My brother just got one and it seemed pretty like a pretty neat computer. Since I was also on the lookout for a new PC, I bought one days after he did.
AMD-64 3400 1.8G FSB 512M RAM 200G Hard Drive 128Meg AGP Video Card (Quoted on the documentation)
Now for the fun part. First, the video board is really a PCI card (not to be confused with PCI-Express). I've yet to resolve this issue as I didn't realize this until just the other day.
Now for the Operating System: Windows XP - Media Center Edition. Windows ME's big brother.
Applications suddenly terminate - not all the time, but enough.
Premiere 6.0 is a nightmare on this system - crashes repetedly on the same project within seconds after starting up. If I place a video on a timeline and resize the edit window the app crashes. No other OS (WinXP, Win2K or Win98) crashes.
Windows Messenger - Where to start. First-off, you can not uninstall Windows Messenger (at least without uninstalling The Media Center)!
Running the media center to listen to the radio (which is a cool idea) causes Windows Messenger to run. That particular PC is not connected to the Internet therefore I don't have to worry about it nor can I report it's behaviour after the Windows Messenger comes up. Maybe someone can fill in those details.
On the subject of the Windows Firewall and Anti-virus detection schemes: Oi! (Remember, now, that this system is NOT connected to the internet.) I uninstalled the pre-packaged Norton AV and Norton Internet Security because of it's constant whining about connecting to the net to get updates. It just would not stop prompting me - so I uninstalled it. That's when SP2's problem reared it's very ugly head.
I thought, "OK, I'll just 'change the way Security Center alerts me.'"
I checked the requesite check-boxes in the security center (4 check-boxes total (two under 'Change the way Security Center alerts me and one each under the firewall and AV recommedation buttons). After two restarts, the checkboxes miracouslty (-2 sp) un-check themselves and the Security Center continues to nag me to death. ( I imagine there is some other procedure to effectively (permenently) turn off this mis-feature; but, I haven't found it, yet.)
As I read through/. today, most of the comments on this story are along the party line of, "But, it can't do all that outlook can." I'd be surprised if any of the nay-sayers have started a project, or decided not to start their own pet project, because someone else already made an idea similar to their own.
Microsoft is the reigning champion of office email via Outlook. So what! Who cares?!
Isn't the OSS movement about supplying tools that everyone can use via the GPL? If it's not then what the hell have we all been doing since 1991?
The point being we're supposed to be championing the development of open source software for use by the masses and saying goodbye to the monolithic monopolies that have a veritible stranglehold on alternative software.
I say, "hurrah!" to this development. Will it be the best suite available? Not right away, for sure. But give it time. Damn - gotta start somewhere.
To hone a very fine point, as an addition to your point, yesterday, I saw a deer roughly 4 meters from the road. It's left rear leg was shattered. I reported it to the local police (via phone) hoping that the animal control officers could come out and either rehabilitate it or put it out of its misery.
While presenting this information to the officer, he wanted my name (including middle initial), address, telephone number and, disturbingly, my date of birth. {{Ugh, rolls eyes}}
I shouldn't have given it to the officer. I should have told them that if they wanted it to send an officer over to get it. Why? I should have realized, then, that nothing was going to be done for the poor animal (that is, treated or humanely put down). All the officers were interested in was who I was - so they could add another arrest to their otherwise drab and boring existance. Happy to disappoint them.
As good-natured people take measures to coincide peacefully within our environment and the more the local magistrate pumps the citizens for information (not relating to the particulars of the case) the more people will tend to refrain from seeking authority figures in the future. I know I will no longer call the police for any reason save threats of violence (not to worry there, though!)
All I wanted was to help a poor animal and I get subjected to a warrent search. Bah! I really do feel spied upon - and I helped them!!
Oh, yeah. I got so caught up in my rant that I forgot to make a point.
The point is, I'm still downloading Steam updates on the 'Product Registration wizard" screen, it's at 80% and I've downloaded 14Meg of crap for Steam (at 80%) to support their online registration/activation scheme. That's a 14 meg file from a measly 56k connection. Yeah, this is real exciting, isnt' it?
Tell me about it! I didn't know that I had to activate Half-Life 2 to install it via an online medium when I purchased. I guess I should have payed more attention to the specification on the box that says, "Internet Connection Required." I simply glossed over those words after I saw my PC could handle the game easily.
