You can do what you're looking for on a and ipaq and a zaurus.
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One thing I've been using more and more on my zaurus is a personal database - portabase. It not only runs on the zaurus, but on the desktop (Linux and WIndows, soon to be on Mac OS X) as well. You can pretty much stick any kind of information you want in the database(s) and manipulate the data however you want. With the latest release (1.9) you can even stick images into a DB.
Not to sound like an ad for portabase, but I'm putting more of my life into it every day, it seems.
They sure look attractive. But, how functional can this be?
A good deal more functional than a PDA that's not much smaller, considering you can install ALL your favorite apps on it.
That said, I tote my Zaurus around with me and, together with a Pockettop keyboard and large SD card, can do pretty much everything I can do on my laptop, save for DVDs (although I can rip to Mpeg4 and watched with TkcVideo - but that's a rather long process).
I don't think ratings mean all that much these days. Last weekend I went to see Exorcist, the Beginning. Looking at the audience, you would have thought I wandered into a Disney film. Really. I counted 30 kids that were WELL under 10 years old, some looked as young as five - all with their parents or some other older person.
I know I'm getting old and sound just like my father, but Jeezus. I can't imagine me being that age and sitting next to my parents watching something like that. Would never have happened. And if I'd somehow managed to get an older sibling to sneak me in, we both would have been ass-whooped when we got home.
Times have indeed changed. Kids are exposed to so much more than I was at their age.
The cable/DSL company might need access to your premises more often to swap out the modem, but reliability beyond that is up to the company.
You're right, but my point was really that cable/VOIP failures tend to be at the household level, whereas traditional phone company problems usually are at the neightborhood/area level. Big difference in response time. Once a neighborhood goes out, the local news media get ahold of it and the phone company is on it. You almost never see that with a cable neighborhood outage.
Last time I had cable, it was constantly out due to either cable line cuts or upstream atmospheric disturbances (I have sat for TV now, and only have to worry about atmospheric conditions, which have gotten me twice).
We've had no problems with service until the last week. The cable/VoIP modem start cycling and trying to readjust over and over.
The guy came out and changed the modems. He said that it is very, very common.
So if you start losing VoIP service and your modem starts cycling... be quick to report it so they can change out your device.
But you kind of make an interesting point for a wired line, in that should the hardware fail (in this case a telephone), you can always go out and get a new one cheaply. When you rely on a cable modem for you voice connection, you're relying on a lot more than just the wire.
And I'm not so sure all cable companies are quick to respond to outages, whether they're voice or internet related. The old phone companies certainly don't.
Not always. I have some perfectly good parallel port midi hardware that no longer works in WinXP or Linux. It's precisely because nobody's written drivers that I can't use it. It's not like the MIDI spec has changed any.
Hopefully you'll take the time (or find someone who will take the time) to do forensics on the box. That would also include a full check of the hardware firewall. Seriously.
If the box was as protected as you say, it was probably done from the inside.
I was consistently getting these up until this week. None so far this week.
It was only coming from three different IP addresses, so I contacted the upstream provider of the IPs. Two immediately responded with "We've shut them out until they fix their boxes". The other responded with "Well, it's not us, it's a customer of ours", with with I responded "And I'm SURE it's a violation of your TOS/AUP". They then responded to say they'd cut off the offending account.
The best method is to just be patient and nice. Explain to these people why to switch, but do it like a large company does. For example: Tell them hackers will have a harder time getting their credit information. Tell them that they won't have to worry about spyware installing itself and slowing their computers down.
Some sanity. Thanks for that. Really. Not more than a few posts up we have "Just install Firefox and tell'em it's IE" modded insightful. Aside from being outright deceitful, it does nothing to educate users.
It'd be nice if more people saw it your way.
IMO if you're going to advocate open source, it needs to be done honestly.
Wireless is still mostly in the hands of early-adopters; many of who know what they're doing.
I disagree. The fact that you see wireless routers for sale at BestBuy seems to confirm.
Case in point: My neighbor recently bought a wireless router and did the default setup (ie: wide open). I discovered it while rebuilding a machine at home. Living in the Bay area houses are fairly close together, so I initially associated to his AP. No WEP. Broadcast. No MAC filtering.
I went over and asked him if that was indeed what he wanted. Needless to say, he was pretty much horrified that someone could suck up all his bandwidth without knowing about it (he didn't even know where to look in Linksys's web interface to see who had what IP address).
A lot of us like to think that the rest of the world wants to share as we do, but truth is, not many ordinary folk do.
How does the power compare to, say, a socket low-power CF card? On my Zaurus I went through a couple different cards before I settled on the socket CF because it pretty much doubled my battery life compared to all the other cards.
I know the zaurus doesn't handle SDIO cards for networking, but it'd be interesting to see what the power consumption differences were.
f you ever switch to Linux, give it a try. Realplayer is actually quite stable and doesn't really nag you at all. It used to ask you for your email address, but it doesn't even do that anymore.
Off topic, I know, but that's one of the reasons I like SUSE on the desktop. Real (along with quite a few other plugins) are already configured and ready to use. No nagging.
...If the customer doesn't have access to original install media (and you're going to be a Good Little Tech and refuse to put pirated software on), you're going to have to do it the hard way.
If the customer doesn't have either the original media or a new purchase of the media, I will not be doing any kind of install, period (we're talking Windows).
I'm assuming you would also have them purchase new media before you rebuild as well, given your piracy statement.
Agreed. But what he doesn't need is a legal "boot up the arse" that will haunt him for the rest of his life. The trick is giving him the former without the latter.
So, you convince his ISP to issue a "You're no longer welcome here because you agreed to an AUP that forbids what you were trying to do" to him.
Unfortunately, ISPs are bogged down with requests like these, so probably not much will/can be done realistically.
