Stubborn friend of mine asserted that clamshell phone will never be reliable base on a single bad experience he’s had… I’ve had quite a few clamshells that worked perfect after years of serious use… I couldn’t find a clamshell stess test at the LG website, but a brief Google search found me this picture…
Story: Sony Ericsson Tour: Part II (MobileBurn) Clamshell hinge stress test pic
No WiFi for the Samsung i730 – Engadget – www.engadget.com
not like I would ever want a PocketPC, but this still must piss off a lot of people, like those at HoFo.
So I installed the 3COM drivers and software for my 3CRWB6096B Bluetooth PC card last week, setup the virtual ports, but HotSync never showed those COM ports in the pull-down menu.
I was trying to get Internet Sharing to work, after much research and about 15 minutes of trying different things, I concluded that the 3COM driver does not support Internet Sharing. There used to be a patch that would get the Widcomm driver to work with this card, but the patch had been removed from the site.
So after playing with BT for like 15 minutes I decided to give BT HotSync another try… This time I went into the BIOS settings of my POS Dell D600, disabled the IR port, probably disabled the COM port also, not quite sure what I did. Anyway, I booted it back to Windows XP (vs. Gentoo), and wala!! I see COM5 listed in HotSync… Went to the Treo and tried a BT Sync, it worked…
Amazingly all this, plus Internet Sharing, worked out of the box with my PowerBook. LOL!
Windows sucks!!
I downloaded NNW Lite 2.0, it’s quite a bit better than my old version. Now I can blog an RSS entry directly, through most blogging software available in OSX. This is nice. I tried using it with their very own MarsEdit, and Ecto (2.3.2, I renewed my trial!!). Neither software got the Trackback URLs from NNW.
I wonder if their paid version has that feature… 🙂
Finally got my Verizon Treo 650 from Fedex this morning. I love it!! It solves my PIM mess. I’ve got most of the stuff working with the Treo, actually everything I wanted to work with my PowerBook is working fine. I made this post at HoFo about the Bluetooth capability of this phone…
I love it so far, highly recommended!!
Ranchero Software: What’s New in NetNewsWire 2.0
The bundle seems like a good deal, I’ll download the evaluation and compare it against Ecto, which I was 95% sure I was gonna buy… My copy of Ecto is still under trial period coz I haven’t quit the app for the last couple of days… 🙂
I’m gonan give this a try…
Screenshot
Google Acquires Dodgeball:
Dodgeball seems kindda fun if I live in a dense city like NYC… 🙂
I was able to order one via the north VZW store in Austin, should have it this Friday, will blog more about it when I get it. Very excited about this phone, I hope it’d be able to solve my PIM mess…
Schneier on Security: The Potential for an SSH Worm
Bruce Schneier raised a valid point, what makes this situation even worse is that most power unix users use public key authetication, and some has private keys without passwords, some uses tools like Gentoo’s Keychain to remember key agent’s PIDs to allow password-less ssh logins.