There are many more guides about building your custom made LCD projector around. From my experience it can be difficult to find them with Google. But here is a starting point for more and free
practical guides to do-it-yourself DIY LCD projectors. There are also guides for building projectors from old dia projectors and tutorials to build overhead projectors yourself. You may even use a display from an otherwise broken and unusable laptop.
My favorite is Marge Piercy's He, She and It. From Danny Yee's Book Reviews:"Stand aside William Gibson and Bruce Sterling! Body of Glass (He, She, and It in the United States) is a combination of future history and cyberpunk that is a match for Neuromancer in excitement and breadth of vision, but it is also a far greater novel. Not only is it better written, with a less artificial plot and deeper characterisation, but it also works through the consequences of its ideas in a far more sophisticated fashion. Shira has lost custody of her son to her husband, and has left the Y-S "multi" that employs her to return to her home "free town". One of the town leaders, feeling danger threatening, has built Yod, an illegal cyborg (full artificial intelligence in a human shaped vehicle) to defend them. But Y-S is after Yod... The narrative contains enough political intrigue, biologically enhanced assassins and data piracy to keep the cyberpunk fans happy, but it also has some serious meat in it. It tackles head-on some of the philosophical and ethical dilemmas likely to be involved in the development of artificial intelligence. Interlaced with the main story is a secondary narrative. This is the story (as told to Yod by Shira's mother Malkah) of a Jewish Rabbi in 17th century Prague who creates a clay golem to defend his people from a threatened pogrom."
Z4CK: A Cyberthriller about a Zaurus Linux PDA
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Kevin Milne has published Z4CK: A SciFi Novel about a Zaurus Linux PDA recently. From the LinuxDevices review: "It's 2031, and Microsoft advertises Linux on Edinburgh's largest
billboards. Duncan Steele roams a brave new world, besting technoproles
and fighting to extricate himself from a bogus murder rap, his trusty
Sharp Zaurus by his side. So begins a cyberthriller from Scottish
security professional Kevin Milne.
Milne's novel, entitled "Z4CK," was written entirely on a Sharp Zaurus PDA. "Z4CK was written on the train, whilst on my way to and from work," says Milne. "My Zaurus SL-5500 equipped with Open-Zaurus, and the Pockettop wireless keyboard was used to write the story.""
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Are there any better books about data crunching? I found at least Data Munging with Perl by David Cross. BTW: check out DataConv for a survey of data conversion tools, many of them GPLed and often unix-based.
To spoil a desktop keyboard is bad, but damaging a laptop or notebook keyboard is even more bad, because often it's not that easy to get their keyboards out for a serious cleaning. Here are some take apart instructions for laptops and notebooks including pictures. There are tips and tricks for keyboard cleaning. Or just in case you need to re-paint it, there are appropriate HOWTOs.
There have been even more mobile (cell) phones with Linux announced, e.g. from the German company Invair, from Curitel, Datang, E28, Motorola, NEC, PalmPalm, Panasonic, Samsung and Yuhua.
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To make your own do-it-yourself usb stick using these tutorials is not that difficult. See for example this HowTo: Homer USB Drive.
There are many more guides about building your custom made LCD projector around. From my experience it can be difficult to find them with Google. But here is a starting point for more and free practical guides to do-it-yourself DIY LCD projectors. There are also guides for building projectors from old dia projectors and tutorials to build overhead projectors yourself. You may even use a display from an otherwise broken and unusable laptop.
My favorite is Marge Piercy's He, She and It. From Danny Yee's Book Reviews:"Stand aside William Gibson and Bruce Sterling! Body of Glass (He, She, and It in the United States) is a combination of future history and cyberpunk that is a match for Neuromancer in excitement and breadth of vision, but it is also a far greater novel. Not only is it better written, with a less artificial plot and deeper characterisation, but it also works through the consequences of its ideas in a far more sophisticated fashion. Shira has lost custody of her son to her husband, and has left the Y-S "multi" that employs her to return to her home "free town". One of the town leaders, feeling danger threatening, has built Yod, an illegal cyborg (full artificial intelligence in a human shaped vehicle) to defend them. But Y-S is after Yod... The narrative contains enough political intrigue, biologically enhanced assassins and data piracy to keep the cyberpunk fans happy, but it also has some serious meat in it. It tackles head-on some of the philosophical and ethical dilemmas likely to be involved in the development of artificial intelligence. Interlaced with the main story is a secondary narrative. This is the story (as told to Yod by Shira's mother Malkah) of a Jewish Rabbi in 17th century Prague who creates a clay golem to defend his people from a threatened pogrom."
