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Those available Zeiss lenses look interesting! The 4/3rds system works pretty well for wildlife, where you want high magnifications. Problem is, Olympus wants really really serious money for some of their more exotic lenses, like over $5K.

I got the small battery, and I'm kind of glad I did. As a main machine, it'd be tough because although the screen has plenty of resolution, it's TINY.

That's a matter of opinion. Macbook: 27.5x325x227 HxWxD 2.27kg HP Mini-Note 27x255x165 HxWxD 1.27kg Without even looking very hard... Panasonic claims up to 9 hours: http://www.panasonic.com/business/toughbook/business-rugged-computers.asp Sony claims up to 8.5 hours...

iBook's also bigger and heavier.

I haven't timed it, but the fuel gauge tells me it's good for about 2-1/2 hours with the small battery pack.

Just got it on Friday after a 3-week wait, and I spent a good part of Friday and Saturday figuring out how to install Kubuntu on it. Mine's the $499 model that's second from the bottom of the line, with a 1.2 ghz Via C7 processor, 120 gb hard drive and (originally) SuSE Enterprise 10. Totally...

I noticed that warped slot one morning, but it didn't look like anyone had an accident, so I don't know what's up with that. One of these days, I'll just super-glue it back.

Who do you think gets first dibs on retired equipment? [:D] ]'> [:D] ]'> Why do you think I take such good care of the company equipment? [:D] ]'> [:D] ]'> [:D] ]'> (BTW I wasn't the one who wrote the IP address in felt tip marker)

Look at what I just installed into the rack at work: Inside revealed: http://idisk.mac.com/fourseason7444-Public/xserve-int.jpg Installed but not yet powered up at the bottom of the stack: http://idisk.mac.com/fourseason7444-Public/xserve-ext.jpg From top to bottom: Rose UltraMatrix KVM...

Thanks Bolle, I'll try that next time! I found a taker for the machine locally, and I think it's in pretty good hands now. I don't accept payments for shipping because I don't want to run charges through the company's own FedEx account. Even if it's reimbursed, they account for every penny and...

If it's anything like FedEx, it's real easy (and free) to do this.

I'd probably use one of the earliest OSes that had Open Transport, for the TCP/IP and DHCP support is provides. Got a PCMCIA module? Can't use a wifi card without one, and better hope that yours is actually PCMCIA and not CardBus or some other newer standard. Ethernet jack is an RJ45, and what...

Maybe! Can you issue a UPS call tag or something similar?

Yes thanks, I did try that, but to no avail.

Slow week at the office, so what better time to continue cleaning and prepping older company machines for new homes? There's something satisfying about clearing away grime, pen marks, stickers and other junk away and revealing a surprisingly nice looking machine beneath. Man, I don't remember...

Anyone experience this? No signs of life whatsoever: No fans spin up, no relay clicking, no noises, no nothing. Nothing obviously blown on the motherboard, no bad smells of burnt electronics. Tried a new battery but that made no diff. Wondering if a fuse in the power supply has failed, but it...

Ah well, that's that then.

Hard to say: Depends on what you guys are going to use it for, and how much energy it will consume. If that's Socket 939, I may have a Athlon64/3500 "Winchester" CPU sitting around.

Nice! I haven't seen one of those in person yet, but in general I've really liked Asus products. I was tempted to buy one for storing my digital photos while traveling, but really need 50+ gigabytes of storage space for that, so I've got an HP Mini-Note on order instead.

Thanks, folks. Battery life isn't so hot right now, because I rebuilt that battery what, 2 years ago? And they must have sold me old stock, because they never took a full charge even then. With a fresh set, I figure 5+ hours, easily.