JoeyPogoPlugE02 Wrote:
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> >. BTW, I noticed 99.99% smartphone unlocking procedures are based on a Windows platform with some unknown Windows programs (FYI, I no longer have any Windows desktop computer @home). Regardless, I only use my Android smartphones @home with a WiFi connection sans any subscriptions to any cell providers.
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> I know it's a good idea to have something Windows on hand for things like this and quick labeling of new hard drives like your Seagate 3TB. In addition some of the best Windows apps are free for personal use, like Partition Magic (never failed copying Linux partitions from one USB to another, or hard drive to hard drive).
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I had been trying to get rid off Windows OS for a long time since I ran into Linux. The reason is related to financial issue. I just could not afford to pay for any MS software and also I didn't like the idea to pirate them. So, entered the Linux OS which provides almost all the free utilities I needed to doing all my class projects, i.e. GNU C compilers to compile C programs,
(GNU) octave (instead of pirated MatLAB on a Windows platform) to do mathematical computations, LaTEX to write up documentations for reports, etc. At the time, these three were the most important issues for me. The only thing that Linux still needs, AFAIC, is a good OCR. Current OCR (tesseract) on my OpenSuSE Linux Desktop System still needs a lot of work. The only OCR on a Windows platform that I ever used (a few years back ago) was
ABBYY FineReaders (a Russian company?). It now offers
a limited free version for Linux OS (not all hardware supported).
> If it weren't for lack of hardware acceleration support on most of my hardware I'd run Mint XFCE on every box including this Thin Client.
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I don't have any Thin Client devices. So, I wouldn't know what video hardware acceleration it uses that lacks a Linux support.
> 2nd point: Wow Habibie that's the way right there. WiFi phone. I know you've mentioned ways of IP phone but it never sank in, but could I persuade you to make a simple flowchart what your phone is WiFi'ing to Asterisk or PBX running on your LAN and out to Google Voice is that it?
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My setup is pretty simple an straightforward. All I did was to configure the stock SIP dialer on my Android Smartphone (HTC Desiree 510) to register to my
FreeSWITCH PBX system. On my
FreeSWITCH PBX system, I added many free P2P SIP VoIP lines as well as Google Voice (GV) to place/receive free calls. GV is the only one allows me to place/receive free calls to any US/Canada telephones networks.
> I might have another crude purpose for this phone or similar: I miss boomboxes, which are free/cheap used, also I notice those faux cassette "tapes" that have a wire running out that could plug into the headphone jack of the phone. Tape the phone to the boombox. Voila. A touchscreen boombox.
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May be you can use your inexpensive USB audio dongle (through its microphone port) to connect the pre-amp audio port on your boombox to your Pogoplug Pro to digitize all the analog songs from the audio cassette tapes.