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M$ bluetooth keyboard+mouse
cahult:
quote:Originally posted by void main:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~bernard/phone.html
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Frightening! Shocking! This is made by people with way to much free time! :eek:
voidmain:
Those devices are actually a hot item for Windows administrators who have servers at unattended remote locations. When their server hard freezes (and it surely will sooner or later) they can power cycle it through their phone.
Calum:
they should just get a phone with 'ctrl', 'alt' and 'delete' on it. that way they just type in the ip of the machine they need to reboot and then hold down ctrl and alt while... you get the idea.
Another solution would be for them to use *nix servers. of course then they wouldn't get to use their fancy phone/remote since they wouldn't get so many (any?) hard freezes.
Calum:
quote:Originally posted by cahult:
Bluetooth is a project started almost 10 years ago by swedish telephone maker Ericsson. At first no one took notice but when Microsoft got interested many people jumped on the band wagon. Now we are here, 10 years later, and what have we got? Keyboards you can use while not in the same room as the computer (Hey mom, the computer is haunted! It writes funny stuff on the screen all by itself!), mice that you can use the same way as the keyboard. That is totally needless, if you ask me!
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i agree, but i think that the main attraction for people is that your fridge and your hoover will be able to talk to each other behind your back. your washing machine will be able to order a repair guy out to fix itself when it breaks down (of course it'll be able to access your diary and your bank account to find out if you can afford the callout and when to fit it in...)
i think microsoft likes the idea because your toaster will be able to phone home and dob you in for using 'unauthorised' toasting software on it et c...
choasforages:
still doesn't answer my ? though. does anybody other then microsloth make a bluetooth keyboard. i want to play with bluetootch. the same reason i bought a usb 2.0 card. to play with it. and see how hard it was to get working.
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