Comment Ah, if only would they make statistics public... (Score 1) 548
Too bad they will never do it... For very obvious reasons.
Comment Another +1 for Tektronix (Score 1) 337
I got a DPO4034 and its great. 350MHz, 4 channels, can do I2C/CAN/SPI bus decoding and Wave Inspector rules.
Comment If it comes with same firmware issues as before... (Score 4, Informative) 56
If this unit has the same firmware development team (and likely, it does) who handle firmware for Popcornhour & etc, good luck getting this unit to a usable state until at least a year after initial release.
popcornhour c-200 is a perfect example of good hardware ruined by crappy firmware support.
there are still bugs over a year after release that aren't getting fixed. ridiculous.
Comment Re:On the other hand... (Score 5, Funny) 361
really?
Comment Re:What product and OS? (Score -1, Troll) 171
I also cannot find any reference to what the actual problem and software was.
To me, sounds like a way old spyware/shitware infested computer and a not-so-literate computer user.
You can spend 10 years working for Sun and still have no idea how to properly administer a Windows machine.
*shrug*.
Comment Totally useless (Score 4, Insightful) 31
General consumers won't have any use for 100 gpio pins, the fragile 240-pin connector will not last on any kind of multiple-insertions application, and in general, is there even any demand for this kind of stuff? bringing more pci-e lanes = only useful for graphics, anyone who needs more than 1x out of a laptop will be buying a desktop instead.
Comment Re:The guys pic (Score 1) 413
'god is a fucking idiot'
(was covered by another article i saw yesterday, duno if this is mentioned in the current TFA)
Comment The guys pic (Score 3, Informative) 413
Open Firmware Released For Broadcom Wireless 95
mcgrof writes "Linux developers have announced the release of a reverse-engineered open source firmware for Broadcom 4306 and 4318 wireless hardware, licensed under the GPLv2. 'Although the base firmware is not fully 802.11 compliant, e.g., it does not support RTS/CTS procedure or QoS, we believe that someone could be interested in testing it. The firmware does not require the kernel to be modified and it uses the same shared memory layout and global registers usage of the original stuff from broadcom to ease loading by the b43 driver.' You can go check out and download the firmware at the Italian Universita' Degli Studi Di Brescia Open FirmWare for WiFi networks project page. This is a good example of clean room reverse engineering design where one group worked on specifications while another worked on the the driver and the firmware. Kudos to the specification writers and bcm43xx development team for their hard work."
Comment Re:What about NNTP? P2P? (Score 1) 517
They said the web, not the internet.
Comment Re:Security through obscurity (Score 1) 171
right.
