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[00:10:20] <Reddog^> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200451823988&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123
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[00:27:17] <hunternet93> Does anyone know what the port on the back of the zipit and the weird connectors on the side of the zipit are?
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[00:33:34] * hunternet93 has to go to bed... but the question will haunt him forever! (or at least a few minutes)
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[01:33:21] <mtb369> take waterskin
[01:33:38] <mtb369> doh... too many windows open. :)
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[10:07:03] <rkdavis1> morning all
[10:07:59] <adnyxo> morning rkdavis1
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[11:36:02] <user_> Does anyone know what the port beside the headphone jack on the zipit is?
[11:36:40] <user_> I'm typing this on my zipit btw
[11:44:33] <rkdavis1> yes its the socket for the mic
[11:45:19] <rkdavis1> theey don't work but look at a nintendo ds headset connector to seee what its supposed to look like
[11:45:59] <user_> its not connected?
[11:46:15] <user_> or not supported yet?
[11:48:33] <user_> and what is the port on the back?
[11:49:28] <rkdavis1> there is no known working connector for it atm -- the rear port is documented on the zipit wiki
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[16:02:00] <FiftyOneFifty> The new Commodore; me want! http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/commodore-computers-make-a-return-this-year-20100319/
[16:02:38] <hunternet93> Ooooo
[16:03:41] <hunternet93> Looks like it'll be WAY out of my price range right now...
[16:05:26] <FiftyOneFifty> Didn't see a price, the hottest CPU is Core 2 Quad. They are getting affordable with i5&7 in the market.
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[16:06:37] <FiftyOneFifty> 4md ceiling on RAM (just 2 slots)
[16:06:43] <FiftyOneFifty> 4Mb
[16:09:29] <hunternet93> 4 megabytes?
[16:09:50] <hunternet93> You mean Gb?
[16:11:21] <FiftyOneFifty> Yes 4Gb, my bad
[16:12:25] <FiftyOneFifty> Thinking of Commodore and my brain went into retro computing mode
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[16:28:21] <Foxx> [04:02:PM] <FiftyOneFifty> The new Commodore; me want!
[16:28:31] <Foxx> thats not any sort of commodore
[16:28:38] <Foxx> that thing has been around for a few years
[16:30:32] <Foxx> whoever wrote that article needs to check their sources and facts
[16:30:39] <Foxx> and get their head out of their ass
[16:32:27] <rkdavis1> well Foxx is his normal grumpy self i see :)
[16:32:39] <Foxx> when am I not?
[16:32:57] <Foxx> that whole article was just geek fad crap
[16:33:26] <Foxx> "VIC-20 tweets" is wrong too
[16:33:39] <rkdavis1> yup looks cute though but then again so does apple crap -- all looks and no substance
[16:33:40] <Foxx> they just used the vic-20 to send data to a host
[16:33:51] <Foxx> the VIC-20 didnt actually connect to the internet
[16:34:34] <Foxx> I saw that thing last year, I was doing consulting work and they wanted something 'all in one' and asked about it
[16:34:55] <Foxx> for the price of it, performance, and no way to upgrade...
[16:34:59] <Foxx> just get a fucking laptop
[16:35:59] <rkdavis1> i do miss the keyboard system unit form factor though, there is just somthing about it that really right
[16:36:19] <Foxx> man, just looking at the Featured Articles on that site... jesus
[16:36:26] <Foxx> are people really this shallow and stupid?
[16:36:29] <rkdavis1> that or the trs80 model 3/4 or the rml380z that fees right
[16:36:59] <Foxx> whats wrong with the internet? People that follow shit like this...
[16:37:53] <Foxx> im really tempted to bail out on the internet and just migrate to Radio BBS and PSK modes
[16:38:27] <Foxx> hey, rkdavis, you like 8-bit computers, right?
[16:38:47] <Foxx> wanna come with me and some friends to a Radio Museum and 8-bit computer museum sometime?
[16:38:52] <Foxx> out in NJ...
[16:38:58] <rkdavis1> whrere is it?
[16:39:08] <Foxx> the guy that runs the 8-bit computer museum has his head so far up his ass, its not even funny
[16:39:44] <rkdavis1> :) thee guy who does the vintage computer faire?
