I'm running the AKU 2.3 "Mr Clean" ROM - it's not standard, but it's not too wacky. I've got it in mine. Some standard ROMS *definitely* contain it though. Have an ask at xda devs? In their forums you'll also find a cab file that adds this functionality if you dig around...
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OK, what I should have said is something like:
"There used to be loads of ROMS at www.xda-developers.com - these are no longer hosted on their FTP server but can be found via rapidshare links in their forums. There are tons and tons of reg hacks, applications etc available if you register with their forums though."
My HTC Wizard was sold as a T-Mobile Vario when I bought it 2nd hand off ebay. It came with a load of horrible pink T-Mobile branding and a very, very slow ROM. I flashed it with the "Mr Clean" ROM and not only was it about 40% faster, it had a nicer interface, added A2DP stereo bluetooth, push email and the AKU2.3 update. It's twice the phone it was before, and I've even got it to dynamically under and overclock the CPU for better battery life and performance.
I've even just got the threaded Treo-style SMS working...
to be perfectly accurate, this feature was added in WM5 AKU3.2 I believe - hence not all of them have it. There are downloadable tools to add this feature if your ROM doesn't have it, and of course there are zillions of alternate ROMS available for most of the WM devices at places like www.xda-developers.com.
The thing I love about my HTC Wizard is the sheer customisability of it. You can tinker with *everything* - OK, it's not open source but there's so much free stuff out there for it that's really great.
I've been early-adopting cell phones since about 1995 and I've never changed a battery since they moved from NiCad batterys. NiMH, LiON et al just don't need replacing that often. Not many people keep their cell phones more than a year or two in Europe because of the massive handset subsidies on contracts so it's just generally not an issue...
"What they won't do is adequately automate or pay for senior skills. They apparently have never read the Mythical Man Month. If it takes their customers an entire month and $1000 to provision two userids on a server (to do little more than create the userids, tie them to home directories, and put them into the documented groups) - then fine, the customers will have to live with it."
Of course they've read it! What you are missing is that they are billing their customers on a time and materials basis for everything that isn't nailed in the SLA/OLA between IBM GS and the customer.
If your contract doesn't explicitly state "Sysadmins roles should not be filled by primates" then if IBM can make money out of supplying you with a chimp in a suit, they *will* do it...
"Thankfully you apparently have to be averaging 30 miles over the speed limit (so travelling at over 100 mph) to get caught by them.
No, you don't. These SPECS cameras will be used to convict you for speeding at just over the legal limit, at the discretion of the local county police. I was fined 60UKP and had 3 penalty points (12 is an automatic ban) for doing an averaged 69MPH over 2 miles (straight dual carriageway, pretty much constant speed i.e. I wasn't doing 100 at one point and 40 at another) in a 60 limit zone.
Fair enough, I was speeding so can't complain too much, but allowing for speedo error this is a pretty close call.
These cameras are *everywhere* in the UK - you can even download regularly updated Points Of Information files for common satnav systems such as TomTom and Garmin showing where they are...
Sure, live Exchange server sync is nice, but plain offline sync to Outlook (which as I'm sure you know isn't just email) is important too.
Anyway, let's check back in 6 months and compare user bases of iPhone in the corporate world vs, say, RIM or WM6. 'K?
OK: A decent device that supports Outlook (and I'm thinking of Windows Mobile, but Nokia, Symbian, RIM et al all get this too) does stuff like:
1) Synchs your mail onto your portable device
2) Allows you to send mail via your work's Exchange server so you have a record of it on your device
3) Allows entry of new calendar, contacts, tasks data on the device
4) Allows you to schedule meeting requests on your device
That's just for starters. Looking at what makes something "Outlook compatible" and then explicitly discounting email seems perverse...
People who are parochial are hilarious.
Enterprise messaging isn't just mail. It's calendar, contacts, tasks and slick integration between them all. These aren't "nice to have" things - these are pretty business critical. It's not a small percentage of the market at all - if you're aiming at the enterprise, then the majority of enterprise systems are NOT going to be POP or IMAP.
Horsepower? You put a BES box in from RIM. Who cares what's running under the hood? It's a black box solution. Factor in some commodity handsets and dataplans and you've got live messaging *that's reliable*. Are you seriously saying that IMAP on some crappy mail client on a phone competes?
Yes, exactly. If you're on Exchange 2003 SP2, which if you're an MS shop you will be at some point, then WM for live messaging is very tempting, particularly given how cheap WM phones are these days.
If you're not, and you want a quick, cheap and above all safe and politically non-sensitive way of doing it in a big enterprise, then you slot in a BES and you're good to go. BES support comes from the vendor, the handsets come from the local phone company, and there's no awkward change request cycle to go through.
What the majority of/. posters seem to be ignoring is the difficulty of changing large enterprises' infrastructure - you don't just convert to a new mail server when it serves tens of thousands of users and they can't afford the downtime...
In the enterprise? Ugh. It's not exactly live, blackberry style messaging, is it? Let alone that enterprise mail tends to have to be server based so that you can access it from more than one machine. iPhone in the enterprise is just a dumb idea.
