* Posts by Chris 211

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Boffins authenticate Apple 'Antennagate'

Chris 211

@Bob Kentridge

Your asking us? If you should upgrade the phone, ios?

1. Get a proper phone

2. IOS belongs to Cisco which actually means something, meaningful (Internetwork Operating System) as opposed to a tacky fashion/marketing iwhatever (yeah yeah I know they licence it, Cisco really should not have allowed it).

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APPLE BUSTED!

NOW Will apple please stop marketing spin, ie LIES and for once in history tell the truth and admit the problem, then people can make a proper judgement based on facts. Looking at the report blackberry did well. Wow what everyone seams to want, a phone that actually makes phone calls! Personally I prefer the nokia e71 which keeps making calls however hard I grip it under stressful conditions...

Postcard App has stamps licked

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this will die

This idea will die out when the older generation does. No self-respecting teen, 20s person would send a postcard, who needs all that carbon footprint?

HP files webOS tablet trademark

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Go

I remember...

I think Apple licensed the used of iOS from Cisco as IOS is the os used on routers/switches etc. Apple know not to piss off the proper BIG boys. Cisco would flick apple into next tuesday. I confess I am a Cisco fanboi. At least its understandable with Cisco ;)

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Looking forward to it.

I look forward to some PalmOSPad or an Android Pad, its the right OS for it. I like the concept and target of the Apple iPad, I see were it fits in. Almost like a thin client with some thin applications on it. It has to be cheap and run FLASH to support all the existing and upcoming video streaming sites that exist. It needs a long user replaceable battery. I would never buy an iPad as I dont like control freaks who steal my location data and define what I can or can not do with MY hardware. Plus, how can Apple be trusted with its outright lies about the iPhone4. So Palm, make something I can sit on the sofa, in bed, on holiday, in the cafe, library, waiting room, school, bog without looking ashamed.

Phonemakers cry foul on Steve Jobs 'We're all alike' attack

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function over style

Maybe if people brought more functional phones instead of shallow logo's and style which lets be honest isn't worth anything in real terms. Then we would get the phones we deserve.

I refuse to buy ANY apple equipment because of the control apple demands and the information apple demands of me and the over the top interest in style over function. Buy a phone, demand it works, learn how to use it and carry on. Stop pandering to pretty icons and pretty colours like a bunch of girls. Sadly most people are dumb morons...

Cisco uncloaks Android video tablet for suits

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Amstrad... No

Ok so it does look a little the Amstrad emailer thing but the back-end actually exists now. I do like Cisco.

More iPhone 4 angst: fanbois howl over head sensor

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Jobs Horns

@a little bit too keen

Your techie status is revoked when buying any Apple product as apple products are designed for the dumb masses with anything remotely technical disabled and controlled.

BT boss brands Britain illiterate

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Grenade

I changed my mind.

When I first read the article I thought, 'yeah, young people are pretty dumb' which they are, they are young after all, what do you expect. I then started reading how all you employers ditched CV's without a second glance based on a couple of spelling or grammer mistakes which was admitted by the same employer had no relevance to the actual job. This makes me very angry. I am 37 now and I have always had problems spelling, even now this post is constantly corrected by firefox dictionary. However I am not stupid, there is no correlation between the ability to spell and intelligence. I am a high earning engineer building corporate networks and ISP's so I understand complex things and yet ask me to spell on the spot and I will fail. Do I need to spell to do my job, no, I use technology to help me. What this tells me is that employers are employing people based on one aspect and asking them to do another, how stupid is that. Do you employ a wood worker to edit a magazine? I suggest employers stop being lazy and actually employ people with the right skills, for the right job. I have always deplored the idea that science exams mark down on bad spelling, why? If its unreadable that's understandable but what has a high ability to do physics or chemistry got to do with spelling. What happens is that physics genius is crushed and beaten down simply because they are not interested or cant spell very well. Ask yourself this, are English teachers marked down because they are not very good at chemistry?

Android gaining on iPhone among developers

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Android cant rest!

Android need to sort out its SYNC options before it can make any headway into the business area. Basic things such as Full outlook SYNC without 3rd party (google) sat in the middle.

Bluetooth: wireless wonder or digital dead end?

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Bluetooth is usefull needs more devices

Bluetooth is indeed useful but it needs to remain faithful to the concept. Short range, low bandwidth (relatively) multi device connection. There is a lot of hype about syncing to the cloud but a lot of us still sync our phone to the laptop. One area that seams to have been totally misses is bluetooth on cameras, proper cameras not them crap modules in phones. I still have to plug my dirty caving camera into the USB or take out the memory card and plug that it, not a chore but them I have to wash the dirt off everything after. Bluetooth should remain 'simple', simpler then plugging a cable in, because the end user is dumb, oh so very dumb. So more bluetooth mouses, keyboards, cameras, phones, printers, speakers, usb hubs, please!

