Dibbler's Net

Bought this motherboard about a year or so ago. I have previously owned ASUS products and they had all worked very well and had decent features. This one however was pretty much the opposite. Ever since day one the thing has had an issue that I had never seen in most other electronics. The system would not boot, not even POST if the mother board was too cold. And by cold I mean more around room temperature. Quite often after a MS Tuesday night update the machine would be dead from the restart. In order to get the system warm enough to boot I would have to place a jacket over the entire computer case for about 10 minutes. Then it would boot without any issues. After that I would turn the fans back on and remove the jacket and have a running machine. After about a week of this I started hitting the Asus forums. The details were everywhere, people had tried the usual bad power supply or memory or other options. But now looking back the general consensus was that the Rev 2 version of this motherboard had some real issues that only a factory repair would fix. At a certain point you look across how many different models and features Asus has in motherboards and you start to see how little thing’s like QA start to suffer.

Well as of today the pain is over. This motherboard is now on the pile of parts in case I need them area. I will talk more about the replacement in another post as it is not an Asus or an Intel board but something new.
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So there is the i-Phone. While the phone as a phone is maybe par ? (I don’t own one I have just been told this). The true greatness of the phone comes from the apps. I have been needing a phone for about two years that has 2 things. Decent email read and reply, and ssh. This is pretty difficult to find. I really need an internet tablet that is the size of an i-Phone. Well this looks like it may be the idea. The OpenMoko Neo Freerunner is a phone with phone features, multiple network support, wifi, and best of all an open and completely useable OS. I imagine this is where google and android will be sometime next year or the year after that. I have been looking at the freerunner for a while wondering when it would be available in the US and this week they did become available. At the same time they sold out so finding some of these may be a bit difficult. But as soon as I have one I will have some real nice always with me Nagios alerting and an ssh console to help resolve those pesky quick issues.

If you already have one please leave a comment and let me know your thoughts on them.

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Things like this amaze me. People should be able to keep aware of their environment.