The C-One is a reconfigurable "Commodore-64 native" computer, that takes simms for video ram, and compact flash for spare ram:
The price of the C-One board is 269,- EUR.
..there are no profits on the C-One project. All losses (presumably 40,000 EUR)..
"Computer Memory is a standard SD-Ram module of up to 1GB size, multimedia memory of up to 128MB is a standard SIMM module. Minimum is 4MB of multimedia memory and 16M main memory."
"The main processor of the C1 is a 65c816 processor running at approximately 20 MHz. The 65c816 is a 6502 compatible processor with a 24 bit address range and extra instructions that access the full memory range are added to the 6502 core. The C-One has a processor slot for any other 8-bit CPU such as a real 6502, Z80, 6809 or even the Z8S180."
ok, so just click the link.
Sounds slightly expensive for a C-64 but.. I guess when they start selling millions as mp3 players, picture viewers, game consoles, web browsers (use updated version of linux), they might be able to reduce the price a bit.

I4U News - Atari Flashback on Sale "The Atari Flashback console features 20 Atari Games from the 80s including Breakout, Centipede and Asteriods. The Console features two Atari 7800 inspired controllers."

This is an MP3 player. (price - approx 17 pounds)

These are 1gb CF cards. (price - approx 57 pounds)

So there are rumors that apple might do a non-hard drive based mp3 player. Well unless they sell it for under 100 pounds, it looks likely that CF or whatever will be cheaper, and way more expandable.

if you still don't have a dvd-writer (which i don't), maplins are selling a philips 4x dvd writer for £29.99. chuffin cheap that is. maplin.co.uk can't see it on there website, but have seen it in their christmas catalogue.

Fuji Fujifilm FinePix A607 £82 buy now. the people at dixons/pc world etc reduced the price to £99.

Right there I was looking at this 2.5 billion pixel image, and I never expected to see matt in there! walking along, with his bag (10k jpeg). see if you can find him in the image! here's some more pics of people: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. (source news story)

Slashdot | Failed Win XP Upgrade Wipes Out UK Government Agency "The BBC and the Register report that the UK Government's Department for Work and Pensions attempted to upgrade seven PCs from Windows 2000 to Windows XP, and ended up with BSODs on over 60,000 machines. I wonder if the National Health Service is regretting awarding Microsoft a £500 million contract now."

hmm. the nhs is a completely seperate body to the UK Government. but how is it possible for an upgrade of 7 pcs to cause such an effect?

Pendle Hill is one of the Seven Wonders of the North West "Seven Wonders of the North West
Here in the North West, you don’t have travel far to reach the countryside and see areas of outstanding natural beauty. But which is your jewel in the North West crown?" Why don't you go and vote!

Overclockers UK Philips more bargain mp3 players, 1.5gb £70, 15gb £116.

Crikey, for £18, you can get a 7 in 1 memory card reader with built in mp3 player! bargain, simply use your current memory card to store all your mp3s ebuyer

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Devon | Students put university on eBay "Students at Exeter University have put the institution up for sale on internet auction site eBay as part of their protest against proposed cuts. The university wants to end degrees in music, chemistry and Italian, in a bid to save £1.5m. On Wednesday night the highest mock bid was £31,437 and the page had received more than 4,000 hits. The university has insisted the students will be able to finish their degrees in the affected departments. Despite this hundreds of students are planning to join a protest march against the cuts on Thursday."

Apple the cult: They have a leader (Steve Jobs), they fit the dictionary definitions for 'religion' and 'cult', they have fervent followers trying to "convert" the "heathen" (pc users), as though they would be doing the world a great favour by making pc users "see the light"... when in fact what they are really doing is making Steve Jobs more money, like the corrupt american tv evangelists... Marketing Magazine | The cult of Apple: "Apple is, in fact, possibly the prime example of a 'cult brand,' a phrase coined by U.S. ad man and author Douglas Atkin in his recently published The Culting of Brands: When Customers Become True Believers (Portfolio, $36). Atkin notes this cult status-that some consumers grant Apple and others like eBay, Harley-Davidson and Starbucks-is not dissimilar to the emotional investments people make in mainstream and fringe religions."

www.bloglines.com
Fan-chubbly-tastic! you go there, you sign up, you add your favourite websites that post news, eg nelsoncolne as an example, and chuffy-nora it lists them all in the left, you click them, and you get a really quick page pop up with the lastest news, for example, this site nelsoncolne, now has an rss feed: http://nelsoncolne.blogspot.com/atom.xml, (after i've republished it) as does www.digicamreview.co.uk which is here: http://www.digicamreview.co.uk/atom.xml it really is easy, and where you see a site that says: 'rss' or 'xml' it means you can add that site to bloglines.

does blogger seem really slow to you sometimes?

also, can you get to www.digicamreview.co.uk ? it works at work, but at home on blueyonder it does not. may just take a while for the dns records to update around the globe. http://digicamreview.blogspot.com is the definitely working address no matter where you are.

are you using firefox?

join the mac cult in london. consumerism at it's most profitable (for apple).

wonder what this is "sky tv on your computer for free", and "TV CARD - NO! NO! Don't need one thanks!" looks like you need windows media player to play the stuff - so surely if you put some effect in, you could find all these tv channels yourself? or are they providing something more? here's another listing with more info, saying that sky tv is not free, and providing 3 links to samples, none of them currently working...

Remember recently that telewest upgraded all their services for free, ie 512k went to 750k, well, they're gonna upgrade all the services again, as shown below in the 3rd bit... apparently this will happen in december. I wonder whether they'll upgrade the 'upload' speeds? either way, free upgrades are sweet!

was 512k - now 750k - becomes 1mb
was 1mb - now 1.5mb - becomes 2mb
was 2mb - now 3mb - becomes 4mb

I review the ultra sexy Olympus Mju Mini Digital. Plus I've got new webhosting - so the site should be much much quicker - let me know what you think about the review, do you have any ideas on how I could improve them, also, let me know if you find the webserver much quicker than the old reviews.

minolta dimage x31, 3mp, 3x optical zoom. £95. anyone wanna buy it off me.

channel4.com - E4 - Peep Show peep show series 2 starts friday coming up! if anyone wants to volunteer to tape it for me, that would be way cool.

AWEXOME CROSS 98!!

Hippo Girl - Joel Veitch rathergood.com music by Joel and Alex Veitch and Mike Baker just in case you haven't seen it yet.

powercut in liverpool

Firefox browser v1.0 takes on Microsoft | Download Firefox here.

Random Thoughts of Josh > Josh's Health Tips >
1. Quit smoking (300 people die a day due to smoking, 2 due to passive smoking).
2. Moisturise more - specifically the face area.
3. (Specifically for Liverpool) Cut down on the amount you use tanning machines / fake tan. Use tanning machines in winter if you don't use them. (the sun is a good source of vitamin D, and happiness)

dvd player and 5.1 surround sound speakers £49

i want a playstation 2 (so i can play gran turismo 3 and maybe grand theft auto).

Simpsons Mug Warmer if anyone wants to get me this for Christmas that would be well cool! (in fact I think I'll put it on my list for work)

robot cats.

Apple ratings by Apple. All of them get a 5star rating obviously, and customers can't rate them. riiight. http://www.gizmodo.com/archives/apple-rating-wtf-is-this-024962.php

http://www.yogakitty.com/yogavideos.html

"In the last four years, firefighters have spent $12m in efforts to put out the flames at Liuhuanggou colliery, near Urumqi in Xinjiang province." 130year chinese fire put out.

Good to see the domain easyrabbi.com is still available.