Considering OS9 was mostly PPC code and no-one ever made a PPC accelerator for the LCIII (or infact *any* 030 machine). And presuming you made your own bizarre PDS slot accelerator I should expect it *would* run like shit, what with 36MB of RAM being possible.
Do you have the original Sharp ROM? The UI *was* a tad fugly, but now with OZ it looks like an OSX clone, in my pocket;).
Apparently you're astonishingly rich if you can use HSCSD as an 802.11b replacement. As far as GPRS, have you never wanted to be 24hrs contactable by the net as well as by mobile phone? with an IM app or IRC open all the time? If you don't *want* to be contactable I suggest that a communicator is the wrong device for you.
See, I didn't want a PDA, I wanted a mobile computer, and that's what I got. The PDA apps are just a bonus, and honestly not that awful, the calendar in particular is quite good.
In the event of something being a mobile computer, CPU and RAM *are* relevant. When was the last time you emulated a SNES on your communicator or used a VOIP app? lots of RAM is also highly useful for multitasking, email and IM and IRC and office app open at the same time is perfectly feasible and the Zaurus makes switching between apps easy.
You perhaps made a poor choice buying a Zaurus, a Palm of some description would have prolly fitted you much better, if the Zaurus is in good condition you could get 170USD+ for it, and be able to buy a Palm Tungsten, Palm OS 5 and the PDA apps sound like a much better fit to what you want.
The open source bonus being relatively excellent hardware support (for a handheld), the fact you can write or port programs (native, not java) without paying a licensing fee. The Zauruses are amazingly flexible devices that admittedly need some nous to set up.
Also, I'm wondering what BT equipment you've been trying to use, most BT devices can pair with eachother, it's mostly stupid crap like some nokias that have problems. If you mean hardware compatibility, well, the Zaurus has the same hardware compatibility as any other linux machine running the 24.21 kernel (unless you're running the ancient sharp rom, 2.6 will come around at some point), that being most of the BT cards available (not to mention 802.11b, USB devices [through a usb card, or with the built in USB host of the SL-6000] and all sorts of other things).
The SL-5500 keyboard is fine, unless you have gigantic fingers, and if you do you can get fold up keyboards. Hancom office is the best handheld WP I've used,.doc and all. The spreadsheet I haven't personally used. The contacts, well fine, write your own.
And what's wrong with toastie makers? Nothing wrong, toasties are great, you just need to be ok with cleaning things.
And the 9210 has exactly 16MB of RAM and a 52MHZ ARM9. It only has an MMC slot, doesn't have 802.11b built in. It doesn't support GPRS so if you want an always on connection you'd have to hope that MMC slot supports SDIO and there are drivers and then use it with *another* phone.
Reasonable screen, only half the res in one direction than the SL-6000.
To be fair, the 9500,which is going to be coming out soon, has 80MB of memory, supports GPRS and has 802.11b and BT built in, still no CF though and the same screen, no idea about the CPU. Oh, and it's not out yet, and let's not even mention the advantages of an open source OS.
Bluetooth has made PDA-phones obsolete, who cares if the phone is smaller, you can have the phone in your bag or pocket while you use your PDA on the net. And you don't have to talk into some silly brick either.
The only Zaurus you're going to get for $50 is one of the ZR series. These being devices with some unspecified 16bit cpu and 2MB RAM. Personally that's a tad less RAM than I'd be happy with. Oh, and good luck running linux on one;).
A Zaurus of the SL series tends to go for around $170 for an SL-5500 and $300 for an SL-5600.
The 5500 has 64MB RAM (all of which can be used with OZ if you have a flash card) and 16MB internal flash . The 5600 has 32MB RAM and 64MB internal flash, the internal flash is faster than an SD or CF card but personally I think they made the wrong choice with it. The SL-6000 also uses a PXA-255 which was basically released as a bug fix for the PXA-250 (that the 5600 uses) which had several bugs (cache and pcmcia I seem to recall).
The SL-6000 is much better of course:), with 64MB of both (although I seem to recall a marketing pdf with several different models, one of which had 128MB of flash, others didn't have the 802.11b and some had BT in addition, they don't seem to be offering that choice here).
Of course this is all coming from a happy SL-5500 owner who doesn't need any newfangled XScale;)... I'd kill for the screen though.
FunHi seems to be an extreme manifestation of the overly materialistic culture it has emanated from (people who call themselves a "gangsta" or a "playa" or a "hunie", modern popular culture basically), it's just... too horrible for words.
People judging how popular and loved they are on the basis of how much other people have spent on them *puke*.
