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Comment Skeptic (Score -1) 222

I've never seen any of firefox's much publicized JS upgrades perform any better than previously. Why would it happen now? I think Firefox is doomed, Google is going to kill it (and by tossing money at it!, clever move), and impose Chrome in the long run. I use firefox regularly and it's been so-so in terms of performance for years now, lock-ups and slow loading with several tabs or heavy sites are too common in my experience. It's annoying

Comment Re:According to Claude Shannon... (Score -1) 98

Not just that, we're using technology that has only had 100 years of evolution, it's like looking for smoke signals, aliens are definetely not using this stuff!! this is what's so ridiculous about seti. Oh, and by the way, i don't know how it's now but the seti@home software used to suck big time: no binaries available with cpu-specific optimizations (which i compiled and verified that resulted in several times faster code) and no options to limit cpu use. Watch out, next news about seti is probably an iPhone app or some crap of that sort, heh..

Comment Ir could be many things, I have some suggestions (Score 0) 499

Even a microwave oven, but it's weird it's lasting exactly 2 hours. Maybe some of your neighbours has some household "experiment" running (fusion reactor anyone?) Arrange this with your neighbours: each one of you tries channel 1, 6 and 12, just to check that it affects all frequencies or just one. Another thing you could try: get a directional antenna to try to find the source of the interference (if you point it towards the interference source you should get few or none aps when passively scanning -with kismet for example). Taking into account you have like 2 hours, you can triangulate an approximate location.

Comment Re:DO NOT WANT: print server, storage, P2P daemon, (Score 0) 268

My thoughts exactly, but the clueless people they sell to don't pay attention to that. Torrent file-sharing in my router! whoo-hoo! let's buy this!. Overheating switches and wireless nics are very common... these products are made to last just 3 or 4 years at most, if they're not in a cold environment. Hell, most would even need fans and they don't even have heatsinks inside. And Linksys are good, other brands are just compact toasters waiting to fail at any minute.

Comment I don't buy it (Score 0) 267

For god's sake, if you want to map access points, you just need to look at 802.11 management frames. Keeping data packets is not only useless, it takes a lot of disk space. It was either intentional or unbelievably stupid (i'll let you guess which one...). TFA is a joke, you cannot infer essid (text ap name) from data, mac is useless, even if you do look at data packet headers, you don't need to log the data or look into them.

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