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I have to tinker with the two treo 600's I maintain every once in a while. My wife's requires the foil trick every few months or so when the famous buzz comes back.
Thinking about buying her a 680 just to solve this.
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I don't have a /. account, but if I did I would score this comment +16 FTW.
This is the karmic inverse of a GNAA post.
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wow, just, wow.
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Caring is sharing, I give to you the gift of Dell De-Crapifier
Cheers!
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Here's another 2.5" adapter@ $18. Most of the pcb on these adapters is to make them mount hole compatible with a standard 2.5" laptop hdd. I've seen and own smaller adapters, but if I were to mount them in an hdd slot/laptop, they'd rattle around in the dead space.

To my knowledge, CF is IDE:
"That is, it appears to the host device as if it were a hard disk of some defined size and has a tiny IDE controller onboard the CF device itself. " -from wiki of course. Since you're interested, know that CF cards have a limited write cycle. Unless something has changed recently using them as a r/w filsystem ensures they die earlier than they were intended.

A quick google tells me the Sharp Actius MM10 was a fanless crusoe based laptop. Here's one on eBay, currently $182 If memory serves, a 1ghz crusoe is akin to a 700-850mhz p3. The Crusoe was a sippin' chip, and that lcd is fairly small. Combined with a solid state disk I bet the battery life would be great. Also consider used fujitsu lifebooks and toshiba librettos.

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Direct CF to IDE 2.5" adapter, $32 USD
PQI 8GB 100x CF card, $173 USD ($21 per GB)

10GB is an odd capacity for flash mem.
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...quite insightful. Also made me think: "Am I one of those people?"
If you have to ask....
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I worked @ domino (later renamed to d-net) for many years. My store was in Santa Rosa about a block north of Best Buy. It wasn't just a single computer, people were welcome to build whatever system they wanted. Originally (early 90's) it was a more managed process, but at my shop I was happy to show someone how to build for themselves using whatever they wanted.

I loved working there, but a local company hired me away for twice the money per hour and I've been here ever since (7yrs). I was the head tech at my shop and trained several people to take my place, but when I left I took many of the customers with me (who I still work for) and they folded soon after.

I miss working down and dirty with off-the-street computer problems, in fact, when I saw this article I thought "hmm, it'd be nice to work there just to have some real challenges to fix." My users at my real job can break things, but there was nothing like the challenge of an entire city's users doing god knows what to their computers.

I tried to hunt up some pics/shop info for you using wayback but didn't net too much.
Thanks for the memories,
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you didnt find the z button awkward? i find it easier to curl my thumb around the top of the controller, to hit the z button than to hit it with my index finger. i have 2 wired controllers and 1 wavebird, they are all to stiff to hit comfortably.
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while there are many fine digital artists, there are too many and working digitally is too easy. i eschew drawing digitally for the superiority of working traditionally.
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I'll bite:
I'm a 1 man IT department for a small business (general contractor). Currently I have 30 office employees and 12 or so remote job trailers. When i was hired, they had just deployed 2x nt4 SBS servers, were using exchange with an open relay, bad/open proxy and domain based auth. This was 6+ years ago, so I'm trying hard to remember the finer points. Exchange/store constantly needed monitoring, no matter what quota/policy I tried to enforce, and eventually I had the opportunity to 'redo' the servers. One I turned into a dumb w2k server file/print share, the other deb linux (potato) for all communication/nat/ldap/virus/spam/vpn etc...

I've since replaced the 1 w2k server with 2x w2k3 servers, running in the same manner. Print and file services are hosted off of these two servers, one is strictly for accounting only, no general user has access to it, and the accounting program runs via RDP with very restrictive policies.

My remote users vpn back in, and depending on what they are doing use either simple file sharing or RDP for a remote workstation. Everyone has access to their email via squirrelmail, pop3 or imap. Things work great right now, and most problems I can fix anywhere via RDP/VNC/SSH.

Your above comment nags at me, I feel since I hodge podged things together and don't trust AD/w2k3 enough to use it as a dc that I am the crufty admin you clean up after. While I'm not necessarily looking for validation of my methods, your comment sparked my thinking about rolling out AD if only for centralized user/application mgmt. Though with this small of an office I'm perfectly fine doing things by hand.

My question is this: with what little you know about my servers, users and office is there any benefit to my rolling out active directory sans exchange? I love exim4/clamd/exiscan I can't imagine losing the control I have and feel via debian to go back to the stress that was exchange.

