Palm with Keys

It’s not exactly news, but it’s always cool to see: the Dana, a Palm with keyboard:

An interesting alternative for those looking for a PDA with a keyboard (the stylus isn’t necessarily better than a keyboard, as Psion and HP have demonstrated several times)

The DSC-U10 is already on sale at FNAC, for around €320 (I would confirm the price, if I could find anything on their website…)

Anyone want a Firewire keychain?

Debian In The News

My sixteenth of Irish blood delights in this type of thing written with suffering good humor: However nothing, not in all my 22 years on this Earth, could prepare me for the horrors of dselect. Sweet merciful divine! Throw in some “ayes” and “oyes” (or imagine the phrase uttered by some leprechaun shaking his head), and you might get an idea. :)

An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0

Of course the zealots are already undermining the discussion (one of the most typical and stupid comments is “usability isn’t about newbies”, which demonstrates the utterly idiotic attitude of guys who think that anyone who doesn’t know how to use any given package is stupid - typical snob geek attitude), but let’s hope the article serves some purpose. Twice now I’ve started installing Debian and, exasperated, pulled out the Red Hat CDs, just because I can install exactly what I want in 15 minutes without getting annoyed (my record so far is a - minimalist - server installed in 5 minutes)…