nice Mini-ITX box

John Larkin · 2011-04-10T18:16:02+00:00

Taking Miso's advice, I bought a mini-ITX pc from Logic Supply, theirAtom M350v2. Fanless, hard drive, no OS, $279 assembled and tested,with wall-wart. ftp://ftp://ftp://ftp://ftp://Looks fine. Their email support is great.The only apparent way to remove the front cover is to break it, sothat's what I did. It works better now.I migrated all my cabin automation to this box. It has a nice Intelbios and it's easy to make it auto-power-up. So I put the whole mess -cable modem, wifi, this box, my data acquisition stuff, on a powerstrip plugged into a mechanical timer, so it goes off for a half hourevery day at 3AM. Maybe that will fix the hangups. If the cable modemlocks up, which it does, and you call Suddenlink for help, they say"unplug the modem, wait 30 seconds, and plug it back in" which usuallydoes in fact fix the problem. Not much help when I'm 180 miles away.I wonder if XP will be OK with being power cycled, without a cleanshutdown, 365 times a year?John

Apr 10, 2011 203 Replies

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John Larkin 15 years ago

Ick. But reminds me of LA Story, a really great movie.

John

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FatBytestard 15 years ago

Pussy.

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krw 15 years ago

So, No Cajones thinks it takes a real man to consume caffeine? You're always wrong, AlwaysWrong. ...but you, and everyone else here, knows that.

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Michael A. Terrell 15 years ago

Right next to his pair of neurons. :(

You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a Band-Aid? on it, because it's Teflon coated.

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