Because I'm an American and I don't know how thick a milimeter is without picturing an inch and then trying to picture something that goes into that 2.54 times and then taking a tenth of that.
It looks like the buttons would be small and hard to use. Then again, a linux-based pda without a full keyboard doesn't make much sense.
200mhz is a teensy slow for a pda now, 128 megs is great.
Anyone know anything about the battery life on that? CF is great also. My pda is stuck with sdio, and no wifi for it yet, just bluetooth.
Not super compelling in my opinion, but it's great that the the selection of Linux PDAs is increasing. It will be better for everyone in the longs run, even users of PocketPC, because a Linux-based pda actually stands a chance of competing and competition sparks innovation(Palm is great, but in my opinion, Palms are a different kind of product and don't compete as directly with PocketPC as the Zaurus and this does)
"After installing the XP-TMC, the processor sits a bit higher - in selecting your CPU cooler, note that the voltage mechanism only brings a limited amount of tolerance with it. Or, buy your adapter directly as a bundle with a suitable cooler. "
Interesting. While I can't say I've experienced *that* kind of information addiction, the need for multiple data streams to the noggin, it has been my experience that absorbing pieces of information, and recalling them causes a little "dopamine squirt."
That's the reason why when people have a word or a name on the tip of their tongue, there is a good chance they might say something like "wait wait! don't tell me!" It is SATISFYING to recall information instead. I know this very well, as I used to be a high school quizbowler.
It is satisfying for me, both to absorb information, and to recall it, and I don't mean on a philisophical level, I mean on a brain-chemistry-physical level, similar to the satisfaction derived from eating food that is separate from hunger alleviation or from taste.
1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
1. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
2. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
I've heard of all of those except for Nauru. My comment wasn't meant in any disparaging way. If you notice, I expressed that I didn't know anything about the place and then linked to all kinds of good info from CIA world factbook, since probably many other people didn't know anything about it either.
I've heard of the rest of those places excepting Nauru, and I'm sure it would be lovely to visit, but on top of a passport I also would need money, and I'm just a poor college kid.
Domain registration used to be free. I believe there should be a toplevel domain reserved for giving anyone who requests it one free domain name based on their name or any reasonable variation of their name.
Savage Island Network History
Niue (pronounced 'new-way') is a small Island in the South Pacific located at around 169 West by 19 South, and is so very isolated, the problem of Internet services has been a difficult one to say the very least. All overseas connections are expensive, bandwidth is very limited (and again, expensive).
Local communication until a few years ago involved small phones with cranks on the side in most villages. Telecom Niue eventually upgraded those connections and local switching services improved as well. This made it possible to consider electronic communications as a possibility and it didn't take long to create local interest in where that could go.
Development of the first version of the Savage Island Network began around January of 1995. At that time, the original system ran as a standard BBS (RABBS) running under Digital Research DOS, and was configured as a local only (intranet)email, file server and BBS service. Dubbed the Savage Island Network after the original name given to the Island of Niue by Captain Cook, that system ran 24 hours a day 7 days a week and provided the first electronic communications of it's kind on Niue, primarily to the government of Niue's internal administrative infrastructure and a handful of users interested in data communications.
With only twenty to thirty users, the privately owned Savage Island Network was the beginning of telecommunications development on Niue and served as a training tool and learning environment for the local users as well as those who assumed the challenge of things to come and the need to be familiar with new technologies. Interestingly enough, that system logged an enourmous number of calls with what by Niue standards was a very high level of communication traffic. The need was there-potential seen.
That system was replaced with a 32 bit version of the WildCat BBS system, and the users found themselves fast into the world of HTML and other "new look and feel" interfaces. Still it was a local only BBS running file services, ftp, news groups email and in general, being used as a teaching tool for the fifty or so users on-line. Government departments could exchange data electronically without printing it, or traveling to other departments on the Island. Value was beginning to show, traffic was on the increase and the user base was building.
Enter Internet User's Society........
About the time that my personal resources were starting to feel the sting of the legendary "self funded" hobby, and also during the time when ideas for an affordable world wide connection for our services were running low, the Government of Niue introduced me to the Internet User's Society in Boston Massachusetts. After many discussions with government officials and other interested parties on Niue, it was decided that the project would continue, as a private sector development, and Savage Island Network would join forces with the Internet User's Society to form the Internet Users Society Niue, in order to complete the task of bringing world wide email and Internet services to Niue.
