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When you do finally get the right software all in once place, make sure you put it on one of these so you look like an Uber Geek when you waltz in without media.

... is this shirt.

Next time, you might want to try reading the _whole_ comment. Although occasionally i may be talking just for the sake of spewing forth additional words, sometimes important information occurs _after_ the first sentence. In this particular case, the relevant bit of information you apparently missed was:

"I've got an Otis player and have been considering getting a fm transmiter for it, but as the iTrip site boasts, they only do stations in the 88's, which are all taken up here."

In fact, i have looked at the iRock, as well as the Kima Link-It, both of which are only good on 88.1, 88.3, 88.5, and 88.7. I've also looked at ThinkGeek's FM Transmitter, which doesn't specify how many stations it has available, but "simply dial in the proper frequency on your FM tuner" doesn't give me a lot of hope.

So, unless you're proposing to personaly take out the local transmiter towers on those frequencies just as a favor for me, your "advice" isn't really much help.

Assuming you don't think it's worth doing time in federal penitentiary to help me out, the only usefull responses i can think of is to say A: the iTrip does or doesn't work with certain other players (particularly the Audible Otis which is obiously my primary concern) or B: to suggest a specific alternate FM tunner that you happen to know does stations other than those in the 88.x range.

They turn photos into data?!? How the hell did they manage that? Sheer genius! Thank the gods that we have MS around to keep the world in amazingly inventive, original products.

However their incredibly innovative (sorry, Microvative) robot, Robie, seems strangely familiar!

Since there is exactly one key capable of decrypting the data, the obvious thing to do is place on the key a one-time pad. A USB storage keychain holds 128MB, which we can assume is XOR'd against each 128MB block on the hard drive. Even assuming that the one-time pads are being generated using a truly random method (which they're probably not), this is still crackable. However it's be no means easily crackable and yet is very convenient and fast.

Do you really want your CPU factoring primes every time you read a sector of your hard drive?!

If nothing else, we should see the sales in these shirts go up halfling

Oh, boo hoo. They're ignoring Open Source software users, who live by the mantra that everything ought to be free. You can't sell web services to a client base that expects everything to be packaged as a free PHP or Perl module. You can't sell books to a userbase that does nothing but whine about software patents. You can't sell CDs or DVDs to users that believe they have the right to download all the copyrighted intellectual property they want.

About all you can sell to the Mozilla-using sheep are heavily marked-up t-shirts and other "geek" crap. If you want to do that, then you can design for other web browsers.

ms and sun "licensed unix from sco" - i think they gave sco some money to play with without getting their own hands dirty.

Of course its a conspiracy, what else could it be? Sun doesn't have any products that lack anything, like, say, drivers that Cald^H^H^H^H SCO would be in a strong position to provide by license. And everyone knows that Microsoft can't have more than, what, one or two products directly related to Unix that having source code from SCO would be useful to help improve, or for which a license would help remove any doubt about IP rights.

They are just pretending to improve and sell their products to meet Wallstreet expectations when everyone knows its just a plot to undermine Linux. Linux will still crush them and rule all. Go Tux!!

Um, where are these 20GB solid state drives you're talking about? All I see is your regular old portable USB hard drives, which are, as the name says, not solid state.

I think this would answer your question.

Recommend exercise on /.? R u nutz?

I would recommend some of this. But remember, use it sparingly, dont drink it direclty from the bottle! :)

Thinkgeek is reporting that sales of one kind of t-shirt are markedly lower ...

:)

ThinkGeek :: Key Katcher

This is a device that can be connected to a keyboard to record all keystrokes. It has a changeable password, keyword search, enable/disable option, and stores URLs. Records more than 130,000 keystrokes and does not require any software. [...]

Key Katcher plugs in between your keyboard and your computer. A microcontroller interprets the data, and stores information in the non-volatile memory (which retains the information even when there is a loss of power.) This means that the Key Katcher device can be unplugged, and the information will not be lost.

To access the recorded data, you simply type your password in a text editor and the Key Katcher comes to life. A menu is displayed with options to erase data, view data, search data for keywords, change password, or disable the device.

Of course, that won't protect against the Key Katcher.

Easy Everything, now with a site in NY as well, essentially netboots all the PCs after each user so even if the previous performed some evil, the next user gets a new system free of any malware.

That works great, unless the Bad Person has installed a hardware keylogger. They are pretty cheap these days ... as low as $80.

Some neat features of this gadget:

* Records more than 130,000 keystrokes
* 64K of non-volatile memory. Now with 128K memory ($100)!
* It is Portable - move it from computer to computer.
* Installs in seconds - Just plug it in.
* Uses no system resources. Truly runs in the background.
* Works with all PC Operating Systems with PS/2 keyboards.
* Data is retained even during system lock-ups and power outages.

I was a member of the Penn State FutureTruck program this past year, which had 15 universities develop hybrid-electric Ford Explorers. I know several schools had in-dash PC's of some sort to provide entertainment, telemetry, and navigation functions.

PSU's system (picture here) , which I wrote in Delphi, focused on entertainment, such as the MP3 player screen shown in the picture. The interface is fairly easy to navigate without requiring too much attention while driving. The display itself is a touchscreen made by Xenarc, the company that makes the DIN-PC featured in this article. The PC itself is a Cappuccino Mini-PC running Windows 2000. The PC was mounted in the center console which (after adding some small fans) kept it cool enough to run well.

I think you're expressing just what this shirt is all about.

Of course, you wouldn't want a sober robot now, would you?

actually, why didn't you code this in shell?


sleep $(expr $RANDOM % 1000000)
echo "We recommend you stick with Windows"


Then Gartner can truly be replaced with a small shell script

Go away, or I will replace you with a very small shell script. ;)

Shhhhhh!!!! You want thinkgeek.com to go out of business, don't you?

