Pretty cool (and some of them cheap) mounts of all kinds for the ipod 3G. Car, motorcycle, bike, universal...

If I had $400 to spend on ergonomic computer gear, I would spend it here...

On a fabulous keyboard and this mouse.

...and of course, that $400 could prevent 100 times that in Doctors' bills, so...

...it is worth doing.

But seriously, this is pretty cool stuff...

I LOVE this stuff, I can't help it... Wow...

So I use Firefox as my primary browser. Actually, I have four browsers open most times, simultaneously using them for varied purposes, usually as the strengths of each one dictate...

However, Firefox has the issue discussed here... which led me to the official bug report, which offered this extension as a solution.

And it works much better now, thank you, with that extension installed.

I'm running Firefox 2.0.0.11 on OS 10.4.11.

I have had a crappy DVD burner. It just toasted four DVD-R's and a CD-R. I threw them in the garbage. Then I threw the DVD burner in there, too.

Next time I'm buying a Plextor. And a SATA one at that.

This is crazy.

Free calling (US/Canada) internet to any phone.

That's amazing.

I think, maybe yes...

For under $30!

The Genius Tech Blog (of much fame) is up and running with a new WordPress backend on my Unzilla server. Sweet.

And, technically, this is a good idea. Except why not skip all the pretense and just set it up as a solar-powered (at least primary until it fails) wireless-g from the get go? That'd be REALLY sweet.

This guy is right on. I'm STILL trying to clean up the mess on my Windows 2003 Terminal Server due to Quickbooks 2006's mess. This software is not potty-trained, and it's shameful. And it's also false advertising.

You guys are going to hate me.

I broke down and purchased *gasp* horror of horrors, an Apple product! I know!



(I know image leeching is evil, but it's basically an advert for them, so go figure...)

I hadn't linked here yet, because it's a project that AG and I are still working on. But Google discovered it anyhow, so I might as well "spill the beans."

We are working on have started a company that provides low-cost websites for small companies. However, for now we are working on a personal-contact-only system, though we are happy to have any and all new customers. So email us or leave a comment or whatever if you are interested or know anyone who is. Yes, we do blogs too, through WordPress (right now) which works very well. Our prices are reasonable, too. We will have an official launch of the company when we get all the paperwork and marketing and so forth put together.

It's about time. Except it doesn't seem to work for my phone... Maybe former At&t customers as jacked once again...

Cingular Star Services

Is Spybot S&D no longer the king of anti-spyware?

So says AdwareReport, as so-called "vertical search engine" of anti-spyware software. They also review firewalls there. Seems like a cool site.

I've. Been. Inside. Too. Long.

But, I've taught myself XML.

All I want to do is work outside, far away from electronics. Everything in its proper place.

It's like the isolation talked about here.

Calm.

Peace.

I like this guy's work.

His newsletters are concise, well-written, and pertinent. They make you think. And he's by-and-large right in his point of view. He also has always stood for open standards. I haven't used his current company's operating system yet, but I was able to obtain a then-current version a month or two ago for free, and I may install it on a system here in the next few weeks for testing purposes...

I guess I've been behind in the tech sector. Apple's plans to switch to x86 are going to rock the computer world... In a good way perhaps...

It's still just a friggin search engine. In the big scheme of people's lives...it's not much more important than a toaster.

And the techies cried "sacriledge!"

Sorry about all the technical posts...

I AM going to move the technical stuff to the Genius Tech Blog soon...

So I had to add the addslashes function into the mix in order to prevent errors cropping up from having apostrophes, or single or double quotes make it error out...

Right. So THAT didn't work, but here's another shot at it... Exciting, no? I had the php function substr listed as merely str... which doesn't work...

I spent a good portion of today writing a RSS generating script in PHP. In theory this should provide a RSS feed to accompany my blogging software... In fact, this post should be the first post to automatically generate a RSS entry... Fingers crossed. You may see a lot of posts like this one.

...is two trackballs, one on either side of the keyboard.

So I'm doing computer consulting from home, on the phone, and so forth...

It doesn't help when YOU have a computer in the office that you are playing support desk for... I mean ME... MY... Damn Microsoft!

Well, I installed a 60-gig hard drive and another gig of ram into my tablet pc, reinstalled windows(xp pro tablet edition 2005), and it's finally running at a reasonable (warp) speed. A integrated bluetooth module, custom-designed for the tc1100, has been ordered and is enroute. So the tech-nightmare ofgetting it up to speed (now a 6-month process) is almost complete. and it's a great piece of hardware.

