I work in IT for a electrical, electronic and computer engineering department.. pretty much nothing computing ever gets thrown out.. except hard drives of 1GB capacity, broken floppies (drives and media)
There are actually some Linux installers like this.. the Sun Java packages for example.. they begin with a shell script, which runs "view" to show an EULA, then uses awk to create a tar file in/tmp from the installer file, then untars and installs it..
Sun also packages a lot of their Solaris stuff in a GUI type inevorniment which frontends to pkg-add, so you can still get to the actual package files if you need to.
More seriously, I deal with a bunch of PCs on a regular basis.. it is VERY easy to tell the machines with 7200RPM from the machines with 5400RPM drives.. and don't get me started on how crap 4200RPM laptop HDDs are;>
This isn't even numerically fast - this is noticably fast.
Oh I dunno about that, I have a ~US$3000 laptop with DVI-I out on it;)
It's silvery coloured with a white bit around the outside, a 1280x854 screen with this glowing white logo on the back of it which looks really funky and a slot loading DVD/CD-RW drive..
I'm a bit of an Apple zealot, but I understand your reasons for going with what you did.. the "I book" as you call it, isn't fast enough to get virtual PC performance out of it to run those Applicatons, but aside from Application support, if I were using a laptop in a construction site on a regular basis, I would want one of them.. they're pretty much bulletproof, but even if they do fail, they're only about US$1000 for a new one..
Buy one or more of these.. Buy video card with DVI output for PC (not hard, a LOT of cards come with it now). Buy Apple LCD monitor as so desired. Put PC case sticker "Athlon Powered" or appropriate over shiney Apple logo. Plug everything together and hey presto, you have an Apple LCD monitor running on your PC.
As other posts pointed out, they're actually cheaper in some cases than PC LCD monitors, since the quantity model of PC LCD is only 15inch, while Apple does 1280x1024 17inch as the minimum
Note: the Dell with 2.4GHz proc, 512MB 1 DIMM, GF4 4200, 60GB, 1920x1200, Extra Battery,... is still only $3000 compared to apples $3300 for the 17" AlBook.
And is also made out of crappy plastic and has the annoying PC nomenclature for not being turned off but yet not being turned on.. which apple calls sleep and Windows/pc manufacturers call Hibernate or Deep sleep or Sleep or Suspend to ram or suspend to disk, or indeed, pick two or three. Apple's laptops "just work".. no fiddling around with the power/sleep settings to get something useful. And 1920x1200 is nice at 23 inchs.. at 15.4.. I would think not so much:)
And don't get me started on the extra software that those extra $300 will buy you;)
Then you should just be able to go into ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ and find the MP3 of the books, since it sounds like it's decrypting and converting them into MP3s for it to use...
Most likely.. I was moving an E220, the E250's younger sibling. on friday night.. lets just say, I'm glad there were two of us doing the rack mounting.
ObElectronicsGeek: Australia has 240V @ 10A, USA has 120V @ 20A.. both will share their 2400W of power with you quite equally;)
I have zapped myself with 240V more times than I care to think of.. (twice, which is 2 times too many;p) wearing rubber soled shoes and working on a grounded surface is a godsend.. generally my hand just flies up in the air.
Apple Computer had to deal with Apple Inc because they claimed that the Apple Computer was a musical device, which I can kinda see. The "settlement" was largish sums of money.
On a related note, Apple paid royalties to Coca Cola for using the word "Classic" to describe a product.. damn USPTO again I guess.
Well good thing he's running Linux, since a real xbox DVD drive has weird microsoft stuff[tm] in it, like provision for reading backwards I think? And it isn't on a normal ATA channel.. it's probably some weird abstracted serialized ATA
So this wouldn't play games.. which, lets face it, the x-box does reasonably well.. except the DoA ones (dead on arrival, not dead or alive;p)
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I work in IT for a electrical, electronic and computer engineering department.. pretty much nothing computing ever gets thrown out.. except hard drives of 1GB capacity, broken floppies (drives and media)
Activate Surplus rocks! I know it well and go there several times per year.. and I'm from Australia :)
:(
I wish there was something like that here
environment :)
It's early here
There are actually some Linux installers like this.. the Sun Java packages for example.. they begin with a shell script, which runs "view" to show an EULA, then uses awk to create a tar file in /tmp from the installer file, then untars and installs it..
Sun also packages a lot of their Solaris stuff in a GUI type inevorniment which frontends to pkg-add, so you can still get to the actual package files if you need to.
Enough with the fricken restarts... this isn't part of the OS.. I'm getting a bit sick of the restart requirements for most of the recent updates...
