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It might be one of the dumbest ideas I ever heard of on slashdot. Just tell me *WHY* do you want a keyboard for a palm? If the keyboard is big enough to be used comfortably for an editor that requires a lot of keystrokes, why don't you just carry a laptop? People present stupid ideas why they stop thinking "differently". That applies everywhere, windows or linux.
Not necessarily. A laptop is overkill for simple note-taking; all you need is a machine with a decent amount of memory, and the *x Palms have 8MB which allows for quite a bit of notes.
Besides, the Palms are cheaper, and they're tiny. That new keyboard folds up into the size of a Palm. AND it's touch-typeable.
What if there are people reading this forum for the first time who've never heard of JP? Do you think it's a waste of their time to find out who this guy is and why he is so controversial? Or do you think he should just take your word and make up his mind the easy, lazy way?
Actually, a majority of slashdotters would not hesitate to say yes to your question.
A good way to learn about him is to read the previous Slashdot articles on him, Antionline, Attrition.org, and Packet Storm.
What particularly surprises ME is that he is willing to submit this interview. Perhaps he's trying to improve his image among the Slashdot crowd?
Why are all these companies seemingly looking for exuses to make their web sites incompatible with X browser--the old NS-only sites, the IE-only sites, etc.? Whatever happened to HTML being browser independant?
It's not that they are trying to make it explicitly incompatible - just that they don't need to spend money and time to enforce compatibility, since they just need test their HTML against the majority browser.
Unfortunately, you and I don't count as part of the majority anymore, and we make up a smaller and smaller share of the e-commerce pie.
If a company wants to put up an IE only website, they just won't get any money from me. It's that simple.
At one time, that argument worked, and well. That's why for a number of years web designers went to great pains to ensure that webpages were well-tested on both browsers.
But not today. Considering the number of people that use IE, many web designers are simply testing their page against IE. If the current trend continues, you'll become a *very* small minority, one that they don't care about since the percentage doesn't substantially hurt their business.
Probably because PalmOS 3 has far better memory management... there were issues about PalmOS 1 and 2 not being terribly efficient in allocating large chunks of memory, and there were also memory fragmentation problems. 230K is a fair bit...
This is explicitly considered a feature (see the FAQ). Mutt is actually quite intelligent about this - if you start up a second Mutt and modify the mailbox, the first one will warn you when you switch back to it; I've never had corruption, since I just kill the 2nd Mutt process immediately afterwards.
This way you can have multiple folders on your screen open using multiple xterms, amongst other things..
While the program works with at least four different lines of palm-top organizers, it does not support the Pilot and PalmPilot organizers.
So it doesn't work on the PalmPilot but it needs PalmOS 3.0? I really don't get it.
This is correct. The PalmPilot organizers were the PalmOS v2 organizers. The Pilots were the v1 organizers. All of the Palm organizers that have PalmOS v3.x are called "Palm" WITHOUT the Pilot suffix due to a lawsuit that was filed against 3Com a while ago.
On a side note, I think that some of the confusion about this particular device comes from the sales reps at Sprint, as well as the recent advertising spree. As you can tell from the review linked above, it's likely that pretty much any Slashdot reader will end up teaching the sales staff a few things about the device. When I went in, I expected that the pdQ needed the "Wireless Web" service that Sprint has been advertising heavily recently here in the States. The sales rep also felt that I needed to upgrade to a plan which would offer me 200 wireless web "updates" a month for about $20 more than the typical service plan (plus $.10 for each update over 200). As I looked at the demo phone they had (and the manual they let me read through), I realized that this device wasn't offering the "clipping" services that the other "wireless web" phones used. For those other devices, you pay for each update or e-mail from Yahoo, etc. Since the Qualcomm lets you connect to your existing ISP, you just use the connection minutes against your plan.
Actually, you can use the Wireless Web Service - AFAIK, it acts as a built-in ISP so you don't have to dial out. Of course, if you can get your own ISP working well, that'll save a couple of bucks.
It's not even difficult for them to do. They can say that "all new Pentium III's are only supported on 820 - they might work on other chipsets but we will not provide tech support." This is completely legitimate and is enough of a message to OEM's - most of them depend on Intel.
Imagine what would happen to a smaller company if they scrwed up this bad....they'd be gone forever.
