I'm in the middle of one of my regular upgrade lusts, and since the m505 is more expensive than the 32Mb ipaq...
OK, I'm comparing the best palm with (pre pocket pc 2002) the 2nd best pocketpc, and certainly you can go down in price much easier with palm. But just how much better is a Visor neo than my old Palm Pro was? Slightly better screen? A bit faster? Slightly bigger memeory?
Still, pocketPC 2002 doesn't help my lust. The new Jornada is wonmderful, but a consequence of it, and the new ipaq etc. is that prices on the original ipaq will drop.
Biggest I've seen in this list is 1200 or so. Any advance on that?
P.S. Not flaming or anything, but why are so many people providing answers to the question
"What's the largest Linux desktop deployment in the workd"
that go
"I've managed to secretly install Linux on 3 machines at work, do I win £5?"
This division of Psion is seperate from the division behind the series 3 and 5 - it makes industrial PDA's. You see their very sucessful Walkabout device in shops over here in the UK a lot - mostly the models a barcode scanner is used in stock control.
They do quite well. For all Compaq's adverts of someone walking thru a factory with an iPaq, there are places where the environment is just too nasty - freezers for example.
I always fancied their netbook, which is a corporate variant on the Psion series 7 (the one that's an EPOC handheld in notebook form-factor, with a full size color screen etc.)
I'd love to get Novalogic's Comanche going again. But whenever I try it on a modern PC it isn't interested.;-(
/biglig scans the web
Comanche 4 (4?!?) out next month, eh? Looks pretty good too. Previews suggest Commanche 2 & 3 were a bit too like a flight sim for me, so perhaps I'd better wait.
Ah, well, if I try and save my money I'll only end up buying an iPaq.;-)
I read an interesting statistic the other day, in the UK there's about £270,000,000 of credit-card fraud a year, of which only £7,000,000 happens without someone physically presenting a card in a shop - i.e. that 7 mil includes not just all the internet fraud but all the stuff on the telephone as well.
Of course this is all well known. Best way to hack into a network? Get a job there as a Janitor and find a computer that wasn't logged out of.
Anyhow, criminal Laws can be divided into two categories, I've always though:
Laws that prohibit things that are bad.
Laws that might make it easier to enforce the former laws.
So, killing people is bad, so it's illegal.
Owning a gun isn't bad, but making that illegal is believed to make it easier to enforce the killing people law.
Copyright theft is bad. Being able to back-up an acrobat document isn't bad, and in Russia is actually a right, but DCMA is supposed ot mkae it easier to enforce the "no stealing copyright materials" law.
But they can do this with the OEMs. What OS will come on the next laptop I buy? It'll be XP. So I need to support it. Then my users will start to want it, and I'll end up fighting with them, like I've done with Office 97 and 2000 and so on and so forth. We upgraded to office 97 because there were so many rogue copies about that the 95 users couldn't work as every tenth document wouldn't open. If I ever want to upgrade my Exchange 5.0 servers, what am I going to do? I can't buy 5.5 licenses any more and 2000 means AD...
Now, if managment would listen to my plan to let me shoot just a couple of users as an example...
Certainly these changes to MS's model will help alternative OS choices, such as Linux, but it's never a simple matter ot change. This locked-in-ness is a problem.
My theory: I want an OS monopoly, because OS's are not important to me, software is important to me, but I want it to be open source so no-one owns it.;-)
You can hand-remove Nirmda anyhow with massive file deletion and registry hacking. Though how you find out how t do this without www.mcafee.com or whatever, I don't know.
Acutally, hang on a minute, this is Slashdot! The correct answer is "Run, don't walk, to your nearest software store and buy Linux. Format. Install. Probably never get a virus again". Unless of course Linux becomes popular enough to get it's own virus writers.
Seriously though, could this be a unique selling point for Linux?
"You know that Nirmda virus? It's actually impossible for my PC to get infected by it. Ask me how!"
"You know we bought the IP for this product Microtest"
"Yes, boss"
"And you paid a x dollars for the IP"
"Yes, took me weeks to negotiate down to that"
"Hmmmm. And you realise you can download that IP from Freshmeat for...let me see now... free?"
"Ah."
Well, T2 was on TV this week in the UK, so I was reminded of a line...
"The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
Imagine your two machines are arranged like this: one has 320Mb physical and no swap, and the other has 320Mb and 256Mb swap.
We suggest that the latter can handle memory leaks etc. a little better than the former; and, most significanlty, that given how cheap disk space are, and the huge size of disks in modern PCs, the cost diffence between the two works out at almost nothing.
And it isn't even Linux's fault... bad drivers can hit anything. Aren't most BSOD's in NT down to bad drivers?
