A Sad N800 "Bus" story.
 

Took a bus on Monday. (Victoria Day here in Canada).
Comfortable ride.
Not a long ride.
Got off the bus at the stop just 50 yards from my home.
Walked and whistled.
Arrived home and was hungry.
Opened the fridge, pizza pocket, yummy.
I'll surf on my N800 while waiting for the microwave.
OH, WAIT!?!?! I LEFT MY BLOODY N800 ON THE BUS ON THE SEAT BESIDE ME!!!!!!!!!?????!!!!!!!!
I stopped whistling.

Just ordered a Asus Eee PC 900 Linux edition for 499.99 Cdn.

I started whistling again.

Crouching Hamster

Re: A Sad N800 "Bus" story.
 

Hey man,

Sorry to hear about that. :(

Maybe you can call the bus station. I mean, somebody may take it, but MOST people wouldn't know what to do with it. So, it wouldn't be of any value to them.

H.

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I called the bus company every day since Monday. No love from them. Someone scored large because not only did I have my N800 in a lovely little leather case but also my bloody bluetooth keyboard, LG Cellphone and Nokia headset, with 16 gigs of SD cards installed in the N800. I was totally bummed and still am a bit until I realized that it's a perfect time to "upgrade". So after a very small arguement with the wife, I'm getting my new unit shortly. Still no ship date on my new Eee PC 900 but certainly within the next 15 days according to my account rep.

Crouching Hamster

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Has this signature name anything to do with that argument?
You will pay dearly :D

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Oh that's gotta hurt. Might even leave a mark. :eek:

Once upon a time people would track you down to give back your lost items. I guess Canada has grown up now. :mad:

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It helps, of course, if you make it obvious so they don't have as much work to track you down... engraving your name/phone with an electric pencil or vibratory etcher is a start.

But in the end, if they lucked onto a nice gadget and peripherals, laziness might not be the only thing between them and the Abe Lincoln course of action.

Maybe something like this on one of the MMCs (for when it's connected to a Windows PC), and a custom splash-screen on boot, would go a way towards that...

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benson thats not a bad idea,,,,maybe someone can make some sort of applet...that would if the device is lost or stolen could phone home or somesuch...maybe...n810 could do a gps lock to location...course im just rambling i did the etch thing....and got my company logo on the leather cover

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I've got my name and email "engraved" in the initfs :p

Just to annoy you all, i'll post up screenies l8r :p

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Ouch, SirHunter. That's really sad... I think all of us can relate to being afraid that would happen.

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The worst bit is the obvious; someone is surfing internet tablet talk with my N800 right now. Man, that just blows.

Crouching Hamster

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nahh whoever has it probably went strait to a pawn shop.....

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But on the way, they happened to take a look at the N800... then started browsing around... and that quickly, the addition was formed.

Whoever found it, if you are now reading this, for shame. :(

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Ok, time to resurrect my "lost" story, which still amazes me. I lived in Jersey City and commuted to Manhattan a few years ago. One day in Manhattan I was wearing a jacket with something wrong with the pocket, and while I was leaving the subway, someone chased me down. I had dropped a $5 bill! I thanked them very much and stupidly put the $5 back in the same pocket. That afternoon, someone shouted at me! You guessed it, the same $5 had fallen out of my pocket AGAIN as I left the turnstyle area and someone else ran after me and gave it to me.

So, the honest people are out there...

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Alas, still no news from our majestic Ottawa transit lost and found. That was a quick auction. "Look what we found?!?!", "Going once, going twice, Sold for a buck to Egbert, the trusted keeper of all things lost on a bus in Ottawa." Bloody swine. I'm still bitter three weeks later.

This occasion has given me leave to re-evaluate my needs versus my wants in terms of mobile computing. The Nokia Internet Tablet is a bloody brilliant technology that is maturing quite nicely but I went in a different direction for a replacement; a HP 2133 netbook. I blew off Vista and installed Ubuntu and away I go; what ***** at HP thought you could run Vista on a C7M platform - that's what I want to know. 50 seconds to boot Ubuntu and 3 minutes to boot Vista - OMG!!!.

Since I just recieved my replacement unit and it's the not really a competitor to the Internet Tablet genre nor is it another Internet Tablet so I'll bid you all adieu. Thanks for having me here, everyone has been very helpful and with that I close with "please watch where you put your tablets down".

Crouching Hamster
Ex-Tablet Owner
New Netbook Owner

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I thought you were getting an Asus eee 900?!

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Well, you already got the mini-note, so this is too late to be useful; but I was seriously looking at a 2133 too (for about $750 from HP), and found an HP tx2110us at Staples (in-store; staples.com vs. in-store has little correlation) for $950, $900 after rebate. I just couldn't say no to that machine! (11" 1280x800, 2.1GHz Turion, conversion swivel-hinge, touchscreen and digitizer, this baby is gonna be sweet!)

