I recycled something like 15 56k modems about 4 years ago. The are just useless.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
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NoiseDesign - May 18, 2008 11:00:37 am PDT #6264 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
omnis_audis - May 18, 2008 2:40:36 pm PDT #6265 of 25501
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
ya, that's what I figure. Can't even use it as a fax line, since it has old school connections.
DCJensen - May 18, 2008 3:58:43 pm PDT #6266 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
56k modems are still being used in rural areas where DSL/broadband no longer goes.
Of course everyone who needs one now gets it with their PC, usually.
I have a couple for failover uses and troubleshooting.
DCJensen - May 18, 2008 4:26:13 pm PDT #6267 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Daniel, since my tech goddessyness remains somewhat superficial, I am not planning to put this scary pile o' parts back together. I will let ND look at it, but if he doesn't want it, the pieces will head your way.
I can send you the original 80GB drive, actually, once we purge it. The one I removed was the new 160GB.
So ND, have you had a chance to look at her old macbook, yet?
t he asks innocently...
Pix - May 18, 2008 4:28:59 pm PDT #6268 of 25501
The status is NOT quo.
It's buried in a pile of godknowswhat in a corner of our dining room. It hasn't moved since I disassembled it. I haven't purged the harddrive and would have to find motivation to go through the process of pulling out the 160 GB drive from the casing, replacing it with the 80 GB drive, purging it, and then putting the 160 back. All of which I can do but haven't till this point.
I=lazy
NoiseDesign - May 18, 2008 5:05:02 pm PDT #6269 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
It's on my list with a fair amount of other stuff. Once I can get the data moved to another drive and then wipe that one then I'll take a look at the machine to see if there's a place we can put it to good use, if not we'll probably send it your way.
DCJensen - May 18, 2008 5:17:59 pm PDT #6270 of 25501
All is well that ends in pizza.
Aha. No hurry. I was just reminded of it by my conversation with Omnis.
That and spilled soup seems to have recently happened to the top 1/3 of the trackpad on the Powerbook I bought from you for Andi.
tommyrot - May 19, 2008 10:52:24 am PDT #6271 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Samsung shows off sexy OLED laptop, coming in 2009?
We don’t usually follow what all the other blogs are doing, but in the case of this Samsung OLED laptop prototype, there’s good reason why everyone’s jaws seem to be dropping. First of all, there’s that 12.1-inch 1280x768 OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display — new screen tech that was flaunted by Sony and others at the past couple of CES shows — looking so sharp and contrasty that it’s hard to believe you’re looking at mere video.
::drool::
§ ita § - May 19, 2008 11:06:44 am PDT #6272 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That may be too thin for me.
Tom Scola - May 19, 2008 11:07:38 am PDT #6273 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
That may be too rich for me.