Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/lesson-learned-again

Comment #1733

2007-10-12T06:26:35Z

I'm not much for busting things with sledgehammers, but yes, I do like taking things apart, particularly those that are already broken, because then I can't do any damage.

Just need some time to take a look at it.

Peter - that might be useful. Heather and I have been trying to figure out what is the right solution. It is handy to have the Palm Pilot on trips, but other than that, it doesn't need to be portable, so we could probably figure out a way around buying batteries for the palm pilot all the time for just those couple occasions a year when we want it. I suppose since I carry my laptop everywhere now, I could just store things on there. Or store them on the internet, and sync them to the laptop sometimes. I started looking into LDAP, but didn't get very far.

Comment #1732

2007-10-11T23:40:59Z

Another generally good gadgetary idea:

If it stops working, why not bust it with a sledgehammer?

Comment #1731

2007-10-11T23:36:18Z

A generally good gadgetary idea:

If it stops working, why not take it apart?

Comment #1730

2007-10-11T14:37:30Z

Jon, I have an old Handspring you can have if you need it. It worked last time I checked.

Comment #1729

2007-10-11T13:55:11Z

It appears our PDA (Handspring Solo) is completely dead. I'll take it apart to see, but I have tried all the paperclip tricks, even doing the more extravagant resets with holding the power button, and down and up arrows, etc.

Is isn't even that useful as a boat anchor, at least not for reasonably sized boats.

I did purposely buy the cheapest one I could find that was still like a palm pilot, ie. not the cheaper, organizer types, since I had gotten tired of them breaking. This one lasted a while, though still not as long as I'd like.

The cleaning lady at my office and I were talking about computers, and she said she had a "really old" computer at home and she was wondering if she would be able to get one of the old computers in my office when I left. Her definition of old is "4 or 5 years", and my definition of old is more like 10.

Comment #1728

2007-10-11T10:20:04Z

Just to show its solidarity with the PDA, my cell phone decided to freeze up last night -- on, not off, but not responsive. (I don't think it's based on Windows....) I was in the car at the time and couldn't do anything about it except contemplate removing the battery when I got home. After a few minutes it came back to life on its own, however. For now.

Comment #1727

2007-10-11T10:17:45Z

Good for your memories! I'll repeat what I said about backups and Plans B, in hopes of remembering it myself. I know I really need to memorize more phone numbers, having become very lazy about that lately. Actually, it's part laziness and part everyone's having so many numbers now.

My PDA once or twice froze up like that and I had to do the paper clip reset thing and then restore from the desktop ap.

Comment #1726

2007-10-10T20:54:57Z

Our PDA decided to completely die on us. First, we left it without batteries for too long, then Jon got a shaky restore from the extra memory card and we thought we were good. Then, on our way to Canada, he said, what's the best way to.... And the little machine refused to turn on. Jon thought it was the batteries, but we had just put new in. We bought some at a convenience store, but still it wouldn't turn on. Guess what? We made it to our destination from memory. hooray! ANyway, this should be in a post on our blog about our vacation, so I'll stop here.