It's not just American companies in this case: Nokia reports that, while
they have a lot of interest, most carriers are also complaining that
Nokia won't let them "customize" it either. As for said American
companies, this device is designed to work on T-Mobile USA's network as
far as 3G (UMTS/HSD
I'm very surprised no one has brought this device up for discussion yet!
It would appear to blow away the current Android and OpenMoko devices
by packing a 600 MHz ARM proc, 256MB DRAM, a huge wad of flash, 802.11bg
AND bluetooth, and--biggest of all--quad-band GSM AND a 3G radio
compatible with T
This is interesting this came up just now: here at our motel, we've just
installed a WiMax system; unlike ClearWire, it looks like an old
Motorola Canopy system, with a rooftop antenna pointed downtown, but
performance wise it beats both in terms of latency and raw speed. Part
of the solution was
And people laugh at me for being a Slackware guy! Guess who's getting
the last laugh now? :)
Mike
On Fri, 08 May 2009 03:13:41 -0700, "Joseph Sinclair"
said:
> I noticed a very irritating "feature" of the new Ubuntu release, I'm
> posting about it here so nobody else is surprised by it.
> Let m
I came across this in an article; as the article states, these people
really do appear to be selling these things! I especially love the
whole Geocities (R.I.P.) / FrontPage look of the site and the
wonderfully edited photo on the 2nd page. You can have 3 of these for
only $33.95 with shipping--w
I can't remember if someone posted a link to before or not, but enjoy!
http://bofh.ntk.net/Bastard.html
Mike
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First of all, there is no such thing as a (H)DTV antenna: an antenna is
an antenna regardless of the modulation.
Second, Antennaweb, as suggested by Chris, is pretty much the go-to web
site for checking predicted reception.
Third, and this is the kicker, exactly WHERE in the east valley? If you
I don't have Cox here, but I do have a couple of devices that--as far as
ATSC--seem to work well. Both are Hauppauge and are the HVR-950Q (NTSC
is NOT supported under Linux yet for this, and may not ever be from what
I've heard) and the HVR-1950, where everything is supported. Since QAM
is done v
Fellow Slackers (and maybe some new ones) rejoice! The release happened
Tuesday, but I only found out about early this morning.
BTW has anyone downloaded it yet? Any chance I could convince you to
bring a copy to the party tonight? :)
Thanks, Mike
Joe, you should know as far as providers' services go, Verizon is
probably the worst because of a fairly hard 5GB bandwidth cap, not to
mention the widely documented problems with their phones every geek/nerd
should know about and try (usually hopelessly in my experience) to relay
to friends and su
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 09:55:00 -0700, "Micah DesJardins"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Also, www.half.com and www.amazon.com are both great places to pick up
> gently used copies of these sorts of books at a deep discount.
>
> Micah
That's what I was thinking, Micah; also, I was on E-Bay yesterday an
After being told it's probably ok, I'll put out my request.
If anyone has some programming books they feel they can part with, I'd
like to buy them. I'm looking for books on C, Perl, Python, and shell
scripting, and possibly more.
I *REALLY* would like K&R 2 or similar, along with anything else b
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:42:23 -0700, "Joshua Zeidner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> I just want to make it abundantly clear that these problems can in
> no way be blamed on the GOP alone. Perhaps the one piece of
> legislation that was the most instrumental in bringing us to where we
> are now
The rest of you can delete this, but for those hams on the list, here's
a step-by-step I did to get this combination working:
1. The OPC-478UC uses the Prolific Logic PL-2303 driver. However, the
USB IDs for THIS dongle aren't in the header file, so you'll have to add
them manually! Yes, this me
While reading this /. article:
http://tech.slashdot.org/tech/08/08/28/2138201.shtml
(I hope that didn't wrap.)
I discovered a link to this wonderful utility:
http://www.linuxgenuineadvantage.org
I'll be sure to get my copy RIGHT NOW! :)
Mike
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I spent a little too much the past couple of weeks and am broke, and
I've been wanting to sell these for a while anyway, so here goes:
1. HP LaserJet 4P: 4PPM, RS-232 & Centronics only, made in HP's Boise
factory even though the guts, as I understand it, are Canon Japanese.
