My understanding is that the Raite players are still sold under the label Yamakawa (and probably other labels, too), at least in Europe. I got a model 780 for 500,- DM last week (that's less than US$250, they've been available for less than $200 before). It has an updated firmware (1.4) but is neither code-free nor Macrovision-free - but it's supposed to be not-as-bad-quality, because it's assembled in Germany.
I used the player for three days, then the power supply ceased to work. They told me it would take one or two weeks to fix that. Well, still in time for Santa... (as you can guess, I'm not much of a hardware hacker...)
I plan to downgrade the firmware to 1.2 which is available on the 'net in a hacked version that allows switching to regio-free (and, possibly, turning off Macrovision, not sure about that). BTW, the vendor offered to do that for me for $40.
Are there already hotels, restaurants, diners, malls, etc. offering inhouse wireless LAN as a service to their customers? Are there any Palm devices with built-in wireless LAN?
Actually, my manager would love me to join the company's calendaring system, but I can't, as I refuse to use Windows on a regular basis for practical considerations. The better "my" calendaring client integrates with my existing working environment (which might be considered a bit archane by some), the better the chance I'm going to use it on a regular basis.
So the only thing I could hope for in a calendaring system that already pleases my manager, would be either a mail interface that allows me to do most things working with my usual mail client - or, preferably, reefknot.el.
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My understanding is that the Raite players are still sold under the label Yamakawa (and probably other labels, too), at least in Europe. I got a model 780 for 500,- DM last week (that's less than US$250, they've been available for less than $200 before). It has an updated firmware (1.4) but is neither code-free nor Macrovision-free - but it's supposed to be not-as-bad-quality, because it's assembled in Germany.
I used the player for three days, then the power supply ceased to work. They told me it would take one or two weeks to fix that. Well, still in time for Santa... (as you can guess, I'm not much of a hardware hacker...)
I plan to downgrade the firmware to 1.2 which is available on the 'net in a hacked version that allows switching to regio-free (and, possibly, turning off Macrovision, not sure about that). BTW, the vendor offered to do that for me for $40.
I find it pretty obvious that they're trying to get the money to afford a Playstation 2 from one of those types in the black trenchcoats.
Are there already hotels, restaurants, diners, malls, etc. offering inhouse wireless LAN as a service to their customers? Are there any Palm devices with built-in wireless LAN?
Actually, my manager would love me to join the company's calendaring system, but I can't, as I refuse to use Windows on a regular basis for practical considerations. The better "my" calendaring client integrates with my existing working environment (which might be considered a bit archane by some), the better the chance I'm going to use it on a regular basis.
So the only thing I could hope for in a calendaring system that already pleases my manager, would be either a mail interface that allows me to do most things working with my usual mail client - or, preferably, reefknot.el.