The fundamental plan was to set up the ccTLD.nu domain to be sold as domain registrations on the open global market. The resources generated by those sales would then be used to develop and maintain the Internet services on Niue. After a few set backs and a lot of hard work, we brought the email-only services on-line and opened to the Niuean public in March of 1997 after some weeks of testing.
Now after some years of on-line time with world wide email services we are finally seeing the Internet as a standard communications utility. With full Internet services to Niue, and progress and development of world wide communications services, the IT development on Niue can continue as planned. Our systems continue to improve, and the services have been opened up to all permanent Niuean residents and the gov
"This new free wireless service which can be accessed by all Niue residents, tourists, government offices and business travelers, is being provided at no cost to the public or local government."
"IUS-N, a US-incorporated, private charitable foundation locally managed in Niue, was established in 1997 to use revenue from registration of.NU domain names to develop and fund free Internet services for all the people of Niue."
It's pretty simple really, the guy is not a computer nerd like us. Note that from the article he says his brother is really the one that built it, and that putting a chip on a motherboard is tricky.
Slashdot Mirror
The positive and negative of an AC wall socket? What kind of idiot are you? Oh yeah, the kind that thinks it's fun to shock himself with 120v AC.
Because I'm an American and I don't know how thick a milimeter is without picturing an inch and then trying to picture something that goes into that 2.54 times and then taking a tenth of that.
It looks like the buttons would be small and hard to use. Then again, a linux-based pda without a full keyboard doesn't make much sense.
200mhz is a teensy slow for a pda now, 128 megs is great.
Anyone know anything about the battery life on that? CF is great also. My pda is stuck with sdio, and no wifi for it yet, just bluetooth.
Not super compelling in my opinion, but it's great that the the selection of Linux PDAs is increasing. It will be better for everyone in the longs run, even users of PocketPC, because a Linux-based pda actually stands a chance of competing and competition sparks innovation(Palm is great, but in my opinion, Palms are a different kind of product and don't compete as directly with PocketPC as the Zaurus and this does)
My browser filled in "That's the point I was making." from last time I made a /. post. I meant the subject to be "RTFA"
"After installing the XP-TMC, the processor sits a bit higher - in selecting your CPU cooler, note that the voltage mechanism only brings a limited amount of tolerance with it. Or, buy your adapter directly as a bundle with a suitable cooler. "
Don't criticise too harshly.
You neglected to make www.psychoward.com a hyperlink.
Too many links. Sincerely, Please drop dead.
Interesting. While I can't say I've experienced *that* kind of information addiction, the need for multiple data streams to the noggin, it has been my experience that absorbing pieces of information, and recalling them causes a little "dopamine squirt."
That's the reason why when people have a word or a name on the tip of their tongue, there is a good chance they might say something like "wait wait! don't tell me!" It is SATISFYING to recall information instead. I know this very well, as I used to be a high school quizbowler.
It is satisfying for me, both to absorb information, and to recall it, and I don't mean on a philisophical level, I mean on a brain-chemistry-physical level, similar to the satisfaction derived from eating food that is separate from hunger alleviation or from taste.
joke
n.
1. Something said or done to evoke laughter or amusement, especially an amusing story with a punch line.
2. A mischievous trick; a prank.
3. An amusing or ludicrous incident or situation.
4. Informal.
1. Something not to be taken seriously; a triviality: The accident was no joke.
2. An object of amusement or laughter; a laughingstock: His loud tie was the joke of the office.
Do What Ya Like
You know way too much. I am reporting you to Total Information Awareness.
]$ ispell @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 08/01/01 word: minature how about: miniature
Doesn't look like his pgp public key to me, so it's obviously a goatse magic eye.
I regret to inform you that I have stolen your idea and patented it.
I've heard of all of those except for Nauru. My comment wasn't meant in any disparaging way. If you notice, I expressed that I didn't know anything about the place and then linked to all kinds of good info from CIA world factbook, since probably many other people didn't know anything about it either. I've heard of the rest of those places excepting Nauru, and I'm sure it would be lovely to visit, but on top of a passport I also would need money, and I'm just a poor college kid.
