A while back, Echostar joined forces with ReplayTV shortly after the MS WebTV DishPlayer was released. This may just be a sign that things are going well enough for ReplayTV on a new sat recorder, and they don't need the consumer side on the table anymore. I love my 40GB DishPlayer (Upgraded with no hacks, just swapped the drive), and would love to see an even more stable Replay based Dish system.
And Tivo's don't have a 30 second skip? Wow, After using that on my DishPlayer for the past year, it would take a while to get used to another way of commercial skipping.
Heh, I think the handhelds.org people must have had something to do with the placement of the "Windows Powered" logo on the iPaq. It conviently hides under any expansion pack, or the basic style sleeve that came with the iPaq so once Linux is running, people can't easially find the Windows logo.
Now to just get a tiny Tux sticker for the front of mine and I'll be set.
Lets see, a complaint that $300 + a HD is just not cheap for your entire music collection in one device. I paid $1200 for that ability with the empeg, and ahve never regretted it. Having all the music in one device has so many more advantages even over MP3 CD's.
I wouldn't be suprised if it is brought back though, now that Sony owns all of Verant. Sony has lawyers that could potentially back this. And Sony has indicated they want to do similar things. So it wouldn't suprise me at all.
> Ever seen the iPaq Pocket PC outside? I'd have to say it's readibility actually beats my old Palm V.
No, I haven't seen it. But for every such glowing report I hear many more that complain about the washed-out screen under normal daylight conditions
(not in the shade, or in a sunlit room, but under the clear sky).
I had no problem today using it in direct sunlight, except for the occasional blinding from reflecting the light into my eyes. Compairing my iPaq to the 15 inch TFT on my laptop, the iPaq does a much better job at being seen in sun then the laptop. I made sure the iPaq could be used outside, and was happy to confirm it was just as useful as my Palm V.
> My iPaq is now a device that I charge nightly along with other things I own.
Well, my personal habits don't go for that. That's why I also don't carry other rechargable devices, such as a cell phone. I end up simply not doing it, and it's dead when I do need it. Besides, I simply don't hotsync often enough for the recharging to be transparent, maybe once a week or so. My wife hotsyncs her Visor maybe once a month. And I definitely don't leave it for long in the cradle. Hotsync and back in the pocket.
What helps in my case is that the cradle sits right on my bedstand, and I use the iPaq as a second alarm (Since one seems to never get me out of bed on time).
> With the new generation of flashy WinCE 3 devices, many of the 2.11 devices are cheaper then midrange Palms.
Yeah, but we're comparing latest generation Palms here, so I don't need an old and deficient WinCE 2.1. The latest V3 might be getting more usable,
but the older versions were just crap.
More useful to a point, but still needs work. I hope to avoid the situation soon by getting Linux running, but I don't plan on taking a step back to do so. The main reason I brought up the older devices is due to the possibility of cost being an issue for the origional question. Never did I mean that CE 2.11 was friendly to a user.
> Overall, I moved from Palm to PocketPC because I wanted exactly that, a Pocket PC.
Fair enough. That's what I actually want as well, but for me the best compromise currently are the Palms. I'm simply too averted by short battery life, I just don't want something that I constantly have to baby. It's bad enough that I have to change the batteries every 2-3 weeks when I'm particularly heavy into Galaxian and Tetris, but worrying about power twice a week--forget it.
Everyone seems to have different battery needs. I got used to the nightly charge due to my Palm V wireless modem from Omnisky. It required a charge every night, or it became worthless. Definitly one of the bad things, but the good thing it did was insure I never heard my cell phone complain about a low battery again because of the training it put me through. (Although now the cellphone gets it's charge in the daily drive to work. Could always do this for a handheld as well)
> But with a handheld that can play MPEG-4 movies
I'm sorry, but that's a joke. Besides the we-can-do-it factor, I see absolutely no purpose in that, and please spare me the I-stream-video-over-wireless thing. I know more people that have ditched their expensive Casio E-xxx because the video and MP3 novelty wore off than I know people that ditched Palms because they NEEDED video.
