[Eug-lug] some sales just aren't fair

[Ben Barrett]

I understand... most of the BEST hacks ever, come from the developers
and designers, some of them *are* a bit forward-thinking.
I'm not that surprised, even knowing the difference :)
If nobody lost money, nobody would be "rich"...

ben


On 6/25/07, Allen Brown <abrown at peak.org> wrote:
> There are big differences in the electronics between USB masters
> and slaves.  So the only way converting a slave to a master is
> possible is if Nokia put the circuitry for a master in the 770 and
> didn't use it.  That is unlikely since they pay good money for that
> silicon whether they use it or not.
> --
> Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
>    Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years
>    organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
>      --- David Broder
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
> > Folks have gotten its USB port to act as a master,
> > via kernel modifications only (on the 770, that I know of)...
> > which I thought was WAY cool, since it was built as a slave
> > device.  So you could mount a nice webcam and extra battery
> > on it, and bike around with a GPS or something :))
> > playing some tunes as you go of course.
> > I could run a voip client as well as asterisk.
> > (no codec conversions though, just routing)
> >
> > Other ideas?
> >
> > ben
> >
> >
> > On 6/25/07, Alan <euglug at thebucks.net> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > How to actually incorporate it into your lifestyle, though?  Beats me!
> >> >
> >> > ben
> >>
> >> I wonder if I could somehow use it to transfer files from the digital
> >> camera...
> >>
> >> -ajb
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