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  1. Re:Do what I do... on Registrar Told To Stop Direct-Mail Scare-Tactics · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doh!!!

    Well, I'm going to the PO today... I'll ask about this and report back.

  2. Do what I do... on Registrar Told To Stop Direct-Mail Scare-Tactics · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cross out your address and write on the envelope:

    Return to sender

    I usually also write one the back something like:

    We do not accept mail from fraudulant or misleading sources.

    I'm not sure if I'm accomplishing anything, but it makes me feel better. It might even cost them a couple cents!

  3. Great way to find a fishin spot! on Washington Shoreline Photos · · Score: 2, Insightful

    About a year ago my boss showed this site to me...

    He uses it to check the water level at the shallow areas he likes to fly fish at.

  4. Re:Buy a treo instead on T-Mobile Sidekick Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I've got virtually the same setup as you, except that I added the 1500 data minutes/mo for $30/mo to my phone.

    Unfortunately, T-Mobile doesn't sell that data package any more now that they're offering GPRS, which of course the VisorPhone can't use.

    I typically use about 800 of those 1500 data minutes in a month, but I'll probably use more now that I have purchased SnapperMail!

  5. Re:HP Personal & Small Business LaserJets. on Printer Makers' Ploys · · Score: 1

    I concur.

    I purchased the HP LaserJet 1200 to replace a shitty Canon BJC250.

    We haven't had a hint of trouble with the 1200...
    It's connected directly to my wife's PC running Red Hat Linux 7.3 (7.2 up until last weekend). Works great with the PostScript driver and also when she boots into Windoze 2K once a week to run some business software only available for Windoze (for now -- there's talk of an OS X version, which may lead to a Linux port).

    The Canon wasn't so bad, it just started printing drunk; Couldn't make a straight line at all!

  6. This is news?! I think not... on Handspring Hides Flash ROM in Handspring Treo · · Score: 1

    Obviously you haven't read Handspring's site close enough!

    I already knew this from doing my own research into the Treo... I recently began working with Frontline Specialists as a Handspring Rep.

    Organizer Featuers (sic)
    Q. Is the OS upgradeable?
    A. Yes. We use flash memory in order to be able to provide updates such as GPRS capability. Handspring does not intend to provide incremental versions of Palm OS but we will issue updaters for the Treo communicators from time to time such as the GPRS update later this year.

    Get your glasses on!

  7. My boss made me do it! on Cracking Down on MP3s at the Office · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I work with a consulting firm, but the office I'm in is down stairs in a suite of our own away from the suits.

    For many months we had all gotten used to having tunes playing on the speakers connected to my box (myself and two others split the cost of some cheap Altec Lansing speakers). At first I acquired some mp3s from a coworker upstairs, then later I ripped a bunch of our CDs to OGG and shuttled them to work on CD-RW...

    Recently we reorganized our seating arrangement and it left me and another coworker in a room to ourselves. I took the speakers with me since they were connected to the box I was using...

    Well, no more than two weeks and my supervisor was franticly trying to come up with a way that he and the ladies in his area could have some music again!

    I told him to simply buy some cheap speakers, but he didn't want to at first... Two days later, he gave me $20 to go to the local computer store and get some more cheap speakers for him!

    They're happy now! :)

  8. Re:I always wondered... on Handspring Treo 270 Leaked · · Score: 1

    I also have oily skin and I use the Visor Prism w/a VisorPhone.
    The way the speaker is on the phone, it encourages me to hold the screen away from my face. The speaker is also powerful enough that I don't have to have it right on my ear, and of course, there's always the earbud/mic that comes with it.

    As for the Treo, I know that they are also designed with this in mind... In fact, the obtuse angle of the open Treo encourages you to hold it so that the screen does not touch your face.
    It looks kind of like this when open: __/

  9. Re:Leaked... Question on Handspring Treo 270 Leaked · · Score: 1

    Check with Symbol.
    They make ruggedized PDAs (both PalmOS & WinCE/PocketPC) for industrial purposes.

  10. Re:Samsung I300 on Handspring Treo 270 Leaked · · Score: 1

    How can you call 256 colors awesome?
    My Prism with VisorPhone is 16-bit, and the color Treo will be as well.

  11. Re:Portable? I think not on Atari Announces an Official Portable 2600 System · · Score: 1

    Besides hacking up various Atari's, Ben has also made a portable PlayStation and SNES.
    Pretty cool stuff!