<div dir="ltr"><div><div>No doubt. I was joking around and accidentally hit Send. Now the NSA and Israel's Re-education Teams are both onto me, hah (as far as I know Compulab's a top-notch Israeli company, and we will be using their servers in Haiti, even if many of us question their lack of USB3 and SATA..a little customer feedback can't hurt :)<br>
<br></div>People used to make fun of OLPC for not maintaining <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Recommended_Hardware">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Recommended_Hardware</a><br><br></div><i>Until they realized what an excruciating challenge that is.......</i><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:03 PM, David Farning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfarning@activitycentral.com" target="_blank">dfarning@activitycentral.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Saturday, August 17, 2013, Adam Holt wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Braddock <span dir="ltr"><<a>braddock@braddock.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> From: David Farning <<a>dfarning@activitycentral.com</a>> We have just<br>
> received confirmation that compulab won't be releasing a SATA<br>
> connector with the utilite. ( <a href="http://utilite-computer.com/web/home" target="_blank">http://utilite-computer.com/web/home</a><br>
> ) Instread they will offer a mSATA connection.<br>
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This is a real disappointment to the Internet-in-a-Box project. I was<br>
really hoping the Utilite would be the perfect solution for our full<br>
dataset (which is too large for an SSD).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yep, Utilite screwed us.<br></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>As a community we need to be careful about talking about how others 'screwed us.' </div>
<div><br></div><div>I 'screwed up' by endorsing the Utilite before we had run it through our QA process. Engineers at compulabs 'screwed up' when their prototype didn't perform as well as expected. We all might feel 'screwed' that something we had depended on did not materialize.</div>
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<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Perhaps the NSA got tired of Snowden/Assange/Manning's civics lessons, and will ban USB3 ports altogether,<br>
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Anyway, we have secret hardware no Israeli can match: 1-800-Tony-Anderson<br></div></div>
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</blockquote><br><br></div></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br>David Farning<br>Activity Central: <a href="http://www.activitycentral.com" target="_blank">http://www.activitycentral.com</a><br>
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