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Old 10-28-2006, 05:17 PM   #12
b_k
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Germany
Device: iRex iLiad
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Originally Posted by scotty1024
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What is outrageous is that we still don't have some magic incantation on the iLiad that allows one to reset it back to factory conditions off an MMC or CF card... or a serial console cable for $30 eur.
You know, I would even pay the 30 EUR for the serial console cable. (Aside from knowing, that the parts alone are probably not more than 10 EUR, but that is what i think.)
Personally I would say, the console cable would be a nice service to those "spare time" programmers like you. Would even get them less support calls cause of broken files. And they could even make money out of that. Just doing the same as with the SDK, here you have you serial console, but we are not responsible for anything you do with that, and I would be perfectly happy.

The thing that there is no way currently to reflash the iLiad as a user is (from my point of view) the usual "security by obscurity" thing. And you know what they say about having console access? "If they got console access, it's not your machine anymore"
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