From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <7D467150-3812-40B7-9180-B660CE35B922@cs.utwente.nl> From: Axel Belinfante To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-Reply-To: <7d3530221003171213p392d5c84uc939b397977d6b52@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:49:47 +0100 References: <4B9F5ECE.5030202@maht0x0r.net> <7340b886d9d66cd3360c823078c36233@bellsouth.net> <7d3530221003160944q2d5ae58ci2decd9cceafebe48@mail.gmail.com> <6e35c0621003171106k361970eewb9c752fe3ca7eeab@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530221003171213p392d5c84uc939b397977d6b52@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware Topicbox-Message-UUID: ec167a5e-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mar 17, 2010, at 20:13 , John Floren wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Jack Johnson > wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Stuart Morrow >> 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.