Yes. These are great. However, they don't scale down well: *no-one* makes a decent lock of this type that is economical to buy in single digit numbers. You need the infrastructure to back it all up. Fine if you're doing a whole site, no good at all if you want a single lock.
*ALL* the single-door electronic locks are junk, which is why use of them often invalidates your building insurance.
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BECAUSE IT'S NOT A TRAFFIC WARNING SYSTEM! IT'S *RDS*.
RDS exists to allow FM radios in cars to do fun stuff like retune to a national station as you move around and the frequencies change. It also allows radio broadcasts to be flagged as "traffic" so your radio can automatically tune in and play traffic broadcasts to you.
In other words, its function is to usefully and automatically tune your FM radio to a new frequency.
The NBC "terrorism" broadcast flag is designed so that in the godawful scenario where something Real Bad happens, everyone's RDS-equipped FM radio will tune into the announcement and you'll be aware of it. AFAIK, the NBC flag on RDS broadcasts is non-discretionary - i.e. your radio *will* tune to it regardless of user input. You *can* tune away from it when you realise that the continual 4 minute countdown of incoming nuclear attack is dragging you down and you'd rather spend the remaining 3m30s of your life listening to "Freebird" whilst doing coke off your passenger...
...the out of hours "24x7" team that handles evenings, nights and weekends probably support a hell of a lot more systems than the daytime people do. They might, for example, do phone tech support for 5 or 6 companies in today's climate of outsourcing. Hence they *may* have a shallower understanding of the issues. On the plus side, they do tend to have more autonomy...
plus DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink will rip all the ones I've seen. PGCEdit automates the use of these and strips out the dodgy Arccoss stuff...Takes me about 30 mins to rip a DVD and burn a new one.
I don't mean to be picky, and I honestly would like a solution for this, but my understanding was that some apps allowed keyboard navigation of save/don't save/cancel dialogues, and others didn't. How can I turn it on globally? Is this via "full keyboard access" in System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts? It doesn't seem to work for all applications...?
Thanks...
All R&D could be summarized as either:
"Just the hardware" or
"Just the software"
Hardware engineering isn't trivial, particularly in portable electronics where you have to weigh up battery life, form factor, robustness...
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it's not just from the screen. santa rosa can slow down the whole bus, not just the CPU, making more power saving.
I'm running the AKU 2.3 "Mr Clean" ROM - it's not standard, but it's not too wacky. I've got it in mine. Some standard ROMS *definitely* contain it though. Have an ask at xda devs? In their forums you'll also find a cab file that adds this functionality if you dig around... Ric
OK, what I should have said is something like:
"There used to be loads of ROMS at www.xda-developers.com - these are no longer hosted on their FTP server but can be found via rapidshare links in their forums. There are tons and tons of reg hacks, applications etc available if you register with their forums though."
My HTC Wizard was sold as a T-Mobile Vario when I bought it 2nd hand off ebay. It came with a load of horrible pink T-Mobile branding and a very, very slow ROM. I flashed it with the "Mr Clean" ROM and not only was it about 40% faster, it had a nicer interface, added A2DP stereo bluetooth, push email and the AKU2.3 update. It's twice the phone it was before, and I've even got it to dynamically under and overclock the CPU for better battery life and performance.
I've even just got the threaded Treo-style SMS working...
to be perfectly accurate, this feature was added in WM5 AKU3.2 I believe - hence not all of them have it. There are downloadable tools to add this feature if your ROM doesn't have it, and of course there are zillions of alternate ROMS available for most of the WM devices at places like www.xda-developers.com.
The thing I love about my HTC Wizard is the sheer customisability of it. You can tinker with *everything* - OK, it's not open source but there's so much free stuff out there for it that's really great.
woah. jesus, that's a scary thought.
are the US military legally allowed to carry "found" enemy weapons whilst in combat?
Um, thanks for making me feel really inadequate!
aside from the cavalier attitude to opening fire on a passenger airplane, how much damage would a falling airliner downed by a missile have caused?
I've been early-adopting cell phones since about 1995 and I've never changed a battery since they moved from NiCad batterys. NiMH, LiON et al just don't need replacing that often. Not many people keep their cell phones more than a year or two in Europe because of the massive handset subsidies on contracts so it's just generally not an issue...
Of course they've read it! What you are missing is that they are billing their customers on a time and materials basis for everything that isn't nailed in the SLA/OLA between IBM GS and the customer.
If your contract doesn't explicitly state "Sysadmins roles should not be filled by primates" then if IBM can make money out of supplying you with a chimp in a suit, they *will* do it...
I thought our arm-mangling defense robots were meant to stop ANYONE getting in?
If they deleted the files in error, then the RAID would faithfully mirror that deletion across all physical disks...
"Thankfully you apparently have to be averaging 30 miles over the speed limit (so travelling at over 100 mph) to get caught by them.
