From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Aug 9 15:42:44 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA18736 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 15:42:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.webspan.net (root@mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18723 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 15:42:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id SAA01246; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:42:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970608) with ESMTP id SAA09180; Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:42:37 -0400 (EDT) To: "Gary T. Corcoran" cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: Apple Newton MessagePad In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 09 Aug 1997 15:28:03 EDT." <33ECC4C3.4C4EF3C2@idt.net> Date: Sat, 09 Aug 1997 18:42:37 -0400 Message-ID: <9178.871166557@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk "Gary T. Corcoran" wrote in message ID <33ECC4C3.4C4EF3C2@idt.net>: > > I'm partial to the PalmPilot, from US Robotics. It lacks a lot of > > features compared to the latest Newtons or Windows CE (whatever the heck > > that means) palm computers ^^ > "Compact Edition" Wanna hear something funny? It's impossible to turn of WINS resolution on the Windows CE platform. Unlike its bigger brother, Win95, you can't make it do proper DNS resolution (this is 2nd hand from a convo one of tech support had with M$ tech support). Kinda makes Windows CE a bit broken for dialing into most ISPs :( Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info