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07-16-2006, 04:16 PM
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#76
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Laptop, Tablets, UMPC Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: NY
Posts: 5,978
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I get all my carpc stuff for free... I just fix a customers car.... then I use the money they give me to get pc stuff 
sometimes penny wise, dollar foolish... I've done a few laptop carpc installs for CHEAP.... I've installed for UNDER $200 & even included the screen!!! some toughbooks, I think the cf 27's ?... took a 12v input.... didn't even need a power supply, ran one off straight car battery for almost 2 years...
you can get a panasonic toughbook WITH A TOUCHSCREEN for dirt cheap even.... I used to collect them 
please don't take this as a downer for this thread! just pointing out the obvious before everyone is fighting over these & driving the price up ....
this is still a cool project, but not necissarily the most direct route to a cheap pc install..... for $20 it's a no brainer to play with these though if you want to play...
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07-16-2006, 05:42 PM
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#77
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ooooo Canada
Posts: 159
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guys I have everything needed including the naughty bios and the serial cable needed here.
Sadly my net connection is down and I cant send out any files atm but will be able to do so monday.
As stated in post #1 I have the full wiki and how to aswell as ALL of the needed files (including the self written video driver by the WIKI's creator AND the naughty bios file)
I will respond to the pms and send out the emails sometime monday, keep them coming I prefer to do them in large clusters to save me time.
Overall size for EVERYTHING needed (kitchen sink aside) is about 9mb.
Peace til monday then
Pandy
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So guys, do you think this will help me score with chicks?
"If you give this man a ride sweet families will die, KILLER on the road"
http://www.fruitsim.com/killer.jpg
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07-18-2006, 12:37 AM
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#78
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: New Mexico, USA
Posts: 2,547
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What's the word pandy?
You've got PM...
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07-18-2006, 01:29 AM
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#79
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Newbie
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: N-B Canada
Posts: 46
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crap, i bid 25$ for it, plus shipping at 35$, it ended up at 73$CAD :S i dont thing it worth it. This box, im gonna sell it back at 200$ with a 40GB hdd to someone. With the monney ill continue to aunt them on ebay
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07-18-2006, 07:34 PM
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#80
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ooooo Canada
Posts: 159
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You dont have to use ebay you know.. mine came from circuit city for the princely sum of $20. Open item, they had a few of them (none left now tho).
Youll find that used they wont sell, simply due to the subscription charges..
Anyways, that aside I want to lay out a HUGE thanks to Tiddler who has kindly offered a limited hosting of all the files (including all the juicy bits) on his space.
You can find it here - http://www.dynamic-i.com/carpc/MSNTV2HOWTO.zip
And it'll be there for a couple of weeks
Thanks again Tiddler, now if someone gets to do the hacking first can they post progress here please? my cable will be made by next monday apparently and will take a week to arrive (coming from UK) so til then my hands are tied.
If anyone uses suse linux I would love to see how they get on, seeing as that's what I am going to use.
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So guys, do you think this will help me score with chicks?
"If you give this man a ride sweet families will die, KILLER on the road"
http://www.fruitsim.com/killer.jpg
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07-18-2006, 07:35 PM
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#81
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ooooo Canada
Posts: 159
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So guys, do you think this will help me score with chicks?
"If you give this man a ride sweet families will die, KILLER on the road"
http://www.fruitsim.com/killer.jpg
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07-18-2006, 09:57 PM
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#82
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Newbie
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: N-B Canada
Posts: 46
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arg, i feel bad, but anyway, one big question, will it load windows?
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07-18-2006, 10:39 PM
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#83
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ooooo Canada
Posts: 159
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Quote: Originally Posted by agashka
arg, i feel bad, but anyway, one big question, will it load windows?
This has been covered.
Answer was...
"No idea, but if you can install linux then you can definitely use Vmware and you can most certainly install windows using that, and OSX 86 and so on.."
Is there a specific reason you want to run windows? I mean afterall, it's ****.
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So guys, do you think this will help me score with chicks?
"If you give this man a ride sweet families will die, KILLER on the road"
http://www.fruitsim.com/killer.jpg
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07-19-2006, 12:14 AM
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#84
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Newbie
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: N-B Canada
Posts: 46
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the only why is EXE, but its for sure im gonna run linux later(when it will be on car), dont worry :P
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07-19-2006, 01:07 AM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Portland, OR
Posts: 90
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Check out the Familiar Linux distribution at handhelds.org... it's designed to run on Ipaq PDAs and has a full OS including GUI and BIOS in about 16mb. Or so it seems to me... I haven't had a chance to test it yet.
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07-19-2006, 01:11 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Anoka County, MN
Posts: 1,020
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Quote: Originally Posted by jnorion
Check out the Familiar Linux distribution at handhelds.org... it's designed to run on Ipaq PDAs and has a full OS including GUI and BIOS in about 16mb. Or so it seems to me... I haven't had a chance to test it yet.
But can you recompile the whole thing to work on an x86 processor?
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07-19-2006, 01:21 AM
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#87
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Anoka County, MN
Posts: 1,020
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Quote: Originally Posted by agashka
the only why is EXE, but its for sure im gonna run linux later(when it will be on car), dont worry :P
That didn't make any sense, the only why is EXE? You mean you want to run windows executables? 'wine' will do that for you in linux.
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07-19-2006, 02:42 AM
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#88
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Newbie
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: N-B Canada
Posts: 46
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yeah i no, but ive been using windows for what.... since im born? (i remember win 3.1) and linux for a year... and hum, i still cant compile anything yet on linux.Yeah im trying to learn it... Chances are that im gonna use ReactOS , a windows clone for under 20mb , that could fit on the default 64mb CF!
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07-21-2006, 03:02 PM
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#89
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SE Wisconsin
Posts: 242
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Crap. I was just messing around with bidding on eBay and won one for $30 shipped.  Guess I'll have to pay more attention now. (Begins searching for a Linux front end...)
I know you guys mentioned it would run windows with vmware, but what about natively? Anyone actually have success? I've messed around with linux since college, but don't feel comfortable enough to do anything with it!
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07-21-2006, 03:52 PM
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#90
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 426
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Quote: Originally Posted by wallaceacura
Crap. I was just messing around with bidding on eBay and won one for $30 shipped. Guess I'll have to pay more attention now. (Begins searching for a Linux front end...)
I know you guys mentioned it would run windows with vmware, but what about natively? Anyone actually have success? I've messed around with linux since college, but don't feel comfortable enough to do anything with it!
How do you accidently win an eBay auction? 
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