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The iPod has yet to be beaten in my opinion, when comparing features the iPod's firewire interface (slower in theory, but not real world tests than USB 2.0), Amazingly simple integration and hard drive DATA capability are excluded. Plus they have great quality and have an INSANE number of support products and now battery & hard drive replacement services on the cheap.

I would hold off on any MP# purchase to see if the newest iPods will be compatible with a new Apple Music service possibly later this month.

I fully expect the new iPods to surpass anything on the market with a twist (as the the current ones do) for another year upon introduction.

The iPod has yet to be beaten in my opinion, when comparing features the iPod's firewire interface (slower in theory, but not real world tests than USB 2.0), Amazingly simple integration and hard drive DATA capability are excluded. Plus they have great quality and have an INSANE number of support products and now battery & hard drive replacement services on the cheap.

I would hold off on any MP# purchase to see if the newest iPods will be compatible with a new Apple Music service possibly later this month.

I fully expect the new iPods to surpass anything on the market with a twist (as the the current ones do) for another year upon introduction.

Here is the original leak, and here is one for sale on Ebay. The thing is supposed to retail for $499 on the 25th, but some dumbass is willing to pay an extra $300 to get it a couple days earlier. Anyway, Quill Corp, Amazon, and Staples all jumped the gun with listings for the product but have since removed them.

I for one am going to snap one up on Wednesday. It's got a hi-res color display, 64MB of RAM, a thumbboard (which I like), a 400MHz Intel XScale chip, no exterior antenna, and best of all... 802.11b. (No, damn it, I don't want to pay a stupid monthly bill for your wireless service when I can get it just about anywhere I work away from the office.)

based on my research, the total cost of this project is $503.93. see here for my sources.

No, but you can sell them on eBay. Some of the classics go for upwards of $50 or more. Don't belive me? Go see for yourself.

I'd love to play that Java Qix game I found the other day on my Game Boy.

Taito made Qix for Game Boy. Pick it up on Half.com.

It is likely that they are tracking which email addresses generated a visit to the page.

I've pasted below the URL's from my message, perhaps someone else can do the same for there's, and we can confirm they are different.

Feel free to visit these URLs and help screw up their stats a bit.

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 3-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 2-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 1-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 4-40&e=c4894d627898

The "m=" part goes up to 9.

It is likely that they are tracking which email addresses generated a visit to the page.

I've pasted below the URL's from my message, perhaps someone else can do the same for there's, and we can confirm they are different.

Feel free to visit these URLs and help screw up their stats a bit.

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 3-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 2-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 1-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 4-40&e=c4894d627898

The "m=" part goes up to 9.

It is likely that they are tracking which email addresses generated a visit to the page.

I've pasted below the URL's from my message, perhaps someone else can do the same for there's, and we can confirm they are different.

Feel free to visit these URLs and help screw up their stats a bit.

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 3-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 2-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 1-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 4-40&e=c4894d627898

The "m=" part goes up to 9.

It is likely that they are tracking which email addresses generated a visit to the page.

I've pasted below the URL's from my message, perhaps someone else can do the same for there's, and we can confirm they are different.

Feel free to visit these URLs and help screw up their stats a bit.

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 3-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 2-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 1-40&e=c4894d627898

http://member.ebay.com/ad/ck/1065-13204-1784-12?m= 4-40&e=c4894d627898

The "m=" part goes up to 9.

Technology keeps outdating itself... but some people can never accept it.

My $1000 486 10 years ago has seen a 99.9% decrease in value.

This $20 book published in 1998 has some idiot trying to get $5 out of it.

I've seen organizations rent computers for $30/month/each just to escape this madness.

If anyone wants to start a second American Revolution to take the country back from the lawyers, I'm game :-).

Count me in. I'd love to see Eugene Levy's foreign policy in action.

Get a Trinitron. They're pricey, but you won't regret it. They're brighter than regular monitors, as sharp as LCD screens, have excellent color and long life. The new ones have a special screen that is externally flat, but internally concave. This reduces glare but prevents the annoying edge distortion of normal flat CRT monitors.

