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.