dmoen - Slashdot User

Comment: not a "mobile" technology (Score 4, Interesting) 156

by dmoen on Monday May 10 2010, @08:25AM (#32154340) Attached to: 7Gbps Wi-Fi Networking Kit Could Launch In 2010

As I understand it, this is a replacement for running a fibre optic link between your house and your ISP. Instead, you mount an antenna on your roof, which engages in narrow beam, line of sight 60 GHz communication with your ISP. I think the benefits are that it is potentially cheaper than running a fibre optic cable to your house. The signal is attenuated by rain, and by atmospheric oxygen. I doubt the signal can travel very well through walls. And I don't think it is useful for mobile devices.

Doug Moen

Comment: Striking a balance (Score 5, Insightful) 192

by dmoen on Monday March 09 2009, @04:10PM (#27126831) Attached to: Developers Looking to Set Up Alternatives To Apple's App Store

"the iPhone ... was trying to strike a balance between a closed device like the iPod and an open device like the PC"

The correct "balance" between open and closed is *open*.

ZFS committed to FreeBSD CVS

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 06 2007, @04:26AM

An anonymous reader writes "Pawel Jakub Dawidek has announced on the freebsd-current mailing list that he has committed Sun's ZFS file system to FreeBSD 7-CURRENT. This full support for its logical volume management via storage pools, self-healing and data corruption detection, NFS export, and more. Arguably the most exciting new file system on the planet will be available out of the box in FreeBSD 7.0 later this year!"

Journal: I love Ubuntu Linux 0

Journal by Billly Gates on Saturday March 24 2007, @12:32PM

I just tried upgrading to Ubuntu Linux 7.4 Fiesty Fawn beta 1 last night. I started the update-manager -c to chose to upgrade online. I had one little problem ....

Anne turned off the lightswitch where teh laptop was plugged in during the upgrade. :-( So my laptop is half 6.10 and half 7.4.

Third Stargate TV series gets a name

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on Saturday March 24 2007, @12:00PM

Anonymous Coward writes "The working title of the third Stargate television series is Stargate Universe , executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld. The show currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters. Cooper and executive producer Brad Wright will start writing the pilot after shooting on the two Stargate SG-1 movies finishes in June. Meanwhile, new episodes of SG-1 and Atlantis start airing April 13 in the U.S., on The SCI FI Channel. Read lots more from Cooper at GateWorld ..."