There are two settings you can change in WinAmp (at least in Version 5) that, when combined, allow you to experience true gapless play - all without the use of complicated 3rd party plugins.

Launch Winamp. Go to Options >>> Preferences >>> Plug-Ins >>> Output >>> Direct Sound Output >>> Configure.

On the Buffering tab, adjust the Buffer-Ahead on track changes to a higher value. Somewhere around 5000ms seems to work well for most people. You may have to adjust the Buffer Length to accomodate this setting (Buffer Length limits the maximum value of individual buffers).

On the Other tab, Click the remove silence at the beginning / end of track option.

This should establish true gapless play, sans additional plugins


Thanks to these guys.

Eighty bucks for a Front AUX in CD head unit with plenty of power.

That's pretty good. No mp3, though.

GUI Design will find it's way into an Art Museum one day. Right next to C/C++ code. Mark my words.

...a pretty decent amount of functionality into a sexy body...

Oh. Blast. It's some sort of tech gadget. Damn.

I've been ... uh, augmenting ... my digital music collection over the last few days. (And it's PERFECTLY LEGAL to backup your cds to your computer, ya know...)

Here's a run down of the correct programs to use for this sort of endeavor.

First use Exact Audio Copy to rip a wav/cue image of the cd.

Then use Monkey's Audio to encode the wav file to a ape file. Rename the files and edit the cue file appropriately.

Use Winamp with the Monkey Audio Plugin (installed with the other Monkey software) and the CUE Player plugin.

Now some people have be touting FLAC as an alternative to Monkey's, with the added benefit that it is becoming play-able on mp3 players... I haven't looked into it, but you may want to, before you convert all of your cds into lossless...

And I'm renaming the album folders on my hard drive so they start with the year they were made...

This is the only usb 2.0 to sata adapter that I have found, short of a $65 case. I bought an external sata case only to realize that it just passed the sata through from the drive and didn't give me a usb i/o option. But now that is solved, and it is better this way, because i would rather use external sata anyway, where it's available...

How long before eBay and Google merge? You saw it first here...

My Thunderbird has an easy way to switch SMTP servers! I love it! Outlook move over.

Thanks to these sites:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=106&vid=122&category=
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_FAQs_:_Multiple_SMTP_Servers

Okay, so I've sorted out most of the difficulties caused by my hosting company crashing the server and then install PHP 5.0.3 (or whatever it is now). Even The Genius Tech Blog is looking somewhat normal. I had to do some crazy, middle-of-the-night coding, though.

I'm recovering someone's senior thesis from a corrupt floppy disk, and I love the way that the block-by-block recovery software finds nearly 6 megabytes on a 1.44 floppy! More data than is possible to exist exists there, because the deleted files still exist! There are 96 files on the disk, but it appeared (when it was working ok) to have only one file. I'm not sure what the metaphysical implications of this are, but...

Blogging from my Tablet. Turns out the whole problem with it and why I sent it back was a trivial, easily-fixed problem: incompatible, after-market ram. I've got some things to take up with the fella who sold me it...

It seems to be missing the bluetooth module, and running without that 512 stick of RAM is not cool. However, it did work *very* well yesterday; I put it in the car and put it through it's paces. Music system, dvd-player, gps, all excellant. I just need to come up with a (semi) permanent mount that holds it in place...

Thos bastards registered YurtMail.com! I wanted that! Picture goofy cartoon-esque graphics of yurts and such, with mail! Man, it would have been AMAZING!

I repaired the interface on AgentIntellect, which was suffering from some broken links due to errors in re-configuration by my webhosting company, with which I am displeased.

I like using my web addresses sans subdomains (the stuff in front, like www. or mail.), and they have been lax in resetting up their server (in which my websites rest) to respond to those requests...

Why haven't I setup a VoIP setup in the dorms, and cleaned up on those poor folks who are forced to spend thousands on prepaid-calling cards. Oh yeah, longdistance doesn't mean anything with most cellphones these days. Day-um. It may still be a good idea, though.

MacMini, step aside.

We PC dudes have been doing this for WAAAAAY longer than most people think.

This new XPC is watercooled, for starters. And quite a pretty penny cheaper as well.

Yeah, I realize it's quite a bit bigger, not quite as sexy, and doesn't have a slot-loading drive...

I do like the MacMini...

TECH THINGS I WANT TO HAPPEN RIGHT NOW:

#56: I want EVERY ethernet card, onboard or PCI or what have you to be 10/100/1000 from now on. STOP MAKING 10/100 ethernet!

