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Ok, web site crackers.... First group to change Verisigns cach all to point to Goats.cx!! Marks.... Get set.... GO! Tony. Buy 3 Long life LED keychains from me, for just 5. Thanks. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=3046991996&category=294

Send them One Million Dollars!.

search of ebay.co.uk for monkey island

These things are available. Legally. Don't start pirating until you've got the game.

Many people have been asking how one would obtain the ROMs for these machines.

It is quite easy. You can buy the machines off Ebay in the UK, and it does not take much to dump the contents of the board to a PC.

And many people have also been bringing up the possibility of a bug in the emulator. I can tell you from experience that the machines are rigged. There are certain situations where you will always lose. But there are also situations in which you will always win. And this has lead to a proliferation of How to beat Fruit Machine CD's on Ebay.

I had a friend at the pub at which I used to work, who would be winning about 100 pounds a week from the fruit machine we had in there. ÂBasically he was walking home with the rest of the pubs earnings.

So in conclusion, there are many points in a game where you are guaranteed to lose, but there are also a few points where you must win. If you play the game for long enough you can work all these points out and usually walk away with a bit more than what you put in. Just don't get greedy, as the machine will know.Â

Many people have been asking how one would obtain the ROMs for these machines.

It is quite easy. You can buy the machines off Ebay in the UK, and it does not take much to dump the contents of the board to a PC.

And many people have also been bringing up the possibility of a bug in the emulator. I can tell you from experience that the machines are rigged. There are certain situations where you will always lose. But there are also situations in which you will always win. And this has lead to a proliferation of How to beat Fruit Machine CD's on Ebay.

I had a friend at the pub at which I used to work, who would be winning about 100 pounds a week from the fruit machine we had in there. ÂBasically he was walking home with the rest of the pubs earnings.

So in conclusion, there are many points in a game where you are guaranteed to lose, but there are also a few points where you must win. If you play the game for long enough you can work all these points out and usually walk away with a bit more than what you put in. Just don't get greedy, as the machine will know.Â

EBay

It looks neat and claims to be mountable as a external storage device:
Thomson Lyra PDP2820

;-)

Not true of desktop machines at many local retailers, where if you ask you can often get a machine without a Windows licence. (I once bought a machine from 1st Direct, Preston, Lancashire, England with Windows installed (apparently for driver installation) but without a licence fee having appeared on the invoice. Your mileage may vary.)

This does not apply to laptops, which are not typically built by retailers. Similarly, it may not apply to brand-name machines (except certain Dell machines, which come with FreeDOS) or machines sold by certain larger retailers.

If a retailer does insist on selling a Windows licence you don't need, you could at least steer the retailer into selling the cheapest one available (try Windows 1 out of the cupboard, computing value not very much (currently on eBay), or Windows 3.11 at about GBP 10.50).

Not that I have anything against germans and their lives (heh), but the only seti@home work units on eBay seem to be from three germans??

I'm researching seti for a final year comp sci project, and I've just handed in a draft about how its been secure, but how my distributed foobar will be open, and therfore more secure.

(dunno how to make it secure yet though)

Cheating is a big thing, as you can sell your work units on ebay!

500 units @ 25 euros
and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&it em=2064169353 and
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem& it em=2064990327

He had a dozen or so free copies of Mac OS X (10.1 I believe) but no hardware onto which to place this neat new OS.

So, he scoured eBay for the appropriate parts (motherboard, chip, RAM, SCSI hard disks) and pieced together all of the new machines from scratch.

He told me the only real hard part was finding cases. I think he's still two cases short, but ended up simply mounting the components onto a piece of drywall and setting them flat on a lab table!

Here in Europe, for an example, getting stuff from ebay is a really big hassle and with shipping costs added not worth most of the time.

Really? Seems easy enough to me

Europe: Its a big place.

And this is IBM UK's page on eBay UK.

Note the negative and neutral feedback. So many of the big name, blue chip sellers on eBay just can't seem to get it right when it comes to basic customer service.

I think this "open standards" deal with IBM and Websphere fits well with the eBay community values - http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/community/values.html

eBay can't be all bad......

And this is IBM UK's page on eBay UK.

Note the negative and neutral feedback. So many of the big name, blue chip sellers on eBay just can't seem to get it right when it comes to basic customer service.

I think this "open standards" deal with IBM and Websphere fits well with the eBay community values - http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/community/values.html

eBay can't be all bad......

• DEC Alphaserver 1200 / Ultimate Workstation 533au/2 -- 2 533MHz CPU, Storageworks UW-SCSI for up to 7 hotswap device, SRM/AlphaBIOS for Linux/BSD/NT/Tru64/etc, remote admin, auto-switching redundant PSU, blah blah...
• Alpha PC164SX motherboard -- fit a 533MHz CPU, slap into a case and add standard memory and IDE drive, and get a nice PC-class Alpha box

• DEC Alphaserver 1200 / Ultimate Workstation 533au/2 -- 2 533MHz CPU, Storageworks UW-SCSI for up to 7 hotswap device, SRM/AlphaBIOS for Linux/BSD/NT/Tru64/etc, remote admin, auto-switching redundant PSU, blah blah...
• Alpha PC164SX motherboard -- fit a 533MHz CPU, slap into a case and add standard memory and IDE drive, and get a nice PC-class Alpha box

Hey,

The local thriftstore has a working Mac IIci for $1.98 -- maybe I should put it on eBay as a collectable.

Ebay has a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or two for £2.99... maybe I should buy one and put it on ebay as a collectable.

Hold on, there's something wrong with this plan...

Michael

Hey,

The local thriftstore has a working Mac IIci for $1.98 -- maybe I should put it on eBay as a collectable.

Ebay has a Sinclair ZX Spectrum or two for £2.99... maybe I should buy one and put it on ebay as a collectable.

Hold on, there's something wrong with this plan...

Michael

If it is legal to be a racist neo-nazi in the US, I don't see why we should tolerate this in Europe.