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Controlled chaos...
Oct. 15th, 2012 08:46 pmI managed to translate about 4,300 words today, but also sent out the same files, corrected, multiple times as my despeckling effort degraded into a whimpering lumpy slurry about halfway through the day. Part of it had to do with overcommitment on my part, I'm sure, combined with my first trip to see a client since coming to Texas.
It was a strangely liberating experience, to be out and about, if even for a couple of hours. I look forward to doing it again, and soon.
In other news, the grapevine says that the basic spec for the Raspberry Pi has changed to incorporate 512 MB of memory on the motherboard (instead of 256 MB). Yummy!
In yet other news, in my haste—hmmm, there's a lot of that going around (see top of post)—I ended up plugging a 12-V power supply into the Roku box, which well and truly fried it. I found a video online that explains how to disassemble the unit (very simple to do), but there does not appear to be a fuse anywhere near the power receptacle.
The fact that the video showed how to take out the motherboard and put it back was encouraging, but I was not able to find any information on the 'net about buying Roku motherboards, and a chat session at the Roku support page ended with my being told that the company does not sell individual boards, and that my only recourse is to buy a new Roku box.
In the final analysis, I certainly can't complain. Roku is justified in its position. I was the one who was careless. As a point of comparison, however, when I told the folks at fitbit a little while ago that I had outright lost my unit, they basically won a customer for life by sending me a replacement fitbit for free.
The way things stand right now, Roku certainly doesn't owe me anything. By the same token, I don't owe them anything, either. And it's a changing market out there, I'm told, in their part of the world.
Cheers...
It was a strangely liberating experience, to be out and about, if even for a couple of hours. I look forward to doing it again, and soon.
In other news, the grapevine says that the basic spec for the Raspberry Pi has changed to incorporate 512 MB of memory on the motherboard (instead of 256 MB). Yummy!
In yet other news, in my haste—hmmm, there's a lot of that going around (see top of post)—I ended up plugging a 12-V power supply into the Roku box, which well and truly fried it. I found a video online that explains how to disassemble the unit (very simple to do), but there does not appear to be a fuse anywhere near the power receptacle.
The fact that the video showed how to take out the motherboard and put it back was encouraging, but I was not able to find any information on the 'net about buying Roku motherboards, and a chat session at the Roku support page ended with my being told that the company does not sell individual boards, and that my only recourse is to buy a new Roku box.
In the final analysis, I certainly can't complain. Roku is justified in its position. I was the one who was careless. As a point of comparison, however, when I told the folks at fitbit a little while ago that I had outright lost my unit, they basically won a customer for life by sending me a replacement fitbit for free.
The way things stand right now, Roku certainly doesn't owe me anything. By the same token, I don't owe them anything, either. And it's a changing market out there, I'm told, in their part of the world.
Cheers...
