From: Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@googlemail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:57:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c85efc901003170657t6a6464c8h4a8b591b9c05e823@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7d3530221003160944q2d5ae58ci2decd9cceafebe48@mail.gmail.com>
On 3/16/10, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> Shame it doesn't have a cell phone radio built in, or Ron and I might
> have just what we needed for the 9phone.
I'm been using the same phone since 2003 - the only phone I've ever owned -
so I obviously don't care (or know) much about "smart phones". I don't even
send texts, only regular voice calls. I do receive texts.
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 don't know if other phones provide that feature but I've never heard
it mentioned.
Bonus feature, just because it's so trivial to do on a Plan 9 phone:
cat /dev/eia0 | awk -v 'RS=whateverNMEAuses' '
($longfield "," $latfield == "xxx,yyy"){print "off"}' > /dev/ringctl
Or more realistically, because you don't walk over the exact same spot
all the time:
'nearenough($longfield "," $latfield, "xxx,yyy"){print "toggle"}'
stu
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 13:57 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
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
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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