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« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2004, 02:04:00 pm »
Foxdie,

At first I had thought you had finally gone all the way off the deep end, but now that I\'ve seen the pics, thats pretty darn cool.

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« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2004, 02:19:28 pm »
Ahhh...
*drool*

Wow, thats another great use for the clamshells.... My 5600 feels so outdated now...
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« Reply #17 on: June 07, 2004, 02:27:32 pm »
Very geeky but with a utiltarian panache -- definitely more justifiable than some other ways I\'ve seen PDAs carried.

Question -- are you absolutely certain Shirtpocket can get you another battery cover -- have you spoken with them?  Did they quote a price for replacement?  I have my own machinations that involve fiddling with my battery cover and I\'d rather perform surgery with a spare on hand.

Cheers!

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« Reply #18 on: June 07, 2004, 02:33:24 pm »
Been there, done that....

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« Reply #19 on: June 07, 2004, 02:34:08 pm »
Thanks for all the praise  nice watch too

akpoff, shirtpocket sell replacement batteries that come with a battery back.
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« Reply #20 on: June 07, 2004, 03:26:47 pm »
Amazin, I\'m just rushing to buy some velcro ...

Ups, my wife has taken a look at those pics from behind my shoulders. She has vetoed me to wear that stuff.

I need advice: what\'s better, a divorce or to have my geek genes shut up?
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« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2004, 03:28:47 pm »
Hey is that a Dell laptop there too?

I have a 3.2 ghz 5150.. running Slackware on it..
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« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2004, 03:32:05 pm »
Yeah I have a Dell Inspiron 9100, 3GHz P4 with 1GB RAM and 100GB Hard Disk, running Windows XP Pro *ducks!*
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« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2004, 04:12:48 pm »
eee i really wish when i bought my laptop i would\'ve opted for a larger and faster hd.. i only have a 30 gig 4200 rpm.. i want the 7200, but dell charges out the butt for an upgrade and i\'m not sure which hard drives are compatible with my laptop
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« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2004, 05:12:08 pm »
OMG,
that is the geekiest thing I ever did see/hear    LOL    
if it works for you - great, but I doubt that I will ever wear something like that!  ha ha!
 

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« Reply #25 on: June 08, 2004, 08:32:35 am »
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Thanks for all the praise  nice watch too

akpoff, shirtpocket sell replacement batteries that come with a battery back.


You do know that it\'s £75 quid though?

XP Laptop eh?  I\'ll make my way down to Birmingham to upgrade it for you free.  A nice Debian will cure all that ails you.
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« Reply #26 on: June 08, 2004, 08:57:11 am »
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:shock:

/me drools...

/me needs C model Z...

/me is having a seizure... please help /me...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

*cof* *cof* *grhghh* *humpf*

10... inhale... 9 exhale... 8 inhale... 7 exhale... 6 inhale... 5 exhale... 4 inhale... 3 exhale... 2 inhale... 1 exhale... *pffffffffffffffffffffffff* and breath slowly...

Sorry... I\'m better now.

while( ! enoughMoney(Zaurus) )
    slowlyGatherMoney(piggybank);

Or something like that... *sigh*


Nice work Foxdie!


I recommend a daily dose of Vitamin Z, good for all things.
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« Reply #27 on: June 08, 2004, 09:15:04 am »
Awesome!!  

Pros:
* Looks REALLY COOL!! (Wives just don\'t understand this stuff  )
* Zaurus is more instantly accessible
* You don\'t have to hold it while typing which sort-of freeze up the other hand

Cons:
* During the course of a normal day we bang into and bump things all the time.  Our bodies don\'t mind... but I\'m sure the expose Zaurus might.
* I touch-type with 2 hands which I wouldn\'t be able to do here.

Bottom line:
I would probably do this myself if the Zaurus were more rugged and could withstand the bumps and bruises of holding it that way.

...but this is definetely something to wear at the next convention.  

Thanks, FoxDie!
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« Reply #28 on: June 08, 2004, 11:58:39 am »
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I recommend a daily dose of Vitamin Z, good for all things.


My current dose of SL-5X00 is not enough... and the farmacist doesn\'t exchange it for a pack of SL-CXX0...

I\'ll have to keep dreaming of one day Sharp releasing the SL-CXX0 vitamin on the European market at reasonable prices with extra Wi-Fi composite in it\'s composition. Or that eventually I get rich for some reason.  (I still have a couple of years till I graduate in university, so...)

I appreciate my Z more every day, though.  

Where I work we have an IPAQ 5550, with WiFi and BT. Even though the ipaq has a better CPU, my Z is a lot sexier than it. It does everything, has a keyboard, it is easy to configure (I can even do it on the command line easily).
PPC simply sucks, and it is way slow. The \"Start\" menu takes too much time to show up on a fast machine like that. But everyone knows that already, I don\'t need to say it all again. (Some people may even like it, but even with a 5500, I wouldn\'t want to exchange it for an IPAQ)

I had a nightmare this night, and it was that I left my Z in my school bag inside the car for a couple of minutes, and when I returned, someone had broke my window and just took the Z, and left a note talking about it, but I can\'t remember what it said... I need a doctor! ehehe
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« Reply #29 on: June 08, 2004, 01:45:16 pm »
lol!
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