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    Pandora App Repository

    A working port of synaptic would make me the happiest of beasts, and being able to manage packages as smoothly as using apt or portage would also make me very happy indeed! It would be crazy for something as well connected and powerful as the Pandora to not use package management. Take a look...
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    Most Nerdies Geekiest Thing You Can Do With Your Pandora

    Install Windows 95 into a Qemu virtual machine for the sheer pleasure of seeing the "windows 95 is starting for the first time" screen, and because it'll be about as fast as my first laptop. 15Mhz 468sx, with 8mb ram :)
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    Post Here When Your Refund Clears

    Received refund today. (although according to the date-stamps on the transactions it took the banks 22 days to process it!) Re-ordered immediately.
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    Resurrecting The 'dev Fund Bounty' Idea

    I think this is an excellent idea. I would be enthusiastic to be on both the paying and paid ends of a scheme like this. It's a great way to marry the people with more money than time and the people with more time than money :)
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    A Plea To Gp32x Posters...

    Isn't this a little bit self-fulfilling? The discussion of a 'tipping point' and proposal of a moratorium seems nearly as alarmist as what the alleged 'n00bs' have been up to. Need there be a tipping point? Everything will calm down in the future and I think that perhaps this is ironically a...
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    Is The 166mhz Memclock Locked/changeable?

    I'm also interested in this, but mostly to see how far it could be underclocked. I'm curious to see what the minimum functional clock speed of the SoC and memory is, for playing MP3s or videos and just for when the device is idle.
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    What Is Your Worst Fear About The Pandora ?

    I'm relaxed and happy, looking forward to a new toy in December. I have no idea what other people plan to use this thing for, but it's definitely a toy for me. My biggest fear is that somebody influential *cough* will have mandated that the boot animation is creepy eyes opening. :D (and...
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    What Is Your Worst Fear About The Pandora ?

    I hope you don't have a specific unpleasant 'certainty' in mind there chip ;)
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    What Is Possible On 256mb Ram?

    I think this will mostly be a boon for applications like firefox. It used to run acceptably on my Zaurus with 64mb of ram, but you couldn't do anything else at the same time... heaven forfend you tried to use amarok and firefox at the same time! :o This will really make it a useful device as...
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    What Is Your Worst Fear About The Pandora ?

    Let's not get ahead of ourselves. This is not confirmed in any meaningful way. :)
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    Which Linux To Use On Laptop For Practice?

    Paddy, it sounds like you might have a hardware issue if the installer is crashing halfway through. Have you tried to leave the memory tester (memtest) running overnight? You might also find it useful to try the ubuntu forums. These problems are quite common and usually fixable. Also, what...
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    Breakout Cable For Prototyping

    2.5 and 3 are equally good from my point of view, but even just 1 would make me happy, getting hold of a distributor for the connector (in single quantity) seems to be causing some trouble.
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    Official Promotion And/or Boot Animation/Jingle Thread.

    Again, I like this retro theme. The 8-bit sounds are nifty, but I'm unsure about the "pandora" voice. It reminds me of the sentry guns from Portal*. Less is more, in my opinion. *"Are you still there?"
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    Official Promotion And/or Boot Animation/Jingle Thread.

    This one is by far my favourite! Good work! I find the eyes so creepy that I'd go out of my way to remove them from the firmware if they were to be embedded :)... Breathing and heartbeat sounds would also have to go! There's something far to visceral about all of these intimately body related...
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    Wouldnt That Be Great?

    If the buttons could be made to work at all then the phone button would definitely be remap able. Afterall, the media keys would have to be mapped to the active media player anyway.
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