Hi,
to pick up this discussion again, Parabola has concluded that we will for the time being need only one preview card, and I will privately pay for it in full.
following are the contact information for the hacker in question: Andreas Grapentin (me) andreas@grapentin.org Potsdam, Germany
I can provide a complete address through a more private channel :)
Best, Andreas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Grapentin andreas@grapentin.org wrote:
Hi,
to pick up this discussion again, Parabola has concluded that we will for the time being need only one preview card, and I will privately pay for it in full.
that would be fantastic. it's $USD 2000 a time or so to make 10 samples. i have 9 available working 2.7.4 samples and 9 microdesktop v1.7 pcbs. if you have a usb-to-uart (usual FT232 thing will do) and a soldering iron that would help. if not i might have one spare. also if you can arrange pickup (e.g. DHL) that would be really helpful.
very important: i will mark them as "sample of negligeable value" on the cards themselves and on the customs form.
following are the contact information for the hacker in question: Andreas Grapentin (me) andreas@grapentin.org Potsdam, Germany
I can provide a complete address through a more private channel :)
yes please.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:43:07PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...] it's $USD 2000 a time or so to make 10 samples. i have 9 available working 2.7.4 samples and 9 microdesktop v1.7 pcbs.
So it's 200 $USD for one card plus microdesktop pcb? That is manageable. Let me know where I should transfer the money and I will do that ASAP.
if you have a usb-to-uart (usual FT232 thing will do) and a soldering iron that would help.
yup, plenty of those around.
also if you can arrange pickup (e.g. DHL) that would be really helpful.
I am not sure what that entails - could you elaborate? I was assuming the card would just be shipped to my home address. I am not familiar with dhl pickup, and a quick search didn't produce anything useful.
very important: i will mark them as "sample of negligeable value" on the cards themselves and on the customs form.
good, let's see how that goes. I'm consistently having trouble with packages that go through customs; must be on some kind of watchlist.
-A
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 8:04 PM, Andreas Grapentin andreas@grapentin.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:43:07PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
[...] it's $USD 2000 a time or so to make 10 samples. i have 9 available working 2.7.4 samples and 9 microdesktop v1.7 pcbs.
So it's 200 $USD for one card plus microdesktop pcb?
yyyeah roughly. i forget how much the microdesktop samples were but it's nothing like the cost of the A20 samples. DHL will be... $50 maybe $70, i'll look it up.
That is manageable. Let me know where I should transfer the money and I will do that ASAP.
if you have a usb-to-uart (usual FT232 thing will do) and a soldering iron that would help.
yup, plenty of those around.
awesome. one less thing for me to do. i'll take a photo so you have the pinouts. just fyi if you look at the microdesktop longways with the 20-pin 2.54mm DIL nearest to you and left-right it's GND in the front right corner then TX/RX to the left of those, i forget which is which.
also if you can arrange pickup (e.g. DHL) that would be really helpful.
I am not sure what that entails - could you elaborate? I was assuming the card would just be shipped to my home address. I am not familiar with dhl pickup, and a quick search didn't produce anything useful.
google "DHL scheduled pickup taiwan": http://www.dhl.com.tw/en/express/shipping/pickup.html
mm.... depending on the bank account i might be able to just arrange shipping: i'll have to talk to my partner to find out which bank account has a means and method of paying DHL.
very important: i will mark them as "sample of negligeable value" on the cards themselves and on the customs form.
good, let's see how that goes. I'm consistently having trouble with packages that go through customs; must be on some kind of watchlist.
if you're receiving a lot of stuff, regularly, and it's not a business address then yeah they might get edgy. that being the case it might be better to use Fedex. Fedex are much better: they handle customs payment on your behalf and make damn sure to actually do what they promise: deliver on time.
http://www.fedex.com/tw_english/pickup/
l.
btw i looove taiwan broadband, moving the laptop upped the speed to 1.5mb/sec. an error on my part resulted in the first time being deleted, i'm doing a second one, it will be at http://lkcl.net/parabola_armhf_eoma68.tgz
oo it's only 1.3gb yay (as if 1.3gb is any better... *sigh* i *really* don't like distributing root filesystems, but hey...)
ok go for it andreas, give it a shot.
l.
I know Europe's a whole different ball game -- but -- DHL "eCommerce" shipping (invariably marked on the label as "DHL Global Mail") in the US is the single slowest partnered-with-the-Postal-Service-for-cheaper-service shipping medium that I've ever used. USPS Media Mail is faster! Heck, ePacket from Hong Kong is borderline faster -- and DHL eCommerce is a DOMESTIC service!
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:31:43PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
btw i looove taiwan broadband, moving the laptop upped the speed to 1.5mb/sec. an error on my part resulted in the first time being deleted, i'm doing a second one, it will be at http://lkcl.net/parabola_armhf_eoma68.tgz
Thank you, download is complete.
Could you verify that this sha256 sum is correct: 90678894608b8b7f6bb3aa8feedcc475d8b4b52d27f161046b182091967d3806 parabola_armhf_eoma68.tgz
Can't be careful enough :)
Thanks, -A
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Andreas Grapentin andreas@grapentin.org wrote:
Could you verify that this sha256 sum is correct: 90678894608b8b7f6bb3aa8feedcc475d8b4b52d27f161046b182091967d3806 parabola_armhf_eoma68.tgz
root@dedi28:/var/ftp/lkcl.net# sha256sum parabola_armhf_eoma68.tgz 90678894608b8b7f6bb3aa8feedcc475d8b4b52d27f161046b182091967d3806 parabola_armhf_eoma68.tgz
looks good.
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 07:43:07PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Andreas Grapentin andreas@grapentin.org wrote:
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Parabola has concluded that we will for the time being need only one preview card, and I will privately pay for it in full.
that would be fantastic. it's $USD 2000 a time or so to make 10 samples. i have 9 available working 2.7.4 samples and 9 microdesktop v1.7 pcbs.
I am also on the list for a preview card. I should be able to cover at least a part of the costs to reduce pressure on myself.
...
following are the contact information for the hacker in question: Andreas Grapentin (me) andreas@grapentin.org Potsdam, Germany
I live in Austria, a country with a border to Germany. Would it save costs to send Andreas and my card together to Europe. Afterwards he could mail my card with a standard postal sevice to Austria (costs around 10 €) or we could do it the other way round. I would of course pay the shipping costs from Germany to Austria and half of the costs from Taiwan to Germany.
kind regards Pablo
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Pablo Rath pablo@parobalth.org wrote:
I am also on the list for a preview card. I should be able to cover at least a part of the costs to reduce pressure on myself.
that would be great
I live in Austria, a country with a border to Germany. Would it save costs to send Andreas and my card together to Europe.
mmmm if it can be insured for full value i would feel more comfortable with that idea.
l.
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