Yep... it's happened MANY times. All a matter of resources and how long you can last. Intel and MS can afford to make mistakes, occasionally. As long as the timing is right - what's interesting now is that with the Athlon, Intel has to move faster. That's one of the important reasons why competition is really necessary in these markets.
Nope. It says specifically on the VMWare FAQ that you can't do that, especially because VxD's that access hardware directly won't work under the virtual machine. All VMWare *can* do is to virtualize already-working ports. Moreover, I don't see this as changing anytime soon, because if VMWare starts allowing hooks at such low levels in the system that could seriously compromise system stability.
Does it support power management? I'm really interested in running it on my Vaio 505TX, which has a NON-winmodem, but I want to make sure I get some battery life and hopefully suspend support. Linux runs beautifully on this thing; RH6 runs right out of the box, so I'm hoping it shouldn't be too much work to get BeOS running.
Be should actually be marketing BeOS to notebook owners, since the short bootup time is really attractive to them. Who wants to sit somewhere with a laptop waiting for Win98 to boot (and it takes a LONG time)?
Yes, but that hasn't worked so well in the days of the internet. After all - Linux was not a product of our fair country. It'll be interesting to watch the adoption rate of GnuPG in the US.
Heh - you could go in and delete their addressbooks! We should have a feature like this just for spammers.
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He isn't. NT leaks memory pretty badly. Granted, if you're using a low-load application, you may not notice this for some time. Here, however, we use graphics applications and such, and the machines begin noticeably crawling after a couple of days.
As for kernel panics, I haven't seen any that weren't due to hardware problems, myself. BSOD's, on the other hand...
Hah! If you can get NT4 to run for days without crashing, which I am lucky enough to do on CERTAIN machines, you'll be forced to reboot since memory leaks grind the OS down to a halt after about 3 or 4 days of heavy usage.
Don't forget, many people are also using Win9x because NT4 doesn't support their hardware.
Yes, but you see - you can reboot a Win9x machine yourself and "continue working". Here, the outage is beyond your own control. Also, your Win9x machine doesn't become unusable for a week STRAIGHT - you'd be forced to bring it into the computer shop. What's the equivalent of that for MCI Worldcom?
Well, a lot of people can't afford the cost of multiple frame relay lines, especially in remote areas where the cost of local loops, etc. is quite high.
I agree with you, though, on the mail bit, unless they're not hosting the mail server, just sending smtp upstream. That doesn't sound right, though.
Most standard P/S's that come with cases are _quite_ crappy. For servers and high-availability machines, I use PC Power & Cooling's products - they've been around forever, and have a very good reputation AFAIK.
Absolutely - I agree also. However, I would strongly suggest that drinking fluids _NOT_ be allowed near the back of servers sufficiently important as a PE 6300. (Of course, I'm sure you guys do this now...)
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Besides, the Palms are cheaper, and they're tiny. That new keyboard folds up into the size of a Palm. AND it's touch-typeable.
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A good way to learn about him is to read the previous Slashdot articles on him, Antionline, Attrition.org, and Packet Storm.
What particularly surprises ME is that he is willing to submit this interview. Perhaps he's trying to improve his image among the Slashdot crowd?
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Unfortunately, you and I don't count as part of the majority anymore, and we make up a smaller and smaller share of the e-commerce pie.
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But not today. Considering the number of people that use IE, many web designers are simply testing their page against IE. If the current trend continues, you'll become a *very* small minority, one that they don't care about since the percentage doesn't substantially hurt their business.
THAT is the real danger.
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This way you can have multiple folders on your screen open using multiple xterms, amongst other things..
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'nuff said. ;-)
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But wait! Links.net is still around and kicking just fine... and Justin occasionally throws new stuff in.
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Be should actually be marketing BeOS to notebook owners, since the short bootup time is really attractive to them. Who wants to sit somewhere with a laptop waiting for Win98 to boot (and it takes a LONG time)?
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Go figure.
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That might explain a couple of things...Address: 207.82.250.251
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As for kernel panics, I haven't seen any that weren't due to hardware problems, myself. BSOD's, on the other hand...
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Don't forget, many people are also using Win9x because NT4 doesn't support their hardware.
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I agree with you, though, on the mail bit, unless they're not hosting the mail server, just sending smtp upstream. That doesn't sound right, though.
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