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Comment Like a mini Alphasmart Dana? (Score 3, Informative) 428

This is something I would really like. PDAs are too small to type on. I type at 115 wpm and can't stand using PDAs at all, yet there are things I'd like to do without the power consumption, size, and weight of a full laptop.

I'd love something like the Alphasmart Dana except in clamshell style. Doesn't need to be incredibly tiny, just as big as a small keyboard.

Unfortunately, even if I liked the size of this device, it costs around $600. Smaller and cheaper than a laptop, my butt. I'm currently using a used IBM T21 laptop that cost $425.

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Journal Journal: Chris O'Brien and Cohorts this weekend

If you live in the Minneapolis area, you might decide to show up at the Steak Knife in Dinkytown on the evening of March 12. Live music, no bullcrap. As usual if you look around at the show for free live recordings you'll be able to find them.

Or you might prefer to show up at Mayslack's in Northeast on Saturday evening.

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Journal Journal: ColdFusion, the Perl of Proprietary Programming Environments

ColdFusion is really annoying. We use it at work because there is lots of existing code in the health care industry that uses ColdFusion. It's much like Perl: everything _and_ the kitchen sink is included, it goes out of its way to match the lexical style of things familiar to programmers in this domain, yet in the end it is difficult to do serious work with it since there are so many incompatible ways to accomplish any given task.

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Journal Journal: Hey, asshole

Guess what.

You see that oncoming stream of traffic? The one I am going to turn left in front of?

I don't have to do so until the oncoming stream of straight-moving traffic comes through the intersection. In fact, it is not legal to do so. Despite the constant blaring sound of your horn in my ear, and the extended middle finger you wave at me as a token of your obviously superior intelligence.

asshole. die. horribly.

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Journal Journal: Chris O'Brien and Cohorts shows

If you live in the Minneapolis area, and care about real live music, take a look at the Chris O'Brien and Cohorts website to see where/when we perform next. Yes, that's me, the dorky looking guy with the pharcked-up cello thingy.

We often make live recordings available for free; you can check for them on the filesharing networks. Working on posting some shows this week.

Comment mainstream = lusers (Score 1) 214

when you say mainstream acceptance, it seems you're really talking about end-users and open source being embraced on the desktop. desktop users often expect a certain functionality and polish from software they use regularly. it's tough for free software to compete. . .but nonetheless the idea has caught on in the sense

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