I am in total agreement with Mark Dayton, incidentally, my senator.
Any child could see that taxing email would reduce spam. What spammer would be willing to pay a a couple pennies on each of a 5 million emails in a bulk mailing? Perhaps on a particularily profitable one, sure. If it's legally profitable and people buy into it, then it is likely for a good non-evil reason. If they make money illegally or through fraud, then the tax itself would help track the assholes down and punish them.
That said, I think our freedom should be retained and cherished. While it may certainly help decrease the amount of spam, spam isn't that big of a problem for me personally, and definately not worth the money spent on the email tax or the cost of freedom lost.
huh. sounds like I said what he did- "just one of the tactics that should be considered, but I don't favor it at this time." Which is to say: "yes it could work, but I don't think we should do it."
Likewise, destroying all email servers would put a stop to email-based spam in a heartbeat, but I sure as hell don't endorse that etiher.
First off- Rekall is a very nice app. IMHO, TKC is one of the better app developers for Linux. Rekall is very much like MS Access, but a lot better. GUI design and Python scripting are a couple big strengths of the package. Like Access, you can use a database file of its own format (analogous to.mdb I imagine) or you can connect to a remote SQL server.
Second- anyone know if the Zaurus version of Rekall will be GPL'd? I use it, although it is only the demo. The demo has all the functionality of the real deal, but only allow you do make a local file-based DB, not allowing you to connect to MySQL and the other RDBMSs over the network. Wasn't a problem for me, as I just wanted to do it locally. But for others, those who want to connecto to a remote server, this would be even better.
SPARC may be a spec, but that doesn't mean that Sun doesn't have valuable implementation-specific information that AMD could use to create a next-gen 64-bit SPARC CPU that is based on the Opteron in some way.
I know nothing about the Opteron architecture, so I can't comment on how worthwhile that endevour would be. But for an illustration, let's pretend the Opteron is setup in a similar way as the AMD K6-2- a RISC CPU inside and a x86->AMD RISC translator between the rest of the computer and the inner-CPU. It is conceivable that AMD could create a SPARC64->AMD RISC translator or perhaps dumping the translator and modifying the inner RISC core to use the SPARC instruction set.
Perhaps the grandparent poster should've used the proper terminology "Sun's current implementation of 64-bit SPARC," but I imagine most people got his meaning. No need to have a stick up yer ass about it.
Wifi makes little sense for some PDAs, especially ones equipped with a poor battery. On other PDAs, wifi makes a lot of sense; at least, as much sense as wifi makes on any other computing device.
On a PDA I owned but sold a few months ago, I could get 8 hours straight of wifi-enabled usage. That is, web browsing, ssh, irc, email etc etc. No, some PDAs don't make sense- like a Palm m130 or a Zaurus SL-5500 where you're talking about two hours or less doing wifi stuff. But there are PDAs out there with the ability to deal without getting a big clunky external case.
Bah, the IBM CF Microdrive blows. Way too expensive for the amount of space; you may as well just get real flash. Maybe someday the tide will turn enough to make it a good idea, but for now it is silly. The biggest Microdrive you can get is only 1 GB.
Yes, there is a price difference, but from my quick look, it only seems to be around $50-60 more for a CF Flash card that is 1 GB over the 1 GB microdrive. If you are spending that much on a card already, why not go for something that is a ton faster and uses a lot less juice? The Microdrive just isn't the same. $200 for a 1 GB Microdrive vs $60 for a 2 GB PCMCIA... $200 would probably get you a 10 GB drive.
Although, on just about any PDA with CF slot, you can get a CF -> PCMCIA adapter. It sticks out and is clunky as hell, but a lot of the adapters I have seen have a bendable cable part, meaning you have the adapter in your CF slot, the ribbon cable around the top of the unit, and the PCMCIA drive duct taped to the back of your PDA. If I was hard up for storage I would do it, but man it would be a nasty kludge.
And on the Zaurus your battery life would be next to nothing afterword. On a SL-5500 or a C750 you'd probaly get an hour of life out of your battery.:)
The Zaurus is not large enough to really accomodate PCMCIA without making it even thicker or bigger in some way. The pics may be decieving, but the Zaurus C7x0 PDAs are not large at all, smaller than an iPAQ 36xx with a CF sleeve.
