Once upon a time, Bluetooth dongles came with drivers… typically those drivers included cool and useful things (like the Bluetooth Audio Gateway). Now, what the Bluetooth Audio Gateway (BT AG from here on) means to most people is this – BT headset connected to PC via USB BT dongle, stream music (and other audio stuff) from PC to headset (ie. Skype). Based on the number of hits I get when searching for information on this subject, attempting the above scenario is already hard enough as it is.
Now, here’s where it gets really hairy. I want to pair my mobile (N97) with my PC… and use my PC speakers/mic as a replacement for a BT headset. The MS BT stack doesn’t carry the BT AG (or HSP/Headset Profile) and is notoriously hard to get rid of. The drivers (outdated by 5 years+ mind you) that are floating around the net that are for more recent version of Windows (XP SP2/XP64/Vista) have all conveniently decided to remove the BT AG/HSP profiles. I guess the total size of the file may have been bloated by an additional 50kB and they couldn’t afford the hosting or something to that effect.
So, as of this moment… I am still hitting myself in the head with a cheese grate trying to figure this out. Good luck to me and good luck to anyone else that is trying to figure this out as well.
I’ve had my N97 for (about) 2 days now. Just a quick bit of online diarrhea in case anyone is interested in getting an N97 and is having second thoughts (blasphemy).
I’ll start with the cons or negatives:
- the battery indicator is full of poop as usual…
showing 100% for ages then sinking like a stone as soon as it hits the next bar. Why can’t people make indicators that are more accurate or don’t lie?
- which dumb ass designed the keyboard? The period or fullstop is entered (on the slide out qwerty) by pressing shift-comma. What a retard… Now I need to spam shift-comma to input my fave triple period combo.
- the symbol/shift key are somewhat annoyingly close together… i have a tendency to hit the symbol key while doing my triple period combo. The problem is that cancelling the symbol input screen (which pops up when you hit the symbol key) requires touch screen interaction (when your fingers are already down by the fukin keyboard!!!).
- the hang up key used to send apps into the background and bring you to the home screen… now it kills the app in the foreground before sending you on your merry way
Ok I think that about covers the cons. Pros time:
- holy crap i can load the soccernet homepage without wanting to stab people like on my N96!!! Big pages literally stomped the N96 into the ground (ie. 1MB per page). The N97 handles them admirably…
- no, really… Everything is a shit ton faster than the N96 which takes the cake for (possibly) worst N-series device to date (barring other N-series devices which I haven’t used… I’ve used the N95, N96, N97).
- despite the horrible indicator… battery life is actually pretty awesome. I’d say at least one full day including fondling the phone like it was a boob and you’re a guy who just hit puberty.
- has the amazing ability to make you want to buy a bluetooth headset for no reason whatsoever…
I forgot my ZoneEdit password… and ZoneEdit has a completely shit password retrieval system. So, I moved to XName.
ZoneEdit had free dynamic DNS that DD-WRT could handle. XName does not. I used DynDNS for a day… but having myhostname.homelinux.net didn’t sound as cool as myhostname.biatch0.net. After a lot of searching, a lot of middle fingers at XMLRPC, and a lot of nicotine… DD-WRT supports (sort of) DNS-O-Matic which handles 90% of the dynamic DNS services online.
Just a useful note for anyone trying to setup the combo above (myself included for future reference):
turns out that % as a hostmask doesn’t include localhost
Finally updated world after about 2 years of semi-updated packages. Great success.
(1) WoW FPS is decent without tweaks – not quite XP32 FPS though; not sure why.
(2) Registry modifications to disable Nagle et al work.
(3) Dual monitors work flawlessly.
(4) 1GB RAM still free running WoW and a VM with 1GB RAM.
(5) 3com card doesn’t have drivers and I have no idea what model it is (finding out involves crawling around with a torchlight).
Verdict: A+++ (Although I’m wondering why XP64 seems to put most of the load on CPU3 and not balance it among the 4 like XP32/Vista)
P.S. OpenVZ setup is making me stab people. Please help.
Hay guy… Even if you don’t like RTS games… Play RA3 for……
If all army girls looked like that, there would be no private sector.
Other useful notes:
- Alliance > All (based on chickzormeter)
- Russians (or whatever) come in close second… getting orders from a chick in leathers that says FOR MOTHER RUSSIA is always A+++
-Kelly Hu did not bare enough cleavage for the chickzormeter to pick up
Finally remembered to DL/watch this A+++ old school movie.
D-Link 2542B – Modem, 4-port router. Crashed on first night of download tests… 20% into the first file in queue. Punched random babies in face. Possibly the most messy UI and configuration interface I’ve ever seen (this includes the shit UIs that I code sometimes). On the bright side I saved 1 plug point vs my old setup of SDSL modem + 3Com router. EDIT: Forgot to mention that accessing the router web UI felt similar to accessing a poorly coded and very resource intensive website… running on a 386 SX 16MHz. Everything just felt like it was running on something with 30+ load averages.
Linksys AM300 – Modem. Nothing horrible… just impossible to configure. Nothing to do with Linksys though… apparently TIME engineers thought it would be funny to plug in an Aztech DSL605E somewhere on their switch configured to 192.168.1.1. Modem also refuses to allow configuration without DSL link plugged in (which leads to above problem). Stabbed random babies.
SMC Barricade (long model number that nobody bothers to remember) – Modem, 4-port router. A possible challenger to most horrible to configure UI… right after the previously mentioned D-Link. Couldn’t even get this bugger to activate the DSL connection. Dropped random babies from 16th floor lift shaft.
Aztech DSL605E+Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 (DD-WRT) – Standalone Modem, WiFi+4-port router. Most recent setup… and appears to be going to stay. Seems stable after about 12 hours of testing, DD-WRT only gave me problems initially with DHCP (apparently someone else used the router before and decided my box quadbiatch0 would be called subashini-PC). Buffalo AP/router refuses to clock at 250MHz, not an issue though, at least it didn’t hit 10.0 load and cause latency to 192.168.1.1 to reach almost 100ms when I was loading up the router admin page like the D-Link. Obviously stuff like that pisses me off because I hate having high WoW ping.
Moral of the story: Cheap thing no good, good thing no cheap.
Side note: Average of 260ms to WoW server. Average of 43ms latency to the TIME gateway. Anything above 10ms to the first hop outside the internal network is not acceptable IMHO… it’s plain ridiculous. On my pre-NetLynx connection, 43ms would have gotten me half-way to fucking Hong Kong. Verbal Molotov cocktails are incoming to a TIME engineer near you within the next few days if something doesn’t go right.
WinXP32 – Annoyed at 1GB of RAM touching itself while the other 3GB worked like dogs.
Ubuntu – Happy at all 4GB being available… before finding out the ATI HD4870 support is buggy causing video output to flickr during playback. Also would not play WoW nicely in WINE (which made me stab random people).
Vista64 – All 4GB available. Full HD4870 support with stupidly low framerate. Dual monitor spanning removed from Vista due to changes to the core engine resulted in more people being stabbed. Has no switches to disable tcp_ackfrequency and tcp_nodelay resulting in people being hit with blunt objects.
WinXP32 – Happy.
(Looking to try out XP64 though…)