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Das reboot: That's the only thing to do when the screenshot, er, freezes

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Re: Funny that

Hit return a few times? ^C ? .. gets me out easy enough.

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Awoogah: Get ready to patch 'severe' bug in OpenSSL this Thursday

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FAIL

Call it: "Vasa" after the unstable/insecure ship of the same name.

Many images exist already.

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Look out ARM, Intel, here comes MIPS – again

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Really great, but! ..

There needs to be a ground swell of development for MIPS based devices. The only way this will happen is if they get two things out there:

1) Something low-end similar to the Rasberry Pi. Runs BSD or Linux (or both). Cheap and cheerful and like the Pi with a decent amount of power and better developer documentation.

2) Something mid-range. A standard motherboard that if you want a bit more power you can get a 2 (or more) core system with PCIe expansion slots and it goes in a standard PC case. Eg: a modern version of the Malta boards. You want to get people USING MIPS gear for tasks. Give them a ready made example solution they can use daily and point to that remarks "this is a MIPS system".

Both these things need to be affordable. Profits need to be spread over a large inventory rather than a small one. MIPS *NEEDS* hackers and enthusiasts that when they need an embedded or high-end processor will turn to MIPS gear first rather than ARM or x86 because they're familiar with it.

MIPS needs new generation hearts and minds. Not just slightly plumper existing markets. They need decent affordable access to the devices.

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Review: Intel Next Unit of Computing barebones desktop PC

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Dual HDMI version bites if you like decent ethernet transfers

Well, I bought my dual HDMI+Ethernet version of the NUC with 16gb RAM, a bundled intel wifi card and 256Gb SSD as a low end dual-head desktop for FPGA design tools so I could stretch over two monitors.

Problem 1:

Heat. The wifi card would overheat. Lock Windows 7 solid during sustained 3-4Mb/s transfers to the internal SSD. Solution: This was easily proved by removing the wifi card. Verdict: Grumpy.

Problem 2:

With the HDMI port closest to the ethernet controller, large file and data transfers (eg.. a 1gb avi movie) would work for a few seconds then the link would go up/down. I was watching this on my cisco 3950G. It'd then get a few kb a second, drop link, resume (sometimes). I tried different HDMI cables, shielding it with tin-foil and at once stage lead sheet flashing left over from roof works. Also tried CAT-6 STP cables. Solution: Unplug the HDMI cable closest to the ethernet port and *EVERYTHING* works fine. Just .. now I have a second LCD that I wished was connected to the NUC and can't use. Verdict: Peeved right off.

Quibble 3:

Heat. It gets externally quite hot. Internally scorching. It won't run stably if you have a moderate load on it without leaving the entire case open on the desk. Verdict: Grumpy.

Overall:

Other than that.. wonderful machine! If mediocrity rocks your world.. I'd enthusiastically encourage it. My ultimate solution was to chuck it in the corner, buy a tower workstation again and wish I hadn't wasted 700$ thinking it'd be lovely and portable.

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