Getting hash out of a keyboard

Not what you think. I was messing about on Cairngorm last night, hacking at the config scripts for fvwm, trying to make it friendlier to a single button mouse (which should be perfectly doable for most purposes), when I discovered a rather severe limitation in the keyboard on an Apple iBook. It appears not to have a hash (#) key. I looked, and looked, and tried poking things, with shift and alt and all kinds of combinations. I got lots of weird foreign characters, but no #. Where the hell is it? It's kind of important!

According to a google search, it should be alt-3, but I'm almost certain I tried that. Bloody apple...

On another note, this weekend I will be to get Cairngorm talking to the Treo in preparation for going down to Felixstowe. I figure I don't actually use anything that clocks up bandwidth too quickly, and I can knock up a script to display what I've used and what it'll cost me in about 5 minutes. Mmmm... mobile...

Woohoo!

I have discovered something extremely cool by the magic of google. Apparently the Treo 600 will act as a wireless modem perfectly happily, and without the requirement of further software. All you need to do is activate "tethered" mode, by dialing a key combination from the phone (#*TETHERED). I've not tested it with the laptop yet, because I've only just discovered it, but the phone *does* go into tethered mode this way, and according to what I've found all I need to do after that is plug it into the USB port, send /dev/ttyUSB1 a bunch of modem commands and Robert is my close male relative. Hurrah!

In the same article I discovered that a tcl interpreter is also available for palmos. Guess who's going to be hacking on his phone this weekend :)

So near and yet so far...

Ok, the GPRS modem project is proceeding by degrees. I've so far got the phone and laptop talking to each other, currently the phone understands that the lappy is trying to connect to something, it just doesn't appear to know what. I've scoured the net looking for GPRS modem info for the treo and there appears to be very little, presumably because using it as a GPRS modem is an "undocumented feature". Of course, the mere fact that I've got this far is enough to make me determined to get it to work. There may be a good deal of swearing in the meantime, but it *will* work.

I don't suppose any of you know what the commands to send to the GPRS modem in a Treo 600 in order to get it to connect to Orange are?... *sob*

Logo!

ooh.shiny.org.uk has a logo, courtesy of pteppic. I won't unveil it just yet, cos it needs a couple of tweaks, and preferably some content to go with it, but it's very nice. Hopefully I'll get some content up over the weekend, but there's quite a bit for me to do this weekend, so we'll see.

Looks like it's going to be shiny though :)