Yeah, I'm curious about the keyboard thing on the iPhone, but historically Apple gets UI very right, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's going to work quite well.

ita, where are you finding information about a Treo with linux? I can't find anything about such a device in my googling...

Because that sounds cool.

Signed,
Wants an iPhone very badly but will not be switching back to Cingular until I can pay $20 a month for unlimited internet or less, and I keep hearing we won't be able to unlock iPhones.

ita, where are you finding information about a Treo with linux?

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Don't hold your breath.

I can't find the exact article where I learnt about Palm and Linux (you're harshing my mellow, Scola!), but it was a result of searching for info about running Opera on a Palm (it's lovely on my phone, but too small), and apparently they've licensed their software to Palm for a new set of Treos. That would be Linux-based.

Fuck--if my router can run Linux, why can't my phone or PDA?

So the printers.conf file apparently doesn't list the Dave mappings in it. I ended up just spending the morning deleting and recreating the printers on all the Macs. At least it's done. Thanks for the attempted help.

To answer the question as to why we're using Dave, I was told it was because Tiger apparently has some authentication issues where Windows print servers are concerned. The other work-around they tried was to add the Microsoft AD username and password to the printers.conf file, but that meant having to redo it every 90 days on each computer when the users AD passwords expired. Using Dave was easier.

How do you get rid of the folders of OS uninstall info in Windows XP? I'm pretty sure I'm not rolling back 95% of it, ever, and I'm looking desperately for space on my C drive.

More questions--man, I'm having a troublesome May.

I have a dual monitor setup (nVidia Quadro, HP L1940T, Dell 2001FP), but the system insisted on setting both monitors to the same resolution. Because I'm pretty sure it doesn't have to be that way (ran 2048x1536 and 1400xwhatever at last job), I decided to uninstall the drivers and start from the beginning. The nVidia nView looked especially problematic.

Is it possible to install your monitors before the card? When I click through to Advanced it shows me Default Monitor and no way to install drivers.

Or maybe it's the 2001FP driver set--there are three files (INF, CAT, and ICM) and I can't follow their instructions since I can't install drivers from the Driver tab. I try doubleclicking on the INF file, nada. I try Add Hardware from the Control Panel, and that location doesn't contain information about my hardware.

Right now I'm running singleheaded on the HP monitor, and it's the same deal. No indication that it found new hardware, and the list of resolutions supported is independent of the monitor's actual ability.

Googling is of indeterminate use so far, although I'm iterating through various possible useful search terms.

Any tips?

Huh. I kinda did the equivalent of pressing some (more) buttons and, apart from having my task bar and desktop icons on the right hand monitor and displaying the wallpaper at 1280x1024 on the 1600x monitor, it seems to be behaving.

Which means I'm free to buy that Sandisk thumb drive and work out how to expand my C drive at homeget back to work.

So, am seriously getting impatient for getting a new phone. But need advice from those of you with smartphones.

I've looked at the various options from the various companies, and can see advantages to all of them, really. So I'm wondering about the companies--I've had Sprint for eons, and have generally been happy enough with their service. But I haven't used data, only voice and texting.

Besides voice calls, I want texting and websurfing. I don't need corporate email (ours is some offbrand antiquated system anyway, so even if I wanted it, I might be SOL!). All the companies have various data plans, and I am v. confused. Who's got a recommendation? What's cheap? How much internet would I really use? (Some of the plans are by MB, and I"m like "How the hell do I know what I'd use?"--probably not a lot, as I'm usually near an actual computer, but...)

Plans by MB tend to be scary, in my opinion. It's very easy to accidentally go over and then they charge you a bajillion trillion dollars.

I just looked at Sprint's plans. I've heard good things about their data speed and capabilities, actually - I never considered them or Verizon because I like the idea of GSM phones with SIM cards, but that's a choice not too many people seem to care much about. It appears that the cheapest data plan ("Power Vision Access" or some rigmarole) would include unlimited browsing on your phone, and it's $15 a month. Not half bad! Much better than you can get on Cingular. Where they try to take your money is if you use the phone as a modem for your laptop - they want $40 a month for that.

T-Mobile is still cheaper, though. They have several plans that seem to offer the same thing, but the simple fact is that you can use the cheapest plan ($6.95 a month for "T-Zones T-Mobile Web") to do pretty much everything. Including using it as a bluetooth modem for your laptop, at pretty decent speeds. I do this regularly at school, when I'm trying to visit pages blocked by the educational censoring software on the wireless. T-Mobile, however, has the most complaints I've heard of any network in terms of service - their network is a less extensive than most. I don't have any trouble in NYC, but I certainly didn't get service at my house in Tupelo, MS, and ND had issues in L.A. as well. So that's something to consider.

As to the phone itself - I really like Treos. Blackberries usually come with their own data plan that might be more expensive ($20 a month on T-Mobile) but are pretty and have a nice interface. Windows Mobile pisses me off, but that's as much because they won't let you install software on them from a Mac as anything else. Sidekicks are cool, if a bit ghettofied (and also have their own T-Mobile plans). Basically, nothing is perfect, yet - I have hopes for the second or third-gen iPhone, personally, but that will be a while, and my Treo 680 will hopefully serve me until then.