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ROM image for Handspring Visor Deluxe. This can be useful when developing application for the Visor using the POSE emulator.

I recently got a Handspring Visor Deluxe (Green) from a friend. This device is quite old for todays standard but should be a very good tool for exploring embedded and PDA programming. Anyway, here is what I got: Manufacturer : Handspring (now Palmone) Model : Visor Deluxe (Green) Memory : 8 MB Serial number : ABCEB02000488 Processor : Motorola 16 MHz Dragonball EZ processor OS : Palm OS 3.1H Related websites: Official website : http://www.palm.com/us/support/visor/visordeluxe/ OS Upgrades : http://www.palm.com/us/support/downloads/visor/hs_updater_v100.html Synchronizing data with Linux : http://www.linux.com/howtos/Handspring-Visor/index.shtml History of Handspring: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handspring Developing applications: Pocket Smalltalk : http://www.pocketsmalltalk.com/ Micro Java for Palm : http://pluggedin.palm.com/regac/pluggedin/Java.jsp Palm Developer Network : http://www.palm.com/us/developers/ Visual PalmTalk : http://www.visualpalmtalk.com/ ucLinux on Palm : http

This is a very network specific, like how the corporate network is being setup. But if you are like me where we have a network connection with no proxy but I think with a firewall, below is the settings: Login server : messenger.hotmail.com port : 1863 Use HTTP Method : checked Show custom smileys : checked Propx Options Proty type: No Proxy

This link shows how to configure your Windows XP Pro machine to allow remotely connecting to the machine via terminal services.

List hard drives: :$ su :# sfdisk -s List partition tables: :$ su :# sfdisk -l Remove a default gateway: #: sudo route del default Add default gateway, this will add 192.168.1.101 as the default gateway: #: sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.101 Find Windows machine in the network (needs smbfs). $: findsmb Get the details of the machine in the network (needs smbfs): $: nbmlookup ~ts

I was trying to open an X application (actually a GTK+ application) and got the error below : Xlib: connection to "unix:1012.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified (scite:8344): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: I think the reason why I am getting this error is that I changed user in terminal from regular account to root. I've read in the net that user can use xhost + but it is not working for nxserver+nxclient. But there is a very easy workaround for this if sudo is installed and enabled. #: sudo scite This will open the scite text editor in an elevated account (root user).

We bought a webcam in yard sale, it is a Logitech QuickCam VC model LKD5 part number 1049-640-001. As we all know, most items bought in yard sale does not come with a driver. A quick visit to Logitech shows that they don't provide a driver for Windows XP for this device. Here comes google. After few minutes of surfing I finally found a driver that works for this hardware. Get it from here . If you need to get the driver from the original publisher visit here . Note: don't install any software from Logitech as it may interfere with the functionality of the driver. Just use Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger. You should be all set.

I wish I had seen this website long time ago... MS Windows have this really useful utility to increase the readability of fonts specially on LCD monitors. Please go check the following website : http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx You need to use Internet Explorer to make this work. 2008/07/21 Update This also applies to Vista. I just upgraded one of my laptops and it was quite hard to read screen display both on the laptop and when docked with default settings. Tuning did help quite a lot.

I have come across this post today and it seems interesting. It allows you to run Macintosh upto 7.5. There is a sample image here . I had difficulty following the instruction from minivmac site due to .sim.bin file that I can't manipulate in Windows. Even Stuffit Expander does not really help when running in Windows.

Nxclient for windows from http://www.nomachine.com/ does not seem to forward Alt+Tab key sequence. To fix this problem download and run a utility from http://ssrini.netfirms.com/.

ZSoft Uninstaller 2.3 is the better and easier way to uninstall programs on your computer. Location and uninstalling a program with ZSoft Uninstaller 2.3 is as easy as clicking a button.

Favorite: Cryptainer LE o Easy to use o Haven't tried other products yet. Cryptainer LE is software that can create multiple encrypted containers. It functions like any other drive (C: or D:) on your computer. Just drag and drop any file into the Cryptainer. It is automatically encrypted. It's that simple! Cryptainer files can only be viewed, accessed, browsed or modified by the user who has the key to open it. At other times it remains invisible. TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux.

Favorites: VMWare Server 1.0.x o When I need LPT1 and/or USB support o Runs virtual machines compared with Virtual PC (except Vista) o Need lots of network switch or to bridge more than one interface o For cases where I need Linux on virtual machine Virtual PC 2007 SP1 o When I need to run Windows Vista as guest OS with LPT1 support on Windows XP/W2k3/Vista hosts Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V o When I need to run Vista guest without a need for LPT1 nor USB support o When I need to run Windows XP SP3 guest without a need for LPT1 nor USB support o This virtualization product is pretty fast but need to run on 64bit capable machines and on Windows Server 2008 64bit installation. Virtual Box o When I run on slow host machines o When snapshot/revert is a must for my work o Does not support more than one bridge in Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bochs is a highly portable open source

For the most part just follow the instructions from Gentoo webiste. When using virtual SCSI HD, follow the instruction from HOWTO Install Gentoo on VMware in Windows NT/2K/XP especially the SCSI part.

TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don't need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.

Bart PE - create bootable XP cds with networking support. DriveImage XML - Image and Backup logical Drives and Partitions. SystemRescueCd - is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs) ~ts

Direct link to free version of the compilers ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/turbo/English/Delphi_Explorer/TurboDelphi.exe ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/turbo/English/Delphi_.NET_Explorer/TurboDelphi4Net.exe ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/turbo/English/C++_Explorer/TCPP_EXPL_EN_DL.exe ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/turbo/English/Csharp_Explorer/TurboCsharp.exe Pre-requisites can be found here ftp://ftpd.borland.com/download/bds/bds_2006_trial/english/arch/disk2/prereqs.zip Official website of the turbo products can be found here . Important information: User can create commercial application using Turbo products

Editor Customizability ( Rating : 1 to 5 ) Rating 1 o Not customizable Rating 2 o Basic customization, like font (size, family, etc), tab. Rating 3 o Support for template and completion. Rating 4 o Intellisense Rating 5 ( all ratings from 1 to 4, plus below) o Scritable interface

Website : http://tswebeditor.net.tc/ Version : tswebeditor-20060730 Pros: Free Project Manager (although not complete yet as of this version) Syntax highlighter for HTML and CSS (and maybe more but this is what i have tested so far) Customizable editor Cons: Application becomes unresponsive for quite a while when ccessing Help -> tsWebEditor Website raises Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Error. CSS Wizard is not localized to English properly.

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