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Why don't you go ahead and try to sell a whole bundle of iTMS files.

No reason to skirt around the issue, the videos from the tank I watched were very poor quality. I understand they were wireless, but why not stash some treasure in the crawlspace to let all the /.ers take part in the discovery. I mean if through all the darkness and quick jerky motion, the tank could have discovered this, how flipping sweet would that have been?!

Find out if the Peace Corps sends other people either to where she is doing her stint, or if someone will pass through. Send the PDA with them, and have her meet them at the airport. This won't solve the theft in situ problem, but she probably has quite a few personal possessions in that category already, so it is not like an unaddressed problem. At least if you get a PDA to her, shipping her bytes consists of just sending a flash media card in a letter.

She might not live near an Internet cafe, so printing out the material might not be feasible, or might be prohibitively expensive, depending on how much she wants to print out.

I think PDA-based solutions might even beat out microfiche at this time, which surprised me. It was difficult to find out how much Computer Output on Microform (COM) costs; closest page to prices I could find seemed to imply that there is a $175 USD setup fee per run. This page seems to imply a $0.02/page cost. Maybe the Canadian government agency price of $0.12 CAD per image says I'm completely wrong, and if you can ship someone a TIFF file of the entire microfiche, they can turn around the microfiche to you for really dirt cheap. Or they might be talking about a TIFF image per page, and not per microfiche. I would be astonished if it was not priced per page, and really was $0.12 CAD per microfiche. If it was that cheap, then I would reconsider a PDA based solution if cheap microfiche readers can be found.

Oh, alright. Google is not all knowing. Curiosity got the better of me, so I broke down and called Microfacs and spoke with a nice guy named Rick. Minimum pricing is $0.05 USD per page, and they think 2,000 pages is a very small order. For that, the deal goes like this. You ship them single page TIFF images. You get about a week turnaround, and it is in the form of 16mm microfilm. If you want microfiche, that costs extra. I didn't ask, because $0.05 per page sounded like about the limit for the low budgets we are talking about; I'm guessing that $0.10 per page for microfiche. More expensive than a copy shop, but a heck of a lot cheaper to ship around I would imagine.

Recondtioned readers don't go below $130 USD, although some student projects seem to be aware of the advantages of shipping bulk human readable data around on microform (they are aming for a $20 USD reader, for example). There are handheld microfiche readers that use sunlight, but they cost about the same as a new low-end PDA, so you would still have in situ theft concerns. Used readers have $50 USD opening bids on eBay in the here and now. This is all for microfiche readers; search around for 16mm format microfilm readers that are sunlight or battery capable (if she isn't around reliable electricity), though I'm not sure about the prudence of using for long periods of time any readers that you have to peer through optics.

It currently seems tough to beat the TCO combination of an eBay'd Palm, solar panel, and SD media if you are talking about shipping all of Project Gutenberg to her. Microform readers cost more than a cheap PDA, even used and reconditioned, and the reproduction costs can really swing the cost picture into the PDAs favor (even assuming a couple get stolen) when you start dealing with 10,000 pages (roughly the number of proofed Project Gutenberg pages) and up. If she is around re

I'm pretty sure that you're not supposed to leave the property with the chips ...

I doubt that the casinos mind if you don't cash in chips. In fact, feel free to take as many $100 chip home with you as you want! How do you think these got out?

I don't know how much casinos pay for chips, but I'm sure it's much less than the face value printed on them (even the fancy RFID ones).

If it will fit in a Cube Case,then look at here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=4601&item=5163090849&rd=1 Who will be the next on Slashdot "i put the Mini in the Cube" with Pictures? If the Link is broken,remove the space between "cate" and "gory"

Anyone know of a source of high resolution small LCD panels? I've found an 8" 8" XGA LCD, which would make a nice display for a homebrew LED projector, but it would be even better to have SXGA or higher res in that size or smaller. Anyone know of any sources?

I believe you're looking for something like this. Here's a price.

Price: $24 . You can hardly get a PC case for less than that.

Latency: if you're using this as a file server, then you're sending all your data out a 100mb connection. The firewire latency is the least of your bottlenecks.

I use a four year old Intel Create and Share USB webcam with GnomeMeeting. Decent enough picture with average light.

Why not go used? Looks like there's plenty on Ebay.

Take an old BTTV-chipset based TV in card with composite in (wintvgo comes to mind - ebay or craigslist it) and hook it up to a real camera.

