Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 23:59:30 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: "Henry F. Marquardt" <hank@yerpso.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Kasper <j_dot_kasper@www.usa.net> Subject: Re: Irda support Message-ID: <20000803235930.A75765@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <NCBBKPEFMKOJPIMNAGPAAEKKEJAA.hank@yerpso.net>; from hank@yerpso.net on Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:18:12PM -0500 References: <2969.965271549@localhost> <NCBBKPEFMKOJPIMNAGPAAEKKEJAA.hank@yerpso.net>
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:18:12PM -0500, Henry F. Marquardt wrote: > I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem. > Even the palm crowd doesn't use it much that I've seen - I remember some of > the early marketing hype there with people swapping IR business cards - I > don't think I've ever seen anyone do that Do it all the time. > and I don't think I could figure > out how in any reasonable amount of time with mine - it'd be quicker to > scribble on a napkin. Being able to sync my Palm pilot with my Vaio using IR would be *very* nice. One less set of cables to have to carry around with me. > Same with my laptop, it was configured as com2 and as far as I was concerned > just taking up IRQ space - I turned it off when I put FBSD on there. > Doesn't mean you should play with it, but what are you going to *use* it > for? There are a bunch of mobile phones out here with built in modems. Point the phone at the computer and suddenly (in Windows) you've got a modem attached to COM2 (or whatever) -- again, without needing the additional cabling. This is a good thing. N -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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