I guess they could all be doing it in an ironic and political fashion to show all members of capitalist societies to be whores. I'm sorta doubting that's the case, personally.
Erm... it's just as likely to be a broken cable, when that happens. Although perhaps less with an integrated POS like that where the cable hasn't seem much knocking, could always have been a dry joint.
The likelihood of broken cable vs broken electron gun seems, from experience, to be weighted towards the cable in such instances of one colour failure.
For reference my Athlon 900@1007mhz with a copper Globalwin heatsink (forgot the model), arctic silver 5 and a ~3800RPM fan is at 46C under load, 10C above case temp.
It's also pretty quiet, blissfully silent compared to how it was with the horribly loud 7000RPM fan that shipped with the heatsink.
While I agree on this in principle, a good prime lense is better than any zoom (mmmmmm zuiko prime *drool*), a zoom can save someone just starting a lot of money in buying different lenses whilst allowing them to experiment with different focal lengths.
This isn't really much of a problem with most manual focus cameras anyway, at least those with TTL metering, You can get adapters for pretty much any type to any type.
It only gets complicated with auto-focus and mechanical linkages.
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Only with ni-cad, and to a lesser extent ni-mh.
Behaviour like this kills li-ion, lots.
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I don't need to:), I've done it.
My 840AV is pretty damn evil to get into, the worst bit is the disturbing snapping sounds as you undo/replace the clips along the top of the mobo. Saying that, it's not *insanely* difficult, just moreso than most other computers, hey, only 1 screw!:) (not including thumb screw type thingies).
Personally I've forgiven Apple forever considering how easy it is top put RAM into a B&W G3 and all later towers.
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The PowerMac 8500 (and all the 8*** series macs except the 8600) used variations on the Quadra 800 case.
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I have a little micro-atx box running LEAF as my firewall.
It has a 133mhz Pentium, passively cooled, and boots off a 16MB compact flash card. It consumes under 30 watts.
As I understand it, Effexor should really really not be the first thing a doctor recommends. More the last thing.
Please please please please please please :D.
Just like with the Dreamcast, and we saw how very effective that was in preventing copying.
I find the concept astonishingly unlikely.
Considering OS9 was mostly PPC code and no-one ever made a PPC accelerator for the LCIII (or infact *any* 030 machine).
And presuming you made your own bizarre PDS slot accelerator I should expect it *would* run like shit, what with 36MB of RAM being possible.
Do you have the original Sharp ROM? The UI *was* a tad fugly, but now with OZ it looks like an OSX clone, in my pocket ;).
Apparently you're astonishingly rich if you can use HSCSD as an 802.11b replacement. As far as GPRS, have you never wanted to be 24hrs contactable by the net as well as by mobile phone? with an IM app or IRC open all the time? If you don't *want* to be contactable I suggest that a communicator is the wrong device for you.
See, I didn't want a PDA, I wanted a mobile computer, and that's what I got. The PDA apps are just a bonus, and honestly not that awful, the calendar in particular is quite good.
In the event of something being a mobile computer, CPU and RAM *are* relevant. When was the last time you emulated a SNES on your communicator or used a VOIP app? lots of RAM is also highly useful for multitasking, email and IM and IRC and office app open at the same time is perfectly feasible and the Zaurus makes switching between apps easy.
You perhaps made a poor choice buying a Zaurus, a Palm of some description would have prolly fitted you much better, if the Zaurus is in good condition you could get 170USD+ for it, and be able to buy a Palm Tungsten, Palm OS 5 and the PDA apps sound like a much better fit to what you want.
The open source bonus being relatively excellent hardware support (for a handheld), the fact you can write or port programs (native, not java) without paying a licensing fee. The Zauruses are amazingly flexible devices that admittedly need some nous to set up.
Also, I'm wondering what BT equipment you've been trying to use, most BT devices can pair with eachother, it's mostly stupid crap like some nokias that have problems. If you mean hardware compatibility, well, the Zaurus has the same hardware compatibility as any other linux machine running the 24.21 kernel (unless you're running the ancient sharp rom, 2.6 will come around at some point), that being most of the BT cards available (not to mention 802.11b, USB devices [through a usb card, or with the built in USB host of the SL-6000] and all sorts of other things).
The SL-5500 keyboard is fine, unless you have gigantic fingers, and if you do you can get fold up keyboards. Hancom office is the best handheld WP I've used, .doc and all. The spreadsheet I haven't personally used. The contacts, well fine, write your own.
