Rael is on a 3650 posting frenzy
today:
Archive for October 3rd, 2003
He Should Call It 3650 Hints
Friday, October 3rd, 2003Down on N-Gage
Friday, October 3rd, 2003(via gizmodo) Mike
Langberg: “Mobile online games will succeed only if I can use my
Motorola phone on the Verizon Wireless network to play against friends
without having to know in advance what network or brand of phone they’re
using. Life’s too short for anything else.”
I agree, and it’s not clear what’s keeping this from happening right now,
or if it’s all that much of a problem (N-Gage aside). For example,
Macrospace makes Cannons
Tournament, a tournament game which is not tied to a specific
provider, but only runs on a select set of Nokia phones. It’s not the
carriers or the handset manufacturers who made this decision, though. The
Cannons
Tournament instructions suggest to me that mutiplayer games are
brokered between a central server, so there’s nothing (except demand)
keeping Macrospace from porting this to other phones. And there’s nothing
to keep any game developer from writing a game that runs on a whole mess
of different phones (I’m sure there are some good examples of this
already, but nothing springs to mind right now).
AS220 Gets Mention in NY Times
Friday, October 3rd, 2003Welcome
to AS220: “AS220 was mentioned as a stop on the New York
Times’Walking Tour of Providence.” If you are going to be in or near
Providence, which applies to accordion
players
traveling to Boston (it’s a $5 train ride from Boston, Joey), you owe it to yourself to show up at
AS220 and demand that someone show you what it’s all about. Don’t leave
until you’ve seen at least all 4 (or is it 5?) galleries, the cafe, working
artists’ studios, the darkroom, and that shite old Pentium Pro 180 that
I donated which is doing service as a public access Linux box. And make
sure someone gives you the scoop on Broad
Street, since it’s the molten core that gives heat to everything
else.
A Gritty Collection
Friday, October 3rd, 2003New
York Times: “…head down to AS220 (115 Empire Street,
401-831-9327), a gritty collection of low-cost studios, a nonjuried
exhibition gallery, a performance space and a cafe.” (Here’s AS220′s
calendar for the
next couple of days)
Everything Must Talk to Everything Else
Friday, October 3rd, 2003I’ve been on a connectivity bender lately–I’ve been trying to get
everything in my house to talk to one another. Here’s the scorecard:
| Handheld | Computer | Cable | Software | Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | USB Sync & Charge Cable XDA | ActiveSync 3.7 | No problems |
| T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone | Virtual PC Mac/Windows 2000 | USB Sync & Charge Cable XDA | ActiveSync 3.4 | No problems |
| Audiovox Maestro (Toshiba e570) Pocket PC 2002 | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | USB Sync & Charge Cable Toshiba e570 |
ActiveSync 3.7 | Works some of the time; ActiveSync frequently fails to recognize the pocket pc, so I need to unplug and plug a lot |
| Audiovox Maestro (Toshiba e570) Pocket PC 2002 | Virtual PC Mac/Windows 2000 | USB Sync & Charge Cable Toshiba e570 |
ActiveSync 3.4 | Works some of the time; ActiveSync frequently fails to recognize the pocket pc, so I need to unplug and plug a lot |
| Nokia 3650 | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | Built-in IrDA (infrared) | PC Suite for Nokia 3650 | Works intermittently; mRouter will often say the phone is connected, but the PC Suite doesn’t see it; a reboot of Windows usually helps |
| Nokia 3650 | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | Belkin Bluetooth PC Card (refurb) |
PC Suite for Nokia 3650 | Works with these instructions; more reliable than IrDA |
| Nokia 3650 | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | Belkin Bluetooth PC Card (refurb) |
Dialup Networking | No problems so far |
| Nokia 3650 | 867mhz 12″ PowerBook/Mac OS X 10.2 | Built-in bluetooth | Internet Connect | So-so. GPRS connections occasionally drop or hang. |
| Nokia 3650 | 867mhz 12″ PowerBook/Mac OS X 10.2 | Built-in bluetooth | ISync | Address book only. |
| Nokia 6200 | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | Built-in IrDA (infrared) | Nokia PC Suite 5 | So far, so good. |
| Nokia 6200 | Thinkpad A20m/Windows XP | Built-in IrDA (infrared) | Dialup networking | Slightly faster than 3650 on Mac or PC (haven’t tested 6200 on an EDGE network yet, though). |
| Nokia 6200 | 867mhz 12″ PowerBook/Mac OS X 10.2 | MadsonLine IrDA (infrared) adapter | Internet Connect | Just plain awful. I can make the connection OK, but it hangs (no downstream packets) after about 30 seconds. When I try to disconnect, Internet Connect says “disconnecting” and never stops. Unplugging the adapter results in a kernel panic. |
I’ll keep this updated over time, so come back and check it from time to
time. I’ll probably be testing the 6200 with the DKU-5 cable soon.