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I found some cheap comma's, so you can keep them in your lyrics.

It might be worth looking into BNC networking, the cables are heavier and less flexable but it is entirely passive. For a small ad-hoc network the low bandwidth and maintenance issues can be overcome. Older PCMCIA cards should be realtively easy to find, I have one in a box somewhere myself and there is one on ebay or there are converters .

It's really hard - I work full time (40hrs week) and then in the evenings have to try and get people to buy my stuff So please help me go to college! What I sell on ebay pays for my education.

I think the issue you are having is more to do with your particular camera or camera model & lense than it is to do with the megapixel count.

I took these pictures of a laser I'm selling on eBay. Lasers are notoriously difficult photography cleanly without then photo editing them. I shot them with a Canon Powershot G2 4.0 megapixel camera and they look great.

Previously I had been shooting with a Canon Powershot Pro IS90 which did 2.6 MP. Even when shooting the G2 at lower resolutions the images are consistently better than the IS90. Why? Better lens and CCD.

However, you say:

A razor sharp 1600x1200 picture can be printed at nearly any size and look great. Unless you have nerves of steel to hold the camera steady, you're not going to be able to take a picture sharp enough to take advantage of 11 megapixels.

Stability isn't the issue. Exposure is. If you use a faster shutter speed blur will be less of an issue. The resolution you set the camera to will have nothing to do with it.

Additionally, if you plan to print at higher than 72dpi (yetch) you will need a higher resolution image to get the same width & height dimensions on the printed page. Which means more pixels!

I'd be interested to know what kind of camera that you are using that needs such a slow exposure to generate a decent picture. It sounds to me you have a camera that is doing less than midrange digitals currently can. Nevermind highend ones.

Searching eBay for EMC provided some interesting results (these are mostly "buy it now" prices):

EMC Symmetrix 3930 w/ 12 TeraBytes = $57K
(With the proper drive configuration, this unit should be able to deliver up to 70TB in a single system).
This one comes with 12TB of storage (256x50GB HD's). If you throw out all 256 of those 50GB HD's (or just give them to me as a consulting fee for saving your company over $19.5 million) and buy 256X181 GB HD's, you're just short of you 50 TB mark (~46,336 GB).

On Pricewatch those drives come out at $999 ea x 256=$255,744.00 add the initial $57K and you've got a machine that meets your specification significantly less than $20mil

Here are some other EMC machines for sale on eBay:
EMC Symmetrix 3830-36 With 3 TB No Reserve! = $59K

EMC Symmetrix 3700 6TB w/Install & 1YR Mnt! = $48K

EMC Symmetrix 5700 3TB Storage System = $9K

This is what I found by doing minimal research. I'm not 100% sure that the Symmetrix 3930 can handle that configuration (its not my money) so before you go down this road -- do your research (better than I did).

--Turkey

Searching eBay for EMC provided some interesting results (these are mostly "buy it now" prices):

EMC Symmetrix 3930 w/ 12 TeraBytes = $57K
(With the proper drive configuration, this unit should be able to deliver up to 70TB in a single system).
This one comes with 12TB of storage (256x50GB HD's). If you throw out all 256 of those 50GB HD's (or just give them to me as a consulting fee for saving your company over $19.5 million) and buy 256X181 GB HD's, you're just short of you 50 TB mark (~46,336 GB).

On Pricewatch those drives come out at $999 ea x 256=$255,744.00 add the initial $57K and you've got a machine that meets your specification significantly less than $20mil

Here are some other EMC machines for sale on eBay:
EMC Symmetrix 3830-36 With 3 TB No Reserve! = $59K

EMC Symmetrix 3700 6TB w/Install & 1YR Mnt! = $48K

EMC Symmetrix 5700 3TB Storage System = $9K

This is what I found by doing minimal research. I'm not 100% sure that the Symmetrix 3930 can handle that configuration (its not my money) so before you go down this road -- do your research (better than I did).

--Turkey

Searching eBay for EMC provided some interesting results (these are mostly "buy it now" prices):

EMC Symmetrix 3930 w/ 12 TeraBytes = $57K
(With the proper drive configuration, this unit should be able to deliver up to 70TB in a single system).
This one comes with 12TB of storage (256x50GB HD's). If you throw out all 256 of those 50GB HD's (or just give them to me as a consulting fee for saving your company over $19.5 million) and buy 256X181 GB HD's, you're just short of you 50 TB mark (~46,336 GB).

