Posts by RAMChYLD

Re: What a whiny bunch of spoilt hypocritical Linux users

> Launching ALSA to compete with the defacto OSS standard

The way I remember it, the developers behind OSS wanted to start charging for the drivers for "prosumer" and "professional" cards. If they hadn't gotten greedy, maybe the split wouldn't have happened. I was already using Linux at that time (though I was just a greenhorn, being just a wide-eyed freshman at college having been just introduced to Red Hat Linux 6.1 by favorite lecturer).

Re: No guilt at all

For me it's not only about "malads". I'm on mobile broadband during working hours on weekdays. Those video ads mess with my quota by eating them up in record speed. Bad enough I have to deal with Windows 10 slurping up my quota because you can't flag a Mi-Fi mobile hotspot as a metered connection.

Re: Who uses the ISP DSN anyway?

You can't switch DNS on a smartphone tho.

Sure, you can on a jailbroken or rooted cellphone, but when you can't root or jailbreak for warranty or technical reasons, it's SOL.

Re: eh?

Sadly, tho, even your GSM, UMTS or LTE cell connection can rat you out. GSM signals can relay a location message to your cellphone via Cell Broadcast. I've seen it happen on my older Nokia phone when I explicitly told it to show such messages as it receives them.

Re: @ ben edwards

Ah, so you're a Hungarian style programmer!

Re: Golly Gee Whiz - If they (the kids) have nothing to hide..

I like to think of it more as a service. VTech's own Android store is piss if you don't live in the US or UK, every frigging app except for VTech's own is blocked off (due to "licensing issues", or whatever the BPI/BFI/MPAA/RIAA wants us to believe- yeah, so just because we're not in the US or UK, we're not allowed to download that Doc McStuffins eBook, or apps featuring other famous cartoon characters in general, while the very same apps are otherwise available on Amazon or Google Play at where I am?). If I want to sideload Amazon's appstore, getjar or even Google Play itself and get my apps on there, I should have the rights to. Same applies to Leapfrog's competing Epic tab.

As for the MicroSD card, I'd prefer it. These things only have a sad 8GB of storage on it. Hardly enough for the MP3 stash.

Re: Windows 10 works just fine

I have a common machine, and Windows 10 cannot run on it. Phenom II rig with nForce980a motherboard with a pair of GTX650 Ti Boosts. The rub comes in that the onboard GeForce 8100 which I have been using for CUDA cannot work in tandem with the 650 Ti Boosts. Microsoft insists on installing two separate video driver packages, of which only one can be active at a given time. This means that if I choose to use the 650 Ti Boosts, I cannot use the 8100, and if I choose the 8100, well, broken system- the motherboard is an Asus M4N98TD-Evo- which left the 8100 active but not have any video headers whatsoever- Asus expects one to use the 8100 only for CUDA. The last working driver for the system is 341.44, the exclusive 341 drivers for Win10 strangely omits supporting anything newer than GeForce300 cards, while the newer 350 drivers offered for the 650 Ti Boosts omit support for the 8100. If I install 341.44 for Windows 8.1, it will only get undone as Microsoft will smugly "try to help" by upgrading my drivers automatically every now and then given that Win10 does not allow one to turn of automatic updates, even if it's drivers. It seems that my only resolve is to downgrade the 650Ti Boosts to the pair of 260 GTXes in the store room (and even that I don't know how well it would go, I think the 260 have overheated and burnt out given the frequency of BSODs and graphical glitches on them- why I threw them aside for 450s and then 650s).

And oh, regarding the SBZ comment above, it's more or less the same issue with the X-Fi Platinum. Except that even digital passthrough doesn't work.

Re: Good times...

Dust off Odin and bring 64-bit support to it?

Re: Let me see...

It's not only China, it's all of Asia.

I'm in Malaysia. I recently had to download a XCode update. It was 3.2GB, and it took several hours even over a 20mbps FTTH line. I've already did speed tests, etc. Connection to all countries except Singapore is fine. But connection to Singapore gets throttled to an abysmal 2Mbps, often less.

I also have a router that could show who's connecting where on the network. Guess where Apple is forcing the download to come from.

Re: meh...

Honestly, to me they joined the club when they started region-locking their cellphones so that you can't use a phone from one country with a sim card from another, all in the interest of forcing you to use roaming while maintaining an illusion that their phone is not region-locked.

http://www.androidcentral.com/heres-how-region-locking-works-european-samsung-galaxy-s5

I don't care if it will unlock after 5 minutes, region-locking is region locking.

Re: If we need .$river domains,...

You know what? You have a point.

We should have a .river domain so those who wants a website for their river could do so. And Amazon can keep their silly domain. It's not like those domains are going to be recognized by every DNS anyway.

Re: Prior Art

+1. Thousands of toys (especially toys released only in Japan) already do what's described in the patent. The controversial Hello Barbie and those Interactive Story Buddies from Hallmark are some example. Going further back we have Cindy Smart (remember that?).

On the other hand, we at least know Google is trying to make Google Panda a reality.

"when you could put OpenBSD on the same hardware and have a much better web browsing experience."

Unless that OpenBSD box has a SiS or S3 Savage video chipset, in which then you're hosed. Ditto for Linux. the X Drivers for those are in a state of disrepair.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a OpenBSD and Linux advocate with multiple converts under my belt. It's just that I'm frustrated that some of the maintainers think that the X drivers are not worth maintaining just because the chipset is now relatively rare. I would love to chip in, but I don't know anything about developing drivers.

Re: anti-virus labels itself as malware, borks EVERYTHING

I thought Symantec did back in '06 or sometime around then. Borked my Win98 machine it did. And booting into Safe Mode and removing it screwed up my sound card drivers too.

Re: Moving on..

I can vouch that HTC is a piece of crap.

Releases Gingerbread device during the era of Ice Cream Sandwich, and immediately drops support after.

The HTC ChaCha just isn't giving me the mileage I expect out of it. Even my ancient Nokia N97 outlived the damn ChaCha. And now I've moved on to Blackberry (because they were the only ones still making Qwerty keyboard phones). Just got a 10.3.1 update a few days ago- it was a PITA to install, and still has some glitches, but was worth it.