Sounds good, one possible snag is if he cannot use multi=page TIFFs, although doubtless there exists some little open source snippet to convert a multi page TIFF into lots of single pages.
Well, non-grounded plugs are rare, indeed, and rare enough that you don;t need to worry, but they do exist in places - my house has them here ant there, fitting the theme of "who the hell wired this place" that runs thru my place.;-)
Well, duh! If he intends to use an analogue modem then he has to find a phone socket to plug the damned thing into, and consequential negotiation with the owner of said socket about who pays for the calls. That's sort of a given.
Have you ever stayed in a hotel, or a friends house? You'll find you don't have to arange for the Telco to install a phone, nor do you need to get in touch with the power company to get electricity into the room, nor do you have to hire a plumber to put a bathroom in.
Wrenching myself back on-topic, I recommend BT Click, 0845 757 6333, any username and any password.
But I also agree with the earlier poster that you will have no trouble finding internet cafes, internet kiosks, business suites in hotels, and all sorts of ways to get on-line in London, so you don't need to bring a laptop just to check your email every few days.
Lastly, one point to watch for - you will need a US - UK phone adaptor, since I imagine your modem just has a RJ11 connector on the end. They're a few pounds, you can probably get one in the airpoort if all else fails. You know we have different power outlets here too? Another adaptor to buy. If you;re visiting a company over here talk to the local IT guys, they may be able to lend you a local power cable for the tosh, which I find to be much handier than fiddling with adaptors.
A future historian basing his knowledge of the early 21st century solely on what he finds on Slashdot has a whole load of worse problems than that....;-)
Well, the C5 was touted as a car/bicycle replacement, which it failed as because it is so low to the ground that driving it in traffic was terrifying. The segway is a walking replacement, and so has a better chance.
Anyhow, there has to be an early adopter on all nifty technology.
Well, PDF is great, sure, but isn't it a little sucky for handhelds, given that it includes a definition of the page size?
And in any case, he isn't asking "what format should I use" he's asking "I have a buncha stuff in this format, can I read it under Linux?"
I use Palm DOC format myself, as it has the widest range of readers, including some native Linux readers - but each to their own. It's so messy not having an agreed standard - DOC is the most popular, but there are so many others, each with a significant market share. Could be worse, he could have e-books in.lit format.;-)
Anyhow, to get back to the original question, 3-state has exactly the right idea - get hold of a copy of the POSE emulator (apt-get pose 3.5-1 or whatever your own flavour requires;-), find a ROM somewhere (sign up as a developer or doewnload a copy of your own Palm) and load TomeRaider on it.
Well, Palm apps are very small. So 16Mb is a reasonable ammount for a Palm. They could of course up the RAM, but doing so will impact the battery life to a surprising ammount.
The usual practice is to keep your applications and PDA data on the Palm, for which the 8Mb in my M505 is probably plenty, and then use a cheap MMC card (MMC is imperceptibly slower than SD cards but much cheaper) to store any sizable data, such as e-books, dictionaries, databases, PDFs, or with the new ones perhaps MP3 files (once someone writes an MP3 player for the Tungsten).
Well, of course Palms do have wireless internet, PDFs, document editing, chat and console emulators.
I admit the Palms don't do multitasking but I must admit I'm stumped as to what you would need it for. Playing media while you work on a document I suppose.
But more to the point of your post, I use my Palm to replace all the paper in my life. It doesn't play movies on a tiny screen? Sad, but not really that relevant, is it?
I prefer my Palm as it is tiny, has a long battery life, and runs a nice clean and simple OS that does exactly what I want it to do.
Well, perhaps the main reason initially would be that the OS5 Sony is rather on the hefty size because of the new CF slot they've included. The Sony has more features, the Palm is smaller. Swings and roundabouts.
Also, some consider Palm's support to be slightly better than Sony's, although this is of course rather objective.
Netbios exposed to the internet? Ouchies. If your set-up has security that bad then the ISP isn't the peroson to ask for help - because who knows what else you've left lying open?
But technically this will be a little difficult - you're probably going to end up compressing the crap out of the stream with the result that it will look awful - and in a country that censors the TV I'd be wary of stretching the law too far.
So, why not consider switching most of your day-to-day entertainment to radio?
You can pick up all sorts of stuff with a good reciever, and combined with internet radio, I'm sure you can find all sorts of things.
Combine this with occasional DVDs in the mail of the stuff you don't want to miss. After all, what proportion of modern TV isn't crap?
Spend tomorrow making notes of everything you watch on TV and work out how much of it you can live without. I think you might be surprised at the numbers.
Well, perhaps it's not a hardship that you can't see it from the seating area. The idea is that during the movey you get up, go to the entertainment centre, and make the adjustments without having to keep running abck far enough to be able to read the dialog boxes;-)
Kinda like dual displaying PowerPoint (I'm a windows shop, get over it) on a laptop so the presenter can see what is going on without having to crane his neck round.
