[geeks] Re: HP's squandering

[Chris Byrne]

I loved my 6310

I MISS MY 6310

God US phones are shit. Thankfully they will be offering the 6310 here
later this year when AT&T Wireless finsihes their full GSM services
rollout. Including honest to god full sms. At that point Im cancelling
my SprintPCS account and switching over to AT&T. Unless in that time the
folks at sprint figure out that phone numbers can have more than 10
digits that is.

The fucked up part about that is that their systems can handle
international sms just fine. The SYSTEM has a full service gateway. But
they only accept 10 digit numbers or a phone email address.

Idiots.

T-mobile allows users to send SMS to international numbers, but they
can't receive them unlessits sent to the phones email. Cingular is the
same. Neither of them are offering the Nokia Tr-Band phones. I need a
national full coverage network and AT&T is the only one that will do
honest to god SMS and offer Nokia Tri-Band phones. They STILL wont let
you activate a phoen you bought in europe on their network though if the
phone is SIM unlocked I don't see how they're going to stop you.

Chris Byrne

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org 
> [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On Behalf Of David Cantrell
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 03:01
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: HP's squandering
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 07:17:59PM -0500, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 16:53, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:
> > > (they were still in early Alpha) made it impractical. We 
> have high hopes 
> > > for the Opteron (what a stupid name).
> > Not as bad as Itanium. :)
> 
> I always thought that Alpha was a pretty stupid name.  It 
> just reeks of
> crappy bugware.
> 
> > My naming scheme for computers has mostly been Vehicles 
> from TV/Movies. 
> 
> I used to use literary dragons, but ran out.  Then, when I bought
> barnyard.co.uk (my network is barnyard.co.uk, *I* am 
> cantrell.org.uk) I
> decided to give them all agricultural names.  Except I couldn't be
> bothered with the two Macs I bought recently, which have the oh-so-
> imaginative names cube and ibook.
> 
> My main server is plough.barnyard.co.uk.  The file server is 
> farmer-giles;
> the router/NAT box/firewall is cowshed-door; the new server 
> (which I've
> been meaning to migrate stuff to from plough for a year but 
> I'm lazy) is
> poacher.  Hiding behind cowshed-door are a few cows - daisy, buttercup
> and clover.
> 
> In entirely different news, I got a new phone yesterday.  My old Nokia
> 7110, which I bought only because it had a slidey-clunk mechanism like
> in The Matrix, finally gave up the ghost, and I've replaced it with a
> 6310.  It has bluetooth, so no more arsing around with 
> cables, or making
> sure the ir port is lined up correctly.  And through the AWESOME POWER
> of a USB-to-bluetooth dongle, it Just Works with the ibook.  Hoorah!
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | Benevolent Dictator | 
> http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
> 
>          Nuke a disabled 
> unborn gay baby whale for JESUS!
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