The MPEG 4 part is definitly not a joke. The iPaq comes loaded with an ad for "Packet Video", and after looking into it, it's a MPEG 4 player, complete with the entire iPaq promotional video at 1.4 megs. It definitly has the system at it's limits, but it's nice to see the power there. And while streaming video may not be overly useful, I recently heard of someone who converted a DVD to an MPEG 4 file, loaded it on a microdrive, and enjoyed a movie on a flight. Sure, it dosen't beat a laptop with a big screen, but when you don't own a laptop, it's better then solataire:-) MP3 capability will only be useful once I get a PCMCIA expansion pack for the iPaq, and can stream my music off any computer in the house to any other location. Instead of lengthy cables across the house for MP3's, just set the iPaq on the reciever and hook into the headphone jack. That will be my main use of the MP3 playback.
> access to PCMCIA wireless (modem or LAN)
Here I fully agree, I think wireless connectivity is the killer app that will push PDAs out of their niche. I'm pining for the day when I can carry my PDA around the entire company with constant connectivity, live email updates, web browsing during boring meetings, etc. All without killing the batteries in 2 hours or less.
Same here. My facility at work is having 802.11 wireless installed, and the ability to get quick web updates on the road with a CDPD modem is quite nice. And instead of having the issue of only having access with my Palm V, my CDPD modem will be useful on the handheld or laptop when traveling, all for one monthly bill and one up front price for hardware.
Color screens I personally find quite unnecessary. I know many disagree, but for useful information display a good contrast monochrome screen like my M100 is perfectly acceptable. Only when color requires no compromises in readability and especially power usage will I change my opinion. I think a large screen size with good resolution is more important. I wish manufacturers would work harder on converting more of the frontal area of the PDAs into screen.
I like the color on my iPaq for certail things, like the ability to read black text on a white background. I really couldn't stand reading much on my Palm V, but with the iPaq, I am halfway through the e-book Timeline.
Actually, I do rather like the new iPaq. I think it's pretty close to an ideal PDA in terms of functionality and power. All it needs now is 1-2 weeks of good use per charge, and more expandability. And a lower price. Carrying something that cost over $500 carelessly in the pant pocket is not my idea of prudence. My cheap M100 on the other hand I don't worry too much about.
The expansion possibilities are comming, but I am happy with CF and PCMCIA for now. Battery life is going to be a tough one to advance from here, but one day it will happen. Price will hopefully also come down, although I have spent quite a bit on getting a new shiny toy, so I don't mind that much. ($450 on the Palm V, $300 on it's modem, and now $500 on the iPaq). I still like the Palm line for some things, but the color attempt needs to be redone. I wasn't impressed with the IIIc at all.
Being a recent Palm->Pocket PC converted, I am going to share my findings with a few points in the WinCE area.
WinCE:
-color screens almost unreadable in daylight, great at night
Ever seen the iPaq Pocket PC outside? I'd have to say it's readibility actually beats my old Palm V. Plus there are monocrome CE devices, like the upcomming iPaq 3150.
-short battery life, which can be a problem depending on usage model
My iPaq is now a device that I charge nightly along with other things I own. But in the time I have had it, I have never gotten the battery below 60%, and thats with one day playing music in the car with the screen left on for 2 hours, plus reading with the backlight and such. I could easially go 3-4 days of moderate use without needing a charge. But since the cradle charges and I sync daily for AvantGo, it's not a problem. Also, the iPaq's battery can be almost doubled with the PCMCIA expansion, as it adds a 2ed equal capicity battery to run the PCMCIA device or to charge the iPaq's battery.
-expensive devices, a factor in a harsh environment
I have found many CE based devices for not that much. With the new generation of flashy WinCE 3 devices, many of the 2.11 devices are cheaper then midrange Palms.
