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Comment T-Mobile is having DNS issues too (Score 1) 1

More than just facebook, T-Mobile's sms gateway isn't resolving either. /usr/local/sbin/mtr smtpgw.mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com
Failed to resolve host: nodename nor servname provided, or not known

ping smtpgw.mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com
ping: unknown host smtpgw.mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com

Television

Time To Ditch Cable For Internet TV? 321

itwbennett writes "A flurry of announcements from YouTube, Boxee, Dell and Clicker on Thursday brought good news for anyone considering canceling their cable service in favor of internet TV. First, YouTube announced that within the next few days it will start offering full 1080P HD streams; better than your cable company can offer. Next, Boxee announced a 'Boxee Box' that promises to make it easier to get the content off your computer and onto your TV. Or you could hook up Dell's Inspiron Zino HD instead. 'This is an 8" x 8" PC running Windows 7 (with an option for Ubuntu) that you certainly could use as a desktop machine, but the form factor just screams 'Hook me up to your TV!' via its HDMI port,' says Peter Smith. And, last but not least in this roundup of announcements is the launch of Clicker, a programming guide for internet TV that aims to help you find what you want, when you want it."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft outage takes down all sidekicks (engadget.com)

Chaostrophy writes: "Apparently while doing an upgrade on the servers, something went wrong, and they went down about 6:30am Pacific time. This means that every single Danger Inc (now owned by Microsoft for about a year and a half) Hiptop device is just a dumb phone. Every T-Mobile sidekick, and the other carriers who have the are affected.

On Twitter, #tmobilesucks is the number two topic.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/04/dangers-server-woes-leave-sidekicks-in-the-lurch/

http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2009/10/04/t-mobile-sidekick-users-left-in-the-dark-as-data-outage-continues/

http://www.hiptop3.com/archives/get-a-credit-for-the-sidekick-data-outage"

The Matrix

Submission + - Entanglement Could Be A Deterministic Phenomenon (technologyreview.com)

KentuckyFC writes: "Nobel prize-winning physicist Gerard 't Hooft has joined the likes of computer scientists Stephen Wolfram and Ed Fredkin in claiming that the universe can be accurately modelled by cellular automata. The novel aspect of 't Hooft's model is that it allows quantum mechanics and, in particular, the spooky action at a distance known as entanglement to be deterministic. The idea that quantum mechanics is fundamentally deterministic is known as hidden variable theory but has been widely discounted by physicists because numerous experiments have shown its predictions to be wrong. But 't Hooft says his cellular automaton model is a new class of hidden variable theory that falls outside the remit of previous tests. However, he readily admits that the new model has serious shortcomings saying it lacks some of the basic symmetries that our universe enjoys, such as rotational symmetry. However, 't Hooft adds that he is working on modifications that will make the model more realistic (abstract)."

Comment Re:Notepad++ (Score 1) 1131

Well, in Unix I use emacs or vi (just because it's fast and everywhere), so no need. For windows, I want something I can run on a flash drive (portableapps.com) as I often move desk to desk.

Comment Headhunter? (Score 1) 205

I still miss the Quake I/II mod Headhunter, very nice in that it had strategy without teamplay, is there anything else that is more complex than deathmatch but doesn't have teams? Not to knock teamplay, but when your teammates are pickup game players who are not interested in having a clue (we need more than just me to guard the flag folks!).

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