I have never studied chemistry (save what my high school gave me...not a whole lot anyway) but that molecule they have spinning at the top of the website looks oddly like the caffing molecule that's on the ThinkGeek T-shirt. How did they know most of the world's geeks would be viewing there site? I wonder if they sell bags of the stuff, or is it just false advertising?

I'd check but the site is too slow as it is...

What I think would be a good solution would be a shredder with a built-in printer

Even better than the pen-sized piece of plastic is this sweet watch

Yeah- zip drives are pretty pointless as far as I can tell.

Maybe not a software company, but Logitech sells a pen. And yes, it only works with Logitech paper.

That think geek should sell.

Add a little paint, and a nice dial with glowing lights, then price it at $200 per unit. They could make a fortune, and save a few geeks from the darwin awards. Heck, it might even be considered a public service.

I'm sorry to get into the discussion this late, but I'd like to inform you of my own experience.
I live on an island in the Caribbean Sea and therefor do a lot of on-line ordering.
Take ThinkGeek for instance: With a lot of their merchandise you see something like: "Sorry. We cannot ship this item outside the USA."
That's why I use a forwarder in Miami: Thinkgeek is happy to receive my payment & send the stuff to the forwarder--but they do not want to send it directly to me. now, why is that?

hmmm....

..time to classify think geek's internet map!

Terrorist training: "Attack the purple bit..no no the one above the orange spidery bit..

Well, you could always bring a Knoppix CD to the lab and keep your home directory and personal settings on a USB Keychain type device. Instant personalized Linux workstation wherever you go. Of course, your university may not allow this, but what they don't know . . .

Nice picture. Let's analyze. First, it says 'Virgin' on the ID. Okay, technically, it's 'Virginia'. There's a picture of Jango Fett, not a hot girl. Finally, there's no imprint from a carried prophylactic device. Survey says: It's an accurate representation of a wallet carried by a slashdotter. (The presence of cash in the wallet implies the photo was taken before the dot-bubble burst.)

I'm seriously surprised the editors didn't sneak in a shameless link to ThinkGeek's Duct Tape Wallet, I mean talk about a perfect product tie-in story, geez.

What Microsoft should really do is host a T-Shirt design contest, where the winner gets three copies of the shirt they designed and a $10 billion credit at ThinkGeek.

I read the title, and though of mobile DBs ('ttle computers on these(1), or even better these(2)), with the winner as the server that move the fastest, go the furthest while also (with the joys of wireless) crunch the most recorlds.

What a letdown.

(1) I want one
(2) Gahhh, and one of these

I read the title, and though of mobile DBs ('ttle computers on these(1), or even better these(2)), with the winner as the server that move the fastest, go the furthest while also (with the joys of wireless) crunch the most recorlds.

What a letdown.

(1) I want one
(2) Gahhh, and one of these

here's a link to the current /. stuff on thinkgeek:

fleece (clearance)
hat
sticker

here's a link to the current /. stuff on thinkgeek:

fleece (clearance)
hat
sticker

here's a link to the current /. stuff on thinkgeek:

fleece (clearance)
hat
sticker

Capture the Bear tshirt (for Megatokyo).

I have a couple of those and the quality is very solid (held up through many washes, as well). Those kinds of designs probably aren't done more often because of the higher costs of production compared to a shirt with two simple, solid colors in a basic design. Not to mention you have to spend a lot more time actually creating the design, checking samples for registration misalignments, etc.

Bragging rights at LUGs, CompSci Labs, Cubicle Farms, and Tech Tradeshows around the world.

They've been coming out with a couple interfaces that use gestures lately. Don't know how good they are though. Touchstream Keyboard

With such things like Personal Submarines, Personal Rockets, Z80 based webservers etc., can't we have a Slashdot store or something?

The would probably be a little redundant, taken that thinkgeek already exists.

I'm all for competition, but running a store takes some serious logistics.

"There have been similar designs in the past, but nothing with this kind of power."

Sorry, but smaller, equally powerful machines have been quite available for a while now. Notable examples include the SaintSong Latte P4 (specs here) and the Jadetec Micropc4 just to name Pentium4-capable solutions. In cases where a slower CPU will do, even smaller options are available, such as the SaintSong Cappuccino or Espresso systems (specs here and here).

The main unifying factor of all these systems is that all claim to be the world's smallest. Currently, the title of "World's Smallest Desktop Pentium4" claimed in the article title actually belongs to the Latte (above), which has a volume of about 1951 cm^3 (although the Micropc4 comes close at 1976 cm^3). The iWill ZPC in the article is comparatively huge, at over 2613 cm^3, although Shuttle's XPC systems are over 11000 cm^3, so the iWill is certainly a small system. However, while the iWill looks to have other interesting innovations as far as minimizing temperature and noise, it fails to beat the competition in both size and performance.

There is no sig.

this watch

I think the ICE-Cube looks spiffier, but that's probably just my homeless All-In-Wonder talking.

Gee, and to think you can buy a similar system, the Latte, from Think Geek! Slow news day, I guess.

It's rather rubbish, I am informed.

For full on commuter scaring, however, one of these would appear to be in order. I should buy one, really.

One! One PC Modification site! Ha Ha Ha!

Two! Two PC Modification Sites! Ha Ha Ha!

Three! Three PC Modification Sites! Ha Ha Ha!

Four! Four PC Modification Sites! Ha Ha Ha!

With apologies to Jim Henson Productions...

This may be what you're looking for.

Actually, if you live near a good college radio station, one of these would be great. My old college station had an awesome old R&B show on Mondays from noon to 2pm along with a Reggae show from 2-5pm on Fridays. Of course, if you're not a college student and you work during the day, you miss the shows if you can't be near a radio.