Economy Size Geek

I got a sweet dev laptop several months ago - it’s an hp zv5000 with a AMD64 3700 in it. So far I like it a lot. The dock sucks in comparison to the one I had for my Dell but otherwise it is awesome. The version I got shipped with Bluetooth built in. At the time it wasn’t supported under Linux. It turns out that since I switched keybaords I didn’t really use the Bluetooth that much. Now I’m headed to Las Vegas for DefCon and I won’t be using the network inside the hotel since I’m actually staying where they have the conference. Instead I’ll be linking up thru my cell phone over bluetooth to the GPRS network which should make things more difficult. Anyway I got everything setup under XP last night so I can connect to my phone - while I was doing some research I found out that low and behold Linux now supports my laptop’s bluetooth. I switch over to my Debian install, ran my dial up scripts, and bingo I’m on :) So Linux loses points for not supporting it on day one - but it’s pretty cool that it supports it now :)