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I just got a second hand Sony Ericsson 910 from work.

It’s got lots of bells and whistles and its almost addicted to the internet, it just won’t stop connecting and it even seems to surf real sites very easily - this blog for instance seems to convert to mobile usage quite easily!

Except….

Its obscenely expensive…. How expensive this is my bill for the last day: $14.00 spent, for aroud 700kB, my rough math, my 2GB of broadbad would cost around $100,000 to using GRPS with Telstra. I’ve disabled internet access now… until I win lotto

It’d be Unaustralian not to!

I’m probably one of the last people on the internet to learn this, but I found it slightly …. well… as people say ‘only on the internet’

Many years ago Trumpet Winsock and its dialler were the major way many Australians (and others nations I expect) got on to the internet.

I spent many an hour in its odd interface supporting it for the ISP I worked for.

Well, I had wondered what they were doing now; especially since the need for a stand alone dialler/TCP/IP stack went away with Windows 95.

Last I saw,they were embarking on the significant (And I think, utterly nuts) effort to build a 32bit operating system!

Well, these 2 posts will give you and idea of what happened to the project, and Trumpet Software, its both amusing…. and disturbing! Post 1 Post 2