Before I'd buy one, the UX50 would have to have at least PalmOS 6 or something less sucky than POS 5.2.x and under. And it'd have to have a bigger screen, something not a little bigger than a postage stamp. I don't need a super high res (although my current PDA has a 800x480 res), but I do need a physically larger screen. And the keyboard would have to suck far less. No the Zaurus C7x0's kb is far from perfect, but the UX50's sucks ass royally.
The iBook is certainly very far from being a tiny ultra-pico-light, but it is very small for a laptop in its price class. Go to a store sometime, BestBuy or something simiilar, and have a look at what most x86 laptops look like. Thicker and heavier are most of them. Yes, you can get a Sony U101, but that's twice the price and half the speed. Not in the same class as the iBook.
People usually bring up the iBook because it's a cheap and good laptop. A lot of the time when handhelds come up here, it's in discussion of some new $800 PDA. Inevitably someone realizes "wow, I could get an iBook for not much more than that!" and says it. It isn't because they're thinking of using the iBook as a laptop.
And no, the Sony U101 is still very far from a PDA. If it wasn't so tall it'd make a pocketable handheld PC, but it's not a PDA. Doesn't have a touch screen either. And going from a Zaurus to a U101 as a price increase is huge- someoen in the market for a PDA wouldn't upgrade to one of those. But they might to an iBook.
No, that doesn't explain why they put Linux on their PDA. The reason- at least for Sharp- is superior Japanese support in Qtopia and probably to make it a few bucks cheaper skipping over the WinCE license. But mostly the former.
WinCE is a ton faster then the Linux PDA setup on the Zaurus. I've posted various numbers in threads here before, but I'm not up to doing the digging, but you're more than welcome to.
Especially bad is launch times on the Zaurus. Almost all apps launch in a second or less on any new PocketPC, notable exception being Adobe Acrobat Reader. On my C760, launch times are abysmal. Opera take 6 seconds. Terminal takes 6-12 seconds. Qpdf2 8-12. Addressbook, Calendar, Todo all 4-5, unless you leave them permanently in RAM "hidden," which is called "fast load" in the land of the Zaurus. It's darn near sad.
Even worse is the pause you get when you first turn on the C760. For instance, if I press the hotkey to open up my addressbook- I've got some bloke standing there waiting so I can get his number. I press the button and first the Zaurus blinks on, but has to "warm up" for 15+ seconds, and then a few more for the Addressbook to come up.
No one cares about 802.11x for a PDA? Heh. Maybe you live in a magical land where you can't by wifi hubs to install in your house and other people don't have them for free or subscribed use. (they sure as hell have them in london)
I'd be pissed if I didn't have 802.11b for my PDA. There is no way I'm going to put a little bluetooth transciever in every room of my apartment to get slow internet access. PDAs these days - even the $99 Palm Zire- are pretty powerful computers, their users being folks who enjoy fast net connections.
That isn't to say bluetooth wouldn't be nice too, it would. But they're different things for different purposes. Ideally, the PDA should have then both built-in with a chip controlling both so that they don't interfere with each other, like Sony did with the UX50, toggling which signal fast and transparently.
CF is what most folks would use for a wifi or bluetooth card, using SD for storage. But, you can also use the Zaurus serial ("Sharp I/O") port for adding bluetooth, although it is unsightly and clumsy.
Qtopia isn't really a "finely engeneered environment." It is passable, yes, but really falls short in a number of areas specific to PDAs and in general, any stylus-based system. It's a shame- it is my philosophy that if you're going to create a system from mostly-scrtach like Trolltech did with Qtopia, you should do it right so that when entrenchment happens everyone isn't stuck with the same substandard design. And it does happen, even with very few users entrenchment is inevitable.
