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Little nuggets of information for Handspring Visor Deluxe Green

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

Configure gaim to talk to MSN

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

Common Linux commands

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

xlib: connection to "unix:1012.0" refused by server - workaround

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).

Logitech QuickCam VC USB driver for Windows XP

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.

Enabling Cleartype font for Windows XP

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.