[16:39:45] <Foxx> he was so pissed off that my friends and I already knew about the things he was trying to explain (poorly) on the tour
[16:40:08] <Foxx> my 17 year old friend never knew about the 8 bit stuff, so I had to school her in things like punch cards
[16:40:36] <Foxx> I dont know what was worse, the fact that he was pissed off at me for giving her a better explination, or the fact that he wouldnt stop staring at her tits
[16:41:00] <rkdavis1> heh good tits eh?
[16:41:13] <Foxx> he was at least 3x her age
[16:41:20] <Foxx> and not really
[16:41:25] <Foxx> shes kinda' thin
[16:41:39] <rkdavis1> i'm in retro mode today rereading the stainless steeel rat books
[16:41:46] <Foxx> my g/f was about to rail him in the face
[16:42:04] <Foxx> and she is as hostile as a freaking marshmellow!
[16:42:27] <Foxx> good thing she didnt point at him and snap her fingers
[16:42:38] <Foxx> id have to retrieve whatever body part she was pointing at
[16:43:08] <Foxx> anyways, you want to come with us sometime?
[16:43:13] <rkdavis1> yup
[16:43:25] <Foxx> fair warning, its going to be on a sunday from 1-5
[16:43:31] <Foxx> cause thats when they are open
[16:43:33] <rkdavis1> not been out to nj in yonks
[16:43:54] <Foxx> I went out there for the weekend to see a comic, Chris Titus
[16:44:06] <Foxx> also did a bit of techno terror with some BSoD'ers
[16:44:16] <rkdavis1> so that gives us days to plot the break in to retreive anything good
[16:44:30] <Foxx> I know one of the guys that voulenteers there
[16:44:32] <Foxx> soooo
[16:45:07] <rkdavis1> whats next week looking like for debricking btw?
[16:45:09] <Foxx> I didnt think someone could worship a copy of Byte mag' like it was the holy grail
[16:45:27] <Foxx> next week I have no plans, just gimmie a few days heads up
[16:45:47] <rkdavis1> i have to go for access a ride recert on thursday but the rest of the week should be fine
[16:45:58] <rkdavis1> ok
[16:46:14] <Foxx> said 17 year old from previous conversation is good friends with me and my g/f, and she tends to come over *every day she can* to chill, but I can tell her to buggar off
[16:46:24] <Foxx> or set up on a day where they can have some girl-time
[16:46:32] <Foxx> not that either of them act like typical chicks
[16:47:51] <Foxx> just let me know whats good for you?
[16:47:56] <Foxx> and ... where
[16:48:04] <rkdavis1> ok
[16:48:08] <rkdavis1> will do
[16:48:16] <Foxx> im *almost* done working out my lab, so if anything come on by and we can work in there
[16:48:47] <Foxx> might need another week or so, but the g/f has off so I can spend more time in there without worring about waking her up
[16:48:54] <Foxx> lab next to bedroom... stupid idea
[16:49:03] <Foxx> working night shifts, even worse
[16:50:16] <Foxx> you want me to look at that laptop?
[16:51:12] <rkdavis1> i thinki've fixed it enough until i have the stripdown process memorised
[16:51:41] <Foxx> laptop repair is one of the things I do in general, it wouldnt be much for me
[16:53:00] <Foxx> ill try to remember to look for that fan tonight
[16:53:12] <Foxx> im pretty sure I have one in my salvage
[16:58:23] <ogmious09> just relube it
[16:59:01] <Foxx> laptop fan, not that simple
[16:59:31] <ogmious09> yes it is
[16:59:54] <ogmious09> do it all the time. Fix 2-3 laptops in my shop a day
[17:00:21] <ogmious09> anything from stuck fans, broken DC jacks, burnt fuses or damaged BGA Video chips and on
[17:00:49] <Foxx> well thats for you and I, since we do it often
[17:00:52] <Foxx> rkdavis doesnt
[17:01:10] <Foxx> which is why I am offering my help
[17:01:12] <ogmious09> but if he has it apart already that's the hard part
[17:01:46] <Foxx> mmmm i dont think he does
[17:01:53] <rkdavis1> well i don't muck with laptops much anymore, desktops i do 3 to 10 a week but i hate mucking with laptops especially if they are mine because i can't afford to replace if i muck up
[17:02:09] <rkdavis1> but i need to learn about this one so been watching a video about the stripping process all week
[17:02:14] <rkdavis1> i have it almost memorised
[17:02:53] <rkdavis1> i found a nice vid about fixing the overheating videochip and the fan is right next to it so the process is the same
[17:02:57] <ogmious09> Yeah sorry I thought he was saying he had the strip down process down from doing it so many time, didn't realize it was from watching vids
[17:03:06] <ogmious09> HP laptop?
