On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 17:47, Price Technology wrote: > It looks like I'm going to have to break down and purchase a PDA > I'd like recommendations from folks who are actually using them > Input from the crowd please. I am currently using two: a Palm V and a spankin'-new Tungsten C. The Palm V is reasonably supported under RH9 - by "reasonable" I mean that I use Evolution, under gnome, which means gpilotd for the conduits and sync'ing. The Palm V uses a serial-port. Functionality is lower than you get with Windows. The Tungsten... I love colour, and with the 802.11, I can actually do a bit of stuff wirelessly around our campus. I find it most-useful for reference info that I put on my own web-site; for actual browsing it's a bit annoying to only see half-width much of the time (it does scroll easily side-to-side, but still...). I can also jot off a quick e-mail, and send that. The Graffiti handwriting recognition is very similar between the two, and I found it very intuitive to pick up on. Both my Palm's have Graffiti crib-sheets affixed inside the covers - helpful for characters that you cannot remember how to form. I am getting accustomed to the small thumb-keyboard on the Tungsten C. In fact, I find myself using that very often. However - the Tungsten C doesn't seem to be supported under RH9 at all :-( There are some patches I've google-found, but I focus my energies elsewhere. You are right though - both Palms play very, very well under Windows. I wish Palm would produce/release a Desktop tool for Linux too... As for "what do I do with my Palms" - One of my hats is admin'ing our Research Network (~25 servers / 4TB). So, I keep IP-addresses, machine-names, passwords, and other relevant info on my Palm. In fact, this was the main force behind getting a Palm. To encrypt/store this stuff, I use a Palm package called 'yaps'. Beyond that, I jot lots of memos (many of which are shopping lists: for work-related materials, food, home-reno projects, etc :-) ). Again, I love the colour display of the Tungsten. On both, I love the fact that neither is running WinCE :-) (once upon a time, I was enamoured with the Agenda VR3, because it was running Linux, but they fell upon rough times). HTH, -Gord -- Gordon Pritchard, P.Eng. | Institute of Electrical and Research Labs Manager | Electronics Engineers Simon Fraser University, Surrey | Quarter Century Wireless Ass'n gordonp@xxxxxx | Telephone Pioneers of America phone: 604.268.7509 | Amateur Radio: VA7SFU, VA7GP
