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or you could get a roll up keyboard to carry around with it. Another option is just to type one handed. If you can span the whole keyboard with one hand, why not? I do it with my 3com audrey's little IR keyboard, and that old-school GoType!/LandWare keyboard for the PalmIII (right before they came out with the sexy folding ones). It's not as fast as two handed touch typing, but it's not like your'e wirting a novel on this thing, right?

I would like to see laptops, especially the ones like this where you probably don't get many ports, with Logitech or IR peripheral receivers built in. It can't take that much space in there.

...about the desk bursting into flames, people, and why all the "insightful" mods that go along with it?

There's a few pictures mirrored in the posts. If you go look at them you'll see that he has a Zalman heatsink, and a ducted case fan blowing right on it.

Lessee. Last I checked, copper had a favorable heat transfer coeffecient. Fins are a valid way of transmitting heat to air, too.

Passively, a Zalman Flower Heatsink might not stand up to an Athlon XP 1900+, but even with a modicum of air flow, it'll do fine.

Yeah, we've got that already. But how 'bout cheap?

Because the most expensive part of the laptop is really the screen, and when you have a micro PC, you are free of that component. (Note: I'm not necessarily agreeing with the logic here, I'm just trying to explain why people might want them.) Oh, yeah, and plus, there's the geek factor in owning a really cool looking gadget that all your nerd friends don't have yet.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a98.shtm l

This looks smaller.

"Best of all, the ultra-portable Pockey does not require any additional power source because all necessary power is drawn through the USB cable. You can take it Anywhere! The Pockey is compatible with laptops and desktops, PC/Mac/Linux, so cross-platform file sharing is a breeze. Plug-N-Play, hot-swappable, and hot-pluggable features make the Pockey convenient and easy to use."

This was always interesting to me, since it has storage AND the possibility of plugging in an 802.11b PC card (maybe even 802.11a? only supports 16-bit pcmcia), but there hasn't been much buzz about this product (though thinkgeek sells it

Something like this Toshiba device or the terapin mine seems like a great external storage device for PDAs (ipaqs and others with BT capabilities) or maybe a music store for a car player with BT capability (are there such things yet?)

I have my doubts about bluetooth for this, though... will not users suffer the same sort of issues as they do (did) with large-capacity mp3 players with serial or plain old usb 1.1 connections?

Shit, 3 bottles of Bawls doesn't even get me buzzed anymore. What can a mere mortal do to wake up when caffeine doesn't do the trick anymore?

On second thought, maybe I'll make that an Ask Slashdot question. It can't be worse than any of the others.

There have been several mentions of using a red or infrared laser to blind cameras. Has anyone tried the green laser pointers now available?

Unless you have something like a Lian Li PC65 and stick in some light strips so people can ooh and aah, "Ooh! it's a black motherboard in a black anodize cabinet! Aah! Does it actually run?"

Of course, that black will show dust very well, don't you think so?

I'm guessing blue or black jeans with a T-shirt from ThinkGeek? Why should Halloween be any different? :-P

It sounds like you're looking for something that will allow you more control at the point where you're listening, but...

I've been using the Jensen Matrix audio transmitter to transmit from my computer to a receiver attached to my stereo over 900mhz. It's convenient because I mostly listen to random mixes, but I'm a little disappointed in the sound quality and my cordless phone tends to interfere with it.

Peacock Maps makes some good maps such as this one. I first found out about it at ThinkGeek and later bought two for one at home and ine my dorm. Too bad they don't have a 2002 poster yet.

The Turtle Beach AudioTron has been tempting me for quite some time. I've looked at many other component systems and this seems to be the most solid in terms of support, build quality, and ease of use.

If you don't want to have to run a patch cable to it, simply use a wireless bridge like the LinkSys WET11 or get a wireless ethernet converter to tie it into your SAMBA server.

You must not have been over to ThinkGeek any time recently...

this

Or maybe they went to the city and got themselves a puter and a book, windows for dummies cliff notes edition

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Probably because hard drives (ide, anyway) cost about a buck a gigabyte. SDRAM costs about a buck a megabyte; maybe a little more once you add a power supply and an interface. But, look here and here . The first is pretty much what you're looking for, I think, and the second is a bit more cost effective.

Probably because hard drives (ide, anyway) cost about a buck a gigabyte. SDRAM costs about a buck a megabyte; maybe a little more once you add a power supply and an interface. But, look here and here . The first is pretty much what you're looking for, I think, and the second is a bit more cost effective.

I think it would be equally or potentially more interesting to deploy a small army of ThinkGeek-style rovers. Perhaps small-scale industrial stuff later, all done via remote-control.

Stink Geek Cars

Disclaimer: Battery charge lasts 10 seconds. Hubcabs not included!

ThinkGeek sucks. I ordered this item from ThinkGeek and they never delivered.

you can get a cheap USB gamepad for the computer. It will automatically detect a game, download default/popular button settings to use in a game like GTA3.

What I really want is one of these controllers so that I can play SF2 again and do Zangief's piledriver at will.

... in the affairs of sysadmins for the are subtle and quick to anger.

I thought of this thinkgeek sticker as soon as I saw the headline.