Overall, I moved from Palm to PocketPC because I wanted exactly that, a Pocket PC. The PIM stuff on WinCE for the most part blows chunks compaired to the Palm. But with a handheld that can play MPEG-4 movies, and access to PCMCIA wireless (modem or LAN) while sharing the cost with my laptop, I haven't looked back yet.
The Intel style chipset is versitile enough to work in a handheld easily enough, and Intel componets are certainly cheap enough to use.
The Compaq iPaq Blackberry wireless e-mail PDA does use an i386 chip inside of it. I definitly have to agree to some extent that it would make running programs on the PDA easier if it had an Intel x86 chip inside, but one problem. The device will be years behind current processing power, and storage will be an issue. Once you dig up Word 6.0, it would run, but Word 6.0 (And other programs) are designed for a keyboard and mouse interface with a decent resolution. Work would still have to be done to change the UI to make it run on a small screen, and by then, it would have been easier to instead make PocketWord, and throw in the benefit of compatibility with 95, 97, and 2000.doc files.
I don't see a problem with all handhelds running non Intel x86 chips for now. Once we start all using virtual monitors on these, then it will be useful.
I think that given the size of the screen and the input options for these palmtops, not to mention the cpu/mem constraints dont seem to fit the whole Unix/X way of doing things
To some extent true. But keep in mind this little device packs more power then many desktops 5-10 years ago. While input may need to be reworked to be useable with a stylus, the power is exactly why I left my Palm V and got the iPaq. I decided I wanted something more then a PDA, and the name PocketPC is very approiate. I can sit and watch streaming video from anywhere in my house via an 802.11 card in the device. I can carry the device in the same way I did my Palm V, and have so much more potential in my portable gear. All because the engineers finally shrank my computer of years ago into a small form factor with decent battery life and a color screen viewable outside and in. True, storage is a bit low, but nothing a 340 or 1gb microdrive + CF to PCMCIA adaptor + PCMCIA expansion can't solve. (PCMCIA expansion used due to it's own battery to not let the Microdrive suck the device dry quickly).
In 5-10 more years, just imagine the power of a handheld device, and what it will do to complement your existance with computers.
All I want to ask is why? A desktop distribution (or server) made to run on a PocketPC. Requires constant network connection, and another machine. Seems similar to, oh, WinCE 1.0 and 2.0. Copy Windows 9x interface to PDA, expect it to be useful.
Compair this to the handhelds.org project to get PDA like features running on Linux on the iPaq PocketPC. And without a network.
And I'm assuming section 1.2.2 will be how to install into main memory so that a network card could be installed instead of the CF card...
According to http://www.compaq.com/products/software/linux/ the high end Alpha servers don't support Linux yet. I'm sure Compaq Research has done it many times, but if it's not supported at this point, it means Compaq dosen't feel that a client needs to pay possibly millions for a server that won't perform at it's maximum capibilities when loaded with Linux. Compaq is pushing Linux big time, and it will definitly be a technical reason for it not running on a server, not a marketing decision.
This is the first time I have looked at a screenshot of the Yopy, and noticed the interface looks oddly like CE 2.1 on Palm-sized PC. Any particular reason they couldn't make their own interface? Honestly, the first time I saw RedHat long ago defaulting to that Windows ripoff, I couldn't understand why. And now this.
Now if I could get a Game Boy emulator running on my iPaq, I'll be held over until the game expansion for it.
Open top of Compaq Proliant 6500 with HotPlug PCI slots. Insert DualNic, close PCI slot cover. 2000 Advanced server pops up the new driver window, installs just fine, and brings both ports online. Open Network properties, set IP's staticially, and go. No reboots at all.
Same process repeated in many other servers, with the only difference being the non HotPlug ones requiring a shutdown to install the card.
2000 shouldn't need a reboot ever when dealing with the network. If it does, you did something wrong.
Intel just wants to keep USB alive to try and steal the power of 1394. But in reality, the main benefit of 1394 is not being tied to a PC host or having a hub based network. Where is this useful? In the home entertainment area, where you could hook your 1394 HDTV to a 1394 DVD player and enjoy. One cable per device, instead of the several to get video and audio. Plus it's all digital.
