No, it won't, thanks to the FCC and their "all phones must have E911 GPS capability", you can't just activate any old CDMA phone, Pretty much ANYTHING made before 2003 cannot be used, period.
I used to work for a verizon store, and this pissed off both myself and many many customers wanting to use older phones. (Startac, LG TM510, Bag phones, etc...)
This has another side effect being that only phones that verizon sells, has sold, or are the same model as a verizon phone can be used, since they use a whitelist of GPS-capable devices.
Nice to know someone else out there is doing this:) (i've had my little history archive since around 2001 or so Here (http://intra-net1.svcc.edu/linux for the Goatse wary)
This sounds Cool, Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of 1981 Xenix;)
Also on the topic of recycling.... Why do companies throw out perfectly serviceable (but older) equipment, instead of donating it to OSS projects? (Linux,*bsd, etc...) Resulting in a tax break (charity donation), and better hardware support for the rarer machines. (since in most cases lack of support is because the maintainer doesn't have a machine to develop on...)
Hi, i have a *ton* of old dists... (Tamu (1993), Slackware 1.2,2.0,2.3, MCC 0.99plxx, 1.0, 1.2, Bogus (1993-94), also 386BSD-0.1, and netbsd-0.9-1.2.x if anyone is interested, let me know and i'll put 'em up on a ftp somewhere...)
hi, this is how i fix the macrovision (fairly easy) go to local electronics store, buy a video amplifier (about $20), connect between dvd & vcr, turn to max and it goes away (it works for me, YMMV) hope that helps
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No, it won't, thanks to the FCC and their "all phones must have E911 GPS capability", you can't just activate any old CDMA phone, Pretty much ANYTHING made before 2003 cannot be used, period.
I used to work for a verizon store, and this pissed off both myself and many many customers wanting to use older phones. (Startac, LG TM510, Bag phones, etc...)
This has another side effect being that only phones that verizon sells, has sold, or are the same model as a verizon phone can be used, since they use a whitelist of GPS-capable devices.
I also remember something about them being sent expired/defective deodorant a couple months ago..
Nice to know someone else out there is doing this :)
(i've had my little history archive since around 2001 or so Here
(http://intra-net1.svcc.edu/linux for the Goatse wary)
Slackware's rpm2tgz utility could be useful for package conversion...
(works on most/all RPM-style packages)
This sounds Cool, Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of 1981 Xenix ;)
Also on the topic of recycling....
Why do companies throw out perfectly serviceable (but older)
equipment, instead of donating it to OSS projects? (Linux,*bsd, etc...)
Resulting in a tax break (charity donation), and better hardware support for the rarer machines. (since in most cases lack of support is because the maintainer doesn't have a machine to develop on...)
Until it comes with built-in Code red IV
Hi,
i have a *ton* of old dists... (Tamu (1993), Slackware 1.2,2.0,2.3, MCC 0.99plxx, 1.0, 1.2, Bogus (1993-94),
also 386BSD-0.1, and netbsd-0.9-1.2.x
if anyone is interested, let me know and i'll put 'em up on a ftp somewhere...)
hi,
this is how i fix the macrovision (fairly easy)
go to local electronics store, buy a video amplifier (about $20),
connect between dvd & vcr, turn to max
and it goes away (it works for me, YMMV)
hope that helps
and just when i was thinking about buying DVD's again ;)