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I can't believe someone hasn't already pointed out MoCA its what Verizon is using for their in house wiring for FioS installs. You will need an adapter per device, which is kind of a drag since they are ~ $150.00 or so, but the 1.1 spec offers 175 mbps of through put.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_over_Coax_Alliance

http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=44551040&source=k232270&cm_mmc=Affiliates-_-Performics-_-k232270-_-Primary

http://www.ecost.com/Detail/Monitors/Samsung/2343BWX/44831341.aspx?navid=155439091
Here's high resolution + portrait mode and it doesn't even cost much.

One 1080p Camera [$4,800]

60" Plasma [$4,014.99]

HD encoder 9Mbps for three HDTV

This is not a new technology but it is helpful to have refined, although the first use when the technology matures will be short range devices (1-2ft) not long range devices (10-20ft).

A4tech made a series of wireless battery free mice that use the same technology (I've been using those for about 4 years)....they were cheap pricewise too. A4tech appears to have lost their sql server/domain (at a4tech.com), so I'm linking one from a shopping site:
http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=39484911

These types of things are actually really nice, it makes the mouse extremely lightweight as well.

However, I seem to recall people saying the wireless transmission aspects will enable to create a "charging pad" whereupon you can place any device and simply charge it without having to connect it, and thus would be the basic use - put an ipod, a phone, whatever on said pad and charge ahoy.

http://www.provantage.com/hammer-hu1100-1000~7HAMM00Q.htm
http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=41483993

http://www.ecost.com/detail.aspx?edp=37937454

Now quit yer belly aching.

Holux - GPS, MP3, Video player

          http://www.ecost.com/

Apple, you're obsolete !!

Assuming the school is doing a good job of maintaining those machines, you won't be able to boot off a live cd or usb thumbdrive or anything. In which case I'd say your safest bet is to get yourself a cheap machine.

A few weeks ago I ordered a refurbished HP Athlon64 3500+ machine from ecost.com. Total cost was $401 after shipping. It had a few mobo screws rattling around in the case when I got it, but after putting those back in place, I haven't been able to find a thing wrong with it. You'll need to supply your own monitor, but that shouldn't be hard to come by. Even a broke college kid can manage to scrounge up 400 bucks after a little while.

Get one of these: http://www.sjtelecommunications.com/pan-wj-hd316a- 5500.html or more affordable: http://www.ecost.com/ecost/shop/detail.asp?dpno=53 7524&store=ecost&source=ewbfroogle&adcampaign=emai l,ewbfroogle
and no more ads period?

What is the incentive to use Tivo when they are starting to incorporate ads? Why not just buy a DVR and skip the commercials?

I'm pretty sure Targus and Digital Persona both produce the kind of addon you're looking for. Also, there's a biometric flash key available. Hope this helps :)

Lost Season 1

Lost where? In space? Or Land of the Lost? What about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World? Oh, it appears you're looking for Walt Disney's Lost. One word: Bleh.

I'm normally getting about 35Kb/s.

Except remember that BitTorrent reports rates in bytes, not bits. A rate of 35 KB per second is better than you'd get on HTTP.

I'd say thats scaling pretty well. :D [assuming sarcasm]

Just go to bed and it'll speed up. Often the Peers will remain online overnight, and they'll turn into Seeds, freeing up other Seeds to send to you. If a lot of Seeds jump off before they build up a share ratio, then you're on the wrong tracker.