You're just unlucky that bad net drivers can fry your network. (And I've seen stuff slapped on our LAN by our developers fry Ethernet, so it's not Token Ring's fault either.)
So, focus on that.
Speaking as an IS person, of course, I take comfort from this story as an antidote to all the "my IS people are idiots, they won't let me put blah and blah on the production LAN". Do you see now that we aren't evil M$ lovers? I didn't let people put 2000 or XP on my production LAN either you know. Not that "not letting them" translates into "stopping them", unfortunately.;-)
Yup, that can work nicely. Disclaimer: I work for Eicon Networks, and we make stuff that does all of this sort of thing.
My boss had it all set up with his ADSL line at home. Essentialy, his home office was on the LAN; once I needed a file from his PC, and it took me 5 minutes to realise I'd browsed to the wrong box and was looking on his PC at home.
Only down-side I encountered was when he started playing Country and Western MP3's from his home collection.;-)
P.S. I'm sorry about the web site being a bit sucky under non-IE browsers. I have pointed it out to the web team.
Very true, and something we're very much into. The rational;e is that if all you need to do is check new e-mail and send a few messages (i.e. not long composing off-line) then web mail will do, and these days you can't go anywhere without finding a cyber-cafe. They're everywhere; coffeeshops, bookstores, airports, practiacally every business hotel.
I stopped at a motorway service station (er... what's that in american...freeway rest stop?) the other day, and I went past a big cluster of phone boxes outside the coffee shop. One of them looked a little odd; on closer look - you guessed it - an internet terminal.
And the best thing about this? Not lugging that damn laptop on the plane. My first business trip with just a pda in my jacket pocket - wow.
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Ahem, well, the sexiest PDA anyone makes is the M500/505, so...
One thing I notice on the boards is people using it not to watch movies as such, but TV shows. They're quite well suited to a small form factor.
Beats an MP3 capacity, doesn't it!
I'm in the middle of one of my regular upgrade lusts, and since the m505 is more expensive than the 32Mb ipaq...
OK, I'm comparing the best palm with (pre pocket pc 2002) the 2nd best pocketpc, and certainly you can go down in price much easier with palm. But just how much better is a Visor neo than my old Palm Pro was? Slightly better screen? A bit faster? Slightly bigger memeory?
Still, pocketPC 2002 doesn't help my lust. The new Jornada is wonmderful, but a consequence of it, and the new ipaq etc. is that prices on the original ipaq will drop.
Biggest I've seen in this list is 1200 or so. Any advance on that?
P.S. Not flaming or anything, but why are so many people providing answers to the question
"What's the largest Linux desktop deployment in the workd"
that go
"I've managed to secretly install Linux on 3 machines at work, do I win £5?"
Well, I'm sorry, but it has to be said: you can imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, because they made a film about it. ;-)
BTW, to answer the poster's question:
here is a small photo and a spec sheet
This division of Psion is seperate from the division behind the series 3 and 5 - it makes industrial PDA's. You see their very sucessful Walkabout device in shops over here in the UK a lot - mostly the models a barcode scanner is used in stock control.
They do quite well. For all Compaq's adverts of someone walking thru a factory with an iPaq, there are places where the environment is just too nasty - freezers for example.
I always fancied their netbook, which is a corporate variant on the Psion series 7 (the one that's an EPOC handheld in notebook form-factor, with a full size color screen etc.)
Then the obvious thing is to combine this with some sort of voice recognition software, and bing!
;-)
Hack it into a Tivo to allow you to say "TV, Star Trek" and presto!
I'm feeling let down that mad home-built Linux-powered solutions are not being suggested here. We are geeks! Geeks I say!
Unless a TV show comes on where someone shouts "turn off"
I'd love to get Novalogic's Comanche going again. But whenever I try it on a modern PC it isn't interested. ;-(
;-)
/biglig scans the web
Comanche 4 (4?!?) out next month, eh? Looks pretty good too. Previews suggest Commanche 2 & 3 were a bit too like a flight sim for me, so perhaps I'd better wait.
Ah, well, if I try and save my money I'll only end up buying an iPaq.
I read an interesting statistic the other day, in the UK there's about £270,000,000 of credit-card fraud a year, of which only £7,000,000 happens without someone physically presenting a card in a shop - i.e. that 7 mil includes not just all the internet fraud but all the stuff on the telephone as well.
Of course this is all well known. Best way to hack into a network? Get a job there as a Janitor and find a computer that wasn't logged out of.
Anyhow, criminal Laws can be divided into two categories, I've always though:
Laws that prohibit things that are bad.
Laws that might make it easier to enforce the former laws.
So, killing people is bad, so it's illegal.
Owning a gun isn't bad, but making that illegal is believed to make it easier to enforce the killing people law.