Kevin Milne has published Z4CK: A SciFi Novel about a Zaurus Linux PDA recently. From the LinuxDevices review: "It's 2031, and Microsoft advertises Linux on Edinburgh's largest billboards. Duncan Steele roams a brave new world, besting technoproles and fighting to extricate himself from a bogus murder rap, his trusty Sharp Zaurus by his side. So begins a cyberthriller from Scottish security professional Kevin Milne.
Milne's novel, entitled "Z4CK," was written entirely on a Sharp Zaurus PDA. "Z4CK was written on the train, whilst on my way to and from work," says Milne. "My Zaurus SL-5500 equipped with Open-Zaurus, and the Pockettop wireless keyboard was used to write the story.""
I would like to build my own laptop, too. But it seems difficult to research this topic at Google. Are there any other resources besides Make Yourself a Laptop or Notebook: BareBones and DIY Machines?
If you want to run a UniX operating system on old hardware, for example a mobile computer with 286CPU, Minix is the operating system of choice. Here are installation reports about MiniX on old laptops, notebooks and PDAs. There is also ELKS a Linux version with support for 286CPUs, but ELKS doesn't seem to be maintained anymore. Here are some installation reports about Linux on laptops and notebooks with 286CPU.
There are many other hacks for the Apple iPod family available already. From the first generation iPods as well as for the iPod Shuffle and iPod mini. You may also find links to hacks for accessories like cables and headphones and batteries.
Here are some more tools and whitepapers for migrations to the Linux operating system, for example about Solaris to Linux migration, filename conversion and more.
Here is even a typewriter faced laptop.
See Repair4MobilePhone for more Motorola Mobile (Cell) Phone Hacks (as well as modding and repair instructions for other brands, too).
There are many more moddings for portable media players (Apple iPod, Creative Nomad, Diamond Rio and others available.
Selfmade digital picture frames have become quite common, for example you may try this survey about: How to Make a Digital Picture Frame from an Old Laptop or Notebook.
Are there any better books about data crunching? I found at least Data Munging with Perl by David Cross. BTW: check out DataConv for a survey of data conversion tools, many of them GPLed and often unix-based.
You may still nominate Free Software projects for the TuxMobil GNU/Linux Award 2005.
To spoil a desktop keyboard is bad, but damaging a laptop or notebook keyboard is even more bad, because often it's not that easy to get their keyboards out for a serious cleaning. Here are some take apart instructions for laptops and notebooks including pictures. There are tips and tricks for keyboard cleaning. Or just in case you need to re-paint it, there are appropriate HOWTOs.
To expand your list you may check the TuxMobil international overview of vendors which sell laptops and notebooks with Linux pre-installed. BTW: the survey also includes vendors which offer PDAs and mobile phones with Linux.
Besides Linux On Laptops, there is also TuxMobil: Linux with Laptops, Notebooks, PDAs, Mobile Phones and Portable Computers. You may find links to more than 3,200 Linux installation reports on laptops and notebooks, an international overview of Linux Laptop, Notebook and PDA Vendors and Linux hardware compatibility lists for different mobile accessories.
At TuxMobil you may find many links to Linux installation reports on Tablet PCs as well as a survey of drivers and useful applications.
Here are some more modding (and disassembly instructions) for different portable music players and accessories.
Here are some more laptop and notebook moddings, e.g. a laptop made from gingerbread.
The Simputer Linux PDA has a similar approach offering cheap Linux PDAs for India.
There is a small community of people using Solaris on Laptops and Notebooks already.
But there are many, which have cleared up their mind. Just a few days ago TuxMobil has announced the 3.000th Linux laptop and notebook installation report.
There have been even more mobile (cell) phones with Linux announced, e.g. from the German company Invair, from Curitel, Datang, E28, Motorola, NEC, PalmPalm, Panasonic, Samsung and Yuhua.
If you want to get a complete (hopefully) survey of vendors, which sell Linux PDAs (as well as notebooks and laptops), there is one at TuxMobil.