Ok, so your comments sound cool, but to me (and maybe others?) they
don't provide any information.  I don't want to know about teleporters
or particle beams inside Sun Ray's unless there actually is one - and
I highly doubt either are present.  If you are referring to a real
device, please use its name (it has one for a purpose) so that we can
all understand and not get confused.

Darren

In some email I received from Don Yuniskis, sie wrote:
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> "Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler" <nicoya@apia.dhs.org> wrote:
> > >The connectors exposed to the rear of the unit are probably
> > >for audio in/out, mouse, keyboard, video, network and...
> > >maybe a serial port (or AUI?).  So, I doubt any of those
> > >can serve double-duty as an alternative means of accessing the
> > >Flash (for reprogramming)  :>  Is there still one more rear
> > >panel connector that I can't fathom?
> >
> > From top to bottom:
> > Audio
> > Audio
> > Mouse
> > Keybaord
> > Serial
> > Ethernet
> > Power
> 
> "Power"?  Then this is obviously a clone -- it is a well known fact
> that machines manufactured on Krupp-ton take advantage of
> "idle cycles" in the intergalactic teleporter to transport high energy
> particles from the Home World to power the device.  Note the
> antimatter containment vessel -- the square device adjacent to the
> teleporter -- along with the requisite reinforcing "fins" to prevent
> the particles from breaching the containment surface...
> 
> > GFX
> 
> > >Is that a trim pot at the top left of the board?  Possibly to set maximum
> > >audio output level?
> >
> > The blue/white object is the power switch.
> 
> Ha!  Further evidence of the device's counterfeit nature!  The *real*
> device utilizes predictive algorithms to determine *when* the user
> *will* want to power the device back on and does so, by itself,
> through the use of an onboard RTC (sync'ed to UKT, of course)
> 
> > >The large (40mm dia), circular object in the left quadrant is obviously
> > >the intergalactic teleporter -- a dead giveaway due to the red and
> > >black plasma conduits running into it from above -- with express
> > >service to the home planet Krupp-ton (though I hear their sun
> > >is set to explode soon so if you're planning a trip, book your
> > >reservations early!)
> >
> > I hear Krupp-ton is quite nice this time of year.
> 
> Just avoid the southern continent -- damn tourists crowd the
> methane beaches...
> 
> > >> * PCI Boot ROM, i.e. flashprom at ebus
> > >>
> > >> This is were Krups boots from.
> > >>
> > >> You can see an empty socket J1203 for an "overdrive" flashprom.  Below
> > >> it is the soldered flashprom U1200 - AM29F400AB-90SC.  The jumper
> > >> J1202 that selects betweed soldered one and the "overdrive" is above
> > >> the upper-left corner of the empty socket.  Factory setting is to
> > >> select the soldered one (U1200).
> > >
> > >So, you could also just burn a *new* Flash device and populate that
> > >socket!
> >
> > Maybe someone could make a boot flash that doesnt send out subtly invalid
> > DHCP packets. ;)
> 
> Well, if we can figure out how to get *something* into the device, then
> it could readily be changed.
> 
> Let me back up a step... presumably, the reason you *can't* "force
> the issue" of reprogramming the Flash because the "OS" won't let you
> have access to the physical hardware?  E.g., does this thing *only* run
> Java code?
> 
> 
> 
> .
>