I've gone all Dervy.

True, but it's a valid base for a valid derivative unit, if we are to wind back the pedantry just a notch. I know, I know; where's the fun in that?

Fuck off the lot of you.

Does it measure how dull your driving is? If so, it should be a dull-o-meter, not some fancy physics engine for measuring the Kemp value of your cornering.

Quite right.

It gives you a measure of how fast you were cornering whilst looking at the display on your phone instead of the road, and so you can work out if the hole you left in the hedge which was where the bend didn't carry on to is about the right size. Which is important.

Speedometer does that?

Bah, a badly worded post. I meant that the device couldn't switch between kmh and mph, so you can't see your speed in mph.

ROFL.

Mike P

It shows speed but not velocity, I think.

What do you know, it works! SIM arrived this morning, I just topped up online as you say and it activated then. I'm posting from it now... VPN on my company laptop is happy with it too :)

Made an order for work for Ebuyer, and they slung in an O2 normal sim to=20 push the network too. Not an iPhone one sadly.

I got our dongle working with windows, but the mac guys are having=20 troubles.

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It was £2.49 from eBay, and I've stuck it into a O2 PAYG dongle which I already had working. I just had to change the APN and I was away.

Meh, I just read afterward that the iPhone bolt on activates itself 24 hours after the SIM goes live, so I've probably just burned all my credit lol

Doh... I got it working in under a minute on Ubuntu, gnome network-manager recognised the dongle, keyed in the username, password and APN and that was it. In fact, it was easier and quicker than my Windows machine, as it didn't need to install any software etc.

Not seen that anywhere but haven't done much online anyway.

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It was in the leaflet that came with the SIM. In usual style I got it all working, pissed about with it and *then* looked at the instructions...

Ah, they got shoved in the work firesafe, then I got arround to adding=20 the generic software the the dongle because the guy we bought from had=20 unlocked the vodafone one, but not flashed it with generic software (we=20 were supposed be getting a 3 one, but his unlocker and supplier had sent=20 "unlocked" vodafone ones, so he knocked us =A310 of his price.

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Yeah, but is that the e220 that can be flashed up to 7.2meg where=20 available when unlocked?

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Ah, I've just got a e160, the e220 was more expensive (I've just realised why), not by much though.

Wish I'd found out why, I've been out of the industry over three years and everything has moved on. 300kbps was the maximum then IIRC

I can remember when I first used by mobile with a laptop and it was=20

As an aside, my voda contract includes unlimited internet. And win mobile 6.1 includes mobile internet sharing.

And as simple as connecting a USB cable, I have mobile 3g where ever=20 there is a 3G Voda signal. Just need be careful how much I use so they=20 don't get suspicious that I'm not using the phone as a browser.

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lol me too (9.6kbps though :P ), I was using a Nokia 9000 at the time. Then HSCSD seemed quick, and GPRS was like warp speed when it came out. I had NTL's fastest broadband at the time too, 512kbps...

Yeah mine has that. I was toying with the idea of getting mine unlocked and using the O2 SIM in it. I'll just divert my Orange contract number to the O2 number.

Ericsson SH888 for me. And a Palm IIIe.

Email on the move. It was revolutionary at the time.

It absolutely astounded my colleagues - but we were still on Token Ring networking at work, with IBM 'clicky' green screen terminals at work back then.

When the F*ck was that? Token ring went out in 1990 anyhere that wasn't staffed by dinosaurs.