So my server went down hard today. Maintenance kept it out almost the whole day, and that means no blog, no email, no company website etc. Not good for business, or for blogging. I'm going to move to a new webhosting company soon. Maybe today. One with a better deal and more redundancy.

I'm brainstorming for a name for a new email server for my company to host. You know like, me@email.com. Think up something to replace the email.com bit that isn't already taken and email me. IF I use your idea, I'll give you something, like a lifetime email account at that address.

Verizon Wireless (on their National Access - Broadband Access plan) has been disappointing... We've tried to remain connected throughout our 1300 miles of trip so far. And it has been quite flaky.

Between Ventura and San Jose we lost connection ten or eleven times (at least) which is an average of every 40 miles. Needless to say, this hurt our ability to play Party Poker considerably.

For a company whose registered trademark is "We Never Stop Working For You," this is despicable.

My tablet came, but it doesn't work. It's DOA. Now I'm trying to figure out if the guy was trying to rip me off, or if it just happened. Like these things do.

Of course, it's under HP's warranty, but I kinda feel like the seller should take responsiblity for this.

Saw this on Mad Ogre. Did it. It worked. You should too. (I haven't installed the os yet, but I'm thinking on one of my junkie old laptops, just to see).

I've been doing a lot of work on the php file upload properties of my web-based control panel. The code that I've done is basically the giant's share of a content management system, and the php file upload features were recently thwarted by a upgrade of the server's system's security features.

I tried, over and over again, to implement a file upload feature using other people's code, and none of it worked.

So, this afternoon, I went straight to the source and coded, by hand, a new php upload script.

Which works flawlessly.

So my "control panel" is one more step closer to being the "be all and end all" of content management systems. Word.

Live-blogging from the Ojai road, now from the 33, after making two bank stops. Verizon's service is not too bad, but it's not broadband here.

After years of mucking through Microsoft Licensing web pages on their site, I find that Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 Professional are given CALs (Client Access Licenses) for free by Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server. So you do not need CAL's for any client running either of those OSes, which is cool.

However, what we are really tlaking about here is not CAL's per se, but TSCAL's - Client Access Licenses for Terminal Services specifically. So, if you wish to access the Server on the LAN normally, i.e. not Terminal Services, you still need a regular CAL. There are two types of CAL, the regular CAL and the TSCAL, and Microsoft Tech Support Web Pages do not consistently differentiate between them.

Blogging from a Cingular store in San Rafael from my (now working) GPRS connection over AT&T/Cingular's EDGE network. Just had to call to get someone to authorize it on their end, and now it's speeding along at 217Kbps. It rocks. Too bad I don't have a battery in this puppy, but my laptop now will ALWAYS BE ONLINE. BWWWAAAHAAAAHAAAAHAAAA!

Things (technology-wise) that have impressed me lately: Firefox's importing of other browsers cookies into its fresh install.

Then I open up eBay or something and I am right where I left off in the other browser. Incredible.

Uh, yeah. Not sure how or why this happened (to one of my client's laptop's access installation) but it did, and this article fixed it.

I like the idea of having a chip (SD) with a hash on it or encryption key or something that identifies you on the network. Then you take it out and away you go. The new advances in biometrics and fingerprint scanners are cool too. Just got to stay away from the whole big brother thing.

Those scummy bastardés. (Swearing in French is okay, right?). This has been bothering my sensitive ssh tunnels for a little bit now. And all without warning. Damn Service Pack 2. God Bless BitVise.

Huh. Imagine putting Microsoft's little product in the same family as Citrix! The impudence!

This website has an interesting list of SMTP servers, and shows how they correspond (or should) to various ISPS. Whatever happened to ISPs closing down Open Relay, is what I want to know?!

Right. Well I'm off to work, and also to play around with my new GC83 which I got yesterday, running on the AT&T/Cingular network. As of yet, I have not been able to connect, but we'll see.

Mine.

I've got my next cell phone all picked out, yessireebob. And it's a beaute. Even a tad bit bigger than my current cell phone, to boot.

The Nokia 9500 supports WiFi b and EDGE. How excellant is that? Totally excellant.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Client and Windows 2000 Terminal Services: getting the copy/cut and paste functionality to work between the client the server host through RDP has been a chore. I had to locate these files:

Rdpclip.exe
Fxfr.dll
Rdpdr.dll
Fxfr.ini
Fxfrinst.bat

Which I finally found in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit - they were NOT available for free downloand from ms.com, I dunno why.

