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Around here the proper scrap yard pays £205 per tonne, minus £5 for each tyre left on, and minus a bit more if the wheels are steel and are left on.

I don't think Liam Lovatt is liquidart, he just arranged a few group buys with liquidart. The liquidart man is called Rob from what I remember.

Good grief. How fast was that GT-R on the track!? As quick as an Ariel Atom and faster than all the other proper cars.

I did Google it to check, but that's the problem with the Internet, it's full of other people that get it wrong too!

I know! There's loads of people saying vein and vain

They are vanes though

You're all aiming way to low.

 

So far for an interview I'm doing I've got:

 

I'm sure I'm missing a lot out though.

Nice write up. I think it's vane though, not vein.

Looks good, but it just got a slating in a PC Pro review.

Ah, I'm pleased to hear it's not just me who thinks WM is dated then.

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/209376/htc-touch-diamond.html

I just hope the other stuff gets going before Microsoft completely redo WM and end up with a decent product.

That's gotta be carbon fibre effect alloys, surely? Or is the outer rim really CF? It's cool anyway. Never seen that before.

Okie Dokie

£80 and it's yours.

One of my customers has one of these. I still have something against Windows Mobile. Putting a nicely polished app on top of it doesn't help 'cause you still end up in that Windows 3.0 interface when you go to do other stuff.

Not even 3G, nevermind HSDPA, from what I remember.oops, I read wrong. It does have HSDPA. Well that's something then

With Symbian going open source, and Android well on the way, the future's looking interesting.

I do like HTC as a manufacturer though, and the HTC Dream is what everybody is really curious about.

Dell Optiplex SX280 P4 SFF PC

£30 £25 + post.

It doesn't work.

It doesn't have the PSU, which is a bit like a laptop PSU. You'll find those on eBay.

The motherboard's knackered.

The HDD, CPU, RAM, CDROM etc should all be fine.

40gb HDD

256mb RAM

CDROM

Pentium-4 2.8 or 3GHz, can't remember and I'm not sure if the service tag on this one is from this one, or the one that I swapped the motherboard with.

Windows XP Professional with COA.

You could buy it, then stick it on eBay as "unable to test, don't have PSU." They get me every time.

Alternatively, the XP Pro COA is worth £78 + vat alone, and if you have a dodgy copy of XP Pro and want to go legit, this will do. You could just pay the £30 for the code off the XP sticker and I'll throw the computer in the bin for you after I've salvaged the HDD, RAM & CPU.

http://www.css-networks.com/sx280/1.jpg

http://www.css-networks.com/sx280/2.jpg

£30 £25 + post.

Tech specs I am unsure of, but it is "basic/standard" if you like. That means the frame rate is split over the four channels, and the resolution is standard or in my opinion low, but standard/typical of units costing less than thousands of pounds.

4 Channel CCTV Digital Video Recorder, with ethernet for computer monitoring/monitoring via Internet.

£100 + delivery.

It has the usual BNC composite inputs for cameras, and loops back out the same.

It has composite out for monitoring also, and S-Video out.

It also has audio in and out, so I guess that means it records sound too, although I never tried that.

I paid ~£220 for it, without HDD. It has a 250gb Seagate HDD in it.

I think I disconnected the little chassis fan because it got noisey. No problems though.

£100 + delivery. Delivery would probably be £20 for insured Royal Mail Special Delivery, or somewhere around £10 for regular delivery but I don't think that would be insured.

Pics:

http://www.css-networks.com/dvr/1.jpg

http://www.css-networks.com/dvr/2.jpg

http://www.css-networks.com/dvr/3.jpg

Stuck pixel is here (in the middle of the sea, so geography wouldn't have helped much!). If you look at the above pictures you will see that the black part of the wallpaper is right at the top, and you can see the yellow line on the wallpaper. This should allow you to understand where the stuck pixel is.

I really shouldn't be so honest about things. When I took photos of the N95 I sold Jake, I made it look much worse than it was. This is a class 2 LCD screen, and you would not be able to return a laptop with a screen like this if you just paid £1500 for a brand new laptop, because this is "class 2", accepted as normal/standard.

As of 2007, most manufacturers specify their products as Pixel Fault Class II.

http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/dp.jpg

I will quite happily supply a Windows XP Home Edition OEM cd-rom with the machine in case you ever need to re-install or do a repair install/in place upgrade. It will be a copied disk but entirely legal and above board because you have the cd-key/install code on the sticker under the machine.

