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Comment Re:Some are also destroyed/lost (Score 1) 438

Flash chips do not normally contain JTAG. The WRT54G and phones using ARM have TJAG in the processor. It's for recovery and debugging, allowing the processor to be stopped and manipulated from a computer. If the processor works, TJTAG and USB could be an option.

I would have to recommend against using JTAG. The cheap adapters cost something which is more than free included USB. It is also dog slow. My much older phone would take over 30hours to copy across JTAG with a speed of 256KBs. USB running at full speed still takes around 10min. Newer phones ship with Gigabytes worth of flash, making JTAG alone unreasonable.

Comment How big is small office? (Score 1) 224

How many handsets and how far away to you make calls. For less than 5 handsets or mostly local calls, a simple, simple hardware pbx is still king. It's just not worth the trouble of setting up several thousand dollars worth of gear just to have options you're probably not going to use. Samsung and Tadaran make simple boxes that don't randomly crash or require hours and hours of setup and maintenance.
Voip starts to make sense when you need to have access to phones outside of the office. Asterisk does a good job of patching into any other PBX as a voicemail service and routing calls in/out to voip. Normal calls don't get dropped and VOIP is still a less reliable but still functioning option.
Voip only makes sense when there are many phone in many places with many changes. It's a up front cost of testing all network gear for working QOS. Routers, switches and you're ISP has to have working QOS. When you need everything to talk with everything else, there when you have many many handsets in many places, then worry about having open communications.
For small business though, simple hardware pbx with a few extra ports give options to open it up later.

Comment Re:Theft? (Score 1) 244

Without removing you in the process, how can you're identity be stolen. Stolen identity is surely possible while breaking a multitude of other laws. How is lying to the creditor, to receive illicit gains, not just fraud? If I tell the bank I'm the damn Queen of England, it surely isn't a problem for the Queen of England is it?

Comment Re:Ubuntu doesn't run on pre-USB boot systems anyw (Score 1) 488

Nope, Ubuntu is targeted heavily at desktop use, as such you're using the wrong time-frame.

Desktops don't do things by hours, they, and even the very very old ones work at times that are much faster than you. A desktop system works at 1/60 of a second. I push a button, I click a mouse, I wave at a camera. All of those things happen and then 1/60 of a second later the display get updated. Most of the time a desktop is usually doing nothing, nothing and nothing a 1/60 at a time. It takes much less shiny shit to fill a 1/60 than you think

Comment Do you actually need a universal programer? (Score 1) 165

They are not cheap and whomever you buy it from will burn you on the software next year. If you only have a handful of chips, most newish thing are serial and have a cheap programmer consisting of a micro and usb converter. SPI, I2C would be best done with a cheap newish design. As for the multi-pin package programmers, it's going to cost, if you value you're sanity at all. I've owned the Willem set and now a Wellon and can't go without having the chip test feature. Willem programmers are simply flaky as they don't do any test until after programing the entire chip.

Can't stress this enough, find a programmer that does test the chip on insertion.

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"Farming" Amoebas Discovered 49

Researchers from Rice University have found a type of amoeba that practices a sort of "primitive farming behavior." When their bacteria food become scarce, the Dictyostelium discoideum will group together and form a "fruiting body" that will disperse bacteria spores to a new area. From the article: "The behavior falls short of the kind of 'farming' that more advanced animals do; ants, for example, nurture a single fungus species that no longer exists in the wild. But the idea that an amoeba that spends much of its life as a single-celled organism could hold short of consuming a food supply before decamping is an astonishing one. More than just a snack for the journey of dispersal, the idea is that the bacteria that travel with the spores can 'seed' a new bacterial colony, and thus a food source in case the new locale should be lacking in bacteria." It's good to know that even a single celled creature is not immune to the pull of Farmville.
Hardware

Installing Linux On ARM-Based Netbooks? 179

An anonymous reader writes "I am sure that many other Slashdotters have noticed an increase in ARM-based netbooks over the past several months. For example, the Augen E-Go. It is a widely touted theory that it is impossible to install Linux on one of these notebooks, replacing the commonly installed Windows CE operating system. The sub-$100 netbooks carry decent specs, including 533MHz ARM processor; 128MB DDR RAM; and a 2GB Flash drive, as well as most expected netbook components (USB, Wi-Fi, etc.). I find it hard to believe that a computer with these specs is impossible to hack and install Linux to, but Google searches have been largely unsuccessful in finding proper information. Do any Slashdot readers have experience in installing ARM Linux distros to these cheap netbooks like this? If so, what distros do they recommend?" (In particular, I wonder if anyone can comment on Ubuntu on ARM.)
Handhelds

Apple Reverses iPad "No Cash Purchase" Policy 377

ZipK writes "After a few days of bad publicity, Apple has reversed its no cash purchase policy, explaining that the policy was originally implemented to limit the number of iPads an individual could buy during the introductory period of short supply. Now that supply has caught up with demand — and the story has hit front pages and gained national attention — Apple has reversed its policy, and taken the opportunity to put a bow on the story by giving the formerly scorned Diane Campbell a free iPad."
Role Playing (Games)

Aion Servers To Merge, XP Grind Softened 108

Massively reports that NCSoft's fantasy MMO Aion will soon be getting a round of server mergers to balance player populations and shore up in-game economies. A newsletter from Aion producer Chris Hager also brought word that character transfers will be an option starting in June, and NCSoft will be "offering them to all of our players for free for a limited time." This is happening in the lead-up to the game's 1.9 patch, due on June 2, which contains a number of measures to make the XP grind a bit less harsh (among other things; patch notes). They're creating more quests, increasing XP rewards from existing quests, and implementing a system that "grants you experience bonuses as you continue to play."
United States

State Senator Caught Looking At Porn On Senate Floor 574

Everyone knows how boring a debate on a controversial abortion bill can get on the Senate floor. So it's no wonder that Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett took the time to look at a little porn and a video of a dog running out of the water and shaking itself off. From the article: "Ironically, as Bennett is viewing the material, you can hear a Senator Dan Gelber's voice in the background debating a controversial abortion bill. 'I'm against this bill,' said Gelber, 'because it disrespects too many women in the state of Florida.' Bennett defended his actions, telling Sunshine State News it was an email sent to him by a woman 'who happens to be a former court administrator.'"

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