No, you don't. These SPECS cameras will be used to convict you for speeding at just over the legal limit, at the discretion of the local county police. I was fined 60UKP and had 3 penalty points (12 is an automatic ban) for doing an averaged 69MPH over 2 miles (straight dual carriageway, pretty much constant speed i.e. I wasn't doing 100 at one point and 40 at another) in a 60 limit zone.
Fair enough, I was speeding so can't complain too much, but allowing for speedo error this is a pretty close call.
These cameras are *everywhere* in the UK - you can even download regularly updated Points Of Information files for common satnav systems such as TomTom and Garmin showing where they are...
Sure, live Exchange server sync is nice, but plain offline sync to Outlook (which as I'm sure you know isn't just email) is important too.
Anyway, let's check back in 6 months and compare user bases of iPhone in the corporate world vs, say, RIM or WM6. 'K?
...which is a much smaller, cheaper and lower optical quality zeiss lens than the type fitted to a dSLR...
OK: A decent device that supports Outlook (and I'm thinking of Windows Mobile, but Nokia, Symbian, RIM et al all get this too) does stuff like:
1) Synchs your mail onto your portable device
2) Allows you to send mail via your work's Exchange server so you have a record of it on your device
3) Allows entry of new calendar, contacts, tasks data on the device
4) Allows you to schedule meeting requests on your device
That's just for starters. Looking at what makes something "Outlook compatible" and then explicitly discounting email seems perverse...
People who are parochial are hilarious.
Enterprise messaging isn't just mail. It's calendar, contacts, tasks and slick integration between them all. These aren't "nice to have" things - these are pretty business critical. It's not a small percentage of the market at all - if you're aiming at the enterprise, then the majority of enterprise systems are NOT going to be POP or IMAP.
Horsepower? You put a BES box in from RIM. Who cares what's running under the hood? It's a black box solution. Factor in some commodity handsets and dataplans and you've got live messaging *that's reliable*. Are you seriously saying that IMAP on some crappy mail client on a phone competes?
Yes, exactly. If you're on Exchange 2003 SP2, which if you're an MS shop you will be at some point, then WM for live messaging is very tempting, particularly given how cheap WM phones are these days. If you're not, and you want a quick, cheap and above all safe and politically non-sensitive way of doing it in a big enterprise, then you slot in a BES and you're good to go. BES support comes from the vendor, the handsets come from the local phone company, and there's no awkward change request cycle to go through. /. posters seem to be ignoring is the difficulty of changing large enterprises' infrastructure - you don't just convert to a new mail server when it serves tens of thousands of users and they can't afford the downtime...
What the majority of
In the enterprise? Ugh. It's not exactly live, blackberry style messaging, is it? Let alone that enterprise mail tends to have to be server based so that you can access it from more than one machine. iPhone in the enterprise is just a dumb idea.
Yes. These are great. However, they don't scale down well: *no-one* makes a decent lock of this type that is economical to buy in single digit numbers. You need the infrastructure to back it all up. Fine if you're doing a whole site, no good at all if you want a single lock.
*ALL* the single-door electronic locks are junk, which is why use of them often invalidates your building insurance.
BECAUSE IT'S NOT A TRAFFIC WARNING SYSTEM! IT'S *RDS*.
RDS exists to allow FM radios in cars to do fun stuff like retune to a national station as you move around and the frequencies change. It also allows radio broadcasts to be flagged as "traffic" so your radio can automatically tune in and play traffic broadcasts to you.
In other words, its function is to usefully and automatically tune your FM radio to a new frequency.
The NBC "terrorism" broadcast flag is designed so that in the godawful scenario where something Real Bad happens, everyone's RDS-equipped FM radio will tune into the announcement and you'll be aware of it. AFAIK, the NBC flag on RDS broadcasts is non-discretionary - i.e. your radio *will* tune to it regardless of user input. You *can* tune away from it when you realise that the continual 4 minute countdown of incoming nuclear attack is dragging you down and you'd rather spend the remaining 3m30s of your life listening to "Freebird" whilst doing coke off your passenger...
...this is not rocket science, people.
...the out of hours "24x7" team that handles evenings, nights and weekends probably support a hell of a lot more systems than the daytime people do. They might, for example, do phone tech support for 5 or 6 companies in today's climate of outsourcing. Hence they *may* have a shallower understanding of the issues. On the plus side, they do tend to have more autonomy...
plus DVD Decrypter and DVDShrink will rip all the ones I've seen. PGCEdit automates the use of these and strips out the dodgy Arccoss stuff...Takes me about 30 mins to rip a DVD and burn a new one.
I don't mean to be picky, and I honestly would like a solution for this, but my understanding was that some apps allowed keyboard navigation of save/don't save/cancel dialogues, and others didn't. How can I turn it on globally? Is this via "full keyboard access" in System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts? It doesn't seem to work for all applications...? Thanks...
All R&D could be summarized as either:
"Just the hardware" or
"Just the software"
Hardware engineering isn't trivial, particularly in portable electronics where you have to weigh up battery life, form factor, robustness...