I also read something about one where the logic was in the screen, and much like many of the newer Slates, the keyboard could be completely removed. It was also supposed to use the G4 processor (this is when the iMac had JUST come out).
Well, if it's running OS X, it'll definitely have InkWell. InkWell is the name for the handwriting engine in OS X. It is based upon Rosetta, the GOOD handwriting engine from the Newton.
This is why there'll never be a source release of Newton OS.
To prevent confusion, I meant $300 MORE, not $300. The only $300 tablets I know of have Pentium MMX chips. ($330 will buy you a Pentium III 400 tablet with all sorts of optional crap, though...)
For $300, Averatec (essentially, there are other differences) took their 3200 Series subnotebook, put that different hinge on, upgraded the CPU, upgraded the RAM (IIRC), and put a touch-sensitive overlay on, creating a tablet.
Also, I didn't mention that for $1299 (pre-rebates), you can buy an AXP-M 2200+ tablet from Averatec. Pretty much the same features as Averatec's $999 (also pre-rebates) XP-M 2000+ subnotebook, except it's a convertible tablet.
BTW, the tablet I linked you to IS a Slate, it's just that Microsoft didn't come up with the Slate and Convertible names until XP Tablet Edition.
$330, and comes with a crapload of accessories. Heck, many early Slate form-factor tablets were barely more powerful than that thing (400MHz P3). Oh, and the Stylistic and Point lines were some of the first Tablet PCs, coming soon after the Toshiba Dynapad T-100, the FIRST tablet PC, 11 years ago.
Also, someone got Windows XP Tablet PC Edition running on the old Stylistic 2300, a Pentium MMX 233 box (below the minimum requirements for DESKTOP editions, but XP Pro's been run on an underclocked 20MHz Pentium for shits and giggles). Since the 3400 is above the requirements of XP Tablet, it should run it.
Hey, hey - it lets me get 20FPS at 320x200 on BZFlag, where I'd otherwise get 1FPS (Pentium MMX 233, 96MB RAM - no, that wasn't the original 3D accelerator - I know it was a Voodoo I).
Mine is a 32MB TNT2 M64 PCI (made by PNY, and they appear to have only made one model).
Also, I doubt that it'll help at all with Wolf3D, unless you've got one of those OpenGL versions from SourceForge. Wolf3D is entirely CPU-bound, IIRC.
I did forget to mention that Shelton is an Asian-market thing only.
Also, why the heck did I say "running your own apps"? I must have let my fingers fly and not noticed it... What I meant was: "running more than three apps with more than three windows per app"
Lock KDE down to only manage windows that are the first three of the same process, and only three different processes (with different names, of course).
Actually, MandrakeMove wouldn't be bad either. What's wrong with 1024x768? What's wrong with personal networks? What's wrong with running your own apps?
BTW, in other (related) news, Intel's released a new Sempron-killer based on the Shelton core. It's 90nm, but it's old technology, meaning most likely Dothan (which is, after all, a modified P6 core, which dates back to 1995). Oh, and it does some very Covington (read: the original Celeron. Not that 300A that you overclocked - the 266 and the ORIGINAL 300)-like things. Like having ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NO L2 CACHE!
And what does that have to do with anything? Firefox doesn't run on a cellphone. Opera doesn't run on a J2ME cellphone (and Sprint doesn't have any Symbian phones). WebViewer is the only choice if all you've got is a J2ME phone to get HTML.
Of course, to get real Internet access on a standard phone, we have to download this POS called WebViewer. OK, so the graphics are decent, but it can only load half of a/. page, half the time on a dynamic site you get "Malformed response message" errors, and the trial is good for 10 days and 10 page( load attempts, AFAIK)/day ($10 for the full version). If they released their proxy software, we could at least use our own boxes, and get around that ANNOYING trial limit (the trial-checking is all server side)
Isn't Feather a KDrive-based distro, though, like Damn Small Linux?