What ticks me off is this: My parents lost thier install CD for thier 56k connection so I'm using ICS in order to complete the install. Except we all know that ICS sucks.
During my first attempt last night to get ICS up and running on my mothers computer, I couldn't find my twisted-pair CAT-5 cable. So I tried a few others I *suspected* were - they weren't. I give up for the night.
Next morning, I locate the cable but have a few errends to run before I can attempt it again. yadda yadda yadda, I get ICS up.
Two hours to get ICS up (total) + HL2 install time = more time than I wanted to spend. Then I read about possible delays activating steam = (I'm sure) *Severe Frustration!*
If Valve wants to continue down this road they're going to experience what Intuit experienced with P/O'd customers not buying thier crap.
Second, on such a short article, there is a lot of missing information which a lot of presumptions are being based upon. Mr. Smith was not in the right for using state computers to do his research - that much is agreed upon. However, that does *not* give the state the right to make libelous comments against Mr. Smith's intelligence.
That is just plain wrong.
Was Mr. Smith a repeat offender? Was he given warning? Was there some beef that Mr. Hayes had with Mr. Smith before the firing that Mr. Hayes used as an excuse to fire Mr. Smith?
At this point, just about everything is conjecture.
From my previous post: It is *all* conjecture at this point because no one is doing this; but, let's answer the what-ifs before they are instituted.
I know the point. My point is let's raise our voice *before* something like this gets into the heads of elected officials (incumbents or candidates) before it becomes a practice we'll all bitch about after it's put in use.
First, it disturbs me someone is not bothered by "The worst that can happen (as regards to this being "democratic") is that he doesn't do what the vote says." That's the whole point of holding an election: To get people into positions of power to enact change(s) that his constituents desire.
It really doesn't matter if he's elected or not. What's suspicious is what if he *does* follow the way his constituents 'vote' - which is to say, he votes the way his numbers are dealt to him per issue based upon the values reported back to him by his computer.
Let's say some criminal cracks his system and sets the votes the way Corp X wants him to lean. Let's say the actual populace in his district want something altogether different than what Corp X wants; but, because Corp X was able to hire some cracker to set the votes that lean Corp X's way, Corp X gets their 'wish.' That theory is what is suspicious.
It is *all* conjecture at this point because no one is doing this; but, let's answer the what-ifs before they are instituted.
Considering the above, does this not ring of Diebold? Is there not a way to alter the 'votes' such that it does not represent what the people actually want?
Right. The thing that really bothers me about this kind of setup is this: Whenever Diebold is mentioned the/. crowd seethes with anger over an imperfect voting system. Now, this story pops up and everyone gets all 'valley-girl' and says, "Ooooh, it's, like, so cool!"
We can't have it both ways.
It certainly has its merit; but, where is everyone's suspicion?
Here's a scenario for you stecoop. You're standing in the crowded men's room - late into the evening - at your favorite local bar knowing these people can't pee straight sober much less drunk. You brought your beer with you; because, God forbid, someone steal your drink.
As you're waiting in line to pee, some drunk opens the door into you causing you to spill your drink.
Here's your question: Which puddle do you lick up? You have four seconds to decide.
Bottom line: it's there, you know where it is, so go get it so it's out of play.
As someone who was trained by the US Navy to protect nuclear weapons, I'd like to chime in on this:
DAMN RIGHT! I busted my ass and busted peoples balls protecting nukes. There's this little thing called two-man control. At least two men have to be in the room (area) with the nuke at all times. Anyone tries to get past you, whether by force or being a sneaky bastard: double-tap! The deader the better!
And God forbid one of your shipmates breaks protocol. Officers and sailors could have their careers ruined by slipping up while protecting nukes. And I'm serious! Those alarms sound and the guns come out.
They'd (US authorities) better get their collective asses out there and retrieve this thing. Don't tell me I wasted my time pointing loaded guns at people while protecting nukes while some dumbass flyboy comes back one bomb too short and everyone turns a blind eye.
{{alright, I never pointed a loaded gun at someone while protecting nukes but it wasn't out of mind while doing so...}}But you get my point.
Re:And now, for your delectation and delight...
on
RFID Not Just for Kids
·
· Score: 2, Insightful
First, good points. +1 Scary.
To counter your scary, insightful points, however, I would imagine that the manufacturers of this tracking system would only allow the members of the same group find others members of their group.
