I have an old, trusty PalmIIIx which I use to catch up reading news, Planet GNOME, Advogato diaries, etc when I have idle time (queues, red lights, eating breakfast, waiting for the girl, etc). Also, whenever I find an article which catches my attention, I save it to read later. I use Plucker and a perl scripts which fetches stuff via cron, convert automagically, etc. Keep it all automated.
I've read about a guy suggesting printing it all. Doesn't work for me; I've read countless articles and most of them were read once -- it would be a waste of paper (and ink!) printing and dumping the article forever. Keeping it on a Palm is efficient and the screen is good on the eyes. Palms are pretty cheap right now and you don't necesarily need a recent model.
In a nutshell, get it all on a Palm so you can read it anywhere on any idle time.
I am the owner of an old and battered Palm IIIx and I read lots of documents on it via Plucker. I somehow "got it" reading "e-texts" on this model's small screen and I sure can relax while reading it. I have to take compromises with just 8Mb, but I guess someday buying another Palm will become priority on my shopping list.
I've read lots of documentation, HOWTOs and manpages with it.
I've read lots of books. Cryptonomicon was a splitting festival.
I've got a nice Perl script + cron which fetchs and parses Advogato and Planet GNOME daily in a nice HTML, so I can catch up with all unread posts any day later.
I'm recently reading Google News with it.
Whenever I find an interesting interview, article or post of Joel Spolsky, I use Plucker and read it at any convenient time (bank, lunch, queues, even bathroom, yes).
I think you get my drift. Carrying the equivalent of all this material on paper is prohibitive. Having it all in one convenient plastic case is way cool. Don't get me started on printing everything I've ever read with Plucker.
The spec says "x86 compatible". Ok, that's vague, but one can see on the photos and read on the Details that it runs an XP. It doesn't say either that Microsoft did an special version of XP for this thing (and the Paul Allen mention is only about "concept", not that he's actively behind this project).
because Conectiva is aimed to the brazilian and latinamerican market, with translations to portuguese, spanish and the usual english language.
I just say: Better develop new useful proggies that wasting time on building a distribution.
Conectiva does both things, as APT-GET (APT with RPM packages), the VESA driver and the named Synaptic demonstrates so.
Also, Rik van Riel colaborates extensively to the kernel, acme does his part with some drivers, and the list goes on.
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jaime g. wong
"linux is only free if your time has no value"
- jamie zawinski
This is the best interview I've ever read. Deb does really knows her business as it is clearly drawn on every question answered. As you might notice she gives an straight-to-the-point reply rewriting the question if needed. No useless comments, just content that makes its target.
So, they say "hey, these people know what they are doing and can save us bandwidth money! hire 'em!" Imagine how wonderful the web would be if there weren't so much useless crap being sent around.
actually, it's a dream. let's be realistic, companies won't go catching 5k designers to save bandwidth. they care about content and design. about making people come back to the sites. too bad not everybody follows nielsen's reputation article. and sure, the web would be wonderful without so much "useless crap".
and have you noticed its structure is also similar to the matrix's? lotsa white flashes, dark style, techno score and even a blue logo of the 20CFox (just like the blue warner logo) at the start. heh, curious.
I still ask the same question: why not music module (MOD, S3M, IT, XM) players!? they use very little space compared to MP3s and the sound quality is excellent. they require even less CPU processing power and there are thousands of great ones to choose and download on the internet (and gives a kick about those piracy issues).
heck, this things are way cool. reminds me of the glowing drinks that appeared on the anime movie "Macross: Do you remember love?". can't wait to try one... perhaps this will follow the Diet Coke... say, Glow Coke?:)
that's the wisest choice! they're the daddies of synth music. of techno. of computer music. what's better than coding at 3:00am while singing "it's more fun to compute"?:) jaguar / negative edge.
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"Programs should be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
I have an old, trusty PalmIIIx which I use to catch up reading news, Planet GNOME, Advogato diaries, etc when I have idle time (queues, red lights, eating breakfast, waiting for the girl, etc). Also, whenever I find an article which catches my attention, I save it to read later.
I use Plucker and a perl scripts which fetches stuff via cron, convert automagically, etc. Keep it all automated.
I've read about a guy suggesting printing it all. Doesn't work for me; I've read countless articles and most of them were read once -- it would be a waste of paper (and ink!) printing and dumping the article forever. Keeping it on a Palm is efficient and the screen is good on the eyes.
