If you need a warranty replacement of a hard drive, all you need to do is tell the support person that there is sensitive data on the old drive and it cannot leve your posession. They will gladly tell you to go ahead and keep it, and personally dispose of it in whatever manner you deem appropriate.
Also, if you Dell is going in for non-hard drive related repairs, they will remind you to pull the hard drive and send the computer in without it.
This would imply that the iPhone can even attach to an exchange server like every other smart phone on the planet, but it can't...so typos on work emails are essentially a non-issue...See Apple thinks of everything...;)
When I compare my co-workers iPhone to my Treo (an older 650 at that) his lacks in every way except the web browser...but at least he didn't pay 5 times as much as I did, oh wait...
I have traded tech services for things like legal work, electrical work and carpentry. But if I work for cash, I get $50.00 per hour. When I'm done I have them verify that it is working to their liking. I try to educate them about safe computing, but if the mess it up again, I charge them to fix it again. No complaints so far.
I currently run Mp3's from my PIII 600 workstation to a PII 233 Laptop over the wireless network, no problems there. At the office I log into my Linux box (Celeron 466) from my laptop via 2 PuTTY sessions, one for volume and one for mpg123 playback. The Mp3's and control are on the laptop, the playback is on the 'nix box, again no problems. And at home I also hook the laptop up to the TV via s-video and stream movies from the PIII over the wireless.
Anyway, one setup I read about used a wireless PDA running VNC to control the music server, that might help you out, too.
Good Luck!
I know as much about the surface of the moon as I do about Sparc!
But here's how I did it on an Intel PC running Slackware 10 and Firefox 1.0:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer
Hope this helps!
See my post below about Slax, it really works "out of the box" as advertised, automatically mounts any hard drives that it finds, and is REALLY easy to use. It's definitely a great way to kick the tires with Linux.
I have messed around with several live Linux CD's and have settled on SLAX Popcorn, which is based on Slackware.
http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php
It comes standard with Firefox, Thunderbird and MPlayer already installed, and being Slack-based, it is extremely smooth and stable. I can't see that it would harm any PC hardware as it probes quite thoroughly while booting. I have booted several PC's and laptops with it and all major items funtioned correctly without any tweaking needed. It can boot totally into RAM and therefore runs quite fast and saving the configs to a USB drive, hard drive or floppy is a breeze. AND best of all, it's 137megs so it will fit on a miniature CD, for better envelope stuffing!!
Hope this helps, and good luck with your project!
http://www.rei.com/product/47577196.htm?vcat=REI_S SHP_TRAVEL_TOC
It's double your price at $99, but extremely durable and comfortable. You'll end up using it as your main briefcase even after your trip.
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http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=185_TEW-652BRP&cat=41
Usually goes for $35
Nearly Identical to the more expensive Dlink DIR-615
Runs incredibly well on DD-WRT firmware
--or--
Compile your own firmware from Trendnet's source code.
http://www.trendnet.com/downloads/list_gpl.asp
How about an inexpensive USB fingerprint scanner? I had the built-in one working on my ThinkPad with Ubuntu, so Debian should support it also.
If you need a warranty replacement of a hard drive, all you need to do is tell the support person that there is sensitive data on the old drive and it cannot leve your posession. They will gladly tell you to go ahead and keep it, and personally dispose of it in whatever manner you deem appropriate. Also, if you Dell is going in for non-hard drive related repairs, they will remind you to pull the hard drive and send the computer in without it.
This would imply that the iPhone can even attach to an exchange server like every other smart phone on the planet, but it can't...so typos on work emails are essentially a non-issue...See Apple thinks of everything...;) When I compare my co-workers iPhone to my Treo (an older 650 at that) his lacks in every way except the web browser...but at least he didn't pay 5 times as much as I did, oh wait...
I have traded tech services for things like legal work, electrical work and carpentry. But if I work for cash, I get $50.00 per hour. When I'm done I have them verify that it is working to their liking. I try to educate them about safe computing, but if the mess it up again, I charge them to fix it again. No complaints so far.
I currently run Mp3's from my PIII 600 workstation to a PII 233 Laptop over the wireless network, no problems there. At the office I log into my Linux box (Celeron 466) from my laptop via 2 PuTTY sessions, one for volume and one for mpg123 playback. The Mp3's and control are on the laptop, the playback is on the 'nix box, again no problems. And at home I also hook the laptop up to the TV via s-video and stream movies from the PIII over the wireless. Anyway, one setup I read about used a wireless PDA running VNC to control the music server, that might help you out, too. Good Luck!
I know as much about the surface of the moon as I do about Sparc! But here's how I did it on an Intel PC running Slackware 10 and Firefox 1.0: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#mplayer Hope this helps!
I can view it via the MPlayer plug-in to Mozilla Firefox.
See my post below about Slax, it really works "out of the box" as advertised, automatically mounts any hard drives that it finds, and is REALLY easy to use. It's definitely a great way to kick the tires with Linux.
I have messed around with several live Linux CD's and have settled on SLAX Popcorn, which is based on Slackware. http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php It comes standard with Firefox, Thunderbird and MPlayer already installed, and being Slack-based, it is extremely smooth and stable. I can't see that it would harm any PC hardware as it probes quite thoroughly while booting. I have booted several PC's and laptops with it and all major items funtioned correctly without any tweaking needed. It can boot totally into RAM and therefore runs quite fast and saving the configs to a USB drive, hard drive or floppy is a breeze. AND best of all, it's 137megs so it will fit on a miniature CD, for better envelope stuffing!! Hope this helps, and good luck with your project!
On Windows 2000 SP4 WIndows XP SP2 Slackware 10.0 Slax Must be you...
http://www.rei.com/product/47577196.htm?vcat=REI_S SHP_TRAVEL_TOC
It's double your price at $99, but extremely durable and comfortable. You'll end up using it as your main briefcase even after your trip.
We did, actually this was used as storage for an SQL server, completely replicated at another site.
www.raidweb.com Bought one of these at my previous employer and we really liked it.
Available on keyless entries from Jeep and Mercedes in the nineties. Plus you can hack it with a PDA or universal TV remote!