[17:03:09] <Foxx> yep
[17:03:16] <ogmious09> with Nividia video chip?
[17:03:18] <Foxx> a DV9*** series
[17:03:21] <ogmious09> DV9 series
[17:03:29] <rkdavis1> yup
[17:03:38] <Foxx> you hate em' as much as I do?
[17:03:38] <ogmious09> There was a HP warranty extension for those
[17:03:43] <ogmious09> I love em
[17:03:56] <ogmious09> Buy em broken, relow the video chip and resell for 200 more
[17:04:01] <Foxx> ive had to fix too many of them for the same reasons
[17:04:04] <rkdavis1> http://www.insidemylaptop.com/fix-video-failure-hp-pavilion-dv2000-dv6000-dv9000-notebooks/ this vid
[17:04:14] <ogmious09> When did you buy it rkdavis?
[17:04:41] <ogmious09> Yeah pretty much anything dv1000 and up with the nvidia go chipset has that issue
[17:04:47] <ogmious09> same thing with apple lappies too
[17:05:10] <ogmious09> Which is the same issue the Xbox360 has too with the RROD
[17:05:12] <rkdavis1> ogmious09: march 2008
[17:05:29] <ogmious09> I think it is covered under the extension then
[17:05:39] <rkdavis1> out of warentee even with the extension i forced them to give by quoting the law at them
[17:05:47] <ogmious09> it went 1 year past the original
[17:05:58] <Foxx> yeah but HP typically jerks you off about it until its out of warenty
[17:05:58] <rkdavis1> ogmious09: not one of thee valid reasons for thee extension
[17:06:04] <Foxx> then says they will fix it for a price
[17:06:05] <ogmious09> yeah then you're better off getting foxx to relow it for you
[17:06:11] <rkdavis1> its the fan not thee battery or vid chip
[17:06:20] <rkdavis1> its a dirty/broken fan
[17:06:32] <ogmious09> it's just gunked up
[17:06:36] <rkdavis1> yup
[17:07:09] <rkdavis1> itmust have bene worse than i thought inside -- it was getting yukky and i got a can of air -- must have blown gunk into it deeper rather than out
[17:07:21] <ogmious09> you pop the sticker or aluminum cover plate, pull the retaining clip which is usually a little piece of plastic you seperate with a precision srew driver, pull the blades down and clean everything with alcohol then drop some new machine oil in and it's good as new
[17:07:23] <rkdavis1> might need a new fan but i think it's just dirt
[17:09:41] <Foxx> well ive got hypodermics and machine oil as well
[17:10:14] <Foxx> I can give you a 10cc syringe full and a few different guage needles for it
[17:10:50] <Foxx> (or I can do it for you the day I hack apart your zipit Z2s')
[17:10:50] <rkdavis1> :)
[17:12:34] <ogmious09> if you're not comfortable it is a better idea to let someone who is rip it apart for you. I've had people bring in thier laptops in pieces after they have tried a dc jack repair and couldn't get it back together. They usually rip the connectors off the boards or tear the ribbon cables
[17:12:51] <rkdavis1> yup
[17:13:22] <Foxx> ogmious09 and I could probabbly exchange some WTF horror stories
[17:13:23] <ogmious09> then you gotta trace the lines and solder wires and charge more, it's a pain
[17:13:27] <rkdavis1> as i said i could do it but laptops are not something i work on often and not expensive (for me) ones
[17:13:42] <Foxx> ever have to replace a keyboard because there was too much shaved pubic hair jammd under the keys?!
[17:13:47] <rkdavis1> its different when it's your own stuff
[17:13:52] <Foxx> ... from a gay guy
[17:14:24] <ogmious09> I used to work for the company that did all the warranty repairs for laptops for bestbuy, we would do over a thousand laptops a day
[17:14:31] <Foxx> I wound up asking the guy "I thought fags get waxed?!"