USB2 will be nice for the speed, but 1394 is prepairing to hop to 800Mb/s then on to 1.6Gb/s.
Just to get this misconseption out of peoples minds, the iPaq is not a product. iPaq is a product line from Compaq containing multiple things like the PocketPC, WebPC, an MP3 player and probably more down the road.
Very nice idea. Would have been handy a few weeks ago to adjust a few recordings while I was on vacation. Now Dish Networks just needs to hurry up and scrap the DishPlayer and get a Replay based reciever out. And add an ethernet jack, since my house has no normal phone lines anymore.
I enjoy gaming on my 27 inch Destination Monitor and my Dreamcast with VGA. Best of both worlds, higher resoluton then TV, and big. (Destination monitors are up to 36 inches, and gaming or watching DVD's on them is just amazing.)
Sega probably wouldn't be going after these ROM sites if they didn't provide Dreamcast ROMS. But with the game console industry, you sell consoles usually near or at a loss, and let the games and accessories bring in the profit. When someone can just go and download these games, and play it on their console, Sega earns little profit.
Although Sega must have not thought things through with the ROM issue on the DC. How hard would it have been to insure the game is running off a GD-ROM? Put that check in the BIOS, and not the boot disk, and you elliminate quite a few ROM users who don't want to install "Chip-X" into their DC to get around an internal block.
GPL is also not the way to go on many things out there. Companies exist to make products, and earn money off them. While GPL might work great for code developed at 3am for a sound driver, it dosen't work when it's done 8-5 at a company. The company has to pay employees, and employees need a paycheck to survive. Period. GPL the entire computer industry, and watch it die in a month at most.
Most has been done in Colorado Springs, with a bit on I-25 to Denver, around the Dallas and Austin areas of TX, and in LA. So far, it's been decent in all these areas. The complete coverage map is at http://www.omnisky.com/products/coverage.jhtml
One thing here, Adventure and Action games are 2 different and very distinct generas. Theif 1 and 2 were action games. So was System Shock 1 and 2. But Myst, Riven, Journeyman Project 1, 2, 3, Zork 1-9, and the Monkey Island series were all adventure games. There is a big difference, and have different followers.
Looking Glass went under due to reasons that could happen to anyone. It wasn't because of the type of game they made, it was due to their business troubles.
Thats what I didn't understand. Why would/. post about another PQA? Now that I know who you are, and what you do, it makes more sense. More explaination in the story would have been helpful.
Just use AvantGo, and create a second/. acocunt for it. Then, you can set the preferences to lower the complexity of the pages, and have it on any Palm device, online or offline.
I love my OmniSky modem. It's unlimited, works with PQA's (like the one above or the existing/. one), and gives you a real internet connection, so things like ICQ, Telnet, and remote syncing work. The telnet alone could be an excuse for your boss to pay for it. "I need this, so when I'm not at work, I can still fix the servers, yeah, thats it."
Also, right now, the modem comes with a $150 rebate if you stay for 6 months.
The advantage to having a modem is you can just pop it off and keep the sleek form factor when only needing PDA access.
OmniSky's support is execelent. They have also treated the beta team very well (Free service during the beta, 15% off the rate plan, a free carying case, and the $150 rebate).
I definitly have to recommend OmniSky above the Palm VII for anyone with a Palm V (or soon a Visor).
Looking at http://www.rgctech.com/slashdot/, and seeing that it's been out since the VII was in beta, what does this PQA add over it? And how is this new and amazing?
Looking at M16, this is implemented into Mozilla as well. All it really is is just a setting that will only send and recieve cookies to the URL you typed. Mozilla also has the ability to ban specific sites from sending the browser cookies, useful for when a list of ad banner servers is obtained.
