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Just a quick update.

I finally made it over to Sprint, walked in the door and showed the rep my issue when sliding the keyboard out.  Immediately she said “let me see if I have a spare battery” and disappeared into the back of the store.  A quick switch out of the battery solved the problem.

Apparently the space behind the battery is the problem.  Some of them have more of a gap than others and when any force is applied, can cause the battery to disconnect.  So I have a shiny new battery that solved a very annoying problem.

Now that I’m up and running, once I have a fully charged battery I should start with pictures and information on how it all works out.  More to come…

I have been using my new Palm Pre for about a week now and I have to say, the more I use it, the more I like it.  Really, “like” isn’t a strong enough word for it.  The look and feel of both the hardware and software are above and beyond the previous Palm models, me upgrading from a 755p.

I will do a more detailed review later, a friend should receive his new iPhone tomorrow so we’re going to pit them both against each other.

Really at this point I have just 2 main complaints.  First, the app store is still a little bare, but the SDK is still in beta.  Once it’s been properly tested and released to the public, it’s my understanding that if you can program in html, css and javascript you can program for this phone.  Apps galore should be released daily once that happens.

My second complaint is more of a glitch with my phone.  I haven’t read anything out there about it and my coworkers don’t have the same issue.  When the keyboard is returned to the its concealed position and it isn’t done gently (I have a tendency to snap it into place) the phone’s screen goes black and the phone turns off.  Now I have to wait almost 2 minutes for the phone to boot back up.  I think it’s a short somewhere, not a software update.  I just haven’t had time to take it into Sprint to see if they’ve heard anything about it.

More later…

I know I haven’t posted anything in a while.  I’ve just been really busy lately and had no time to troubleshoot and configure anything.  I downloaded and installed Windows 7.  I really like what I have seen but again, I haven’t had much time to mess with it.  It certainly looks like they’ve fixed most of the issues they were having with Vista.  I’m happy with it.  I don’t know if that means I will wind up buying it but who knows.

So I got a working setup of Glusterfs using the unify and afr settings.  I still need to make a few tweaks for performance but hey, it works.

I had to steal my dvd-rom off my other machine because the cd-rom on the frankenstein machine was crapping out on me.  I am now having to start from scratch on that machine because I was getting all types of errors.  Good news is the dvd-rom is much faster at installing.  I should be up and running in no time but with all these issues causing delays, I probably won’t get to finish it tonight.  Sorry!