<div dir="ltr"><div><div>The flip side of that is, most (l)users can barely read enough to know what only-fits-one-way plug goes where. so asking (l)users to have some responsibility for what the devices they buy and put on the interwebs is like asking a 5th grader to perform their own appendectomy.<br>
<br></div>The fault with weak products connected lies with marketing. Marketing still tries to make things out like it's just plug-n-play. THERE'S NO SUCH THING! Once the sheeple figure out," Hey! Sysadmins save my bacon daily!", then maybe the sheeple will understand that marketers lie worse that politicians and EVERYTHING requires maintenance so they need to have a sysadmin around often or they have to learn how to do it themselves. That will be the point the manufacturers have to start making things easier to fix/upgrade/maintain instead of plug-n-pray disposable technology; i.e. - enough people start buying ONLY the stuff that's easily fixable. Then the manufacturers start actually supporting projects like DD-WRT, et al. so the updates will always work on their hardware.<br>
<br></div>Case in point: look at the kernel commits from Dell, IBM, Intel and AMD. They want to sell hardware so they pitch in to make sure the kernel has the best available knowledge.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com" target="_blank">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Oh fer Pete's sake. It took me less than an hour to put decent Open-Source firmware on my device and get it properly configured. The 3rd-party stuff was way better laid out and easier to understand than the garbaggio that Asus had on there. This is just part of your responsibility when you connect to the internetz.<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <div>
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the billion dollar manufacturers can't / won't get it right and keep the device updated.</blockquote></div><div> <br>This will ALWAYS be an issue with embedded OS systems. There is NO solution other than to reflash a new embedded OS onto it. At least there are options like tomato and other DDWRT derivatives. Think about the poor schlub who has no skillz and a router that lets in Mr NotNiceGuy.<br>
<br></div><div>The alternative is to buy a new gizmo. That's the plan from the company (although many do update firmware but only provide info on flashing from a windblows platform) as it sells another gizmo. <br><br>
</div><div>Ah the curse of capitalism in manufacturing: must make it good enough to sell and bad enough that it will be replaced often but not so bad that buyers hate you and find alternatives.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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