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A while back, Echostar joined forces with ReplayTV shortly after the MS WebTV DishPlayer was released. This may just be a sign that things are going well enough for ReplayTV on a new sat recorder, and they don't need the consumer side on the table anymore. I love my 40GB DishPlayer (Upgraded with no hacks, just swapped the drive), and would love to see an even more stable Replay based Dish system.
And Tivo's don't have a 30 second skip? Wow, After using that on my DishPlayer for the past year, it would take a while to get used to another way of commercial skipping.
Heh, I think the handhelds.org people must have had something to do with the placement of the "Windows Powered" logo on the iPaq. It conviently hides under any expansion pack, or the basic style sleeve that came with the iPaq so once Linux is running, people can't easially find the Windows logo.
Now to just get a tiny Tux sticker for the front of mine and I'll be set.
Lets see, a complaint that $300 + a HD is just not cheap for your entire music collection in one device. I paid $1200 for that ability with the empeg, and ahve never regretted it. Having all the music in one device has so many more advantages even over MP3 CD's.
I wouldn't be suprised if it is brought back though, now that Sony owns all of Verant. Sony has lawyers that could potentially back this. And Sony has indicated they want to do similar things. So it wouldn't suprise me at all.
I'm just glad I got off evercrack long ago.
> Ever seen the iPaq Pocket PC outside? I'd have to say it's readibility actually beats my old Palm V.
:-) MP3 capability will only be useful once I get a PCMCIA expansion pack for the iPaq, and can stream my music off any computer in the house to any other location. Instead of lengthy cables across the house for MP3's, just set the iPaq on the reciever and hook into the headphone jack. That will be my main use of the MP3 playback.
No, I haven't seen it. But for every such glowing report I hear many more that complain about the washed-out screen under normal daylight conditions
(not in the shade, or in a sunlit room, but under the clear sky).
I had no problem today using it in direct sunlight, except for the occasional blinding from reflecting the light into my eyes. Compairing my iPaq to the 15 inch TFT on my laptop, the iPaq does a much better job at being seen in sun then the laptop. I made sure the iPaq could be used outside, and was happy to confirm it was just as useful as my Palm V.
> My iPaq is now a device that I charge nightly along with other things I own.
Well, my personal habits don't go for that. That's why I also don't carry other rechargable devices, such as a cell phone. I end up simply not doing it, and it's dead when I do need it. Besides, I simply don't hotsync often enough for the recharging to be transparent, maybe once a week or so. My wife hotsyncs her Visor maybe once a month. And I definitely don't leave it for long in the cradle. Hotsync and back in the pocket.
What helps in my case is that the cradle sits right on my bedstand, and I use the iPaq as a second alarm (Since one seems to never get me out of bed on time).
> With the new generation of flashy WinCE 3 devices, many of the 2.11 devices are cheaper then midrange Palms.
Yeah, but we're comparing latest generation Palms here, so I don't need an old and deficient WinCE 2.1. The latest V3 might be getting more usable,
but the older versions were just crap.
More useful to a point, but still needs work. I hope to avoid the situation soon by getting Linux running, but I don't plan on taking a step back to do so. The main reason I brought up the older devices is due to the possibility of cost being an issue for the origional question. Never did I mean that CE 2.11 was friendly to a user.
> Overall, I moved from Palm to PocketPC because I wanted exactly that, a Pocket PC.
Fair enough. That's what I actually want as well, but for me the best compromise currently are the Palms. I'm simply too averted by short battery life, I just don't want something that I constantly have to baby. It's bad enough that I have to change the batteries every 2-3 weeks when I'm particularly heavy into Galaxian and Tetris, but worrying about power twice a week--forget it.
Everyone seems to have different battery needs. I got used to the nightly charge due to my Palm V wireless modem from Omnisky. It required a charge every night, or it became worthless. Definitly one of the bad things, but the good thing it did was insure I never heard my cell phone complain about a low battery again because of the training it put me through. (Although now the cellphone gets it's charge in the daily drive to work. Could always do this for a handheld as well)
> But with a handheld that can play MPEG-4 movies
I'm sorry, but that's a joke. Besides the we-can-do-it factor, I see absolutely no purpose in that, and please spare me the I-stream-video-over-wireless thing. I know more people that have ditched their expensive Casio E-xxx because the video and MP3 novelty wore off than I know people that ditched Palms because they NEEDED video.
