From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200306051338.h55Dcr925505@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Jun 2003 09:13:52 -0400." <16e35360c3dcabe9826a019f1e209155@plan9.bell-labs.com> References: <16e35360c3dcabe9826a019f1e209155@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: Axel Belinfante Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 15:38:53 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c54841c8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > > What do you other folks with bitsies do with them? > > I find they make excellent paper weights. agreed. :-) (although mine is usually not even used that way, mostly it just doesn't leave the bag I transport between home and office) > Unfortunately, the input slows me down I've been wondering how much better the zyrix is in the respect (if I recall the name correctly), I'm referring to a linux pda with a built-in keyboard, that is normally hidden until you slide open the pda. In principle, the bitsy is much more extensible, but if that is something really used in practice? With a wavelan I've been using it as a small ``testing'' and (e.g. network) monitorin device. It's a nice little terminal to bring to the machine room several floors down, when I'm changing (rebooting) the fs and cpu/auth server (cs?), just to check that things are up and running, before walking upstairs. Before I had the bitsy, I occasionally brought with me a heavier, bigger, laptop. > If we had a web broswer that actually worked it would be much > more usable. I've occasionally used it with vnc to unix, to read email via mh and even run mozilla, with the tiniest font I could find. Even then, indeed, the screen is rather small.