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Comment: Re:Tethering (Score 1) 275

by Daniel Wood (#38827119) Attached to: Google's SPDY Could Be Incorporated Into Next-Gen HTTP

I had this issue back in 2002 on Sprint. My solution was to run a background ping process with 1-byte packets. This kept my connection from stalling out. The disadvantage is that your 3G modem and WiFi will never enter low-power states. So your battery life will suffer as a result.

On the same note, my web browsing greatly benefits from running all my web traffic through a SSH tunnel with compression enabled. When you are dealing with a sub-48kbit GPRS connection that ramps ping times into the 100+ second range (not a typo) and 50% packet loss with high traffic usage, it becomes necessary. (For those wondering, Afghanistan)

Comment: Re:Finally (Score 1) 165

by Daniel Wood (#38816225) Attached to: CRTC Says Rogers Violating Federal Net Neutrality Rules

Here in some places (but not enough) of the U.S. we have two, sometimes three different internet companies to choose from.

FTFY

Thanks. I happen to live one of those places. The ONLY option here is AT&T 3.5mbps ADSL. Other possibilities are an AT&T EDGE(No VZW coverage here) connection that averages somewhere around 20kbps or satellite. No thanks (this coming from someone that makes a living repairing and fielding enterprise SATCOM systems).

I am fortunate enough that I was able to switch over to AT&T Business Class DSL(No bandwidth caps) for LESS than I was paying for the same AT&T Residential DSL. I get excellent SNRs and am often on FastPath because of that, but AT&T refuses to bump me up to 6mbps. That is even after explaining that I don't care if I actually get 6mbps. I will settle for whatever my modem trains at above 3.5mbps considering my primary motivator is a 768k upload versus a 384k upload and the price difference is less than $3/month.

The Internet

Facebook Maxes Out Its Data Center Space->

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1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes "Facebook is adding 2 million new users a week, and recently maxed out the data center space at its California facilities. The load on the company's servers "continues to increase at a pretty astounding rate," says Facebook engineer Jason Sobel, who said the fast-growing social networking service has added a data center in Virginia, which is now serving 30 percent of its traffic. Sobel also discusses how Facebook sorts out which data gets stored on the East Coast and West Coast, which has meant some fine-tuning of its MySQL code to properly update Memcached."
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Mozilla

Firefox Lite: Together, old PCs can crush IE->

Submitted by Eatfrank
Eatfrank writes "A recent CNet article has raged on sites like Digg, suggesting Mozilla should pipe a lite version of Firefox into older PCs to further attack IE's dominance: "Firefox supporters, take note. A bare-bones Firefox will get the browser into more houses, increasing the Fox's market share and keeps it in novice users' eyes for when they get a new PC. From the article: "Give the Celerons and the K6s some of the power back and let light users rediscover what it's really like to rediscover the Web with Firefox.""
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Security

Embedded car video surveillance?

Submitted by Smashed Ride
Smashed Ride writes "I'm sick and tired of people doing hit-and-run damage or vandalism to my car. I'd like to use a stable, low-power, embedded system running GNU/Linux or BSD to document activity around the car. Two key requirements are that 1) the system must not obstruct the view of the driver much, and 2) the video must be sharp enough to identify a culprit. I don't need a large video archive — just enough to check a log after I notice damage — but I ideally want it to be sturdy. Any good ideas? There are many ways to record video, but the key here is that I want to set it up and keep it running without fiddling with it."
Microsoft

Microsoft working on free city-wide Wi-Fi access

Submitted by thefickler
thefickler writes "Microsoft and JiWire are planning to offer free Wi-Fi access on a city wide scale; the only catch is that you'll need to sit through advertising. The companies are currently testing the service in two cities, Portland, Oregon and Oakland County, Michigan."
Windows

Windows Home Server released->

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Thomas Nybergh
Thomas Nybergh writes "Windows Home Server, based on Windows Server 2003 Small Business Edition "minus the Exchange mail server", has been released. Will the new category of Home Server hardware, combined with presumably easy to understand support for multi-disk redundancy be the ultimate backup solution Normal People and Very Small Business have needed for a very long time? And/Or will this end up being yet another, even worse supply of always available Windows machines for botnet owners to zombify? Should the industry focus more on the already existing kind of scaled down, energy saving NAS boxes rather than more or less full scale PCs running Windows Server with a silly limit on the amount of users?

On a sidenote, I've used normal pc hardware running Debian's rolling testing release as a multi purpose home server for everything from GNU Screen powered IRC, downloading ahem.. Linux install disc ISOs, NFS and Samba sharing and web serving for some time, and it simplifies a lot of things. But what amazing new uses for this new kind of for server use dedicated consumer products (perhaps running a more suitable OS), can Slashdot users think of? Especially a few product generations from now, when commodity home server hardware might support hotswappable devices and perhaps even different interfaces for interacting with your physical home, there must be something cool one could do with a server, right?"
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