Copyright theft is bad. Being able to back-up an acrobat document isn't bad, and in Russia is actually a right, but DCMA is supposed ot mkae it easier to enforce the "no stealing copyright materials" law.
But they can do this with the OEMs. What OS will come on the next laptop I buy? It'll be XP. So I need to support it. Then my users will start to want it, and I'll end up fighting with them, like I've done with Office 97 and 2000 and so on and so forth. We upgraded to office 97 because there were so many rogue copies about that the 95 users couldn't work as every tenth document wouldn't open. If I ever want to upgrade my Exchange 5.0 servers, what am I going to do? I can't buy 5.5 licenses any more and 2000 means AD...
;-)
Now, if managment would listen to my plan to let me shoot just a couple of users as an example...
Certainly these changes to MS's model will help alternative OS choices, such as Linux, but it's never a simple matter ot change. This locked-in-ness is a problem.
My theory: I want an OS monopoly, because OS's are not important to me, software is important to me, but I want it to be open source so no-one owns it.
Bah, never forge a passport. Forge the proof of who you are and get a real passport.
Oh, it's a PR stunt.... not a real indicator of demand.
You can hand-remove Nirmda anyhow with massive file deletion and registry hacking. Though how you find out how t do this without www.mcafee.com or whatever, I don't know.
Acutally, hang on a minute, this is Slashdot! The correct answer is "Run, don't walk, to your nearest software store and buy Linux. Format. Install. Probably never get a virus again". Unless of course Linux becomes popular enough to get it's own virus writers.
Seriously though, could this be a unique selling point for Linux?
"You know that Nirmda virus? It's actually impossible for my PC to get infected by it. Ask me how!"
But am I the only person here to think "working on my morning M&Ms?"
"You know we bought the IP for this product Microtest"
"Yes, boss"
"And you paid a x dollars for the IP"
"Yes, took me weeks to negotiate down to that"
"Hmmmm. And you realise you can download that IP from Freshmeat for...let me see now... free?"
"Ah."
Well, T2 was on TV this week in the UK, so I was reminded of a line...
"The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29. In a panic, they try to pull the plug."
If you have a dual processor box, can you configure it to make VMware hog one processor and the host OS hog the other?
No, no-one is saying it can handle more.
Imagine your two machines are arranged like this: one has 320Mb physical and no swap, and the other has 320Mb and 256Mb swap.
We suggest that the latter can handle memory leaks etc. a little better than the former; and, most significanlty, that given how cheap disk space are, and the huge size of disks in modern PCs, the cost diffence between the two works out at almost nothing.
And it isn't even Linux's fault... bad drivers can hit anything. Aren't most BSOD's in NT down to bad drivers?
;-)
You're just unlucky that bad net drivers can fry your network. (And I've seen stuff slapped on our LAN by our developers fry Ethernet, so it's not Token Ring's fault either.)
So, focus on that.
Speaking as an IS person, of course, I take comfort from this story as an antidote to all the "my IS people are idiots, they won't let me put blah and blah on the production LAN". Do you see now that we aren't evil M$ lovers? I didn't let people put 2000 or XP on my production LAN either you know. Not that "not letting them" translates into "stopping them", unfortunately.
Yup, that can work nicely. Disclaimer: I work for Eicon Networks, and we make stuff that does all of this sort of thing.
;-)
My boss had it all set up with his ADSL line at home. Essentialy, his home office was on the LAN; once I needed a file from his PC, and it took me 5 minutes to realise I'd browsed to the wrong box and was looking on his PC at home.
Only down-side I encountered was when he started playing Country and Western MP3's from his home collection.
P.S. I'm sorry about the web site being a bit sucky under non-IE browsers. I have pointed it out to the web team.
They could perhaps even license (with low cost but tight restrictions) the name to the software?
If it's mission critical, why'd you let there be servers that weren't as patched as patched can be on your network?
Has anyone else wondered why the Enterprise's computer isn't clever enough to know how he takes his tea?
Unless he's ordering "Tea, Lapsang Souchong, Iced" when we're not looking....
Very true, and something we're very much into. The rational;e is that if all you need to do is check new e-mail and send a few messages (i.e. not long composing off-line) then web mail will do, and these days you can't go anywhere without finding a cyber-cafe. They're everywhere; coffeeshops, bookstores, airports, practiacally every business hotel.
I stopped at a motorway service station (er... what's that in american...freeway rest stop?) the other day, and I went past a big cluster of phone boxes outside the coffee shop. One of them looked a little odd; on closer look - you guessed it - an internet terminal.
And the best thing about this? Not lugging that damn laptop on the plane. My first business trip with just a pda in my jacket pocket - wow.