Category: Legacy

Posted on by lhl

On the mobile-tech end, I’ve gotten the latest Hiptop OTA updates. Some nice features added, but it doesn’t change the fact that I can’t load my own apps onto my own system and that I don’t have an SSH terminal.

  • Handspring NYC Treo 600 Launch Coverage

    The big news out of the event is the official announcement of four US wireless carriers. Sprint, AT&T, Cingular and T-Mobile have signed on to carry the Treo 600 in the US. Orange was announced last week in Europe. The smartphone should be available in the US in early to mid-October. The specific price will vary by carrier and plan, but is expected to be in the $600 – $449 range.

  • Mossberg loves the Treo 600
  • Treo 600 Mailbag
  • Treo 600 Coming to Four U.S. Wireless Carriers

    treocentral.com is reporting that Sprint will begin offering this smart phone on October 13 for $399, T-Mobile will also begin carrying in October 13, while Cingular expects begin offering it on October 20 for $549 before rebates, with the final cost expected to be $449.

    This should probably be taken w/ a grain of salt, an eWeek article from the day before gives much longer timelines for the other carriers

    Update: confirmation on dates @ bargainpda

Now the question is, do I stick w/ Sprint or T-Mobile…

Posted on by lhl

I’ve been looking a bit at hardware recently w/ the slew of Athlon 64 reviews coming out. I’m going to hold out for a bit. As I’m doing all my video editing on my Mac right now (what I really need is a dual-G5), the main reason I’m going to need to upgrade is going to be for Half-Life 2 (and yeah, it’s delayed). Hopefully if/when I decide to upgrade, prices will come down, and more motherboards will be available.

I’ve also been taking a second look at building a terrabyte file server. If I combine that project with an Athlon 64 upgrade, i could save some parts money. Most of the price will be the cost of drives. Seagate is introducing its Barracuda 7200.7 SATA drives, which besides having 100GB platters, will also have SATA native command queuing (scheduled to ship in November)

Posted on by lhl

CIA Seeks Probe of White House – I remember the mainstream news not picking up on this earlier (ahh, permalinks would be useful)… I’ve found it interesting how easily distracted and lazy the media has been on covering these types of major, serious wrongs by the the administration (compare to the ridiculous bruhaha’s surrounding Clinton). In my book, compromising national security, walking over the bill of rights, destroying our international good will relations, and the budget are far worse than getting a blowjob, but what do I know?

Posted on by lhl

Random thought: mapping out each blogger’s ‘sphere of interest’ by what they link to; you could make a topic-map out of that w/ some visualization tool if those were categorized, being able to see overlap and also what sites to read to get a variety of sources.