I lucked out, and ordered mine a few hours earlier than the article came out on slashdot. (www.slickdeals.net - probably giving a good secret away.) I actually had 2 hours to research it before deciding to buy it.
Mostly I bought this since besides my old Palm III that I use for a remote control at home, I am PDA-less. The crowd at our M$ shop at work are all getting PocketPC's. So far I've been able to prove it's worthiness except to those with the brand-spanking-new ones. But for the price, I have them all whipped.
I immediately bought a 256MB SD card, since even if this turned out useless, I could find another use for the memory card. There was a spare CF wireless card at work (D-Link DCF-650W). It DHCP'ed instantly. My only complaint is that when it's in you have no access to insert or remove the stylus. I tried someone else's thinner 660W, which gives access to the stylus, and that worked equally as well.
I spent the first day with it getting Kismet to work, making the guy with netstumbler on his laptop jealous.
Next, I had to try the Quake port. Yes, it's neat, since it's Quake on a PDA, but don't bother doing anything with it other than saying "Look! It's Quake! On a PDA!"
I must say, the most novel thing is being able to telnet and VNC to it. I find Zsafe extremely useful. I've yet in my position to need access to e-mail on a PDA, since at home I already have access. Wardriving with it is great. This has proven to be an extremely worthwhile toy.
About '94, we were all looking forward to the alleged PowerPC systems running the "new" OS-2 Warp to come out. Supposed to be compatible with Windows, advantages of RISC processing.....blah blah... I bet it would have been a neat system.
I also had a perfect Pitfall II score, also around 6-8th grade sometime, and it was 199,000. I agree that it's 10 times easier than doing that in the original Pitfall! I think mainly because there was no time limit.
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Heh, I haven't even gotten to the word game yet! Guess Kismet and quake was more of a priority. I'll have to try it.
I lucked out, and ordered mine a few hours earlier than the article came out on slashdot. (www.slickdeals.net - probably giving a good secret away.) I actually had 2 hours to research it before deciding to buy it.
Mostly I bought this since besides my old Palm III that I use for a remote control at home, I am PDA-less. The crowd at our M$ shop at work are all getting PocketPC's. So far I've been able to prove it's worthiness except to those with the brand-spanking-new ones. But for the price, I have them all whipped.
I immediately bought a 256MB SD card, since even if this turned out useless, I could find another use for the memory card. There was a spare CF wireless card at work (D-Link DCF-650W). It DHCP'ed instantly. My only complaint is that when it's in you have no access to insert or remove the stylus. I tried someone else's thinner 660W, which gives access to the stylus, and that worked equally as well.
I spent the first day with it getting Kismet to work, making the guy with netstumbler on his laptop jealous.
Next, I had to try the Quake port. Yes, it's neat, since it's Quake on a PDA, but don't bother doing anything with it other than saying "Look! It's Quake! On a PDA!"
I must say, the most novel thing is being able to telnet and VNC to it. I find Zsafe extremely useful. I've yet in my position to need access to e-mail on a PDA, since at home I already have access. Wardriving with it is great. This has proven to be an extremely worthwhile toy.
About '94, we were all looking forward to the alleged PowerPC systems running the "new" OS-2 Warp to come out. Supposed to be compatible with Windows, advantages of RISC processing.....blah blah...
I bet it would have been a neat system.
I also had a perfect Pitfall II score, also around 6-8th grade sometime, and it was 199,000. I agree that it's 10 times easier than doing that in the original Pitfall! I think mainly because there was no time limit.