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I don't think I'd trust buying a $150,000+ item from someone who only has 10 feedback, One of them being a $24 battery.

Oh, and paypal?! I barely trust sending $150 through paypal, let alone $150,000...

Now that's a fun way to add Wi-Fi to your local coffeehouse--slip a m0n0wall Soekris and a DSL modem inside an old portable radio and put it on the countertop.

I think we'd want to have some weighted rules for judging a good "sympathetic" installation (highest first):

1. If the radio works, it should continue to work (do no harm)
2. As minimal damage to the original casing as possible
3. The wi-fi unit is easily removed to return item to an old style radio
4. Operation simple for the user (plug/unplug)
5. Network indicator lights visible (through the mesh?)

Rob

P.S. For do-it-yourselfers, check out ebay's 1930's radios and NYCwireless's primer on setting up community nodes

If any of you really want to see retro-hobbying at it's greatest, just do a search on Ebay for Nixie tubes.

Nixie tubes were createrd in the erra before LCD displays. Basicly it's a vacuum tube with metal numbers or letters layered one after each other. When a voltage is applied to the right pin, the number glows, much like a little neon light. They were often used in test equipment and a few computers. Hobbiest now use them to make clocks and other displays. It would be neat to use them as a status moniter on a linux server for that retro-look. :-)

I'd second the recommendations to look at SOHO stuff; my personal experience at work is with a lower-end Netscreen device that is about the size of a 4-port hub, has two Ethernet ports (trusted and untrusted), does NAT, does port forwarding, has good logs, etc, and similar devices can be found on eBay in the $50-100 range. For example, this is a similar firewall device. I'd expect other companies have similar offerings, where you get the benefits of an embedded device (lower power consumption, no noise, smaller size, etc) along with more of the features from a custom Linux or BSD box.

Nah, use a tool Sun intended for the job

linky

I'm sorry I thought it would be clear...

An RadioFrequency AudioVideo transmitter.

Try ebay : http://search.ebay.com/wireless-video_W0QQsokeywor dredirectZ1QQfromZR8

I would kill to be able to vote in this election

Why kill? Buy a vote on ebay.

Jaj

I would kill to be able to vote in this election

Why kill? Buy a vote on ebay.

Jaj

Perhaps the story should have been when Apple released Apple Lossless Encoder. That's the recent iPod news that makes the iPod better for audiophiles.

Just get the Asian version of the DVDs of the original series (not SE) and be done with it. Sure, the picture quality isn't as good, but Greedo doesn't shoot first (or "almost simaltaneously" or whatever he does in this new DVD version).

Sellers may not charge eBay buyers an additional fee for their use of ordinary forms of payment, including acceptance of checks, money orders, electronic transfers or credit cards . . .

I wouldn't bid on an auction that advertised such a charge, and if I had bid on one and had been told to "send a money order or shut up," I'd neg the seller and report him to eBay. I have also reported auctions that advertise the illegal surcharge and seen them pulled.

This drive is PC Card sized, which is not usable in any modern consumer digital camera. The seller was simply keyword spamming. "Microdrive" is actually a marketing name created by IBM (and then sold to Hitachi) for a hard drive with a CompactFlash interface, so neither this auction nor the Seagate drive can be legally called a Microdrive.

Start looking at IBM selectric typewriters on ebay Then point me to the one that may have made the superscript "th". By the way, it also needed to be available in the early 70's.

You go buy an M100 with an ITPS for ignition control. Then you go download MediaEngine or another interface of your choice at MP3car.com. Finally, go buy your Lilliput 7" TFT touchscreen on eBay.

If you're into self installs and whatnot this gives you a lot more flexibility at less cost.

Well, check this out. Apparently you can still sell a poster she made for ~$400.

these work with turbo for the following emulators:
atari/ 11-Aug-2004 08:50
gameboy_advance/ 29-Nov-2003 11:04
n64/ 11-Aug-2004 08:51
nes/ 07-May-2004 21:22
sega/ 29-Apr-2004 10:32
snes/ 05-Sep-2004 19:53

i couldn't get it to work with mame in linux and
have had a bad time with mame in general...

Yes.

Looks like you can get a NES dirt cheap on ebay.

Hey, my wife has been trying for a year now to convince me to buy her a gameboy...