The MPEG 4 part is definitly not a joke. The iPaq comes loaded with an ad for "Packet Video", and after looking into it, it's a MPEG 4 player, complete with the entire iPaq promotional video at 1.4 megs. It definitly has the system at it's limits, but it's nice to see the power there. And while streaming video may not be overly useful, I recently heard of someone who converted a DVD to an MPEG 4 file, loaded it on a microdrive, and enjoyed a movie on a flight. Sure, it dosen't beat a laptop with a big screen, but when you don't own a laptop, it's better then solataire
> access to PCMCIA wireless (modem or LAN)
Here I fully agree, I think wireless connectivity is the killer app that will push PDAs out of their niche. I'm pining for the day when I can carry my PDA around the entire company with constant connectivity, live email updates, web browsing during boring meetings, etc. All without killing the batteries in 2 hours or less.
Same here. My facility at work is having 802.11 wireless installed, and the ability to get quick web updates on the road with a CDPD modem is quite nice. And instead of having the issue of only having access with my Palm V, my CDPD modem will be useful on the handheld or laptop when traveling, all for one monthly bill and one up front price for hardware.
Color screens I personally find quite unnecessary. I know many disagree, but for useful information display a good contrast monochrome screen like my M100 is perfectly acceptable. Only when color requires no compromises in readability and especially power usage will I change my opinion. I think a large screen size with good resolution is more important. I wish manufacturers would work harder on converting more of the frontal area of the PDAs into screen.
I like the color on my iPaq for certail things, like the ability to read black text on a white background. I really couldn't stand reading much on my Palm V, but with the iPaq, I am halfway through the e-book Timeline.
Actually, I do rather like the new iPaq. I think it's pretty close to an ideal PDA in terms of functionality and power. All it needs now is 1-2 weeks of good use per charge, and more expandability. And a lower price. Carrying something that cost over $500 carelessly in the pant pocket is not my idea of prudence. My cheap M100 on the other hand I don't worry too much about.
The expansion possibilities are comming, but I am happy with CF and PCMCIA for now. Battery life is going to be a tough one to advance from here, but one day it will happen. Price will hopefully also come down, although I have spent quite a bit on getting a new shiny toy, so I don't mind that much. ($450 on the Palm V, $300 on it's modem, and now $500 on the iPaq). I still like the Palm line for some things, but the color attempt needs to be redone. I wasn't impressed with the IIIc at all.
Being a recent Palm->Pocket PC converted, I am going to share my findings with a few points in the WinCE area.
WinCE:
-color screens almost unreadable in daylight, great at night
Ever seen the iPaq Pocket PC outside? I'd have to say it's readibility actually beats my old Palm V. Plus there are monocrome CE devices, like the upcomming iPaq 3150.
-short battery life, which can be a problem depending on usage model
My iPaq is now a device that I charge nightly along with other things I own. But in the time I have had it, I have never gotten the battery below 60%, and thats with one day playing music in the car with the screen left on for 2 hours, plus reading with the backlight and such. I could easially go 3-4 days of moderate use without needing a charge. But since the cradle charges and I sync daily for AvantGo, it's not a problem. Also, the iPaq's battery can be almost doubled with the PCMCIA expansion, as it adds a 2ed equal capicity battery to run the PCMCIA device or to charge the iPaq's battery.
-expensive devices, a factor in a harsh environment
I have found many CE based devices for not that much. With the new generation of flashy WinCE 3 devices, many of the 2.11 devices are cheaper then midrange Palms.