While the two of these may seem pricy - the truth is the card is cheap and non-USB cameras are abundant and cheap because you dont HAVE to get a camera 'designed' to work with your pc and therefore price-inflated. You can use an old camcorder or even a security camera. Either can be found around for alot less than you think. Additionally, The image quality on these real CCD based cameras far exceeds that of most USB devices and the PCI card means you get close to 800 lines of horizontal resolution in at very little processor cost.

I do the same thing here and it cost me $25 (had the pci card, bought an old videoconferencing camera on ebay).

How about Meg Whitman of eBay?

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Vintage mid-'90s laptops built for MS-Windows 95 and NT can be had for under $100. Linux and a lightweight desktop should run fine on them, if you can find appropriate device drivers.

A scan of e-bay found this working thisIBM Thinkpad 390X 4.1G 24x wifi 56k win98 NIC 400mhz for just under $100, plus $25 shipping. 400 MHz, 64 MB RAM, 4.1 GB HD, and Windows 98, and 802.11b on a 13.3" screen isn't a bad deal for $100. About 3-4 years ago a desktop with this on it and a 15" screen would run over $400, i.e. in the range of a "low/medium end" PC.

Other recent auctions included other working sub-$100 notebooks from late in the last century.

Note - you may have to log into e-bay to see the now-completed auction listing.

Clearly, the mods are smoking crack. How the hell is that insightful? It's clearly not even true!

First off, I just looked at eBay, and er... where are the laptops he's talking about? There are exactly _two_ pre-PPC Apple laptops there, one without a power cord, one without a hard drive, so... not exactly functional, even if you want a slow-ass computer. There are some 603e ( that's a PowerPC, if you don't know ) systems in there, cheap, but on a quick glance they all seem to be non-functional as well. Otherwise, and believe me I've been looking, the cheapest I've seen a (really really) old Powerbook go for is around $350.

A note to mods: unless a post like the parent has links to products priced as quoted, don't believe it.

XxtraLarGE, if you post a link, I'll take it all back, but until then, you look like you don't know what you're talking about. We're looking for a working laptop, not a shell.

Clearly, the mods are smoking crack. How the hell is that insightful? It's clearly not even true!

First off, I just looked at eBay, and er... where are the laptops he's talking about? There are exactly _two_ pre-PPC Apple laptops there, one without a power cord, one without a hard drive, so... not exactly functional, even if you want a slow-ass computer. There are some 603e ( that's a PowerPC, if you don't know ) systems in there, cheap, but on a quick glance they all seem to be non-functional as well. Otherwise, and believe me I've been looking, the cheapest I've seen a (really really) old Powerbook go for is around $350.

A note to mods: unless a post like the parent has links to products priced as quoted, don't believe it.

XxtraLarGE, if you post a link, I'll take it all back, but until then, you look like you don't know what you're talking about. We're looking for a working laptop, not a shell.

These would be invaluable in things like health clinics, where a wealth of information could suddenly be made available, for much less than the cost of purchasing a set of books on medicine and diseases.

The only sub-$100 notebook you'll ever need can be found right here.

http://search.ebay.com/laptop_Laptops_W0QQsofocusZ soQQsbrftogZ1QQfclZ3QQcatrefZC12QQfrppZ200QQfromZR 10QQsacatZ51148QQcatrefZC6QQa14Z-24QQa26444Z-24QQa 12Z-24QQa25710Z-24QQgcsZ1505QQpfidZ1811QQreqtypeZ1 QQpfmodeZ1QQalistZa14Q2Ca26444Q2Ca12Q2Ca3801Q2Ca25 710QQpf_queryZlaptopQQftrtZ1QQftrvZ1QQpriceZ1QQsap rchiZ100QQfsopZ1QQfsooZ1

Someone doing Pokia style bluetooth handsets did one [its just a bluetooth handset, but you just stick the phone in your pocket]:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=42393&item=2282460229&rd=1

You are right. They use a sliding scale percentage.

The percentage goes down as the sale price goes up.

"+1, Sadbuttrue".

When I report a powerseller with a 99% feedback rating, will you listen?

Even if this powerseller takes VHS quality fan tapes that have been very poorly burned to DVD-R and sells them for $25+? Even if it violates the over-the-air recording policy, dvd-r policy, and copyright policy?

Even if I point out the many many feedbacks which agree with my point of view? Even if I include the email where he sells additional items outside of eBay?

Will you be there eBay? Will you listen? Or will you continue to go after more petty things like arcade collectors selling real bootleg pac-man PCBs from the period?

