Here's one way this blog sort of thing sucks, and why computers suck in general: I had a big post going and mozilla decides to up and crash. Unlike, e.g., vim, there is no "periodic save" type thing that allows me to recover my post. It's gone. Forever.
But I'm not deterred (too much)... let's try it again.
I think I have a mild case of technoenvy. We just got a IP-phone PBX at work, but (naturally) it caters a lot to Windows users. The desktop software only runs in Windows. The web interface runs okay in Mozilla, but is ugly and unwieldy. So we Linux users (naturally) get screwed out of some cool features.
I'm about to swing the coolness factor pendulum wildly in my direction. I am going to get VoIP working on my Sharp Zaurus. Here are just two of the myriad reasons why this would be neato:
Say I'm at a conference with wireless access (e.g., OSCON). I can plop in my wireless LAN CompactFlash card, hop on the wireless network, log into our PBX, and start making (basically) free phone calls.
This is the really sexy one. I can plop my BlueTooth CompactFlash card into my Z, connect to my Sony-Ericsson T68i wirelessly, use my cell phone to dial into AT&T Wireless' GPRS network, and connect the Z to our PBX from there. (Okay, this would really only work in theory; in practice, I suspect the throughput would be too low for even the lowest VoIP codec. Besides which, AT&T GPRS is not cheap, which makes using a cell phone to send data to make a voice call seem a little ridiculous. (Verizon Wireless has unlimited data plans, but they don't have a good Bluetooth-enabled phone. My coolness factor would go right down the tubes when I whipped out a serial cable to connect my Z to my cell phone. Ugh.))
So that's why I'm cooler than you.
Posted by pcg at November 23, 2002 9:52 AMThis is why I write all of my meaningless babbles in xemacs, then spell check the thing, then copy it over. Well, at least I did once, and it worked quite well. It seemed to be a popular thing back in the day to get emails from friends that said "I wrote this big long email to you in (hotmail|yahoo mail|webmail|other obnoxious online webmail dealie), but the computer crashed, and now it's completely gone. Seemed like a clever way to get out of having to write anything of substance back to an e-mail of any appreciable length. In other words: girls piss me off.
Posted by: ron on November 25, 2002 8:49 AM