Comments on: Russ Nelson: Masters, not slaves, shall rule the world

By: Russell Nelson

Russell Nelson — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:33:56 +0000

Wow. Jim Thompson displays his usual lack of tact. For some reason I cannot understand, the set of people who have respect for him is non-null. In fact, I am fully aware of how to turn on master mode for USB. My point is not that I can’t do it (as Jim successfully misunderstands), but instead that everyone should be able to do it. As a consequence, the problem is political, not technical, so Jim’s entire posting is moot through his failure to “get it”.

By: Nokia 770 :: Jim Thompson vs. Russ Nelson

Nokia 770 :: Jim Thompson vs. Russ Nelson — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:16:23 +0000

[...] Russ Nelson: Masters, not slaves, shall rule the world [...]

By: Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:40:00 +0000

Russ Nelson is a crank

By: Vinh

Vinh — Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:48:27 +0000

Besides the Nokia 770, I also have a Sony PSP and an Archos AV500. Using the Archos AV500, I was unable to connect to the 770. The PSP appeared fine, just like my digital camera. Does anyone have an idea as to why?

As for connecting things such that the 770 is looking at the AV500 as a drive, I don’t have the right cable connectors. :(

By: Helmar

Helmar — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 21:01:01 +0000

I’ve used USB with my 770 exactly once. It was at that time that I did the try if it works.
A BT keyboard looks better with 770. For me Nokia could drop the USB support completely.
But Russ Nelson is right: if it makes sense, the USB-support makes sense as master – eg. to connect to embedded devices, eg. to let the 770 be the master of a robot.

-Helmar

By: Mike Calder

Mike Calder — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:24:13 +0000

Why does nobody apply the Unix lesson to hardware?

(Do one thing, do it well, use well defined interfaces.)

Instead of sharply honed tools, we get bloated packages. Every device should no more do every task than every utility should do every conceivable software job.

I should be able to get, separately, a good, portable X-display; a good, portable, processor; portable hard drives; i/o devices; mix and match and plug them together. There should be ranges of each, for different needs.

The Nokia 770 is nearly a good X-terminal display, but it’s hampered by all the usual bloatware.

I’m going to give it a go, though; I have one on back order. I also have either in hand or on order a Technologics 7200 as the processor/USB master, an ethernet to WIFI adapter so it can talk to the Nokia, a 200BG USB drive, a serial text to speech unit, a hacked USB tablet with a 4 line LCD text display, and a data glove.

Add a fishing waistcoat with battery pack and antennas, and I’ll have the mobile computing I want; if the customer doesn’t have wireless to access my web server for demos I can always plug a USB WLAN stick into his machine.

By: dcs

dcs — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:56:41 +0000

man this guy loves usb… i use bt and scp…no neee for usb..

By: François Beretti

François Beretti — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 08:08:21 +0000

I think Nokia 770 should have both master and slave USB slots, like my iRiver H320.