It's 1024x600.  WANT.  Although $600 may be a sticking point. 

(engadget) (register hardware UK)

So Linden Labs is looking at megaprims (prims over 10m on an axis) and what could be done.

Without going into the problems, I'd present my solution:

• Expand the client size limit to 32 m.
• Force any over 16m to be non-physical.
  
• Ban and remove any that are 128 m or over.
• Ban any user that has a 256m or over for breaking the sim and client.

http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/12/the-big-prim-problem/

Well, my fears of getting a bill in the box due to roaming EDGE use are over.  Latest firmware for iPhones now lets you turn off EDGE when roaming.

I'm still broke. :(

Things I bought these past days on Ebay:

• A replacement IDE HD for the broken Toshiba laptop (although it's a broken display)
• An 11-pack of 800K floppies (to feed into the SE)
• A copy of Serenity, which was initially $1, but went up to $7.
• A dongle for a PCMCIA card
• two Mac ADB cables (which I received yesterday)

Now what to do... plans...

• Replace the old XJack card in a laptop with the PCMCIA card I'm getting the Ethernet dongle for, freeing up a cable.
• Slap System 6.0.8 on the SE and CopyRoms, and get the ROM out of that system.  Do it a few times to be sure before gutting it and putting the VIA board in there.
• Free up one hub by putting all the 10-base-T stuff on another.
• Ponder what to do with a Mac IIvx

I now have the monitor, an Insight 19" CRT.  I'll install it later when I get home.

I was suprized when what I thought was going to be a decimated checking account turned out to be a ordinary deposit with nothing taken out.

I was doubly suprized when Best Buy has a monitor for sale that'll fit very well on my desk, and I could eazily pay for it.  Completely.

Tomorrow, tygris gets his new monitor.  The old one gets thrown away.

You know, I have some strange hardware.

Origionally, occlan was named neobast, and was a bit of a bodge job I was able to put together.  Cheap hardware, I know.  neobast died with a strange bit of HD failure which I can only pinpoint to a damaged first track which eventually is recoverable, but just.  Of course, neobast had my Wolfox Reshouter on it too.

I recently purchased a 20 gig HD, and it came in the mail earlier today (Friday, Saturday being when I'm writing this in the morning, gotta go to bed).  So I slapped it in there, checked it out, and put Gentoo Linux on hir, now occlan.

I don't know if it was Slackware causing problems, but with Gentoo, occlan shut down properly, as well as reset properly (aka I didn't have to turn it physically off to reboot it).  I'm not sure what to think of it, but if it's happy with Gentoo, I'll stick with Gentoo.