HP hx2495 pda–

Trying to sell my HP Ipaq PDA.  The specs look like this:

Intel PXA270 processor (520MHz)

256 MB total memory (192 MB ROM 64 MB RAM)

Up to 192 MB user available persistent storage memory

Premium edition of Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC—the latest software for handheld devices

Bluetooth wireless technology, WLAN 802.11b, Serial IR – Wirelessly print documents, [...]

The perennial anti-fanboy

In the past 10 days I’ve been accused in forum posts of alternatively being: (1) A MS fanboy, (2) An Apple fanboy, and (3)An opensource fanboy.  But still, I see myself as the perennial anti-fanboy.  In my estimation all of the leading desktop OS’s–XP/Vista, OS X 10.X, and GNU/Linux–leave much to be desired.
With a 2.5 [...]

Is Microsoft Its Own Worse Enemy?

As regular readers know, I have a Linux home network. However, being a linux noob, I am scared to commit my data to linux. I recently replaced my OS X file server with an XP file server. To make the switch I had to re-format my mac external drives to windows NTFS. [...]

Discovering Crippled Hardware

Today I found out that you cannot set up a wireless wpa network from the mac mini to anything other than Apple hardware. WPA encryption from a Mac only works with Apple hardware…go figure? What’s up with that? Why would anyone put up with it?
My wants were simple…set up a secure ad-hoc [...]

What do they [search engines] know about you?

MercuryNews.com | 08/20/2006 | What do they know about you?
What do they know about you?
A couple of days ago the San Jose Mercury News ran an article on search engines and privacy. This was in response to the release orf search data by AOL. The Mercury News studied the privacy policies of the [...]

Google and the Decline of the Internet

I am in the process of trying to delete/recover the data that google is putting together on me.  And they had a lot.  I was using gmail, analytics, picasa web galleries, sitemaps, personal start page, pages, and some others that I can’t even remember right now.  I even considered adwords at one point….I am thankful [...]

Lenovo/Novell Announcement: Ho Hum

It couldn’t live up to the hype, yet none of the Linux sites seem to be backtracking from their grand pre-announcements.
Let me explain. In the days leading up to yesterday, tech sites around the globe were trumpeting the imminent release of a Lenovo Thinkpad pre-installed with SLED 10. This was blown up to [...]

Test MS Live Writer

Since I am at work, and have access to Windows, I thought I would check out MS’s newest application, Live Writer. I had tested the built in blogging in Word beta 2007…but it did not work very well with WordPress. Dates were wrong and it generally did a poor job.
Since switching to Linux, [...]

Fake Mac v PC comparisons

Mac vs. PC System Shootouts – $3,200 Workstations 08/09/06
The above link claims to be a fair comparison of the new Power Mac and the Dell Precision 690. Why is it that the Mac fanboys are always wanting to make these”comparisons”? The same thing that makes Steve Jobs play dog and pony show [...]

Islamic Fascists?

BBC News is reporting that Bush said: “Islamic fascists… will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom”.
Fascists? Through my local library I have a subscription to Oxford Reference Online and a quick search shows many different takes on defining fascism. But every definition includes some sort of extreme nationalism.
I [...]