1SRC Podcast Sixteen

[Jeff Kirvin]

1SRC Chat! Mark your calendars! What's your favorite PIM? Magneto Leaked! Rumor: OS6 Clie? Not bloody likely... Tam Hanna thinks memory cards will drive current PDA makers to adopt Cobalt. I explain why he's wrong. And the Sprint Treo 650 Updater! In addition to many of the hacks that have been floating around (voice quality, etc.), this greatly improved NVFS memory use.
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[Tam Hanna]

Hi Jeff,
lets just mention that here is a way to use a part of the 4G card. The way is very simple-partition the card and have a FAT16 partition of about 2G first!
Another thing-4gig cards will come, also in SD format. Users will demand support for these in their handhelds.
And one last thing-PalmSouce modified Garnet to support 256MB of RAM-it wasn't Tapwave IMHO!
However, thank you for the mention! And always keep in mind that TamsPalm is no more Tam Hanna alone, I have a coauthor called Brad Green!

[Alan G]

"Our stock market is a consensual hallucination...that has no basis on reality..."

OMG! That what so beautiful, it brought a tear to my eye...or was that scary. Ya, I'll go with scary. If a company can be making money and still get whacked by Wall St., then they've got their heads screwed on too tight. And for the record, I did read the rant on WritingOnYourPalm *before* I listened to 'cast 16.

A note about Magneto: Anyone who's read the X-Men comic books already knows that Windows Mobile 2005 isn't anything to get excited about. Magneto is a "bad guy."

Alan G

[Cyker]

We've already had a few threads on FAT32 on OS5, and my current view is that we *could* have FAT32 support on current OS5 devices fairly simply.

CliePet has already proved it's possible to code a VFS driver; In theory, all we need os someone to code a FAT32 driver, integrate it with CP's VFS driver framework and, assuming there are aren't any other arbitary limits, we should be golden.

However, getting someone to code this is the hard part. No big dev-team is gonna touch this.
Traditionally, little bitty stuff like this tends to get picked up by elite enthusiasts like CP and Sharky, but coding a filesystem driver looks pretty darn hard.

There is some hope; Given Mobile-Stream and their success with the Landscape util, there is some possibility a small dev-team might take up the challenge in hope of duplicating that success, maybe SoftTick or MobileStream themselves...?

[PDNET]

Hello everybody, and hellooo Jeff, believe it or not “You do have a listeners in the other half of the world.” I tried to make it to the chat too, but it’s just too early Sunday morning in here :) anyway I just want it to tell you that the “Life Drive” is not a joke, it's as serious as a heart attack, and yes it has a 4GB hard drive and that’s where the name come from...