I also imagine that the screens don't look anything like an air traffic controller's screen out lining race, sex and age of the individual 'blip' making a potential obductee an easier target.
Of course, on a more sinister side, once a kid was obducted dropping the RFID tag into someone else's handbad or gift bags would throw any would-be saviours off the perp's trail - whether the perp used the RFID tracking system to locate the seperated child or not.
We all need to step away from the everyday crap and let our brain rest. Sometimes you need it and you usually come back to work energized and ready to finish the rest of the week.
Yeah, I call that "Monday-through-Thursday." Saturday and Sunday is "Me time."
Not a great thing
on
Semper WiFi
·
· Score: 2, Funny
All an opposing military need develop now is a missile that homes in on the frequency that 802.11b/g/a uses.
How about a missile that homes in on a particular MAC address?
I just spent the better part of Friday night and yesterday reading, downloading and installing debian "Woody" via jigdo-lite. Damn, back to the drawing board.
What scares me is that this could be the first step to controlling email via certain companies.
What if BIG CORPORATION A decides to sell its assets running the SPF machines to BIG CORPORATION B and BIG CORPORATION B combines As and Bs machines. Eventually one BIG CORPORATION will own all the SPF machines or a very large portion there-of. Then what?
What about all the little upstarts who don't want to be bothered with figuring out SPF or understanding people's desire to use it? What if a time sensitive e-mail (yeah, yeah, e-mail should not be used for critical info..blah blah blah) is slowed from getting from its origin to its destination? How could this system be abused - aside from the computing end of things?
E-Mail tax? You know, the tax that could be enacted to pay for the cost of running the system should GOVT n decide to use it? See where I'm going?
I was in charge (as an E-4, woo.:| ) of a detail of other E-1s through E-4s monitoring people entering and leaving the building. One of our responibilities was to check all bags leaving the building.
One day, some contractors came through the desk - on their way out - while I was there. My man asked them what was in the box and they said, "Nothing. Just some test equipment."
My man almost let them through when I told them we'd need a look inside. They became a little annoyed and started pleading their case in the hopes that we lowly E-4s and below would just back down; but, I was incistant.
When the box was opened it contained two classified manuals. The base commander, several 'real' security guards and the civilian's boss chewed them out on the quarter deck in front of everyone.
Turned out, they had clearance and even had authorization to carry classified information (but they forgot their cards.) Thinking they'd just brow-beat us they attemted something stupid.
I got an 'atta-boy' for that one. {sigh - oh well.}
When my father made his comments to us kids it was always with a smile on his face and we knew he was joking and we *never* felt threatened. I find it interesting that you judge everyone, knee-jerk style, as being 'terrible people.'
You're single-minded determination to pre-judge people as terrible heathens who abuse their kids tells me more about you than it does about myself or the people who share a similar sense of humor.
So, off to church you go, Flanders. Us terrible people are having a good time whether you happen to agree or not.
I'm going to theorize that you had a mentally-abusive father (who you feared) and an over-protective mother (who you sought protection from) who was too much of a sheep to stand up to your father; hence, you've finalized in your mind that all people who don't agree to your warped mindset are terrible and don't deserve a sense of humor that little kids need protection from.
It's not very fair for me to say so; but, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander."
Now, since you're being a troll, I'll feed you no more. Rant as much as you want - it still won't mean you've won your self-generated tournament to argue.
I believe you are correct. When Bill Cosby did that comedy act it was probably one of the best comedy shows ever. I've watched it on TV years ago and it is classic, good comedy that doesn't have to demean it's audience in order to please.
Yep, I need something smaller than an iPod Mini. In fact, I had something smaller than an iPod Mini, that cost $60, 128M, MP3 playback, looked like a disk drive to the computer, my daughter broke the USB connection too many times until I couldn't fix it... I've been looking for a replacement since.
Good luck on finding your new daughter.
As an aside, my father used to tell me that he could 'take me out' and make another one that looks just like me.
Slashdot Mirror
My brother just got one and it seemed pretty like a pretty neat computer. Since I was also on the lookout for a new PC, I bought one days after he did.
AMD-64 3400
1.8G FSB
512M RAM
200G Hard Drive
128Meg AGP Video Card (Quoted on the documentation)
Now for the fun part.
First, the video board is really a PCI card (not to be confused with PCI-Express). I've yet to resolve this issue as I didn't realize this until just the other day.
