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Ubuntu support older Dell hardware very well also...

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=Dell+Ubuntu

Oh wait, you were talking about Dell supporting Ubuntu, not the other way around.

For the trifling sum of 1.5 million dollars you too can be lairing it up in style...

"The Missile Base consists of 57 acres of real estate. The center secured portion of the property is protected by the original barbed-wire-topped chainlink fence. There is a paved road leading into the property with dual entry gates.

Above ground is the original 40 X 100 shop building, two concrete targeting structures, two manufactured homes, two 8 X 8 X 40 storage containers, and the silo tops of the three missile silos, two antenna silos, one entry portal and a few other misc structures.

Below ground is a huge complex consisting of 16 buildings and thousands of feet of connecting tunnels. The major underground structures are:

Three - 160' Tall Missile Silos
Three - 4 story Equipment Terminal Buildings
Three - Fuel Terminal Buildings
Two - 6 story Antenna Silos
One Air Intake/Filtration Building
One 100' diameter Control Dome Building
One 125' diameter Power Dome Building
One - 6 story Entry Portal Building
and a few other misc buildings and areas."
- http://www.themissilebase.com/

http://cgi.ebay.com/Titan-Missile-Base-Central-Washington_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ1607QQihZ009QQitemZ190132455924QQrdZ1

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/10/10

If only I had the money and the crazy and the US citizenship necessary :-p

That kid really enjoying the destruction is pretty funny.

For those who'd like to do something similar but on a much smaller scale, Estes has done a number of smaller model rockets based on the Star Wars movies. A couple decent models are R2-D2 and my favorite, Vader's TIE fighter. But I would guess the most appropriate to this discussion would be the X Wing

As far as reactivity with atmospheric Ozone (O3), Halogens (big electronegative atoms) Chlorine and/or Bromine in refrigerant = BAD. Fluorine only in refrigerant = GOOD. We are talking about a class of chemicals that are modified Natural Gases like Methane, Ethane, etc.. that have had one or more of their Hydrogens replaced with CL, Br, or F to make them "less flammable" and to engineer their properties making them superior refrigerants. See the ~Montreal Protocol~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol "At present, 191 nations have become party to the Montreal Protocol (see external link below). Those 5 that are not as of September 2007 are Andorra, Iraq, San Marino, Timor-Leste and Vatican City." A single 12 ounce can of R-12 Automotive Freon was only ~$.99 in the 1980's? [You could recharge your car AC Cheaply and ON YOUR OWN.] The current price on the R134A replacement is over $10 per 12 ounce can! ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-134a ) And if you are lucky enough to have some stock of the old banned R12, is it selling over $25 per 12oz can now!! http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?sofocus=1&catref=m37&satitle=R12+can+refrigerant In addition, you MUST now be Professionally Licensed to even tap into an R12 air conditioning system's coolant loop using only special expensive approved refrigerant recycling/vapor recovery equipment which costs many hundreds of dollars per unit. Not to mention, R134a refrigerant REQUIRES a new class of synthetic lubricant oils, special compatible plumbing/hoses, and new compressor designs. R134a and its oils are corrosive to many metals (R12 was not) and R134a is NOT as good of a refrigerant compared to R12 (therefore AC systems in vehicles today are a bit larger and a bit less efficient to yield the same cooling needs, after all; cars are really just greenhouses with wheels) So a chemical that is virtually as inexpensive to manufacture (comparing R12 to its "replacement" R134a) now costs over 10x as much to purchase, yields complete incompatibility with older R12 systems, and creates a very lucrative "gray market" and "black market" for R12 refrigerant. R12 refrigerant manufacturers created as much R12 as was humanly possible before the Montreal Protocol manufacturer's ban date. Realize that this is and has been an artificially controlled market and now the profits are crazy. (Think like the cost of manufacture of a CD compared to the sale price) The politics of this were simple: making fortunes and claiming positive environmental action. There are R12 "blends" that are mixtures of various things that sort of work ok, but there is not a good replacement even to date and stockpiles of R12 only get more expensive. But hey, Yay for the environment! More references: http://yarchive.net/ac/politics.html

I don't think lasers, piranhas, or white cats are included in the $1,000,000 asking price, but a nice underground bunker can be had here, if you desire such prime real estate. :) Jump on it, folks! When they outlaw the ownership of underground bunkers, only outlaws will own one!