It won't pretend to be
Wow, I had no idea I would create such a thread! Thanks to everyone for
their help!
To be honest, I'd love to have Alexander's job or something similar. I
originally wanted to go into, and am still interested in, telecom,
networking, and sys admin and analysis. I would *LOVE* to do embedded
stu
That's a good point, Tony, but one of those articles quoted directly
from the Dept. of Labor (the one with the stats), so it's not just the
usual media love of blowing things out of proportion. I completely
agree with you on the Valley, though--when I went back home to Reno a
couple of weeks ago,
I've seen a pair of articles on /. about the depressing state of IT
right now, and it's making me, well, depressed! My plan was to go to
community college in January (after getting my year residency here in
Arizona) and fix what I screwed up years ago (dropping out of college),
but now I'm wonderi
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:05:41 -0700 (PDT), "eculbert"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I need this working before Saturday morning. I have NEVER gotten flash
> going before, but then never asked this group either.
Flash is easy to get running, but is extremely buggy. Also for some
reason, they don't u
Count me in too! I've wanted to do some serious learning in this area
for a long time. Hardening my machine against external attack in
particularly at the top of my
list so I'm sure that, even if we don't use it as a test bed, I can
learn a lot about what I need to do.
Mike
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 2
This may be a stupid question, buy why ATI and NVidia? If vidcap is
what
you want, why not go with people who specialize in that sort of thing
like
Hauppauge (the WinTV series and friends, which mostly work well with
V4Lx)
or those Linux-specific cards? (Which I can't find the link to right
this
m
Looks like I should've waited a bit longer on my installs. Posted on
the relevant ticket (http://madwifi.org/ticket/1679) a user noticed Sam
Leffler now has a new HAL
available which supports this common laptop chip on 64 bit hardware.
The catch is that, for now at least, you have to download it
On Sat, 31 May 2008 21:19:23 -0700, "koder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>
> Quoting:
> "If you really want a bulletproof connection, get a dedicated T1 line
> (or faster)."
>
> Correct me if I am wrong, but based on my experience in another city,
> our T1 connection physically came from the local
Umm...I must be missing something here: you still need the hard
connection
to the outside world so how can you ssh into someone else's network
without a working network connection of your own?
Along the same lines, the guy who recommended the DSL resellers: it's
still Qwest's copper that's getting
I finally figured out the problem I was having with my laptop not
wanting to boot off the hard drive. Since I've seen this so much
online but rarely answers, I thought I would post this as a sort of
mini-howto on linuxquestions.com (and maybe others), but I wanted to
run it by you guys first.
Wha
OMG, I didn't know that! I'm willing to bet a lot of people on the list
didn't, either! I guess I'm just lucky as, since I don't need it, I
don't run it.
Mike
On Wed, 21 May 2008 11:32:08 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> Quoting "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Am 20. Mai, 2008 schwätzte
On Tue, 20 May 2008 11:34:52 -0700, "Matt Graham"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> After a long battle with technology, der.hans wrote:
> > Am 19. Mai, 2008 schwatzte [EMAIL PROTECTED] so:
> >> Next up, the question: has anyone tried gaming on FreeBSD? I've seen
> >> past stuff mainly about problems W
I came across this while searching for the answer to the question
following this, and IMMEDIATELY posted it here! Feel free to forward it
to /. if you have an account there.
http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/king3vbo/best-vista-error-evar-toppled-by-new-error--58729.phtml
Next up, the question: h
I agree with everyone else, but I should mention one
thing they didn't: this only applies if it's not an
Itanium (which is rare anyway). If it's an AMD or
Intel P4 or better series with the x86-64 instruction
set, you're fine.
Personally, I'll be dropping SlamD64 on my laptop
(yes, for those watc
This is slightly OT, but I think we all understand about getting burned
by the cell companies (or any of the telcos, for that matter).
I found somewhere else online (I don't remember where) that the 5GB
limit everyone but Sprint has stems from a lawsuit brought against
one of the other carriers (I
The Franklin CDU-680 is a USB device that has a built-in flash drive
containing network managers for winblows, OS-X, *AND LINUX*!
To date it is still the only one that has official Linux compatibility.
