I think it was 3M that made a mouse pad that was paper thin, had one of those "tacky but not sticky" backs and a very finely textured surface that was perfect for use with a traditional "ball mouse" and the printed pattern even made it suitable for use with an optical mouse... too bad they didn't catch on with more people...
It sounds like you're referring to the "3M Precise Mousing Surface". They're still available, and excellent mouse pads they are too.
Did you run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade recently? The version of gnome is definitely 2.4, don't know about kde, but I suspect you're just as misinformed about that too.
Back on topic, stock debian-sparc installs perfectly on Javastations, and has done since woody came out.
Decided I needed a sidewinder gamepad for GTA III. Don't think I've used it for any other games (well, apart from vice city) but it was still a damn sight cheaper than buying a PS2.
Excedrin extra strength would probably get rid of your caffiene withdrawal symtoms, due to it containing 65 mg of caffiene. You have to be careful what you use to kill the withdrawal headaches.
Techtronics.com have the Sony DVP-F11 with "User prohibitions Disabled" which means you can skip those annoying adverts on disney dvds and the fbi warning and basically puts you in control of what you're watching. They may have other dvd players with this feature, but this is the one i've got, and a very happy customer I am too.
There would be a very small window of oppportunity for someone to lock your phone via IR because the "beam recieve" on 7110's only stays on for a short time before shutting itself off automatically (except if it recieving IR data obviously).
But really I've had enough trouble talking to my 7110 from my PalmPilot that's only a really short distance away (tho that might be down to weak transmission from the palmpilot).
You can get/. from your wap phone - just point it at http://slashdot.org . The only slight problem is that the stories tend to be too big for the 7110 to cope with (There's a fairly small limit on the size decks can be)
I'd dispute the idea the texting is expensive. Say I want to arrange to go to the pub with a friend this evening. I can either ring him - which at peak time and across mobile phone networks is about 0.50 GBP per minute, which with standard chit chat and stuff will result in us talking for a good couple of minutes - i.e. it will cost me around 1 GBP. Or i can text him saying "Pub 8:00 tonight" and get the reply "8:30 ok?" or "no, can't do tonight" or whatever. Net cost 0.20 GBP. Much cheaper ya'see.
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"Windows CE has REAL internet access via a standard TCP/IP stack." So has PalmOS.... No real difference there then..
And maybe if you are loaded you can afford to get (and lug) your "flash card, CLIK drive, microdrive, etc." But for something affordable, that does what you need out of the box, you can't beat PalmOS... You don't need all that extra storage if you don't have MS bloatware installed.
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My palm 3 has wireless capabilites - "I'd rather buy a modem and connect up to a cell phone." Option international make a very funky modem which clips to the bottom of the palm pilot and connects to my cellphone. (Personally I agree that the Palm VII is steep, but why bother with 2 subscriptions, when I already have a cellphone, and a bundle of off peak minutes)... It all depends on what you want to use it for I guess tho - if you desperately need to surf the web in colour on the move, sure lug a CE machine around. But for email, and mainly text surfing, you can't beat a palm 3 for size, affordability and battery life.
If you're seriously telling me that you can get $70K straight out of university, I'm coming over to the US. Somehow I doubt it, but if it's true I'm coming over.
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I mailed a gmail invite to a Hotmail address this morning, and it got through fine.
Did you run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade recently? The version of gnome is definitely 2.4, don't know about kde, but I suspect you're just as misinformed about that too.
Back on topic, stock debian-sparc installs perfectly on Javastations, and has done since woody came out.
Decided I needed a sidewinder gamepad for GTA III. Don't think I've used it for any other games (well, apart from vice city) but it was still a damn sight cheaper than buying a PS2.
Excedrin extra strength would probably get rid of your caffiene withdrawal symtoms, due to it containing 65 mg of caffiene. You have to be careful what you use to kill the withdrawal headaches.
Gamecube discs don't spin backwards. I've looked.
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There would be a very small window of oppportunity for someone to lock your phone via IR because the "beam recieve" on 7110's only stays on for a short time before shutting itself off automatically (except if it recieving IR data obviously).
But really I've had enough trouble talking to my 7110 from my PalmPilot that's only a really short distance away (tho that might be down to weak transmission from the palmpilot).
CGI=Computer Generated Imagery Graf
You can get /. from your wap phone - just point it at http://slashdot.org . The only slight problem is that the stories tend to be too big for the 7110 to cope with (There's a fairly small limit on the size decks can be)
I'd dispute the idea the texting is expensive. Say I want to arrange to go to the pub with a friend this evening. I can either ring him - which at peak time and across mobile phone networks is about 0.50 GBP per minute, which with standard chit chat and stuff will result in us talking for a good couple of minutes - i.e. it will cost me around 1 GBP. Or i can text him saying "Pub 8:00 tonight" and get the reply "8:30 ok?" or "no, can't do tonight" or whatever. Net cost 0.20 GBP. Much cheaper ya'see.
"Windows CE has REAL internet access via a standard TCP/IP stack." So has PalmOS.... No real difference there then..
And maybe if you are loaded you can afford to get (and lug) your "flash card, CLIK drive, microdrive, etc." But for something affordable, that does what you need out of the box, you can't beat PalmOS... You don't need all that extra storage if you don't have MS bloatware installed.
re: point 3
My palm 3 has wireless capabilites - "I'd rather buy a modem and connect up to a cell phone." Option international make a very funky modem which clips to the bottom of the palm pilot and connects to my cellphone. (Personally I agree that the Palm VII is steep, but why bother with 2 subscriptions, when I already have a cellphone, and a bundle of off peak minutes)... It all depends on what you want to use it for I guess tho - if you desperately need to surf the web in colour on the move, sure lug a CE machine around. But for email, and mainly text surfing, you can't beat a palm 3 for size, affordability and battery life.
Graf in England - and I really don't suck