Try this site .

A Microline 120 or 140 would be an excellent starter slipstick for you, and not at all expensive.

Now I can install even slower and more bloated software. Hard drives are the cassette tapes of the new millennium.

How do I qualify?

Each month eBay automatically sends email invitations to qualified sellers. To qualify, members must:

Have been an active member for 90 days
Average a minimum of $1000 in sales per month, for three consecutive months
Achieve an overall Feedback rating of 100, of which 98% or more is positive
Have an account in good financial standing

Although that is direct from the eBay site it is not 100% accurate. My experience indicates that invitations to the Power Seller program are based on quantity of items sold and not dollar amounts. Somewhere between 3 and 5 items per month for three or four consecutive months will trigger the invitation email. I get invitation emails quite a bit but never have I sold $1000 worth of stuff in any month let alone three consecutive months.

From eBay: http://pages.ebay.com/help/buy/how-buy-bin.html
"You must also have either a credit card (or debit card) on file or ID Verify." So, I assume you must have the later?

Dear XXXXX (XXXXX@yahoo.com),

**PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT EMAIL REGARDING YOUR LISTING(S)**

We would like to let you know that we removed your listing:

3627618857 Autodesk Discreet 3D Studio MAX R3.1 Bundle

because a Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program participant notified us, under penalty of perjury, that your item infringes their copyright, trademark, or other rights.

We have credited any associated fees to your account. We have also notified the bidders that the listing(s) was removed, and that they are not obligated to complete the transaction.

If you relist this or any other similar items on eBay, your account likely will be suspended.

If you believe your listing was ended in error, or have questions regarding the removal of this listing, please contact the VeRO Program participant directly at:

Autodesk
andrew@donahue.com

eBay is available to answer questions, but since it is the VeRO Program participant that requested the removal of your listings, we encourage you to contact them first.

For more information on the VeRO Program, and a list of VeRO Program participant About Me pages, please visit:

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Thank you for your cooperation.

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Dear XXXXX (XXXXX@yahoo.com),

**PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT EMAIL REGARDING YOUR LISTING(S)**

We would like to let you know that we removed your listing:

3627618857 Autodesk Discreet 3D Studio MAX R3.1 Bundle

because a Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) Program participant notified us, under penalty of perjury, that your item infringes their copyright, trademark, or other rights.

We have credited any associated fees to your account. We have also notified the bidders that the listing(s) was removed, and that they are not obligated to complete the transaction.

If you relist this or any other similar items on eBay, your account likely will be suspended.

If you believe your listing was ended in error, or have questions regarding the removal of this listing, please contact the VeRO Program participant directly at:

Autodesk
andrew@donahue.com

eBay is available to answer questions, but since it is the VeRO Program participant that requested the removal of your listings, we encourage you to contact them first.

For more information on the VeRO Program, and a list of VeRO Program participant About Me pages, please visit:

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Thank you for your cooperation.

Regards,

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Nah... I think this is the guy who's famous for eBay fraud.

ABSOLUTELY! I formatted Vista from my newish Dell Inspiron 6400 Notebook and promptly installed one of these babies from Ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Windows-XP-Professional-Dell-Reinstallation-CD_W0QQitemZ300153643573 HINT: Just get any Dell 25-Digit COA key (for your particular Dell XP OEM version) from another Dell PC COA sticker, ...Uh, I Mean, Ahem.... ""which YOU DO OWN and are not using while running *nix"". It also works nicely when you can find Dell bulk motherboards to build Frankenstein boxes out of as the Dell XP OEM reinstallation disks only work with Dell BIOS motherboards. (Uh, Yah... Using COA Stickers form other Boxes which you ALSO OWN...) As if Microsoft Genuine Advantage would make Dell OEM COA Keys invalid!

When I'm in the US, I use an unlocked cell phone bought in a foreign country, and a local GSM card, it's easy. The only thing to watch out for is that the US uses 850&1900 Mhz GSM, most countries use 900&1800. So make sure the phone is at least tri-band, or better yet quad-band.