On Pricewatch those drives come out at $999 ea x 256=$255,744.00 add the initial $57K and you've got a machine that meets your specification significantly less than $20mil

Here are some other EMC machines for sale on eBay:
EMC Symmetrix 3830-36 With 3 TB No Reserve! = $59K

EMC Symmetrix 3700 6TB w/Install & 1YR Mnt! = $48K

EMC Symmetrix 5700 3TB Storage System = $9K

This is what I found by doing minimal research. I'm not 100% sure that the Symmetrix 3930 can handle that configuration (its not my money) so before you go down this road -- do your research (better than I did).

--Turkey

Searching eBay for EMC provided some interesting results (these are mostly "buy it now" prices):

EMC Symmetrix 3930 w/ 12 TeraBytes = $57K
(With the proper drive configuration, this unit should be able to deliver up to 70TB in a single system).
This one comes with 12TB of storage (256x50GB HD's). If you throw out all 256 of those 50GB HD's (or just give them to me as a consulting fee for saving your company over $19.5 million) and buy 256X181 GB HD's, you're just short of you 50 TB mark (~46,336 GB).

On Pricewatch those drives come out at $999 ea x 256=$255,744.00 add the initial $57K and you've got a machine that meets your specification significantly less than $20mil

Here are some other EMC machines for sale on eBay:
EMC Symmetrix 3830-36 With 3 TB No Reserve! = $59K

EMC Symmetrix 3700 6TB w/Install & 1YR Mnt! = $48K

EMC Symmetrix 5700 3TB Storage System = $9K

This is what I found by doing minimal research. I'm not 100% sure that the Symmetrix 3930 can handle that configuration (its not my money) so before you go down this road -- do your research (better than I did).

--Turkey

Get an Audrey instead...

Many DVD players now support picture cds, so you can just go to ebay and buy one of these 5 inch LCDs for about $40, stick the LCD into a picture frame, and have a digital picture frame for less money and less work... (did i mention that the resolution isn't great? oh well, we can't have it all).

And this seems to bear that out...

try the dancing wu li masters. (amazon.com or half.com). it is an excellent book for learning the concepts behind classical and modern physics without worrying about the math or the specific details.

after that, *then* read a brief history of time.

after reading both of those, if you still want to know more of the details, take a physics class at the local community college.

...and sell our government on eBay

It's already begun! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item =2051153825

"one know where I can buy secondhand trilithium crystals"

Try ebay.

Ebay/Sotheby's Auctions

By far the best programmer's calculator ever made (that I've seen, anyway) was the HP 16C. Not made anymore, but EBay usually has a few you can pick up.

I know of a site where you could get three. (Although posting the link on Slashdot is guaranteed to drive up the price.)

As some else suggested, an older HP calculator. Found here. So far, no bids!

I don't know if you're trolling, but actually the Amiga was used for years for transmitting the cable info channel in Montreal, and also in various satellite related tasks. (See here)

As for live video, in 1990 I watched Predator LIVE on an Amiga 500HD!

As for broadcast, it's called the Video Toaster.

Now I'll just go back to my sour grapes and make lemonade. Or something like that.

If Commodore hadn't been so spectacularly mis-managed, we'd all be debating which video card to stick on our Amigas these days...

This little flubbery anemone thing isn't AI any more than a Tamagotchi is. It really has nothing to do with intelligence, artificial or otherwise. It's just an animatronic plant, putting on a show so MIT researchers can watch how people react to it. Not a lot of difference between this and the Plastic Daisies that Wear Sunglasses and Dance When You Clap.

I do like the idea of having an icon for stories that really do deal with some aspect of AI, though. The HAL eye sounds like a good icon.

I'd rather get this.

sweet sweet transmeta chip with log lasting battery (I'd get the 10 hour battery).

Kit cars and classic cars are insured and registered differently than normal cars. This car would be considered a Kit-car, hence as long as the car it is based on is legal it is legal. Only basic requirements need to be met for registration, one mirror, seatbelts (actually only for post 1967 cars), most retain emissions controls for the era of the chassis, license plates, lights etc.

