00:00 <chainsawbike> lol well kinda, need to go visit my bank to allow international bank transfers first

00:04 <DocScrutinizer05> you got plenty of time for that, after completing the order

00:04 <DocScrutinizer05> ;-)

00:05 <DocScrutinizer05> the shop doesn't talk to your bank, it just sends the details per email so you can print them out and show to your bank

01:29 <DocScrutinizer05> gals and guys, you are an *awesome* bunch! I mean it

01:29 <DocScrutinizer05> many thanks for the incredible support

01:38 <DocScrutinizer05> chainsawbike: :-D

01:39 <DocScrutinizer05> chainsawbike: please don't feel shy to give any feedback/critics, we for sure need to brush out a few more warts

10:27 <useretail> hey everyone, recently earpiece on my n900 stopped working and wifi settings changed without my knowledge. strange, huh? so i decided to reflash/reset device. so the question is: which option should i use: a) restore original settings; b) clear device; c) reflash vanilla only? do 'clear device' clears emmc as well?

20:31 <DocScrutinizer05> useretail: ideally you do y complete reflash

20:31 <DocScrutinizer05> ~flashing

20:31 <infobot> maemo-flashing is probably http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware, or - on linux PC - download&extract http://maemo.cloud-7.de/maemo5/patches_n_tools/maemo-my-private-workdir.tgz, cd into it, do sudo ./flash-it-all.sh

21:13 <useretail> DocScrutinizer05: unfortunately there's too much data on emmc - i don't have free space atm. how to reflash rootfs only?

21:14 <DocScrutinizer05> make a backup of eMMC ;-)

21:14 <useretail> i can't. i don't have free space

21:14 <DocScrutinizer05> ooops, no free space anywhere? No PC?

21:14 <DocScrutinizer05> no uSD?

21:15 <useretail> nothing. ~1GB on pc left

21:15 <DocScrutinizer05> of course you can flash COMBINED only

21:15 <Wizzup> useretail: no server to scp to?

21:15 <angry_specing> lol, running out of space in 2015...

21:16 <angry_specing> useretail: copy to battery backed RAM?

21:16 <angry_specing> tmpfs

21:16 <DocScrutinizer05> but given you have no backup of your valuable data on eMMC, I'd be *very* reluctant to do *anything* with the device until you got a backup

21:16 <useretail> believe it or not both my 8TB NAS'es are out of space too

21:17 <useretail> so if reflash fail, i will lost access to emmc?

21:18 <DocScrutinizer05> that's a risk you have to ponder, yes

21:19 <DocScrutinizer05> generally the eMMC shouldn't suffer any harm from flashing COMBINED, but when you fail to flash the device into a working state, you have no access to eMMC anyway

21:20 <DocScrutinizer05> this usually is, but may not, be recoverable

21:20 <DocScrutinizer05> you never know

21:20 <DocScrutinizer05> keep Murphy in mind! ;-)

21:21 <useretail> lol

21:21 <DocScrutinizer05> you might for example type the wrong command to flasher-3.5 by mistake

21:23 <DocScrutinizer05> N900 is 99.9% unbrickable, but data on N900 is not 100% loss-safe

21:23 <angry_specing> this is ARM "fun"

21:23 <useretail> damn, now i'm afraid to reflash :D

21:24 <DocScrutinizer05> get a 32GB uSD

21:24 <DocScrutinizer05> I guess they are ~10 bucks meanwhile

21:25 <DocScrutinizer05> or a USB memstick you could attach to your PC

21:26 <angry_specing> if only you could attach a SATA HDD to it...

21:26 <DocScrutinizer05> you can

21:26 <angry_specing> does it even have SATA?

21:26 <DocScrutinizer05> with adapter ;-)

21:26 <angry_specing> ...

21:26 <useretail> i guess i'll have to contribute some of my data to archive.org

21:27 <DocScrutinizer05> or use gzip ;-)

21:27 <useretail> SATA to N900? sounds cool :D

21:29 <DocScrutinizer05> (TB? with gzip I bet you can recover at *least* 500GB from it

21:29 <DocScrutinizer05> 8TB*

21:32 <useretail> everything is already archived

21:50 <bencoh> :D

21:50 <bencoh> poor thing

21:51 <DocScrutinizer05> why? I don't think it suffered from getting attached to N900 ;-)

21:52 <Wizzup> indeed

22:04 <DocScrutinizer05> for genuine SATA interface you have to wait for STEP2 ;-)

22:08 <bencoh> krkr

23:56 <DocScrutinizer05> 8 new accounts during 24h after sending out 2nd batch of 50 (actually 49)