Overall, I moved from Palm to PocketPC because I wanted exactly that, a Pocket PC. The PIM stuff on WinCE for the most part blows chunks compaired to the Palm. But with a handheld that can play MPEG-4 movies, and access to PCMCIA wireless (modem or LAN) while sharing the cost with my laptop, I haven't looked back yet.
The Intel style chipset is versitile enough to work in a handheld easily enough, and Intel componets are certainly cheap enough to use.
.doc files.
The Compaq iPaq Blackberry wireless e-mail PDA does use an i386 chip inside of it. I definitly have to agree to some extent that it would make running programs on the PDA easier if it had an Intel x86 chip inside, but one problem. The device will be years behind current processing power, and storage will be an issue. Once you dig up Word 6.0, it would run, but Word 6.0 (And other programs) are designed for a keyboard and mouse interface with a decent resolution. Work would still have to be done to change the UI to make it run on a small screen, and by then, it would have been easier to instead make PocketWord, and throw in the benefit of compatibility with 95, 97, and 2000
I don't see a problem with all handhelds running non Intel x86 chips for now. Once we start all using virtual monitors on these, then it will be useful.
I think that given the size of the screen and the input options for these palmtops, not to mention the cpu/mem constraints dont seem to fit the whole Unix/X way of doing things
To some extent true. But keep in mind this little device packs more power then many desktops 5-10 years ago. While input may need to be reworked to be useable with a stylus, the power is exactly why I left my Palm V and got the iPaq. I decided I wanted something more then a PDA, and the name PocketPC is very approiate. I can sit and watch streaming video from anywhere in my house via an 802.11 card in the device. I can carry the device in the same way I did my Palm V, and have so much more potential in my portable gear. All because the engineers finally shrank my computer of years ago into a small form factor with decent battery life and a color screen viewable outside and in. True, storage is a bit low, but nothing a 340 or 1gb microdrive + CF to PCMCIA adaptor + PCMCIA expansion can't solve. (PCMCIA expansion used due to it's own battery to not let the Microdrive suck the device dry quickly).
In 5-10 more years, just imagine the power of a handheld device, and what it will do to complement your existance with computers.
All I want to ask is why? A desktop distribution (or server) made to run on a PocketPC. Requires constant network connection, and another machine. Seems similar to, oh, WinCE 1.0 and 2.0. Copy Windows 9x interface to PDA, expect it to be useful.
Compair this to the handhelds.org project to get PDA like features running on Linux on the iPaq PocketPC. And without a network.
And I'm assuming section 1.2.2 will be how to install into main memory so that a network card could be installed instead of the CF card...
According to http://www.compaq.com/products/software/linux/ the high end Alpha servers don't support Linux yet. I'm sure Compaq Research has done it many times, but if it's not supported at this point, it means Compaq dosen't feel that a client needs to pay possibly millions for a server that won't perform at it's maximum capibilities when loaded with Linux. Compaq is pushing Linux big time, and it will definitly be a technical reason for it not running on a server, not a marketing decision.
This is the first time I have looked at a screenshot of the Yopy, and noticed the interface looks oddly like CE 2.1 on Palm-sized PC. Any particular reason they couldn't make their own interface? Honestly, the first time I saw RedHat long ago defaulting to that Windows ripoff, I couldn't understand why. And now this.
Now if I could get a Game Boy emulator running on my iPaq, I'll be held over until the game expansion for it.
Ok, here is my experience:
Open top of Compaq Proliant 6500 with HotPlug PCI slots. Insert DualNic, close PCI slot cover. 2000 Advanced server pops up the new driver window, installs just fine, and brings both ports online. Open Network properties, set IP's staticially, and go. No reboots at all.
Same process repeated in many other servers, with the only difference being the non HotPlug ones requiring a shutdown to install the card.
2000 shouldn't need a reboot ever when dealing with the network. If it does, you did something wrong.
They have the code for PTV in the DishPlayer satalite unit already, so a simple port and it's on the X-Box. Makes sense.
