News as of March of 2007

Sorry for not updating for so long. There have been several reasons for this. One, millions of school competitions and projects. Second, Unix problems on my machine. Third, I have been working for a while now with my new Poqet PC Plus, a DOS palmtop. It is wonderful! I have so much at my fingertips with it. It is great as it is like a palmtop, but runs DOS and everything else that runs on DOS. I use VDE, WordStar, and VisiCalc, among other things, with it. As for Unix, I have had some trouble to get to work on my Gateway, so I have had more installation problems. However, again I am sorry for not writing for so long. Good luck with Unix.

Thanks,
xatapu

The Blog

Hey Everyone,

Sorry I haven't been posting on the blog lately. There a couple reasons:

• School!
• School!
• School!
• I really don't know a lot about Unix to be truthful...
• I have a new blog! It's called How2Mac (you can find it at http://how2mac.blogspot.com/ )

Cya Later,
Harry

Poqet PC Plus Blog and News

Oh, I have some good news. Apparently UPS actually shipped my Poqet PC Plus! And on January 14, 2007! But here's the other thing: I ordered the thing on December 22, 2006!!! This company was playing games, but hopefully they shaped up. Oh well. Anyway, I will speak of the Poqet when is supposed to arrive on Thursday. I plan to mention connecting it to an updated Linux machine in the future. In addition, my other blog, which was supposed to cover my Palm III, will now cover the Poqet, and the new address (in a week or so) will be something like http://poqetplus.blogspot.com. Use that as well as my website for information on the Poqet.

New digs: Gnoppix and Repartitioning - or NetBSD

Well, I decided to go ahead with Gnoppix. I am through with NetBSD for now. Gnoppix, if you do not know, is Knoppix with a GNOME desktop environment. Now it is basically a modified version of Ubuntu, but I am using an older distribution. My plan to repartition my hard drive will take several steps. First, I will partition the hard drive under DOS (oh, well.........) and quickly install a CD-ROM driver for booting of the Gateway's CD-ROM drive. It is a Mitsumi drive, so I easily fetched a driver. Second, I may or may not upgrade the hard drive. I think I will put in a 6 GB one, since 1 GB is certainly not enough. After all, 449 MB is compressed on the CD. Third, I will test to make sure the CD is good first. Last time with NetBSD I messed up on installation twice. That eliminated X. Overall, I am glad this is possible, but it is too bad that NetBSD is acting in a bad way. Still, I may just try working more with NetBSD. I would rather be persistent than conceding.

New digs: NetBSD 3 and X

Well, recently I tried to install NetBSD 3 (3.0.1) on my Gateway. I wanted to try X on it as I have not had X ever on my Linux box. Well, things have not gone swimmingly. First, the sysinst utility did not work properly near the end of installation. Then X, which was said to have been installed, did not start up properly due to bad configuration. Hmmm. I am really confused about this one. I think I will need to repartition the hard drive and install some other distribution. Currently I am thinking about using Gnoppix.

A Poqet!, Update on Unix

I have been busy with my website at http://guofu.freeshell.org for sometime know, so I haven't gotten much time to update the blog. However, I have some news. I just got a Poqet PC Plus! It is that little DOS palmtop I mentioned once or twice. It is only 5" x 9"! It did cost $159, which is pricey, but it was worth it. I am looking forward to programming it. I will update the blog sometime in the future as well, and I have been attempting to install NetBSD 3. However, I think I may switch to Gnoppix, though. I will tell you more in other posts.