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I'm with you - I hate receiving in my daily searches USB hubs that match extrememac - when extrememac only makes one specific hub I am looking for. Turns out the main offenders use an old trick of making white text on the white background. Some sellers have almost every single Mac product ever made in their auctions. I fI ever see that I report em at the URL above.

THis Unit has 2 Floppy Drives i dont know whether it has a Hard Drive . It comes with the Power Supply . it POwers on to This MS DOS Type Mode. No Windows install. THis is a Very Old System. THis is great for a Project. You can type Commands in the MS DOS ENtry . It does include the Power COrd.

For the hypertext challenged

Definitely screams "hot goods", with the "I have no idea what's on it" comments.

remove the %20 from the url (slasdot place a space in his posted url) or you could go via this link

Here's a great item, a set of olympic dimonds from the 1953 olympics in... Hungery.

You sure you don't mean this link?

His answer? "You go to a store called a bookstore, and you buy something called a dictionary."

Why ?

Here's a current auction for a Tandum Recumbant. BikeE, but it never says that. If it didn't have a starting bid of $1000, I'd go for it.

They do use a spell checker, but I don't think it's quite as effective or aggressive about matching as a Google's. For example, eBay figures out that you've mis-spelled "compaq" as "compac" but doesn't catch the mis-spelling of "labtop" and recommend the correctly-spelled version. Google finds both of these.

Obligatory nerd tie-in: That's why Mozilla kicks IE's little tin arse. Quicklink "dict knive" --> no entry for knive.

That having been said, I wound up with a MITS Altair for $100 because it was listed as "Vintage Altar Comp", and a "sonydcv1" for about $300.

My point being that as geeks, we should encourage all non-geeks we know who have an interest in selling items on eBay to forgo spellchecks and not worry about spelling in general. We stand to profit from it! Any attempt to educate the general populace (as this NYT article attempts to do) will reduce the number of magic bargains to be found on eBay ;)

Search for "labtop" on ebay :)

Right, forget the viper then. How about this instead?

Once I logged into the e-mail account, I noticed it was a little spammy, but that was to be expected. AOL/Netscape was generous though and gave me a one hundred megabyte POP3 e-mail account.

However, yesterday evening, I noticed an influx of about *2,000* e-mails in about a four hour period. All were related to MyDoom, either with the virus attached or bounces due to forged "from" addresses. Since then, I've been getting an average of 830 e-mails per *hour*. My Netscape e-mail account has reached the 100 megabyte e-mail quota twice so far, with over 13,000 e-mails each time, and after I clean it out, it starts to fill back up again. There's just no end in sight. The e-mail account is completely useless to me now. I should have known bidding on that auction was a bad idea. :( In the meantime, I've had to make the e-mail account white listed, meaning it now only accepts e-mail from known e-mail addresses, until I can figure out an equitable solution.

so bought him out with.. you guessed it, Microsoft freebie products. Now bad press turns into Microsoft product marketing. Those guys are brilliant in Redmond. Grrr...

Have you checked eBay lately?

I'm pretty sure you'd see it on ebay soon...

There are ways to get this to happen...

On the advice of another /. user, I've invented the MAA to fix any Auto problems.
MAA

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4 items found for presidential candidate

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4 items found for presidential candidate

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If it was a really sick commentary on Politics, they'd be selling them on eBay

You want something more than the high-school dork calculator watch (I had a few of those)?

Try the Timex GPS watch.

So far, there's nothing on eBay. There's bound to be a sycophant out there willing to pay to join this thing.

I would take their generous offer

BTW - $1B / $199 ~ 5M (not 50M)

The MAA card is now available.

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TI was the first CHEAP digital watch. Before that was Pulsar which was anything but cheap, and oddly stylish today in a retro sort of way. And who could resist using a little magnetic bar to alter the time?

Cheap digital watches drove the market for cheap (and much less accurate) clock crystals. It was all downhill from there.

Pulsar was a brand name used by Hamilton, one of the few and great American watch companies. They sold Pulsar as a brand name to some Asian consortium and the $17 Pulsar you find in Wal Mart today has as much to do with Hamilton as the $17 Gruens had to do with the original Gruen company.

Hamilton, in turn was sold to SMH, now "The Swatch Group" (which was formed in 1933 when Omega, Tissot and Lemania merged).

I love This mouse. Unfortunately so does everyone else.

Eww LK ... I'm older than you?!? Damn I'm feeling more and more like an old fart during this past year of my life.

That's right grandpa. I was still in middle school when you went away to college.

My Mac Plus finally crapped out in 1998. Power supply went terminal. The cost of replacing it was half the cost of those shiny, new Bondi Blue iMacs.

Then you should have looked here.

So I bought a Rev.A, which my son now uses for his "edutainment" software.

You have a child old enough to use a computer? You ARE old.

I, now, split time between an eMac and a Dell Wintel.

