{"id":3920,"date":"2006-08-21T02:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:43:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:43:55","slug":"bits-and-bobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3920","title":{"rendered":"Bits and bobs."},"content":{"rendered":"

From Jim Macdonald, in the RSS feed:<\/lj><\/p>\n

http:\/\/syndicated.livejournal.com\/makinglight\/267969.html<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Apparently, I need to upgrade my OS to MacOs 10.4.x to be able to sync my Motorola Razr v3c, with either bluetooth or USB. Turns out, no matter what I do, I can’t transfer files over USB – it has to be bluetooth.<\/p>\n

So, the mini USB port on the phone is for charging, and for contact\/calendar syncing only. Is it me, or is that stupid? I mean, allowing -some- data on the phone to be accessible via both connection techniques, but not all.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n

If you’re going to enable USB data transfer -at all- on a phone, just go whole hog. Let the filesystem be recognized as a USB drive. For serious.<\/p>\n

I’m all for adding Bluetooth to my iBook, but it looks like I’m going to have to hack my Mac<\/a> to do it. Or deal with an annoying little dongle\/USB adapter.<\/p>\n

Then again, this<\/a> is certainly tempting.<\/p>\n

That would mean the upgrade process would go something like this:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Replace dying CD\/ROM drive with used Combo drive (from eBay).<\/li>\n
  2. Upgrade to MacOS 10.4 (from eBay), or 10.5, if it’s out by then.<\/li>\n
  3. Add aforementioned Bluetooth mouse with USB bluetooth adapter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If I wasn’t planning on making these upgrades to my iBook eventually anyway, this would seem crazy. :) I still hold firm that old hardware is both useful and upgradable, especially with the miracle that is eBay.<\/p>\n

    Hell, I just got a 512 SODIMM for ‘s iBook (traded gaming books for it) for $28 on eBay.<\/lj><\/p>\n

    —<\/p>\n

    has a new website. A home page, even.<\/lj><\/p>\n

    http:\/\/stormtheworld.us<\/p>\n

    —<\/p>\n

    In the category of news that is also good, I have this guy now:
    \n
    \nHis legs have to be positioned -just so- to not look like they’re broken. Side-effect of his alternate mode, methinks.<\/p>\n

    —<\/p>\n

    More later, I’m certain. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From Jim Macdonald, in the RSS feed: http:\/\/syndicated.livejournal.com\/makinglight\/267969.html — Apparently, I need to upgrade my OS to MacOs 10.4.x to be able to sync my Motorola Razr v3c, with either bluetooth or USB. Turns out, no matter what I do, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[32,34],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-gadgets-and-nerdery","tag-livejournal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paQnES-11e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7026,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/7026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}