Well back again, lets see where i left off, <read><read><read>... ok well next its onto the list of products and the roles they fill, they are hardily originol but they fill a couple of tech niches that are very hard to come by (in hardware that covers them, damn those niches, i like my walls smooth)
anyway:
watch
Usage: Notification
Description: small, LCD or OLED. whatever i can get my hands on. bassed mainly on off the shelf tech, well basically only the screen and that will be from one of many popular phones (hell why not all of them and just write software for them, i have seen a libary or 2 that covers about6% of the screen s on the market and is Open Source)
couple of buttons, vibrator, sound screen and bluetooth. throw that together with 16MB of ram (depends on the chip,perhaps soome more. depends if we want netBSD or linux on this thing, with netbsd i would give it 8MB) some flash and you are done
PDA
Usage: Text entry and "hevier" client machine capable of operating independentlly and interfacinng to a HMD for those "thin client" solutions and authhentication, syncing
description: this is the project we have talked about so far, nothing more really to see here except in the context of how it inteeracts with everything else. i really intend for it to be able to leveerage the thin client stuff but in a very diffrent way
it represents you, it holds your data, your bookmars your profile and authuentication (think secure sign on/2 factor authentication "somthing you have") with a cvs server or simmilar to keep track of it all and some heavy syncing capabilities to connect and keep synced your watch and laptop
the thhin clieent stuff comes throgh in the form of a program that i have written a couple of lines for but have mainly been polishing the ideas. its an ENV or enviromnt varible "keeper" there are 2 problems i have had with diffrent shells bieng open, ONE: copy and paste dosent work between them (see VT vs screen vs KDE vs Gnome, but i have a program for that now as well and its network enabled nothing like copyiing and pastinng over a network over ssh) and my enviromental varibles are always diffrent on a sessin by session basis that diveriges the longer i use said terminaals
now if you had a user deamon that synced up any changes to your enviroment i think that would be handy (as i modify my path alot when working with cross compilers) espesially if it was spread over several machines so that your X settings and DISPLAY vaaribles were automatically set up when you switched computers, VVNC does a nice job annd i would prefer it but it emulates a framme buffer and dosent do rootless windows (ass its a frame buffer) meaning it runs all apps in a window instead off looking like a native app. this is a prablem in HMD as the dispplay has to be transperent and that would mean i would have to hack a couple of programs rather than just X
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laptop
Usage: heavy lifting, main "grunt" faster text entry data repository
Description: well we have all seen that new geade laptop on the market so itts basically that, with a twist or two when it comes to graphics to do a bit of dual core trickery. it will have upgradable memeroy i hope so you can use laptop mem or it will just come in 2-3 flavors, 256MB 512MB and 10024MB. i like ram because it caches, microsoft may be going to flash and i can see some advantages but i belive RAM and "laptop" mode is a better option
it will be small, it will be well laid out but it will do thhe "long haul" data comms voice will be left to the PDA while this thing will hopefully do WiiBro and better wifi (N, multi mmode, dual recivers, i havent really decided yet. its a long way off)
this iis the main "eco system" the acsessories are more of an after thoght as they require alot less comitment and so far we only have the mouse/pointer/button thingy but i suspect there will be more
taking ab reak again, expect part 2 in a couple of minutes talkinng about how this all comes together