Sounds like a late '90s style dotcom Having worked at that those I can tell you, you both can and can't leave. I would expect a bounty system internal to the company that didn't get reported. Bricks of gold which I have seen on ebay are pretty easy to get, They are spawned by the systems you just need a map to find them. But, when your get into stuff like a Amulet of Yendor that's where the company makes real money. That takes skill to obtain and skill is skill even in the third world. What that tells me is that talented people are from everywhere.

drinkypoo, my dear lad, are nuts? $15 to get a PS/2 to USB adapter? Try $1.50. Sure, you can pay more if you want, but it's not necessary. Just make sure you're getting USB Male To PS2 Female, of course.

I've chosen to install analog speedo, tach, H2O temp and oil pressure. This allows the LCD screen to be less expensive and less important so I don't mind as much when it's unreadable (say, a cold start at 0 degrees).

Even with a good (transflective or super-bright backlit) screen, you'll need to ensure that it is shaded well against light from an oblique angle. Depending on your dashboard, that might be easy or it might be hideous.

Right now I'm thinking I'll gut an IPAQ H3950 running Linux to supply the display and controller. Apparently it has a good screen, and I'm sure it's rugged enough for automotive use. The battery will help a lot too. The one drawback that I can see is the screen is only 320x240. I yearn for 640x480, but I've been unable to find aything daylight readable in that resolution for less than a few thousand dollars.

How to interface to it? Wifi! :)

My cell phone has almost every piece of functionality I got from my PDA 3 years ago. Plus a crappy camera. Still no dice roller.

Sure, but can you use it like a CB radio (DJ Convoy)? Is it Shatner-compliant?

surely you mean a Van Allen Radiation Belt

You can turn a Van Allen Belt into a Van Halen belt with one of these

It comes with terrifying ground effects.

Also, you simply must read the comments from the Amazon link, including the one about the Hummer and the MINI.

I had had a perjillion dollars, I would buy one of these and then a few Segways to stuff in the back and some Scout Trooper armor for scouting expeditions.

However, here's my idea: you could buy two of them, grab an M-Audio Quattro (see: http://www.maudio.com/ or http://www.ebay.com/ or any soundcard with separate L/R outs), and hack the headsets so one will carry through the left channel and one will carry through the right channel (make the nec. connections so that you can jack your speax into them).

It's pretty wicked so you can use a central computer or a bunch to connect to various bluetooth speakers throughout the house. So imagine, from any computer being able to choose any audio to play anywhere. w00t!

I'm a genious. I know. Thank you. No please. Really. :P jk

Wired or wireless shouldn't make any difference, as you can use a wireless to ethernet bridge for any "wired" device. I had my house built within the past year, and made sure every room was wired. Here is what I used to get music to every room:
xbox media center Optical out, lots of other options.
Rio receiver running yarrs I have been using this for years, just a small device to play mp3's off of the network. You can hook speakers up to it directly or just use it as a component.
qcast lets you stream mp3's to your playstation 2. Not as useful or functional as the xbox media center.
netjuke this let's me stream music to any other computer in a nice and tidy web interface.

you can also go with a squeezebox but I have no experience with it. The rio is much less expensive.

There was a Pac Man board game. Pacman eats withe marbles and a maze painted on the board. I bought at ebay but left it in an ex-g/f house :(
Here is one in ebay.

That eBay idea sounds pretty good. I think I'll sell info about how you can get a free Mac mini so that I can buy one myself!

I had a laptop long ago (486sx w/ grayscale monitor) that had no built-in pointer. Instead, it had a logitech trackball that clipped to the side and protruded out and at a slight angle upward. The butt of your hand would rest on the table while using the mouse. It was very comfortable. The outside edge of the mouse was rounded, so when you grabbed it, thumb to the sky then curled over the ball, index finger rested easily on the L-mouse button located on the curve, it was very easy to use. I can't remember where the other button was though ..... Luckily, I found a picture. It was a comfy laptop mouse but of course, it wasn't permanently attached.

I never even got that far: the shaving creme shorted out the iPod so I could never turn it on. It is hard to get a good shaze these days. I tried to shave with this razor, and all I received were massive facial bruises.

That's not a link.

Now this http://www.ebay.com/ is a link.

Disclaimer: If you live in Norway, close your eyes and forget you saw this post.

It is a sad day when people can be ordered to pay damages for merely having a link.

Guess it isn't just the USA with unfair laws.

Check ebay to be proved wrong any time.

Current price is more like $600. Dual processor Cubes were selling for A$2000 last year. Remember that the Mini is the same processor and in almost all respects (including video card) not very much higher spec than the Cube. A dual processor Cube should match a Mini in speed.