Microsoft have too much sparetime, they should use it too improve they're software.
Like any large company, there are many different departments handling many different things.
Research is but one of those departments. And why deny them the ability to do further research? In the end, with what they've learned doing research it can only help their products that are already out in the market.
Too bad you didn't quote the rest of what he was saying.
The fact of the matter is that not all hardware works with Windows. I have a perfectly good parallel port interface that worked beautifully under Win95/98 but will not work under 2000 or XP. The manufacturer stopped writing drivers for it. W2K and XP don't have drivers for it either, plain and simple.
Clearly this is the manufacturer trying to get you to buy their newer hardware, but if we go by the GP post we should assume that W2K and XP should handle it.
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You can do what you're looking for on a and ipaq and a zaurus.
Not to sound like an ad for portabase, but I'm putting more of my life into it every day, it seems.
A good deal more functional than a PDA that's not much smaller, considering you can install ALL your favorite apps on it.
That said, I tote my Zaurus around with me and, together with a Pockettop keyboard and large SD card, can do pretty much everything I can do on my laptop, save for DVDs (although I can rip to Mpeg4 and watched with TkcVideo - but that's a rather long process).
I know I'm getting old and sound just like my father, but Jeezus. I can't imagine me being that age and sitting next to my parents watching something like that. Would never have happened. And if I'd somehow managed to get an older sibling to sneak me in, we both would have been ass-whooped when we got home.
Times have indeed changed. Kids are exposed to so much more than I was at their age.
You're right, but my point was really that cable/VOIP failures tend to be at the household level, whereas traditional phone company problems usually are at the neightborhood/area level. Big difference in response time. Once a neighborhood goes out, the local news media get ahold of it and the phone company is on it. You almost never see that with a cable neighborhood outage.
Last time I had cable, it was constantly out due to either cable line cuts or upstream atmospheric disturbances (I have sat for TV now, and only have to worry about atmospheric conditions, which have gotten me twice).
The main advantage you now see from the breakup is competition, however feeble, and lower pricing.
Oh, and customer service has always sucked. It's not a new phenomenon.
But you kind of make an interesting point for a wired line, in that should the hardware fail (in this case a telephone), you can always go out and get a new one cheaply. When you rely on a cable modem for you voice connection, you're relying on a lot more than just the wire.
And I'm not so sure all cable companies are quick to respond to outages, whether they're voice or internet related. The old phone companies certainly don't.
Not always. I have some perfectly good parallel port midi hardware that no longer works in WinXP or Linux. It's precisely because nobody's written drivers that I can't use it. It's not like the MIDI spec has changed any.
If the box was as protected as you say, it was probably done from the inside.
It was only coming from three different IP addresses, so I contacted the upstream provider of the IPs. Two immediately responded with "We've shut them out until they fix their boxes". The other responded with "Well, it's not us, it's a customer of ours", with with I responded "And I'm SURE it's a violation of your TOS/AUP". They then responded to say they'd cut off the offending account.
Sometimes contacting the ISP actually does help.
Some sanity. Thanks for that. Really. Not more than a few posts up we have "Just install Firefox and tell'em it's IE" modded insightful. Aside from being outright deceitful, it does nothing to educate users.
It'd be nice if more people saw it your way.
IMO if you're going to advocate open source, it needs to be done honestly.
Case in point: My neighbor recently bought a wireless router and did the default setup (ie: wide open). I discovered it while rebuilding a machine at home. Living in the Bay area houses are fairly close together, so I initially associated to his AP. No WEP. Broadcast. No MAC filtering.
I went over and asked him if that was indeed what he wanted. Needless to say, he was pretty much horrified that someone could suck up all his bandwidth without knowing about it (he didn't even know where to look in Linksys's web interface to see who had what IP address).
A lot of us like to think that the rest of the world wants to share as we do, but truth is, not many ordinary folk do.
How does the power compare to, say, a socket low-power CF card? On my Zaurus I went through a couple different cards before I settled on the socket CF because it pretty much doubled my battery life compared to all the other cards.
I know the zaurus doesn't handle SDIO cards for networking, but it'd be interesting to see what the power consumption differences were.
Off topic, I know, but that's one of the reasons I like SUSE on the desktop. Real (along with quite a few other plugins) are already configured and ready to use. No nagging.
If the customer doesn't have either the original media or a new purchase of the media, I will not be doing any kind of install, period (we're talking Windows).
I'm assuming you would also have them purchase new media before you rebuild as well, given your piracy statement.
It most liekly has a Ghost image onan enclosed CD of the OS as it was shipped. Takes about 15 minutes to reghost a machine.
There are always other markets, such as virus protection, etc. that these companies could branch out into.
But I agree, greed will probably keep the anti-spam business going one way or another.
So, you convince his ISP to issue a "You're no longer welcome here because you agreed to an AUP that forbids what you were trying to do" to him.
Unfortunately, ISPs are bogged down with requests like these, so probably not much will/can be done realistically.
Like any large company, there are many different departments handling many different things.
Research is but one of those departments. And why deny them the ability to do further research? In the end, with what they've learned doing research it can only help their products that are already out in the market.
I'm genuinely interested.
OS X no longer ships with IE. Windows is the only platform to now ship with IE.
http://cmisip.home.insightbb.com/zaurus.htm
The fact of the matter is that not all hardware works with Windows. I have a perfectly good parallel port interface that worked beautifully under Win95/98 but will not work under 2000 or XP. The manufacturer stopped writing drivers for it. W2K and XP don't have drivers for it either, plain and simple.
Clearly this is the manufacturer trying to get you to buy their newer hardware, but if we go by the GP post we should assume that W2K and XP should handle it.
Windows XP's default is to login. Every major Linux distribution I've seen allow auto-login if the user wishes.