Comment NZ did this and it works well (Score 1) 42

by ovoskeuiks on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:02PM (#66143967) Attached to: AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile Team Up To Eliminate 'Dead Zones' Across US

In New Zealand they setup the Rural Broadband Initiative which the main cell service companies formed a joint venture and installed shared towers across the country. Worked really well and it's nice to no longer have to decide on a provider based on who has nearby towers.

Comment Re:Saving consumers a whole 4.5 Euros (Score 1) 123

by ovoskeuiks on Sunday October 19, 2025 @10:32PM (#65737266) Attached to: EU Expands USB-C Mandate To Chargers

People forget there were over 30 different phone chargers before the EU stepped in, based on the success of that I'm happy for them to make this decision as well. I see little benefit to a company deciding based on profit motives as oppose to a regulatory body looking at the bigger picture.

Comment In New Zealand (Score 1) 146

by ovoskeuiks on Monday November 28, 2022 @04:37AM (#63084618) Attached to: Will Made-in-China EV's Bring New Competition for Automakers?

We have MG, BYD and LDV Chinese EV's and all are fine vehicles. I own an MG and it's been fantastic

Comment Machine Learning (Score 1) 70

by ovoskeuiks on Saturday June 26, 2021 @04:29AM (#61522834) Attached to: Final Fantasy Remasters Reignite Controversies Over Pixel Art

Sounds like a good application for machine learning to perfect a suitable CRT filter

Comment Could be worse (Score 1) 164

by ovoskeuiks on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @04:07PM (#52979135) Attached to: US Warns Samsung Washing Machine Owners After Explosion Reports

From the looks of the pictures it's simply shaken itself to pieces. Down here in Australia and New Zealand, Samsung top loaders have a bad reputation for catching fire and burning peoples houses down. Lastest Samsung Washing Machine Fires

Comment Re: Answers (Score 1) 77

by ovoskeuiks on Saturday September 12, 2015 @05:30PM (#50511007) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS?

I was disturbed to find out one of my banks doesn't recognise case in its passwords. I put my password in with caps lock on and it worked. Tested a few combinations of upper and lower case all worked.

Comment Hand Trucks (Score 1) 331

by ovoskeuiks on Sunday June 17, 2012 @08:05PM (#40355289) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network

Build all your workstations and servers onto racks made from hand trucks, you know the ones with 2 rubber wheels that you use to move fridges and the like. You can build little shelves etc onto them with places to hook all the various cables then when you need to move you simply unplug the cables and wheel them out the door. It's cheap and effective you don't need people tripping over themselves trying to carry heavy bit of a gear onto a truck. If the gear already has wheels on it it's much easier to move safely.

Comment Next Window (Score 1) 138

by ovoskeuiks on Wednesday May 11, 2011 @12:17AM (#36090338) Attached to: Creating a "Force Field" Invisible Touch Interface

Plenty of touch overlays for larger screens used this technology, I have a stack of overlays for 32" panels that use IR like this. A much better options would be something like Next Window Overlays http://www.nextwindow.com/ They use a pair of 1 dimesional ir cameras and a bar of ir lights to triangulate objects in their field of view so by placing the cameras in the top two corners of the screen and the ir leds between them you can have a simple bar rather than a square frame like this thing. Mount a bunch of them on the ceiling next to each other and you'd have instant 3D multitouch

Comment Generation G (Score 1) 251

by ovoskeuiks on Sunday November 14, 2010 @09:58PM (#34227148) Attached to: Google Preparing To Launch G-Town

Google are clearly putting all their staff together so they can only socialise with each other, eventually pairing off and producing Generation G offspring

Comment Like is the only option (Score 2, Interesting) 448

by ovoskeuiks on Thursday September 23, 2010 @09:23PM (#33682906) Attached to: Facebook Is Down

There isn't an option to dislike

NASA Tests Flying Airbag 118

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday December 09, 2009 @03:10PM from the drop-the-cloud-anchor dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA is looking to reduce the deadly impact of helicopter crashes on their pilots and passengers with what the agency calls a high-tech honeycomb airbag known as a deployable energy absorber. So in order to test out its technology NASA dropped a small helicopter from a height of 35 feet to see whether its deployable energy absorber, made up of an expandable honeycomb cushion, could handle the stress. The test crash hit the ground at about 54MPH at a 33 degree angle, what NASA called a relatively severe helicopter crash."

Feed Magnetic clothes hangers rearrange your closet (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @05:52AM

Filed under: Household

As with most things that have remained fairly constant over the years, it was just a matter of time before someone with a tick of free time and a bright idea gave a new face to the clothes hanger. Daniel To's simply-named magnetic clothes hangers maintain the same forked design to gingerly hold your favorite threads, but rather than sporting a rotating hook, a magnetic cube was attached in order to give design-conscience homeowners a new way to assemble their closets. Of course, you'll need a metallic rack / roof to take advantage of the attractive (ahem) design, but we sure hope these end up coming in a heavy duty flavor for the more weighted aspects of our wardrobe.

[Via Freshome]

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Feed Chocolate the key to uncovering PC passwords (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @05:52AM

Sweet talk and sweets is all it takes

Three years since the last time they pulled this stunt, cheeky researchers can still wangle IT passwords with free chocolate and flirting.

Feed Mainframe now obsolete for data warehousing (theregister.com)

From feed by registerfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @05:12AM

Let Intel inherit the earth?

Reg Reader Workshop Many would have argued in the past that a data warehouse was not a "real" data warehouse unless it existed the in big iron mainframe number crunching environment.

Feed Nokia's 6120 Classic: thin HSDPA is (finally) in (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Tuesday April 17, 2007 @04:32AM

Filed under: Cellphones

Great googlie mooglie, what's this? Can it really be a 15-millimeter thin candybar from Nokia, the makers of those chunky multimedia computers? Ok, it's not as thin as their N76 but let's give 'em some credit here for trying. Having fermented in the rumor mill for a few weeks, we now have ourselves a fully mature Nokia 6120 Classic running S60 3rd Edition, Feature Pack 1 over quad-band GSM and WCDMA/HSDPA 850/2100. The handset packs a 2-inch QVGA display, A2DP stereo Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR, a 2 megapixel camera with flash, and MicroSD slot to store your media. A pre-tax, pre-contract price of €260/$352 will get you up close and personal when these hit sometime before June lets out. Check all the pics in the gallery below. Sorry, only a tiny backside pic for now; Nokia's being a bit shy 'bout their junk.

Gallery: Nokia's 6120 Classic: thin HSDPA is (finally) in

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