Domain registration used to be free. I believe there should be a toplevel domain reserved for giving anyone who requests it one free domain name based on their name or any reasonable variation of their name.
The link is to an article at businesswire.com, headquarters at:
/.ed in the comments if people link to some sites hosted in Niue
44 Montgomery Street, 39th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
So, no not directly, but it might still be
ah. damn geocities and their outside linking restrictions. Just click your cursor in the address bar and hit enter again and it goes.
feh. It converted with pdftotext, but the pdf is better. PDF Here
www.niue.nu is very very slow. Please stay away.
.nu domain to be sold as domain registrations on the open global market. The resources generated by those sales would then be used to develop and maintain the Internet services on Niue. After a few set backs and a lot of hard work, we brought the email-only services on-line and opened to the Niuean public in March of 1997 after some weeks of testing.
Here's their history page:
Savage Island Network History Niue (pronounced 'new-way') is a small Island in the South Pacific located at around 169 West by 19 South, and is so very isolated, the problem of Internet services has been a difficult one to say the very least. All overseas connections are expensive, bandwidth is very limited (and again, expensive).
Local communication until a few years ago involved small phones with cranks on the side in most villages. Telecom Niue eventually upgraded those connections and local switching services improved as well. This made it possible to consider electronic communications as a possibility and it didn't take long to create local interest in where that could go.
Development of the first version of the Savage Island Network began around January of 1995. At that time, the original system ran as a standard BBS (RABBS) running under Digital Research DOS, and was configured as a local only (intranet)email, file server and BBS service. Dubbed the Savage Island Network after the original name given to the Island of Niue by Captain Cook, that system ran 24 hours a day 7 days a week and provided the first electronic communications of it's kind on Niue, primarily to the government of Niue's internal administrative infrastructure and a handful of users interested in data communications.
With only twenty to thirty users, the privately owned Savage Island Network was the beginning of telecommunications development on Niue and served as a training tool and learning environment for the local users as well as those who assumed the challenge of things to come and the need to be familiar with new technologies. Interestingly enough, that system logged an enourmous number of calls with what by Niue standards was a very high level of communication traffic. The need was there-potential seen.
That system was replaced with a 32 bit version of the WildCat BBS system, and the users found themselves fast into the world of HTML and other "new look and feel" interfaces. Still it was a local only BBS running file services, ftp, news groups email and in general, being used as a teaching tool for the fifty or so users on-line. Government departments could exchange data electronically without printing it, or traveling to other departments on the Island. Value was beginning to show, traffic was on the increase and the user base was building.
Enter Internet User's Society........
About the time that my personal resources were starting to feel the sting of the legendary "self funded" hobby, and also during the time when ideas for an affordable world wide connection for our services were running low, the Government of Niue introduced me to the Internet User's Society in Boston Massachusetts. After many discussions with government officials and other interested parties on Niue, it was decided that the project would continue, as a private sector development, and Savage Island Network would join forces with the Internet User's Society to form the Internet Users Society Niue, in order to complete the task of bringing world wide email and Internet services to Niue.
The fundamental plan was to set up the ccTLD
Now after some years of on-line time with world wide email services we are finally seeing the Internet as a standard communications utility. With full Internet services to Niue, and progress and development of world wide communications services, the IT development on Niue can continue as planned. Our systems continue to improve, and the services have been opened up to all permanent Niuean residents and the gov
Yes.
But I still had never heard of the place.
I've never heard of the place.
All About Niue
Umm no, rtfa.
.NU domain names to develop and fund free Internet services for all the people of Niue."
"This new free wireless service which can be accessed by all Niue residents, tourists, government offices and business travelers, is being provided at no cost to the public or local government."
"IUS-N, a US-incorporated, private charitable foundation locally managed in Niue, was established in 1997 to use revenue from registration of
My school's beowulf cluster dropped from 107th to 200th!
It's still awesome though.
Prairiefire:
Specs
Prairiecam
It's pretty simple really, the guy is not a computer nerd like us. Note that from the article he says his brother is really the one that built it, and that putting a chip on a motherboard is tricky.