Palms are pretty cheap right now and you don't necesarily need a recent model.
In a nutshell, get it all on a Palm so you can read it anywhere on any idle time.
I used to think the same.
I am the owner of an old and battered Palm IIIx and I read lots of documents on it via Plucker. I somehow "got it" reading "e-texts" on this model's small screen and I sure can relax while reading it. I have to take compromises with just 8Mb, but I guess someday buying another Palm will become priority on my shopping list.
I've read lots of documentation, HOWTOs and manpages with it.
I've read lots of books. Cryptonomicon was a splitting festival.
I've got a nice Perl script + cron which fetchs and parses Advogato and Planet GNOME daily in a nice HTML, so I can catch up with all unread posts any day later.
I'm recently reading Google News with it.
Whenever I find an interesting interview, article or post of Joel Spolsky, I use Plucker and read it at any convenient time (bank, lunch, queues, even bathroom, yes).
I carry lots of interesting productivity articles on my Palm everywhere.
I think you get my drift. Carrying the equivalent of all this material on paper is prohibitive. Having it all in one convenient plastic case is way cool. Don't get me started on printing everything I've ever read with Plucker.
Oh, and I can search.
I found this: http://www.geocities.com/fsf_hammerwell/MatrixRPGT itlePage.html
The spec says "x86 compatible". Ok, that's vague, but one can see on the photos and read on the Details that it runs an XP.
It doesn't say either that Microsoft did an special version of XP for this thing (and the Paul Allen mention is only about "concept", not that he's actively behind this project).
Executive summary: it *should* run Linux.
Why a new one?
because Conectiva is aimed to the brazilian and latinamerican market, with translations to portuguese, spanish and the usual english language.
I just say: Better develop new useful proggies that wasting time on building a distribution.
Conectiva does both things, as APT-GET (APT with RPM packages), the VESA driver and the named Synaptic demonstrates so. Also, Rik van Riel colaborates extensively to the kernel, acme does his part with some drivers, and the list goes on.
--
jaime g. wong
"linux is only free if your time has no value"
- jamie zawinski
This is the best interview I've ever read. Deb does really knows her business as it is clearly drawn on every question answered. As you might notice she gives an straight-to-the-point reply rewriting the question if needed.
No useless comments, just content that makes its target.
Kudos for such a great job.
jaime.
...I think I'm gonna pee.
jaguar / paperclip
LOLROTL!!!!!
check this one
jag.
So, they say "hey, these people know what they are doing and can save us bandwidth money! hire 'em!" Imagine how wonderful the web would be if there weren't so much useless crap being sent around.
actually, it's a dream. let's be realistic, companies won't go catching 5k designers to save bandwidth. they care about content and design. about making people come back to the sites. too bad not everybody follows nielsen's reputation article. and sure, the web would be wonderful without so much "useless crap".
jaime g. wong
the Guidelight Project
just imagine the usefulness of these LCDs on a palm. that would be pretty cool...
jaguar.
visit the Guidelight Project
and have you noticed its structure is also similar to the matrix's? lotsa white flashes, dark style, techno score and even a blue logo of the 20CFox (just like the blue warner logo) at the start. heh, curious.
jaguar.
visit the Guidelight project
I still ask the same question: why not music module (MOD, S3M, IT, XM) players!?
they use very little space compared to MP3s and the sound quality is excellent. they require even less CPU processing power and there are thousands of great ones to choose and download on the internet (and gives a kick about those piracy issues).
jaime g. wong
jaguar / paperclip
heck, this things are way cool. reminds me of the glowing drinks that appeared on the anime movie "Macross: Do you remember love?". :)
can't wait to try one... perhaps this will follow the Diet Coke... say, Glow Coke?
jaime.
"Teach Epic about open source projects. If this goes well, we'll probably look into releasing more source in this fashion"
:)
it is great to see that brandon reinhart is betting on open source. I really hope to see more projects opened this way.
jaime g. wong
ps: FIRST POST!!!
for me, this is only and truly wearable PC: www.onhandpc.com
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jaime g. wong
webmaster of the guidelight project
http://www.guidelight.f2s.com
this phone looks cool. but curiosity bites me, are there any existing linux multimedia kiosks?
jaguar / negative edge
that's the wisest choice! they're the daddies of synth music. of techno. of computer music. what's better than coding at 3:00am while singing "it's more fun to compute"? :) jaguar / negative edge.