Likewise what I need is a tiny little box that can sit in my bag or pocket providing cellular internet access to my PDA via bluetooth. I don't want a big, expensive phone. I don't want to talk to people on it. I don't want a screen. Nor do I want a keypad. Hell, I'd prefer it if they left off the speaker and mic. I just want a little box, perhaps a cube around 3 cm on a side with a power button and an A/C port to charge it that allows my PDA to get internet access via the cellular network without having to buy a new PDA if I want to switch providers, etc etc.
The cell phone system is really fucked up, at least in the US, and likely will be (thank you, capitialism!) for at least a handful of years more. I will not be forced to choose PDAs based on which PDA-phone that my provider happens to support, and then get fucked for dumping a contract when I want to switch to a provider with a better PDA/phone. Nor will I buy an expensive bluetooth phone that is 2/3rds the size of my PDA with tons of useless features just so I can use it as a GRPS-bluetooth bridge.
You see, different folks want different things. There is not one single phone/pda/camera thing that is anywhere near what I want or need. Maybe someday, but not for a number of years. I want my PDA to be my computer. That is to say, I want a computer that fits in my pocket. No phone could do that. A PDA with a phone card could, though.
A lot of folks don't give a damn about most PDA functionality and are perfectly content with a tiny phone with a three line screen with an address book in it so they don't have to remember phone numbers.
That said, I used to be a DOS die hard, until I discovered linux at 14. But it was the family computer, so I couldn't wipe Windows and put on Linux, especially back then (94). DOS was swell- I never had touched Win9x until I was given a Win98 machine at work when I started college.:P
That said, WinCE is a lot more of a "real OS" than DOS ever was. No, all of your crusty old DOS apps don't run without an emulator, but for the most part there is something better to replace them with on WinCE, provided you're willing to take the time to learn. Except Lotus Agenda. No replacement for that. And yes, I've a clam shell device myself which I cling to- it's my primary computer.
AFAIK the emulators for the Zaurus aren't nearly as good, but there are a couple really good x86 DOS emulators out there for WinCE. I never bothered trying out Win 3.1, but with the apps I was playing with it worked like a charm. Very fast and accurate emulation... supoprts a lot more than the Zaurus's dosbox.
Folks in the US will be able to see a similar screen soon enough- their local BestBuys, OfficeMaxes, etc etcs should start carrying the Toshiba e805 which also has a 640x480 screen. See this thread.
Depending on how you use it, the Zaurus can be worth the money. As a PDA, the software blows and it's over priced. As a computer, it works pretty good as long as you're willing to spend a lot of time working around Linux annoyances. The C760 (C750's batt life blows too hard) plus a good external keyboard and you can have a workstation-in-a-pocket.
I've been using one PDA or another for over 2 years as my "primary computer" and don't regret it at all.:)
My litmus test for any browser is opening a bunch of porno sites in tabs (or "window list" ala Opera for the Z), the kind with a million tiny thumbnails and a few annoying pop ups. Then open up a bunch of the images in new tabs. If the browser chokes it isn't fit for me.
And both NetFront (comes with the C7x0s) and Opera 6 (comes with the SL-5x00s, but installable on C7x0) pass this test with flying colors.
I figured out this test a while back and it works good as a general predictor for how the browser will behave when I'm using it for my daily work. In reality, I don't look at any porn very often, but it's a good stress test.
The CF and SD card trick is just that- a nice script or two. Unless it shows up as mass storage- e.g. no driver on Win2k needed- and I'm guessing it isn't. I hope it is, because I already can "access my CF and SD memory cards directly," on the Z via Samba.
And #3? Pfft. The drivers will probably be available for the other models- I hope. Is it just me, or is it a big disturbing that they release a whole new ROM when there's a driver or two to add? DOes that say something about the convenience of installing drivers for Linux?
I used to put an actually small HD into my PDA. PCMCIA drive, the same kind as found in the iPod. I only had a 2 GB drive, was available up to 30 GB or so. Hell, the 2 GB was a steal- only $70. Definately can't find 2 GB storage for that kind pf price with SD or CF.
But then I traded in my Jornada 720 and Newton (yes, the 2 GB drive worked with the Newton!) for a Zaurus C760 and lost all of my precious, precious storage. I feel like my legs have been chopped off with these two chinsy 128 MB SD cards.
