Pogoplug Mobile -- WTF?

[Scott Sullivan]

On 05/02/2013 03:34 AM, William Park wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just noticed that Pogoplug Mobile is on sale $20,
>      <http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=27_1062_1064&item_id=043687>

And stock is zero across the board.

> Questions:
>
> 1.  It seems that you have to connect to their website while it's
>      connected, so that they can locate the device and "activate" it.
>      What if they want to do other things on my computer?

So, the pogoplug devices are a basically a small arm computer that's job 
is to get your storage devices onto the internet. From there their 
software (both on the plug and in the cloud) takes away the hard part of 
NAT and port forwarding to make is accessible to anywhere.

http://pogoplug.com

> 2.  Also, another model (Pogoplug Office) has 5 client license.  Why do
>      they need license?

For multi-user access to the same device pogoplug device and support.


As geeks we understand this kind of remote access to our data, while 
having it stored at our premise, is not difficult. It's not trivial, but 
we can all make it work in rather short order.

Cloud Engins (the company behind pogoplug) is in the business of 
providing consumer convince.


On a side note,

The pogoplug V2 was a great low-cost Linux computer a few years ago 
because it had mass-volume production.

I've got 4, all running Fedora 18.
http://revident.net/projects/pogoplug/IMG_20130421_181700.jpg

Their only draw back is limited RAM and the fact that support of the 
armv5 architecture is waning. Fedora will only be supporting armv7 and 
aarch64* for Fedora 19 and forward.

* The name for armv8 64bit which will be arriving in silicon in the next 
few years.

For armv5 that will leave Arch and Debian.

A nice reference for devices:
http://archlinuxarm.org/platforms

-- 
Scott Sullivan
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists