Geek stuff

[elfs]

So, I've migrated back to Firefox 1.0.7 from Firefox 1.5. Firefox 1.5 (aka "Deer Park") was too slow on my Linux laptop, which is a pretty small machine; it used (I might say abused) the canvas widget far too often, resulting in that last layer of abstraction that slows everything down to a crawl.

I also think my Palm V/m500 has finally started to show its age. Despite being reliable for the past five years, it has now crashed seemingly at random, taking all of its data with it. I'm now doing daily backups in the hopes I don't lose anything.

And I installed DOSEmu on my desktop. Is doing a full-blown emulation of an x386 with SVGA and SoundBlaster really the best way to provide access to ancient games like Powermonger and Dark Forces? I mean, other than actually running DOS, which would be, um, archaic.

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I'm still quite happily using my Visor Platinum, which isn't exactly the same vintage as your Palm, but pretty close. I've thought about upgrading, but most of the stuff on the market now just turns my stomach. It feels like they took a clean, usable design and crammed it full of check-box features... color, ARM CPU, built-in camera, SD slot, mp3 playing, all of it bolted lopsidedly onto the sagging operating system.

I'll be curious when they finally figure out what the Linux-based successor to PalmOS 6 is going to be like. Will it manage to pull everything together into an elegant whole again, or will it just be more of the same?