Oh and Ericsson didn't develop the technology, they might have cobbled it together but the FHSS technology started life in the 1960s as a way of sending data that could not be jammed.

100 Gigabit Ethernet standard ratified

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The first networked computer???

I remember EcoNet at school early 80s, a round DIN connector if I remember, logins, shared drives everything.

Chris 211

@Bring it to the desktop

lol, The reality is your desktop is incapable of saturating 100mb without a top of the range processor, a sustained transfer to allow the TCP window to grow and all upstream equipment capable of that kind of sustained throughput.

Is running a datacentre just like running a kitchen?

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24 deg

I live my life in data centres and actually like the coolness, I'd hate to work in a 'warm' data centre. What about these data centres that are moving underground like in Spring Quarry under corsham, the site of the ex PM nuke bunker....

Nominet announces Baroness as new chair

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Nominet biggest offender in anti-privacy

Forget the concerns over privacy on facebook. If your personal website has a link to a company that makes money according to Nominet you are a trader (even if you make no money yourself) and the rules say your name and address MUST be publicly visible via a 'whois' lookup. The information commissionaire actually agreed to this! Oh thanks so every ID theft gang in the WORLD can now surf 'whois' for names and address's thanks to Nominets stupid and fickle and in consistent idea of what a trading company is. Its every individual with a link!

RIM ties in corporate drones with VoIP over Wi-Fi

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@the quality difference between...

"Corps pay to the service providers for guaranteed bandwidth and QoS (quality of service)."

Only on private virtual circuits within the same SP's MPLS network, on the big old public internet NO ONE can guarantee any kind of quality of service, its best endeavourers. ISP's have yet to agree to work together on this.

It really IS about the hardware and software and the addition complexity of redundant networks, servers and the configuration, which alone can take whole teams and days/weeks/months to implement. A stark contrast to your single box 'home' solution.

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Megaphone

Cisco Call Manager and Friends

Coward Says..."Anyone with an Asterisk/trixbox at home has been able to do this for years !" Yeah like a major corporate would announce this breakthrough using a flaky 'home' based solution.

I Install this Cisco kit, its built for Corp. sized networks with SRST, designed in such a way as to provide a rock solid VoIP foundation to take over from traditional PBX's.

'Home' solutions are designed for and priced and just reliable enough for 'home' users which in no way reaches the required standards, design and reliability and the money to do it all with of a business solution. The protocols are the same, the code the hardware the design is not. You home users, your just not that important enough.. lol

Cops raid Gizmodo editor in pursuit of iPhone 4G 'felony'

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@What a waste of money..

Cops, what follow up on crime, stolen goods. How dare they do there job!

Chris 211
Grenade

I hope he rots in hell!

Jason Chen is a criminal and no apparent 'rubbish' about being an internet hack should put him above the law. I read the other posts and its clear that GIZMODO/Jason Chen is a criminal due to knowingly buying stolen goods. The person who sold Jason Chen the iphone is also a criminal having sold him a stolen item by finding. The law is clear, you make reasonable effort to contact the OWNER not the manufacturer (The owner is the one entrusted with the device). If you cant the item is to be left with the police, in the UK if the owner does not claim the item the finder can claim the item! Why do some sections of society think they are above the law? Hacks, police nobody is above the law! Send him down!

Apple iPhone tops 2009 smartphone sales

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balanced article - I think so

The article is very well put with FACTS and FIGURES to backup the fact that marketing is used to make the fanboys think apple is doing well and the iphone is taking over when it clearly is not. Nokia's e71 still knocks the iphone for functional multitasking use. I can stream music, surf the web and run IM and email all the same time and switch my focus between each one.

Blighty gets DARPA cash to put sat-phones in satellites

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Vlans

As long as the management vlan is kept secure. Whats in these sats, Cisco, Linux? If the sat/phone/modem connects to the console you could do a password recovery ;)

Sun squeals over 'UK's first iPhone baby'

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Ohgawd!

Do we really want iPhone users BREEDING!

Sony Ericsson outs see-through screen phone

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Thumb Down

What is it for?

It looks horrid, the screen eh, why would you want to be able to look though the screen. I also like to see keys before making the light come on to see them. A pointless peace of backward technology.

Android's delicate guts ripped apart

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to idiots not interested in learning

I rather enjoy looking at things taken apart. As a teenager I used to take all sorts apart and put them back together again and surprise surprise today I am an engineer doing very well even in this slight downturn. Its interesting to see how these things come apart. I would not do it to my own because I only have one phone and its very important to me but if someone has a spare and records it then yeah I'll tune in and look at the bits and think how much has changed since I took apart my radio cassette recorder, it was always the tape deck I had problems with getting working again..... Anyway as my title imply s learning comes from seeing and doing.

