netbook vs tablet vs old laptop for kjams web server?
netbook vs tablet vs old laptop for kjams web server?
Anyone have any updated info on using netbook vs tablet vs old laptop for kjams web server? I'm going to grab an old pc laptop for a "song station" near my kj booth, but the bar staff might not want 2 more laptops taking up room on the bartop or on the few tables this place has...so I've ordered a cheap tablet (pandigital planet) and I'm looking at getting a cheap netbook (sylvania 7" for $40?) so customers can pass them around.
Anyone tried netbooks or tablets recently? I'm debating on chaining them to a set location (bar rail, table leg) but I'd rather have them free to float if I can find some kind of bluetooth proximity alarm, so they scream and flash when they go out of range (like the bar door, lol).
thoughts?
btw, for android OS devices (or any non-bonjour), I would just note the IP address when setting it up each evening, then dump that url into a QR code generator. Then display that image as your desktop, with instructions for those with smartphones to scan it to connect. (I even create another one above that one for instant wifi connect in places that have it password protected or hassle to connect). If the bar has a static IP address, you can print the qr code onto cards or flyers to post around the bar. I even have a 3rd code that auto signs them up for my email list, LOL.
Anyone tried netbooks or tablets recently? I'm debating on chaining them to a set location (bar rail, table leg) but I'd rather have them free to float if I can find some kind of bluetooth proximity alarm, so they scream and flash when they go out of range (like the bar door, lol).
thoughts?
btw, for android OS devices (or any non-bonjour), I would just note the IP address when setting it up each evening, then dump that url into a QR code generator. Then display that image as your desktop, with instructions for those with smartphones to scan it to connect. (I even create another one above that one for instant wifi connect in places that have it password protected or hassle to connect). If the bar has a static IP address, you can print the qr code onto cards or flyers to post around the bar. I even have a 3rd code that auto signs them up for my email list, LOL.
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How Did The sylvania 7 Netbook Work Out?
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Yes Very Curious
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Where the heck did all my posts go?!?
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Kjeph2, didn't you and I have a long discussion about this on this thread? Where did it all go?
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yeah and the first message was 09 Nov, and i would never wait two months to reply. maybe this thread has like a Bermuda Triangle in it or something like in your clothes dryer that eats socks?
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No, that was me. I was hungry, and the socks smelled like cookies.
(Oh, and the funny thing about the Bermuda Triangle is, most of the events that are supposed to have happened therein never actually happened! Like the airforce flights that supposedly disappeared: No air force flight ever happened in the first place!
You been paranormally catfished!
(Oh, and the funny thing about the Bermuda Triangle is, most of the events that are supposed to have happened therein never actually happened! Like the airforce flights that supposedly disappeared: No air force flight ever happened in the first place!
You been paranormally catfished!
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or rickrolled, as it were. or something.
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Nope, not gonna do it!
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