Fifteen minutes battery life on a two year old Vaio notebook. I also have the letters rubbing off the keyboard and Sony refuse to touch the machine because wiping the hard drive and installing Linux 'voided the warranty'.
Ganty
The inability to use your own headphones is a big problem, in fact this makes the new shuffle unusable for me as I can't use earbuds.
Ganty
"Essentially, we're looking to be able to power up/down and reboot some computers, and be able to start/stop some programs."
Dial in using the telephone system and use a sequence of DTMF tones on your telephone keypad to carry out a task. This will be low bandwidth (about 2,700 Hz) and low cost.
Ganty
Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business. -- P.J. Denning
