Davesworld
10-17-2007, 07:55 PM
Hello all! I forgot to introduce myself a few weeks ago when I joined up. I'm Dave and I live in Everett, Wa and work at Boeing as an Avionics Technician on the 777 in Preflight And Delivery. I have been in this (Avionics) field professionally for over twenty years but became interested in electronic devices at a very young age. It all started when I first shocked myself playing with electricity, a while after I quit crying ( I was eight at the time) I began to think that something that could hurt me so easily and make my arm fly, must be pretty powerful stuff so there MUST be a lot of cool stuff you could do with this stuff. Turns out I was right. I became interested in good audio equipment a few years later and other useful gadgets. I also became a computer geek and cellular phones piqued my interest back in the eighties. Fast forward to the 21st century. I shy away from subsidized phones, use cellular data with AT&T as well as T-Mobile VPN. I built my own Linux 3G router using IPCop as the firewall OS and am using a version I customised to run on a Cobalt Raq 4i which makes a better firewall appliance with it's two nics, pci slot, usb port and single 20GB drive, than it does a server. It draws about 40 watts. I'm using Tmo prepaid for voice on an unlocked Moto MPx200 which started with WM2002 and AT&T branding but now is running WM5 and set up for Tmo. It doesn't do 850mhz so tmo was the ONLY us choice at 1.9ghz. In a few days, I will have a Nokia N95-3 US model made in Finland. Rather pricey but it could act as many devices in one. Not sure if I should move from prepay to monthly now that I'm getting a significantly more powerful phone by this weekend.
Whew! I couldn't stop typing! Thanks for bearing with me!:D
Whew! I couldn't stop typing! Thanks for bearing with me!:D