>Palm Pilot? Except as a nifty little phone book, aren't those
>basically useless?
That's mostly what I use mine for -- that and appointments. Which
was irritating in the hospital, because I couldn't find phone numbers
and calling card numbers.
Actually, my cardiologist uses his in ways we might want to look at
for networking. He has it maxed out on memory, and also has some
reference books on ROM. He can, for example, pull up drug doses and
also check for drug interactions.
It isn't hard for me to picture putting the IOS command reference,
perhaps some lists of ports and addresses, error codes, etc. on a
pocket-sized device.
I vaguely remember someone saying they had configured one as a TFTP
server through the serial port. Not sure how much memory you could
put in one.
On a somewhat related note, the Navy has been working with putting
documentation on CD-ROM, and putting it in a Walkman-style player
connected to a heads-up display. This has the advantages of reducing
what often are tons of documentation carried on shipboard, and also
allowing hands-free use of documentation. It's hard to turn pages
inside a boiler. Hands-free is the next generation of hands-on.
>
>
>>From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Reply-To: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: My UPS is up and running
>>Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 10:07:51 -0400
>>
>>Thanks, everyone, for the all of the expressions of concern. I am
>>now on high-availability battery backup, with my pacemaker installed
>>and running Heart Standby Routing Protocol. Hospital from hell, but
>>the results seem good, and I will see the sane and computer-literate
>>cardiologist today. He's the one that went into shock when I told
>>him the nurses refused to let me have my Palm Pilot. His comment was
>>that if anyone did that to him, he wasn't sure he could survive.
>>
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