Almost an accurate point, but last time I checked, Red Hat is a ton cheaper then Windows. Red Hat's entry level enterprise server is $349 a year, Window's standard server is $899 and their enterprise edition with 25 CALs goes for around $3,500. Please correct me if I'm wrong on the windows pricing as I don't follow it too closely. In addition to that, Microsoft's support costs for over the telephone support is $245 per call or $1,255 for 5 calls. Red Hat comes with 24/7 support, in fact the support is what you are paying for (Red Hat's support is also one of the best in the industry imho). With these numbers, you can run Red Hat for at least 2.5 years with 24/7 support and still save money on Windows Standard Server (even if you make no support calls to MS), or you can run Red Hat for 10 years before it costs as much as MS's enterprise server (even if you bump up to Red Hat's next level, you still get over 4 maybe 5 years of 24/7 support before you hit the cost of MS without *any* support). Can you honestly tell me that it isn't a sweet deal? In addition, you constantly get all kinds of updates for thousands of applications and support for those applications. MS will support much less for much more money. This is why MS would never ever claim that they are cheaper right off the bat, but rather try to argue over the long run they are cheaper after considering costs of admins and stuff (which I believe is all false, but thats beside the point). And before the distro flames start, Novell's support offerings also start at $349, just like Red Hat, and iirc they go up as high $20,000 for certain platforms/OS's. I'll admit that I'm a huge fan of Red Hat and I find them highly dependable. They certainly made a marketing mistake a year or two ago, but I've looked over it simply because of everything else they've provided for me.
Regards,
Steve

At $125 each, 40gb of Memory Stick Duos is actually only $5,000.

But, seriously, the PSP isn't meant for people who are going to be having 40gb of music. It isn't meant for people to backup their harddrive onto. Its meant for people to buy 2gb of memory and put some music on it, and fill the rest with movies. And when you're done with those movies and bored of those songs, you swap them out for new ones.

You can't really compare an iPod, a music-only device, to only the music function of the PSP. It would be like me saying the DS is way better than iPod because the games on the iPod suck.

By the way, you can reencode your DVDs down to 300mb each and play them from your Memory Sticks without having to buy a UMD.

Like in digital picture frames. I've always wanted a technology like this, that I can throw in a mini-itx box and use it for mostly-static data. The alternatives never seem to fit my liking.

It could also eventually be used in the various places I see high resolution plasma displays. Like my bank, which has 5 50" plasmas scrolling interest rates and advertising free checking (which makes me insanely jealous). Not to mention you could actually use them in retail stores for pricing/adverts.

It probably costs more for palm to mail these than it does for them to buy them

Free after rebate

An actual price drop! eCOST has them for that price.

(There's no referral ID in that link, btw. I just happened to see this in their e-mail newsletter.)

I live in a mill building on both sides of a river. There's 310 apartments with about 700 to 1100 people, I guess. When I moved in during May 2003, there was 7 broadcasting wireless networks. When we renewed our lease this May, we warwalked it again and there were 22. Both times, about 60% were completely wide open, and about 75% of them were linksys devices. One fellow across the river must have a booster or something because his network punches through way too many walls. He would seem to be on the interior side, facing the river, and I can get him on the opposite side of his building, as well as into my own building on the opposite side of the river. My roommate's girlfriend lives down the hallway and she can see exactly 6 wireless networks. 3 are wide open.

With people giving away USB 802.11b cards for free, the temptation to steal all that free interenet is just well, it's inevitable that it gets used.

Oh, and we had this great idea! See, there's so many open wireless networks at our place, and so many people with open filesystem shares, that one of the things we do to make a little spare cash is that we use that unified network adapter linux has where you can bind interfaces together. It's a little sloppy but we effectively have an aggregate 12.0 megabit connection out, and 1.2 megabit connection in, from the internet over 4 wireless lans we connected to. Then we did some filesystem on a filesystem type things with the open file shares and made a psuedo RAID using the neighbor's unknowingly shared directories. We can sell 1.2 megabit webhosting for 12.95 a month with zero infrastucture costs. I guess if I had to describe it in a word I'd say that it's "sweet."

ecost.com does have SOME deals,but dont expect much. I mean like $5-$15 cheaper. If you sign up for their hotsheet you'll get an email about twice a week from them telling you whats on sale, and the ipod often shows up.

Bluetooth is significantly cheaper to implement, costing under $20US per device to the manufacturer.

I can buy an 802.11b card for $20 retail , so it can't cost much more than that to build, even assuming the standard sell-for-less-than-it-costs high-tech business model.

From the department of Who Cares. Cornea Systems has two LCS displays with VGA, DVI, RCA, S-video inputs (and a VHF TV tuner). I have the CT1702 connected to my computer and Dreamcast and it works fine. It's currently available from eCost for US$479.

