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It's well known that the Japanese traditionally have no real appreciation for well-rounded booty (as opposed to say these guys [NSFW!!] ). Now with globalization, they're trying to prevent major booty from barging its way into the country like Admiral Perry. Of course you can't just ban booty outright, so traditionalists in the gov't are using "health issues" to ban it by the backdoor (no pun intended.) They're prosecuting booty by measuring waistlines, the same way they beat Capone for tax evasion.

Japanese men! Fight for your right to women with decent booty! Japanese women! Fight for your right to wear Apple Bottoms!

To make a custom rom, you'll need Grack's Rom Tool. At one point you could simply download a custom rom, but PalmOne asked Shadowmite to take them down and he did. You'll have to use the tool to extract your rom, modify it, and reload it on the phone. Use this list (danger: pdf) to determine what you can and want to delete. I got rid of everything I don't use, from the tutorial to VersaMail. I added a small handful of programs I can't live without, like pFuel, CMDBar, CMDWay, DA Launcher, and SharkNav. Some apps won't work from the ROM, and cause a soft-reset loop; check against this list and above all, don't panic. I'm told it's next to impossible to brick a Treo 650 with this tool, although the old method was very dangerous, and I haven't had it happen with either. If you install an app that doesn't like running from ROM, you can warm-reset with up+reset pin and flash an updated rom. If you try apps that aren't on the list, this may take some considerable trial and error. Make careful lists of everything you change in case you need them.

You can add as much as you delete and a little more, but the smaller you keep the ROM, the more dbCache space you have. The dbCache is the memory where NVFS-based PalmOS copies the programs and runs them from; a lot of instability comes from dbCache issues. You should also check out dbCacheTool (page isn't english, but the app is) and Resco Locker; the former will automatically clear the dbCache when it runs low, and the latter will lock apps into the cache. Some instability is caused by background programs that do not properly lock themselves.

As far as app selection goes, whether ROM or RAM, that's trial and error. If you hit ##377# in the phone app on a Sprint phone it will show you what crashed the phone. Using RLock on the app may stabilize it, or just delete it. You can read this Shadowmite.com forum thread for more ## codes, but 377 is the only one I ever use. Also, this is for the 650 only! The 600 is not supported and probably never will be, at this point; the 700p is coming but it's not ready yet.

Thanks for pointing that out. It's kind of hard to tell where to draw the line between "video games" and "computer games." Certainly, there were actually graphical "video" inveted long before either Nethack or Spacewar, and the machines that played them were probably "computers" in any sense of the word.

To be more specific, I think Rogue was the first graphical computer game written on its platform. For example, if memory serves correct, on the PC this award goes to Roberta William's "Mystery House" (box art).

Eh hemm

http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/storage/monocraft s_ver3/03/

Hmm, will that install on a Powerbook ??

The scroll wheel is amazing, and I'm angry at Apple for patening it.

Well, tough shit. Know what I'm angry about? Twenty years of people pooh-poohing Apple products, and then turning around and cranking out shit-ass knockoffs of those same Apple products so cheap people can delude themselves into thinking what they bought is just as good.

If anyone deserves to use patents to defend distinctive features of their products from being ripped off by shifty competitors, it's Apple.

Use of the PalmPix is the only real argument against the HandEra 330 [handera.com] when the TRG fails.

heFontMapper is said to correct the problems with using PALMPIX cameras with the 330. I've not tested it yet myself.

Here's the artist's official website: Yamamura Animation

in '80s it was anthony michael hall in sixteen candles. social outcast. young. obsessive behavior. not getting anything in the bedroom.

in the '90s geek became bill gates (yeah, i know it's ironic anthony michael hall played bill gates in that tv docupic opposite noah wiley's steve jobs). rich. older. strictly technology-associated and more specifically computer-associated. probably getting something in the bedroom now. ;-P

i wonder what the meaning of geek will be in the '00s? either way, it drifts further away from what i think it should be.

i like the japanese word "otaku".

otaku carries all the obsessive weight of the american geek, but overemphasizes the social outcast part, and certainly none of the technophillic rich part. maybe we should disregard the waterdowned term geek in a world where business school dot com scammers could don the adjective in the late '90s to give them some sort of retrohip social cachet.

face it folks. the word "geek" is dead. real geeks should abandon the term.

from now on, refer to me as otaku.

please note, the word otaku must loose an association with a scary underside first though.

here are some sites which i guess could define obessive "otaku" best ;-P

car otaku

anime otaku

fish otaku!?

etc...

The otaku, the passionate obsessive, the information age's embodiment of the connoisseur, more concerned with the accumulation of data than of objects, seems a natural crossover figure in today's interface of British and Japanese cultures. I see it in the eyes of the Portobello dealers, and in the eyes of the Japanese collectors: a perfectly calm train-spotter frenzy, murderous and sublime. Understanding otaku-hood, I think, is one of the keys to understanding the culture of the web. There is something profoundly post-national about it, extra-geographic. We are all curators, in the post-modern world, whether we want to be or not.

-William Gibson