If I left on PictoChat all night...

snapty00

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...in the morning after I woke up, would I be able to see if anybody connected to me? Obviously, they wouldn't still be in a chatroom, but does the system log it or anything of who's been in a chatroom?
 
sammy said:
You'd see where they connected into the room and then left... or if they wrote anything.

probobly best to leave it on and walk through the mall, or wait for N to update it.
Well, what I was thinking was more in line with just leaving it on in my house without the backlight turned on (so as not to wear out the light as much) with the AC adapter plugged into it.

The reason I was thinking of this was because of this: I don't know anybody with a DS, but the day I got a DS, I went to my car and opened the box to use PictoChat, and someone else in the parking lot showed up for a second. They promptly disappeared, but it was still strange. But I didn't really remember what happened when they got on, so I was wondering if it kept a log of some sort as long as the machine is turned on or what.
 
snapty00 said:
...in the morning after I woke up, would I be able to see if anybody connected to me? Obviously, they wouldn't still be in a chatroom, but does the system log it or anything of who's been in a chatroom?


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yes it will keep a log of chat activity until the DS is turned off. The question is will it time out after no use and how much can it log before it runs out of space.

Funny story I was in the parking lot of Best Buy while my brother was in line getting a DVD. I told him to turn on his Pictochat when he checking out so I could goof off and suddenly 5 people were in Pictochat. I guess his acted as a relay and I was able to see the 3 others. Never did find out where they were.
 
Yeah, I was at my "local" (haha, 50 miles away) Best Buy on Sunday, and I turned on PictoChat, and someone named "Jessica" appeared.

I think that was the person's name, anyway. At the time, I didn't really understand what I was doing.
 
The social implications of a PictoChat are pretty cool provided people have the device with them, turn it on and look for strangers to talk to...

...hmmm... this is America though. They'd probably just cuss at each other and draw lewd pictures.
 
Dave Long said:
The social implications of a PictoChat are pretty cool provided people have the device with them, turn it on and look for strangers to talk to...

...hmmm... this is America though. They'd probably just cuss at each other and draw lewd pictures.

lewd pictures rock on! \m/ ^_^ \m/
 
snapty00 said:
Yeah, I was at my "local" (haha, 50 miles away) Best Buy on Sunday, and I turned on PictoChat, and someone named "Jessica" appeared.

I think that was the person's name, anyway. At the time, I didn't really understand what I was doing.
Sounds like a great way to lure children into your van.

It's like internet chat except now you can see who the cops are!

... this is actually pretty scary.
 
snapty00 said:
The reason I was thinking of this was because of this: I don't know anybody with a DS, but the day I got a DS, I went to my car and opened the box to use PictoChat, and someone else in the parking lot showed up for a second. They promptly disappeared, but it was still strange. But I didn't really remember what happened when they got on, so I was wondering if it kept a log of some sort as long as the machine is turned on or what.

Like nerds passing in the night, their fates uncertain...
 
Hey, are there such things as generic range extenders or amplifiers?

I've seen WiFi extenders that require that you attach them as clients on your network, so it'll only amplify signals coming from other clients. So basically, it's like any other logical repeater; it works based on addressing.

But are there any "physical" extenders that can repeat specific signals? An example might be one that finds any signals on the frequency 2.54 GHz and repeats it, no matter where it came from and no matter what the signal contained. It'd be like an Ethernet hub or repeater.

This way, you could extend your shitty PictoChat communications to a whopping 600 feet or something. Wee.
 
If they ever get tunneling working so you can pictochat over the internet, GAF will suddenly have a very interesting parallel channel.
 
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