Now for the Operating System: Windows XP - Media Center Edition. Windows ME's big brother.
Applications suddenly terminate - not all the time, but enough.
Premiere 6.0 is a nightmare on this system - crashes repetedly on the same project within seconds after starting up. If I place a video on a timeline and resize the edit window the app crashes. No other OS (WinXP, Win2K or Win98) crashes.
Windows Messenger - Where to start. First-off, you can not uninstall Windows Messenger (at least without uninstalling The Media Center)!
Running the media center to listen to the radio (which is a cool idea) causes Windows Messenger to run. That particular PC is not connected to the Internet therefore I don't have to worry about it nor can I report it's behaviour after the Windows Messenger comes up. Maybe someone can fill in those details.
On the subject of the Windows Firewall and Anti-virus detection schemes: Oi! (Remember, now, that this system is NOT connected to the internet.) I uninstalled the pre-packaged Norton AV and Norton Internet Security because of it's constant whining about connecting to the net to get updates. It just would not stop prompting me - so I uninstalled it. That's when SP2's problem reared it's very ugly head.
I thought, "OK, I'll just 'change the way Security Center alerts me.'"
I checked the requesite check-boxes in the security center (4 check-boxes total (two under 'Change the way Security Center alerts me and one each under the firewall and AV recommedation buttons). After two restarts, the checkboxes miracouslty (-2 sp) un-check themselves and the Security Center continues to nag me to death. ( I imagine there is some other procedure to effectively (permenently) turn off this mis-feature; but, I haven't found it, yet.)
Anyway, I give 4 'drives down' on WinXP-MC.
As I read through /. today, most of the comments on this story are along the party line of, "But, it can't do all that outlook can." I'd be surprised if any of the nay-sayers have started a project, or decided not to start their own pet project, because someone else already made an idea similar to their own.
Microsoft is the reigning champion of office email via Outlook. So what! Who cares?!
Isn't the OSS movement about supplying tools that everyone can use via the GPL? If it's not then what the hell have we all been doing since 1991?
The point being we're supposed to be championing the development of open source software for use by the masses and saying goodbye to the monolithic monopolies that have a veritible stranglehold on alternative software.
I say, "hurrah!" to this development. Will it be the best suite available? Not right away, for sure. But give it time. Damn - gotta start somewhere.
To hone a very fine point, as an addition to your point, yesterday, I saw a deer roughly 4 meters from the road. It's left rear leg was shattered. I reported it to the local police (via phone) hoping that the animal control officers could come out and either rehabilitate it or put it out of its misery.
While presenting this information to the officer, he wanted my name (including middle initial), address, telephone number and, disturbingly, my date of birth. {{Ugh, rolls eyes}}
I shouldn't have given it to the officer. I should have told them that if they wanted it to send an officer over to get it. Why? I should have realized, then, that nothing was going to be done for the poor animal (that is, treated or humanely put down). All the officers were interested in was who I was - so they could add another arrest to their otherwise drab and boring existance. Happy to disappoint them.
As good-natured people take measures to coincide peacefully within our environment and the more the local magistrate pumps the citizens for information (not relating to the particulars of the case) the more people will tend to refrain from seeking authority figures in the future. I know I will no longer call the police for any reason save threats of violence (not to worry there, though!)
All I wanted was to help a poor animal and I get subjected to a warrent search. Bah! I really do feel spied upon - and I helped them!!
Oh, yeah. I got so caught up in my rant that I forgot to make a point.
The point is, I'm still downloading Steam updates on the 'Product Registration wizard" screen, it's at 80% and I've downloaded 14Meg of crap for Steam (at 80%) to support their online registration/activation scheme. That's a 14 meg file from a measly 56k connection. Yeah, this is real exciting, isnt' it?
What did we users do to deserve this?
Tell me about it! I didn't know that I had to activate Half-Life 2 to install it via an online medium when I purchased. I guess I should have payed more attention to the specification on the box that says, "Internet Connection Required." I simply glossed over those words after I saw my PC could handle the game easily.
What ticks me off is this: My parents lost thier install CD for thier 56k connection so I'm using ICS in order to complete the install. Except we all know that ICS sucks.
During my first attempt last night to get ICS up and running on my mothers computer, I couldn't find my twisted-pair CAT-5 cable. So I tried a few others I *suspected* were - they weren't. I give up for the night.