Except that the Qwerty keyboard isn't anywhere even remotely as useful as a a real keyboard. It is functionally a thumboard, though larger. There are small devices with real keyboards, for example, the Jornada 72x or the Sigmarion III. They are both larger than the C760, but a device could be made somewhere in between. I can touch type on the kb on a Sigmarion III or a Jornada 720, but not on the C760.
But for 200-300? Ha! Yeah right. The Sig III isn't too bad at $525 imported, but the C760 goes for up to $800...
I've used Linux's dd before and it's worked. Athough I wasn't creating backups so much as doing HD dupes, the OS was Windows and the drives were identical. I booted into Linux on a floppy that had little on there except dd.
One caveat- the drive copying was SLOW AS HELL. I have no idea why... We're talking about 8 hours to dupe a 4 GB HD with
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb... anyone know why that would happen?
One tiny nuance? Ha! So tiny, that it's not even worth considering! GameSpy could just send some mercenary troops to go take care of him and his little oversight. After all, it must be terrorism! ON US SOIL! Luigi (where is mario?) deserves it, having the sick religious zealotry to attack not just one but multiple Americans with such relentless force... send in the troops.
Anyone know if that is the case- that he never tried to contact them-? No way we could figure out if he actually tried to email them, but the post/email states that he posted to the Bugtraq list when he found these bugs/holes. If they are in the archive, I'd be inclined to believe him rather than anyone at GameSpy.
What is wrong about having your PDA replace the dictaphone? Lots of PocketPC models and some PalmOS models have a hardware record and even the memory (or expansion ability to add memory) to make it worth while. I imagine there is some way to spit it out to/sync it with Naturally Speaking... They record just as WAV files.
And a pager still? Wow, hello mr. dinosaur man. Why not consolodate the pager and phone? Work for some weird company who won't let you use a different page #, one that happens to be on the phone?
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I am in total agreement with Mark Dayton, incidentally, my senator.
Any child could see that taxing email would reduce spam. What spammer would be willing to pay a a couple pennies on each of a 5 million emails in a bulk mailing? Perhaps on a particularily profitable one, sure. If it's legally profitable and people buy into it, then it is likely for a good non-evil reason. If they make money illegally or through fraud, then the tax itself would help track the assholes down and punish them.
That said, I think our freedom should be retained and cherished. While it may certainly help decrease the amount of spam, spam isn't that big of a problem for me personally, and definately not worth the money spent on the email tax or the cost of freedom lost.
huh. sounds like I said what he did- "just one of the tactics that should be considered, but I don't favor it at this time." Which is to say: "yes it could work, but I don't think we should do it."
Likewise, destroying all email servers would put a stop to email-based spam in a heartbeat, but I sure as hell don't endorse that etiher.
First off- Rekall is a very nice app. IMHO, TKC is one of the better app developers for Linux. Rekall is very much like MS Access, but a lot better. GUI design and Python scripting are a couple big strengths of the package. Like Access, you can use a database file of its own format (analogous to .mdb I imagine) or you can connect to a remote SQL server.
Second- anyone know if the Zaurus version of Rekall will be GPL'd? I use it, although it is only the demo. The demo has all the functionality of the real deal, but only allow you do make a local file-based DB, not allowing you to connect to MySQL and the other RDBMSs over the network. Wasn't a problem for me, as I just wanted to do it locally. But for others, those who want to connecto to a remote server, this would be even better.
SPARC may be a spec, but that doesn't mean that Sun doesn't have valuable implementation-specific information that AMD could use to create a next-gen 64-bit SPARC CPU that is based on the Opteron in some way.
I know nothing about the Opteron architecture, so I can't comment on how worthwhile that endevour would be. But for an illustration, let's pretend the Opteron is setup in a similar way as the AMD K6-2- a RISC CPU inside and a x86->AMD RISC translator between the rest of the computer and the inner-CPU. It is conceivable that AMD could create a SPARC64->AMD RISC translator or perhaps dumping the translator and modifying the inner RISC core to use the SPARC instruction set.
Perhaps the grandparent poster should've used the proper terminology "Sun's current implementation of 64-bit SPARC," but I imagine most people got his meaning. No need to have a stick up yer ass about it.