Really there's nothing difficult about getting an unlocked phone in the US, it just isn't well advertised. And really it's not a bad deal to get the phone bundled with a long-term contract, if you're going to have to have a cell phone anyway.

here's a link to an ebay sale of ten of the dishes i use - buy 'em now for $250! Ebay you could outfit two endpoints and four passive repeaters with that gear - surely enough to get up and over a mountain. here's cringely with his passive repeater: http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020207_000721.html you can see my 24db mounted on an antenna rotator in the last pic on this page: http://www.asecular.com/index.php?051105 and read about it here: http://www.asecular.com/index.php?050319

example: Itrip - 50$. Same transmitter @ ebay = 6$. Non Ipod ebay example? 10$ w/car charger. Similar non Ebay? 20$ .

Trust me, IPOD isn't special. I like the wheel, its a great thing that stupidly no other MP3 player has decided to support, aka "hmm, maybe they want to jump through the playlist really fast". Apparently that logic never caught on, instead it's "hmm, maybe after holding down next for 10 seconds we should speed up the search", as well as pitiful playlist support. I'll still never buy an IPOD, but people really need to realize the true benefits. Also, Ipod's don't play a lot of formats that other players (such as creative vision) do, and apple DRM's the stuff so that you can't transfer it to other people (creative could care less).

example: Itrip - 50$. Same transmitter @ ebay = 6$. Non Ipod ebay example? 10$ w/car charger. Similar non Ebay? 20$ .

Trust me, IPOD isn't special. I like the wheel, its a great thing that stupidly no other MP3 player has decided to support, aka "hmm, maybe they want to jump through the playlist really fast". Apparently that logic never caught on, instead it's "hmm, maybe after holding down next for 10 seconds we should speed up the search", as well as pitiful playlist support. I'll still never buy an IPOD, but people really need to realize the true benefits. Also, Ipod's don't play a lot of formats that other players (such as creative vision) do, and apple DRM's the stuff so that you can't transfer it to other people (creative could care less).

Don't forget the other key feature.

You are, effectively, immortal. You can keep coming back. That changes the economics. Instead of a single run (life), you can have multiple runs. Without the tedious childhood and learning parts.

Don't forget:
http://video-games.listings.ebay.com/Internet-Games_Eve-Online_W0QQsacatZ85809QQsocmdZListingItemList

Ebay + USB turntable

http://cgi.ebay.com/Hank-Snow-Tracks-and-Trains-RCA-LSP-4501_W0QQitemZ220148934553QQcmdZViewItem

As the other posts have indicated a good entry level astrophotography rig will run several grand. However, there is a lot of "obsolete" kit hitting ebay and astromart these days that can be made pretty capable. On your budget I would go with an old clock driven fork mounted SCT (ex. Celestron C8 or Meade LX50).

As the other posts have indicated a good entry level astrophotography rig will run several grand. However, there is a lot of "obsolete" kit hitting ebay and astromart these days that can be made pretty capable. On your budget I would go with an old clock driven fork mounted SCT (ex. Celestron C8 or Meade LX50).

An eBay search for thetan revealed this Problem is, there doesn't seem to be an image. So, you don't know what it looks like until you buy it. I guess that's fitting.

A laptop was stolen with my state's taxpayer state taxpayer information on it recently. Look I found it on ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =150156936378 yeah, no wonder that they are able to bust criminals using online auction sites.

You probably all know this by now.,. but have you seen it? http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&it em=230164884672 bidding is at $26,001,100.00 how long do you think it will take the guys over at http://iphonesimfree.com/ to earn that much? i think i'm going to email geohot and ask him for the 2500 bucks i need to buy my motorcycle... he should have it soon. yes i know i'm a freeloader!

Haha, I thought that too...

But someone is already bidding nearly $18,000 for it.

> ... this is worth at least a few thousand, maybe 50, to the right rich SW fan.

Not so much. There are at least 2500 'official' copies worth maybe 1,000-3,000$. This being some unofficial knock off was probably worth half that at best. Valueless now of course.

http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ150152835245QQihZ005 QQ
http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ250154685321QQihZ015 QQ

> ... this is worth at least a few thousand, maybe 50, to the right rich SW fan.

Not so much. There are at least 2500 'official' copies worth maybe 1,000-3,000$. This being some unofficial knock off was probably worth half that at best. Valueless now of course.

http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ150152835245QQihZ005 QQ
http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ250154685321QQihZ015 QQ

--- "CAN'T YOU SEE, MAN? IT'S THE END OF FREEDOM!"