Hiya. The dead pixel is actually a stuck pixel, and you probably wouldn't notice it's there. It's as good as any other brand new LCD screen. It's stuck a light-blue or grey colour, not far off the colour of the background above.

If I was any good at geography I could tell you where it is on the above pictures, but I'm crap!

The COA means "certificate of authenticity", which is the sticker with the install key. It's the thing that makes it a legitimate, paid for, proper version of Windows XP.

It doesn't have recovery disks because it has a recovery partition instead. You hit the blue Access IBM button to enter IBM Rescue & Recovery. To be fair though, finding drivers on the Lenovo site is very easy for Thinkpads because they all have a Type number, e.g. 2668-PEG, which describes the exact spec/model, a bit like Dell's service tags (except not unique like the Dells).

I just found a dead pixel.

1 dead pixel is still pretty good though

IBM Thinkpad R50e.

£75 £50 + post, or collection welcome from Altrincham, WA14.

Left-side hinge is broken.

Some keys are missing off keyboard.

A/C Adapter is missing.

Screen is in great condition. Can't see any dead pixels or pressure marks or anything like that. Only 1 duff pixel.

Spec:

15" TFT XGA (1024x768) screen.

No serial port

Parallel port

USB2 ports

2x Cardbus ports

DB-15 VGA Monitor port

Pentium-M 1.5GHz (Centrino-type Processor, supposedly similar performance to a Pentium-4 @3.0GHz).

512mb RAM

40gb HDD, unused as new.

CD-ReWriter/DVD Player

Ethernet

Modem

XP Home Edition, genuine with COA.

Battery information says the battery is holding 32.14Wh, design capacity 47.52Wh, so the battery is about 67%, or two-thirds the health of a new battery. So not too bad really.

The insides of this machine came from a brand-new (new old stock) machine I bought off eBay. I took the hinge, keyboard & battery from the brand new one for a customer's machine that one of our kids knocked onto the floor & damaged the hinge of. I also sold the A/C adapter to a customer. So the HDD is nice and healthy, and the screen is excellent.

Probably be a good base for a Carputer.

The keyboard is extremely easy to replace on these machines if somebody was to buy to think about repairing. It's three screws underneath, labelled with a picture of a keyboard. No plastics to pull off or anything.

Pics:

http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/1.jpg

http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/2.jpg

http://www.css-networks.com/r50e/3.jpg

£75 £50 + post. Post will be £20 with RM Special delivery though, unless buyer wants it sent uninsured standard parcels.

thats supra is perfect!!!! yea i first saw a yellow supe on a gran turismo game irrc:Dwas a stock colour option when you went to buy it

I don't like it actually. It's a bit pale for a yellow sports car.

Cool. You can't beat proper old fun games. I bought one of those battery powered Megadrive things that plugs straight into the TV.

I bought myself the limited edition genuine supra carbon fibre steering wheel, and then realised that I had a tiptronic wheel, so couldn't use it. I eventually sold it to my mate and now that I'm going manual I want to kick myself

 

PS: Good job mate, like it!

Thanks. I like it too

Useful colour guide

 

http://paul.webmaster-eye.de/Farben/farben.html

Super Bright Yellow? Paint code 576, 08.1998-2002

http://paul.webmaster-eye.de/Farben/gelb.jpeg

Well I never.. did you?

I didn't realise gunmetal was called Grayish Green Mica Metallic either.

my supes a non airbag, did it fit with out any problems? presume the wheel went on fine, then the nut? nothing else was needed?

Everything went on fine. The airbag has the wrong connector and needs this adapter harness, and the horn plug from the old wheel needs to be used. Other than that the spline is the same.

Removing the nut was a piece of cake with the impact gun. I'm sure the breaker bar would have undone it fine too. Pulling the wheel off was difficult as it always is. I tried a lump hammer briefly then decided to just sit arms out straight either side and pull hard, remembering that the last time I did it I ended up smacking myself in the face with the steering wheel, so I made sure to keep my arms straight. Came off easy then.

LOVE the TRD wheel, and may get one - just think that the std 4-spoke is a bit naff. Trying to vouch £400 for a steering wheel is a lot of money though!

I am thinking £150 for this spare set. That covers the cost of the wheel, airbag, adapter harness, and me having to drive quite a way to pick up the airbag. The Toyota badge on the airbag is a little dented though I'm sure I've seem them on eBay though.

and for comparison. I mean, come on. How old fashioned? This is my old UK car:

http://www.css-networks.com/dash.jpg