Journaling again

The last post I made was shortly before starting the process of buying a house and moving cities. It has been a few months, but it seems like longer. Heh. Currently I'm working at another helpdesk, started the job a few weeks ago. Sitting at a desk all day has the advantage of giving me lots of time to get blogging, research, and other "personal development" etc done. ;) The job is pretty cool, the people are fun, management is supportive, it pays well, and I might even get to move up in the world in the future. I'm certainly not complaining. Besides, I have a mortgage, bills and a tech toy habit to feed so the $$ is appreciated.

Finally finally got the Zaurus to sync with my Linux PC. I'm using the scripts from KEffective to do the syncing. I'm also using KA-Pi (which stands for KAddressbook Platform Independant) and Kontact-Pi on the Linux box, on the Z and my Winderz box at work. It is a thing of beauty - using the same applications on all 3 platforms, and syncing to the full blown Kontact on the Linux side.

As a side note on the Z, I was looking around Sharp's website yesterday. I note that they still don't have much in the way of support for their PDA's, the bastids. The driver software needed for the SL-5600 that I own still can't be found for love or money on the Net anywhere, it only exists on the CD that comes with the unit. The only software on Sharp's own website is for the SL5500. The SL-6000 was released last year, mine was released in 2003, and they still don't have any software or much the in way of any sort of support on their website for them. When you click on the links for downloads for either the 5600 or 6000 they lead you to the 5500 downloads which are circa 2002 and don't really work for the newer models. Come ON Sharp, are you just pissing on your US market for kicks & giggles?

I really like my Z, but whenever I get around to replacing it, I'm going to get another Linux based PDA, perhaps a Palm when their Linux based PDA comes out. I want to have Bluetooth and a wireless NIC inside like the rest of the PDA world. Some other options are

• Acer n20 and n20w - according to this ZDNet review it runs PocketPC OS by M$ - no thanks!
  
• Compaq iPAQ 3900 - HP's current PDA's all seem to be Pocket PC these days. How old is this site anyway? Scrub it, more research later.