asciilifeform: repopulated missing solder pads for rs232 console. very handy for kernel work. i suggest that any of you who purchased a unit, do the same.
asciilifeform: (script for converting a brand-new unit into a weaponized one)
asciilifeform: purchased a second pogo-4 for testing autodeflorator
asciilifeform: also discovered that pogo-4 has a 32kB eeprom full of zeros, unused.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et al: missing ingredient - armv5 build of bitcoind 0.5.3 with necessary patches - that is, 100% therealbitcoin-controlled seeds.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et al: how it is to work: machine boots from nand flash, walks attached mass storage device list, tests if any contains ext3 filesystem with blockchain therein. if found, used. if not found, device is formatted and bitcoind runs there. runs inside a loop, if oomkilled - resurrected.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, ben_vulpes, et al: i have a working 'u-boot' for toy node (builds as CROSSDEV armv5 on x86 gentoo), working linux kernel built in same manner, boots from nand flash.
asciilifeform: hence idiom is used to describe criminal cases such as, well, this one.
asciilifeform: and would end up white in places where one would expect to see a colour.
asciilifeform: but if the pages were moved around at a later date, from the state monkeying with the record, the thread would have to be cut and replaced
asciilifeform: when seals were stamped onto the pages in the binder, the thread - originally white - would turn blue, black, red, depending on the colour of the seal on that page
asciilifeform: it comes from the old-fashioned binding that was used in ussr for court documents - ordinary thread and cardboard cover
asciilifeform: there is a ru idiom, 'Дело шито белыми нитками' - 'the [criminal] case is sewn with white thread.'
asciilifeform: does not follow that, had he not done this deed, would be a free man.
