From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:57:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8D30583A-4B3A-42D2-AC70-CC72E450EE1E@cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7D467150-3812-40B7-9180-B660CE35B922@cs.utwente.nl>
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> 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.
>
Sorry to spam a bit more, but memory is returning...
I wrote:
> 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.
I also used it to play games (sudoku, rush hour)
> 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.
and there was also the issue that suspend/resume was
not working for me, if I remember well
(though it has been working for others - did it work for you, John?)
and thus battery life was rather limited, unless I would
shutdown/reboot every time, which was less convenient.
Axel.
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Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-16 10:34 maht
2010-03-16 14:54 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 16:44 ` John Floren
2010-03-16 16:17 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 19:35 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-16 19:46 ` John Floren
2010-03-17 4:03 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-17 4:50 ` ron minnich
2010-03-17 14:38 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-18 6:59 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-18 8:04 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-18 9:24 ` Gabriel Díaz
2010-03-18 14:36 ` David Leimbach
2010-03-18 15:42 ` Jorden Mauro
2010-03-24 22:28 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-28 14:33 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-18 12:46 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-18 14:27 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-16 21:02 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-16 23:38 ` ron minnich
2010-03-16 23:47 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-17 9:05 ` Charles Forsyth
2010-03-17 14:02 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-17 9:35 ` hugh
2010-03-17 15:08 ` ron minnich
2010-03-17 2:05 ` David Arnold
2010-03-17 11:11 ` maht
2010-03-17 13:57 ` Stuart Morrow
2010-03-17 18:06 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-17 19:13 ` John Floren
2010-03-17 19:49 ` Axel Belinfante
2010-03-17 19:57 ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2010-03-17 20:11 ` John Floren
2010-03-18 6:53 ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-16 16:53 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-16 17:10 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-16 16:33 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 18:20 ` ron minnich
2010-03-16 19:24 ` blstuart
2010-03-16 17:12 ` Jack Johnson
2010-03-16 17:52 Jonas Amoson
2010-03-16 17:24 ` blstuart
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