Hmm I'm suprised you got that through
*note to terrorists, if wishing to hijack planes, use sharpened RAM sticks*
London is a very interesting place. I did a year of my degree at Western, and was back there last year too for a holiday/catchup.
;)
Ironically, I also learnt Perl while living in Sydenham Hall using a book from the Taylor Library
Unless you went and downloaded and compiled your own copy of wget like me ;> Curl is annoying with the way it writes to stdout by default.
In soviet russia, you distribute Apple!
;)
Sorry, obligatory cliche for a russian mac user site. But god bless them and their lack of IP law enforcement
He'ld like his crack back.
;>
More seriously, I deal with a bunch of PCs on a regular basis.. it is VERY easy to tell the machines with 7200RPM from the machines with 5400RPM drives.. and don't get me started on how crap 4200RPM laptop HDDs are
This isn't even numerically fast - this is noticably fast.
Ahh Webster Multiport Ethernet Repeaters, how I remember you so. Configuration via a serial port connected to a mac using a hypercard stack.. ;>
Oh I dunno about that, I have a ~US$3000 laptop with DVI-I out on it ;)
It's silvery coloured with a white bit around the outside, a 1280x854 screen with this glowing white logo on the back of it which looks really funky and a slot loading DVD/CD-RW drive..
No floppy drive, but I don't miss it.
I'm a bit of an Apple zealot, but I understand your reasons for going with what you did.. the "I book" as you call it, isn't fast enough to get virtual PC performance out of it to run those Applicatons, but aside from Application support, if I were using a laptop in a construction site on a regular basis, I would want one of them.. they're pretty much bulletproof, but even if they do fail, they're only about US$1000 for a new one..
Buy one or more of these.. Buy video card with DVI output for PC (not hard, a LOT of cards come with it now). Buy Apple LCD monitor as so desired. Put PC case sticker "Athlon Powered" or appropriate over shiney Apple logo. Plug everything together and hey presto, you have an Apple LCD monitor running on your PC.
As other posts pointed out, they're actually cheaper in some cases than PC LCD monitors, since the quantity model of PC LCD is only 15inch, while Apple does 1280x1024 17inch as the minimum
What does 1024x640? :)
Note: the Dell with 2.4GHz proc, 512MB 1 DIMM, GF4 4200, 60GB, 1920x1200, Extra Battery, ... is still only $3000 compared to apples $3300 for the 17" AlBook.
:)
;)
And is also made out of crappy plastic and has the annoying PC nomenclature for not being turned off but yet not being turned on.. which apple calls sleep and Windows/pc manufacturers call Hibernate or Deep sleep or Sleep or Suspend to ram or suspend to disk, or indeed, pick two or three. Apple's laptops "just work".. no fiddling around with the power/sleep settings to get something useful. And 1920x1200 is nice at 23 inchs.. at 15.4.. I would think not so much
And don't get me started on the extra software that those extra $300 will buy you
I'll take it off your hands if you give me US$50 + postage..
Has yours been refitted so the hinges don't crack/pcmcia cards work/catch on fire/display these problems?
Seriously, I have been offered 5300s many times, and won't touch them with a 10ft pole..
Of course, you'll have to do things the hard way if your mp3s aren't tagged..
;>
Which is exactly what you deserve for not ID3 tagging your MP3s in the first place
Then you should just be able to go into ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Music/ and find the MP3 of the books, since it sounds like it's decrypting and converting them into MP3s for it to use...
There is no such thing as a perfectly good 2GB Micropolis drive. They're all horrible. I'm surprised it had continuted working for so long.
Most likely.. I was moving an E220, the E250's younger sibling. on friday night.. lets just say, I'm glad there were two of us doing the rack mounting.
ObElectronicsGeek: Australia has 240V @ 10A, USA has 120V @ 20A .. both will share their 2400W of power with you quite equally ;)
;p) wearing rubber soled shoes and working on a grounded surface is a godsend.. generally my hand just flies up in the air.
I have zapped myself with 240V more times than I care to think of.. (twice, which is 2 times too many
Apple Computer had to deal with Apple Inc because they claimed that the Apple Computer was a musical device, which I can kinda see. The "settlement" was largish sums of money.
On a related note, Apple paid royalties to Coca Cola for using the word "Classic" to describe a product.. damn USPTO again I guess.
You're right :) It just has a weird power cable. I thought that was a data cable :)
Well good thing he's running Linux, since a real xbox DVD drive has weird microsoft stuff[tm] in it, like provision for reading backwards I think? And it isn't on a normal ATA channel.. it's probably some weird abstracted serialized ATA
;p)
So this wouldn't play games.. which, lets face it, the x-box does reasonably well.. except the DoA ones (dead on arrival, not dead or alive