Anyone want a Cubox?

[Mike]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Thomas Milne
<thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The instructions for using the Cubox installer are written by retards, and I
> no longer have any interest in running in circles trying to accomplish
> something that probably isn't even worthwhile, or that I could probably find
> in a finished product for about $50.
>

No need to flame out, dude. The instructions are written for
developers. It's a development system. If you want a black box with
"features" you should go to a big box store. No disrespect intended -
it's just a different audience / market.

The instructions are on the wiki. They're not the easiest to parse if
you don't have the background. And even if you do, such bleeding-edge
devices are often <cough> not quite completely documented.

> Whatever you want to pay, I'll take the highest offer for this piece of
> shit. I'm buying a Mac. I'm done with this hacker bullshit.

Don't lose heart. Recognize that the "hacker" mindset is one that
considers exactly such an incompletely documented, slightly
mysterious, little gizmo to be exactly the kind of puzzle that they
are willing to spend hours and hours trying to figure out.

If you're not such a person, so what? There's no need to get upset.

The cubox is a nifty little gizmo, and I'm effectively running one as
a server box. Debian runs on it. If you care, puzzle over the wiki for
a bit, especially the bits about the boot loader and provisioning an
OS on the SD card.

Cheers,
The Pluimber
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