Got Wifi running yesterday (Saturday) in Gentoo on my ThinkPad. So I can use the 802.11b wireless card I bought for my Newton 2100 now with my Thinkpad.
Saw H2G2 with A, Chris and Mar. Disappointed.
Got JPilot working with my CLIE on the ThinkPad too. And Plucker is working too, though not tuned and not coordinated with JPilot yet for automatic data updates.
I suspect the FireWire/USB 2.0 combo PC Card I bought on eBay for my ThinkPad will work in Linux. dmesg output looks good.
I’ve been using my Newton now for… checking my blog… well, since 22 March. Use it heavily at work for taking notes and making lists.
Its recognition of my handwriting sure beats everything else I’ve owned (A Palm or two, a couple CLIEs, a Visor, a PocketPC, a Psion/Diamond Revo [only used the tapboard on that one, truth be told], Zaurus SL-5500). I’m a happy boy.
I’ve noticed four things that are pretty consistent:
1. Some little things I’ve done to increase my handwriting’s recognition by the Newton (like the way I write my ‘E’) are showing up in my normal writing.
2. My handwriting (in ink and especially on the Newton itself) is getting more controlled and clean. Still fits and starts here, but sometimes it really shines.
3. My Newton [2100] /hates/ my capital ‘M’s in the char-by-char editing slip. It always interprets them as a scrub unless I use that little spiral thingie on the upper-left side of the ‘M’. Then–sometimes!–it realizes it’s an ‘M’. Any tips from people who write ‘M’ a lot?
4. If I type cursive, the recognition is STELLAR. Close to 100% for since I started doing this yesterday. Really phenomenal.
The thread from the guy whose types “ni” and has it auto-replaced with ‘9’ inspired this post. Here’s to you, guy.
Google never goes down. That’s the impression, at least. That’s a credit to those guys. But what if?
I’ve noticed Google getting slower recently (months). That’s too bad. But I guess that happens when you serve the whole world in realtime.
One of these days those guys are going to get surprised by something that infects their cluster and blows by (around) all their safeguards. I’m not looking forward to it, just predicting.
