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Anyone who has dealt with Michael in the past knows that the Pyra is not a scam. Has it worked out the way he hoped? Not by a long shot. That doesn't make it a scam. I'm still confident that he will continue to fill all the preorders as long as he has any resources to do so. It's taken so long...

I can't explain it, but at least in English speaking countries, it seems that 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch hard drives are generally referred to that way even in places where they exclusively use the metric system. Ironically, at least in the U.S., there are 2.5 inch 7mm drives and 2.5 inch 9mm (or...

Just in case someone might not realize, USB to SATA power cables will only work for 2.5 inch drives. You'd need to do something else for any 3.5 inch drives you wanted to connect.

It would be more convenient if the port on the adapter were an eSATA port. However, since it wouldn't have power either way, and internal SATA to eSATA cables exist, it's far from the end of the world. My combination USB 3 / eSATA drive dock includes an eSATA cable that I won't be able to use...

Considering there is nothing that even slightly resembles an internal SATA power cable involved, that seems irrelevant.

I am quite aware of all that, and there was never any confusion on my part about it. What I wondered about, specifically, was that, since the adapter appears to have a regular internal SATA port, why would anyone expect it to furnish power since internal SATA ports never furnish power to the...

OK. In that case (which the included pictures appear to confirm) I'm wondering what the discussion about the power lines means since a SATA II connection doesn't carry power for the device anyway. As far as I know the only connection that carries power is eSATAp (though, as I referred to, a lot...

I had checked over the weekend, just in case, but I checked again today, in Gmail's spam folder, and I found the email less than 12 hours old. I picked black (because I was a bit torn, so I let the price difference make the decision) and I got the E-SATA adapter, since I have an E-SATA drive...

I just read through most of the thread. One or two things I would have commented on: I think that Xfce 4.14 introduced OpenGL accelerated compositing and made running Compton with Xfce no longer necessary, but I've just started testing that setup. Of course, I'm not aware of GLES support for...

I thought for sure you were leading up to, 'Any news about zombies?'

In my experience, Sandisk, Samsung, and PNY SD cards all tend to be pretty good. The difference between the smaller and bigger ones is more about price per GB than about performance (of course there are the usual caveats about bigger drives and relative performance). The largest drives cost the...

The cards I used to use in my old digital camera were only 1 or 2 GB (and not of the microdrive variety), but current ones for sale generally seem to be 64 and 128 GB even for the non CFast type.

There is also the unexpected return of the Compact Flash card for high end photography because of the boosted transfer rates of the new cards, although the capacities seem generally smaller than SD cards still. (Edit: The new cards are called CFast cards and there are some with 512 GB, but they...

Umm, there are a lot, and I mean a lot, of current devices on the market with a full sized USB B connector. There is even a full sized USB 3 B connector to accommodate faster data transfer rates. Still the regular old connector that is only compatible with up to USB 2 devices is commonplace on...

If you want to get more specific, you can go to the county level. The county I live in has 112 people per square mile (43 per square km). The one just north of the one I live in, where I go hiking quite often (there are places to hike in the county I live in as well) has only 2.8 people per...

Yes. In fact, by that logic, every modern language is made up of mistakes from a predecessor language. Also, if the original spelling and pronunciation are the only valid ones, then English people have to change the things they've altered back to the original as well, like aluminum (original...

Remember that the computer game market was considered separately. It didn't crash in the US any more than it did in Europe. It was only the console game (cartridge) market that crashed. In fact, the rise in popularity of computer games was blamed for the console game market crashing (though that...

The video games crash was when the sale of cartridge video games plummeted toward the end of 1983, and both Atari's and ColecoVision's success ended in the home video game market. Nobody really picked up the slack until the Nintendo Entertainment System started to become really successful, which...

"You're in Hull." "No, I'm not." "This is Hull." "No, it isn't." "You're in Hull." "I'm not in Hull! Stop saying 'Hull'!" OK, so it's a little late for this. What can I say? I haven't checked back for a week.

I have a few different ARM set top boxes/SoCs. Other than the Raspberry Pi, the best Linux support has been for the i.MX6 device I have. No other device (besides my Pandora) comes close. So that would seem to be a promising direction to look for the next revision of the CPU board (If there had...