Ah, here we go: I also changed the standard XFree86 server to the XVesa and XFbdev (XVesa and XFbdev are KDrive) servers, which are quicker (which I disagree on) and much smaller.
Also, I noticed it's got Fluxbox (means I have to remaster for n00bs to use it, but it's fine with me - I use Flux) and not Opera or Firefox (FWIW, DSL can add Firefox on the fly, but it's not on the CD). I might throw this on my JumpDrive, but I don't encounter many boxes with USB boot.
Hey, the Dell QuietKey isn't THAT noisy, and it's damn good - for a membrane KB.
I'm using a Model M (PS/2 cable, too, w00t! Not that that matters - my current computer uses an AT keyboard, so I had to buy an adaptor for $1.50) - the REAL one, not the Lexmark version (a sad excuse for an M). I got it for $0.99, IIRC, because a few keys were missing (the M, however, uses a two-piece keycap - the top is printed, the bottom is what pushes the spring - so, I could rearrange the bottoms to where I needed them, and I could type on it). Then, I found another M (Lexmark this time) with all of its keys, and a damaged PS/2 connector (and since it's a Lex, no removing the cable), and I got it for free. I frankensteined a complete keyboard by taking keys from the second M and putting them on the first M.
Besides, 95% of the people who would use it barely know what a root password is, and what it does. Not to mention, AFAIK you have to use su to switch to root on *noppix and MdkMove. I think I'm one of two students who knows how to use the command line, and the only one who knows how on Linux.
BTW, I know I've been cleared for live CDs - the staff actually likes the idea (and I think they've asked to use them before, because the boxes are loaded with spyware to the point that they can't be used).
I use it as a journal, and a sort of review system (pales in comparison to anything that supports multiple pages or inline graphics, though).
In fact, I have reviews of two printers in there already.
As you can see in my sig, I also use it as a personal Ask Slashdot, seeing as I almost never get stories accepted, because mine are usually highly specific, and won't appeal to a general audience.
I've been using it with ReqWireless WebViewer (the trial version, too) to visit/. Of course, I get craploads of "Malformed response message" errors, and the A660 can only handle about 50K of data with the WebViewer trial (or is it a hard-coded limit in WebViewer?)
No (I don't run Windows, and the people I know who do have broadband and Windows aren't updating at all - I've been trying to convince them to do a Windows Update, but since it takes a good bit of time...), but I have heard reports of it hosing systems beyond it's removal (wiping out/corrupting files that Windows needs to run Explorer or the uninstaller, or even boot sometimes).
His five-step procedure takes little time and zero bandwidth. XP SP2 requires you to:
1. Find a link to it (SP2Torrent.com is one, IIRC) 2. Download it 3. Install it 4. Reboot 5. Curse because something broke, or it hosed your system 6. Undo the damage (ranging from uninstalling SP2, to reinstalling Windows XP and all applications, and possibly recreating documents)
Ahh, the data's all wonky. You're not a real native. All you know is that two million years before the destruction of Earth, the computer was on six times nine.
The bookmarklet has been added to my Opera personal bar, and it works great (it simply replaces *.slashdot.org with hireadesigner.slashdot.org in the URL). In theory, it'll work in any browser that supports JavaScript, not just Gecko browsers.
linux.slashdot.org isn't bad, just 3D UI elements added to ask.slashdot.org, which is bland gray, but doesn't make your eyes bleed.
Games and IT? I wish it were automatic (this box is too old to run a firewall and all of the other stuff I run at the same time...)
I also use Celery (six characters) over Celeron (seven characters), primarily to shorten it. Deceleron is the knock. Itanic (six characters) over Itanium (seven characters), well, because it IS a mess of Titanic proportions...
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I also read something about one where the logic was in the screen, and much like many of the newer Slates, the keyboard could be completely removed. It was also supposed to use the G4 processor (this is when the iMac had JUST come out).
Well, if it's running OS X, it'll definitely have InkWell. InkWell is the name for the handwriting engine in OS X. It is based upon Rosetta, the GOOD handwriting engine from the Newton.