As for insurance, as the owner of several classic cars, insurance for something like this is cheap and easy to get. Insurance for something like this, or almost any classic custom or kit car, is based on the logic that they are driven very little and owners are very careful with thier babys. Generally you are forbidden to drive more than 5000 miles a year. For instance this 1994 built Cobra has only racked up 4000 miles total. So the likelyhood of an insurance payout is very small. My insurance rates on my 1967 Austin Healy 3000, without seatbelts or bumpers, run about 150 dollars a year.

I do drive it, though. Maybe 700 miles a year.

As others have said, why hack together this box when you can get a PIX 501 or 506 for less than or equal to the cost of the 16mb flash part, and you'd be legal. Plenty of eBay Buy-It-Nows for $439.

Second, I did a search on PIX-FLASH-16MB= (Cisco part number for the required 16mb flash), and couldn't find it for less than US$688 using Nextag.

Cisco IOS is inheirently more vulernable than the PIX OS (it is not IOS-based). Furthermore, the PIX 520, which is being copied here, is capable of 6 100mbit NICs, whereas the Cisco 806 router only has two 10mbit ports. Lastly, the two are completely different beasts.

Both are great suggestions to learn Cisco IOS and PIX OS. Which, if one were just building such a box to LEARN on, where does that fall in the morals/ethics realm? Most folks have no problems "borrowing" a copy of different products to learn on (MCSE is the main thing that comes to mind). You either have to fork out a ton of money to go to a tech school, or otherwise you'd be ethically bound to buy it all yourself, OR "borrow" it while you study and practice for the certification tests, and then get a decent job supporting that product (which helps the company you were "borrowing" from in the first place).

I'd love to see a PC-based hack like this for Cisco's IOS (simulators are ok, but typically don't have half the commands). But since I know the hardware in a Cisco router isn't anything like what the PIX is based on, it's not going to happen (and thus 2500s and 4000s still sell a bit on eBay for folks practicing for labs).

A quick search on eBay shows a thriving market and some fairly high prices (considering auction prices tend to balloon in the few hours before they close). I sold my 2100 on eBay for over $400 about a year ago. It seems significant to me that these machines still fetch more in the used market than most new PDAs. Had Apple continued making them, they probably could have hit that price point by now.

I found one on ebay here .

$300 bucks (US) is all you need

I found this old version on Ebay if you were curious. here.

entitled "How to build a time machine"

Quite an interesting read for those of you interested in this topic. It's a little lighter than Brian Greene or Stephen Hawking, but thorough none-the-less.

forgot the link sorry

You can get a Modified CueCat for pretty cheap on ebay. They plug into your PS2 port and type out the bar code as plain text as soon as you swipe somthing. No special driver needed, your computer thinks its just a keyboard.

Tried an Auction Site?

I make 34 entries on alone. 24 individual sales, 2 lots of 2, 2 lots of 5, 1 lot of 8, 3 lots of 10 and 2 lots of 100. Ranging in price from around a buck each to 5 bucks each.

How many do you need? More than 276?

Thats ok, [Ee][Bb][Aa][Yy] themselves dont seem to know what it is either, look at their logo. ebaY is different again.

Tried finding a TNT2 PCI card lately for $20? It's not funny.

Ever heard of ebay?

$129

I was just thinking about this, because I saw the price of the ipaq and thought - at first - "Wow, that's a cheap price." Then, I thought, "Well, actually, couldn't I do everything it can do with my old P233MMX?" Then I thought, "Uhh, wait, my minitower isn't exactly portable."

So, here's my solution: buy a used laptop for between $250 and $700, or buy a Multia for between $50 and $100.

Neither makes any noise, both support Linux/NT4, and both have minor expansion capabilities. The laptop is more portable, but the Multia is more powerful.

You know what would be really cool? An old iBook. Those things would be plenty fast enough for any job, plus you could run OS X on it. Then, if you wanted to take your music with you, you could. If you wanted to use it as a workstation, no problem. Or, if you wanted to stream music across the network, that'd work fine, too. You could even do it wireless using AirPort.

Well, anyways, that was my brainstorm. Lots of people say that you should never buy a used laptop, because they fall apart in several days or are always missing critical parts, like the battery. That's probably true, but everything in life is a chance. I've never gotten screwed too badly on eBay.

p.s. my definition of portable might be different than yours. Get a Sony DiscMan if you want to go jogging with your music.

I was just thinking about this, because I saw the price of the ipaq and thought - at first - "Wow, that's a cheap price." Then, I thought, "Well, actually, couldn't I do everything it can do with my old P233MMX?" Then I thought, "Uhh, wait, my minitower isn't exactly portable."