Anyways, I obtained the resource kit, and am on the verge of installing the functionality. Just got to dust off that ol' regedt32.

Microsoft Remote Desktop Client and Windows 2000 Terminal Services: getting the copy/cut and paste functionality to work between the client the server host through RDP has been a chore. I had to locate these files:

Rdpclip.exe
Fxfr.dll
Rdpdr.dll
Fxfr.ini
Fxfrinst.bat

Which I finally found in the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit - they were NOT available for free downloand from ms.com, I dunno why.

Anyways, I obtained the resource kit, and am on the verge of installing the functionality. Just got to dust off that ol' regedt32.

AT&T charge ten bucks a month to extend the 'home calling area' to Canada. Which would mean no more long distance calls to anywhere in Canada, and no phat phone bills one trips to Canada. So activate it for one month, then cancel, and so on, if going to Canada. Brilliant.

T-Mobile has an interesting price, but the speeds ain't so good. 30-40kbps, typical. And the hardware is expensive there. And they want a contract.

Turns out my speed estimate of 100-130kbps is right for the AT&T wireless data network. But Verizon is stepping up to the plate. This is exciting news.

I want someone to make - are you listening? - a wireless g, usb 2.0 adapter, with a removable antenna (either reverse-polarity TNC (Linksys) or reverse-polarity SMA (D-Link)).

You guys have got the first two, c'mon!

I was getting this weird error caused by the microsoft bluetooth stack after installing Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2. My bluetooth drivers for the no-name bluetooth dongle I bought would not take over from the Microsoft stack, but after enough scraping - and installs, uninstalls, reinstalls, cursing-installs, I got it sorted out.

I've been doing this on a half-computers, on three continents, so you'd think I'd be good at it, but...

...and one more internet cafe has a firefox install...

I have spread it across the world now!

Finally made EC validate (HTML 4.01 Transitional, Yeah I know that's weak...), as you can see if you click the "code is poetry" link there...

Turns out the problem was in the RDF/XML/RSS parser. I had to re-write a bunch of it, but learned new skilz in the process, of course. So if anyone needs a RDF/XML/RSS parser written for them, let me know...

That also means that I'm one step further to hand-coding a RSS feed for EC, which would be cool, methinks. Of course, I'm probably the only one who thinks so, but screw it.

I'm also getting closer to a complete Content Management System, written in PHP of course, but with the unique (I think) feature of not using any backend database except txt files. Security provided by php authorization to access those files... It's a fascinating programming challenge, really. Meanwhile I am getting into databasing with MySQL on my home computer, thousands of miles away.

Even the best sundials...don't work half the time...

A Digital Sundial?!

I updated my Windows XP Home (don't ask) laptop to Service Pack 2, and was promptly unable to access any of my Remote Desktop Servers, two of which were Windows XP Pro and one of which was Windows 2000 Terminal Services. So I took off Service Pack 2... Perhaps both machines need to have the same service packs?

Something's wrong with RDP client on my laptop? No problem. I'll do it in a terminal.

Just gotta get those Organ Sonatas of dear old Bach across those oceans... uh-huh...

It would have been a lot easier if I had simply brought a few dvd's of tunes from my collection at home over here... instead of having my family keep my computer on at home and downloading them to my laptop here...

Of course, I did not know that all this technology would be possible, or that the Dominicans would lend me a laptop that would basically be my own for the duration of my stay...

And it let me discover WinSCP, which is a wonderfully secure file-copy program that plugs in seamlessly to my OpenSSH server at home.

Unfortunately, that server is running on a windows xp box, so I had to utilize the OpenSSH for Windows project.

FileZilla just replaced LeechFTP as my favorite FTP client.

Resume a download that Opera somehow dropped off it's transfers list from a different FTP server? No problemo...

Um, folks, the local beer is Tusker.

I love Kenya, I really do. I would have left here a long time ago if I didn't.

And it's great that a Kenyan is involved in American politics. That's wonderful.

However.

It's just that Illinois Senator Obama is on the other side.

I know that it's exciting to Kenyans to have such a man in politics, but universally endorsing him without regard to his backwards politics is going too far.

This is a good example of Kenyan politics at work, though: the ones in power help out their families, their tribes, and (sometimes) the people whose votes they bought. Thus, getting anyone in power in the political system of the United States seems to suggest a similar kickback of good things to Kenya and Kenyans in general.

But where liberal policies are concerned, those kickbacks may be in the form of increased terrorists attacks, as the liberal far left executes its plan to blatantly ignore the existence of evil in this world.

