The NSA manual is amazingly useful. Particularly when you're running NeXTStep 3.3 on an HP PA-RISC system and are trying to connect it to not only a linux box, but a few macs and a small netware network. It's quite suprising how well NeXTStep fits in this environment.
I wasn't suggesting that FireWire should replace bluetooth - but that bluetooth on the iPod should go the way of a module that plugged into the firewire port. I love the firewire connection, when I got my iPod I was amazed at the time it took to copy 4Gb of data.
GPRS? in the UK? Ha! Only in a very small area - outside of London there's no chance (reminds me of DSL connections 'outside of London there's no chance")
I happened to speak to Tele2 a few weeks ago and was told that they'd be moving from an IP based service (for home users) to a NAT based service. Their intention is to stop the large number of home users that are using tele2 as a cheap way of running various servers from the comfort of their own homes. They said that business users will be staying with static IP addresses. However home users would be able to upgrade to a static IP for a further monthly charge.
BTW I got this from one of their engineers (not one of their sales people whose IQ are low enough to make McDonalds staff seem like geniuses)
For the last 3 years BT has been telling me that my local exchange would be set up for DSL 'by september this year' So you can imagine my surprise when I contacted them a couple months ago to find that the part of the city I live in (Bradford, BTW) is classed as a 'rural area' (yes I can see fields from here but they're a good few miles away - and I'm only 10 minutes away from the city centre) I'm in the suburbs for gods sake! Yet if I lived on the opposite side of the city to where I am now, broadband is available almost right the way out to the bloody farms!
Anywho my option extend slightly further but they're still a f*cking joke
- "Wireless Broadband" (broadband my arse!) by Tele2 which is only slightly faster than a dial up modem and needs line of sight to one of their base stations. Then they have the balls to charge £40 per month - plus the connection doesn't give you an IP address, they run the whole thing using NAT
- Cable Modem, courtesy of TeleWest or NTL - but here's the big joke; Yes I can have a cable modem, but only if I pay for them to come and dig up the road outside my house and put a connection in to our nearest cable exchange box (it's about 60 feet from where I'm sitting). Last time I contacted the bastards they quoted £1700 for installation. And why do it cost so much? Why? because the street I live on (it's more of a cart track really) isn't owned by the local council, if it was owned by the council they'd install a cable modem for about £40 - f*cking ridiculous!
"Broadband Britian"? What a fucking joke. I'll second that!
The fact that you mention a bluetooth connection is interesting. Apple hasn't any products that make use of Bluetooth, other than the USB adapter. So far it only has two uses: 1) To connect to a cell phone to use it as a modem (I'm a not a big fan of 9Kbps connections but maybe someone, somewhere, is) or 2) to sync a bluetooth PDA, but when most come with a USB docking station - or failing that a usb connection cable (that'll suck less power out of your palm than a bluetooth module) I don't see any real benefit - pther than one less cable on the desk
Bluetooth would be a pretty useful feature on the iPod, it could be used for sending small chunks of data to it from your Mac (or PC once windows support arrives) such as vCards. Or it could be used for a remote control - such as the one that Griffin (http://www.griffintechnology.com) recently previewed.
Better yet would be a remote of the variety supplied with some Kenwood audio equipment - featuring a large LCD status display and a few buttons. It's what users that connect their iPod to a hifi system really need. I'd be quite happy with what would, in effect, be a second screen for my iPod acting as a remote control via bluetooth - maybe it's just a pipe dream, or maybe someone with greater technical skills than me (and solid financial backing) will make it a reality...
I get plenty annoyed by the banner ads on slashdot, I don't need to visit some cheap and nasty site and having it changing my browser appearance to get me to try to remember to avoid it the future.
Thank Bob (and possibly CowBoyNeal) for Mozilla...
As great as EV is, and Nova will be, I'm more eagerly awaiting the next game to come out of StrangeFlavour Whatever it is it'll have to be better than excellent for it to rival AirBurst:)
You think you've got riceing bad there, almost every other car here is riced (northish eastish UK). I'll stick to my sleeper any day. It may look like a lowly Peugeot - but man can it leave all these dumb looking Hondas and Subarus for dead.
The idea that anyone with the mind to use a $400 iPod to steal a program that you can download overnight from any online source is so much BS that my shoes are getting sticky.
Maybe you could download it overnight, but what about the rest of the world that has nothing better than a 56k modem? huh? how about that?
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I got a copy of Office v.X a couple weeks ago (not thru' my iPod tho') and was surprised to find that the install was either a) run the microsoft installer or b) copy the folder from the CD to the HD to do a full install - as simple as that. However once you copy it to the HD it runs a small installer (asks for user info and s/n) the first time you run any of the apps.
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The NSA manual is amazingly useful. Particularly when you're running NeXTStep 3.3 on an HP PA-RISC system and are trying to connect it to not only a linux box, but a few macs and a small netware network. It's quite suprising how well NeXTStep fits in this environment.
