i'm going out of my way to cut the wireless, so it would be silly of me to just turn on the wireless on my router and hook my phone up to it. i need to have the wireless isolated, somehow.
i think this is correct:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/28679-42-create-isolated-etwork-router
...and, luckily, i bought four routers for $20 on kijiji a few years ago. some company was going out of business. dude just wanted to get rid of them.
so, i can do that without buying a router....and it's as safe as it can get....
i don't need a sim card, either. i even think 16 gb is sufficient for space, but i don't really know. at the end of the day, it's probably more space than my mp3 player. maybe i can use my phone for other people's music, and keep my mp3 player for my own. i'm just trying to imagine extra costs for the phone...but i think that's it....
speaking of which, how's my mp3 player doing?
well, it's ten years old. but it works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYujG9TEwJU
i just wanted something i could plug in like a usb key. no proprietary software. it was a very anti-apple decision; this is an ipod mini without the bullshit. it plays mp3s and flacs. no drm, either. at this point, i need to be concerned that i'm getting up to caching limits. but, it demonstrates my point about the phone, right: this is volatile memory, and it's still fine after ten years of read/write. but, i should maybe be focusing more on the sd card in it in order to keep access down. it's a 2 gb drive; there's currently a 2gb card in it. can i do better than that? what are the device limits?
the literature seems to suggest a 2 gb limit, but users have different stories:
http://forums.sandisk.com/t5/All-other-MP3-players/10GB-Sansa-Express-Working/td-p/75145
if it doesn't work, i'm sure i'll find a use for an 8gb card. and, that adapter is worth $10 to me, itself, frankly. it probably needs a firmware update, anyways.
i'd guess that i'll move to the phone in the long run. for now, amazon is selling it for $9.29. this exact model isn't available elsewhere, it doesn't seem.
updated total:
phone (amazon): $105
2 gb laptop ram (amazon): $2x15 [ships to canada]
battery (amazon): $27
8 gb sd ram for mp3 player (amazon): $13 [ships to canada]
< 140 gb ide hds (found, not confirmed) (kijiji): $2x10
1 tb laptop sshds (best buy): $2x90
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$375
i guess the next topic is the broken laptop. and, what do i need, actually?
1) ram.
*2) the right video cables to connect to the tv
*3) the right audio audio to connect to the stereo
*4) wireless keyboard/mouse
!5) hard drive
6) external storage drive
7) usb hub
*i should test this, first.
! already determined
the ram...
it has 4 gb in it. pc3-10600. can i do better than that, or is it top rated?
it's top rated, and relatively new, so it's a little more. still cheap, though. $25, us.
i bought an external drive for mp3s a few years ago. it hasn't worked out exactly as planned. but, i'm going to need an external for vlogs, now. i think i'll probably use the existing terrabyte drive for vlogs and move my mp3s to a new 2 tb disc, which i'll go ahead and plug into my new desktop, when it comes.
i was going to just get it at best buy, but it seems like they increased their prices on the sshds over night, and i'm not impressed. i'll have to revisit that. i'll be back in a new post.
for now...
updated total:
phone (amazon): $105
2 gb laptop ram (amazon): $2x15 [ships to canada]
battery (amazon): $27
8 gb sd ram for mp3 player (amazon): $13 [ships to canada]
4 gb laptop ram (amazon): $2x32 [ships to canada]
< 140 gb ide hds (found, not confirmed) (kijiji): $2x10
laptop sshds?
2 tb drive?
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$259