I'd appreciate a reply, and your time. I take a good matter of pride in the uptime my users enjoy (273 days until I restarted last friday night) and don't want to make a hasty decision that would affect that. I've received many compliments from outside/new hires about my network/infrastructure and would like to make it better, not worse.

tyia
-eric
eric shiftkey+2 diversionmary dawht com
http://diversionmary.com/

i use either pocketfeed, avantgo or this
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have you seen Gunstar Superheroes for the gba? you might like astroboy for gba too.
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IBM PCjr, 80186, 80286, 386sx16 (did a lot of yardwork to get the mobo/proc/4mb ram from a neighbor who had upgraded). at this point i started dumspter diving and had all kinds of neat parts. now, as a netadmin/maincomputerguy/1man IT i give all my old parts to a coworker's neighbor kid who is beside himself with joy.
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I've just finished roll out of Microsoft's Business Contact manager. It is a sql CRM db which is an ACT! replacement. You can link all of your contacts/accounts/opportunities to the events and items that pertain to them.
"Included" with office sbe and pro out of the box.
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Someone who isn't me has graciously made a
mock-up of size comparisons. Mirror here, in case that falls down.

Can't wait! My wife has been pressuring for a 2nd ds (pink from lik-sang). Now the decision is down to, buy 1 redesigned ds or 2? The GBA micro buttons are so much more comfortable and better than the ds that I almost don't mind rebuying it.

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Someone who isn't me has graciously made a
mock-up of size comparisons. Mirror here, in case that falls down.

Can't wait! My wife has been pressuring for a 2nd ds (pink from lik-sang). Now the decision is down to, buy 1 redesigned ds or 2? The GBA micro buttons are so much more comfortable and better than the ds that I almost don't mind rebuying it.

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if you can find someone with warioware twisted, just borrow it for an afternoon. it shouldnt take you more than a few hours to beat/unlock the game. around here we can buy used games (funcoland for instance) and return them within a few days if they suck/complete quickly. having beaten ww and picked up many better ds games, i feel anything else would have been a better buy.
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I'll be as careful as possible to avoid fanboyishms:
I own both, and have since their respective launch weeks.
I have 40+ games for the psp, not including homebrew/emulation.

For ds i have:
mario64
warioware
kirby canvas
mariokart
advance wars ds
metroid demo
meteos
a TON of gba games.

If i can help you save some money, please hear me when I say: pass on the psp for now. The batt life isnt great, nothing is really internettable (socom, twisted metal, tony hawk others?) yet, the buttons and analog nub are pretty uncomfortable for any standard length of time. It's beautiful, and weighty, but it doesn't go traveling with me.
The ds or micro go with me (the micro, everywhere).

Target might still have the $99 ds snafu pricing search joystiq, for details.
If you do go psp, out of all the games I've enjoyed these the most:
lumines
wipeout pure
death jr
starwars battlefront 2
burnout legends
taiko drum master psp
dynasty warriors
legend of heroes
hotshots

psp cons:
The first 3 or 4 are worth sticking with, the rest just entertained me more than the majority i've played/tried. Oh, you won't hear this much, but the psp screen ghosts and dithers like crazy. A lot of the textures look like they're made of cheese cloth, like when you display Opengl graphics on a video card set @ 16 or 256color. Xmen legends 2 in particular ghosts like no tomorrow. It's like playing vice city with the "trails" set to on.

ds cons:
The xyab butons are to close to the edge of the device for me to play gba games like gunstar heroes or astro boy for any length of time. It isnt very svelte.

It's funny, I was thinking if someone were hemming and hawing the two regionally I could lend out the psp without gadget-fear, but the ds or the micro I'd worry about. Good luck.
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i'd also argue that SU is put off because it pops up in the middle of whatever you're doing. i cant tell you how many times i've been interrupted in the middle of a task by SU telling me i need to get an ipod updater for an ipod i dont have. it popped up the other day to tell me about this security update, but i'm waiting till i can check macfixit. ive been burned before by installing updates from apple without doing my reading first.

maybe apple periodically breaking machines via SU is another detriment to SU?
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relax man, all that time you used to spend having sex, you can now use to play the revolution.
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my wife bought me an xbox last xmas. i don't have enough time to really bother with a live account, but i am interested in playing back bittivo'd shows, mp3's and emulation. can you point me in the right direction for modding (soft or other) my xbox so i can use xbmc and all the other goodies you've mentioned?
by email preferably, as i'll never find this thread again.

genericguy (ta) diversionmary dot calm
tia! i appreciate the help. google only gets you so far with this many options for modding available.
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i have a cingular/nokia 6230 and always thought it took mmc cards only. your comment seemed confident in sd enough that i filed a spare 16mb card down to fit in the phone. it doesnt work though, mmc only :/
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All of you kids get offa my internet. Don't make me call your fathers!
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you've never heard of alien hominid? it isnt exactly an underground title.

