social-lite junkies
for all of you that can't get enough of knowing way to much about everyone else's business, things just got easier and sexier 
http://www.flock.com/
its a web browser, backended with firefox/mozilla, but they've incorporated many of the everyday social aspects of the web, and made it easy too.
their current stable is still on firefox2, but i read that the beta2 is backended with firefox3, which should make it that much better. anyhow, check it out
Tags: linux, firefox, community, browser
blackberry modem… update
so to make the process even easier for connecting to the internet, using a blackberry as the GPRS modem, on slackware, i put together the packages needed for wvdial.
after initially attempting pppd, and going with wvdial on my openSuSE work laptop, i thought i would tough it out on my personal slackware laptop, and try to work out the needed chat scripts.
BAIL,
so the SlackBuilds are wvdial and wvstreams, these are also served on subversion, so you can 'svn co' their URL.
this makes it much more easy to connect, at least with Sprint it does.
Yaah for best buy
tonight while browsing for what laptops are currently available, i see another encouragement. 
, Best Buy actually has Linux listed as an available Operating System, granted all three machines are the new Asus - Eee PC 
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give a Best Buy an encouraging pat on the back.
blackberry modem… SUCCESS!
Last night i got to nerding it up again, this time with the 8703e blackberry, work phone, and linux.
Using this howto. My blackberry service is through Sprint, so my primary difficulty was with get the pppd settings to work, not until i began scrolling through some of the comments that i found someone using wvdial instead. once i tried it, that worked on the first try. i found on the BlackBerry website, they actually recommend that you can call your service provide and ask what APN can be used. from this howto, the APN is the "wap.voicestream.com". either way should achieve the same end result.
the openmotif and openmotif-devel i was able to find in a typical SuSE-10.2 repository, but the Xlt libraries and the XmBlackBerry i had to download and compile from source, which was pretty straight forward.
if you are a slacker, i've made the SlackBuild scripts for these three packages, currently they are available here (xlt, openmotif, and xmblackberry)
cheers
vb