Except of course, the idea is that it is incrdibly cool. Reading thru the forums, one thing caught my eye - when the screensaver kicks in and blanks the LCD, you can't tell there's a screen there at all - it just looks like a shiny cube, until you touch the mouse.
Of course, the builder does make laptop prototypes for a living, so YMMV if you try it yourself.;-)
BBC Radio 4 is a somewhat more complex Talk station than just Sports and phone-ins. Science, Comedy, Drama, History, Politics, Philosophy, all sorts of things at high quality.
I don't know if there's a way to get downloadable versions of their shows (bbc.co.uk/radio4) but I'm sure the slashdotters know a dozen technical ways.
And there, in a nutshell, you have the reason why this phone exists.
Basically, my Ericsson T39m (to take a random example) is everything I could possibly need in a phone. It works as a phone, all over the world. It talks to my Palm or my PC, and I can use it for data. GPRS if I want hi speed data. Simple games too for boring moments. Very sophisticated memory; I could use it as my contact manager if I didn't prefer my Palm. SMS make it a sper alpha pager too. It's tiny. It looks nice.
So, what can the company offer me to make me buy a different new phone? Well, technically, all they can add is battery life, but we're at the technological limit for that. So, all they can do to persuade me to get a new phone is to put fancy crap into it, such as a camera + MMS so i can send crappy photos about. Or a mp3 player, or a radio, or a thumbboard so I can type messages faster, anything to persuade me that I need a new phone.
Well, Nokia are a major vendor of wireless networking gear, so they have an opinion. I expect Chevvy have an opinion on drunk driving, and Hershey an opinion on childhood diabetes.
Bad engineering; since cutting the headphone cord will tell Sony that the device has been tampered with, then breaking the walkman open and extracting the CD will give you a much better quality rip with an equal violation of the NDA.
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Sounds good, one possible snag is if he cannot use multi=page TIFFs, although doubtless there exists some little open source snippet to convert a multi page TIFF into lots of single pages.
I bet you can get an old Psion Revo (aka Diamond Mako) on ebay cheaply enough (surf surf - about $50 average).
Spirits were changed over to metric in the UK in 1994; from one-quarter, one-fifth or one-sixth of a gill, to 25ml or 35ml.
Well, the Wold Newton Universe makes a reasonable stab at this. PJF's initial takes were wide ranging and since then more and more have been added.
And of course his World of Tiers universe is worth a mention on it's own.
Well, non-grounded plugs are rare, indeed, and rare enough that you don;t need to worry, but they do exist in places - my house has them here ant there, fitting the theme of "who the hell wired this place" that runs thru my place. ;-)
Well, duh! If he intends to use an analogue modem then he has to find a phone socket to plug the damned thing into, and consequential negotiation with the owner of said socket about who pays for the calls. That's sort of a given.
Have you ever stayed in a hotel, or a friends house? You'll find you don't have to arange for the Telco to install a phone, nor do you need to get in touch with the power company to get electricity into the room, nor do you have to hire a plumber to put a bathroom in.
Wrenching myself back on-topic, I recommend BT Click, 0845 757 6333, any username and any password.
But I also agree with the earlier poster that you will have no trouble finding internet cafes, internet kiosks, business suites in hotels, and all sorts of ways to get on-line in London, so you don't need to bring a laptop just to check your email every few days.
Lastly, one point to watch for - you will need a US - UK phone adaptor, since I imagine your modem just has a RJ11 connector on the end. They're a few pounds, you can probably get one in the airpoort if all else fails. You know we have different power outlets here too? Another adaptor to buy. If you;re visiting a company over here talk to the local IT guys, they may be able to lend you a local power cable for the tosh, which I find to be much handier than fiddling with adaptors.
A future historian basing his knowledge of the early 21st century solely on what he finds on Slashdot has a whole load of worse problems than that.... ;-)
Well, the C5 was touted as a car/bicycle replacement, which it failed as because it is so low to the ground that driving it in traffic was terrifying. The segway is a walking replacement, and so has a better chance.
Anyhow, there has to be an early adopter on all nifty technology.
PHB: "Maybe there's something to this open-source thing - but what about support?"
LinuxFan: "Well, you get support from the community. Take a look at this 'ask slahsdot' for example, where a reseller asks a question about SQL."
PHB: "People are telling her to fuck off because she's evil!"
LinuxFan: "Er... well... maybe, but Microsoft would tell you to fuck off and charge you $100..."
Well, PDF is great, sure, but isn't it a little sucky for handhelds, given that it includes a definition of the page size?
.lit format. ;-)
;-), find a ROM somewhere (sign up as a developer or doewnload a copy of your own Palm) and load TomeRaider on it.
And in any case, he isn't asking "what format should I use" he's asking "I have a buncha stuff in this format, can I read it under Linux?"
