Doctor Shifty has been busy

I don't mind my mobile. Will cost me $15 in fees yearly, cost me $70
to acquire, and it makes calls.

P.S. Get off my lawn, ya damn kids!

 

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:27:52 +1000, TimC wrote:

[...]

Ah rhod - still alive even in death

 

So get an iPhone and jailbreak it like all true geeks do


G-S

 

In aus.motorcycles on Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:27:05 +1000

And get all sweaty and anxious everytime there's an update? Rubbish.

Open or nowt.

Zebee

 

http://preview.tinyurl.com/co8b6l

 

Bought one a couple of weeks ago. I reckon it's a nifty little jigger...

 

Before updates you can just restore the original software with iTunes.
Then update, then jailbreak again.

It's BSD under the skin...

 

In aus.motorcycles on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:13:29 +1000

hah. my n810 is fine without....

never had to do that with a BSD box.

When Apple open it properly I might consider it. Till then, I'll
stick with phone being phone, and open source handheld as open source
handheld.

Zebee

 

OK, I give up. What's an RX55?

So don't use the smartphone crap.

What ever gave you the impression that apple gets to tell
you what you can and can't do? I've been using an iPhone
for 2 months shy of two years now, and they haven't got to
tell me what I can/can't do with it yet. I actually struggle
to understand why people use phones that aren't unix based
devices that you can log into from afar and do whatever the
hell you want with them. I certainly can't see me going back.


GB

 

WTF? I upgraded mine to 3.0 on the weekend. Went flawlessly.
The 3.0 release was jailbroken before it was released! I've not
ever had an upgrade that went awry. It just works.

Darwin is pretty open.


GB

 

In aus.motorcycles on 24 Jun 2009 20:30:19 +1000

It's the successor to the RX44 otherwise known as the N810. An N810
with a slot for a data SIM, a different chip, and a new OS still linux
based.

I don't. But you have to pay for it anyway.

They can brick it unless you spend a fair bit of effort. And of
course you are free riding on pirates, I don't like that much.

I prefer true open to faux.

Zebee

 

What the **** is going on?!!? Every time I click on a GB post I get
"Message is no longer available on the server"
This was happening a few months ago too and has just re-started.

 

He does not want any one to read what he has writ.( something about
archiving)

 

Aye, mon.
I love paper books but disposal is a problem. Well it used to be but
my daughter assures me that 15yo grandson will happily devour all my
old books.

He appears to have inherited the reading gene. I, OTOH, inherited the
Gallstone Gene and had mine out this Monday.

Theo
I'd sonner read a book.

 

Geez! To think I used to be happy to walk 200 metres down to the phone
box to make a call. I called my brother every Saturday night but had
to walk a mile to the post office to call him as it was a trunk call.
And I had to wait for the other people to get off the party line.

Theo

 

Is that like an RX7 and and NSX?

Theo

 

He posts to a public forum but he doesn't want anyone to read it 'eh?
[crinkles brow]

 

That sounds like a different system to the one we had when I was a kid.

We had a party line at the farm (so we had to wait for people to get
off) but if we wanted to make a trunk call then we just wound the winder
on the side of the phone and the operator answered and then (gradually)
connected you (most of the time).

No need for the post office for trunk calls, in fact the operator wasn't
there either...


G-S

 

Geez you must have been rich.
When we were kids we had to harness the horses in the morning before
sun-up, plough 5 acres before breakfast, then run 10 miles to
school...
Phones? We had no steenken phones!

 

Isn't that amazing,
you post to and read a public forum
yet you choose not to read posts from certain people

Very strange !!