So, here's my solution: buy a used laptop for between $250 and $700, or buy a Multia for between $50 and $100.

Neither makes any noise, both support Linux/NT4, and both have minor expansion capabilities. The laptop is more portable, but the Multia is more powerful.

You know what would be really cool? An old iBook. Those things would be plenty fast enough for any job, plus you could run OS X on it. Then, if you wanted to take your music with you, you could. If you wanted to use it as a workstation, no problem. Or, if you wanted to stream music across the network, that'd work fine, too. You could even do it wireless using AirPort.

Well, anyways, that was my brainstorm. Lots of people say that you should never buy a used laptop, because they fall apart in several days or are always missing critical parts, like the battery. That's probably true, but everything in life is a chance. I've never gotten screwed too badly on eBay.

p.s. my definition of portable might be different than yours. Get a Sony DiscMan if you want to go jogging with your music.

The main problem with geeks, besides our spaghetti arms, is our Beer/Pop Bellies. You can get the 8 min abs DVD from half.com for like $10. If you use this coupon code, you'll get $5 off any order over $10: BUCK17014537
or go here for more:
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Here's a link to the DVD (it comes with 8 min. arms):
http://half.ebay.com/cat/buy/prod.cgi?cpid=5264084 &domain_id=1877&ad=1881

I have a Nex II from Frontier Labs and absolutely love it.

It uses a Compact Flash slot. I've used several brands and they've all worked. It currently has a 128MB card in it, but it could take the IBM Microdrive, 1GB!!

It acts like a removable drive, attached via USB (I actually have some non-MP3 files on it and the player doesn't care). You can drag and drop (or cp) right to the NexII. You can take the NexII to another machine and drag and drop from the Nex to the machine. Lovely.

It's incredibly small and light, just a few ounces plus battery weight. Mine came with a sweet neoprene case to carry it in that has an attached belt clip. Perfect to run or bike with.

You can find it for dirt cheap brand new on eBay, about $80. This company sells them, it's where I got mine and I'll vouch for them. (I'm not associate, just a happy customer.) 128MB compact flash card go for about $40 new on ebay.

You can get "Nexkins" to change the look of the device. Pretty trivial (the machine already looks cool) but there are some neat ones you can find on ebay.

The Nex is really easy to use, and it's just so userfriendly I love it. Moving between tracks, changing the volume, adjusting the built in equalizer (it really works!), using the backlight are all very easy.

I haven't had any problems with mine and I've had it for over a year. Love it, love it, love it. It really is everything you want: light, inexpensive, n*x compatible as removable USB storage, usable, and reliable.

I really don't think you could go wrong with this.

...diamonds have no resale value. Naddah. Zilch

If that's the case, quit whining and click here to stick it to the sellers.

-ez

eBay, of course.

I'm currently in the same position in that I'm trying to find the best bang for the buck. Over the past few months I've learned a fair bit about the 4 C's.

My girlfriend actually found that eBay has some good deals on diamonds for a decent price (much less than what you'll find in stores). There are a lot of jewlers from the NYC diamond district (although I can't confirm the validity of it) that sell on there.

Some sellers post the EGL/GIA stone ID so you can research the diamond a little more to make sure you're getting what they say you're getting. It might be something to check into.

The bonus is that I can see what kind of diamonds/rings/styles she likes every time she tells me to check out the best bargain. The only drawback is picking one and not being in the position where she says "I like this one much better than the other one."

hog wash...

Ever hear of a pawn shop? or ebay?

Just make sure that if there is a engraving that it's something you can live with....

I built this hack in like 1993, and it was hard to find a power glove even then. Now, it must be rather impossible.

Obviously you have never heard of eBay

I built this hack in like 1993, and it was hard to find a power glove even then. Now, it must be rather impossible.

Obviously you have never heard of eBay

I built this hack in like 1993, and it was hard to find a power glove even then. Now, it must be rather impossible.

Obviously you have never heard of eBay

I built this hack in like 1993, and it was hard to find a power glove even then. Now, it must be rather impossible.

Obviously you have never heard of eBay

I built this hack in like 1993, and it was hard to find a power glove even then. Now, it must be rather impossible.

Obviously you have never heard of eBay

I built this hack in like 1993, and it was hard to find a power glove even then. Now, it must be rather impossible.

Obviously you have never heard of eBay