Comment Re:Yikes (Score 1) 419
Later on we're having an Open Source Sex Party, you in?
An "open-sores" sex party you say? I think I'll pass.
Comment Re:Bag limit? (Score 5, Funny) 219
Drone season, fire!
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You're despicable.
You're despicable.
Comment Re:LAME (Score 2) 271
Yeah, what a jerk. He only broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight, highest freefall and fastest freefall. How dare he only break 3 out of 4 records and narrowly miss mach!? Not to mention all the data he collected. But you're right, his guy just seriously needs to go away.
Comment CudaTel (Score 1) 224
CudaTel (of Barracuda spam firewall fame) appliances are built on top of Freeswitch, an open-source PBX that I've found scales much better than Asterisk. The hardware is sized by number of concurrent calls. If you don't know how many concurrent calls you handle, the accepted convention is to take the number of phones you have and divide by 6 (or 4 if you want to be very conservative).
Comment Re:They've got it backwards. (Score 1) 434
I *so* wish I had mod points right now.
Comment Re:What is/are the race of the attackers? (Score 5, Insightful) 1198
Why would they need machine guns? The power of their economy and stranglehold on the Euro seems to be doing the trick this time around.
Comment Re:EE (Score 1) 296
I would agree with this. Although, since you're considering CS, you may want to see if your school offers a Computer Engineering program. CompE is a mesh of EE and CS, and would be well-suited toward developing controllers, monitors, firmware, etc. for advanced (hybrid, etc.) drive systems. Alternatively, since you're interested in alternate forms of energy, ChemE may be a suitable match as well.
Comment Wrong assumptions (Score 5, Informative) 251
Given this:
In the days leading up to the opening of the trade show, W-iFi connections are reliable and work as expected. However, as soon as the show opens none of our devices can reliable maintain a Wi-Fi connection to the router.
I doubt it's this:
I'm sure it is likely that there are poorly insulated electrical cabling, fluorescent lighting, and other issues that would contribute to Wi-Fi interference in the convention hall.
...and more likely this:
A quick scan shows dozens and dozens of discoverable Wi-Fi networks nearby.
I would recommend trying a few things:
- Reduce your RTS threshold, if your AP supports it.
- Reduce the fragmentation threshold, if your AP supports it.
- Play with data rates, reducing them if your AP supports it.
If your AP does not support any of those options, go out and get a real AP.
Comment Re:iOS killed the Netbook Star (Score 1) 398
Cute alternate lyrics, but what does a Cisco switch/router operating system have to do with the iPhone and iPad?
Comment Re:Stability (Score 1) 305
The "won't sync" issue is not unique to Blackberry devices; I've seen the same issue with Android devices and iPhones, albeit much, much less often. Popping the battery out usually helps with Android phones, though you can't do that with an iPhone - you need to completely remove the account info, power down the device, then enter the account info back in before the ActiveSync connection can be reestablished.
Comment Re:Shouldn't this be in "idle"? (Score 5, Funny) 288
It's no joke. And stop calling me Shirley.
Submission + - First AMD Fusion notebook beginning to surface
mrmagos writes: It looks like one of the first laptops sporting the new AMD Fusion APUs is beginning to surface on some retail sites. The Acer AS5253-BZ602 appears to have the Zacate E350 APU (1.6Ghz dual-core) with 2GB ram, a 250GB hdd and a 15.6 1366x768 display along with other standard trappings for a notebook of this size (Optical drive, 802.11b/g/n, 1.3Mpixel webcam and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit). I'm looking forward to some actual reviews and not just synthetic benchmarks on reference systems as we've seen in the past months.
Social Media Can Help You Fake Your Own Death 146
Julie188 writes "We are inundated with warnings that social media is systematically stripping away our privacy. But Frank Ahearn, the so-called 'Dear Abby' of disappearing, is attempting to show folks how to use those same technologies to regain your privacy, even helping you go as far as faking your own death. Ahearn is a professional skip-tracer who has hunted down people like Monica Lewinsky. In an interview with Ahearn on Network World, he says, 'One can legally disappear through the use of corporations and offshore corporations. The idea is to embrace technology and to become a virtual entity.' My favorite tip is that New Zealand is the place to land once you leap off the grid. Not only is it far from most of the rest of the English speaking world, he says, but it also has great beaches."
MythTV 0.23 Released 214
An anonymous reader writes "After six months of our new accelerated development schedule, MythTV 0.23 is now available. MythTV 0.23 brings a new event system, brand new Python bindings, the beta MythNetvision Internet video plugin, new audio code and surround sound upmixer, several new themes (Arclight and Childish), a greatly improved H.264 decoder, and fixes for analog scanning, among many others. Work towards MythTV 0.24 is in full swing, and has be progressing very well for the last several months. If all goes according to plan, MythTV 0.24 will bring a new MythUI OSD, a nearly rewritten audio subsystem capable of handling 24- and 32-bit audio and up to 8 channels of output, Blu-ray disc and disc structure playback, and various other performance, usability, and flexibility improvements."
Visually Demonstrating Chrome's Rendering Speed 140
eldavojohn writes "Recent betas of Google's Chrome browser are getting seriously fast. Couple that with better hardware, on average, and it's getting down to speeds that are difficult to demonstrate in a way users can appreciate. Which is why Google felt that some Rube Goldberg-ish demonstrations with slo-mo are in order. Gone are the days of boring millisecond response time metrics."
