Quote from: DJ_O on November 02, 2012, 05:17:43 pm

Back in the days, for example if you bought a Rogers stick, you had to subscribe to some extra internet plan from them to be able to use it, so you ended up with two Internet bills. >.< I'm glad this changed, but I have never really seen those sticks anywhere in retail stores in recent years. Are they only available online?

EDIT: Oh I see juju. I thought they were the same, but tied to one company.

Yeah, there's still some of those at the Bell store. But yeah, those sticks are pretty useful when you're almost always in a place where there's no wifi. Otherwise there's wifi sticks, they're usually not tied to one ISP in particualar, but some of them might need special drivers.

Assuming such driver is for Windows, would they be very hard to port to Linux and/or to ARM?

So can you access mathworld.alpha during a calculus exam?

I would hope that before the exam, teachers checked every student calc for potentially suspicious files and launchers then delete anything suspicious or simply disallow that calc althogether and lend the student a school calc in exchange.

We can’t use our own calculators on class exams, but the people administrating the AP tests are not allowed to erase or check anything on your calculators.
So I could bring a whole book on the notepad or nTxt, and use that during the test.
Of course, I wouldn’t, but my chemistry teacher did suggest that we bring our calc with a few constants already saved in variables. And my calculus teacher was either suggesting or joking that I’ll make some programs to speed up the calculator portion of the exam.
Of course, if they saw anything like a internet dongle connected to the calculator, they would surely see that as unusual.
I have a little rechargeable battery meant to recharge phones with a mini usb, but I use it for my calculator instead, but last year at the AP Chemistry test, my cx was low on power, but I was afraid to connect that for fear they would think I was cheating.
Also, I don’t cheat; I even deleted the periodic table before the exam, so that I would not be tempted by legal but evil help.

"This exactly is the reason why TI is locking down the TI-Nspire"... and failing pretty hard at it, with defective pixie dust, a.k.a badly implemented PTT (like on the TI-Z80 series, anyway)

It's hard enough on 3.0.x ... (even though it's the whole thing and not ptt)

judging by the pace of linux on the nspire I bet the next video will be never gonna give you up playing on the nspire with sound and loading it from youtube xD
It is things like this that make me proud of the community

is it possible to use a wifi module thingy?



how do you like my "poor mans" home made usb hub   

but you'd have to make drivers for it etc.

Or at least, adapt existing drivers to access the WiFi module plugged at some place of the dock connector (not supported yet anyway), if it WiFi module does not have an USB plug. Linux has loads of drivers.