The Millennium Problems: The Seven Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time

Check them out here -> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =5719278922

People who pull off these scams aren't interested in most goods - they want cash. I suppose that the easiest method is to buy a case or 10 of cigarettes or to try to return a high-dollar item. The former can be sold almost anywhere and the latter will give the thief cash, but only after a second pass at the Wal Mart chain. The latter is a high-risk approach and it isn't consistent with an ongoing breach...

Those ways are effective. Here's another:

http://search.ebay.com/gift-card_W0QQsokeywordredi rectZ1QQfromZR8

Once you see what his ex-girlfriend did to his monitor when he told her it's over you'll understand why he needed to know well in advance if she was heading to his place for yet another constructively destructive discussion about why he does not want to marry her.

Just so you know, that used to be a 22" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 2060u before they broke up.

I wait with bait on my breath for a simple, cheap ($500-$800), computer from them that includes the styling and beauty of the more expensive models.

How about a powerbook? You've got thirty minutes.

Or buy a tivo for 200.

So why is this MythTv box worth 400 more? Is this what "free" costs? Granted, I wouldn't consider the Microsoft offering either. Unless you consider a 100 dollar xbox running XBMC or gentoox a Microsoft product. But then, you get no video encoding and less than stellar video playback.

Whatever. It's cool having a multi function device, but sometimes paying (in this case, less) for specialization is good.

After putting up (or helping put up) hurricane shutters on 3 houses, I have nothing better to do than to await the inevitable. And put it on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355878 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355985 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356022 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356055

After putting up (or helping put up) hurricane shutters on 3 houses, I have nothing better to do than to await the inevitable. And put it on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355878 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355985 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356022 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356055

After putting up (or helping put up) hurricane shutters on 3 houses, I have nothing better to do than to await the inevitable. And put it on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355878 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355985 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356022 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356055

After putting up (or helping put up) hurricane shutters on 3 houses, I have nothing better to do than to await the inevitable. And put it on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355878 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518355985 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356022 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=1469&item=5518356055

I don't own one, but I'd buy a Palm III with a USB interface for 10 bucks if someone offered it to me.

Feel Sorry for them..!?!
But they're rich

would that be a tablet pc, from Microsoft

No, he said Gateway, and meant it. Gateway sold these neat little all-in-one LCD machines in the late 90s, starting not long after the original iMac came up, as the Profile series.

It looks like you can get some of the original Gateway Profile computers (15" lcd / 500mhz cpu / 128mb ram / 10gb hard drive) for around $300 on eBay now.

I remember playing with one in a Gateway store back in 1998 or so, and thinking that this was a really cool idea, but it was something like $2500, as I recall (I can't find any links about dates or prices now, but it was in that range), and as a student I just couldn't afford that.

(That and, now that I think about it, I wanted something that I'd be able to run BeOS on, and didn't think I could on these Gateway all-in-one machines -- good thing I was betting on the BeOS horse, eh? Oh well...).

But yeah, my first thought when seeing the new iMac was that Apple was ripping off the Gateway design. The Apple one was much nicer to be sure, but the basic form factor -- which predates the current notion of a tablet PC by several years -- is more or less exactly how Gateway had set up their original Profile PCs five years or more ago.

I *love* my BT500. Long live Bluetooth!

This is very true. Check eBay for the resell prices of even the dog products that weren't big sellers-- the Apple Cube, for example. You can sell your three-year-old Cube for a quarter of the cost of this new iMac. I don't see anyone getting more than $150 for a three-year-old Dell.

> Unfortunately, I think they've pretty much sold out the previous generation iMacs

They may have, but that doesn't mean you can't buy one of the 73 iMac G4's for sale on eBay.

> I wish they'd kept a 15" model at $999. This lack of low end is Apple's greatest problem with consumers.

You're complaining about a lack of a low-end 15" $999 machine, when they sell a low-end 17" machine for $799? Or $749 with an educational discount.

Although I would agree that price is still a problem with Apple, since low-end these days is closer to $300 for PC's. Yes, those PC's are much lower-end than the $799 eMac, but they still meet the needs of a lot of people. I'd love to see a low-end headless Apple box for more like $400, for geeks & such to use to play with OS-X, but that's just not the market Apple's going for, unfortunately.

