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The type of touch screen that uses styli is different from the type that uses fingertips. The most you could do is use your fingernails, which would work in the same manner as a stylus. So it is a matter of completely different hardware being used and not a matter of changing the software...

At the current point in development, everybody who has preordered has essentially funded nearly the entirety of the R&D for the project. The developers are probably a little in the red, having put some of their own money into it in addition and a lot of their time, effectively being unpaid. I...

I "had a guy" who could get my mortgage processed in under three weeks. That was in July, and it looks like I might get it in October. You can't just rely on a random promise that a presumably time-consuming task will magically go faster than usual. You have to assume that it will take the...

Heh, the version I'm primarily using is the one from kde3.5, which is Kate 2.5.7, and that's from 2005. It's a do-everything editor, and as with all do-everything programs, it is pretty darn likely that the program may have had the capability you were looking for, but it simply wasn't obvious...

For what's it's worth, code highlighting in kate works on a plugin basis, too. You download (or create/edit) xml files that describe the highlighting. Heck, version 2.5 allowed you to download new highlighting schemas from their Settings dialog. I don't know why, but they seem to have...

Wow, this one's pretty nice. The extra storage isn't too important -- two SD slots beat out one microSD slot and higher internal flash -- but 512MB is my memory sweet spot. Screen has much higher resolution than Pandora ([1024x600] / [800x480] = +60%). The actual killer for me is that Pandora...

I imagine that he'd be more likely to go the Beagleboard + stand-along peripherals route here. BTW, from that UX380 link.... the word "ultra portable" word "ultra portable" It looks like Sony is also redefining the word "word". :D

For giggles? I have IE6 on my SuSE machine and Konqueror on my Windows box. Most of my browsing is in the form of opera running over ssh on a desktop computer less powerful than this little handheld we're all waiting for. :D

Hey, I just noticed the "will the software run ... with 128MB RAM". Isn't this out of date, or is there a running assumption that the software should be runnable on a 128MB RAM desktop computer in order to work on a 256MB RAM portable because swap is likely unavailable on the latter?

I would be surprised if there weren't a front-end like urpmi/rpmdrake or apt-get/synaptic. Apps that do the pack mule labour for installing new stuff (instead of the user having to go through hoops) is sort of the bread and butter of the Linux world. There's a USB port, so if the drivers are...

The nice thing, I suspect, is that there's a pretty sizable chunk out of that hundred who would volunteer their spot without a second thought. Some may go for the reward of immediate gratification, but a lot of buyers would be happy to show that they're part of the community and want to benefit...

Much like mindlord, I am repeating my post from the unofficial blog (with italics at the actual solution, which is based on faith in the community nature of this project yet still allows the OP team to escape with their honour intact, and one typo fixed): "The first one hundred people to give...

Iirc, the battery has a slide-out cover. On the Nintendo Wii, there are occasional accessories (most of them some form of charging system) where you simply replace the battery cover with a third-party cover that adds functionality. So one option is an after-market battery cover replacement...

Of course, now we're all spoiled and will be expecting megaton announcements at the rate of one per day.

That doesn't seem to make sense. Aren't you only pushing the patent laws if you have patent-encumbered *codecs* installed? Tons of completely FOSS distros come preinstalled with mplayer or xine and a ton of codecs, just not the specific ones that they can't legally include.

This sounds familiar, too (and it'd let me alt-drag a window without needing three hands!). What was the solution for middle-clicking? The good, ol' two-button emulation?

Oh, here it is: http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa99/MWeston_2007/Pandora_mike3.jpg It looks fairly similar to the final layout, except for the alternates for Fn(H), Fn(J) and Sh(1). It claims also that Shoulder L is Compose, Shoulder R is AltGr, button Y is left-click, button X is...

I am content with this. I saw a mockup long, long ago where I believe one of the shoulder buttons was acting as a Compose key. Does that reflect the final, default settings or was that just a wishlist jpeg? And if the latter, will the shoulder buttons be easy to map to Compose (that is, does...

For Linux or BSD, if you don't need an entire desktop forwarded (just, say, individual windows), it is a great option to use ssh with X forwarding (or just X forwarding the old fashioned way). I just ran neverball and extreme tuxracer (simultaneously) over ethernet (100mbps, not wireless, mind)...

No talented GUI designer would design an interface that looks like XP. ...maybe XP in Classic mode ;P