[oats-sig] RE: oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6

Or is the moral - don't be tempted by sexy blonds to have an extra pint?
Probably not ;-)
Nice one.

Steve

On 11/10/2007, Karl Dean <headpointer at technowebs.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
> My old laptop was powered off  my wheelchair batteries.
>
> One day I was in the pub with my mate, the laptop battery ran out so I
> linked it up to the wheelchair batteries but I forgot the wheelchair
> batteries were low on power. I was just about to go home and I saw this old
> friend.  It would be rude to go home without talking to her. So I had
> another pint or 2.  I was in a brill mood as Liverpool won and I had a sexy
> blonde kissing me. I downed my pint and went home with a big smile on my
> face. I got half way home and my wheelchair  conked out as I had a flat
> battery. I switched off the chair and waited for afew minutes before I
> switched it back and I was hoping it would work a bit. Well, it was like
> having kangaroo juice in my chair, I made 4 feet before I conked out again.
> Lucky my laptop was still working so I texted Paul (thru my laptop to my
> phone via bluetooth)  to come and
> push me home.
>
> So make sure you have enough charge to get home when you have extra devices
> running off the same battery.! hehe
>
> Karl
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Simon Judge
> To: 'OATs Project Special Interest Group'
> Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 8:04 AM
> Subject: RE: [oats-sig] RE: oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6
>
>
> That's a clever idea... maybe a pda could be configured to do this?  You
> could always power such a device off wheelchair batteries to allow it to be
> always on.
>
> Don't see why it shouldn't work over wireless?
>
> There's a Palm WOL program:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN#PalmOS
>
> Cheers.
>
> Simon
>
>
>  ________________________________
>  From: oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:oats-sig-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of
> Tom Nabarro
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 8:36 PM
> To: oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: [oats-sig] RE: oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6
>
>
> 1
> I have been looking into similar areas, the main issue that keeps coming
> round for me is that you need to have some device which is constantly on.
> One idea is to have a phone or some small device capable of sending either a
> directed or Magic packet to the network adapter of the aac, which can be
> configured to listen even in hibernation mode.  I'm not sure this would work
> over wireless.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:48:25 +0100
> > From: "Karl Dean" <headpointer at technowebs.co.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [oats-sig] waking up pc's?
> > To: "OATs Project Special Interest Group"
> > <oats-sig at lists.becta.org.uk>
> > Message-ID:
> <012201c80b2b$8ac6c200$0300000a at your6b3vlaf2q9>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> > reply-type=original
> >
> > On my first AAC (light talker) I pressed my head switch to turn on the
> > machine.
> >
> > So, I have been looking at ways of waking up my computer from hibernation,
> > and I can only think one way; to wire a push switch into the one-off
> switch
> > of my tablet pc.
> >
> > Any better ways?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > End of oats-sig Digest, Vol 33, Issue 6
> > ***************************************
>
>  ________________________________
>  Are you the Quizmaster? Play BrainBattle with a friend now!
> **********************************************************************
> This message  may  contain  confidential  and
> privileged information.
> If you are not  the intended  recipient please  accept our
>  apologies.
> Please do not disclose, copy or distribute  information
> in this e-mail
> or take any  action in reliance on its  contents: to do so
> is strictly
> prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that
> this message has
> gone  astray  before  deleting it.  Thank  you for  your
> co-operation.
>
> NHSmail is used daily by over 100,000 staff in the
> NHS. Over a million
> messages  are sent every day by the system.  To find
> out why more and
> more NHS personnel are  switching to  this NHS
>  Connecting  for Health
> system please visit www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/nhsmail
> **********************************************************************

-- 
Steve Lee
--
Open Source Assistive Technology Software
PowerTalk - your presentations can speak for themselves
www.fullmeasure.co.uk