Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-24 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Is there a reason no one has suggested the Compaq iPaq? They are expensive, but you can load Linux on them and get a fair number of expansions options (someone is even working on a GSM cell phone expansion sleve for them). -- Patrick Ouellette [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amateur Radio: KB8PYM 50.200,

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-23 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:22:43PM +0100, Sven Hoexter wrote: > On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500, Erin Lewy wrote: > > Hi, > > > Okay, well the taking on of a potentially huge project has kind of clued > > me in to the fact that I would probably benefit hugely from a > > laptop-type apa

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-23 Thread csj
On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 23:11:30 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Sackman) wrote: > > > So the thought occurred to me that I could get a PDA with a > > > stow-away keyoard and basically use that in laptop capacity, as a > > > few of my friends are doing. > > Aehm it's a big differents between 17Mh

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread csj
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500, Erin Lewy wrote: > So the thought occurred to me that I could get a PDA with a stow-away > keyoard and basically use that in laptop capacity, as a few of my > friends are doing. A few months ago I would have recommended a Psion (series 5 or the cutesy Re

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500, Erin Lewy wrote: Hi, > Okay, well the taking on of a potentially huge project has kind of clued > me in to the fact that I would probably benefit hugely from a > laptop-type aparatus. Problem is (just trust me on this one), carrying > around a laptop i

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread Caleb Shay
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 02:46, Erin Lewy wrote: > Of course, in this ideal world, I'd also have to be using Windows, > because all of the synching and other packages I am seeing on Debian's > servers seem to ME to be specific for Palms. As I am VERY new to this > whole idea, I thought that befor

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread Corey Halpin
> Of course, in this ideal world, I'd also have to be using Windows, > because all of the synching and other packages I am seeing on Debian's > servers seem to ME to be specific for Palms. The handspring visors, and quite a few other PDA devices use the PalmOS. Sync software cares what OS th

Re: Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread Angus D Madden
Erin Lewy, Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:46:05AM -0500: > > So-- does anyone here have a PDA and if so what kind and how has your > luck been as far as being able to synch it and whatnot? > Erin, I have been looking for the ultimate cell/pda combination for a while. the answer depends on where yo

Debian and PDAs.

2002-03-20 Thread Erin Lewy
Okay, well the taking on of a potentially huge project has kind of clued me in to the fact that I would probably benefit hugely from a laptop-type aparatus. Problem is (just trust me on this one), carrying around a laptop is less than optimal. Having an additional shoulder bag is at this point