I picked up a 172t, the big brother of the winner in this shootout and it is awesome
I got it for $550 from ecost and everything about it is awesome. Had the writer of this article been able to get his hands on a 172t (which were recently backordered for miles) I am sure that would have won. The clarity compared to other lcds I have seen is awesome. I cant wait until it is worth it to get a new 8x agp nvidia card with dvi.

It certainly used to be true that you could build your own system for cheaper than a store model. But now ... I've seen decent HP systems for $400 (no monitor). Not sure what they've got just now but try ecost.

That said, if you've already got most of the components such as hard drives, CD-ROM etc. It's still cheaper to just get the mainboard + CPU. This way you can upgrade in parts as well.

...if you like expensive, copy protected (MagicGate) flash memory.

We are sorry you feel our prices are too high, and we are currently looking into a good high quality laptop unit in the $1,000 - $1,400 range.

Uhhmm...bargain laptops are now running in the $700 - $1,000 range. Linux is an efficient OS that runs on well on leaner hardware. Why would I spend money on a top of the line notebook? I've got the money, but why the hell would I choose to spend it on a white elephant piece of hardware like a $1400 notebook when I could spend it much better expanding/upgrading the other machines in my network?

Last we knew, the Emperor was about $300.00 less than the Dell Inspiron 5000e, (Both units are the Compal N38W2)

Which means...exactly!! That Dell can overprice commodity computer equipment because they are Dell. They have a reputation. A brand. I can count on them to be around and support what they sold me (or at least the PHB thinks so). QLITech is a no-name start up that may be gone next week. QLITech has to offer something much more than a 10% discount when going up against Dell's solid reputation.

But that still doesn't change the fact that there is no way that I would blow $2500 on a laptop. Not when I can get a Thinkpad AND build kick-ass server for the same cost. Yeah, yeah...'That Thinkpad is a lame configuration'...I've heard the argument., but it's a notebook. A 486 would work to display remote X apps and allow me to be mobile with a few less power hungry apps. I choose to put the power in a workstation where it is cheaper.

So, to sum up, you are selling high end equipment with marginal discounts compared to brand name vendors (a discount that should be covered by the fact that the OS is free). I don't see the value proposition that will keep you in business, other than, "Hey, look at us. We sell Linux!!"

To be nice I thought I'd be provide some links to 2.5" HDs and Accessories:

eCost - A listing of some notebook (2.5 mostly) hard drives

PriceTrack - A listing on 1.0 to 3.9 gig Hard Drives (some may not be 2.5)

More 2.5 Drive Comparisions - Just more of the same

IDE Connectors - May or may not be what your looking for

Hope it helped,

Bandwidth

• And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.

And, no, I don't work for them -- I'm just a satisfied customer :).

Alex Bischoff
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As a bonus, the "Windows" keys don't have the "Windows logo" on them -- rather, they have a simple drawing of a four-paned square window. Of course, there are stickers for the keys that come with the keyboard, to "upgrade" to the Windows logo, but I threw those out :).

And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.

Also, I'd like to mention Dvortyboards. They're regular keyboards, but with both Qwerty and Dvorak letters on the keycaps. Best of all, though, you can switch between which mode (Dvorak or regular) simply through a switch on the keyboard (no software changes needed).

Until recently, Dvortyboards only sold a non-ergo keyboard. However, they now sell an ergo one too. The funny thing is, though, is that the Dvorty ergo keyboard looks suspiciously like my Adesso, even with the split space bar ;).

Alex Bischoff
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As a bonus, the "Windows" keys don't have the "Windows logo" on them -- rather, they have a simple drawing of a four-paned square window. Of course, there are stickers for the keys that come with the keyboard, to "upgrade" to the Windows logo, but I threw those out :).

And, it's only $32 with free shipping (but not free handing) from eCost.

Also, I'd like to mention Dvortyboards. They're regular keyboards, but with both Qwerty and Dvorak letters on the keycaps. Best of all, though, you can switch between which mode (Dvorak or regular) simply through a switch on the keyboard (no software changes needed).

Until recently, Dvortyboards only sold a non-ergo keyboard. However, they now sell an ergo one too. The funny thing is, though, is that the Dvorty ergo keyboard looks suspiciously like my Adesso, even with the split space bar ;).

Alex Bischoff
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