Sell me a laptop, bitches

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 17th, 2009, 0:46

Right, I'm after an old laptop, with remarkably crappy specs.

I need a serial port, and ideally capable of running windows 2000 (that is, damn near anything) 400+ mhz preferred.

Go and look in the back of cupboards and report back

Anhamgrimmar · Post by **Anhamgrimmar** » August 17th, 2009, 4:50

i thought you'd already got OMEX running, didn't realise you were looking for megasquirt?

I've got a dodgy old pentium knocking round somewhere if thats any good?

Post by **ProfHawking** » August 17th, 2009, 9:13

does it need a screen?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 17th, 2009, 15:35

Anhamgrimmar wrote:i thought you'd already got OMEX running, didn't realise you were looking for megasquirt?

I've got a dodgy old pentium knocking round somewhere if thats any good?

Omex is there, but the map needs looking at.

Pentium could possibly be useful.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 18th, 2009, 2:21

Fuck, I just realised you read my brain.

DAMN YOU JAMHAM!

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 18th, 2009, 8:58

It was a good call on the ecu stuff. But it's not surprising given manjam is a rather serious petrolhead.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 18th, 2009, 8:59

HereComesPete wrote:It was a good call on the ecu stuff. But it's not surprising given manjam is a rather serious petrolhead.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 18th, 2009, 12:08

Serial port gave it away.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 18th, 2009, 12:13

FatherJack wrote:Serial port gave it away.

Yup, there's not many uses for them now, even less things you can't use a usb>serial adaptor for.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » August 18th, 2009, 12:20

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Yup, there's not many uses for them now, even less things you can't use a usb>serial adaptor for.

Cardbus to DB9 any good?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 18th, 2009, 12:22

ooh, could be, I'll give that a shot.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » August 18th, 2009, 12:27

cool.

Totally and utterly offtopic, this looks interesting. Kinda like a "hardware daemon tools"
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12517
Mount an ISO and it'll appear as a CD-ROM
Use? Other than usual daemon tools type stuff, since it looks like a CDROM via hardware, you can boot off any/all of your Windows iso's or indeed any other boot CD.
Cool eh?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 18th, 2009, 12:32

Buh,

That's beyond my brain right now.

Post by **HereComesPete** » August 18th, 2009, 12:52

Does it need a pre-existing OS onboard that has initialized the 'hardware' to work or can you run this on a virgin pc from something like a pre-configed usb pen? I'm not sure why you'd do that to be fair but I bet it'd be useful at some point.

It probably answers all my questions in that thread

but it's blocked in work.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » August 18th, 2009, 12:57

This 2.5" SATA HDD Enclosure is a replacement for your portable CD/DVD player and discs. Install your choice of 2.5" SATA Hard Drive (Not Included), load all of your ISO files onto the hard drive, choose the ISO file you wish to use via the built-in file select switch and LED display and you can install your choice of OS directly from the hard drive to your system.

The enclosure connects via USB or eSATA and is automatically detected as both a Mass Storage Device and an External Optical Drive.

Post by **ProfHawking** » August 18th, 2009, 13:16

cheeseandham wrote:cool.

Totally and utterly offtopic, this looks interesting. Kinda like a "hardware daemon tools"
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12517
Mount an ISO and it'll appear as a CD-ROM
Use? Other than usual daemon tools type stuff, since it looks like a CDROM via hardware, you can boot off any/all of your Windows iso's or indeed any other boot CD.
Cool eh?

That neat! I had been looking for something like that for bootable virtual floppy drives in a usb pen back when i had to build lots of network-booted machines all the time. No luck with that, but this looks like its modern-day equivalent. Would be V Handy for netbooks or servers without optical drives.
Money better spent than on a USB optical drive imo.

Post by **FatherJack** » August 18th, 2009, 22:36

cheeseandham wrote:cool.

Totally and utterly offtopic, this looks interesting. Kinda like a "hardware daemon tools"
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12517
Mount an ISO and it'll appear as a CD-ROM
Use? Other than usual daemon tools type stuff, since it looks like a CDROM via hardware, you can boot off any/all of your Windows iso's or indeed any other boot CD.
Cool eh?

That looks rather splendid - have you tried it?

We should do more hardware reviews - I recently got a USB-network thing that lets you share USB drives/printers over the LAN, though it has its limitations as well as advantages in certain situations.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » August 19th, 2009, 20:30

No, haven't tried it. Want to, but we keep buying bits that are looked at for 5 minutes then are forgotten about.
(Especially from LinITX as they have some weird stuff)

eg.
A really small PC
http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=12270 - pretty good, but you need a use for it! Don't buy it cos it's small

SATA/2.5"ATA/3.5"ATA to USB - http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11048
OK, but we've found dedicated ATA + SATA cradles to be better. For SATA this is the best cradle we've found - http://www.storagedepot.co.uk/External- ... /p753.aspx

Post by **FatherJack** » August 19th, 2009, 20:55

cheeseandham wrote:For SATA this is the best cradle we've found - http://www.storagedepot.co.uk/External- ... /p753.aspx

I have the USB-only version of that, it's quite good for quick disk copying.

I've bought a few ok-looking aluminium 2.5" SATA enclosures that I'm going to try and do something interesting colour-wise on and resell with disks in. Kind of a practise for the stuff I'm planning with PC cases.

Post by **fabyak** » August 20th, 2009, 8:01

That does look immensely handy, WANT!