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  1. I found a nice UMPC made in Korea a few years ago, Wbrain B1, with a VIA C7-M 1.20GHz and pretty decent integrated S3 graphics for the time and a 4.8" 1024x600 screen with resistive touch. Since then Wibrain has sadly gone bankrupt. It was available in an extremely limited batch as E-King B1, but it was immediately replaced by the i1 which had the dreaded GMA500. Even more sadly the B1 got very hot under load (this was right before the launch if VIA Nano). Most drivers where proprietary and compiled for Ubuntu 7.10 & 8.04, though there might be better support for it in modern distros. On the plus side though the design feels very solid and thought through except for the USB port which is located right in the middle of your right palm. There was an adapter which made the USB port angled upwards, though I didn't get one myself so I can't tell you what it feels like. A simple 10 cm extension cord will do good enough in most cases. It has a split QWERTY keyboard, which is the most comfortable mobile keyboard I've ever used. The keys has a subtile but very distinct feedback, which makes it perfect for SSH sessions. I'll try booting BT4 on it for you if you want, but you might have to settle for an external WiFi dongle (range wasn't exactly it's strongest side).
  2. This might actually work with a netbook, but heat will still be an issue unless you leave the bag open a bit and then there's a good chance it will be stolen if you look too busy with the phone. It's not that I don't like the idea, I've thought about this myself, but a netbook would probably look innocent enough if you keep it in mint condition or put some generic stickers on there. Basically make people think you're blogging, watching YouTube, playing farmville or whatever which doesn't relate to geeky stuff. Anything that causes a major lack of interest in looking on your screen. If you still really want to follow through and do this I'd get an ALFA WiFi adapter, since nobody's going to see it anyway you might as well go all out and use the built in card for phone connectivity. This is pretty much what supereater14 said.
  3. Djhg2K

    Hotcaps

    I recently wrote a script (or two, one for Linux and one for Windows) to turn caps lock into a dynamic hotkey (as opposed to a static hotkey which only does one thing) The way it works is that when you press it in a normal situation it brings up Google Search in your default browser, ready for you to start typing. But if you have new email the LED lights up and the key will take you to GMail in your default browser instead. I've found it to save me a lot of time when I need to look something up as the browser doesn't even have to be running before you press it. A small comparison of what it takes to search for "Hak5" on Google in a new tab from the desktop (no browser running, icon on desktop, no new mail): Vanilla: [Double Click][Ctrl+T][G][O][O][G][L][E][.][C][O][M][Enter][H][A][K][5][Enter], hand moves 17 times HotCaps: [Caps Lock][H][A][K][5][Enter], hand moves 5 times Of course if you're a fan of Yahoo! Search or in worst case Bing Search, you can use that too if you want. However in its current state the LED feature is only compatible with GMail. I've included the full source in case you wish to implement your own service/feature/whatever. Now there is a bug in current versions of Debian Sid x86_64 (not sure how widespread this bug is) where "xset led" is broken for caps lock, try by executing "xset led 1" and see if it lights up. If you have this issue you might need my setcapsled utility too, full source to that in the Linux download link as well. It's a small C program which uses IOCTL to set a bitmask for keyboard LEDs in the kernel, therefore it requires you to be root (or rather have write access to /dev/console which a regular user should never have). If "xset led 1" works, just use the hotcaps_xset script, you don't need anything but the regular dependencies. You may modify and redistribute the scripts and code all you want provided you give proper credit to everyone listed in there. Dependencies (Linux): curl (for GMail checking) zenity (for username and password) setcapsled (in case your xset utility is broken) gcc (to compile setcapsled) Dependencies (Windows): AutoHotkey Basic (not L) Download links: Linux Windows Additional note for Linux users: You need to set the caps lock key to run "/path/to/hotcaps --hotkey" as the script doesn't do that automatically (yet?) Enjoy! / Djhg2K
  4. 1. Street Legal Racing: Redline 2. Live for Speed 3. Garry's mod 4. GTA IV 5. Forza 1/2/3, they're about equal but the feel when you drift differs 6. CS 1.6 7. Burnout Paradise 8. Crysis 9. Mario 64 10. Crackdown And that's pretty much all I play :P
  5. The fact that this was a hard shutdown makes me suspect some code which directly address the ACPI. Maybe something like this? Or maybe it's just hardware which to the machine appears faulty and triggers some self-protect function, such as maybe shorting the +5 with GND, that sounds very dangerous though and I wouldn't try it :P .
  6. Sounds to me like a simple case of a custom autorun.inf file and some ISO creator. Maybe something like this: 1. Create your autorun.inf file [AutoRun] open=myapplication.exe If it isn't an executable file you might need to use the "shellexecute=" option instead of "open=", at least judging from the msdn article here. 2. Use some ISO creator/editor, such as WinISO, isomaster or genisoimage, and put your autorun.inf file and your other file in the root directory (often refered to as the top directory). 3. Apply the generated .iso file to your U3 stick using U3 Customizer or u3-tool. I've tried to keep the steps Linux-friendly for people like me who use it as the primary OS :) . Legend: GUI - Windows GUI - Linux CLI - Linux CLI - Multi-platform
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