No problem, everyone calm down. The server has been located. http://cgi.ebay.com/A6144A-HP-9000-Server-L3000-UN IX-PA-RISC-550MHZ_W0QQitemZ280141263427QQihZ018QQc ategoryZ162QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ebay has a whole section dedicated to just meteorites.

I prefer the MS Intellimouse trackball. similar config, but the wheel is under the middle/ring finger. and its white. I've got one on every system I own, and spares JIC. It does require periodic(monthly) cleaning, but its awesome for comfort. You can see one here on EBAY

It is hard to say if ebay is really using IIS, Apache, or both.

telnet www.ebay.com 80
Trying 66.135.214.176...
Connected to hp-core.ebay.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:50:28 GMT
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Location: http://pages.ebay.com/messages/page_not_responding .html?eBayErrorEventName=p4kjkbsdab%60jtb9%3Ftd.s5 os57%3F-2007.08.06.08.50.28.621.MST
Content-Length: 0

Connection closed by foreign host.

eBay doesn't consider the transactions auctions.

If you read the eBay User Agreement, you will find, that before you can bid on the site, you agree that eBay is not an auctioneer, eBay is "not involved" in the actual transaction, and there is no guarantee a buyer or seller will actually complete the transaction. (This is different from a "real" auction where an auctioneer takes possession and ownership is transferred to the highest bidder, by the auctioneer, and the bidder had to make a security deposit in advance, to guarantee they would not attempt to back out on their bid, and run away.)

We do not transfer legal ownership of items from the seller to the buyer, and nothing in this agreement shall modify the governing provisions of California Commercial Code 2401(2) and Uniform Commercial Code 2-401(2), under which legal ownership of an item is transferred upon physical delivery of the item to the buyer by the seller. Unless the buyer and the seller agree otherwise, the buyer will become the item's lawful owner upon physical receipt of the item from the seller, in accordance with California Commercial Code 2401(2) and Uniform Commercial Code 2-401(2).

They call sale of items to the highest bidder "Auction-style listing". Because it's a way of negotiating the price for the sale that works like a real auction would, provided everyone follows the rules.

Fact : "All bids on eBay are binding so you should make sure you know how much you can afford first."

Source : http://pages.motors.ebay.com/help/buyerguide/buy_v ehicles.html

Also, a quick look on eBay Shows that pretty much everyone else agrees with me

And here's two whole ones currently listed for $51 (though reserve's not met). Shipping on 3tons has to be pretty expensive, not to mention powering them =)

If $800,000 is still too pricey for you, you can get a Cray supercomputer on eBay for $800:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Cray-J90-Supercomputer-1-CPU-2 -Memory-Modules-J-90_W0QQitemZ8816248638QQihZ014QQ categoryZ162QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

I can understand the government's concern here. There is advanced Space Shuttle simulation software available for download on the internet. It even comes with a highly detailed Space Shuttle flight manual.

The most disturbing part is, nefarious organizations are willing to sell this top secret material to the the highest bidder. Just imagine if this were to fall into the hands of the terrorists.

I'm not sure what an Atari 2600 is. Probably some kind of NASA super computer...

Just buy a new one from ebay: http://cgi.ebay.com/Apollo-Saturn-V-Plans-1967-Ama zing-Item_W0QQitemZ230155998873QQihZ013QQcategoryZ 13903QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Seriously though, this must be some kind of silly bureaucratic mixup, someone overreacting to the new directive from above etc.

As if someone trying to build a freaking ICBM would not have already picked up every bit of public information (and more) regarding US, Soviet etc rocket technology.

How about right here?

You'd have to be a pretty-determined attacker to round up a tape machine, make it work, and figure out the encoding technique on the tape.

Oh, really?

Johnny Five is evolution. Johnny Five is alive.

C'mon Slashdot are going to buy him?
http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ViewItem&viewitem=&item=230155438774

Suggest you use Google. Dock N Talk and Cell docks aren't hard to find. Oh okay I did it for you. Sorry but you're talking out of your ass on this one.

http://www.phonelabs.com/prd05.asp/
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40& _trksid=m37&satitle=cell+dock&category0=/

Yeah, I own one of the Dock n Talks. The new Asterisk also supports BT cell channels that do much the same thing but I've not yet tried it out.