[ale] Linux on PalmPilot

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 01:27:12PM -0700, Fulton Green wrote:
> Some people do if they're taking notes. Even if they don't, crashes (whether
> manifested by accidentally or intentionally developed bad code) can happen
> at any time.

	Yeah...  It drove me $#@$@#$ nuts in China trying to take notes
and having the damn thing crash and loose a days worth of irreplaceable
notes.  However, that being said, I later learned that some of the newer
PalmPilots have been crashing and corrupting data because of bad memory
chips!  My TRG Pro (Palm Pilot with 8Meg Ram and 2 Meg Flash plus a Compact
Flash slot) and lots of the newer larger memory PalmPilots were affected
by this.  I don't know about the Handspring units.  An upgrade to the
operating system seems to fix the problem (they changed something to do
with the refresh) but it seem a little bit slower than before (not bad
and not "definable", just subjectively a touch slower).  It hasn't
crashed even once since.  But I'm still now in the habit of backing up
the damn thing to the CF card I have in the CF slot daily (or more if
I'm doing a lot of writing).

> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 03:41:34PM -0500, Tomas wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 09:57:22PM +0000, Joe Knapka wrote:
> > > You're right, I really prefer a palmtop that crashes every hour or
> > > so (due to virus infestation) :->
> > 
> > Yeah but that's my point, do people keep there palm running for
	over an hour at a time?

	Oh I definitely run my palm for over an hour on a regular basis.
Every bore-ass meeting where I have to resort to my "meeting attention tools"
(FreeCell, Rogue, Frotz, Parking Lot, Go, etc, etc....)

	Mike
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