You made a good assumption. The external Ethernet modem works with any Ethernet device (I've tried it with my PowerBook and a cable/DSL router).
Conveniently, the external one includes a rechargable battery that it can run on for at least an hour or two, so it's still pretty portable, though not quite the same as a PCMCIA card.
I get unlimited data, so I don't have to worry about a per KB charge, and I've been able to get coverage anywhere I can get a signal from Cingular. The downside is that it's slow (dialup modem speed, at best), but that's still good enough for checking e-mail or looking up maps or phone numbers when I'm out on the road.
I usually use it over Bluetooth from my PowerBook, with the following settings: - Phone#: *99***1# - User: wap@cingulargprs.com - Password: CINGULAR1
I've also had success using it over a serial connection to the phone, through a cable similar to this one:
In my short career so far I've worked with two "languages" that are making progress toward ease of understanding and user-friendliness: Python and LabView.
With Python I've been able to quickly write applications in much less time than in C/C++, the code is easy to read and looks like the pseudo code I'd write if I were going to implement something in another language.
Labview, although I only loosely consider it a programming language, is a great tool for the hardware folks I work with who wouldn't dare touch a "real" software language. It's pretty amazing what someone can do through it just by dragging boxes around and drawing the lines between them.
Both have helped to ease some of the pain of writing software for me, and I'd suggest them as good foundations for making software development less complex.
So.... I guess this could leave the door wide open for all those blind spammers out there to get back in business?
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I'm working on the same type of DVR product at the company I'm with. We're starting small, but already have one paying customer, and a handful of trial units in the field with local law enforcement agencies.
The response is excellent, both the officers and their supervisors love the units. One of our trial units has already captured a fight between officers and a suspect, who accused them of brutality and harassment, and the video clearly shows that the officers were doing only what was necessary to restrain the suspect.
We have a shorter pre-event recording time, since we're currently using RAM to buffer the video. We're using ruggedized (IBM) laptop hard drives for our storage medium.
Of course there are plenty of ways an officer could defeat the system: smash the camera, beat the suspect behind the car since the camera faces forward, drive the car off a cliff, cut wires to the unit, etc. -- but it still offers a new measure of protection for both the officers and the people they come in contact with.
The one place where I just want to take a load off and get away from it all for about 5-20 minutes.... there's now a computer in there. And running on M$, of all things.
Now maybe something like this at home wouldn't be a bad idea, as long as it's running some other OS.
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You made a good assumption. The external Ethernet modem works with any Ethernet device (I've tried it with my PowerBook and a cable/DSL router). Conveniently, the external one includes a rechargable battery that it can run on for at least an hour or two, so it's still pretty portable, though not quite the same as a PCMCIA card.
I've been happy using my Sony Ericsson T616 and the Cingular MediaWorks Package (costs around $20/month, see https://www.cingular.com/media/media_purchase).
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I get unlimited data, so I don't have to worry about a per KB charge, and I've been able to get coverage anywhere I can get a signal from Cingular. The downside is that it's slow (dialup modem speed, at best), but that's still good enough for checking e-mail or looking up maps or phone numbers when I'm out on the road.
I usually use it over Bluetooth from my PowerBook, with the following settings:
- Phone#: *99***1#
- User: wap@cingulargprs.com
- Password: CINGULAR1
I've also had success using it over a serial connection to the phone, through a cable similar to this one:
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In my short career so far I've worked with two "languages" that are making progress toward ease of understanding and user-friendliness: Python and LabView.
With Python I've been able to quickly write applications in much less time than in C/C++, the code is easy to read and looks like the pseudo code I'd write if I were going to implement something in another language.
Labview, although I only loosely consider it a programming language, is a great tool for the hardware folks I work with who wouldn't dare touch a "real" software language. It's pretty amazing what someone can do through it just by dragging boxes around and drawing the lines between them.
Both have helped to ease some of the pain of writing software for me, and I'd suggest them as good foundations for making software development less complex.
Here's where we need a cross-reference tool between SCO and Linux code.
Of course if SCO develops it, then we'll have to pay a license fee to use it, and if the Linux side develops it, it must have been stolen from SCO.
So.... I guess this could leave the door wide open for all those blind spammers out there to get back in business?
I'm working on the same type of DVR product at the company I'm with. We're starting small, but already have one paying customer, and a handful of trial units in the field with local law enforcement agencies.
The response is excellent, both the officers and their supervisors love the units. One of our trial units has already captured a fight between officers and a suspect, who accused them of brutality and harassment, and the video clearly shows that the officers were doing only what was necessary to restrain the suspect.
We have a shorter pre-event recording time, since we're currently using RAM to buffer the video. We're using ruggedized (IBM) laptop hard drives for our storage medium.
Of course there are plenty of ways an officer could defeat the system: smash the camera, beat the suspect behind the car since the camera faces forward, drive the car off a cliff, cut wires to the unit, etc. -- but it still offers a new measure of protection for both the officers and the people they come in contact with.
The one place where I just want to take a load off and get away from it all for about 5-20 minutes.... there's now a computer in there. And running on M$, of all things.
Now maybe something like this at home wouldn't be a bad idea, as long as it's running some other OS.