Feds bust cable modem modder kit maker

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jail the fucker

Its theft plain simple, you can try and tart it up with "ownership rights" or the "ISP should have protected me from committing crime" or "Im innocent I didnt install the box's" but at the end of the day.

He promoted, endorsed and assisted in a criminal act. I am fed up with these people who think society owes them a living who think they can take without paying. To own something you have to PAY for it. Simple, no questions!

Opera Mobile sings out new Symbian version

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Its crap, it keeps hanging...

As usual these things are not tested properly, this application hangs on my e71.

IBM boffins unfurl mobile browser reading map

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Rubbish idea by IBM

Overly complex we need to use the existing technologies. Being a small home run website I use the user agent and within the php select the mobile template. The mobile template consists of no graphics and simple layouts. Links instead of buttons etc.

Far too many websites are graphics hungry or fixed like the BBC webpage.

Bloggers go ballistic over non-existent wireless tax

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The concept makes people angry..

The idea of finding something else to tax makes people angry rather then by how much. Business's are all ready being harassed by the performing rights group for petty things. Every aspect of life is taxed and people are rightly fed-up.. Oh look another tax!

ITU joins microUSB bandwagon

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Goods news...

..now lets get on and do it and not just include phones but anything that requires charging like pda, mobile game devices, portable tvs, notebooks! Then make the charger an optional additional charge hopefully making the overall costs lower.

A fifth of Americans use Twitter, or something

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a minority of people who use it?

Like the internet, a minority of people on this planet use the internet...

Its a tool, that's all, a crap lightweight spanner that's good for nothing but light work for children.

Having said that I use facebook but I post my caving trips up and a fair number of my facebook buddies are cavers or interested friends/family so it becomes a nice convenient way of sharing my little trips and if people are not interested then they can ignore of even block the content. My guess is this is what the creators thought might happen, not idiot teenagers going "BLAGGG I got hammered last night LOL it was well sick innit"

Children should be supervised while on the net till they reach 20! To stop them posting such crap.

Aussie censor wants power to ban iPhone apps

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England wants....

To get rid of Labour, take control back from self assigned money grabbing idiots like the classification board. If this wasn't about making money from producers any uncertified media would automaticly have an 18+ cert, allowing the sale to adults without hassle. Job done, problem solved, some protection for the bloody kiddies who's parents really should be the ones doing the protection and filtering not the rest of us. However, this certification board wants its slice of the cake. Greedy for no reason.

Moto Android 2.0 smartphone revealed

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Function over form

What are you lot techs or fashion girls? I'd take functions over form as long as it fits in my pocket, I want things that work not just look pretty. Fix the bugs not the icons!

Danger lurks in the clouds

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Backup or die!

Its hard enough getting users to backup at all without this kind of incompetence. A local PC Sync and backup is still and for the foreseeable future the best way to keep data safe. I have looked at cloud sync and dont like it one bit, I would not trust it to backup my contacts.

Your phone is winding me up

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Your all dumb!

I cant beleave how many people are moaning about cranking while its attached to your face YOU DONT as long as you have spent some time winding it before hand! DOH!

The whole interview was really bad actually, people talking about things they don't have a clue about, even the company representative. Both of them were grasping for an understanding.

I would presume what the developers have not just smacked a standard phone inside with the gizmo, I would have hoped they went for all ultra low power options. The screen must take up loads of power, selecting the most power efficient screen had to be number one! Along with managed charging of the battery via the gizmo.

It looks big and clunky, they could add a bit of rubber around the outside and make it splash proof or better still waterproof and then it really is setup for the harsh conditions of life without mains. A phone for backpacking! Africa etc! Leave it in the sun to charge. Its a good idea, stick a GPS in it! With a manual on/off switch so you don't drain the battery looking for the software OFF options for the GPS. Perfect!

Palm Pre re-re-introduces iTunes synchronization

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software houses need to get a grip!

Both company's are in the wrong. Its about time the desktop/mobile software industry started to implement some standards so iTunes can sync with a "generic-device". What is the point of locking out all the palm users from buying stuff on iTunes. If you want them to use an iPhone then build a better iPhone. Then Palm and everyone else can quit wasting money on reinventing SYNC R&D and just call the standard sync process. If the likes of Cisco were like this we would have no internet.

STANDARDS PLEASE!

RIM syncs Macs with BlackBerries

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inability for you lot to stay on topic....

me, being on topic....

A bit late but good news that Blackberry support MACs. Seams strange that a major market is ignored for so long. Also a reminder of still the lack of compatibility and standards adherence and protectionism the OS/Software industry has. If networking manufacturers like Cisco, Nortel, 3com, etc etc etc didnt form forums and define standards to conform to we would not have an internet. Why cant we have some standard SYNC to a 'device' why cant ITunes sync to a standards based 'any-device'. The software industry needs to get a grip on standards.

