Posts by bill stiller

Finally some QUALITY apps for Android: PalmOS emulator ported

Re: Heaven

Sounds like you're on a reasonably sized tablet. If that was the case for me then the touchscreen keyboard would be fine. I'm talking about a 4.5 inch smart phone where the touchscreen keyboard with my fat fingers is 'hit and miss' at best.

Just needed a leaf from the Palm

What I always missed from PalmOS was that I had become comfortable using graffiti as a keyboard replacement. But graffiti is available as a stand alone app for android. So that's all I needed.

US county named 'area of outstanding natural stupidity'

Re: I disagree with your assessment

Just to set the record straight: thankfully, the girl did not die. She was shot in the abdomen hitting several organs, but after six weeks in the hospital and several operations, she is now home and the prognosis is for a full recovery.

http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2012/apr/03/amina-returning-to-bremerton-today/

Google strips Pirate Bay homepage from search results

Use Yahoo

I stopped using google and went back to yahoo years ago. Yahoo has piratebay.org is at the top of the listings.

Sun shares sink as IBM deal breaks down

As far as I know...

Sun already outsources their IT to CSC as of a few years ago.

Apple cripples Sun's open source jewel

where's the meat ?

Dtrace on a desktop operating system is pretty much a 'who cares' deal. Serious performance analysis on an enterprise server is where it counts.

So, what's the velocity of a sheep in a vacuum?

Title

oops.... make that 1.80262 Trillion furlongs/fortnight.....

another standard

I've always been fond of the speed of light: 1.80262 furlongs/fortnight