04:42 <Oksana> Is IDA Systems down? http://www.idasystems.net/products/nanonote

04:59 <Oksana> Is GCW-Zero a Qi hardware? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCW_Zero Aka, open-source software, open-source hardware, and patent-free?..

05:08 <wpwrak> Oksana: you typically get the touch-screen as a building block, so if there are patent worries, they've already been sorted out. also, resistive touch-screen have been around forever, so at least these should be untroubled

05:10 <wpwrak> it seems that it would nowadays be difficult to source a similar CPU, though. but then, some nice little arm should do as well

06:04 <whitequark> topic

06:04 <whitequark> er, typo

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16:41 <babaa> hello, I don't know wtf is wrong with IDA systems but it worries me

16:43 <babaa> still no package in the mailbox, nor any tracking number from IDA systems and their website is down

16:50 <wpwrak> babaa: so far, i haven't heard anything bad about ida systems. but of course, companies can go down, for a variety of reasons. and sometimes they're just slow. how long ago did you order ? and did they confirm your order ?

16:59 <babaa> Well yes they confirmed, I ordered on the 19th or the 20th of october, I asked them on the 27 about the tracking number, Zoheb Ansari then sent an email to me and Mr Rakshat and Surendra but no replies since

17:28 <wpwrak> maybe send them another mail. two weeks isn't all that long, and who knows what kind of holidays and vacation schedule they have in india. e.g., many a western company would also be eerily quiet when ordering around the 24th of december :)

19:08 <babaa> yeah :/ if you think they are not scummy then I will wait a bit more

19:36 <wpwrak> i don't know them but they've been around for a while, and apparently without a bad reputation so far

20:57 <babaa> oh okay thanks