RE: [9fans] ipaq installation changes

[Stephen Parker <stephen.parker@pitechnology.com>]

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I have to (embarrassingly) admit that I've gone back to wince on mine,
after having a paperweight powered by linux, plan9, and inferno.
At least with wince its a working address book.

stephen

(One day I'm still hoping to get bluetooth working with inferno on it,
but not soon.)


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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 14:38:53 +0100
Message-ID: <200306051338.h55Dcr925505@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>

> > 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.