• Building an Infrastructure

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    Infrastructures.org is a great resource for anyone that needs to administer multiple Unix style machines and is looking to do so more efficiently. The principles laid down there are fantastic, and they stick to open source tools in their descriptions of how to put systems together, and even have a... [Read More]

  • Replacing Palm HotSync

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    There’s a message on the pilot-link-devel mailing list about replacing the normal Palm Network Sync with something else. Recently Palm has been a huge pain in the ass. Just about every device comes out with some new extension to the sync protocol. Something that breaks the existing tools under Linux... [Read More]

  • Defacto Standards Using Commercial Software

    Posted on January 16, 2004

    I have heard people talk about the danger of letting commercial software turn into the defacto standard for how to do things. I didn’t really think this was a big deal, until I tried to create a boot disk to do a BIOS update the other day. This is where... [Read More]

  • Saffo Speech

    Posted on January 15, 2004

    The speech by Paul Saffo this evening was very interesting. There were many points he brought up that jive with the stuff that I’ve been working on. There was a lot of stuff he said that meshed well with the events I’ve seen and heard about. Here are some of... [Read More]

  • It' the Media, Stupid

    Posted on January 15, 2004

    Just as a reminder, cause I forgot myself, Paul Saffo is speaking tonight at PARC. Should be an interesting evening, hope to see some of you there.

  • Direct Brain Interface

    Posted on January 14, 2004

    I created a new category for this article about a direct neural interface. The category is called Dweeb, and it’s for those things that aren’t quite mobile computing, or open source, or related to things that I’m working on, but are still just too fucking cool to ignore. I have... [Read More]

  • An Alternate Web for Mobile Devices

    Posted on January 14, 2004

    Russell posts about Mobile Web Page Thoughts, in particular bringing up the need to both create and consume from mobile devices. I think there are some great points in there, such as devices coming with bound server space. Personally, I woudn’t like my mobile devices to work this way, but... [Read More]

  • ToneThis

    Posted on January 14, 2004

    I’m not much into the ringtone market at all, but I got an email from TJ at ToneThis talking about the way that they’re approaching setting up a mobile service. The way ToneThis works a user can encode music from the MP3 library on their home PC and turn it... [Read More]

  • Palm Minirant

    Posted on January 13, 2004

    I had to do some of that running around that I was talking about in the last post, so I figured I would write up a blog entry. When I finished it and tried to upload, I had issues getting a network connection using my Palm to connect to my... [Read More]