Those who begin by denying truth (by making moral relativism their champion) destroy all grounds for holding things good or evil, and so they inadvertantly lose their footing on which to condemn anything.

So, when I stop into my favorite pub here in Kisumu, after work today, I think I'll try to order an "Obama."

...and my favorite bartender will look at me with that familiar grin that says: "I have no friggin' clue what this mzungu is talking about!"

Dz, reporting from Kisumu, Kenya, Lake Victoria region

It should have been obvious, but the entire FreeDB archive is available for download.

It's a 261MB rar.

Isn't that awesome?

I love tcp/ip.

Unplug a laptop, run across the room, plug in, and your downloads only suffer a few seconds of dropped packets.

Wonderful protocol.

Inherently flawed for the current state of the internet, but wonderful nonetheless.

Went to a website.

Wow, ugly website.

Maybe it's just Opera.

[opens i.e.]

[after computer restarts]

Nah, just an UG-LY website.

[Back to Opera]

I've got to stop second-guessing it now...

Alright folks, it's coming, I promise you. And an update on those cell phones: they didn't get ruined.

So if you go swimming (or get dunked into a hot tub) with your cell phone in your pocket, follow your local Your Computer Genius and The Random Englishman's joint advice: take it out of your pocket and remove the power source IMMEDIATELY. Let it dry out COMPLETELY. This means 2-3 DAYS. Some people have reported success in less time by blowdrying, but be careful. It's not recommended because of the danger of melting important components and dripping plastic.

Had my first real dealings with ABit rma services, and got just what I expected: great, fast service, with a few instructions that make you scratch your head because they were originally written in an Oriental language. But all in all, great.

It's also a testament to their quality hardware that I've NEVER had to RMA one of their products before. They come HIGHLY recommend. In fact, ALL the machines I build for people have ABIT motherboards...

This is one of my favorite parts about computing. When you don't remember the password you used. And there you sit, typing in every one of your passwords or permutations of your passwords, knowing the whole time that someone is out there with a sniffer, and that you are SCREWED! Now you have to change EVERY SINGLE PASSWORD... And you're STILL LOCKED OUT OF THE ROUTER!!

I've been doing a bunch of web design work over at Pilgrim of the Absolute. I just wrote a whole bunch of php that forms the nexus of a photo gallery system. I've been meaning to do this for a while; in fact, oone of my clients paid me in advance to design something like this for them oh, about two years ago. So I'm finally going to deliver...

Of course, this, like all my other computer projects, will most likely get stalled in a three weeks, when I'm in Kenya, so we'll see. If I come back, and I don't have any of those brain-eating parasites making me insane, perhaps I will finish these projects up.

WinMX is clean, but there are many P2P programs that maliciously exploit unknowing users. People install these things, or simply don't use anti-virus and anti-spyware and don't fix Windows with the windows updates available from Microsoft and these omissions leave their computers vulnerable to port scanners, websites, and a whole plethora of passive and active attacks from the internet. People don't understand computers, and it hurts everybody.

People in the computer industry have known this for years; in fact, there are so many people who inadvertantly share their entire hard drives that sometimes it is easier, when fixing someone's computer, to download a few windows dll's or some drivers from someone's windows directory. It's amazing really, that these machine continue to function as much as they do!

What's that? Use Opera [7.51] for my newsfeeds? Why, sure! Why didn't you say so before?


It's perfect: always running anyway, unobtrusive notices, all kinds of controls -- awesome!

I did some MASSIVE research on cell phones over the last few days, so now I know EVERYTHING that there is to know about cell phones and networks and whatnot.

Basically to switch GSM phones between service providers you need to unlock your phone. Some companies (T-mobile, Cingular I think?) will unlock them if they have had you as a customer for a certain period of time. Other (AT&T) will not unlock them at all. You can unlock most popular models by posting your data on the internet and having some kind soul run the software and provide you with the code, or by paying a few dollars ($2-5) for someone to do the same. Some of the Samsung (I think) phones require a data cable and a computer and some fancy lifting there... but most Nokia and Motorola are easy (or so I'm told).

The other thing you have to take into account is the frequency on which the phone operates. In the United States, the GSM band is 1900. Some companies, most notable AT&T and Cingular (which are in the process of merging, or so I'm told) supplement their service with the 850 band (the same as the 800 that you hear people talk about). This band has a better range and so on, so it is more likely that it will be used in distant areas. You cannot escape this band even if you have a different service, because even T-Mobile has roaming agreements where its users use other networks.