Next morning, I locate the cable but have a few errends to run before I can attempt it again. yadda yadda yadda, I get ICS up.
Two hours to get ICS up (total) + HL2 install time = more time than I wanted to spend. Then I read about possible delays activating steam = (I'm sure) *Severe Frustration!*
If Valve wants to continue down this road they're going to experience what Intuit experienced with P/O'd customers not buying thier crap.
OK. Thanks. I totally agree that it was extremely unprofessional.
First, IANAL,
Second, on such a short article, there is a lot of missing information which a lot of presumptions are being based upon. Mr. Smith was not in the right for using state computers to do his research - that much is agreed upon. However, that does *not* give the state the right to make libelous comments against Mr. Smith's intelligence.
That is just plain wrong.
Was Mr. Smith a repeat offender? Was he given warning? Was there some beef that Mr. Hayes had with Mr. Smith before the firing that Mr. Hayes used as an excuse to fire Mr. Smith?
At this point, just about everything is conjecture.
From my previous post: It is *all* conjecture at this point because no one is doing this; but, let's answer the what-ifs before they are instituted.
I know the point. My point is let's raise our voice *before* something like this gets into the heads of elected officials (incumbents or candidates) before it becomes a practice we'll all bitch about after it's put in use.
First, it disturbs me someone is not bothered by "The worst that can happen (as regards to this being "democratic") is that he doesn't do what the vote says." That's the whole point of holding an election: To get people into positions of power to enact change(s) that his constituents desire.
It really doesn't matter if he's elected or not. What's suspicious is what if he *does* follow the way his constituents 'vote' - which is to say, he votes the way his numbers are dealt to him per issue based upon the values reported back to him by his computer.
Let's say some criminal cracks his system and sets the votes the way Corp X wants him to lean. Let's say the actual populace in his district want something altogether different than what Corp X wants; but, because Corp X was able to hire some cracker to set the votes that lean Corp X's way, Corp X gets their 'wish.' That theory is what is suspicious.
It is *all* conjecture at this point because no one is doing this; but, let's answer the what-ifs before they are instituted.
Considering the above, does this not ring of Diebold? Is there not a way to alter the 'votes' such that it does not represent what the people actually want?
Right. The thing that really bothers me about this kind of setup is this: Whenever Diebold is mentioned the /. crowd seethes with anger over an imperfect voting system. Now, this story pops up and everyone gets all 'valley-girl' and says, "Ooooh, it's, like, so cool!"
We can't have it both ways.
It certainly has its merit; but, where is everyone's suspicion?
Yeah, right!
Here's a scenario for you stecoop. You're standing in the crowded men's room - late into the evening - at your favorite local bar knowing these people can't pee straight sober much less drunk. You brought your beer with you; because, God forbid, someone steal your drink.
As you're waiting in line to pee, some drunk opens the door into you causing you to spill your drink.
Here's your question: Which puddle do you lick up? You have four seconds to decide.
Bottom line: it's there, you know where it is, so go get it so it's out of play.
As someone who was trained by the US Navy to protect nuclear weapons, I'd like to chime in on this:
DAMN RIGHT! I busted my ass and busted peoples balls protecting nukes. There's this little thing called two-man control. At least two men have to be in the room (area) with the nuke at all times. Anyone tries to get past you, whether by force or being a sneaky bastard: double-tap! The deader the better!
And God forbid one of your shipmates breaks protocol. Officers and sailors could have their careers ruined by slipping up while protecting nukes. And I'm serious! Those alarms sound and the guns come out.
They'd (US authorities) better get their collective asses out there and retrieve this thing. Don't tell me I wasted my time pointing loaded guns at people while protecting nukes while some dumbass flyboy comes back one bomb too short and everyone turns a blind eye.
{{alright, I never pointed a loaded gun at someone while protecting nukes but it wasn't out of mind while doing so...}}But you get my point.
First, good points. +1 Scary.
To counter your scary, insightful points, however, I would imagine that the manufacturers of this tracking system would only allow the members of the same group find others members of their group.
I also imagine that the screens don't look anything like an air traffic controller's screen out lining race, sex and age of the individual 'blip' making a potential obductee an easier target.
Of course, on a more sinister side, once a kid was obducted dropping the RFID tag into someone else's handbad or gift bags would throw any would-be saviours off the perp's trail - whether the perp used the RFID tracking system to locate the seperated child or not.