Sony has an interesting description of Trinitron technology here.

If you're not adverse to looking on eBay, you can find some good deals there. Remember that many Dell, Sun, IBM, and SGI monitors are actually relabelled Trinitrons, so don't forget to check on them as well.

Hrm.

1) Go to pricewatch or e-bay and buy a server that can hold greater than or equal to 4gb... and buy the RAM while you're at it.
2) While waiting to ship - download the .iso's or whatever you'll need to prepare to install your OS.
3) Server and RAM arrive! Snap RAM into server - take existing machine, put aside - plug KVM into new server - fire up - install OS.
4) Test!
5) ?????
6) Profit!

Or buy a used one on EBAY. Slap Linux on it. Sleep well at night.

The best printer ever, hands down. Fast (10-12 pgs/min), reliable, and compatible - with everything. I never had a problem with them. Perfect for the office environment but perhaps a bit too bulky at home.

Unfortunately they are no longer being made but many can be found on eBay. Yay HP!

- Ben

There are cheap copies available.

There are cheap copies available.

4. use a dos emulator

as for 3, go to ebay.com, local computer shop, or ask your buddies for it.

SonicBlue is going for $4.00 with a Buy it Now price of only $7.99!!!

SonicBlue Auction

I'm not going to pass this deal up!

You might want to see if you can pick up an old X-Y plotter somewhere and use that as the basis of a DIY design.

Replace the pen with a high-speed cutter and then you can interface to the plotter quite simply through the RS232 port or whatever the plotter supports.

Here's a plotter on eBay that might be a good starting point.

#1 - Laptops will ALWAYS be quieter than microATX

#2 - Laptops are smaller

#3 - latpops use less power

#4 - A laptop capabal of playing all audio and even some video can be had for less than $150

So I agree, why would you go with a microATX when a laptop is suitable?

They want their spectrum analyzer back...

from article on CNN....

"Park Forest Police Department said about 60 pieces of space rock ranging from gravel-sized to softball-sized were brought in to the police station."

Have you seen what these are going for on EBAY. Sell, Sell, Sell

although they have commercially available 5.25" equalizers,
lots
of
old
automotive
equalizers
will work great in a 5.25" space.

most car equalizers are 5.75", so you have to be a little creative with cutting off that extra half inch to squeeze it into an old cdrom case. but for a cheap/free secondhand EQ (and that 1X cdrom that you were never going to re-use), its definitely worth the effort, visually and audibly.

I found mine on Ebay.

Anyone care to add up these total sales?

1. : Write free software.
2. : ?
3. : Read yet another uninterresting story on slashdot.
4. : Profit!

1. Slashdot
2. pr0n
3. eBay

I'm opening a betting pool. My cash says it'll go for $30 plus the resulting moderation level of this post.

Hurry! you've got 4 days and 18 hours! bidding still at $9.99 at the moment!

ebay sale I found

I still want Dr. Mario for my GBA

Well, it's going for about five dollars right now, if you can stand it being in 4 shades of gray..

There's also some kind of "nintendo puzzle collection" thing coming out but i think it's gamecube only, and i don't know if it's coming out in america or just japan.

Made in Wario and Metroid Fusion make me wish i had a GBA...

Had a Samsung 15" LCD, but now that the big high quality CRTs can be bought on the cheap (used), I found myself switching back. There is just no comparison to a 20" Trinitron running 1600x1200 32bit color at 85hz.

The NEC MobilePro is probably the most elite handheld PC I've seen. I don't understand why they aren't more popular. There are lots of them on ebay, and on the newer ones you can run NetBSD with X even (have a big CF card obviously.) The 770, 780, and 790 are the ones to look for. The 800 also runs NetBSD with X, but it's a larger laptopish form factor.

And eBay stipulates that "does not permit the sale of items that can be used to descramble or facilitate the access to cable or satellite television programming without authorization or payment." Also "...Information on "how to" descramble or gain access to cable or satellite television programming without authorization or payment is similarly not allowed. eBay policy also prohibits the "encouragement" of this type of activity."

