From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <7d3530221003160944q2d5ae58ci2decd9cceafebe48@mail.gmail.com> References: <4B9F5ECE.5030202@maht0x0r.net> <7340b886d9d66cd3360c823078c36233@bellsouth.net> <7d3530221003160944q2d5ae58ci2decd9cceafebe48@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:57:40 +0000 Message-ID: From: Stuart Morrow To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [9fans] more little hardware Topicbox-Message-UUID: ebb70402-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/16/10, John Floren 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