Wifi makes little sense for some PDAs, especially ones equipped with a poor battery. On other PDAs, wifi makes a lot of sense; at least, as much sense as wifi makes on any other computing device.
On a PDA I owned but sold a few months ago, I could get 8 hours straight of wifi-enabled usage. That is, web browsing, ssh, irc, email etc etc. No, some PDAs don't make sense- like a Palm m130 or a Zaurus SL-5500 where you're talking about two hours or less doing wifi stuff. But there are PDAs out there with the ability to deal without getting a big clunky external case.
Bah, the IBM CF Microdrive blows. Way too expensive for the amount of space; you may as well just get real flash. Maybe someday the tide will turn enough to make it a good idea, but for now it is silly. The biggest Microdrive you can get is only 1 GB.
:)
Yes, there is a price difference, but from my quick look, it only seems to be around $50-60 more for a CF Flash card that is 1 GB over the 1 GB microdrive. If you are spending that much on a card already, why not go for something that is a ton faster and uses a lot less juice? The Microdrive just isn't the same. $200 for a 1 GB Microdrive vs $60 for a 2 GB PCMCIA... $200 would probably get you a 10 GB drive.
Although, on just about any PDA with CF slot, you can get a CF -> PCMCIA adapter. It sticks out and is clunky as hell, but a lot of the adapters I have seen have a bendable cable part, meaning you have the adapter in your CF slot, the ribbon cable around the top of the unit, and the PCMCIA drive duct taped to the back of your PDA. If I was hard up for storage I would do it, but man it would be a nasty kludge.
And on the Zaurus your battery life would be next to nothing afterword. On a SL-5500 or a C750 you'd probaly get an hour of life out of your battery.
The Zaurus is not large enough to really accomodate PCMCIA without making it even thicker or bigger in some way. The pics may be decieving, but the Zaurus C7x0 PDAs are not large at all, smaller than an iPAQ 36xx with a CF sleeve.
Before I'd buy one, the UX50 would have to have at least PalmOS 6 or something less sucky than POS 5.2.x and under. And it'd have to have a bigger screen, something not a little bigger than a postage stamp. I don't need a super high res (although my current PDA has a 800x480 res), but I do need a physically larger screen. And the keyboard would have to suck far less. No the Zaurus C7x0's kb is far from perfect, but the UX50's sucks ass royally.
The iBook is certainly very far from being a tiny ultra-pico-light, but it is very small for a laptop in its price class. Go to a store sometime, BestBuy or something simiilar, and have a look at what most x86 laptops look like. Thicker and heavier are most of them. Yes, you can get a Sony U101, but that's twice the price and half the speed. Not in the same class as the iBook.
People usually bring up the iBook because it's a cheap and good laptop. A lot of the time when handhelds come up here, it's in discussion of some new $800 PDA. Inevitably someone realizes "wow, I could get an iBook for not much more than that!" and says it. It isn't because they're thinking of using the iBook as a laptop.
And no, the Sony U101 is still very far from a PDA. If it wasn't so tall it'd make a pocketable handheld PC, but it's not a PDA. Doesn't have a touch screen either. And going from a Zaurus to a U101 as a price increase is huge- someoen in the market for a PDA wouldn't upgrade to one of those. But they might to an iBook.
I doubt the laptop was as small as the Zaurus. The Zaurus in the picture is as small as most PDAs, very close to an iPAQ 3xxx, just a titch thicker.
No, that doesn't explain why they put Linux on their PDA. The reason- at least for Sharp- is superior Japanese support in Qtopia and probably to make it a few bucks cheaper skipping over the WinCE license. But mostly the former.
WinCE is a ton faster then the Linux PDA setup on the Zaurus. I've posted various numbers in threads here before, but I'm not up to doing the digging, but you're more than welcome to.
Especially bad is launch times on the Zaurus. Almost all apps launch in a second or less on any new PocketPC, notable exception being Adobe Acrobat Reader. On my C760, launch times are abysmal. Opera take 6 seconds. Terminal takes 6-12 seconds. Qpdf2 8-12. Addressbook, Calendar, Todo all 4-5, unless you leave them permanently in RAM "hidden," which is called "fast load" in the land of the Zaurus. It's darn near sad.