Brings new meaning to "Go Away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"

Also, I suspect that the iPod uses that horrible Chicago font, which is quite possibly the ugliest font in the world and an insult to the people of Chicago. I know it sounds silly, but I would be prepared not buy one of the players because of this font. It is just so ugly!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a98.shtm l

or for the lazy...Click Here

This is news? I'm sure this system fits the bill...or so to speak.

Maybe an itty bitty serial hardware device

Ummm...

This already exists.

Next?

There are pocket keychains avalable at ThinkGeek that contain drives (On a tangent: how does that work? Flash RAM with a little battery inside? That'd be my guess) which hold maybe 50 megs of data on them. If that can't hold all of your bookmarks, phone numbers, calendars...then there's something wrong with you. On the minus side, if you lost your keys, you'd be shit outta luck. On the plus side, there's about as little a chance of that as there is that you get your personal info stolen/sold anyway.

I have a Linux Fish on my car. Does that count?

Although i am unfamiliar with any CD based anti-virus software, you could always install the software onto a removable usb harddisk, even a keychain drive and run the software from the drive, leaving the primary disk more or less untouched (hopefuly less).

Actually, I was thinking you'd put the PDA inside of you. If you can already get a 128MB USB keychain drive for just over $100, it won't take many more generations to have a 1GB microdrive that could communicate wirelessly a few feet or so and could run off body heat. Stick it in your chest cavity somewhere and plug a receiver unit into your computer.

Perhaps you could actually mount it as a drive (obviously with encrypted data going over an encrypted line so they couldn't scan you without your knowledge at airport terminals). Put it at /mnt/user (heh).

Publish a standard communication interface, and in five years, all your consumer electronics products can talk to it. Just don't rely on it for data storage: bookmarks and profiles are one thing, but you'd hate to need surgery because your drive is full.

(Although, a 1TB iPod 7 in my belly, wirelessly trasmitting over UWB directly to my optic nerve would be pretty cool. Assuming it could do Ogg Vorbis by then, of course.)

...but I just carry a floppy disk around with a few text-files on it. A HTML bookmark page can be viewed on pretty much anything if you stick to HTML standards and don't use any dumb formatting.

I'm considering buying one of these. I'm a bit worried about the software requirements, though ("Requires Windows 98, ME 2000, Mac OS 8.6 or greater"; I guess my Linux box is greater...). They look like a nifty way to carry my stuff around with me. Until I lose it :-)

--Jon

you mean the cyber tool? I got one, its a great tool to screw in stuff in a computer.

Its got a bunch of screw heads and everything.

As usual there is an open source answer to these corporate theives!

And you can find it here.

Looks kinda cool actually :)

http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/docs/perl-camel-sou rce.shtml

like the code? get the t-shirt

Looking at how much you can fit on a USB keychain drive from ThinkGeek, which is 128 megs, a stripped down copy of linux + GPG and a few other utilities, like a basic text editor, and your key(s) should be able to fit on one of those drives. Then all one has to do is boot off the keychain drive and then type their message in their favorite text editor on their personally setup keychained distro of linux and then save the encrypted text onto another device on the computer like a floppy. Then, unplug the keychain drive and boot the computer normally, and simply copy and paste in the encrypted output into whatever email program/site you were going to paste it in. That way, your private key is never really read by any software on the machine. The only thing is that I am not sure if key chain drives are bootable by themselves though. Does anyone know if they are?

Holy geezus fuck, at $2k you'd do better building your own navigation system based on a mini-PC, a touch screen LCD, and DeLorme's Street Atlas USA software. And you can plug in a webcam, and store and play mp3s.

And let's face it, the Jeep Grand Cherokee is an original, and therefore real, SUV. Almost everything else is for yuppy wankers and soccor moms. And Acura? Does it come with VTEC stickers and irrelevent Chinese glyphs?

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.. with this + this with a lot of that

"Mac 4%
Linux 1%
Other 4%
the rest being windows."

Yeah but how many of those 'other windows machines' are actually linux users using opera faking itself as MSIE or, perhaps some other user agent morphing tool?

Why, just recently, according to my useragent, I was using the miniature-giant-spacehamster-browser-v0.26 on on WheatonixOS.

bought the shirt

You said arguably the smallest, and I'm gonna argue.

ThinkGeek has a tiny little thing, no bigger footprint than the CD/DVD drive. Still holds a P3 1.2, 30Gb HD, 512Mb RAM http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/computing/5a98.shtm l

Just for interest's sake, I took a look at the site. It says that the dimensions of this thing are 6.2cm x 27.2 cm x 25.2 cm.

Now, if you look at the Cappuccino TX-3, you see that it has dimensions 5.63 cm x 14.38 cm x 15 cm. That seems quite a bit smaller to me. So, I would find the claim that this is the tiniest PC around arguable indeed.

it costs less than $1.00 per Gb now... in hard drives. but its funny how expesive per Mb floppies still are....

but what i really want is very high capacity USB keychain storage. like those - but with several GB of capacity - and built in security....

I'm wondering if staring at it long enough with the right mindset makes you see the matrix...

That's strage, because I've been staring at it for hours and all I could see is this blonde in a red dress.

ThinkGeek has the Kernel map poster...