I just got call tags sent so that I can return mine to ATT. The phone is good. It has good rf performance, better than my T68i. But... It claims to be bluetooth audio, but doesn't work with any bluetooth headset but Nokias. It only works with the bluetooth 'handsfree' profile, not the headset profile that most bluetooth headsets obviously support.
It does synch over bluetooth with outlook, but the alarm for calendar events is fixed. You can't shut it off without silencing the whole phone (or turning it off). I was awakened at midnight the other night by an alarm for my mom's birthday. I like my mom and all, but that sucks. I want to be able to have just visual alarms for calendar events.
For $150, it's a nice phone, it just has a few issues. I'll wait for the P800 to be available through ATT. For now, I really do like my old T68i better.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the other funder besides Echostar and Gilat was, drumroll please...
Yeah, Microsoft. That might relate to some of the linux stuf:-) I think there are performance hoggability reasons why they might not want an open source driver too.
Starband and Echostar are not only not related, they are now pretty much competitors. Echostar was one of the original funders of Starband. After the annoucement of the pending merger between Echostar and Hughes (DirecTV, DirecPC), Echostar severed their Starband ties. This left Starband without a way to bill, and forced them into Chapter 11. Legal stuff ensued.
I don't believe that Starband and Echostar R&D were related. Starband's technology comes from Gilat.
I think this is the kind of question Alton loves to answer.
Recipes always call for you to boil cold water. I'm too impatient for that. I like to start with hot water. I can imagine that an old water heater would let the water sit there for a while, and might get extra "junk" in it. I bet newer ones circulate the water better. Plus, I'm boiling the friggin water anyway. There's not going to be any live bacteria in it.
Can I please continue to boil hot water?
PS. I still want to see you do a standing back flip like Jamie Oliver.
Does putting a URL without making it a link (so that it has to be cut and pasted) count as linking? It's splitting hairs, but it's just conveying info that way, not linking...
If they came out with a CD ROM with the 120 MB of data, plus a small search engine, I'd buy it. It'd be nice to have, plus it would be that much more secure for history if it were well distributed.
Also, with the data sitting in one place (is it really?) it would give a '1337-h4x0r' the chance to literally re-write some history.
I guess that 120 MB doesn't include the alt.binaries groups, but it probably includes alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork
As a linux newbie, I guess I don't get the bloat thingy. I'm posting this from a P166 laptop with 80 mb of ram, a 2G hard disk, and a wireless lan card. I originally tried to upgrade this laptop from win95 to winme. It didn't work.
I found out that the latest windows operationg system that supports this hardware is win95. So, I decided to give linux a try. I downloaded mandrake, burnt the iso image, made a boot floppy, and loaded linux. Mandrake got the right video, the funky mouse, lan setup and all on the first try. I still have 700mb of the 2g disk free.
This is a fairly old system to use for anything. I'd say that the base mandrake install is light enough. Would I be better off with 1 GB free than 700 MB?
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I just got call tags sent so that I can return mine to ATT. The phone is good. It has good rf performance, better than my T68i. But... It claims to be bluetooth audio, but doesn't work with any bluetooth headset but Nokias. It only works with the bluetooth 'handsfree' profile, not the headset profile that most bluetooth headsets obviously support.
It does synch over bluetooth with outlook, but the alarm for calendar events is fixed. You can't shut it off without silencing the whole phone (or turning it off). I was awakened at midnight the other night by an alarm for my mom's birthday. I like my mom and all, but that sucks. I want to be able to have just visual alarms for calendar events.
For $150, it's a nice phone, it just has a few issues. I'll wait for the P800 to be available through ATT. For now, I really do like my old T68i better.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the other funder besides Echostar and Gilat was, drumroll please...
:-) I think there are performance hoggability reasons why they might not want an open source driver too.
Yeah, Microsoft. That might relate to some of the linux stuf
Starband and Echostar are not only not related, they are now pretty much competitors. Echostar was one of the original funders of Starband. After the annoucement of the pending merger between Echostar and Hughes (DirecTV, DirecPC), Echostar severed their Starband ties. This left Starband without a way to bill, and forced them into Chapter 11. Legal stuff ensued.
I don't believe that Starband and Echostar R&D were related. Starband's technology comes from Gilat.
I think this is the kind of question Alton loves to answer.
Recipes always call for you to boil cold water. I'm too impatient for that. I like to start with hot water. I can imagine that an old water heater would let the water sit there for a while, and might get extra "junk" in it. I bet newer ones circulate the water better. Plus, I'm boiling the friggin water anyway. There's not going to be any live bacteria in it.
Can I please continue to boil hot water?
PS. I still want to see you do a standing back flip like Jamie Oliver.
Does putting a URL without making it a link (so that it has to be cut and pasted) count as linking? It's splitting hairs, but it's just conveying info that way, not linking...
If they came out with a CD ROM with the 120 MB of data, plus a small search engine, I'd buy it. It'd be nice to have, plus it would be that much more secure for history if it were well distributed.
Also, with the data sitting in one place (is it really?) it would give a '1337-h4x0r' the chance to literally re-write some history.
I guess that 120 MB doesn't include the alt.binaries groups, but it probably includes alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork
The real trick is to get your neighbor to turn up his power so you don't have to buy your own...
As a linux newbie, I guess I don't get the bloat thingy. I'm posting this from a P166 laptop with 80 mb of ram, a 2G hard disk, and a wireless lan card. I originally tried to upgrade this laptop from win95 to winme. It didn't work.
I found out that the latest windows operationg system that supports this hardware is win95. So, I decided to give linux a try. I downloaded mandrake, burnt the iso image, made a boot floppy, and loaded linux. Mandrake got the right video, the funky mouse, lan setup and all on the first try. I still have 700mb of the 2g disk free.
This is a fairly old system to use for anything. I'd say that the base mandrake install is light enough. Would I be better off with 1 GB free than 700 MB?