WRT?

OpenWRT has always been better than Tomato or DD-WRT. It doesn't have this flaw from what I can see.

Bowman

People might want S/H Clansman.

But Bowman is rubbish. You'd have to pay any self respecting tech thief to steal it.

The soldiers use Mobile phones instead.

On paper

Even on paper you should memorise them as quickly as you can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farenheit_451

In the awkward situation

Of cheering Mr Philip Pullman, who has Anti-regligious propaganda dressed up as Fantasy.

I'm torn between supporting him and being glad he will not be there in person to put his narrow views to kids.

In the end I suppose I will disagree with people but defend their rights to have a different view.

Good but missing Gotchas

an In depth comment

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055620862

These speeds are TOTAL PEAK Capacity for sector and only achievable close to a mast. More aerials adds serious costs (as it needs a shelf of electronics) and only increases nearby capacity, not peak user speed. The 160Mbps or 300Mbps translates to a 4Mbps to 5Mbps total throughput a virtual sector edge. Or about 1Mbps per person. Only just entry level Broadband.

Conclusion:

The future is LTE not WiMax.

... and for good voice coverage Operators may do better to keep GSM than switch to "breathing" W-CDMA based 3G with its unreliable coverage.

It will be 4 to 10 time better than 3G. But coverage and speed/capacity depends on Cell density. MIMO adds a lot of cost for extra capacity. More ROI by not deploying MIMO and simply having x2 to x4 slower speeds for same capacity. (peak speeds are the same, with or without MIMO).

Overall a fairly good article, though lacking the "gotchas".

The Mobile Industry still seems to suffer from delusions. They should make the top execs use HSPA and LTE modems exclusively on a economically loaded mast (for ROI) and then on a decent Fibre fed Cable and/or FTTC VDSL/ADSL-2 and then they might understand the difference between Mobile and Broadband.

The Mobile Operators should help companies put modems in Gadgets (money, subsidised operator sales etc). Play to their strength of Mobility, not compete with fixed Broadband.

Also we need a level palying field. LTE is NOT going to be cheap. But more expensive than GSM/3G as it the subsidy by voice can't continue. LTE is also VOIP only, it's not a telephone system with Data tacked on as GSM/3G is.

DX10 DX11

Business mostly don't want people playing video games. Really the only extra in Win7 over XP is later version of DirectX. Everything else is irrelevant,

Even most games don't need more than DX9

AV

All AV is worse than the disease.

Money invested in training, mail servers that eat executables, decent firewalls and email clients that won't load remote images, activeX or remote HTML or run java etc.. Block all emails with executables.

LTE

A 2.1GHz licence is NOT technology neutral. It's a 3G licence. LTE isn't 3G. 3G phones and modems will not work on LTE.

So LTE needs to become well established outside of 2.1GHz

A 3G operator needs a new licence for LTE.

1800 is a GSM licence

2100 is a 3G licence.

Not enough.

Oddly you need regulators that allocate spectrum to a master plan. And licences.

Not a consumer gadget with dodgy software, hacked manual overrides, licence free and not ever properly tested.

Spectrum Allocation should be on real needs of the State & Consumer too, not doctrinaire pushing of Digital vs Analogue agendas and fundrasing.

OS2

The problem was that Win95 was really DOS & Win3.11 with a new shell so everything worked.

OS/2 Warp really needed OS/2 apps, OS/2 drivers. So lots of hardware didn't work and lots of applications didn't exist even though it was a real OS.

In 1989 after parting with IBM, MS released MS-OS/2 with LAN Manger. This is why 1993's MS real OS was NT3.1 and not NT1.x

NT3.51 in 1995 and to a lesser extent NT4.0 was also a death knell for OS/2 as they ran OS/2 console apps natively, DOS programs in the NT Virtual Dos Machine, 16 Bit Windows apps (office 4.3 and Office 95) using WOW translation of 16bit WinAPI calls to native NT... NT can (or did upto 4.0) also run on an OS/2 HPFS partition...

Sad

It worked quite well

I was most baffled and spent nearly an hour searching on Ovi for Widsets to reinstall them.

I hoped it was a temporary Glitch.

I miss them.

Several other apps seem to have vanished or stopped working on My E65 of late. So I thought it was just me.

Spodronic.

Nokia seems to be losing the plot. Apple may have iTunes, but the point up to now of S60 was you could get SW nearly anywhere, Like a laptop / PC Windows/Linux.

I don't want a walled garden. Nokia should have stuck with doing things like Widsets and not trying to copy Apple's control Freak iTunes.

Puzzled

These have been around for a while.

What aspect of this don't I understand?

The AI myth

Driving with a camera isn't AI. It's brute force programming. Like Chess isn't AI.

AI doesn't exist. If it did an ordinary Super computer would just do it very slowly.

Rubbish

If you use 3G for the laptop you have a max speed of 7.2Mbps.

If you use WiFi the Max Speed is over 100Mbps.

