Comments on: I’m sure someone thought this was a great idea

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:58:44 +0000

Yay! There’s enough anonymous posting abuse around that I ended up having to screen anonymous comments long ago, and now I don’t have to approve all of your comments before anyone can see them.

Hrm, this might have backfired :-)

By: Rich

Rich — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 07:57:28 +0000

Yeah, they’ve been good. My only real complaint has been turnaround time in making changes involving creating a new site/hostname/database — it’s usually an hour or two, which is fine once you remember to account for that delay, and apparently isn’t that odd for shared hosting, but this is the first time I’ve done shared hosting so it still catches me off guard.

You get a shell account and can do what you want with it except IRC, which is nice — I read all my mail there, so I just installed Mail::Audit and my own newer SpamAssassin in my home directory and went from there.

Their response to the billing problem was “Don’t worry about it, just pay next month instead”.

(If you go with them, mind putting me down as who referred you? My web panel username there is ‘rich_lafferty’.)

By: vanbeast

vanbeast — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 00:05:23 +0000

So.. uhh.. Dreamhost, you say? Spratt and I were talking earlier, and she mentioned you were with them. I've been shopping around for a new host... You likey? I really like the feature set they offer for the price, and they seem to get far better reviews than my current host.

By: lamingtons

lamingtons — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:38:40 +0000

You win

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:57:38 +0000

psst!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 19:41:54 +0000

It all depends on where you are working, what day of the week it is, what’s
in that box over there, etc etc. Some new hires get hoopy new phones like the 7100t (released this week), others like me get 7230s, some get older pager style devices. Basically it allows RIM to ensure that all devices
in the field can be tested in real world conditions.

The TCP/IP stack is operating system dependent but will only work on systems with a SIM card rather than the older Mobitex devices such as Rich’s 957.

By: fweebles

fweebles — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 15:41:34 +0000

Right in the middle, pretty much what I expected. The colour ones look nice, but I’ve heard they suck battery like nobody’s business.

The only difference I can tell between the two you mentioned is that the 7230 can do 900 MHz (in addition to 1800 and 1900) while the 7280 does 850 (plus the other two). Maybe that’s it.

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 12:24:51 +0000

Peter’s got a 7230 or 7280 (I can’t tell what the difference between those is), so that’s probably the standard handout. :-)

By: fweebles

fweebles — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:39:53 +0000

Yeah, that’s the case with a lot of the not-so-new Blackberries as well, everything has to go through the gateway software, so something has to be installed on the server side. Only the newest generation or so of handhelds have TCP/IP addressing built into them — it still remains to be seen which model I’d get, but I don’t think RIM would be giving the crappy old ones to their employees (although I’m pretty sure they don’t give out the top of the line ones either, unfortunately).

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 15 Sep 2004 11:28:47 +0000

This is the AVID one I looked at, and there's this too. I found that the weird part about mine is that even if you write an application for it, you only get network access if Rogers decides they want to roll out your app. That might have changed when things went from Mobitex to GPRS, though.