Even worse is the pause you get when you first turn on the C760. For instance, if I press the hotkey to open up my addressbook- I've got some bloke standing there waiting so I can get his number. I press the button and first the Zaurus blinks on, but has to "warm up" for 15+ seconds, and then a few more for the Addressbook to come up.
No one cares about 802.11x for a PDA? Heh. Maybe you live in a magical land where you can't by wifi hubs to install in your house and other people don't have them for free or subscribed use. (they sure as hell have them in london)
I'd be pissed if I didn't have 802.11b for my PDA. There is no way I'm going to put a little bluetooth transciever in every room of my apartment to get slow internet access. PDAs these days - even the $99 Palm Zire- are pretty powerful computers, their users being folks who enjoy fast net connections.
That isn't to say bluetooth wouldn't be nice too, it would. But they're different things for different purposes. Ideally, the PDA should have then both built-in with a chip controlling both so that they don't interfere with each other, like Sony did with the UX50, toggling which signal fast and transparently.
CF is what most folks would use for a wifi or bluetooth card, using SD for storage. But, you can also use the Zaurus serial ("Sharp I/O") port for adding bluetooth, although it is unsightly and clumsy.
Qtopia isn't really a "finely engeneered environment." It is passable, yes, but really falls short in a number of areas specific to PDAs and in general, any stylus-based system. It's a shame- it is my philosophy that if you're going to create a system from mostly-scrtach like Trolltech did with Qtopia, you should do it right so that when entrenchment happens everyone isn't stuck with the same substandard design. And it does happen, even with very few users entrenchment is inevitable.
They have a lot more to fix than the license.
Likewise what I need is a tiny little box that can sit in my bag or pocket providing cellular internet access to my PDA via bluetooth. I don't want a big, expensive phone. I don't want to talk to people on it. I don't want a screen. Nor do I want a keypad. Hell, I'd prefer it if they left off the speaker and mic. I just want a little box, perhaps a cube around 3 cm on a side with a power button and an A/C port to charge it that allows my PDA to get internet access via the cellular network without having to buy a new PDA if I want to switch providers, etc etc.
The cell phone system is really fucked up, at least in the US, and likely will be (thank you, capitialism!) for at least a handful of years more. I will not be forced to choose PDAs based on which PDA-phone that my provider happens to support, and then get fucked for dumping a contract when I want to switch to a provider with a better PDA/phone. Nor will I buy an expensive bluetooth phone that is 2/3rds the size of my PDA with tons of useless features just so I can use it as a GRPS-bluetooth bridge.
Yes, you're wrong on this.
You see, different folks want different things. There is not one single phone/pda/camera thing that is anywhere near what I want or need. Maybe someday, but not for a number of years. I want my PDA to be my computer. That is to say, I want a computer that fits in my pocket. No phone could do that. A PDA with a phone card could, though.
A lot of folks don't give a damn about most PDA functionality and are perfectly content with a tiny phone with a three line screen with an address book in it so they don't have to remember phone numbers.
DOS- a viable OS. Heh.
:P
That said, I used to be a DOS die hard, until I discovered linux at 14. But it was the family computer, so I couldn't wipe Windows and put on Linux, especially back then (94). DOS was swell- I never had touched Win9x until I was given a Win98 machine at work when I started college.
That said, WinCE is a lot more of a "real OS" than DOS ever was. No, all of your crusty old DOS apps don't run without an emulator, but for the most part there is something better to replace them with on WinCE, provided you're willing to take the time to learn. Except Lotus Agenda. No replacement for that. And yes, I've a clam shell device myself which I cling to- it's my primary computer.
AFAIK the emulators for the Zaurus aren't nearly as good, but there are a couple really good x86 DOS emulators out there for WinCE. I never bothered trying out Win 3.1, but with the apps I was playing with it worked like a charm. Very fast and accurate emulation... supoprts a lot more than the Zaurus's dosbox.
