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MacBook Mod Gives Base Station Chassis New Purpose 129

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @10:30AM from the hyper-extension dept.

odysseus31173 writes "A little over a year ago, I began developing for the iPhone and needed a working mac (not a Hackintosh), so I decided to purchase a MacBook logic board to save on cost. I modded a Linksys case to accept the logic board (along with all of the other hardware) and made it function again. The Mac currently runs Leopard and has a working iSight and mic along with fully functional WiFi and bluetooth. The RAM is the standard 1 gig, but the hard drive has been upgraded to 160 gigs. The iSight/mic holes in the front panel are hard to see and this could be used as a nanny cam of sorts."

Comment Truecrypt + Virtual Machines (Score 1) 395

by mcai8rw2 on Thursday August 27, 2009 @02:35AM (#29213245) Attached to: Company Laptop, My Data — Can They Co-exist?

Why not try this: Take your boss' offer of the laptop and install both Truecrypt and VMWare / Virtual PC etc... Make a truecypt container that is as large as your own personal windows installation needs to be, mount the container as a second drive; then make a VMWare / Virtual PC machine and save it to that drive. Therefore you can keep the laptop clean, and still have your own environment to work in. There is a time issue here... i;e; it takes longer to mount and load up the VirtualPC image than it would a normal windows installation... but it gives you good privacy. OR Take the offer of the laptop, remove the hard disk... replace it with your own fully system encrypted disk, then when your boss yells "Timkins! Get in here! I WANT THAT LAPTOP BACK!" You simply swap the original disk back in, and there is no problems. Your boss can't claim any ownership of the hard disk YOU bought can he?!

Comment Video Games Linked To Child Aggression (Score 1) 500

by mcai8rw2 on Monday November 03, 2008 @11:02AM (#25613225) Attached to: Video Games Linked To Child Aggression

What; again?

Journal Journal: Google's Valentine's Day Gaffe

Journal by TodaysHullabaloo on Wednesday February 14, 2007 @03:25AM

Google's Valentine's day logo is a big gaffe until they blame it on modern art.
www.google.com/logos/valentine07.gif
There is no "L" in the logo after the chocolate-dipped strawberry they created for their second "G", so its a "Googe"!

Blu-ray's Hardware Woes Stacking Up 196

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 03, 2006 @08:38AM from the hard-to-find-a-primary-color dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The bad news just keeps on coming for Blu-ray. First, Sony halved its U.S./Japanese launch shipments of its Blu-ray powered PlayStation 3, blaming a shortage of blue lasers. Then, in the last two weeks, both Sony and Pioneer delayed the releases of their new Blu-ray players, refusing to cite reasons. And this week, at Blu-ray backer LG's annual dealer show, a previously announced LG Blu-ray player was nowhere to be found. LG product development director Tim Alessi had this to say: 'We will provide an announcement when the time is right.'"

What a Vista Upgrade Will Really Cost You 482

Posted by kdawson on Thursday October 05, 2006 @09:32AM from the big-bucks dept.

narramissic writes, "James Gaskin wrote an interesting article this week about what he recons it will really cost organizations to upgrade to Vista. Gaskin estimates that each Vista user will 'cost your company between $3,250 and $5,000. That's each and every Vista user. Money will go to Microsoft for Vista and Office 2007, to hardware vendors for new PCs and components, and possibly a few bucks to Apple for those users jumping to a Mac.'" Any sense of how realistic those figures are?

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