in bulk from Globalscale Technologies.  Without newIT eating in to the supply chain there would be more more available for shipping in the USA at any given time ;)
Mar 04 15:52:55 <mjl-> heh
Mar 04 15:53:14 <mjl-> then where did all the plugs go before newit started selling them? :)
Mar 04 15:53:38 <tinker-f595> mjl-: to the people ordering them directly.
Mar 04 15:53:49 <mjl-> yes i know
Mar 04 15:53:51 <mjl-> but they were slow then too
Mar 04 15:53:58 <mjl-> globalscaletechnologies that is
Mar 04 15:57:30 <tinker-f595> well newIT buys in bulk from Globalscale.  newIT purchased all the guruplugs being produced the 1st couple of months after release.  That is what I read.  This has resulted in no supplies being available till April for direct purchase.  Hoping newIT sells a lot of its stock so that bug reports get back to globalsale and we get revved boards ;)
Mar 04 15:59:22 <tinker-f595> the only reason newIT is faster is because they have more stock on hand than customers purchasing in a given period.
Mar 04 15:59:47 <chemicaloliver> would globalscale surley not just make more knowing newIT where going to make a big order
Mar 04 16:01:06 <chemicaloliver> and there were many reports of poor service from globalscale before newIT started
Mar 04 16:01:08 <tinker-f595> not really.  production lines only have so much capacity.  it can be expensive to up capacity.
Mar 04 16:01:37 <tinker-f595> well I have emailed glbalscale and gotten fast response.
Mar 04 16:11:01 <tinker-f595> chemicaloliver: so how do you like your sheevaplug?
Mar 04 16:13:50 <chemicaloliver> tinker-f595: yeah I really like it, I've had it for about 4 months now running almost all the time, in fact I'm talking to you now on it via ssh and irssi!
Mar 04 16:14:45 <tinker-f595> haw
Mar 04 16:16:10 <tinker-f595> I have had mine for about 9 months.  I have the kernel and RFS booting from an external hard drive.
Mar 04 16:19:03 <tinker-f595> now if could get backtrack distro for arm...
Mar 04 16:31:41 <chemicaloliver> Ihave my /boot on a sd card and the rest of debian on a usb powered hd, that saves any problems with uboot
Mar 04 16:32:04 <chemicaloliver> I'm sure you could make turn debian into backtrack on sheevaplug
Mar 04 16:51:17 <tinker-f595> chemicaloliver: depends on if they have hardcoded any x86 specific stuff in it.  That would take time to did out of the source code and replace.
Mar 04 16:51:29 <tinker-f595> well need to get going to work
Mar 04 17:01:10 <chemicaloliver> I meant most of the tools are generic and you can apt-get lots of them, after you've exausted all the repos then obviously you'd be left with the work you say
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