n_maher

I really like the Magellan 4250 that I got for Christmas this past year. It's cheap (~$125), the stock map has quite a bit of current information, around me at least and the screen is reasonably sized.. It's certainly not snazzy or top of the line and I like its GUI better than the TomTom's that I've seen.

John, The only good news is that from your description it doesn't sound like a HD failure so at least the content of the drive may be recoverable. I'm in the "take it somewhere" camp.

Kevin, Could the power supply be fixed easily without the amp section present?

Steve, Didn't you send me a pair of bookshelf(ish) speakers you already weren't using?

The single isn't up on the site but yes, I'll give it a listen for sure. It can't hurt for any longer than it takes me to hit stop.

I bet Al can help if it means getting his amp looked at.

Face down on a dirty floor? If Ms. Case is there count me in, otherwise no thanks.

Gary, The case looks great but you need some ventilation. The beta is not going to last very long if you keep all that heat trapped inside.

Goddamn that sucks Al.

Well in a strange twist I actually have a trace of 3g service t the house right now. This is from das iPhone.

I think I own it already, I just haven't watched it or looked for it in a long time.

I love that movie, brings back fond memories and always makes me want to drink Jack Daniels.

Took Lily and the wife to go visit Grandpa (and Grandma). Did the final planning with pops for a bookcase for Lily.

Crikey, my parent's house is an AT&T deadzone as well. Once again, as close as a mile and you get 5 bars of at least Edge service. At least the map is right this time and shows the "no coverage" zone correctly.

Be forewarned that that type of stair outside a door may or may not be code compliant in your area. Otherwise there's probably no need to have anything at 12" o.c., 16" should be plenty close enough to adequately support the plywood.

Heh, I dunno. Nah, it literally occurs at the town line so it wouldn't surprise me if the town is anti-tower and that no one has coverage. But I was driving home going, "Maybe, just maybe, come on, one more mile..." *BANG* No Service. And emelius, thanks for the advice on the case. I'll try the dusting trick for sure.

Went to the local (25 miles away) AT&T corporate store for what should have been a 15 activation and account creation process. Over an hour later I finally got out of the. The sales rep, while inputting my data, forgot to put a '0' in the contract duration. So he called "Care" to get them to reset it, they refused. He asked his supervisor who thought he could do it. He spent 45 minutes fighting with their worthless management software (ironically called "Intelligence") and finally they just canceled the first phone number and added a second to the account with the correct information. I guess the only good to come out of it is that they felt so bad they gave me a free Otterbox case ($50). The only other slightly disappointing thing is that I get 5 bars of 3G service to within 1 mile of my house, then it drops off a cliff and I get basically nothing at the house. Frack. It's the same for my Verizon phone so it's not surprising, but I'd hope to at least have mediocre coverage outside the house so that a repeater might help indoors. Doesn't look like anything short of a new tower (unlikely due to population density) is going to help.

Iphone 3G (used)

Ok, did some more reading, sounds like activation is an in store only option unless I want to jump through some annoying sounding hoops. Pisser.

Any advantage to doing that? Either way I figure I have to establish an account with AT&T (not going to try another carrier at this point) and all I really want to do is avoid the 2yr contract nonsense. And of course it would be nice if I didn't have to try and go to the semi-local AT&T store (10 miles away) to do so this weekend.

It just says no service, waiting for activation on it. From what I've read it sounds like I should plug it into the computer and see if Itunes will allow me to activate it or something like that.

Anyone know of any way to activate an Iphone without a trip to the AT&T store? I've got the phone and it has a SIM card so I don't think that I need anything else, do I?

I think that's simply because not many people got to try them on the beta. Most of the HD800s were in Headroom's room, no beta there, another two pairs were in Todd's room, again no beta, and those that had their personal pairs already were probably more inclined to try them on the various commercial offerings.

This is not what I want to hear.