I use Palm DOC format myself, as it has the widest range of readers, including some native Linux readers - but each to their own. It's so messy not having an agreed standard - DOC is the most popular, but there are so many others, each with a significant market share. Could be worse, he could have e-books in
Anyhow, to get back to the original question, 3-state has exactly the right idea - get hold of a copy of the POSE emulator (apt-get pose 3.5-1 or whatever your own flavour requires
USB.
Well, Palm apps are very small. So 16Mb is a reasonable ammount for a Palm. They could of course up the RAM, but doing so will impact the battery life to a surprising ammount.
The usual practice is to keep your applications and PDA data on the Palm, for which the 8Mb in my M505 is probably plenty, and then use a cheap MMC card (MMC is imperceptibly slower than SD cards but much cheaper) to store any sizable data, such as e-books, dictionaries, databases, PDFs, or with the new ones perhaps MP3 files (once someone writes an MP3 player for the Tungsten).
They're not shipping the W yet, not until early next year apparently.
Well, of course Palms do have wireless internet, PDFs, document editing, chat and console emulators.
I admit the Palms don't do multitasking but I must admit I'm stumped as to what you would need it for. Playing media while you work on a document I suppose.
But more to the point of your post, I use my Palm to replace all the paper in my life. It doesn't play movies on a tiny screen? Sad, but not really that relevant, is it?
I prefer my Palm as it is tiny, has a long battery life, and runs a nice clean and simple OS that does exactly what I want it to do.
Well, perhaps the main reason initially would be that the OS5 Sony is rather on the hefty size because of the new CF slot they've included. The Sony has more features, the Palm is smaller. Swings and roundabouts.
Also, some consider Palm's support to be slightly better than Sony's, although this is of course rather objective.
Netbios exposed to the internet? Ouchies. If your set-up has security that bad then the ISP isn't the peroson to ask for help - because who knows what else you've left lying open?
But technically this will be a little difficult - you're probably going to end up compressing the crap out of the stream with the result that it will look awful - and in a country that censors the TV I'd be wary of stretching the law too far.
So, why not consider switching most of your day-to-day entertainment to radio?
You can pick up all sorts of stuff with a good reciever, and combined with internet radio, I'm sure you can find all sorts of things.
Combine this with occasional DVDs in the mail of the stuff you don't want to miss. After all, what proportion of modern TV isn't crap?
Spend tomorrow making notes of everything you watch on TV and work out how much of it you can live without. I think you might be surprised at the numbers.
Well, perhaps it's not a hardship that you can't see it from the seating area. The idea is that during the movey you get up, go to the entertainment centre, and make the adjustments without having to keep running abck far enough to be able to read the dialog boxes ;-)
;-)
Kinda like dual displaying PowerPoint (I'm a windows shop, get over it) on a laptop so the presenter can see what is going on without having to crane his neck round.
Except of course, the idea is that it is incrdibly cool. Reading thru the forums, one thing caught my eye - when the screensaver kicks in and blanks the LCD, you can't tell there's a screen there at all - it just looks like a shiny cube, until you touch the mouse.
Of course, the builder does make laptop prototypes for a living, so YMMV if you try it yourself.
Force yourself to play Half-Life, go on! ;-)
It is rather good - well, except maybe for the bit where it turns into a platform game...
BBC Radio 4 is a somewhat more complex Talk station than just Sports and phone-ins. Science, Comedy, Drama, History, Politics, Philosophy, all sorts of things at high quality.
I don't know if there's a way to get downloadable versions of their shows (bbc.co.uk/radio4) but I'm sure the slashdotters know a dozen technical ways.
And there, in a nutshell, you have the reason why this phone exists.
Basically, my Ericsson T39m (to take a random example) is everything I could possibly need in a phone. It works as a phone, all over the world. It talks to my Palm or my PC, and I can use it for data. GPRS if I want hi speed data. Simple games too for boring moments. Very sophisticated memory; I could use it as my contact manager if I didn't prefer my Palm. SMS make it a sper alpha pager too. It's tiny. It looks nice.
So, what can the company offer me to make me buy a different new phone? Well, technically, all they can add is battery life, but we're at the technological limit for that. So, all they can do to persuade me to get a new phone is to put fancy crap into it, such as a camera + MMS so i can send crappy photos about. Or a mp3 player, or a radio, or a thumbboard so I can type messages faster, anything to persuade me that I need a new phone.
That's indeed the basis behind the respected indie satirical comic normalman by Valentino...
Well, Nokia are a major vendor of wireless networking gear, so they have an opinion. I expect Chevvy have an opinion on drunk driving, and Hershey an opinion on childhood diabetes.
Bad engineering; since cutting the headphone cord will tell Sony that the device has been tampered with, then breaking the walkman open and extracting the CD will give you a much better quality rip with an equal violation of the NDA.
"Hows the cure for cancer coming along Smithers?"
"Well, I made these mice that glow in the dark...."
"Pah, we've had those in the reactor for three years, you're fired!"