Hardware

The Thinkpad T61has a nifty SIM-Slot behind the battery compartment.  Considering that I travel a lot (and that I have a Vodafone UMTS-Card), I figured out how to make it work.

A year ago, I gave Voice over IP a try – and gave up on it. Not because it didn’t work, but because it was not reliable enough. In 90% of all cases it was working fine, but the remining 10% had bad quality, a missing voice channel, etc. That was unacceptable quality.

My wife runs a Coffee House with free Internet Access.  Until now, we just had a compleatly open Wifi Router.  This was great for the customers, but she worried about her liability.  So I had the task to create a solution with the following requirements:

• Users must acknowledge terms and conditions
• Easy to use
• Collection of information (MAC address, email, etc.), although this was an optonal requirement.

There was a Google Group mentioned to get rid of the CAPS LOCK key – weird, but I’d support it (he has a blog, too).  There are plenty of web sites about it.

So I got a phone from work, a Nokia 6021. I specifically asked for one with Bluetooth, which I got. But it doesn’t play nice with my Tungsten T. I can couple the devices, but I can’t dial from my Tungsten (the operation just times out). Isn’t there supposed to be universal compatibility with stuff…