Comment Re:For proper BOFH-Mode (Score 1) 416
Oh yes, a original power over ethernet cable.
Comment Re:You people are you paranoid (Score 1) 133
The fact that this comment has been modded insightful and not funny is a very real proof that the Slashdot readership is far removed from the hot grits days.
Comment Re:For proper BOFH-Mode (Score 4, Funny) 416
You forgot the essential cable...
No toolbox is complete without the etherkiller.
Comment Re:Importance of mobile (Score 1) 417
I believe we should "think different".
To me, the whole metro start is just a glorified screensaver. And I intend to use it like that..
Comment Re:UUCP (Score 1) 109
mcvax!moskvax!kremvax!soyuz!ISS
after that I'm lost..
Comment UUCP (Score 2) 109
I thought something like this already existed. And it worked pretty well at the time.
Comment Re:No wonder it sucks! (Score 1) 187
Well, he is just a kid. Probably had some imaging tools on the local server and couldn't be bothered to get the disk out. A beginner's mistake!
But you didn't look closely enough. Those were open racks with motherboards on them. The red lights provide a nice movie style heartbeat status display.
Comment Re:Definitely not an Apple product! (Score 1) 438
Looks like an upmarket copy of Dashew's Unsailboat..
Look here http://www.dashewoffshore.com/fpb83_intro.asp for the old boat or here http://www.dashewoffshore.com/fpb112.asp for the new.
Comment Re:Trade war (Score 1) 265
Which means most electronic devices of today. Including the iPhone.
Comment Obligatory (Score 1) 74
Oh shit, the infinite improbability drive is on the fritz again.
Comment Re:One or the other (Score 1) 198
Windows for Windex!
New and Improved!
Comment Re:What about productivity? (Score 1) 198
It is intentional. We are entering the age of consumer driven technology development. Even Microsoft is betting on the BYOD bandwagon.
The problem is, and it's going to take considerable time taking the wrong road to understand, consumers do not know what is right or wrong for the task at hand. We are abandoning working tool sets for barely usable tech, and every new gadget manufacturer assumes that the influx of new users of that device is going to overshadow legacy users. Steven Jobs had a knack for doing that right, but Microsoft large advantage was always its legacy support. They are starting to copy Apple even in that segment.
Devices are becoming dumber. Average users are becoming dumber. The age of hell for IT support.
Submission + - Increasing wireless network speed by 1000%, by replacing packets with algebra (extremetech.com)
MrSeb writes: "A team of researchers from MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe, have devised a way of boosting the performance of wireless networks by up to 10 times — without increasing transmission power, adding more base stations, or using more wireless spectrum. The researchers’ creation, coded TCP, is a novel way of transmitting data so that lost packets don’t result in higher latency or re-sent data. With coded TCP, blocks of packets are clumped together and then transformed into algebraic equations that describe the packets. If part of the message is lost, the receiver can solve the equation to derive the missing data. The process of solving the equations is simple and linear, meaning it doesn’t require much processing on behalf of the router/smartphone/laptop. In testing, the coded TCP resulted in some dramatic improvements. MIT found that campus WiFi (2% packet loss) jumped from 1Mbps to 16Mbps. On a fast-moving train (5% packet loss), the connection speed jumped from 0.5Mbps to 13.5Mbps. Moving forward, coded TCP is expected to have huge repercussions on the performance of LTE and WiFi networks — and the technology has already been commercially licensed to several hardware makers."
Comment Re:Samsung's relationship (Score 1) 331
We all know what is coming but it feels like the industry has been moving backwards the past few years. Features that were standard are disappearing being replaced by much more elaborate procedures in the name of idiot friendliness. The OS is being marginalised by it's shell UI. Not more computers, just appliances.
I am starting to miss Microsoft. And that is not a good thing.
Comment Re:Basic seamanship (Score 1) 236
Titanic sank because of hard a starboard. The captain made the correct choice of all back.
