There are several options. The easy one is pick up a rio and 1.5 V switch adjustable regulator from some evil place like tandy. The other choice is to use a simple 6 V regulated supply and a bunch of diodes to drop the voltage to about 1.5V. The next level up would be a device on the back of the PC that has a bunch of diodes off different pins and then run that to a cap and use diodes to drop it to 1.5 V. The easy solution seem to involve lots of diodes...
I may have details on how to do this on my rio review web page soon.
In a more topical comment... I just got my PMP300 limited edition and with 96M For the first time I've run out of stuff before I've run out of memory. Time to go collect more stuff. Am I the only one who goes bands to rip the sutff? I find most bands will give you a CD for putting their stuff on the net.
Same with dry cleaning as that implies a scary dress code which is a sure way not to get good people in the first place.
At about $.15 a cup why don't more places do the free coke/pepsi fountain drinks? That's a great perk and it does work.
For those looking for real perks, someone is building a new "hi tech centre" in Melbourne Oz that just happens to be in an area that is full of legal brothels.
Thanks to all those that helped this happen it went off remarkably well considering it was organised by hackers. The talks were great and it was difficult to decide between them.
The only kind of security I want on my rio is a good lock it up tight and kill the microcode type of pin number. Why won't companies that make portable electronics add this kind of feature?
I love the case design of the HP28C (and S if I had that new of a calculator). Its still being used by HP on their financial calculator. Is great because you don't need an external case and there is no shift button to get to the letters.
Routing is only a problem because the stupid way modern routers work. A routers job is to take packets from one interface and dump them on another with a bit of smarts of best routes/failures etc. But what happens in the real big routers? They lookup the route table for every packet in huge table. If a big router has 16 interfaces, treating everything in the world as a/24 (aka class C) then there needs to be a table of exactly 8 megabytes. One could build a mega-switch that uses a second box to do the fancy routing bits. This crud about needing the router to instantly dynamicly reroute is a sham, let another computer generate the best routes and update the mega-switch and lose a few packets when things go down -after all TCP will recover anyway.
This is the same reason I bought the Rio as well but I too will buy a different MP3 player as soon as I can since the Rio just isn't quite ready for prime time yet. The case is the worst design I have seen in portable electronics because they missed the bit about having a solid case. For what its worth, my rio's battery cover broke (at a pub while letting a band hear how their tunes sound on the net). Even though the rio is somewhat of a disappointment, it is in many ways one of the coolest toys I've got and I think that it is important to buy new types of toys to help promote development of risky things like these.
Since the nyu server does not have the mime type set for.prc files, they are treated as text and get CR-LF mangling if your computer is ill-equipped to deal with reality.
I've always thought that America would be a better place if the jocks didn't get a state supported ego trip. As the geek in a high school that did have quite a few geeks, there wasn't pressure on me but some of the clickish groups tried unsuccessfuly to give me hell. They even screwed up my name in the yearbook. Oh well. I least I'm content with my life and don't have to worry about where I'm going to get my rent money:-) (posted from Australia where most American HS football players couldn't even cope with the abuse of Aussie Footy)
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I may have details on how to do this on my rio review web page soon.
In a more topical comment...
I just got my PMP300 limited edition and with 96M For the first time I've run out of stuff before I've run out of memory. Time to go collect more stuff. Am I the only one who goes bands to rip the sutff? I find most bands will give you a CD for putting their stuff on the net.
-tim
If you can produce thigns so quickly how many cool things have you made compared to say Thomas Edison?
-tim
I've had my sites Y2K Complacency Statement up for a few months now...
-tim
http://web.abnormal.com
Same with dry cleaning as that implies a scary dress code which is a sure way not to get good people in the first place.
At about $.15 a cup why don't more places do the free coke/pepsi fountain drinks? That's a great perk and it does work.
For those looking for real perks, someone is building a new "hi tech centre" in Melbourne Oz that just happens to be in an area that is full of legal brothels.
Thanks to all those that helped this happen it went off remarkably well considering it was organised by hackers. The talks were great and it was difficult to decide between them.
The only kind of security I want on my rio
is a good lock it up tight and kill the microcode
type of pin number. Why won't companies that make
portable electronics add this kind of feature?
They should have read my review of their 1st rio
before designing a new one....
I love the case design of the HP28C (and S
if I had that new of a calculator). Its still being used by HP on their financial calculator. Is great because you don't need an external case and there is no shift button to get to the letters.
Routing is only a problem because the stupid way modern routers work. A routers job is to take packets from one interface and dump them on another with a bit of smarts of best routes/failures etc. But what happens in the real big routers? They lookup the route table for every packet in huge table. If a big router has 16 interfaces, treating everything in the world as a /24 (aka class C) then there needs to be a table of exactly 8 megabytes. One could build a mega-switch that uses a second box to do the fancy routing bits. This crud about needing the router to instantly dynamicly reroute is a sham, let another computer generate the best routes and update the mega-switch and lose a few packets when things go down -after all TCP will recover anyway.
This is the same reason I bought the Rio as well but I too will buy a different MP3 player as soon as I can since the Rio just isn't quite ready for prime time yet. The case is the worst design I have seen in portable electronics because they missed the bit about having a solid case. For what its worth, my rio's battery cover broke (at a pub while letting a band hear how their tunes sound on the net). Even though the rio is somewhat of a disappointment, it is in many ways one of the coolest toys I've got and I think that it is important to buy new types of toys to help promote development of risky things like these.
Since the nyu server does not have the mime type set for .prc files, they are treated as text and get CR-LF mangling if your computer is ill-equipped to deal with reality.
I've always thought that America would be a better place if the jocks didn't get a state supported ego trip. As the geek in a high school that did have quite a few geeks, there wasn't pressure on me but some of the clickish groups tried unsuccessfuly to give me hell. They even screwed up my name in the yearbook. Oh well. I least I'm content with my life and don't have to worry about where I'm going to get my rent money :-)
(posted from Australia where most American HS football players couldn't even cope with the abuse of Aussie Footy)