But the main reason why they'll hold their price - apart from being competitive in performance - is scarcity: they're not being made any more. They're one of the most collectable Mac models.

Or you *could* purchase another PSION off of ebay http://search.ebay.com/psion
(I saw one going for about $80) if you really depend on it that much

Wulisoft even has a link to an EPOC emulator that you could use to run mentor if you had to.

Apple made the Cube pretty easy and slick to open, but nobody cared really once the novelty wore off.

The original poster of this article and the parent here both seem to think the Cube was a failure. Maybe it didn't really push a paradigm shift like the iMac did, but history has left it as still a very desireable computer. Checking Ebay, it sells for $350. That's a pretty hefty resale price for a computer of its age. Probably the availability of the iMac mini will impact that resale price, but it seems as though the novelty hasn't worn off for a fair number of people.

We have one in our kitchen. It's decent. It looks nice, it doesn't take up a lot space. We have the keyboard mounted under a counter - it's got an integrated pointing device. The downside is that it's really not upgradeable as it has mostly non-standard parts.

You can find them on ebay. Not cheap, but not crazy expensive either.

You can report this stuff to Ebay by emailing spoof@ebay.com.

Far more common is the configuration this board has, with one 64/133, one 64/100 and one 32/33. Realistically, for your scenario, that should be more than adequate.

You should be able to find a Tandy 100 on eBay.

I also like the backspace and tab key locations - I think I could get used to those. Enter key is also in a more natural location.

Compaq had keyboards with a split spacebar. Right side was the space and the left side was back space. Using it drove me 100% batty but I could see where one would find it useful if doing much data entry.

I agree, I hope Nintendo doesn't become so revolutionary that it discourages companies from producing games. Nintendo's seems to have the philosophy of "we're so far ahead, why can't everyone see this" which only seems to single them out in a bad way. It's like when I was in high school and thought I was much more interesting than most people, and I acted accordingly. It didn't make me cooler, it just made me look stupid while everyone else was having fun. I love nintendo, but they should learn from my high school lifestyle.

Help me be able to move to Wales!

I just tried a search using Google.com (from the USA) and found an ad that only read "Find it for sale," not "Find African Slaves for sale." I clicked it and was directed to a page not unlike this one, a search for "African Slaves" on eBay.

Here is a scary image of children giving a "nazi" salute to flag of the USA. It seems to support some of what you're saying.

Click if you dare.

How did he get there? What are the causes of child sexual molestation, which is committed against perhaps 20 percent of girls and 5 to 10 percent of boys under the age of consent in the United States, according to David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire. (Finkelhor, who has examined the studies extensively, added that the numbers range widely from 10 to 40 percent for girls and 2 to 15 percent for boys, depending on definitions and methods.

in a sample of nearly 200 university males, 21 percent reported some sexual attraction to small children.'' Specifically, ''9 percent described sexual fantasies involving children, 5 percent admitted to having masturbated to sexual fantasies of children and 7 percent indicated they might have sex with a child if not caught.

Green wrote as well of the work done in 1970 by the researchers Kurt Freund and R. Costell. Forty-eight Czech soldiers were hooked to a ''penile responsivity'' meter known as a plethysmograph. Viewing a series of slides, ''28 of 48 showed penile response to the female children age 4-10.''

FYI plethysmograph is the Slashdot word of the day.

Google Image Search
Ebay (if you really want one)

On a sidenote, weren't some UN peacekeeping soldiers from that region accused of sexual abuse in Africa not to long ago?

He rushed for the waist-high fence that divides the sand from the parking lot. He couldn't get his bearlike body over it cleanly; he wound up stuck, sitting on it and crushing it. Sometime later he showed me the place of his flight, where the fence remained bent. It wasn't hard for me to picture him caught there, between the safe and the terrifying.

In Connecticut as I recall, if you don't report criminal activity(vandalism), you can be charged...

I'm curious what the deal was with this. And if there will be charges of vandalism. Especially considering he's already got a parole officer on his ass.

The DVI->VGA adapter DOES come in the box, like you ask.

Thank you for pointing this out. My oversight.

I found this $9.95 Dual PS/2 -> single USB converter and no doubt eBay will continue to sell the things wholesale for far less (saw some in the $4 range).

All this just makes my point. It would cost Apple SO VERY LITTLE with their buying power to include this thing. They included the DVI -> VGA as you pointed out. Why not take the next logical step?

The first time that Chinese haven't just pirated what they couldn't afford. ;-)

The first time that Chinese haven't just pirated what they couldn't afford. ;-)

The first time that Chinese haven't just pirated what they couldn't afford. ;-)