This is why there'll never be a source release of Newton OS.
To prevent confusion, I meant $300 MORE, not $300. The only $300 tablets I know of have Pentium MMX chips. ($330 will buy you a Pentium III 400 tablet with all sorts of optional crap, though...)
For $300, Averatec (essentially, there are other differences) took their 3200 Series subnotebook, put that different hinge on, upgraded the CPU, upgraded the RAM (IIRC), and put a touch-sensitive overlay on, creating a tablet.
Also, I didn't mention that for $1299 (pre-rebates), you can buy an AXP-M 2200+ tablet from Averatec. Pretty much the same features as Averatec's $999 (also pre-rebates) XP-M 2000+ subnotebook, except it's a convertible tablet.
BTW, the tablet I linked you to IS a Slate, it's just that Microsoft didn't come up with the Slate and Convertible names until XP Tablet Edition.
http://jksalesinc.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPa th=26_51_80&products_id=217
$330, and comes with a crapload of accessories. Heck, many early Slate form-factor tablets were barely more powerful than that thing (400MHz P3). Oh, and the Stylistic and Point lines were some of the first Tablet PCs, coming soon after the Toshiba Dynapad T-100, the FIRST tablet PC, 11 years ago.
Also, someone got Windows XP Tablet PC Edition running on the old Stylistic 2300, a Pentium MMX 233 box (below the minimum requirements for DESKTOP editions, but XP Pro's been run on an underclocked 20MHz Pentium for shits and giggles). Since the 3400 is above the requirements of XP Tablet, it should run it.
Hey, hey - it lets me get 20FPS at 320x200 on BZFlag, where I'd otherwise get 1FPS (Pentium MMX 233, 96MB RAM - no, that wasn't the original 3D accelerator - I know it was a Voodoo I).
Mine is a 32MB TNT2 M64 PCI (made by PNY, and they appear to have only made one model).
Also, I doubt that it'll help at all with Wolf3D, unless you've got one of those OpenGL versions from SourceForge. Wolf3D is entirely CPU-bound, IIRC.
Well, there CAN be such a thing as a Google Groups thread. Well, OK, technically a Google Groups 2 Beta thread, but...
I did forget to mention that Shelton is an Asian-market thing only.
Also, why the heck did I say "running your own apps"? I must have let my fingers fly and not noticed it... What I meant was: "running more than three apps with more than three windows per app"
Lock KDE down to only manage windows that are the first three of the same process, and only three different processes (with different names, of course).
Actually, MandrakeMove wouldn't be bad either. What's wrong with 1024x768? What's wrong with personal networks? What's wrong with running your own apps?
BTW, in other (related) news, Intel's released a new Sempron-killer based on the Shelton core. It's 90nm, but it's old technology, meaning most likely Dothan (which is, after all, a modified P6 core, which dates back to 1995). Oh, and it does some very Covington (read: the original Celeron. Not that 300A that you overclocked - the 266 and the ORIGINAL 300)-like things. Like having ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY NO L2 CACHE!
And what does that have to do with anything? Firefox doesn't run on a cellphone. Opera doesn't run on a J2ME cellphone (and Sprint doesn't have any Symbian phones). WebViewer is the only choice if all you've got is a J2ME phone to get HTML.
Of course, to get real Internet access on a standard phone, we have to download this POS called WebViewer. OK, so the graphics are decent, but it can only load half of a /. page, half the time on a dynamic site you get "Malformed response message" errors, and the trial is good for 10 days and 10 page( load attempts, AFAIK)/day ($10 for the full version). If they released their proxy software, we could at least use our own boxes, and get around that ANNOYING trial limit (the trial-checking is all server side)
You can't comment, and you can only view the top five comments. Avoid it.
Isn't Feather a KDrive-based distro, though, like Damn Small Linux?
