Re: [9fans] more little hardware

[Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>]

On Mar 17, 2010, at 20:13 , John Floren wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jack Johnson <knapjack@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Stuart Morrow
>> <morrow.stuart@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> However, there is one "smart" feature that for me would be useful
>>> enough that
>>> carrying a big chunky thing that lives for a quarter of a day on
>>> battery might
>>> actually be worth it, and the feature is so damn trivial to do
>>> with Plan 9 -
>>> setting/unsetting the ring tone to/from silent in a cron job.
>>
>> I would like my ringtone volume to adjust periodically to the ambient
>> noise, which also seems fairly trivial.
>>
>> What did you folks with bitsies and iPAQs find useful? Any of you
>> still packing one?
>>
>> -Jack
>
> I have fiddled with an iPAQ/bitsy on and off over the last few years.
> What's really nice about it is that you get access to a "real
> computer"; I booted wirelessly off my CPU server, which meant I had
> access to all my files and music, which was nice because the bitsy's
> sound hardware is supported. As long as you have a wireless
> connection, it's the best way to use a PDA.

can agree to that.
used it to play music too, a bit.

there was a time when I occasionally used it as small terminal,
at the university, at home, or even elsewhere,
to connect via vnc to a session running on the desktop at the office.
with a tiny font, an xterm would be big enough to read email via mh.

I also used it on occasion when diagnosing plan 9 cpu server in
the server room - it was a nice small machine to bring there.

bulky it was - I have the bigger sleeve that allows
use of two thin pcmcia cards (e.g. wifi and hard disk).

I don't know exactly why I stopped using it...
somehow the use I had for it disappeared, I guess.

Axel.