And what's wrong with toastie makers? Nothing wrong, toasties are great, you just need to be ok with cleaning things.
Oops, actually the 9500 only has 32MB SDRAM, the 80MB is flash for storage.
And the 9210 has exactly 16MB of RAM and a 52MHZ ARM9. It only has an MMC slot, doesn't have 802.11b built in. It doesn't support GPRS so if you want an always on connection you'd have to hope that MMC slot supports SDIO and there are drivers and then use it with *another* phone.
Reasonable screen, only half the res in one direction than the SL-6000.
To be fair, the 9500 ,which is going to be coming out soon, has 80MB of memory, supports GPRS and has 802.11b and BT built in, still no CF though and the same screen, no idea about the CPU. Oh, and it's not out yet, and let's not even mention the advantages of an open source OS.
Bluetooth has made PDA-phones obsolete, who cares if the phone is smaller, you can have the phone in your bag or pocket while you use your PDA on the net. And you don't have to talk into some silly brick either.
A Zaurus of the SL series tends to go for around $170 for an SL-5500 and $300 for an SL-5600.
Just a little correction.
The 5500 has 64MB RAM (all of which can be used with OZ if you have a flash card) and 16MB internal flash . The 5600 has 32MB RAM and 64MB internal flash, the internal flash is faster than an SD or CF card but personally I think they made the wrong choice with it. The SL-6000 also uses a PXA-255 which was basically released as a bug fix for the PXA-250 (that the 5600 uses) which had several bugs (cache and pcmcia I seem to recall).
The SL-6000 is much better of course :), with 64MB of both (although I seem to recall a marketing pdf with several different models, one of which had 128MB of flash, others didn't have the 802.11b and some had BT in addition, they don't seem to be offering that choice here).
Of course this is all coming from a happy SL-5500 owner who doesn't need any newfangled XScale ;)... I'd kill for the screen though.
Today I did a bad thing. I almost replied to a troll. I'm so ashamed... [the sound of wracking sobs follows].
FunHi seems to be an extreme manifestation of the overly materialistic culture it has emanated from (people who call themselves a "gangsta" or a "playa" or a "hunie", modern popular culture basically), it's just... too horrible for words.
People judging how popular and loved they are on the basis of how much other people have spent on them *puke*.
I guess they could all be doing it in an ironic and political fashion to show all members of capitalist societies to be whores. I'm sorta doubting that's the case, personally.
This place is a horrific written image of pain.
I quote:
My eyes, they bleed!
My brain, it bleeds!
Erm... it's just as likely to be a broken cable, when that happens. Although perhaps less with an integrated POS like that where the cable hasn't seem much knocking, could always have been a dry joint.
The likelihood of broken cable vs broken electron gun seems, from experience, to be weighted towards the cable in such instances of one colour failure.
Also this
The Queen is technically above the law, she also cannot be required to give evidence.
See this, and nothing has changed.
That's really kinda hot.
For reference my Athlon 900@1007mhz with a copper Globalwin heatsink (forgot the model), arctic silver 5 and a ~3800RPM fan is at 46C under load, 10C above case temp.
It's also pretty quiet, blissfully silent compared to how it was with the horribly loud 7000RPM fan that shipped with the heatsink.
Yay for other Olympus fans! :)
While I agree on this in principle, a good prime lense is better than any zoom (mmmmmm zuiko prime *drool*), a zoom can save someone just starting a lot of money in buying different lenses whilst allowing them to experiment with different focal lengths.
This isn't really much of a problem with most manual focus cameras anyway, at least those with TTL metering, You can get adapters for pretty much any type to any type.
It only gets complicated with auto-focus and mechanical linkages.
Yes, a K-1000 is an excellent learners camera...
:)
I initially learnt on a K-1000 and these days I shoot on an Olympus OM-2n... beautiful camera, wonderful auto-exposure
OS X server runs on ARM?
Neat... so it *does* do co-processor emulation...
*cough*
Only with ni-cad, and to a lesser extent ni-mh.
Behaviour like this kills li-ion, lots.
I don't need to :), I've done it.
My 840AV is pretty damn evil to get into, the worst bit is the disturbing snapping sounds as you undo/replace the clips along the top of the mobo. Saying that, it's not *insanely* difficult, just moreso than most other computers, hey, only 1 screw! :) (not including thumb screw type thingies).
Personally I've forgiven Apple forever considering how easy it is top put RAM into a B&W G3 and all later towers.
The PowerMac 8500 (and all the 8*** series macs except the 8600) used variations on the Quadra 800 case.