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* On 2005.05.05, in <20050505202602.26DFA413C6@xxxxxxx.xx.xxxxxxx.xxx>, * "Peter da Silva" <peter@xxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > Tell me, do you see something like this when you run 'ps wwwaux | grep -i palm'? > > % ps wwwwaux | grep -i palm > peter 429 0.1 3.5 107840 9108 ?? S 1:10PM 0:35.23 /Local/Applications/Palm/Palm Desktop/Contents/Resources/Palm Desktop Background.app/Contents/MacOSClassic/Palm Desktop Background /Local/Applications/Palm/Palm Desktop/Contents/Resources/Palm Desktop Background.app/Contents/MacOSClassic/Palm Desktop Background -psn_0_1310721 > peter 434 0.0 3.4 97604 8852 ?? S 1:10PM 0:00.52 /Local/Applications/Palm/Transport Monitor/Contents/MacOSClassic/Transport Monitor /Local/Applications/Palm/Transport Monitor/Contents/MacOSClassic/Transport Monitor -psn_0_1966081 Or better, do you see several of them? Cause that's one of the high points of my Palm Desktop Experience. Peter, I know you don't feel the same, but for me iSync -- while shoddy and irritating -- is the best thing anyone could have done for me as a Palm user, short of finding me a better PDA. I still need the godawful Carbonic app-within-app transport junk (and a $40 add-on to talk Sonyese), but at least I *never* have to translate usability into Palmthink on the fly. > You might also look in your logfiles. Yeah, but good luck finding anything helpful. I've really about had it with PDAs. As much as I hate the feature creep of PDA functions into my blazing *cell phone*, for crying out loud, it at least does something for me that none of my other gadgets (i.e. laptop) can cover, so I can settle for letting it be the one to remind me of what time the appointment is and where the meeting is located. When someone rethinks the whole design and makes a marketable product that actually works and isn't based on Linux -- because if I don't want to waste days of my life getting my ThinkPad to start up, do something useful, and shut down cleanly, I sure don't want to also be root on my handheld -- you can find me jotting comfortably with a deck of 3x5 note cards and a USB storage pen, or behind a PowerBook transcribing them back into iCal, Address Book, and plain old text files, because it *saves me time* to do it longhand. Don't nobody say "Newton", either. It was ahead of its time, and I mean that only in a bad way. -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of ChicagoThere's stuff above here
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