Posts by Mr Tumnus
23 posts • joined Tuesday 23rd November 2010 12:00 GMT
Re: "Most influential tech-tweet of 2011" title on the tweeter's site
"A retired GP in our local calls his fellow drinkers with PhDs 'real doctors', because they have a doctorate and have carried out original research, which he, as a mere quack, hasn't."
You might find he's being facetious...
Network Ranges
Hi Bill, it's not strictly true to say 192.168 addresses are "fake" or "not valid", they are valid ip addresses, it's just they're reserved as private ip ranges, for anyone who wants to use on their private networks. Therefore they're not routable on the internet.
They're private network ranges, rather than public network ranges, and are defined in RFC1918. But in every other sense, they're "valid" and "real" ip addresses. So one company in Texas might use the same private IP range behind their internet routers as another company in Liverpool, eg, 192.168.10.0/24.
The reserved ranges are;
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
You could use routable addresses as your local network range, but it would mean the routable addresses weren't reachable, because your clients would expect that range to be local, not out on the internet (they'd arp for those ips, rather than routing traffic to their local gateway)
Eg, if you used 173.194.78.0/24 as your local network range, you might have trouble getting to some of Google's services, because that range is used for www.google.com (among other things. Although Google also have www.google.com on other ranges too)
Re: I don't understand this
Actually, I'm wrong, looks like Tom's right;
"Only about 100 copies of the four-CD set were produced, with sparse packaging and an insert listing the details of the set’s 86 tracks, all previously unreleased studio outtakes and live recordings from 1962 and 1963. "
From the NYT - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/08/arts/music/sony-issues-bob-dylan-recordings-to-keep-european-copyright.html?_r=0
Re: I don't understand this
Hi Tom,
Don't think that is it, no ...
Re: proof that the software is too complex
"Why is Enterprise-level virtualisation seen as something complex? What makes it so complex?
From my naive view, it seems like it could be very straight forward."
Right. Ever done it? Virtualized thousands of servers and made them work, resilient, scale, stress tested them, geographically separated them and had them replicate etc etc etc
You've not, have you. It is complex. Honestly, it really is. Sorry if you don't like that, not many of us do, but that doesn't mean it's any easier because we'd like it to be.
Posted in EE 4G LTE review
Re: For 4g those speed suck....
Thanks everybody for the feedback saying you get these speeds on 3. Would anyone mind posting their postcode, as previously requested? Curious to know where 3 have rolled this out, since they haven't done in my locality, which surprises me, if it's achievable elsewhere.
Posted in EE 4G LTE review
Re: For 4g those speed suck....
That sounds unlikely ... even 3's own website doesn't claim you can get 12meg download speeds currently on their network, unless you're on their new "Ultrafast" internet, which they aim to provide to 50% of people by Christmas ....
http://www.three.co.uk/Discover/Built_for_internetting
What postcode did you test this from, and did you perhaps have wifi turned on at the same time?
Posted in XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
XBMC on Android? Why Android rather than OpenELEC? The android version of XBMC isn't even out of beta yet, what's the advantage of that platform?
Re: Woah, hold on there...
""I've personally tested on an HTC One X, and a Samsung S3 in the last few days, it worked on both."
Since it was an exploit with Touchwiz, getting it to work on a HTC is pretty good going!"
That would be because it WASN'T an exploit with Touchwiz .....
That was also kind of my point, that you entirely missed :)
Re: ...network run by you
Good for you. I prefer cheaper monthly mobile bills, piggybacking O2 as a carrier, but you do your own thing, and good luck to you.
"You've never been to France, have you?
Usually you are better of finding an italian or a german, or at least an alsacian, restaurant"
What the fuck are you talking about?
Posted in Sony Xperia P mid-range Android
Re: NFC
"Has El Reg ever given less than 80% in a phone review?"
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/06/22/txt_take_dect_phone_magic_torque/
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/07/11/geek_treat_of_the_week_burg_5_watch_phone/
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/02/14/review_prada_phone_3_by_lg/
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/01/26/review_archos_35_smart_home_phone_android_dect_handset/
etc
Posted in Spotify v. Pure Music
Re: Re: android client fail
It's called trying to have a viable business model
Moira Stewart.
Posted in Why modern music sounds rubbish
Turn Me Up
There's a group called Turn Me Up who campaign for better dynamic range on records. First heard of them on the Elbow album Seldom Seen Kid, which had the logo, and went on to win multiple awards.
Worth a look;
http://www.turnmeup.org
What's your point?
A cinema had a lazy camera operator? Two of them did?
What?
"No, a common mistake. Not illegal, a copyright infringement"
Copyright infringement IS illegal. I think you were going for "not theft", copyright infringement, but the basic fact that you're not paying to watch something that cost someone else money to produce still holds true. If you're fine with that, that's on your conscience. Nonetheless, it is illegal.
Posted in D-Link Boxee Box DSM-380 media streamer
A better option
A better option would be an Apple TV2 (hold on, there's more to it) for around £90, then install XBMC on top of it. This now installs and runs in parallel with the Apple software, so you can boot to either.
Boxee was forked from XBMC, the tech playing back upnp streams and local content is the same. Boxee worked on plugins to stream from websites, and the user interface. You can also download both boxee and XBMC (since they're both open source) and try them on an old pc, or vmware, if you want to check out whether it works before shelling out for some hardware.
Currently i've got XBMC running on an old mac mini under the TV, and it's great for what you're describing. Only limitation is the graphics card in the older mac mini won't playback HD content smoothly, but I can live with that for the moment till I get other hardware.
XBMC is still a vibrant developing project, so well worth a look.
Sigh
Says the Anonymous Coward ...
I feel your pain
I had a similar problem.
