[Defo]

I think the "openpandora" author is mazza558, because in the first post on the thread, they said that they posted the quote shown on the blog, which is written by the author in question.

[j.pickens]

Pandora loading screen:

A user of the German board said that ED posted this pic on IRC.

Please Wait...
Sigh...

This post has been edited by j.pickens: 31 December 2008 - 03:19 AM

[TaG]

Thanks for creating this. This is a very useful blog for those of us that just want to get all of the new information and any progress made without having to sift through a bunch of threads. The official list of dev updates isn't quite as useful for me as it really only covers posts by the main developers, which are usually easy to find and I end up reading them anyway. I like how this blog covers all the minutia (compared to dev updates from OpenPandora Inc) that people who follow this project care about!

Is the "openpandora" author Chip? If not, it is kind of misleading as it seems to imply (at least it does for me) that the author is a part of the OpenPandora team (which is significant in my books when it comes to people posting information about the Pandora).

Thank you from the team. Yes the minutia and 'unofficial' elements are one of the main things that separate the blog from the official updates.

As said above, openpandora is mazza558, because of how he got the blog name (wordpress suggests to start that you create a username and then can have a blog with the same name)

@mazza558 - you can set a nickname of mazza558 and then make that the visible name - might avoid confusion.


And yesterday we had 1310 visits! (1079>1192>1310)

[mazza558]

@mazza558 - you can set a nickname of mazza558 and then make that the visible name - might avoid confusion.

Done. Makes things a little clearer, I agree.

[(naw)mcx]

Pandora loading screen:

A user of the German board said that ED posted this pic on IRC.

Please Wait...
Sigh...

I saw that and thought

"Please wait", that must be the slogon or something?

[adamorjames]

Should replace "Please wait..." with "Ready, set...". It will make it seem more positive. Also it's just LESS BORING

This post has been edited by adamorjames: 31 December 2008 - 11:38 AM

[EvilDragon]

Looks great!
Why keep the picture a surprise on the blog though?

I wanted to surprise you with the next video - as it should be implemented in the next version of the OS

[mazza558]

Looks great!
Why keep the picture a surprise on the blog though?

I wanted to surprise you with the next video - as it should be implemented in the next version of the OS

When will the next video be available?

[hells_dark]

Looks great!
Why keep the picture a surprise on the blog though?

I wanted to surprise you with the next video - as it should be implemented in the next version of the OS

When will the next video be available?

Maybe a new year gift

[joa]

My second post about this, I can't stress enough how nice it is when i want to check any snippet of info/update to just click bookmarks in firefox....

awwww....bliss.

[fusion_power]

I saw that and thought

"Please wait", that must be the slogon or something?

that was a good one...uh, I mean no, total evil, boooh!....

[mazza558]

My second post about this, I can't stress enough how nice it is when i want to check any snippet of info/update to just click bookmarks in firefox....

awwww....bliss.

I agree. Despite the fact that we have to actually write the posts, having 4 users really lightens the load, and I'm often finding out new stuff in the morning posted by the other users. It's also very satisfying to watch comments roll in, to see where people are coming from in the blog stats, and watching the number of users vsiting rise slowly - we're currently at around 800 page views and it's barely past midday where I am.

[mali]

Ångstöm boot time:

Von SD-Karte dauerts momentan 8 Sekunden, vom NAND (ja, es gibt schon erste NAND-OS-Versionen) noch ca. 40 Sekunden bei JFFS2 - da werden wir ein anderes Filesystem probieren, denn anhand der Specs vom NAND Chip sollte das in 10 - 12 Sekunden möglich sein.

Booting from SD takes 8 seconds, booting from NAND(yes, the first NAND-OS version is available) takes 40 seconds with JFFS2 - we will try another file system, looking at the specs it should be possible to boot in 10-12 seconds from NAND

(Side notes from me, not ED):
1. NAND booting time was also slow on OMAP2.
2. Here is a benchmark of beagle board's NAND
http://dominion.thru...and-read-speeds

This post has been edited by mali: 31 December 2008 - 02:59 PM

[Iorgy77]

I have added the RSS feed to my XBMC, could I ask that people adding entries provide more info in the title rather than one meaningless word. The RSS feed would be more informative that way.

[mali]

The boot screen is currently loaded by psplash, so the screen is easily exchangable. The devs want to switch to bootsplash later on so that you can also see the console output while booting, if you wish.