We all need to step away from the everyday crap and let our brain rest. Sometimes you need it and you usually come back to work energized and ready to finish the rest of the week.
Yeah, I call that "Monday-through-Thursday." Saturday and Sunday is "Me time."
All an opposing military need develop now is a missile that homes in on the frequency that 802.11b/g/a uses.
How about a missile that homes in on a particular MAC address?
I just spent the better part of Friday night and yesterday reading, downloading and installing debian "Woody" via jigdo-lite. Damn, back to the drawing board.
{{throws hand in the air}}
I hope it's sooner than that! The Earth will be destroyed before then - something about a galactic super highway.
OK, thanks. I'm not terribly knowledgeable on SPF - as if it isn't obvious; but, it sounds like a great system.
What scares me is that this could be the first step to controlling email via certain companies.
What if BIG CORPORATION A decides to sell its assets running the SPF machines to BIG CORPORATION B and BIG CORPORATION B combines As and Bs machines. Eventually one BIG CORPORATION will own all the SPF machines or a very large portion there-of. Then what?
What about all the little upstarts who don't want to be bothered with figuring out SPF or understanding people's desire to use it? What if a time sensitive e-mail (yeah, yeah, e-mail should not be used for critical info..blah blah blah) is slowed from getting from its origin to its destination? How could this system be abused - aside from the computing end of things?
E-Mail tax? You know, the tax that could be enacted to pay for the cost of running the system should GOVT n decide to use it? See where I'm going?
Maybe my fears are unfounded.
{Don's asbestos suit.}
I was in charge (as an E-4, woo. :| ) of a detail of other E-1s through E-4s monitoring people entering and leaving the building. One of our responibilities was to check all bags leaving the building.
One day, some contractors came through the desk - on their way out - while I was there. My man asked them what was in the box and they said, "Nothing. Just some test equipment."
My man almost let them through when I told them we'd need a look inside. They became a little annoyed and started pleading their case in the hopes that we lowly E-4s and below would just back down; but, I was incistant.
When the box was opened it contained two classified manuals. The base commander, several 'real' security guards and the civilian's boss chewed them out on the quarter deck in front of everyone.
Turned out, they had clearance and even had authorization to carry classified information (but they forgot their cards.) Thinking they'd just brow-beat us they attemted something stupid.
I got an 'atta-boy' for that one. {sigh - oh well.}
What are you worrying about a date for? As soon as Doom3 is released none of will see a woman for months.
Get real!
OK, it was bugging the crap out of me so here are what CPIP and LTIP mean.
CPIP: Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol
LTIP: Loggerhead Turtle Internet Protocol (I'm guessing)
{ala Snapple}(There are many other definitions for the acronym LTIP. Choose one that fits you.)
Jesus H. Christ, man.
When my father made his comments to us kids it was always with a smile on his face and we knew he was joking and we *never* felt threatened. I find it interesting that you judge everyone, knee-jerk style, as being 'terrible people.'
You're single-minded determination to pre-judge people as terrible heathens who abuse their kids tells me more about you than it does about myself or the people who share a similar sense of humor.
So, off to church you go, Flanders. Us terrible people are having a good time whether you happen to agree or not.
I'm going to theorize that you had a mentally-abusive father (who you feared) and an over-protective mother (who you sought protection from) who was too much of a sheep to stand up to your father; hence, you've finalized in your mind that all people who don't agree to your warped mindset are terrible and don't deserve a sense of humor that little kids need protection from.
It's not very fair for me to say so; but, "what's good for the goose is good for the gander."
Now, since you're being a troll, I'll feed you no more. Rant as much as you want - it still won't mean you've won your self-generated tournament to argue.
I believe you are correct. When Bill Cosby did that comedy act it was probably one of the best comedy shows ever. I've watched it on TV years ago and it is classic, good comedy that doesn't have to demean it's audience in order to please.
Yep, I need something smaller than an iPod Mini. In fact, I had something smaller than an iPod Mini, that cost $60, 128M, MP3 playback, looked like a disk drive to the computer, my daughter broke the USB connection too many times until I couldn't fix it... I've been looking for a replacement since.
Good luck on finding your new daughter.
As an aside, my father used to tell me that he could 'take me out' and make another one that looks just like me.