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Monday, September 09, 2002Last night I was reading about someone using ThinkNICs as cheap Internet kiosks, network booting them so that updates would be easier. I'm shocked that these things are still around, the specs are terrible for the price (and pretty much always have been). Today you can get more bang for the buck from Walmart.
Where are the keyboards?
When I first got my hands on the Zaurus SL-5000D, I figured it wouldn't be long before every PDA manufacturer started offer products with built-in keyboards. To date we have the Handspring Treo and the Sony NR70. The Treo is a particularly nice implementation, but where are the Pocket PCs?
Slashdot: Zaurus Sync Software (Finally) Available for LinuxZaurus ROMs
Back in July, Sharp released an updated ROM for the SL-5500 that addressed the FTP security hole and problems with high-capacity SD cards. On 8/30 they finally released an SL-5000D version (v1.39/1.3a).
The Crow ROM is an update of the classic Paul Flinders ROM. These ROMs allow the Zaurus to boot from an SD card, allowing nearly all of the RAM to be used by running applications. The Crow ROM is based on v1.38, incorporates the SD patch, includes several enhancements and additional applications, and is available for the SL-5000D and the SL-5500.
NYTimes: Balancing Linux and Microsoft.
HP has fired Bruce Perens over his "Microsoft-baiting."
Part of me wonders what, if anything, Perens accomplished for HP. So much of his press coverage has centered on things that have nothing to do with selling Linux in the Enterprise and building an Open Source culture within HP.
[via Slashdot, The Register, and ActiveWin]
BSquare CEO Bill Baxter shows off the Power Handheld prototype in a News.com video interview. [via PDABuzz]
Whoa
Wireless NewsFactor sent me 940 stories representing all of their content back to November 7, 2000. I guess that they fixed it quick... As soon as I figured out which feed it was I used wget to fetch it, and it was "normal" again.
Krzysztof Kowalczyk: Give a spammer bad address.
Just found this idea: put on your web pages bogus e-mail addresses. They will be harvested by spammers and will clog their address books.
Wpoison has been doing this forever, and Googling for poison+spam provides a wealth of links. Interestingly, the author of Wpoison suspects that many spam-bots now respect robots.txt.
