Get a CF->PCMCIA adapter and get a CF 802.11b card. I currently use a Netgear CF MA701. Anything rated for the last gen Pocket-PC's should work in the adapter
If you want to get your feet wet without jumping in and sinking, try taking something you like and coding it again. You can focus on the bits you want to learn.
Try writing another napster client. You can fiddle with the gui, or you can concentrate on the networking...anything. There are certainly enough open source nap clients out there to play with.
At least you know how it's supposed to work when you're done, and there are usually enough "personal" versions out there to compare yours to. I'd suggest starting from scratch, otherwise you might get stuck into the limitations of someone else's design...which would be such a great learning experience.
This is how I learned to program Xwin/Motif/Unix almost 10 years ago. I had a favorite file browser on my amiga, and back then (pre-linux??) unix file browsers were pretty limited. I actually went so far as to GPL the code, I just never released it.
My point is that you should start somewhere, anywhere. This worked for me, and I still reference that code from time to time.
Vindigo if you live in a real city Datebk 3 DBiced - to edit those Datebk3 icons FlashPro + FlashPack TealLock X-Man Rally 1000 omniremote for when I can't find my normal remote hackmaster - menuHACK, shiftHACK, selectHACK
I've been using E4M for NT/95/98 for a while now and recently went back to their page to check for a newer version, and I was suprised to find that they mentioned working on a linux version. I'm not sure how old that statement is, but perhaps a little encouragment could help.
Plus, they have the source for the winXX versions, though they still haven't fixed the pesky win98 shutdown bug...but it was the best solution I found for winXX
check here
E4M
for the goods
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Get a CF->PCMCIA adapter and get a CF 802.11b card. I currently use a Netgear CF MA701. Anything rated for the last gen Pocket-PC's should work in the adapter
If you want to get your feet wet without jumping in and sinking, try taking something you like and coding it again. You can focus on the bits you want to learn.
Try writing another napster client. You can fiddle with the gui, or you can concentrate on the networking...anything. There are certainly enough open source nap clients out there to play with.
At least you know how it's supposed to work when you're done, and there are usually enough "personal" versions out there to compare yours to. I'd suggest starting from scratch, otherwise you might get stuck into the limitations of someone else's design...which would be such a great learning experience.
This is how I learned to program Xwin/Motif/Unix almost 10 years ago. I had a favorite file browser on my amiga, and back then (pre-linux??) unix file browsers were pretty limited. I actually went so far as to GPL the code, I just never released it.
My point is that you should start somewhere, anywhere. This worked for me, and I still reference that code from time to time.
Vindigo if you live in a real city
Datebk 3
DBiced - to edit those Datebk3 icons
FlashPro + FlashPack
TealLock
X-Man
Rally 1000
omniremote for when I can't find my normal remote
hackmaster - menuHACK, shiftHACK, selectHACK
-nuff said
I've been using E4M for NT/95/98 for a while now and recently went back to their page to check for a newer version, and I was suprised to find that they mentioned working on a linux version. I'm not sure how old that statement is, but perhaps a little encouragment could help. Plus, they have the source for the winXX versions, though they still haven't fixed the pesky win98 shutdown bug...but it was the best solution I found for winXX
check here E4M for the goods
at the risk of a "me too", my wife just asked me last night if I knew what Napster was...It's now banned from NYU