I wasn't suggesting that FireWire should replace bluetooth - but that bluetooth on the iPod should go the way of a module that plugged into the firewire port. I love the firewire connection, when I got my iPod I was amazed at the time it took to copy 4Gb of data. GPRS? in the UK? Ha! Only in a very small area - outside of London there's no chance (reminds me of DSL connections 'outside of London there's no chance")
I happened to speak to Tele2 a few weeks ago and was told that they'd be moving from an IP based service (for home users) to a NAT based service. Their intention is to stop the large number of home users that are using tele2 as a cheap way of running various servers from the comfort of their own homes. They said that business users will be staying with static IP addresses. However home users would be able to upgrade to a static IP for a further monthly charge.
BTW I got this from one of their engineers (not one of their sales people whose IQ are low enough to make McDonalds staff seem like geniuses)
Here Here. Well said my friend...
For the last 3 years BT has been telling me that my local exchange would be set up for DSL 'by september this year' So you can imagine my surprise when I contacted them a couple months ago to find that the part of the city I live in (Bradford, BTW) is classed as a 'rural area' (yes I can see fields from here but they're a good few miles away - and I'm only 10 minutes away from the city centre) I'm in the suburbs for gods sake! Yet if I lived on the opposite side of the city to where I am now, broadband is available almost right the way out to the bloody farms!
Anywho my option extend slightly further but they're still a f*cking joke
- "Wireless Broadband" (broadband my arse!) by Tele2 which is only slightly faster than a dial up modem and needs line of sight to one of their base stations. Then they have the balls to charge £40 per month - plus the connection doesn't give you an IP address, they run the whole thing using NAT
- Cable Modem, courtesy of TeleWest or NTL - but here's the big joke; Yes I can have a cable modem, but only if I pay for them to come and dig up the road outside my house and put a connection in to our nearest cable exchange box (it's about 60 feet from where I'm sitting). Last time I contacted the bastards they quoted £1700 for installation. And why do it cost so much? Why? because the street I live on (it's more of a cart track really) isn't owned by the local council, if it was owned by the council they'd install a cable modem for about £40 - f*cking ridiculous!
"Broadband Britian"? What a fucking joke. I'll second that!
The fact that you mention a bluetooth connection is interesting. Apple hasn't any products that make use of Bluetooth, other than the USB adapter. So far it only has two uses:
1) To connect to a cell phone to use it as a modem (I'm a not a big fan of 9Kbps connections but maybe someone, somewhere, is) or
2) to sync a bluetooth PDA, but when most come with a USB docking station - or failing that a usb connection cable (that'll suck less power out of your palm than a bluetooth module) I don't see any real benefit - pther than one less cable on the desk
Bluetooth would be a pretty useful feature on the iPod, it could be used for sending small chunks of data to it from your Mac (or PC once windows support arrives) such as vCards. Or it could be used for a remote control - such as the one that Griffin (http://www.griffintechnology.com) recently previewed.
Better yet would be a remote of the variety supplied with some Kenwood audio equipment - featuring a large LCD status display and a few buttons. It's what users that connect their iPod to a hifi system really need. I'd be quite happy with what would, in effect, be a second screen for my iPod acting as a remote control via bluetooth - maybe it's just a pipe dream, or maybe someone with greater technical skills than me (and solid financial backing) will make it a reality...
I get plenty annoyed by the banner ads on slashdot, I don't need to visit some cheap and nasty site and having it changing my browser appearance to get me to try to remember to avoid it the future. Thank Bob (and possibly CowBoyNeal) for Mozilla...
As great as EV is, and Nova will be, I'm more eagerly awaiting the next game to come out of StrangeFlavour Whatever it is it'll have to be better than excellent for it to rival AirBurst :)
And yes, for those wondering, my fingers are having a bad day../ effect? I wonder what that'd be like...
Some people are getting pictures? Some are getting the page? I can't even get a ping response from bit-tech's servers - Now that's a real ./ effect
For a pretty nicely done G4 hack, see http://www.kentsalas.com/BlueIceG4/ Not mine (mines an illuminated iMac) but very nice...
You think you've got riceing bad there, almost every other car here is riced (northish eastish UK). I'll stick to my sleeper any day. It may look like a lowly Peugeot - but man can it leave all these dumb looking Hondas and Subarus for dead.
...But they might notice If you pull an 8lb Lacie HD out of your pocket and start looking round for a free power outlet...
The idea that anyone with the mind to use a $400 iPod to steal a program that you can download overnight from any online source is so much BS that my shoes are getting sticky. Maybe you could download it overnight, but what about the rest of the world that has nothing better than a 56k modem? huh? how about that?
I got a copy of Office v.X a couple weeks ago (not thru' my iPod tho') and was surprised to find that the install was either a) run the microsoft installer or b) copy the folder from the CD to the HD to do a full install - as simple as that. However once you copy it to the HD it runs a small installer (asks for user info and s/n) the first time you run any of the apps.
...talk about being flamebait.
Did a Macintosh hurt you when you were younger?