Ah, here we go:
I also changed the standard XFree86 server to the XVesa and XFbdev (XVesa and XFbdev are KDrive) servers, which are quicker (which I disagree on) and much smaller.
Also, I noticed it's got Fluxbox (means I have to remaster for n00bs to use it, but it's fine with me - I use Flux) and not Opera or Firefox (FWIW, DSL can add Firefox on the fly, but it's not on the CD). I might throw this on my JumpDrive, but I don't encounter many boxes with USB boot.
Hey, the Dell QuietKey isn't THAT noisy, and it's damn good - for a membrane KB.
I'm using a Model M (PS/2 cable, too, w00t! Not that that matters - my current computer uses an AT keyboard, so I had to buy an adaptor for $1.50) - the REAL one, not the Lexmark version (a sad excuse for an M). I got it for $0.99, IIRC, because a few keys were missing (the M, however, uses a two-piece keycap - the top is printed, the bottom is what pushes the spring - so, I could rearrange the bottoms to where I needed them, and I could type on it). Then, I found another M (Lexmark this time) with all of its keys, and a damaged PS/2 connector (and since it's a Lex, no removing the cable), and I got it for free. I frankensteined a complete keyboard by taking keys from the second M and putting them on the first M.
Not if I remove fdisk ;-)
Besides, 95% of the people who would use it barely know what a root password is, and what it does. Not to mention, AFAIK you have to use su to switch to root on *noppix and MdkMove. I think I'm one of two students who knows how to use the command line, and the only one who knows how on Linux.
BTW, I know I've been cleared for live CDs - the staff actually likes the idea (and I think they've asked to use them before, because the boxes are loaded with spyware to the point that they can't be used).
I use it as a journal, and a sort of review system (pales in comparison to anything that supports multiple pages or inline graphics, though).
In fact, I have reviews of two printers in there already.
As you can see in my sig, I also use it as a personal Ask Slashdot, seeing as I almost never get stories accepted, because mine are usually highly specific, and won't appeal to a general audience.
I've been using it with ReqWireless WebViewer (the trial version, too) to visit /. Of course, I get craploads of "Malformed response message" errors, and the A660 can only handle about 50K of data with the WebViewer trial (or is it a hard-coded limit in WebViewer?)
Whoa, why troll?
I was reporting on what I had heard about SP2 hosing systems. Or was it the "I don't run Windows" part? Someone needs to metamod...
No (I don't run Windows, and the people I know who do have broadband and Windows aren't updating at all - I've been trying to convince them to do a Windows Update, but since it takes a good bit of time...), but I have heard reports of it hosing systems beyond it's removal (wiping out/corrupting files that Windows needs to run Explorer or the uninstaller, or even boot sometimes).
Well, you want to bet a lot of the people installing SP2 "won't have gotten around to backing up"?
His five-step procedure takes little time and zero bandwidth. XP SP2 requires you to:
1. Find a link to it (SP2Torrent.com is one, IIRC)
2. Download it
3. Install it
4. Reboot
5. Curse because something broke, or it hosed your system
6. Undo the damage (ranging from uninstalling SP2, to reinstalling Windows XP and all applications, and possibly recreating documents)
Ahh, the data's all wonky. You're not a real native. All you know is that two million years before the destruction of Earth, the computer was on six times nine.
The bookmarklet has been added to my Opera personal bar, and it works great (it simply replaces *.slashdot.org with hireadesigner.slashdot.org in the URL). In theory, it'll work in any browser that supports JavaScript, not just Gecko browsers.
linux.slashdot.org isn't bad, just 3D UI elements added to ask.slashdot.org, which is bland gray, but doesn't make your eyes bleed.
Games and IT? I wish it were automatic (this box is too old to run a firewall and all of the other stuff I run at the same time...)
Let's see:
Oppie is five characters. Opteron is seven.
I also use Celery (six characters) over Celeron (seven characters), primarily to shorten it. Deceleron is the knock. Itanic (six characters) over Itanium (seven characters), well, because it IS a mess of Titanic proportions...