After reading this and laughing (I know a guy that got seriously burned after unplugging his DirecTV's phone line for awhile) I decided to take a look at raymond917's eBay Feedback rating.

He's got a pair of shades next to his rating. Make me wonder if he'll change his moniker after this.

What I found interesting is how much an average person such as myself can find out about someone just by looking at their eBay Feedback and any of the still available auciton listings. This guy likes kickboxing movies, in fact he's bought a number of them since January 1st. He bought a Gunman Chronicles/Survival/Alcatraz mulit-pack at the end of February that he's selling already.

Things like this with eBay make you go hmmm.

This is what we're talking about. A little crappy coax coupler. I saw this on ebay a couple days ago, and thought to myself 'This must be a scam -- such a little thing can't work, since real descrambler boxes are pretty large and complicated'. Guess I was right.

I know right where you can get one, although I'm not sure about the parts warranty:

http://listings.ebay.com/pool2/plistings/list/all/ category29500/index.html?from=R0

oh yeah, and a buddy of mine just got a QLA2300 (their current top-o-line FC card) for $243.00 US...> linky here

Why would one want to use it in a home setup?

Because slightly obsolete FC hardware is DIRT CHEAP on eBay. That, and it's kind of fun to install some "enterprise level" hardware at home.

Not the exact controller he spoke of, but pretty close - just search for "QLogic" with no other qualifiers.

Here you go!

Try eBay. We got a QLogic 2100 (Copper) for $40. Drives can be found for $99 for a tenpack of 18.2GB Seagate 10k drives.

• Clean Underwear
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Oh boy! Now I can buy socks!

According to Ebay, it's not enough to even bid on anything on the first TWENTY-SIX PAGES of results for "socks".

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http://www.stores.ebay.com/netgodshouseofhack

http://unixsurplus.com

There's a giant warehouse in Sunnyvale, CA full of ANYTHING you need from workstations and parts up to Sun and SGI enterprise stuff. Even a bargain basement Cray. For the non-mainstream stuff like Sun and SGI, it's all usually way cheaper than some retail place like Weird Stuff, although they're pretty good too.

Tell em you saw this on Slashdot. I'm sure they'll get a kick out of it.

For those interested, the State of Oregon has gone to an online auction for all of their stuff. They can be found on ebay with the seller name of OregonTrail2000 They always have great stuff.

For those interested, the State of Oregon has gone to an online auction for all of their stuff. They can be found on ebay with the seller name of OregonTrail2000 They always have great stuff.

foo and bar have tons of results but foo(bar) has none.

The really cool stuff will always be a rare find on ebay. An auction site running on winshit servers may have some computer junk, The prices are too high, and the selection isn't as great as people seem to think it is. Even though there will always be a motherboard or 100 on eBay, a true gem is a rare find. The joy of a salvage store is the joy of finding something rare, unique, and cool for a price so low it seems criminal. Ebay appeals to the sellers and therefore conflicts with the interests of the buyers.

foo and bar have tons of results but foo(bar) has none.

The really cool stuff will always be a rare find on ebay. An auction site running on winshit servers may have some computer junk, The prices are too high, and the selection isn't as great as people seem to think it is. Even though there will always be a motherboard or 100 on eBay, a true gem is a rare find. The joy of a salvage store is the joy of finding something rare, unique, and cool for a price so low it seems criminal. Ebay appeals to the sellers and therefore conflicts with the interests of the buyers.

foo and bar have tons of results but foo(bar) has none.

The really cool stuff will always be a rare find on ebay. An auction site running on winshit servers may have some computer junk, The prices are too high, and the selection isn't as great as people seem to think it is. Even though there will always be a motherboard or 100 on eBay, a true gem is a rare find. The joy of a salvage store is the joy of finding something rare, unique, and cool for a price so low it seems criminal. Ebay appeals to the sellers and therefore conflicts with the interests of the buyers.