However, internationally, the GSM frequency is 1800. 900 is also used to supplement this, and in fact, in Kenya, 900 is the only band in use.

Most GSM phones sold in the U.S. are "dual-band" GSM, and they run on the two U.S. bands: 1900 and 850. Most phones sold internationally use the 900/1800 bands. So to obtain a phone to use in Kenya, you need to get a phone that supports the 900 frequency. There are phones that are sold that are "tri-band" phones, and these come in two varieties: U.S. or international. The U.S. models typically do the two U.S. frequencies, 850 and 1900, as well as 1800, the main International one. This type of phone would be useless in Kenya, as it does not support the 900 band. The other type of tri-band phone is the International type, which has the 900/1800/1900 frequencies. This phone is usable in the U.S., as long as you aren't foreced to go on the 850 band. I just bought an unlocked Nokia 3650 from an amazon seller, with a return agreement if it doesn't work with my service here at home (i.e. if my service at home is too heavily based on the 850 band...).

Of course, ideally the solution would be to buy a "quad-band" "world" phone, but there are only a few models that support 850/900/1800/1900, and they are still rather expensive.

Everytime the "Quality Assurance Agent" runs, everything associated with mozilla, firefox, and thunderbird crashes. I love these guys, but they gotta get their fucking act together.

The durn "Quality Service Agent" in the latest version of Mozilla Thunderbird makes the durn thing crash! Oh, the irony of it all!

Next time, I'm NOT installing the "Quality Service Agent," because when it asks me: "What were you doing when Thunderbird crashed?" my response has always been, "Well, $%#^%&^ I was puttering along just fine until the Quality Service Agent decided to run and crash my program!"

$#^^@%

I love this skin for winamp.

And if you go to window settings --> opacity --> 80%, you can give it a touch of tranlucency, which is sexy.

It even pops-up a semi-transparent (or diaphanous, if you prefer) rectangle which tells you what is "now playing," and, if you want, it will connect to the internet and grab the album cover and display it as a little icon/graphics. Which is really cool.

This page touched off a whole series of investigations into how to turn a windows xp install into a mac os x lookalike, by using skins and whatnot. After a while I became disgusted with the whole thing [mostly because it went so much deeper than simply skinning and because it started to pull over some of the inadequacies of the apple platform].

But I still think it would be come somewhere, in some capacity, to have a system like that. So here's the starter link; you can click through to many more. Let me know if you do it/have done it, I'm curious.

I'm working on a new laptop right now. It's a brand new Dell Inspiron 5150.

The screen on this thing is so beautiful and sharp that I can clearly see the artifacts from standard jpeg compression on all the websites that I go too. Which makes me glad that I use .png's almost exclusively, because they look great.

Oh, and I'm also sitting in a beautiful dining room with just the laptop and my external hard drive sitting on the table: no power wire, no ethernet. No, we're running on wireless-g and batteries, and it's spec-tac-u-lar.

This is awesome.

One question, drivers?

But I suppose that normal pci drivers would work fine, once you have the drivers installed for the bus. Amazing!

This is one of those things that you think should exist, but you've never heard of before. But when you do, man alive...

...If the CPU is the heart, and the hard drive the brian, and the mouse the eyes...

...then the printer is the butt [ed: another non-swearing post!!!]...

What is up with these half-tone, smeared, crumpled balls of paper that keep coming out of these things?

But seriously...

x upgraded to Opera 7.51
x upgraded to Firefox 0.91
x made myself a gourd of mate

- sell the rest of these piles of electronics on ebay.

Man, if I had one of these, then all I would have to do would be to get a pocket pc and then i could really do the music thing in the car (my famed in-car computer is down for maintenance, and for a new screen). Of course, the dongle-less version is better, more robust...

But the thing is, these actually need to be USB 2.0 before I even consider that, folks. What is this USB 1.1 crap?

I am still waiting for the convergence of the pocket pc, the tablet pc, the laptop, and the mini-itx pc. And throw a digital camera and a cell phone in there, and make sure it does all the old palmy stuff too. Though not with that os or those apps. Enough of that. Then I can sell my handspring on ebay, not that I am using the precious thing now anyway. It's a crying shame to was all those AAA batteries, anyway.

I'm not sure why I keep linking to my ebay sales from here, but why not?

I'm parting out an old defunct laptop for a friend, and another one for me, so I will be selling a lot of parts of laptops -- ram, keyboards, scrap -- over the next few days. If any of you need old dell CPi or Inspiron 7000 parts, let me know. Replacement parts are friggin' expensive.