From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 3 13:36:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FA537B7D3 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:36:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA33918; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:37:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:37:45 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: "Henry F. Marquardt" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Kasper Subject: RE: Irda support In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Henry F. Marquardt wrote: >I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem. >Even the palm crowd doesn't use it much that I've seen - I remember some of >the early marketing hype there with people swapping IR business cards - I >don't think I've ever seen anyone do that and I don't think I could figure >out how in any reasonable amount of time with mine - it'd be quicker to >scribble on a napkin. The only cool use I've seen for it yet is the ability to control a furby with your palmtop. It's really quite amusing to send someone into a room with a furby they don't know you're controlling. I wouldn't mind the ability to do this from my FreeBSD laptop. I can't find any serious use for IrDA though. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message