I had  bought a Toshiba T1800 laptop for $20 sometime ago and and totally forgot about it….

Hardware Specs

• 20 MHz Intel 386 SX, coprocessor socket;
  
• 2 MB standard RAM, expandable to 10 MB;
  
• LIM-EMS 4.0 support; 40 or 60 MB hard disk;
• 9.5″ STN monochrome screen with 64 grey scales

More info can be found here: http://www.toshiba-europe.com/computers/products/notebooks/t1800/product.shtm

The laptop is in relatively good condition with the exception that the battery doesn’t hold a charge for very long…only about 15-20 mintues.

Here are some pics when I picked it up

The above shot makes me think the whole Y2k thing was abit overblown

I’ve recently been getting some spam from a couple contacts on my MSN list…doing a quick google search on the links revealed that this is probably MSN phishing…basically the contacts have had their account cracked… this allows an attacker to now send fake messages to the contacts associated with the account in hopes of tricking more people into entering their account information on a fake site…since they are automated using bots/scripts the contact may even appear to be offline when you receive the message.

A couple examples of the messages I’ve received are (I like that in the first one ‘hope’ is mispelled…tricky tricky):

• hey ope this link its really cool www.youvegotvirus.com wink wink
• http://<youralias>.picslists.com

So a heads up if you get links such as this DON’T go click on them and enter your credentials….and maybe it’s a good time to change your password =)

GRL (Graffiti Research Lab) is a group dedicated to ‘outfitting graffiti writers, artists and protesters with open source tools for urban communication.’ They do some pretty cool stuff, one of my favorites is L.A.S.E.R. Tag…I’m thinking this would be a fun way to spend a Saturday night.