Folks in the US will be able to see a similar screen soon enough- their local BestBuys, OfficeMaxes, etc etcs should start carrying the Toshiba e805 which also has a 640x480 screen. See this thread.
:)
Depending on how you use it, the Zaurus can be worth the money. As a PDA, the software blows and it's over priced. As a computer, it works pretty good as long as you're willing to spend a lot of time working around Linux annoyances. The C760 (C750's batt life blows too hard) plus a good external keyboard and you can have a workstation-in-a-pocket.
I've been using one PDA or another for over 2 years as my "primary computer" and don't regret it at all.
Heh, funny you should mention that.
My litmus test for any browser is opening a bunch of porno sites in tabs (or "window list" ala Opera for the Z), the kind with a million tiny thumbnails and a few annoying pop ups. Then open up a bunch of the images in new tabs. If the browser chokes it isn't fit for me.
And both NetFront (comes with the C7x0s) and Opera 6 (comes with the SL-5x00s, but installable on C7x0) pass this test with flying colors.
I figured out this test a while back and it works good as a general predictor for how the browser will behave when I'm using it for my daily work. In reality, I don't look at any porn very often, but it's a good stress test.
I suppose that the translation software is new.
The CF and SD card trick is just that- a nice script or two. Unless it shows up as mass storage- e.g. no driver on Win2k needed- and I'm guessing it isn't. I hope it is, because I already can "access my CF and SD memory cards directly," on the Z via Samba.
And #3? Pfft. The drivers will probably be available for the other models- I hope. Is it just me, or is it a big disturbing that they release a whole new ROM when there's a driver or two to add? DOes that say something about the convenience of installing drivers for Linux?
I used to put an actually small HD into my PDA. PCMCIA drive, the same kind as found in the iPod. I only had a 2 GB drive, was available up to 30 GB or so. Hell, the 2 GB was a steal- only $70. Definately can't find 2 GB storage for that kind pf price with SD or CF.
But then I traded in my Jornada 720 and Newton (yes, the 2 GB drive worked with the Newton!) for a Zaurus C760 and lost all of my precious, precious storage. I feel like my legs have been chopped off with these two chinsy 128 MB SD cards.
Except that the Qwerty keyboard isn't anywhere even remotely as useful as a a real keyboard. It is functionally a thumboard, though larger. There are small devices with real keyboards, for example, the Jornada 72x or the Sigmarion III. They are both larger than the C760, but a device could be made somewhere in between. I can touch type on the kb on a Sigmarion III or a Jornada 720, but not on the C760.
But for 200-300? Ha! Yeah right. The Sig III isn't too bad at $525 imported, but the C760 goes for up to $800...
I've used Linux's dd before and it's worked. Athough I wasn't creating backups so much as doing HD dupes, the OS was Windows and the drives were identical. I booted into Linux on a floppy that had little on there except dd.
... anyone know why that would happen?
One caveat- the drive copying was SLOW AS HELL. I have no idea why... We're talking about 8 hours to dupe a 4 GB HD with
dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb
One tiny nuance? Ha! So tiny, that it's not even worth considering! GameSpy could just send some mercenary troops to go take care of him and his little oversight. After all, it must be terrorism! ON US SOIL! Luigi (where is mario?) deserves it, having the sick religious zealotry to attack not just one but multiple Americans with such relentless force... send in the troops.
Anyone know if that is the case- that he never tried to contact them-? No way we could figure out if he actually tried to email them, but the post/email states that he posted to the Bugtraq list when he found these bugs/holes. If they are in the archive, I'd be inclined to believe him rather than anyone at GameSpy.
What is wrong about having your PDA replace the dictaphone? Lots of PocketPC models and some PalmOS models have a hardware record and even the memory (or expansion ability to add memory) to make it worth while. I imagine there is some way to spit it out to/sync it with Naturally Speaking... They record just as WAV files.
And a pager still? Wow, hello mr. dinosaur man. Why not consolodate the pager and phone? Work for some weird company who won't let you use a different page #, one that happens to be on the phone?
I'm totally ignorant of ITAR and it's implications, and I therefore ask: how is it killing the US launch industry?