*HOWEVER* you must apparently initialize it (use it for the first time)
in a winblows or OS-X mac
Subject says it all. According to the article they hand out these USB
keys with a bunch of stuff on them that lets anyone bypass all security
on a windows computer. How long do you think it'll be before the
contents of these keys ends up world wide? Another reason not to run
winblows!
http://te
On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:18:40 -0700, "Matt Graham"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> 23K up, 67K down, DSL. I live too far from the CO for anything higher.
> Cable
> was never an option for me because I want to run my own mail and web
> servers,
> and Cox's draconian TOS prevents that.
Wow, you mus
I can't ignore this anymore, my curiosity is killing me: all of these
speeds
you refer to, AFAIK, is download. But who is the UPLOAD speed champ?
Or do any of these companies care about that?
And while we're at it, what kinds of upload speeds are you all getting
with
cable vs dsl?
Here at my mot
I've got a weirder one for you, Betty (and everyone else on this topic):
after 1 or 2 exchanges, I can no longer SEND replies from my Yahoo
account to
anyone! Neither can I receive any--it's like all traffic is disabled
for that particular message. My best guess is that Yahoo's spam filter
works
Congratulations! And considering article in the paper about the leap
day babies, I guess it is pretty important! You should make sure you
keep a copy of it and show her when she's old enough to read, assuming
they don't run it again in 4 years! :)
Mike
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 03:30:47 +, "Michae
Sorry for the fashionably-ultra-late RSVP, but after finding out I *CAN*
get the night off, I am happy to say I will be attending! I have the
following:
A Wal-Mart $600 special Acer Aspire 5520-5912 complete with M$ Vista
Tax, 2G RAM, 160 GB drive with a 2nd partition
I intend to use for the Linu
2 things even more concerning:
1. It uses flash, as buggy and possibly back-door-y as it is; and
2. I haven't forgotten the huge debacle when H&R screwed up their own
tax returns! Hopefully it's fixed, but...
Still, anything that explicitly supports Tux is worth a 2nd or even 3rd
look. Now if
Yeah, I'm in the same boat--my alarm didn't go off and since I work
graveyard...
So far I'm batting a big fat zero when it comes to making it to any PLUG
meeting. :(
But I can't afford to miss the installfest, that's for sure!
Mike
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:27:48 -0700, "Tuna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> s
Ok, I know this is probably the stupidest question ever brought up here,
but...
What, exactly, is a "Stammtische"? A *fest, hoe-down, or what?
Mike
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:15:19 -0700 (MST), "der.hans"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> moin moin,
>
> it's almost that time again. The Stammtische will
I totally have to agree: this article is a keeper!! THANKS!!!
Mike
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 10:53:05 -0700, "Charles Jones"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html
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Uhh...I wonder how many other mail providers or programs/suites this
vulnerability applies to. I just got a new e-mail account and it does
the
full-time https thing. Considering that my internet connection goes
over our 802.11b system in the clear, the thought of those session ID's
and
passwo
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:40:45 -0700, "Joshua Zeidner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> thought this is somewhat relevant and worth posting... very ominous
> news:
>
>
> http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu9&subLeft=2&autono=312626&tab=r
>
> _4th undersea cable
On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:21:01 -0700, "Craig White"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> We have a lot of Windows users on the PLUG list that aren't eating Linux
> dog food.
>
> ;-)
>
> Craig
Hey now, Craig! I'm just stuck using winblows temporarily because it
came with this laptop. My other machine
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 23:01:10 -0700, "Nathan Aubrey"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> Might help with the sound. I bought theHP Pavilion dv6755us instead and
> everything flat out works out of the box. I went to Fry's and they let me
> run
> Kubuntu on a bunch of their laptops till I found one I lik
Carlton, attaching a copy of the output of "dmesg" and "lspci -v" would
be very helpful so at least we know what hardware you're using. Laptops
are notorious for being difficult to support in free software because of
the weird hardware they come with. And if this laptop is brand new, add
to that
Per Shawn, I'm reposting this here hoping for more help. And maybe I'll
get more yet if I can get up early enough (I work graveyard) to get to
the west side meeting (tonight?!?).
Thanks, Mike
On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:52:58 -0700, "Shawn Badger"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I have used IPcop with gr
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