I did run into one little snag, there was not a RSS entry for my first blog entry, and had to create a file by hand to import. Can't wait to here you feed back.

HELP US TO BETTER UNDERSTAND YOUR TECHNOLOGY NEEDS BY ANSWERING THIS QUESTIONNAIRE.

Other than your PC, which device do you use to check e-mail?
Wireless handheld
Cell phone with Internet access
All of the above
None, I check e-mail only with my PC

There have been many rumors swirling around for the last few months with Dell. The first one I heard was about Dell switching over to phone devices as many other manufactures are doing or looking into. A indication of this trend is the announcement of HTC having a State side office. Then there is the flip-flop stance on the discontinuing of Axim line. After reading this article about a Dell UMPC device, it continues to make you wonder exactly what is going on over at Dell. I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

I was experencing some seriouse lag a good prtion of the time. Scouring for a reason for this lag I found some great information over at AximSite Forums about issues about devices that were upgraded from PocketPC 2003SE to Windows Mobile 5 about a little known issue with the 'Compaction Thread' (MS Blog). This can be saved for another post, another time.

Anyway back to the story, the hard reset is alright because it forced me to clear out all the old programs and re-verify the ones I could remember did work with WM5. I run quite a bit of SPB Software, WebIS Software, and PHM Software which I have found mostly to work or updated to work with Windows Mobile 5. So continuing on with my quest of being able to get True VGA working on my iPAQ I stumbled accross this great artical on 4WinMobile about a update to oZ_VGA that works with WM5. I would highly recommend this if you want more screen realistate for you VGA WM5 devices. As I did not do, make sure to turn off the Startup Password just in case the settings do not take the first time, or you will be doing a hard reset and rebuilding you device like I did.

UPDATE (05/06/2006 05:47):At first the new MSN would only load every other time. So I decided to try another computer and that one continued to load the old site. The new site can be viewed at beta.msn.com. In my searching I have also stumbled across the much updated MSN Search page, where you can actually tweak your search results, just click Search Builder and then Results Ranking, come on give it a try.

(Source: …DS Lite price, shipping date – arsTechnica)

I have been making a concerted effort and find more things to blog about, and hope to post more often. Visit The AnderNaut Dev site, which is where the new home of the AnderNaut will be. I have also linked to it from the BlogCall over in the side bar.

As always thank you for visiting and for you patronage, and many happy returns.

TTFN

Nitestrike

Seagate has announced a 750GB hard drive. The Barracuda 7200.10 will be an SATA drive, with 8MB or 16MB cache, and a 5 year warranty. Suggest retail price is set to be $559.  Now that is a huge jump the largest I have seen is 500GB. This huge jump is due to a new technology called Perpendicular Recording, acquired when Seagate bought it's competitor Maxtor. Perpendicular Recording is when the the bits on a drive's platter(s) are recorded vertically instead of in the horizontal position allowing for greater density on each platter.

This looks to be a promisingstep to the capacity we will be needing with all the media that will be buying in the near future. And as for my friend the Library Despot inquiring as to me preordering the drive, it's a bit too steep to buy two.

(Source: Brain Age minireview:… – ArsTechnica)