Archive for May, 2005

DSLinux

May 26th, 2005 by tripledes

Yes!!! They did it! these people from DSLinux.org are really great, after some hard work they are starting a shell ( SASH) after booting a 2.6 kernel with a very nice boot logo ( picture).

I think I have to start spending more time on my NDS ;) I need to see how to get home brew code running on it and so on by this way when a Linux image will be distributed I’ll be able to get it quickly!

Software patents in EU

May 19th, 2005 by tripledes

Reading The Register I’m glad to see software patents in EU are going to apply only whether the software controls a physical process or a controllable force of nature. I think this is a very big step, at least the parliament says patents would not be allowed for software that handles “the treatment, the manipulation, the representation and the presentation of information”.

I hope this move will solve most of the problems about open source and software patents, the only thing I am not seeing clearly is…what do they mean with “physical process”? could this be hardware related? I guess many software manufacturers will try to take advantages of it but what could I say? I am not a lawyer! :P

Lets see how all this will end!

PalmOne LifeDrive

May 18th, 2005 by tripledes

Oh…my…god! This PDA (from PalmOne) is incredible! I didn’t realize it was in the market already…but today was reading PalmAddicts through Bloglines and I am amazed!

It has many features I’d like to see on my next PDA, but (there’s always a but) lastly I’ve been falling in love with the HTC Magician (aka i-mate JAM, Qtek S-100…) it’s small, it’s a PocketPC Phone and (this is really hard to say) I’m seeing Windows Mobile as better platform for power users than PalmOS even thinking for how long PalmOS has been there…it seems like dying (what a mess…).

Both devices have lots of nice features:
HTC Magician:

  • 416MHz processor
  • Mobile phone (besides PDA functionality)
  • 1.3Megapixels camera
  • MMC/SD/SDIO card slot
  • 2.8″ screen at 320×280
  • Bluetooth v1.2/IrDA
  • 160g

PalmOne LifeDrive Mobile Manager:

  • 416MHz processor
  • WiFi 802.11b (they don’t talk about WPA support)
  • Bluetooth v1.1
  • camera?
  • 4GiB hard drive (using part of it as memory)
  • 320×480 screen resolution
  • portrait/landscape screen orientation
  • MMC/SD/SDIO card slot
  • 190g

Hard to chose one right? OK, I’m not gonna buy nothing yet (even in months…) so when I’ll have the money (and the need to buy…) there will be other options for sure, maybe the Benq P50 which will be a full-featured PocketPC Phone but has been pushed to Q3 2005 (postponed again). Actually there’re lots of things I need to save money for before buying another PDA ;^) so…stop dreaming!

UPDATE: PalmOne LifeDrive have no built-in camera it uses Camera Companion software which allows to download photos from an SD card (mostly used on your digital camera).

Targus bag

May 17th, 2005 by tripledes

I went to fnac last Friday during lunch time cause I needed headphones for my ipod and then I saw it, fitted my needs perfectly. It was The Bag.

I started to see how it was internally organized, all its pockets and so on…I needed to know whether my stuff would be well protected, my Tungsten, my readings, etc. When I realized that everything could be hold by this marvelous bag…I took it! It’s mine! I’ve taken some pictures where you can see it but…it’s far better in real ;) .

Besides shopping, which is quite important for me as you could been observing in this blog, there’re lots of things going on for me these last months…well actually it’s not lots of things…just one and it is not even a thing…maybe it’s nothing to be worried about but it could bring important changes to my life, very important ones…I need to think clearly but it’s too hard, it’s easy letting yourself to be driven by feelings you’re holding inside…I need to be careful and not harmful for no one. I should let the time to speak up, time is everything and nothing…1seg…seems nothing right? but believe me, it’s everything when you want to achieve your points specially long term ones…

My mom uses to say: “What is destined to be yours, will be yours” maybe the translation is not too accurate but I think you could get the idea. So I don’t need to try forcing nothing because if something has to happen…it will happen slowly as it should, cause big changes never came quickly I need to be less worried about everything and try to enjoy what life provides me I think that way I will achieve most of my points…perhaps I won’t, but I will be happier…

Maybe everything here just seems a hidden message, it’s not and I hope everything will become clear in few months so as I’m doing…you will have to wait to know what’s this all about…

Are we really batteries?

May 1st, 2005 by tripledes

Are you thinking on “The Matrix”? Hehe maybe someone didn’t saw it because of the title…but I am going to talk about some points of life where I can see resemblence to Matrix. Since I’ve got my current job I use to wake up at 7.35am which is not too bad for this country, then I catch the train at 8.35 (it takes me one hour because I use to have very lazy mornings :) so finally I got to work at 9.00am, switch on my laptop and start documenting till 10.30 – 11.00am when I use to have my breakfast then get back to my task. I finish my working day between 8 – 9pm so the whole day is over and I can not do anything else but get dinner and chat a little via Skype with a really good friend of mine…and a working day starts again next morning.
Somedays ago the goverment has announced they are gonna build flats about 30m2 for renting them to people like me who just could afford to rent a room in a shared flat and are single so buying one gets hard to think on.
With all this I feel like someone is tricking us…how can we work the whole day and get all this bullshit?! And listen…I can consider myself very lucky because my work is in an office, with a laptop, quite good payment, etc. I know I think too much, some people have already told me, but we got brain to use it right? Sometimes seems like thinking what’s going on in your environment is wrong…
Maybe I wouldn’t be worrying so much about things I can not fix…but I hate how powerful people treats us…we are not lemmings!