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I had not put any thought into mounting the base station outdoors (dry bag maybe) but for the mobile base station I think using a phone as a mobile hotspot and rigging up a 12V car adapter is all that would be needed.

I think it will be fine but won't know for sure until the glacier recedes this spring. I was initially planning on putting it in a FF style flat BOC handle instead of in a Dbag pocket so the container concern isn't a problem.

I have a Surface 3 and my wife has a Surface Pro 3. Both are great, no complaints. The smaller Surface 3 is better for casual use and travel, while the Pro is a good laptop replacement.

Yes, battery is good so far - the 2 tags that I have not tried geofencing on are at 83% and 84% after 3 weeks. So far, no inadvertent power-off and the puppy is pretty tough on gear, especially stuff hanging from the older dog's collar. To turn off you need to hold down the button for several seconds, it blinks when powered up for easy ID.

I received my Iota base station and 3 tags the start of January. The dogs have them on their collars now, its winter so hard to test much. I have not been able to test range. The battery life if good so far unless i use geofencing, 15% down in 3 weeks, but geofencing drained one of the batteries in a week. The app could use some work but is functional.

NC has 4. The 2 in the center keep you from being able to shift and the one on each door cannot hold anything larger than a beer bottle.

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I'm patiently waiting for wii pole dancing: http://gizmodo.com/387152/the-wii-pole-dancing-game-is-really-coming

You don't need any of that with the Linux version of the 901 - boots in 20 seconds and standard programs load/run as fast as my dual core Dell D830.

We got a Asus EeePC 901 over the summer - great little 'puter. The small size, 20 second boot time, SSD and 7 hour battery are what make it perfect for simple tasks and travel. I'm not a huge fan of the Xandros system - its fast and simple but I dislike some of the interface. I've been thinking about going to Ubuntu with the Netbook remix X but have been waiting for the 8.10 version of Ubuntu-eee.

My 'puter is working on the upgrade now.

Not sure - I use auto-focus - I'd have to check the camera but the lens is focus-by-wire and when shutdown it goes to infinity so if it was in MF I suspect it would stay at infinity when powered-up.

I use an E-410 - very lightweight. I spliced a mini-plug into my wired remote so that i can plug in the tongue switch and still use the wired remote for non-freefall photography. The kit lens (14-42) works well.

I use Cinelerra for editing in Ubuntu. http://www.heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3 http://cinelerra.org/about.php

I've used Gizmo several times on my Nokia 770 - it works well. Internationally - I've used it from Japan to USA and was happy with the quality. Gizmo is also very cheap but I have not used it consistently to get a good feel for using it as a primary phone.

http://www.ubuntu.com/ It'll clear that M$ virus right up.

The E-410/E-510 have the wired remote as part of the USB/video port - the port does all three. The E-500 has the USB/video port only - at least according to dpreview. http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse510/

I don't think the E-500 has wired capability - You might want to double check. The E-510 does but I think it was a new feature for the 510.

I spliced in a mini plug into my Olympus wired release so I can use my Canon or Olympus cameras with my existing tongue switch and still use the wired remote for normal photography. It was a pretty simple soldering job. The E-4xx takes a lot of weight off the head.

Yup. I'm running 2560x1024

Mp3, DVD etc are licensed technology - most linux distributions will not come with them out of the box since they are free. But the first time you try to play one it will prompt you to download the codex (and warn you about the legality) - or, there are several package told to get all the codex at one time. Automatix is popular for Ubuntu. Games are more difficult. Some work, most do not. There is WINE that will work for some - Cedega is paid software that makes efforts to work with some popular games. There are some games that are open source that are pretty good.

The dude that created Ubuntu Linux is South African - Mark Shuttleworth. He became famous as the first space tourist.

A friend at work just picked up an eee PC 4G - its an amazing little computer. Very quick boot and plenty responsive for 2 pounds. He ordered it with a 16GB SD card for primary storage. You will not be able to install your WinBlows software on it but it will read all the formats - it comes with open office and firefox. I cannot remember what mail reader it used. Any multimedia will work. I've been using Ubuntu for some time. Ubuntu on the main computer, Xubuntu on an older labtop and my Nokia 770 uses a custom debian system. I have a M$ WinBlowsXP partition just to play an RC flight simulator - its my last holdout software package, until Linux supports DirectX or developers use openGL - games are a problem, everything else works great.

The woman and I just got back from a 10 day vacation in Costa Rica - it was excellent. We spent 1 night in San Jose. http://picasaweb.google.com/WebsterHyde/CostaRicaSanJose Then we drove up to Santa Elena and stayed in a cabin on the desert side. The cloud forest was a 20 minute drive. http://picasaweb.google.com/WebsterHyde/CostaRicaElSol We then took a Caravan flight to the Osa Peninsula and the rest of the trip in the rain forest. http://picasaweb.google.com/WebsterHyde/CostaRicaBosqueDelCabo