The WiFi is definitely free to your own LAN and no extra on Broadband. Can you say the same of 3G?

The latency of WiFi here is < 2ms. The minimum latency of 3G to your own broadband router is over 70ms

There is NO good reason to get one of these other than you have poor or no coverage on a 3G only device.

August 1978

Was my 1st copy.

I later bought an Apple II. Cured me of Apple Reality Distortion Field Syndrome for life.

I stopped buying it years ago when it became Adverts with snippets of inane rubbish between. So although ease of access of info on Broadband is a factor, the fact is that all the Magazines have drifted downward (LCD) to the point that the Sun or Daily Mail or BBC Web site is more useful.

Flames as I must clear all the old ones out to the recycling centre.

Bah Humbug

Russell Davies polluted it for me.

Avian ftp

Even a pigeon can beat the Internet for speed.

Test with microSD cards strapped to legs have been done.

You can get high packet loss and latency is lower than Royal Mail.

For higher bandwidth use more pigeons.

It take me about 5 hours to download 16Gbyte.

About 40 hours to upload 16Gbyte.

Even one pigeon can get to/from the datacentre from me faster than that. Is this an uptapped market by hosting centres?

And if times get hard you can always eat your own pigeons.

Tux, because he admires his winged cousins.

Shooting Brake?

No, it's a Stationwagon. At least the last 40 years. The quote could easily be 40 years old too.

HE should

Develop for all the sensible platforms.

Obviously Apple are clueless and can't tell the difference between a Search&Render tool or built in content.

Either they should remove Safari or allow any application.

PMP

But you can rip all your personally owned DVDs and CDs to your PMP already, easily everywhere and legally many places.

RIAA et Al fighting the wrong war.

Probably a mistake

I thought OpenWRT started off as customisation of the Linux source Linksys had published for some prehistoric WRT

Some of th e cheaper ones use VXworks. I guess when Cisco took over they "forgot" the rules.

My Linksys WRT54G3G runs WhiteRussian OpenWRT and my PCEngines Wrap1E runs the Kamikaze OpenWRT very happily.

I have the source of my Archos605 and my DLink DI634, but neither of those allow loading of 3rd party firmware. :(

It's of limited value to Linksys purchasers, but that is not the point, the point is really the community of people (including other commercial companies) using customised GNU/Linux for embedded applications.

It's the removal or at least the default

XP.

Firefox is properly installed as default. I have Opera. I have IE7

Why does ONLY Foxit PDF reader launch IE7?

MS's own XP tools to set default don't work properly.

Ditto on default Image editor (PSP, but occasionally MSPaint or MS Photo editor launch)

The problem is not inclusion of IE, but the consistently buggy default application for a file, which is set in more than a few places and has never entirely worked.

.html is labled as MSWord doc! (though FF does launch).

MS have broke their own product.

Ha ha

If you need XP that much, why install Win7 at all. The only thing it seems to add is DX10.

Are we going to see WINE on Ubuntu NATIVELY (no virtualisation or emulation) run win apps better?

Have MS lost the XP source?

Do Intel & MS talk these days with Intel promoting Moblin.

XP on Win7?

Yawn

Why bother

Win7

MS are now in terminal delusion.

People won't buy a computer that can only run three applications. most Netbook users at least have Skype, browser, media player, email and and an application running. Media playback is one of the more attractive apps.

People / businesses won't buy new PCs with Win7 to run virtualised XP. They will run XP. Or Linux or OS X.

They need to sell ONE version of windows at one price for non-servers, with check boxes at install (and configuration any time later). And One version for servers that by default has all the junk off.

By default the Desktop version also should have server service, eye candy all all else unneeded junk off with a Wizard for those that need to turn it off.

An a LAN/WAN button to turn off EVERY serivice/feature on the gateway interface if you connected to Internet directly rather than a firewalled LAN.

They have completely lost the plot

NAT, IPs

So nearly 1/3 of IPs are to a handful of US companies & Universities, about 1360M unused addresses . That would last a few years or so

While it's true that VOIP (particularly SIP) wasn't designed with NAT in mind there are working solutions.

VPN also solves it for companies as it can be forwarded via NAT

Skype works just fine. We have simple NAT /IPtables rules for Skype an other things,

Until every gadget and PC and site has IP6, everyone needs IP4. No migration plan :-(

So the Big Lads will have to give up some of their 1,300,000,000,000 unused addresses

Content

Never mind the stupid graphic design/layout skills, there is some useful content.

I saved a few myself

wget -r will save all of them :-)

wget -r -np will save one site.

(Linux and Windows versions available)

Mines the one with the "css for Dummies".

MPEG4

You mention HD

UK HD on DTT is going to use DVBt-2. Does the Tuner HW support this?

(French and some others use DVB-t MPEG4 for HD on DTT).

