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There are quit a few choices when reading documents in Handspring Visor or Palm based PDA's. One is Adobe Acrobat Reader for Palm and Plucker. There might be more but these are the ones that I have used so far. The latest Adobe Reader for Palm OS works only for OS version 3.5 or greater. So for the Handspring Visor we are left with one application, Plucker . Latest version (1.8) does not seem to support Palm OS 3.0. When I was writing this blog it seems like the Plucker website was down. So I instead picked the older version from internet archive . I took v1.6 and low and behold it is working like a charm in Visor Deluxe. For readers convenience, you can download the file from here . Need to download and install 7-zip to extract the contents, though. Update (22Jan07) I found out that there are two binaries for v1.8 of the viewer application. One is for high resolution and non-hires. Non-high resolution works like a charm in Palm OS 3.0.x. Try this link .

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).