OTOH, if I didn't have an N800 for the traveling-light end of things, switching up to a heavier (4.5 lb), more powerful machine might not have been so acceptable. I would not have bought a non-tablet this size, even at $750; I'd have taken the performance hit and gone with the mini-note, but having an N800 already, I couldn't say no.

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did the OP keep a note of his mac address so that he can report it lost/stolen on the relevant part of the forum, in case it turns up?

I have my name and telephone number labelled on my digital camera, palm and zaurus... need to get round to labelling my tablet.

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I was going to but the construction and design of the ASUS Eee PC 900 looks more like a toy then anything else. My brother-in-law brought over a HP 2133 Mini-Note and it's freaking awesome. He works for a VAR here in Ottawa so I bought my HP for cost. It's just all good. Aircraft grade aluminum shell, 120 gig HD with HP drive guard and 2 gigs of memory running full blown Ubuntu (Came with Vista if you can believe it; blew that off inside of 5 minutes of having the unit) and 1280x768 brilliant screen that has to be seen to be truly appreciated. $508.00 (Taxes in) Canadian. Hard to say no to that especially when the ASUS Eee PC 900 is retailing for 625 here in Canada and I don't want to even know what the 901 and 1000 editions are going to cost us frozen chosen here in Canada.

Crouching Hamster

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I have to admit, for the price, the HP Pavilion tx2110us is a brilliant machine and I saw someone at 2nd cup the other day with one. Very very nice looking unit however given that I paid 508 taxes in for my HP 2133 I would have a really hard time paying 400 more not including taxes for the uplift to the tx2110us. But I do have to say the the tx2110us is definitely a very very nice unit. I've had the HP2133 now for a week and I must say that it's been a real pleasure to use. The keyboard is just bloody amazing and easy to use, particularly in light of how unusable the keyboard is on the ASUS Eee PC units and the HP2133 is just slightly larger then the ASUS Eee PC 900/901; the difference is barely perceptible. With the attention to detail that HP reaped on the HP2133 in terms of construction and functionality I've absolutely no complaints so far. Time will tell.

When the Nokia N900 comes out, sign me up.

Crouching Hamster

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Hm. How does it do running Ubuntu (support for the touch screen, all of its other hardware, etc.)?

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Lost my N800 Thursday... ^%@#& Left it somewhere on campus... still have hope some honest student will turn it in to the dept (seems more likely than an OC Transpo rider).

But looking around to replace it, it seems very hard to buy an N800 in Canada, expansys.ca has none, Nokia.ca store is 404, any suggestions?

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Dunno. First, I won't be running Ubuntu; not a big fan. Probably Slackware or maybe Debian.

Second, one of my main reasons for buying a new laptop is to deliver a presentation at an upcoming AIAA conference; about a week from now. It came with Vista (ugh!) with all hardware supported and working, and I need MS Office for the presentation to go precisely as in practice runs; I could make OOo work, but differences in the transitions, etc. make that require extra work tweaking things, so I'm not doing that this time. (You can bet our next paper I present will run in OOo, or something else.)

So I'm not installing XP (more palatable OS, still giving the compatibility I need), even though drivers are said to be available, let alone anything else, until after the conference. Then, I plan to set up for a triple boot: Vista (mainly as a reference to compare hardware functionality), XP/Cygwin (usable OS with necessary compatibility for Mathcad), and (probably; unless something else catches my eye...) Slackware, Slamd64, or Debian, as a generally useful environment.

I might be able to give feedback on that in a month or so, then, but nothing Ubuntu-specific. I did find one thread with a brief Google; some complete newb was working through trying to get stuff working, and it's not entirely clear what was and wasn't working.

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There's one available on ebay in Mississauga. That's all I got. hth

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I'm feeling your pain Dre! Brutal man. If you are serious about replacing it then you might want to try http://www.pccyber.com/?v=product&i=TAB-NOKIA-N800 as they have the N800 listed. They may be able to order you one and they are local here in Ottawa; 3 locations - Wellington, Bank and Bells Corners.

I hope someone is more honest then the *** clown that took mine. Best of luck.

Crouching Hamster

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Keep an eye on our Buy and sell forum, it has one or two forsale coming up every week. I just pick one up last week.


bun

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I buy mine in tigerdirect.ca in mississauga
but now they only have n810

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applicatio...156&srkey=n810 :eek:

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Lucky bastard that I am, I got my N800 returned to me (seems I left it in a stall in the men's room, one I've noticed has good wifi service). I must have accidentally banked some karma points recently...

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That's brilliant Dre! I can't believe that someone actually was honest enough to return it. Unbelievable really given that most youth these days seem to grow up without a parental endowed moral compass.

Nice to see a happy end to your N800 saga.

Crouching Hamster

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There is an upside to being a fool ;)

I once dropped the same five-dollar bill twice in the same day at different Manhattan subway stations, without realizing it.

Both times, I suddenly became aware that someone was chasing me, and they were returning the bill!

I have had this sort of thing happen many times in my life; I figure I must project an aura of cluelessness that protects me...