From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Oct 22 12:12:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from dialup53.apex.dp.ua (dialup53.apex.dp.ua [195.24.139.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 334C914CEA for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 12:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from voland@dialup53.apex.dp.ua) Received: (from voland@localhost) by dialup53.apex.dp.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA28697; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 22:11:34 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from voland) Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-Comment-To: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" To: Ron Rosson Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: An Idea References: <19991022112238.A58082@lunatic.oneinsane.net> From: Vadim Belman In-Reply-To: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson"'s message of "Fri, 22 Oct 1999 11:22:38 -0700" Date: 22 Oct 1999 22:10:28 +0300 Message-ID: <85so3343ff.fsf@dialup244.apex.dp.ua> Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Ron! On 22 Oct 99 at 21:22, "Ron" (Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson) wrote: Ron> I have an idea.. I just came into the posession of a Palm IIIx. I am Ron> using the jpilot from the ports. During my search for more UNIX Ron> native apps to run on my workstation I came across a binary that Ron> allows me to sync with Avantgo. It works like a charm and am Ron> experimenting with seeing If I can get daily.daemonnews.org to Ron> work. Might be something worth looking into.. Imagine dropping your Ron> palm into its sync cradle starting the Command line sync for Avantgo Ron> then finish your last minute things before jetting out the door and Ron> snatching your palm as you leave. Ron> Then later in the day when you do not have the luxury of an Internet Ron> connection you can pull it up. Ron> Just an Idea. -- It's not a bad idea. But, you see, Palm display is not designed for long-time readings. I mean I tried reading news using Yanoff and found it very hard for my eyes. BTW, you can find lots of tools on palmgear or palmzone sites which do different kinds of fetching, sorting and storing. But this is another subject... -- /Voland Vadim Belman E-mail: voland@plab.ku.dk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message