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Get Your Palm On The Network

Posted by timothy on from the feel-the-pulse-of-the-planet-prescribe-aspirin dept.

Anonymous Coward writes: "There's a cool article over on O'Reilly network showing how to set up a network connection between a Linux box and Palm Pilot, and then run a Web server on the Palm to access the documents. There's also a VNC client which I'm downloading now. Wild!"

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  1. Whoah this is so cool by oog_rocks · · Score: 3

    what would be even cooler though is if each palm pilot could act as a node in a self-growing network. with sufficient bandwith and rollout as well as a few repeaters, you could have a totally wireless network that is actually built simply by people having palm pilots near you. that would kick the crap out of just using infared docking.

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  2. Another Palm/Linux Gizmotron by rerunn · · Score: 5

    Here's another neat palm ditty. IBM had originally made an app called SNAPP for the palm which allowed admins to administer their RS6000 boxes with their palm. They have since released a linux version. Check it here: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/snapp

  3. Just as well... by Goldberg's+Pants · · Score: 3
    Just as well there's no working example of the web server online. Imagine a /.'ed Palm Pilot:)

  4. Linux and Windows CE by a.out · · Score: 4

    (begin shameless plug)
    There is also a tool to create a connection between a Linux box and a Windows CE device. It's called SyncLICE.
    It just sets up a ppp connection between your box and the CE device, creates ipchain rules etc... Check it out Here!
    (/shameless plug)

  5. Re:Good work Palm !! by generic-man · · Score: 3

    "Fighting those new Pocket PCs", uh Palm is the one with the monopoly.

    Palm doesn't have a monopoly in the pocket-sized PDA market. With a market share of 70-80%, there's still plenty of room for competition. People have been buying Palms not because they're automagically bundled with their operating systems or computers, but because they actually like the product. Remember that Palm/USRobotics/3Com/Palm never even advertised in print or on television until last year, and they had sold several million units when the campaigns started running.

    Imagine that. A good product is selling on its merits, and of course on the fact that Everyone Uses It, So It Must Be Good (tm). 'course, I don't want to compare the Palm with AOL any time soon, but hey, there are at least a couple of paralells.

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