User: puterGeezer

Re:get a copy...if you can

On: Vinge and the Singularity

Google turned up this:

True Names - the novel by Vernor Vinge
Comment by the transcriber ... Bluejay Books) TRUE NAMES
VERNOR VINGE Bluejay Books Inc. All the ...
progoth.resnet.gatech.edu/truename/truename.htm - 101k - Cached - Similar pages

Re:IBM's MicroDrive or RAID in 19" case

On: Storing Massive Images Direct From Digital Camera?

Minor clarification. The IBM Microdrive is a CompactFlash (CF) device. You can buy CF to PCMCIA adapters, though. And there is a new 1GB version due out soon.

Doesn't do any good for UHF devices

On: The Do-It-All Remote?

An all-in-one IR remote is all well and good
but my Dish Network satellite box and remote
use UHF. No IR remote in the universe is
gonna do me any good, no matter how programmable
it is!

Re:the web on a pda might not be great, but...

On: The Cell Phone-PDA Revolution

Check your urls. It's AvantGo (no "d") and ProxiNet (with an "i", now a "y").

Re:this is what i want and why pda/cell doesn't do

On: The Cell Phone-PDA Revolution

I agree that the cell phone form factor is only useful for being ... a phone.

All of these seem to run those nasty "OSes" from Redmond but check out these pretty things from Fujitsu Personal Systems

Points?

On: E-Paying Speeding Tickets

In Texas we don't need no steenkeeng points!

Speed, pay, repeat as necessary.

I use VERN

On: Virtual Desktops for Win32?

I've used VERN and BLANCH, shareware from One Guy Coding, for a couple of years now.