I highly recomment building your own PC. Once you try, you'll spend far less money buying retail or mail order boxen.

LK

If I needed a good database server for a client on a really tight budget, I'd buy them something like this used Quad 550 PIII Xeon over a $1000 homebrew white box any day. What kind of server can you build for $1000? For that money I could build a nice dual Athlon with an IDE RAID array (and no warranty other than at the component level) This would be a kick-ass workstation, a tolerable general-purpose file/web/mail/dns workgroup server, or a shitty database server. Most serious server applications are I/O bound, not CPU bound. A larger number of slower processors with a fast I/O subsystem is better for this kind of load.

If you really want to touch it you can find it online. For example someone is selling some on ebay. It's not cheap but I've destroyed more expensive things out of curiosity.

So, how much did this vial of air cost?

$35 on eBay.

Actually, I was just looking at one on EBay. It's currently sitting at $2 with 2 hours left -- if you buy it and install an OS you can get featured on Slashdot.

Not true. I've been using a Logitech TrackMan Pro for several years now, with the aid of a nifty box that converts PS/2 devices (has an input for a keyboard and for a mouse) into the Sun connector. It was a Sun part number, somewhat obscure, but definitely available and useful. It's called the "Sun Interface Converter" and the Sun part number is 595-3692. I'd recommend you go looking for one if you are having trouble coming up with Sun Keyboards & Mice or if you want to use your Sun system with a standard KVM switch (which is what I do at home).

Or you can get a better deal and do it eBay.

That one is gone already. But he has one for 35$ here that ends in 7 hours.

Check it out - this auction on Ebay is selling a 4-6 Cubic inch chunk of Aerogel with a "Buy it Now" price of $160. Considering the auction says it costs about $200 per cubic inch to make, thats a deal. I'm guessing some /.'er with deep pockets will be buying this pretty soon!

First of all, it is old hardware as you said. The advantage in that is that they can be grabbed Cheap!

Now, for uses? Let's look at my favourite - Small to Medium Enterprise (SME). (Why is it my favourite? Because there are so many of them, most of which can benefit from the following example.)

How about LTSP? I'm not suggesting that the GC is usable as a server (unless you start using load balancing) but as a Thin Client.

Imagine a stack of dirt-cheap, small, quiet little boxes in a business, in place of all of those god-awful PeeCee's that are always having to be upgraded. How much more of the IT budget can go towards strengthening the existing server solutions, to providing better systems? And in the meantime, the systems become centrally administered.

Hell, even the heat load reduction from a desktop computer will reduce the need for air conditioning - there's an environmental benefit there, too!

That's before we even look at the prospects of using them for dedicated servers - much along the same lines as an XBox.

So there are many reasons to consider them - some of which are the same as the XBox. And when it comes to streamed resources or remote application display, it doesn't matter what is under the hood as long as it is reliable.

If the GameCube is cheaper, yet more reliable than its XBox competitor, I know which I would consider using for Thin Clients.


Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean that the RIAA isn't out to get you...

I can only hope someone finishes their auction to sell "www.sco.com" before someone cancels the auction. Damn, if only eBay allowed us to host auctions for less than 1 hour...

Old Macs are still worth something on places like eBay. Using the Mac Plus as an example, I typed that in eBay's search and came across one item going for $102.50 at the moment (admittedly, a very nice example that also has a good amount of acessories.)

He was also the builder of a scale AT-ST walker model sold on eBay recently, but the link escapes me right now.

This one?

Ebay autions no longer has the pictures of this fantastic conversion. Anyone keep a few about? It really was a fantastic conversion ...

Sun and SGI both resold top notch Sony GDM monitors. Best of all, they're dirt cheap now. Watch out for incompatible 13W3 connectors. Still you can get a 21" multi-sync (1600x1200x85Hz) for under $200. Expect to pay $75 - $100 shipping - those puppies are heavy. SGI also had a 24" 16:9 that did 1920x1080x85Hz for HDTV production and CAD. At 90 lbs, it was definitely a "two-person" lift.

My TV monitor is a Sony GVM-1311Q, which was also used as high-end Amiga monitor.

It does Progressive NTSC, SVGA up to 800x600, RGB, and EGA. Same tube as the old AppleColor 13 monitors -- it weighs a ton. My Commodore 1084S is now sitting on a shelf.

So you could buy those two Aphex Twin Hangable Auto Bulb records on vinyl at Ebay for $185 US dollars (at the least, there's 21 bids and over 5 hours to go in the bidding) or download the whole thing like I did at bleep for 6 bucks and some change. Score!

Maybe you want to use it in a project. Maybe you collect money. Maybe you want to sell it on eBay. There are a million different reasons, and throwing that legitimate in there is pretty dumb. Why should 99% of law-abiding citizens care about cameras in the streets?

you win..

Head... about... to... EXPLODE!!!