The cycling experiment

I recently moved house and now live nearer to the office. Not that being slightly further away was an excuse not to cycle every day, but being nearer is a good reason to cycle it.

My experiment then is to try and live with only one car. My family has always had two cars. The second of which on average gets used about once a week. Which in its self does not not sound too bad, but then I car shared with a co-worker some days, so I was not cycling then either.

I’m three weeks in and have managed well so far, only having used the car once to collect my daughter and drive her to another location. I could have used a taxi for that… But as I am still paying to tax and insure the car.

Why not just get rid of the car? Several folks have warned me that that can be an expensive mistake should the experiment fail.

Stace

Which PalmOS device

“What Palm OS device would you recommend for Business use at the moment?”

I have heard rumours of the PalmOS Treo 700p and found several reviews for the Treo 700w, the Windows CE version. I am surprised to see that the 700w does not have WiFi, only Bluetooth by default. Wifi can be added with an SD card, as it can to the Treo 650, but then you can only have one SD card in at a time, so no downloading to SD memory! But, the 700w is not even in the shops yet and neither is the 700p.

If you want a Phone / Palm combination then currently their isn’t really any choice other than the Treo 650. Plus it has a camera too… think I’m sold.

If you don’t want the phone (you can connect with your current phone via BlueTooth) then their seems to be little option. If you want a physical keyboard then its the “Tungsten C”. If you don’t want the keyboard but want WiFi then its the “T|X”. Otherwise your choice for a business class PalmOS PDA is the “Tungsten T5”.

What would I get? Either the Treo 650 or I’d source a second hand Tungsten T3.

PS. For wireless connectivity without WiFi get a Bluetooth access point, I can vouch for the Tecom BT3021.

Have a google at OpenSolaris

My colleague Brian recently informed me how to search the OpenSolaris CVS tree using Google. Obvious once you know how!

To search OpenSolaris source for text using Google add the following keywords into the search box after the phrase you are searching for:

site:cvs.opensolaris.org inurl:source/raw/on/usr/src/

Thanks for the tip Brian.

Green, Clean and Cool too.

Faster can be cool
Better can be clean
Cheaper can be green

The new Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers with CoolThreads technology
launched yesterday. This is real exciting for Sun, our customers and good for the planet too. See Cool Threads @ uk.sun.com for more details.

Of course the opening statements are also true of cycling 😉

Stace