Google says Apple silenced its Voice

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Jobs Horns

The more I read about apple....

The more I think Apple is a NAZI organization hell bent on controlling the idiots who want to be managed and controlled by apple and who are happy that choice has been removed from the user. How can apple justify controlling which applications go onto the iphone just because the user might get confused. Just shows how much apple thinks of its user base which seams to me people who cant handle technology, the type of people who have difficulty with left and right click!

WPA keys gone in 60 seconds

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@The 'Large IT Company' IT Manager.

Face it, IT Company's haven't a clue. What you want is a proper certified network engineer. Any fool who can install XP seams to call himself an IT consultant.

WPA like WEP before it is better then nothing and of course WPA2 with its AES encryption is the recommended. Anyway, wireless is good for nothing more then easy access casual browsing and little else. People seam to have forgotten wireless is a shared medium like hubs and nobody uses a hub these days do they?

Oh and can low end AP manufacturers add a power setting and get end users to set it then a while street wont be competing for RF bandwidth! Also means the hackers would have to sit on your front door!

AppleT&T faces twin texting suits

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Jobs Horns

This is good news!

How many times have you been promised everything in sales chat but the truth is totally different. 'Sales' EVERYWHERE need to get a grip on what they are selling and reality. I hate sales people, have done for a long time and think they are ALL scum without exception.

Palm accused of spying on Pre owners

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FFS

Is nobody's personal information safe from anyone! Why are companys like this not nailed to the wall with legal action. They know they are doing wrong because they are trying to use bland corp speak and assumed agreements which nobody ever agrees to.

Mobile Broadband just not fast enough

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Headmaster

@Daniel

"Until mobile broadband can provide a connection as stable as a landline,"... DOH your one of these customers expecting the impossible. Its radio, its airwaves it will NEVER be as stable or reliable or as fast or faster then cables could ever provide.

Cabled connections (switchs) are full duplex were as WiFi, any kind of radio network connection today is half duplex because its a shared medium. RF regardless of technologies is affected after the transmission by anything full of water like humans plants paper. Some student accommodation in Swansea uni uses insulation that act as a Faraday cage blocking ALL mobile and WiFi connections. A product that is going to be increasingly used DOH! So expectations really do need readjusting and users MUST start to understand the limitations of technologies, no wait limitations imposed by physics. Maybe its time to make people pass a little exam before they are allowed to use such technologies.

Zombies bite into Symbian smartphones

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dumb

Does it actually prompt the user to install it? Some users are just button pressing monkeys.

Projector-phones due by Christmas?

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A tiny projector - Yeah!

I am a caver and abandoned mine explorer and our community would love a tiny projector and some blue tooth speakers to run an underground cinema without lugging tonnes of equipment though tight tunnels. Imagine the sounds echoing throughout the chambers and the image high up on a flat limestone wall in pitch black. The French have already managed an underground cinema in the Paris catacombs.

For them that moan about having to charge the battery every 2 days try picking a phone with a decent battery size, like the nokia e71 with its 1500mah battery.

Intel powers netbook via thin air

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Pointless.

This is pointless for anything but small low power devices, like mobile phones, mp3 players, that you could just leave on your desk charging and take away. Other then that I would like to see battery technology improved more.

What I would like to see also is a POE charged laptop. Yes Yes everything is all 'wireless' now. Another technology best suited to small mobile devices and occasional use when out of the office.

BlackBerry subscriber growth dips

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e71 etc

With phones from nokia like the e71/72 etc whats the point of a huge blackberry device.

Obama disconnects 'obsolete' cell phone tax

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So...

Why were these things taxed to start with? Does every human process need to be taxed? Here in Britland we haven't been taxed for using a company phone for a few years now. I just wish they would look at company cars in the same way, as a TOOL! Or just taking the monthly car allowance as part of your taxable salary (when provided with a company car). I am amazing they dont tax screwdrivers or laptops them being paid for by the company and I used my company screwdriver to put up a shelf the other day. F%$king governments, who really needs them? Honestly Greedy leeches on society. Gerrr it makes me so angry I want to shoot a duck in the face!

Nokia posts then pulls E-series phone vid

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I like,,,

I like my nokia e71, the keyboard is excellent, all the blackberry type features I need in a smaller package.. Soo what I really really want for christmas is a breeding of the iplayer/video abilities of the n96 and the e71 and a higher resolution and it will become perfection!

iPhone 'photo lawyer' app to take the stand

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Flame

more...

Bogus 'evidence' to be used against people putting innocent people in just a fallible as DNA.

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