DaBuzz wrote in to send us a release about Samsung's credit card MP3 player. This one has 40megs of storage, and while we reported it once before, this link comments that it should make an appearance in America soon.

Raz wrote in to say "Several days ago there was an article about cheap Dec alphas on Slashdot, here is an review by someone that bought one & tested both NT 4.0 and Red Hat Linux on it. " It might be of some interest to note that the machine being dealt with here is almost identical to the one that ran Slashdot for the first 6 months of its existance.

crashwilliams writes "Donna Dubinsky and Jeff Hawkins, people behind the PalmPilot have a new company, Handspring. See their press release. Their first product will be out end of next year. To bad I would have love to it out before Christmas!!"

Josh Arnold writes in with this crazy idea: "I recently spray painted my keyboard a nice chrome color, however (as one might expect) the paint it already starting to be worn off the keys. I also intend to paint my monitor and cpu case, so I want to get this right =) I'm wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to make this work. Perhaps some extra protective coating that could be applied, or maybe I just need to bake it in the oven <grin>?" Kids, only do this with proper supervision (grabbing the nearest person interested will suffice...)

Per-Arne Hellarvik submitted this question: "I have a (it seems) unusual internal PnP ISDN card, the Diamond Netcommander ISDN/EC. I've read somewhere that someone was trying to get some specs on the chipset from Diamond Multimedia, but that is some time ago. Can you tell me if there is support for this card in Linux, or if there is someone how know of a driver for this card??" Let me just say that Diamond has a bad record for releasing theyr hardware specs for their video line, and I have doubts that they'll treat their ISDN line any differently, although it would be nice if they started offering open specs so everyone can use, what would be decent hardware.

biggles writes "Seagate have announced new 50 Gb Barracuda drives. Nuff said :) " Not quite... my math says a 50 gig drive can hold close to a month's worth of MP3s...

Dougal Watt submitted this question "I have implemented a RedHat 5.1 based DNS server for an intranet, and want to install a mirrored drive array into it in case of drive failure. Does any one know a good controller/array solution?" Does someone have answers?

A whole bunch of you have written in about multiple monitor (multi-headed) support in Linux. Is it possible? What's involved? Who supports it? These are all interesting questions, and one person made a point of noting that Windows could do it, and couldn't find out how to do it on Linux. There's also a nifty project in the works involving Linux and a "video wall"! Click below for more...

David R. Miller writes "How would you like to have your own DEC Alpha system for $99.00. Sounds too good to be true? Well check it out here."

mschmitt sent us a link to a wired article where you can read about Microsoft trying to buy out 3com's PalmOS to help advance CE ahead of PalmOS. 3com said no. The world rejoiced.

strredwolf writes "If you didn't know already, the first edition of PalmPilot: The Ultimate Guide from O'Reilly has been out, giving some good items on our coolest palm computer. However, there's no Unix/Linux information(only Mac & Win95/NT)! Tim of O'Reilly, however, wants to put some Unix PalmPilot info into the Second Edition of the book, but needs help from the community." Wouldn't mind seeing that one myself.

miket wrote in to send us a link to a page or Oracle's website where you can read about Oracle Lite. Versions will be available at the end of October for both Wince and the Pilot. It's only the client (duh) but it still might be a fun toy- if you can access your server wirelessly.

sariman writes " link Friend of mine sent me to this link where you can purchase a clear plam III case ($44.95) and clear cover ($9.95). " A related story was sent in by oblio who writes "What all of us PalmPilot nerds have been waiting for... to be able to change the channel on our TV's. Pacific Neotek has supposively perfected the technology. I don't know about you... but it's what I've been waiting for. =] "

Dennis Burke writes "For those fans of the PalmPilot out there, Qualcomm has just announced the pdQ, which combines a PalmPilot with the Q-phone " It's not shipping 'til the first half of 1999, so don't ask Santa for one. But it looks excellent. Its only a matter of time before the wireless networkable PDA becomes a reality, this is a nice baby step.

Harry McKee sent us a good story about a new handheld maker that is going to try and undercut the Pilot. Here's the good news-cheaper price, same processor, and no WinCEing to be done. It will be using a different scripting language, called DaVinci. For more info from the company, Royal, check this story out. And well, hopefully this forces Pilot prices down.

Rob Davenport wrote in to tell us that news.com has an article about the next generation of the reigning pda champion. Color, lithium ion battery, more memory, smaller. It's a bit more expensive, but man, color Pilots. Yummy.

While I know that ICQ isn't exactly the darling of the hardcore community, it still is pretty interesting that Mirablis has a client for the Pilot. Thanks to Craig Maloney for sending this in. I guess when the Linux port is done, I could try to compile BitchX...

Motorola, the Palm unit at 3Com and PageMart of Canada have announced an alliance to bring wireless messaging to the Palm later on this summer. Very cool stuff-looks like it will be in an seperate card. The service, which uses a paging card co-designed by Motorola's Flex Architecture Solutions Division and PageMart, will be launched Canada-wide in mid-August.

Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky will leave 3Com on Monday, the San Jose Mercury reports. Apparently, the two are leaving on good terms, and are going to found a new company that will eventually license PalmOS. Hmm, more PalmOS clones. Also of interest to PalmPilot lovers like myself is the long-awaited PalmPilot Pager, which upgrades your PalmPilot to 2MB of RAM, and PalmOS 3, too. It's finally here.

Michael Heldebrant writes "New OS upgrades for Palm Pilots: 3.0.1 and 2.0.5 downloadable at PilotGear and officially from Palmpilot.com. changelist is on the html pages, mostly PPP fixes. " Possibly even more interesting is a story that Yoz sent us. He says. "Cool news for people wanting to do serious DB stuff for everyone's favourite PDA... it's only 150k, there's a Java API to it, and it'll be out within the next couple of weeks."