Efika 5200B Project
High Security & Flexibility Network Appliancein category Operating Systems
proposed by michal.purzynski on 19th June 2006 (accepted on 7th October 2006)
posted by michal.purzynski on 24th December 2006
From few days actualy. After a lot of waiting (definitely worth it!) i've got a phone call from Fedex that they have something for me and it was waiting for the customs clearance. As is quickly turned out, it wasn't simple at all to get it throught - nobody at customs was going to believe that computer can be worth as little (and that i'm probably going to cheat them ;) that it can be so small and someone is sending it for free, taking all the costs themself. Anyway, after faxing and snail mailing a lot of documents (fedex wanted everything, from photocopy of my ID to almost size of shoes...not that i would give then all they asked. Beeing paranoid i haven't faxed/mailed them an ID photocopy...also they wanted a translation of commercial invoice in polish...sigh, nobody in fedex speaks english or what? didn't do that either;)....finally i've got an information that i'm now suposed to wait for the customs office. how long will it take i asked - at least three _weeks_, maybe more, the woman respond. i've shruged and called their boss and customs office. it quickly turned out that it could be processed much faster - and it was, indeed. Next day in the morning my Efika was on the way to me, or so the fedex tracking said. Anyway, an hour later i've read that it will go by the next plane (btw fedex is sending everything by plane, nice) because of the customs office delay - it was late by a whole five minutes. oh well. It was maybe 1 pm. I was to go away for a few hours. About 4pm i was getting back home and was so anxious to get the efika finally that i've even send sms home if anything was delivered. Nothing was there. Finally, about an hour after i've got home, the messenger came with Efika! It was an awesome experience to unpack it, take out, look at it. I was excited. In the next post i'm going to put some photos i've took just after i've got it. And first time booting too.