Intel just wants to keep USB alive to try and steal the power of 1394. But in reality, the main benefit of 1394 is not being tied to a PC host or having a hub based network. Where is this useful? In the home entertainment area, where you could hook your 1394 HDTV to a 1394 DVD player and enjoy. One cable per device, instead of the several to get video and audio. Plus it's all digital.
USB2 will be nice for the speed, but 1394 is prepairing to hop to 800Mb/s then on to 1.6Gb/s.
Just to get this misconseption out of peoples minds, the iPaq is not a product. iPaq is a product line from Compaq containing multiple things like the PocketPC, WebPC, an MP3 player and probably more down the road.
Very nice idea. Would have been handy a few weeks ago to adjust a few recordings while I was on vacation. Now Dish Networks just needs to hurry up and scrap the DishPlayer and get a Replay based reciever out. And add an ethernet jack, since my house has no normal phone lines anymore.
I enjoy gaming on my 27 inch Destination Monitor and my Dreamcast with VGA. Best of both worlds, higher resoluton then TV, and big. (Destination monitors are up to 36 inches, and gaming or watching DVD's on them is just amazing.)
Sega probably wouldn't be going after these ROM sites if they didn't provide Dreamcast ROMS. But with the game console industry, you sell consoles usually near or at a loss, and let the games and accessories bring in the profit. When someone can just go and download these games, and play it on their console, Sega earns little profit.
Although Sega must have not thought things through with the ROM issue on the DC. How hard would it have been to insure the game is running off a GD-ROM? Put that check in the BIOS, and not the boot disk, and you elliminate quite a few ROM users who don't want to install "Chip-X" into their DC to get around an internal block.
GPL is also not the way to go on many things out there. Companies exist to make products, and earn money off them. While GPL might work great for code developed at 3am for a sound driver, it dosen't work when it's done 8-5 at a company. The company has to pay employees, and employees need a paycheck to survive. Period. GPL the entire computer industry, and watch it die in a month at most.
Most has been done in Colorado Springs, with a bit on I-25 to Denver, around the Dallas and Austin areas of TX, and in LA. So far, it's been decent in all these areas. The complete coverage map is at http://www.omnisky.com/products/coverage.jhtml
One thing here, Adventure and Action games are 2 different and very distinct generas. Theif 1 and 2 were action games. So was System Shock 1 and 2. But Myst, Riven, Journeyman Project 1, 2, 3, Zork 1-9, and the Monkey Island series were all adventure games. There is a big difference, and have different followers.
Looking Glass went under due to reasons that could happen to anyone. It wasn't because of the type of game they made, it was due to their business troubles.
Thats what I didn't understand. Why would /. post about another PQA? Now that I know who you are, and what you do, it makes more sense. More explaination in the story would have been helpful.
Just use AvantGo, and create a second /. acocunt for it. Then, you can set the preferences to lower the complexity of the pages, and have it on any Palm device, online or offline.
I love my OmniSky modem. It's unlimited, works with PQA's (like the one above or the existing /. one), and gives you a real internet connection, so things like ICQ, Telnet, and remote syncing work. The telnet alone could be an excuse for your boss to pay for it. "I need this, so when I'm not at work, I can still fix the servers, yeah, thats it."
Also, right now, the modem comes with a $150 rebate if you stay for 6 months.
The advantage to having a modem is you can just pop it off and keep the sleek form factor when only needing PDA access.
OmniSky's support is execelent. They have also treated the beta team very well (Free service during the beta, 15% off the rate plan, a free carying case, and the $150 rebate).
I definitly have to recommend OmniSky above the Palm VII for anyone with a Palm V (or soon a Visor).
Looking at http://www.rgctech.com/slashdot/, and seeing that it's been out since the VII was in beta, what does this PQA add over it? And how is this new and amazing?
Looking at M16, this is implemented into Mozilla as well. All it really is is just a setting that will only send and recieve cookies to the URL you typed. Mozilla also has the ability to ban specific sites from sending the browser cookies, useful for when a list of ad banner servers is obtained.