[17:14:41] <Foxx> I work for myself, when I can
[17:14:55] <Foxx> but usually the repair jobs I get are really bad
[17:15:33] <Foxx> and im one of the few people that will actually replace things like DC jacks, LCD inverters, and do solder/reflow work
[17:15:35] <ogmious09> Check this one out Foxx, it came in with the keyboard not responding, we lifted the screen which ofcourse brought it out of sleep mode and there was a gay porno playing, when we looked at the palm rest it was covered a crusty white substance.
[17:16:00] <ogmious09> I sent it back as not being covered under warranty due to sexual abuse on the laptop.
[17:16:05] <Foxx> lol
[17:16:09] <ogmious09> I was in charge of the Toshiba line
[17:16:29] <Foxx> ive refused to work on laptops because of blatently obvious cum stains
[17:16:44] <Foxx> cum stains and roach infestations... REPAIR DENIED!
[17:16:44] <rkdavis1> heh
[17:17:00] <ogmious09> Did that for over 4 years. My personal quota was 12 laptops a day as well as supervising the other 44 techs, so I have seen it ALL
[17:17:14] <Foxx> i wont doubt you
[17:17:17] <Foxx> I really wont
[17:17:30] <Foxx> my hats off to you, sir
[17:17:31] <ogmious09> Sent back a lot of laptops in plastic bags because of roaches spilling out on the tech bench
[17:17:49] <ogmious09> I never understood why someone would buy a new nice laptop and drink something over it
[17:18:07] * Foxx shrugs
[17:18:21] <Foxx> I keep my laptop elevated on a lazy-suzan turntable thingie
[17:18:28] <ogmious09> When we would get the ones with Kiddie porn on according to law we couldn't report them as we were not supposed to see customer data
[17:18:29] <Foxx> for cooling and spills
[17:18:40] <Foxx> and to move it, but mainly for the elevation
[17:18:48] <ogmious09> So we would just take the hard drive and cut the cable that goes to the spindle motor
[17:18:53] <Foxx> something spills, oh well, its under it, but not in it!
[17:19:38] <ogmious09> We had one that came from a soldier stationed in irag, When we opened it there was a friggin 8 inch centipede in. Friggin HUGE
[17:19:54] <ogmious09> Ran screamin like a girl
[17:20:13] <Foxx> my service also inclueds data backup/repair, ive had a few cases where ive reported people for sexually explicit material
[17:20:15] <Foxx> or worse...
[17:20:58] <Foxx> and I make them sign a waiver saying I *am* allowed to poke around to make sure their is data integrity is viable
[17:21:10] <ogmious09> We called the police the first few times but since these were all from outta the state thier was nothing the cops really could do. Then BestBuy corp threatened to take the contract back since we were all under some strict data restrictions
[17:21:18] <Foxx> like when a wife cought her husband fucking the babysitter, and thre the laptop at him...
[17:21:26] <Foxx> babysitter was I think 12
[17:21:29] <Foxx> or 13
[17:21:33] <ogmious09> Good God
[17:21:35] <Foxx> he was in his late 40s
[17:21:43] <ogmious09> yeah saw some serious sick crap on a few as well
[17:21:50] <Foxx> she hucks the laptop at him, misses, goes down the stairs
[17:22:12] <Foxx> he didnt care about the laptop, he wanted the candid porn videos of him fucking the babysitter back
[17:22:22] <Foxx> well, he got a copy back
[17:22:29] <Foxx> at his court arainment
[17:23:03] <Foxx> ive also built security system DVRs and such
[17:23:29] <Foxx> wonder why they asked me to install 3 cameras, but ordered 12
[17:23:47] <ogmious09> Yeah we got a deal going with three hotels here in the area which is all historic so we cannot run cables through the walls, all going wireless pinhole hidden cameras in some custom built dvr's running zoneminder over ubuntu server
[17:23:49] <Foxx> the others were put into candid locations of the inn
[17:24:16] <Foxx> yeah I have gear that can scan, recieve, and record those signals
[17:24:22] <Foxx> my own homebrew gear
[17:24:25] <Foxx> for personal use
[17:24:41] <Foxx> after working for some fucked up scumbags, I can honestly say, I have good reason
[17:24:52] <Foxx> when you have a candid potty cam in the womans room of a law office...