also, would you expect to find something on the london bombings in GAMES.slash? troll somewhere else, troll.
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i just do a:
route add theirip gw localhost
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doubleplus duh?
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why even bother turning it off? just press the home key then exit the game. my powerbook and my psp are always in sleep mode vs powered down. heck i kept the ds that way for a long time too, but i dont play it so much anymore. other than kirby, which is good and short.
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without pinging the hp user, i set up someone's laptop so they could use wifi @ home with their existing company issued laptop. i dont remember the wifi client app but it was pretty strange. a normal 128b wep connection was possible with it though it took some tinkering. i was surprised his net admin was ok with me tinkering with the laptop at all (he was).
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not true, the launch psp is clocked @ 222mhz cap. read this. there was a nicer looking article about it, but it lacked specificity.
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nethack?
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sneeds feed and seed = chuck's fuck and suck
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i bought one, tested it in car = dead subpixels/dust (glow like rainbows when tilted)
i walked back in to target and exchanged, opened it @ the customer service counter and the batt was dead. took it home, it had 3 dead pixels and 3 on pixels. took it back immediately. next exchange (opened @ counter, batts had juice) had 2 dead pixels, one center one top right. fourth unit was perfect. the batt was dead so "armenia" the nice foreign custy service lady plugged the charger in behind the counter for me. i've been happy ever since (lumines/wipeout)
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i own both a ds and a psp. my girl was monopolizing the ds pretty playing gba games, but so far ds games are just weak and short.

i bought a psp a couple of nights ago (actually four psps, first three had dead or on pixels) and so far enjoy it much more. that said, on may 17th a bunch of good ds games are finally going to come out.

i have lumines and wipeout. ebgames is doing a trade 3 crap ps2/gc/xbx games for one psp promotion so i traded in greatest hits junk and one i picked off the shelf for wipeout. "malice" used is $7.99, find three copies and trade $24.99 worth of product for a new $39.99 game.
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movies are $10/ticket universally in this area. if you want any kind of refreshment during, or coffee before or after, $50 comes pretty quick. a "good meal" is subjective. if you are on a date, $15/person is swill. you'll learn that though, when you start dating.
heck, my fiancee and i just had a good meal, and it came to $66.
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"especially because" you're an "idoit."
awesome.
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what you say about the GBASP being better designed for gba games is correct. Seeing gba games on the ds screen is beautiful, but actually playing them on the ds is hard. the buttons are far too close to the sides of the machine so it makes gripping and playing very hard for my average sized adult hands.
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IT'S A TRAP!!!
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i'd probably say don't bother with warioware. i bought it on a sunday and my fiancee beat it the next evening (and she works full time). she was pretty dissapointed with how short it is. i've found tha twe both pick it up to play them like mini games or challenges, and we aren't sure if it's 100%'d yet. though it makes me wish i had picked up LOZ: the minish cap instead :/
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unfortunately, after 2.3 update shuffle doesnt appear on the main menu. it's still buried in main>settings>shuffle which i find annoying as crap. ...
oh hold up! if you go into settings>main menu>you can flip "Shuffle songs" to "on"
woo! unfortunately it just shuffles them up, it doesnt allow you to click it and deshuffle. as in: i'm listening to track 3 of an album and instead of shuffling to the next song, i want to listen to track 4.
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that's really odd, i use an itrip with my 3g 10gb ipod and my fiancee's ipod mini. other than order of operations (plug in, then power on) problems, the quality has been great. i find that if i'm hearing too much hdd or alternator whine, i just need to turn the ipod up. i usually have the ipod resting on my lap or on the flat beneath my e-brake handle. ymmv, but i only use 87.9, which it comes set at by default.
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The always excellent PBF comic for this comment here

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actual email i received:

"I tried to wasx off nmy key vboard with a gl.asxsx of water yesxterdayl. Asx you c,anm sxeec, sxonme of the keysx are nmot resx/ponmdinmg asx they sxhoul.d I donm't knmow if I fried the key vboard or whatl. ?Pl.easxe c,heck it outl

Thanm

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woo. this is the second time for this guy. i usually take them apart and let them dry outside.
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huzzah for gallery! Also, check out brad choate's mt plugins. I use both gallery + choatery on one site and pure choatery on another

Something else you might be interested is some php munging I did to grab recent photos out of gallery. You can find code + samples here.
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huzzah for gallery! Also, check out brad choate's mt plugins. I use both gallery + choatery on one site and pure choatery on another

Something else you might be interested is some php munging I did to grab recent photos out of gallery. You can find code + samples here.
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i find i can draw fine on my pda (hp 4150 with pocket artist 2.7) but using either of my wacoms is difficult at best. the division between where i'm drawing and where it's showing up throw me off. that and the fact that i spin my paper in many different angles while drawing, never just a standard straight on start to finish thing.
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b) you get paid x amount, regardless of hours.
at my company year end bonuses can reflect above average contributions.
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i'm playing it on non-x86 just fine. g4 proc, windows media player for osx.
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OR nicole ritchie sounds like absolutely everyone else. keep fighting it though little buddy.
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When you violate the gpl, what exactly happens? Do real police or agents actually get involved? Is it then a matter of financial conditions or copyright?
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