[Nottingham] Shuttle PC, Printer, and Linux related books for sale

[Tester]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Van Schooenderwoert" <vanschoo at speakeasy.net>
To: <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:18 PM
Subject: [Nottingham] Shuttle PC, Printer, and Linux related books for sale


> Hi, folks -
>
>   I promised more details on the things I am selling. The PC will be sold 
> today (I already have 40 GBP offered) and the rest needs to go by June 
> 10th. I'll be moving on the 11th.
>
>   I'm accepting best offer for the PC and the printer, even if the best 
> offer is very low. For the books it's a little different - see below.
>
>   Pickup of heavy things can be arranged - I live near Canning Circus and 
> the city centre. Can bring some things to tonight's meeting.
>
>
> ========================================================
>  *** Shuttle PC for sale ***
>
> Specs:
> CPU: Intel Pentium 4 1.80 GHz
> Cache: 512 KB
> Hard drive: 80G
> RAM: 500MB
> Has gentoo linux installed
>
> Included are: American keyboard and power plug with UK converter.
>
> My “ShuttleX” PC looks very similar to these online images:
> Front view
> http://jakepratt.com/images/GadgetGallery/ShuttlePC.JPG
>
> Back view
> http://www.shuttle-pc.com/Bilder/g_back.jpg
>
> Will sell for best offer.
>
>
> ========================================================
>  *** Printer/Copier/Scanner for Sale ***
>
> Epson DX8400 model
> • only 2 moths old (Cost 99 GBP new)
> • with full set of new ink cartridges  (They cost 26 GBP)
> • picture of it: 
> http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41Y7kr0myDL._SL500_AA280_.jpg
> • Will sell for best offer – must sell by June 10th
>
>
> ========================================================
>  *** Books for Sale ***
>
> Title, Author,  Date, Cover price (USD)
>
> “How Linux Works”, Ward, 2004, 38 USD
> “Absolute Beginner’s Guide to Networking”, Habraken, 2004 23 USD
> “Practical Subversion”, Rooney, 2005, 35 USD
> “Running Linux”, Welsh & others, 2003, 45 USD
> --- For asking prices in GBP, divide the above cover price by 4
>
>
> A special set of books for sale:
> 3 books set by Edward Tufte on data visualization –
> “Visual Explanations”, “Envisioning Information”, “Visual Display of 
> Quantitative Information” – Asking 60 GBP for the set.
>
> A word about the Tufte books – I wasn’t going to offer them for sale 
> because these are excellent books that I don’t want to part with (I’ll buy 
> them over again in the US if I sell them here). But they’re heavy and it 
> seems so wasteful both in money and cost to the environment, to move them 
> back to the USA. Besides, books cost so much more in the UK, that even if 
> I charged their US retail price it’s a decent bargain for UK folks. But I’m 
> asking less than the US retail price. These books are in perfect 
> condition, with dust covers. They are each signed by Edward Tufte, but not 
> autographed to any person – just his signature on the title pages at the 
> beginning of each book.
>
> If you know anything about Tufte you know that these books are each a 
> masterpiece not only in their content but in the production of the books 
> themselves, with precise colour printing in most illustrations, fold-outs, 
> etc.
>
> See http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex
>
> ========================================================
>
>   Feel free to email me off-list if you want to discuss any item.
>
>   If there is a book you want, and you'll be at tonight's meeting at the 
> Nav, I will bring it.
>
>  - njv
>
>
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On a side note, if anyone has a laptop they don't want that will run xubuntu 
or something similar, for < £20 :)  Then please can you let me know....i've 
looked on free cycle but no one has one.  My misses would like her own, but 
she only uses web and email

Paul