[17:24:56] <Foxx> thats wireless
[17:24:58] <Foxx> yeah
[17:25:00] <Foxx> :/
[17:25:28] <ogmious09> We don't do crap like that. We walk away, rather not get the money then have to be hauled into court
[17:25:40] <ogmious09> if it's fishy we fire the customer
[17:25:41] <Foxx> one of my crude prototypes: http://picasaweb.google.com/FoxxOTG/TheRedBlanket#5174674395695396930
[17:25:53] <ogmious09> includes putting keyloggers on spouses computers
[17:26:12] <Foxx> I know I can be a pretty rotten fuck with tech
[17:26:17] <Foxx> with the shit I know how to do
[17:26:26] <Foxx> but you know what, there is too much of it already
[17:26:57] <ogmious09> it's not really a not wanting to be rotten aspect it's more we just don't wanna be part of any criminal or civil litigation
[17:27:02] <Foxx> id rather take a cut in pay and know some fuckwad thats using tech to get his jollys off on unsuspecting people is getting ass hammered
[17:27:35] <Foxx> I get pissed off when I see people pulling out their cell phones to take upskirt videos and crap
[17:28:06] <Foxx> I pulled out my cell on the beach once to make a call, some black dude got him my face telling me I was taking "Pix of his ho"
[17:28:12] <ogmious09> Just kinda walk around with your meter pegging at max most of the time don't you
[17:28:35] <ogmious09> You're kinda like the militant muslim nation of Technology
[17:28:41] <Foxx> lol
[17:28:46] <ogmious09> Malcolm FoXX
[17:28:55] <Foxx> after the lifeguard stopped this guys bleeding, I let him look at the pics on my cell
[17:29:04] <Foxx> all of them were pictures of my rabbits
[17:29:20] <Foxx> "And this is why they call you NIGGERS!"
[17:29:26] <Foxx> lol
[17:29:46] <Foxx> I generally like pulling stuff apart and making it do new stuff
[17:30:02] <ogmious09> Tech Bender
[17:30:05] <Foxx> im just waiting for someone to do some l33t WEP cracking Haxx for the Z2
[17:30:34] <Foxx> I heard someone bragging about trying to port Backtrack to it
[17:30:55] <ogmious09> well fiftyone had his sidetrack thing going for it
[17:31:03] <Foxx> dont see why you would need to, just get the binaries for debian that are in backrack
[17:31:21] <Foxx> i mean... not like we cant cross compile
[17:31:34] <Foxx> some of the wifi stuff wont work, but all the important CLI stuff should
[17:31:59] <Foxx> the Z2 makes a terible l33t haxxor device anyways
[17:32:31] <ogmious09> I just want a nice wifi scanner on it with gui
[17:32:33] <Foxx> between the screen, keyboard mapping, and some minor other issues, its just not ergonomic for it
[17:32:37] <Foxx> yah same here
[17:32:59] <Foxx> id be happy with wicd and a decent realtime wifi scanner
[17:33:00] <ogmious09> give a few to the other two techs in my shop for when we are guaging how to run the wireless netwrok in the hotels and stuff
[17:33:05] <ogmious09> instead of carrying out laptop with us
[17:33:19] <Foxx> not even Kismet, screw the logging, just let me know whats in use in the area so I dont have to break out the wispy on the laptop
[17:33:33] <Foxx> yah we are on the same page
[17:33:35] <Foxx> same idea
[17:33:42] <Foxx> ill grab my G1 and do that
[17:33:48] <Foxx> got some simple wifi scanning apps
[17:34:17] <ogmious09> we all got windows smartphones so we can do it on those would just be nice to have it on the formfactor of the zipit
[17:34:22] <Foxx> I was trying to get my wispy on the n800, it just didnt work too well
[17:34:24] <ogmious09> I have been playing with angstrom
[17:34:40] <Foxx> ill be afk, g/f just woke up
[17:34:55] <ogmious09> gonna go weeny wag her while she's half out of it?
[17:35:06] <ogmious09> slap her on the face with a hotdog
[17:35:09] <ogmious09> lol
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