I bought a Motorola KRZR K1 on eBay a year ago. The default network and timezone was set to Hong Kong. Since I got the phone, I had endless troubles getting it sync-ed up with Outlook on Windows: the Motorola Phone Tool worked for a while, then an update later it stopped sync-ing (charging is fine).
Motorola’s website was least helpful. Although K1 has been on sale in the States, it is not listed on their U.S. website. Finally I tried the HK/CN website and found a firmware update here.
While researching at work, I ran into this “balletbot” story on Gizmodo. Later, I found the same video on YouTube:
There is something very unnerving but I haven’t figured out what it is yet.
Obviously, there are quite a few mismatches:
1. The elder Japanese dancer dressed in kimono in the background vs. the ageless non-Asian-male-figured (square shoulder and long limbs) machine
2. The well-manicured (I suppose) and well-covered dancer vs. the metalic and naked robot
3. The robot stands with knees bent–reminded me of apes
But they are not quite “it” … I mean I’d be OK if the robot boxes or shoots a rifle since there is this “mechanicality” in both humanly activities. But to dance? Man, the half-baked “gracefulness” is just so wrong!
Problem statement:
1. My 1/2-T network storage has only 90 gigabytes left
2. The Linux box hosting that storage was built 5 years ago and has Giga-Ethernet compatibility and USB support problem
3. My Win-Tel box runs on an old Dell “space-saver” box with a 3.25″ disk and zero expansion slot
4. The Win-Tel box has only an mid-level graphics card that is not going to support video-editing and raw image processing
5. My daily backup job routinely fails because the Redhat-USB external hard disk issue
Proposed solution:
1. Build a new mid-level Win-Tel box
2. Convert the Dell box to a barebone Linux server
3. Use FreeNAS to build a NAS server with 1-T capacity
Budget:
1. PC: case, motherboard, graphics card, CPU, memory, XP Professional. Should use EIDE board so to reuse existing HDD. About $500 ?
2. Linux: nothing. Not sure latest Fedora has all the drivers though. If not … very very bad.
3. NAS: 1 SATA card, 2x 1-T sata HDD. 1 Giga-Ethernet NIC. total $750.
Risks:
1. I have an old IDE-board. But the new HDD are SATA. If I put in a SATA PCI card, does FreeNAS recognize it?
One user posted on 7/18/07: this card and this one both work with the latest freeNAS version.
2. What Giga-Ethernet card does freeNAS support?
According to freeNAS support page, “Any NIC controllers supported by FreeBSD FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD).are supported by FreeNAS ”
The FreeBSD site lists the following NIC: 3Com 3c996-T (10/100/1000baseTX), Netgear GA302T, Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Adapter (82541PI),
Candidates:
HD: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822145167&ATT=22-145-167&CMP=OTC-pr1c3watch&cm_mmc=OTC-pr1c3watch-_-Hard+Drives-_-Hitachi+Global+Storage+Technologies-_-22145167
SATA card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815124020