Test post for Weymouth tonight

[The Great Cornholio]

I'm playing with my PDA and trying to upload pictures to my webspace remotely. If you see the picture of my laptop below, it has worked! Ultimate geekness!

 

[Eggman]

Nice one geek!

Looking forward to tonights updates..!

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Not sure what pictures of tonight will look like as the built in camera isn't very good and has no flash. Still, I'll have a go.

 

[CHAPPERS]

You are bloody amazing!

 

[Eggman]

Yeah your great you are x

 

[Turkey]

Would you find it easier if NSC allowed attachments again?

Maybe Bozza will switch it back on for the night!

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Would you find it easier if NSC allowed attachments again?

Maybe Bozza will switch it back on for the night!

It would make it easier but probably isn't worth it. Anyway, the sad geeky thrill of getting FTP working via GPRS means I'd rather do it that way anyhow.

The Orange M1000 is a seriously clever piece of kit but a bit ahead of it's time. It is a PDA, camera, sound recorder and telephone in one but doesn't do any of them very well, especially the phone. It's like being back in the 80's, holding a big lump to your ear. It reminds me of the old Bob Monkhouse joke about the guy who sells his watch that is a telly, radio, camera and computer in an ordinary watch. As the guy who bought it is leaving, he says don't forget the suitcase, that's got the battery in. It needs charging every day and loses everything if not charged for 6 or 7 days. Still, musn't complain as I didn't pay for it!

Give it 5 years and the technology in these things will be amazing.

 

[whitelion]

Would it be possible to post live video, ie match action or a report from your PDA? Or from a PDA that has a video function.

I'm bowled over by the possibilities, cheers TGC.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Would it be possible to post live video, ie match action or a report from your PDA? Or from a PDA that has a video function.

I'm bowled over by the possibilities, cheers TGC.

It's not that advanced yet. Give it a few years. GPRS is too slow to support streaming video. It can take video files in .mp4 format and here is a test one I've just uploaded. :-

Video

It weighs in at 250k for 7 seconds so very short clips only. And not all media players play .mp4 files - let me know if you can see the test one and I might post a quick clip or 2 tonight.

Edit - I think you need to right click the link above and choose Save As and then open that file.

BTW - the ugly git in the video is not me!

 

[est.83]

I can see the clip

 

[Braders]

i can't

 

[whitelion]

It's not that advanced yet. Give it a few years. GPRS is too slow to support streaming video. It can take video files in .mp4 format and here is a test one I've just uploaded. :-

Video

It weighs in at 250k for 7 seconds so very short clips only. And not all media players play .mp4 files - let me know if you can see the test one and I might post a quick clip or 2 tonight.

Edit - I think you need to right click the link above and choose Save As and then open that file.

BTW - the ugly git in the video is not me!

Thanks for the techie stuff!

I'll try that later TGC. Unfortunately I've just had to restore my Windows 98 machine after I got Broadband capability. The 'poor mite' couldn't cope with it at first so I had to clean the disk of six years files and I've only just restored the operating system and a few other basic programs. I'm not able to run video yet but will when I feel confident the the machine will take it. BTW perhaps you could suggest to me a reason why I can't boot-up with the ADSL modem attached, it just crashes every time. Is it a memory problem? I am running Windows98, 6gb hard drive 64meg DRAM Pentium 2 333mhz etc. The modem is an external USB Thompson. I have to pull out the USB connection before I switch the power on, and once it's booted I can then plug in the USB and make the connection. It's obviously very time-consuming and annoying!! Any ideas??

 

[Trigger]

I could see it ok... Work to be done on the shakiness though.

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Thanks for the techie stuff!

I'll try that later TGC. Unfortunately I've just had to restore my Windows 98 machine after I got Broadband capability. The 'poor mite' couldn't cope with it at first so I had to clean the disk of six years files and I've only just restored the operating system and a few other basic programs. I'm not able to run video yet but will when I feel confident the the machine will take it. BTW perhaps you could suggest to me a reason why I can't boot-up with the ADSL modem attached, it just crashes every time. Is it a memory problem? I am running Windows98, 6gb hard drive 64meg DRAM Pentium 2 333mhz etc. The modem is an external USB Thompson. I have to pull out the USB connection before I switch the power on, and once it's booted I can then plug in the USB and make the connection. It's obviously very time-consuming and annoying!! Any ideas??

It could be a problem with your onboard USB ports not providing enough power. I had a problem with my modem keep dropping the connection. I got a seperate USB controller card and this fixed the problem.

If you know someone with a powered USB Hub, ask if you can borrow it and see if that fixes it. That is a problem with USB - most devices connected to it draw their power from the PC which can cause problems, especially on old PC's.

BTW - I doubt the video clip will work on Windows 98 as mp4 files are very new and will probably only work on XP. I may be wrong though - it has been known once or twice!

 

[The Great Cornholio]

I could see it ok... Work to be done on the shakiness though.

Be even shakier tonight as I've got to drive to Eastleigh after the game which means no alcohol.

As for video clips, I'll try and take a few tonight and will post them tomorrow when I get back to my PC and a fast connection. Uploading them from the PDA will eat into my monthly GPRS allowance very quickly.

 

[whitelion]

It could be a problem with your onboard USB ports not providing enough power. I had a problem with my modem keep dropping the connection. I got a seperate USB controller card and this fixed the problem.

If you know someone with a powered USB Hub, ask if you can borrow it and see if that fixes it. That is a problem with USB - most devices connected to it draw their power from the PC which can cause problems, especially on old PC's.

BTW - I doubt the video clip will work on Windows 98 as mp4 files are very new and will probably only work on XP. I may be wrong though - it has been known once or twice!

Thanks. I'll look into USB controller card or 'mug' someone for their hub. Ta again.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Link to Philips Platform 4 Player

If you're having trouble playing the file I have the Philips Platform 4 Player set-up file HERE, which has now been deleted by Philips. It also plays 3gp files from other photo phones.

 

[SK1NT]

wish i was going

 

[The Great Cornholio]

Re: Link to Philips Platform 4 Player

If you're having trouble playing the file I have the Philips Platform 4 Player set-up file HERE, which has now been deleted by Philips. It also plays 3gp files from other photo phones.

I don't think it is worth the effort of downloading that to view my 5 sec, shaky, grainy clip of yellow dots running around!