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First look at Nokia N810 successor 0

Submitted by Edgester on Thursday August 20 2009, @07:57AM

Edgester writes "Mobile Review got its hands on the successor to Nokia's N810. The community has dubbed it, the N900. The screenshots hint that it will be a phone. The article is a little light on specs, but mentions an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 32GB internal memory and a microSD slot that can take 32GB cards. Photos, screenshots, and the review are at http://www.mobile-review.com/review/nokia-rx51-n900-en.shtml"

Blastwave project forked 0

Submitted by Edgester on Tuesday September 09 2008, @07:20PM

Edgester writes "It looks like the Blastwave project has forked. Blastwave is a project that makes various FOSS packages available on Solaris using a apt-like packager, but it has no affiliation with Sun Microsystems. It looks like the project has forked with a good dose of finger-pointing and some ill will.

One side's tale and The thread of rebuttals. The new sites after the fork are blastwave.org and opencsw.org.

This whole fiasco started around discussion of whether or not to drop support for solaris 8 and other solaris releases vs. supporting opensolaris and the newer versions.

Those of you using blastwave or csw packages on Solaris should take note and evaluate things for yourselves."

How would you word a law to enforce net neutrality 0

Submitted by Edgester on Saturday February 02 2008, @11:03AM

Edgester writes "If you could write a new law to encourage or enforce Net Neutrality, how would you word it? How would you balance tiered customers who pay for SLA's that guarantee a level of service with discouraging the the throttling of a non-partner's content, but being able to throttle or block botnets and other bad guys.

While I don't want preferential throttling of content, I can't think of how to write a rule to enforce this without eliminating the other two sides. It's all firewall rules or or router policies, who and why you throttle or block is all subjective. I think I'm to the point where I don't want to legislate this, but instead just force full disclosure of policies and let the market sort it out.

I'm also doubtful that the congress critters would get it right. I'm afraid that the uber-regulated net neutrality option may leave us worse off than letting preferential filtering happen. Opinions?"

Apple release iPhone/iPod Touch dev kit-> 3

Submitted by Edgester on Friday November 16 2007, @07:30PM

Edgester writes "I just received this:

Available to all ADC Members, the iPhone Dev Center is your complete source for technical information, resources, and expert advice on how to design, code and optimize web applications for iPhone and iPod touch. Take advantage of the iPhone Reference Library, web development guidelines, and sample code to build or optimize your web application. Through ADC on iTunes, you can watch iPhone experts discuss everything from user interface design to optimizing your web applications and content for iPhone.
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