Another successful City Gate meeting! Not as many turned up as said they would, but still new and unseen-for-some-time faces there.
Present were: Jonathan (Noodles) Martijn (mak) Adam (quinophex) Paul (paul_c) James (mChicago) Bryce Girlfriend of Bryce (sorry, didn't catch your name! Bryce, can you fill us in?) Kirsten (wildduck)
We missed Elisabeth (sunflowerinrain) who was stuck in traffic and Brett (iDunno) who couldn't make it, also MJR (slef) and a couple of others who evidently were thwarted in the final hours.
A convivial meeting as usual, made more interesting by the new people and the cool little phone/PDA gadget Martijn showed us. Lots of Linux talk, drinking of beer and munching of crisps and peanuts, frozen-bubble on Paul's laptop, and I am sure many things I missed while I was reading Linux User&Developer magazine or while I was just not paying attention :)
Hope everyone will be there again at the next City Gate meeting (Thursday 12 August 8pm) Sadly Adam and I will be in France then, but back as usual in September.
/Kirsten
On 10 Jul 2004, at 01:04, Kirsten Naylor wrote:
Another successful City Gate meeting! Not as many turned up as said they would, but still new and unseen-for-some-time faces there.
Wow. This sounds real cool now. Makes me wanna go to the next one now!
A convivial meeting as usual, made more interesting by the new people and the cool little phone/PDA gadget Martijn showed us. Lots of Linux talk, drinking of beer and munching of crisps and peanuts, frozen-bubble on Paul's laptop, and I am sure many things I missed while I was reading Linux User&Developer magazine or while I was just not paying attention :)
Which phone was this? I got the nokia 6600 and it's a sweet little toy to have :)
Hope everyone will be there again at the next City Gate meeting (Thursday 12 August 8pm) Sadly Adam and I will be in France then, but back as usual in September.
Hmm.. Better file that one in my diary.. *fires up iCal*
On Sat, 2004-07-10 at 10:17, Craig wrote:
the cool little phone/PDA gadget Martijn showed us.
Which phone was this?
That was a Danger Hiptop, sold in the US by T-Mobile as the SideKick, and by various other carriers. Disclaimer: I currently work for Danger.
It looks a bit like a PDA. It has a flip-around color screen and a querty thumb keyboard, can do email, AOL instant messaging, web browsing, calendar, games, and more. Adam was particularly keen on the Terminal client that can do ssh; I could log into my linux box at home from the pub. It's also a phone, and you can send SMS. There is a small plug-in camera available, which you can use for mobile blogging etc.
It uses GPRS to synchronise its data continually with server-side storage, and you can use a normal web interface to access most of that data -- it's handy to send longer emails from a full-size keyboard. This also means that if your device gets stolen/lost/broken -- conect to your account again, and all your data is there, completely up-to-date.
Now for the bad news: It's not available in the UK.
I've appended some relevant links for your perusal. If you have any questions, mail me off-list.
-- Martijn
Company: http://www.danger.com/ Community: http://www.hiptop.com/ Photo Blogging: http://hiptop.bedope.com/ A US review: http://reviews.cnet.com/4505-3127_7-21169039.html?legacy=cnet A US retailer: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000A0AZC/104-9778731-6843916... A european carrier that offers them: http://www.eplus.de/hiptop/
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 01:04:09AM +0100, Kirsten Naylor wrote:
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We missed Elisabeth (sunflowerinrain) who was stuck in traffic and Brett (iDunno) who couldn't make it, also MJR (slef) and a couple of others who evidently were thwarted in the final hours.
Yup - was busilly still building my brothers banger with my dad and brother at that time ready for the meeting on saturday. Will endeavour to be there at the next one :)
Cheers,
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Martijn Koster