About 16 countries including Ireland and Estonia use (or will use) MPEG4 rather than MPEG2 exclusively for DTT SD TV (not just HD). Does it support that? The Sony Play TV was a long time before they added MPEG4 reception to the PS3 (odd seeing as it does MPEG4 for BD) and it still will not play MPEG4 recordings (though pauses Live Irish TV, which is record/play of MPEG4).

A lot of unanswered questions.

Even Turbo 11g (108Mbps) or 11n 250Mbps may not stream TV reliably, especially if more than one person is using WiFi. You really need wired ethernet or special Video QOS WiFi for broadcast quality TV streaming.

Why not

Scrap it

And simply do a XP ver 2 with WinFS, DX10, option for Vista/Win7 eyecandy etc...

Is there anything other than DX10 that real users actually want in Vista/Win7 that XP doesn't do?

Confusion

Don't confuse Symbian with looks of weird S60 GUI.

Gnome, KE, IceWM or Android aren't Linux.

Ermmm...

Android isn't really about Linux. It's about out doing iPhone at having CONTROL. It's a proprietary version of Java on Linux really. I'm amazed the way FOSSers are all gungHo about Android, They don't understand the Chocolate factory.

Supermarket

"If product tagging within supermarkets (one of the many lauded applications for RFID) took off, consumers could pull up nutrition information, allergy warnings, supermarket price comparisons,"

Actually you can do it today with a barcode reader. Only better camera phones can read the 1D EAN/UPC though. The fixed focus cheapo cameras can only do the 2D codes. I have a nice wireless/serial laser reader battery LCD terminal.

The only useful thing I can think of for RFID is baggage handling. Even auto parcel sorting can use barcodes fine.

You only need to store a unique ID. Storage capacity is thus irrelevant.

RFIDs are also a security hazard and never intended nor should ever have been used in passports or creditcards. They are indeed a solution desperate for a problem to solve.

maybe identifying your Coat?

Pré

Pré as I have no idea how to type Prē

Stupid name.

Dripping virtual Gore

marvellous

Buildings

Is there a SINGLE case of Terrorists taking photos of buildings?

Besides there are cheap covert cameras.

This is State Organised Terrorism.

The killing, burning, beating, destruction is only a means to an end with terrorists. The aim is to frighten and disrupt normal life. Too many governments doing the job for them.

VOIP

It makes sense on WiFi and possibly on LTE, But not most Mobile networks as they exist.

But realistically EDGE/3G/HSPA/EVDO mobile can be very poor for SIP VOIP or Skype and the Sector of Cell will support maybe 1/10th as many calls. Latency is 90ms to 2000ms.

Also Data packages are artificially cheap. In Ireland the Data to User works out to User at about 150 times cheaper on Vodafone to 500 times cheaper on 3. The cost for the operator per MBybte is slightly higher for Data than regular voice calls.

So a service offered at a loss (Skype) has the potential to give the users a poorer service and force the operators to increase data charges by x 50 at least if voice & SMS revenue collapsed

Google's free titles

I've downloaded titles from Gutenberg

But I can't find these 500,000 free PDFs. Google's Book search is aomething else.

As Bruce says...

There is no penalty for attempting to carrying on a banned item. You are not logged when it is taken off you.

The terrorist only needs to succeed ONCE.

The security screening has to work 100%, not 99.99999%

BASIC

Dartmouth College should sue MS for stealing BASIC

ETH Zurich/Logitech and Xerox sue MS for the Mouse

Xerox sue MS for Windows

Bell Labs sue them for adding subdirectories and UNIX like commands

Digital Research/Novell/Caldera sue them for MSDOS and Filesystem.

IBM and DEC (now most IP owned by HP) for making NT out of VMS and OS/2

Mosiac for messing up the Browser

Bell Labs and Sun for Mashing Up C, C++ and Java as C#

Borland for pinching ideas from Turbo Pascal for VB6

Xerox sue them for having Networking.

I saw touch screen systems and multiprocessing 20 years ago.

All the decent stuff they have they copied or bought the Company or Rights

SQL, Visio.

The only two really good original programs MS have done are Excel & Word (for Windows, not DOS), ironically first launced on Apple as MS Windows on DOS didn't really work till version 3.x

MS needs to throw away WinCE/Mo and NT/Vista/Win7 as they have trashed them. Spend the money on rewriting them properly from scratch.

EMC

These are becoming de facto by stealth,

In reality they are unlicensed transmitters, getting CE mark under the wrong regulations. Mains wiring is not shielded, screened, coaxial or twisted pair. These things radiate a huge amount of RF outside the home destroying MF & HF reception of analogue and newer DRM services.

For people too lazy or mean to run CAT5 cable in many cases.

Seek Time

I don't think there is much difference in seek time between a good 1GByte drive circa 1999 and a 1TByte drive today.

Still in the same order of magnitude.

Mine's the one with a voice coil actuated zipper

Revenue

And fring have your usernames and passwords too.

Maybe when they have enough they could sell those. Some might be the same as used for PayPal or other services.

I use a different password for everything.

Mines the one with fat notebook in pocket