> Unfortunately, I think they've pretty much sold out the previous generation iMacs

They may have, but that doesn't mean you can't buy one of the 73 iMac G4's for sale on eBay.

> I wish they'd kept a 15" model at $999. This lack of low end is Apple's greatest problem with consumers.

You're complaining about a lack of a low-end 15" $999 machine, when they sell a low-end 17" machine for $799? Or $749 with an educational discount.

Although I would agree that price is still a problem with Apple, since low-end these days is closer to $300 for PC's. Yes, those PC's are much lower-end than the $799 eMac, but they still meet the needs of a lot of people. I'd love to see a low-end headless Apple box for more like $400, for geeks & such to use to play with OS-X, but that's just not the market Apple's going for, unfortunately.

There is at least one desperate person out there...
Check this auction

Just because the price is set at $400 doesn't mean they are going for that price. They will most likely not sell for such high of a price. In fact, not a single bid has been placed on the given auction as of yet. So while the seller may be asking for $400, if no one is willing to pay that, he might as well sell it for a billion dollars.

But who knows after Slashdot has its effect.

Here:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=14980&item=5718056425&rd=1

You happy now? Cripes.

Not when you have an external full-keyboard - I have a really light Notebook, but I still prefer carrying my PDA & Foldable keyboard. And you can get one of these off eBay for as little as $40 - see for yourself.

Okay, here's what I don't get. We are going with 96 procs that run at what speed? Knowing Transmeta, (partners with VIA right), why would anyone whant a cluster of those procs? Yeah, they may be somewhat fast, but the FP calculation on these things stink (I've heard). Now why not go for this system http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=11223&item=5716808314&rd=1 (ebay). A 128 proc SGI origin with R10000 procs. for $14,000 or how about http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=11223&item=5714399696&rd=1(ebay). Same thing with 4GB RAM. These things are full SMP mahcines (which means they are not a cluster). Look it up the SPEC benchmarks site, and you will find that one 320Mhz will run the same speed as many low end P4s! and 128 of those at that!

Now if only by budget would support a beowulf cluster of these machines.....;)

Okay, here's what I don't get. We are going with 96 procs that run at what speed? Knowing Transmeta, (partners with VIA right), why would anyone whant a cluster of those procs? Yeah, they may be somewhat fast, but the FP calculation on these things stink (I've heard). Now why not go for this system http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=11223&item=5716808314&rd=1 (ebay). A 128 proc SGI origin with R10000 procs. for $14,000 or how about http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=11223&item=5714399696&rd=1(ebay). Same thing with 4GB RAM. These things are full SMP mahcines (which means they are not a cluster). Look it up the SPEC benchmarks site, and you will find that one 320Mhz will run the same speed as many low end P4s! and 128 of those at that!

Now if only by budget would support a beowulf cluster of these machines.....;)

Now I understand why you paid $115 for your current user ID, dolo666.

Well, at least you can build your own astronaut suit using this http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&cate gory=416&item=3927005923&rd=1

The "browser" of today is designed to handle a number of simple interactive tasks. Web forms and Flash and JavaScript and so on are all there for one reason: to take the Web from being a set of hyperlinked documents to being a set of zero install cost applications.

Using just a browser, you can participate in a forum, you can play games, you can read email , go shopping or bid in an auction. Are those Web pages, or are those applications delivered via a browser?

Unfortunately, Internet Explorer is holding us all back. It's got us stuck in a technology rut, where existing standards are corrupted and future standards are stillborn. Progress cannot be made, and we're left with the cruft of the last browser war. Web developers want the new features of WebForms 2.0, XHTML, XSLT, and CSS, but have to target the current user base: IE5/6. Users, of course, never see anything but what the web developers produce, and that works fine in IE5/6. It's a lock-in.

So what you're asking here is impossible. The web browser is already an applications platform, and there are already hundreds of thousands of applications targetting that platform. You used one when you posted your comment, but I didn't see you complain, or insist that slashdot isn't a web site. New standards are an evolution, not a revolution. We have Web applications today, but the Web apps of tomorrow could be so very much better, if only Microsoft weren't in the way.

I don't think you got trolled, I think you made good points and the parent genuinely doesn't understand the problems. BTW, in case you didn't realise, you are replying to a user who purchased their ID on ebay.