Un-Bricking Linux Plug Computers 68
An anonymous reader writes "Accidentally 'bricking' a little Linux plug computer doesn't have to be forever. This is a good howto on repairing a non-booting Linux plug computer. For example if it uses the uBoot environment then it already has some good built-in recovery tools. The article also mentions ESIA, the Sheevaplug installer, openocd, and GuruPlug."
Hear that? It's the sound of NOBODY CARES. (Score:0, Insightful)
Where's the fucking [+/-] story buttons so I can vote this down off the front page?
Only 2 people have commented in the 15 minutes this has been up, and one of them was a frist post.
Re:Oblig. pedantry (Score:2, Insightful)
You haven't done due diligence to pedantry at all; I'm disappointed.
Isn't the fact that you can "unbrick" it mean it's not really bricked?
How bricked is "really" bricked?
I always understood brick to be a measure of subjective usefulness. So if my cellphone is bricked it doesn't necessarily mean it's completely unrecoverable, just that it's not practically recoverable in time to be useful to me, or it will be expensive to recover it, or I don't know how to recover it.
I'm doubtful there's a good objective definition. For instance, you might say "having to replace hardware constitutes brickedness." What if the hardware replacement is trivial, like swapping out a battery? Any definition of non-trivial is going to depend on the skill of the user, and you're back to a subjective definition.
And you could define "bricked" as a physical process. Say, having heated the device to the point where most of the casing and electronics became liquid and then let it cool, that would be well and truly bricked, but it's not a very useful definition.
If you've got a better definition, I'm all ears, but a quick search didn't turn up much for me.