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2005-11-25
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2005-11-25
, 16:44
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@ Eugene, Oregon
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One of the reasons I got this tablet was because of the platform and the fact that I'd be able to do something about it, which I have.
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2005-11-25
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@ Stimutax, AZ
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2005-11-25
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I my opinion, "early adopter" is marketingspeak for "suckers who will give good money for anything. as long as they're first".
I don't mind doing that for a softdrink, but I'm not prepared to pay someone to test their beta-quality computer hardware. That's Microsoft's way of doing "business".
So Nokia, call me when you've got your 770 act together...
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2005-11-25
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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I bought a couple dozen Hitachi VisionPlates this year at about $1,800 each. They can be ordered with Minix (a mobile Linux put out by a group Linus himself when he used to work for Paul Allen) and can be used as wireless touchscreen X terminals.
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2005-11-25
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@ Spain
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Disconnecting WLAN seems to release 'events/0' command from hogging all the cpu resources. There are more WLAN related serious problems than anything else in 770 (disconnects, wpa, sluggishness etc.), but after browsing bugzilla there might be hope soon!
Source:
https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=192
Last line dated 2005-11-21 :
"There will be a new release available within few days. It has a working WiFi."
I hope it fixes these issues and that they release it soon to us end-users also!
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2005-11-26
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@ Eugene, Oregon
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Minix was a UNIX lookalike, developed by dr Tanenbaum and aimed at educational use. Linus Torvalds had nothing to do with its development, other than that he mentioned Minix as his inspirational source in the (now famous) 1992 email in which he announced his Linux OS. Are you sure you didn't mean Midori Linux, Transmeta's embedded Linux distro, on which Linus is rumoured to have contributed significantly?
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2005-11-26
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@ "Almost there!" (Monte Christo, Count of)
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Yep, I misspoke. I'm replaying Final Fantasy X today, while listening to Carole King's Living Room sets, putting down the Winter carpet in my home theater and browsing the net, so, naturally, I carelessly stepped on my history there. Midori is what I meant, as you deduced. Thanks for catching that. I'll go back and correct it.
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2005-11-26
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@ Eugene, Oregon
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Those VisionPlates: did they come with RitePen HWR? And if so, how does it perform in Linux?
almost a year! And it came with NO APPLICATION SOFTWARE. It couldn't even do color Bitmaps - I had to use my television to see its output!
Dude, I did EXACTLY what you suggest; I told them to call me when they had their act together. Earlier this year they finally did - after 28 years - and told me to buy an IPOD. I already had an RCA MP3 player that takes SD flash in any size, though, so I didn't. Boy, did they lose out by "Suckering ME"!