Wish you all a Very Happy and Safe Diwali!

-V

First points first:

• My Palm Zire 72 is in ICU.


• I recently bought a Nokia E50.


• About a month ago I bought an Acer Aspire 5000 laptop.


• My current work place is 5 mins walk.


• No internet at my $HOME save for GPRS, which is OK for now.

As I mentioned that my Zire 72 is in the ICU, I figured that since I am addicted to it I desperately needed a replacement. Zire 72 was the best mix one could (read:can, coz there is not replacement model, even now!) get at its time. I meant a decent camera for photo-blogging + PDA. Photo bloggin (a.k.a clixonerdy) never took off big time. :-( It has bluetooth but I have started to miss WiFi on account that I am a poweruser of Avantgo (and alike)!

Following is the chat script at irc.freenode.net on #palm:

I have removed it for now as LJ-cut doesn't work on syndication! :-( But this post is cross posted and is available in full here. Apologies for spamming your RSS!

So despite arriving at a decision on chat to get a Lifedrive. I am still stopped cold by atulchitnis and ti22. atulchitnis's arguement is Lifedrive has been stopped and is no longer available from Palm. ti22's argument is Lifedrive is old.

I find that E50 is highly usable and a great business phone. So the big question is do I still need to get a Palm whatever! :-|

Answer will come along eventually in a short time.

More later!™

-nerdy

PS: Totally lost for now! :-(

F/L/OSSy folks,

Its time to speak and get our F/L/OSSy prezident for a second term!

Hit right here!

And *this* time go and *vote!

-nerdy

Folks,

Participate in the Ubuntu LINUX user survey. Here.

More later!™

-nerdy

PS: This post comes from a MacBook at Coffee-Day. Muchos gracias Abdul.

Wish you all systems administrators, a



Have great day(er, night as well) ti22, harmanjitsingh, balaji, kalyan and others whom I am unable to call upon coz I am busy (even today! :-( )

Neways, enjoy folks!

-nerdy

Need part time front-end dev folks to work out of home for the next few weeks

* Basically young, inspired, developers -- who can come up with a quick, elegant, working prototype (more details on this for interested folks) !

* They should have their own infrastructure like computer, etc. This is for a friends start-up in Bangalore (in stealth mode, sorry can't reveal more details at this point).

* The Money will be Good (you can take my word for it!)

* Can be 3 or 4th year engg students as well ---they have to be bright, sharp and should write clean code:)

* Know of anyone, do let me know asap, and I'll have them sync up with the relevant folks.

Interested?

Mail me your resume at aivalli@gmail.com

-nerdy

Folks I got my self a Palm Universal keyboard. :-) I thought I should review it as a first impression.

This is how it looks:



Pretty nifty thing. The time you spend with the fscking stylus just drops like anything. If you are a Palmist then this is a must have.

Mr. Aazad got me the thing today morning. On the first looks it is nothing like what you see above. Its not a normal guy's cup of tea to just open it like any other gizmo. dont you ever under-estimate the way it open up and closes. Pretty snug. I almost ripped it apart *just after buying* ! :O I could open it only after reading the soft copy of the 'Getting started'. I also went ahead and glanced thru the 'User's guide'. One disadvantage of getting stuff from the US is that your 'courier' may want(read:prefer) to leave the documentation and CD behind deliberately. Be ready to go thru the consequences. :-)

So, I finally set it up and the first thing I needed after two AAA batteries is the driver. For my Zire 72 the driver would be this one. Beware, driver changes have taken place you better get it right.

If you get the driver right then the rest should be a breeze.

So go ahead and mount the device and fire up the driver. Open up Memo and you should be able to type.

The first thing you'll notice is that your freedom from the stylus is just awesome. The next thing you'll notice is that most of the shortcut that have been replicated on various systems like Windows, GNOME, KDE etc are missing or just wont work out of the box. So you'll need to read up the manual and set it up. And yes, a worthy mention is that there build in documentation in the keyboard driver prc file - something unheard of in the Palm(space:-). Well if you'd like to disagree on that then I'd really like you to raed it as - 'There is something really special about it!' :-)

Well all this said I can safely remember harmanjitsingh's typing - it works fairly well.

Now to PAN it up and get pSSH >> zsh ;-) >> Emacs on my Zire 72 ! :-)

More later!™

-nerdy

Much of it may be known but read this again anyways and be surprised over again. :-)

Nice day! !

-nerdy

[Orkut fortune cookie]
Today's fortune:
You will have some wonderful new experiences.
[/Orkut fortune cookie]

I can safely say that "wonderful new" is equvivalent to "fscked"! :-(

Had enough for the day.

Hitting home.

-nerdy

As the subject says yesterday I did the 'Acheivement of the day' activity which, incidentally qualifies for the thanx a million award as well.

I fried the brand new Netgear's adapter ! :-(

It so so so sux!

It happend late last night. I had the option to head home and hit the sack but ............. :-(

More later!™

-nerdy