Posted by Dick
on September 12, 2006
Apple have been busy.
Rumours of a worthy successor to the ipod mini turned out to be true(with an external finish bordering on practical).
Very, very glad I resisted the temptation to try to make a buck on the refurbed nanos that apple were pimping (although the DAB radios did very nicely, thanks for asking. If anyone needs any old 2000ADs, be sure to let me know.)
And it looks like mini/nano itx is toast , unless you have a thing for serial ports. Don’t these have VT-X extensions? If that’s true (and they don’t burn too many houses down) I’ll have to get one.
Coverflow has been assimilated (heard they were taking about going shareware on us, so that’s not a moment too soon).
They seem to have hidden the new shuffles away. Which is a good idea if you want to sell the minis nanos, probably.
Oh and the big ipods have keyboards and videos or something <shrug/>.
Good news all round. Unless you work in iPod city, naturally.
Posted by Dick
on January 29, 2006
Two things were stopping me – new boards rumoured in the summer and the additional import fees (which I hear almost double their cost).
Last week a CFstix audio pack came up on ebay from a fairly reputable UK seller and I got it for cheap.
As you can see, it’s fucking tiny:
It gets a bit bigger (but still nowhere near a palmful) with the add-on boards.
400Mhz XScale PXA255 chip, 64Mb RAM and 4Mb flash, serial and USBnet, and a CF slot for wifi or storage. Oh, and sound if that’s your bag. Mighty nice.
Course, I haven’t powered it up yet (need a 2 → 3 pin adapter for the power brick), so it might be broken…
Posted by Dick
on July 25, 2005
I made about a hundred and seventy pounds on ebay recently. It’s promptly burnt a hole in my pocket, hence the SLUG I mentioned the other day.
(It arrived. It’s small. I haven’t got round to plugging it in yet :/ )
I’ve fancied a 54mbps WLAN for ages too so I thought I’d go all out and get some cards and a WRT54G while I was at it
It’s a 10/100 4-port switch and does SPI and NAT, supports dyndns.org so that’s most of what I need. (I kill hard disks and PSUs at a scary rate, so solid state network kit looks very attractive compared to a standalone *NIX server at the moment )
It amazes me how little reality checking goes on when bidding on ebay.
A WRT54G is 43 quid on amazon.co.uk, including VAT and shipping. Brand new with a 1 year manufacturers warranty. So why do they regularly go for 50-60 quid on ebay??
I thought I could make a fast buck. What’s wrong with this picture? :
- buy one on amazon
- list it on ebay
- if it hasn’t made me a profit with an hour to go, pull the auction and send it back to amazon for a full refund
Mentioned it to Ceri, he pointed out you could just put the listing on before you even bother to buy it from amazon and just let the guy wait for it. I bow before his superior bastardry.