Pocket PC Dive Planning Program

ArcticDiver · Oct 13, 2006

Finally did it: Threw away the old Palm bought a new "toy"; an iPaq Pocket PC. Very useful!

Now I'm going to put a dive planning program on it. I've taken a look at them over the past couple years and sort of favor VPlanner. But, I confess I haven't kept up with the latest, greatest. So, I'm open to all suggestions.

So, from those of you who use these things:

Which?
Why?
How long have you been using your choice?

rongoodman · Oct 21, 2006

Over on The Deco Stop, V-Planner seems to be the most popular. I have a new Intel based Macbook, so I installed Parallels and SUSE Linux to try it out. (I'm hoping for an OS X version some day.)

ArcticDiver · Oct 22, 2006

rongoodman:
Over on The Deco Stop, V-Planner seems to be the most popular. I have a new Intel based Macbook, so I installed Parallels and SUSE Linux to try it out. (I'm hoping for an OS X version some day.)

As a new user what do you think of it?

VPlanner and DecoPlanner seem to be the most popular. But which to choose?

rongoodman · Oct 23, 2006

I'm not really far enough along to have an opinion of V-planner itself, other than that it works. For the time being, this has been more of a computer project. Trying to get Linux to talk to my other computer via wireless and Samba has me scratching my head. For actual questions about the algorithms, I'd inquire over at The Deco Stop.

ArcticDiver · Oct 23, 2006

Thanks for the input. Nice exercise you have commited yourself to.

Actually, your opinion on ease of use is right on target for what I want to know. The algorithms themselves are both useful and as safe as anything gets in this business.

Right now I'm busy finding and installing a java program for the iPaq. So, the dive planner has taken a back seat for the moment.

rongoodman · Oct 26, 2006

Now printing remotely via CUPS, sharing files via Samba. This stuff is doable with Linux, but a heck of a lot easier with OS X. Running Linux on top of Parallels threw in a few additional twists too.

ArcticDiver · Oct 26, 2006

I'm not familiar with the particular programs you are mentioning, other than Linux. Tell me about them.

rongoodman · Oct 27, 2006

CUPS is the Common Unix Printing System. Samba is a file sharing protocol that Windows, Linux, and OS X all can use(theoretically anyway--I'm still can't see my OS X computers from Linux, although it works in the other direction.) Parallels is a virtualization program which works with the new Intel based Macs to support other x86 operating systems, such as Linux or Windows.

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