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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: rminnich@gmail.com, quanstro@quanstro.net, 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sheevaplug - USB working? Just checking
Date: Mon,  6 Sep 2010 17:15:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b921a9380156f988d402d5db5006d5b6@brasstown.quanstro.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik7UmfQ33Y0R5u0NBni_-De15Q49naNHMvxLjHx@mail.gmail.com>

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:05 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
>
> > i like the idea.  unfortunately, iirc this problem hangs on specifications
> > which we don't have.  so perhaps it would be better to attack a problem
> > were we're not just guessing.
>
> I've come to the conclusion that where hardware is concerned, I spend
> a lot of time guessing ... docs or no ..

my experience is that there's a big difference between wild guessing
and directed guessing.  usually documentation is the difference between
the two.  well, documentation and experience.

- erik



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-06 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-06 14:43 Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-09-06 15:22 ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-06 16:52   ` Nemo
2010-09-06 17:02     ` ron minnich
2010-09-06 17:05       ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-06 17:26         ` ron minnich
2010-09-06 17:27           ` ron minnich
2010-09-06 21:15           ` erik quanstrom [this message]
2010-09-06 17:55         ` Skip Tavakkolian
2010-09-06 21:32           ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-09-06 19:51   ` geoff
2010-09-06 21:06     ` erik quanstrom
2010-09-06 22:29     ` Tristan Plumb

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