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[strredwolf]

Taking the 8 to Towson Town Center (closest Apple store) was a bust, as it landed me without a phone and an hour late getting back to work.  I'm staying late tonight.

Which is a good thing, actually, because there's some issues that have to be delt with beforehand:

First, AT&T's backlogged heavily on activation requests, usually from people wanting to move to AT&T from other providers.  They didn't expect this much demand.  (Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray, now estimates that half a million iPhones sold.)

Secondly, the iPhone locks itself to your PC or Mac like a cable modem locks itself to your firewall/NAT router.  Oh boy, that's a deal breaker right there, given my current setup.

I want an iPhone, but I'll have to get a Mac first.  I can't do that until Anthrocon is over, and I will also need a LCD display for it too -- the monitor I have on the old rig is fuzzing out, so much that I perfer to VNC to the Linux rig's LCD.

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[raemonde.livejournal.com]

Secondly, the iPhone locks itself to your PC or Mac like a cable modem locks itself to your firewall/NAT router. Oh boy, that's a deal breaker right there, given my current setup.

] Can you clarify what this means, or point me to where you learned this please?

-Rob