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Sell me a laptop, bitches
Posted: August 17th, 2009, 0:46
by Dr. kitteny berk
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
Posted: August 17th, 2009, 4:50
by Anhamgrimmar
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?
Posted: August 17th, 2009, 9:13
by ProfHawking
does it need a screen?
Posted: August 17th, 2009, 15:35
by Dr. kitteny berk
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.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 2:21
by Dr. kitteny berk
Fuck, I just realised you read my brain.
DAMN YOU JAMHAM!
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 8:58
by HereComesPete
It was a good call on the ecu stuff. But it's not surprising given manjam is a rather serious petrolhead.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 8:59
by Dr. kitteny berk
HereComesPete wrote:It was a good call on the ecu stuff. But it's not surprising given manjam is a rather serious petrolhead.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:08
by FatherJack
Serial port gave it away.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:13
by Dr. kitteny berk
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.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:20
by cheeseandham
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?
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:22
by Dr. kitteny berk
ooh, could be, I'll give that a shot.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:27
by cheeseandham
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?
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:32
by Dr. kitteny berk
Buh,
That's beyond my brain right now.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:52
by HereComesPete
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.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 12:57
by Dr. kitteny berk
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.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 13:16
by ProfHawking
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.
Posted: August 18th, 2009, 22:36
by FatherJack
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.
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 20:30
by cheeseandham
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
Posted: August 19th, 2009, 20:55
by FatherJack
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.
Posted: August 20th, 2009, 8:01
by fabyak
That does look immensely handy, WANT!