no need for a dongle
Most laptops have the WiFI as an addon via PciE either on a hatch on the back or under the keyboard.
They really aren't expensive and it is how my 4 year old laptop has 802.11n.
Posts by Gerhard Mack
134 posts • joined Wednesday 4th April 2007 21:36 GMT
Posted in MP blasts 'ineffective' games regulation
Re: More Censorship from MPs.
As someone who has actually fired an assault rifle, I'm still rather lost on how a video game can teach one to shoot. Game controllers aren't anywhere near the shape of an actual gun and vibrating controllers feel nothing like recoil.
Posted in Nokia: 'hybrid' mobiles will save us
Re: Such a shame
8 Billion doesn't go very far when you are losing 1.3 billion every quarter and in the meantime they are putting out phones with good reviews that few people seem to be buying.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/19/nokia_earnings_ouch/
Elop went and asked the telcos what they wanted but missed the industry sea change that put them in their current position in the first place: The telcos are no longer in charge. A decade ago telcos sold us $600 feature phones with USB file transfer disabled and then Apple comes along and shoves the Iphone down their throats with features the telcos hate like Wifi and app stores that the telcos aren't in control of. And now on the low end we have the chinese comming out with features the telcos absolutely despise such as dual sim phones. The telcos aren't in a place to dicatate phone sales anymore.
What he should have done was ask the customers what they wanted but he still won't do that so unless something big happens they are, quite frankly, screwed.
Re: Calm down
"No. Mohammed is the central figure in Islam, but Jesus is considered a prophet also and therefore criticism of Jesus could also be considered blasphemy by muslims (and punishable in countries like Pakistan)."
Actually no. It has morphed into anything negative towards even the name Mohammed. In fact, not so long ago someone was charged with blasphemy for tearing up a business card of a guy named Mohammed and throwing it in the trash so we can expect much of the same strangeness from any online laws.
Posted in Toshiba gobbles IBM's POS biz for $850m
Re: No money in hardware?
To be fair, it works well for IBM but their competitors are falling over themselves trying to emulate their business. What IBM has done here is make sure they can offer their ridiculously large service package on more hardware.
they forgot what's important
Somewhere along the line Sony started seeing it's own customers as the enemy and started trying to force DRM down the throats of it's users and disabling features on devices that people already paid for.
In the last year I bought a new cell phone and TV and in both cases I excluded Sony products for no other reason than the way they treat their own customers and I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks that way.
Re: When?
"But they do. They only need mains power. Run one off a Generator, Inverter or UPS(unplug it after turning on) and with a reasonable 4 way socket strip extension cable and they will connect. The longer the "aerial" (extension cable) the bigger the distance."
From my experience even a surge protector will throw these things off.
Re: Oh the humanity!
It's only a trojan if a user has to install something. This is an honest to goodness virus and anyone who says otherwise is just flat out wrong.
Posted in IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz
Re: es, that bad!
You might want to consider that there is more to this world than just web browsing. VOIP is already hugely encumbered with ugly hacks just to work around NAT and there are things I just can't do with the current setup. With IPv6 you can still leave the firewall to no incoming connections by default and enable privacy extensions if you are worried about people knowing the internal address of your machines.
Not that it matters much anyways, we have long since past the point where even windows tends to be mostly secure port wise and the most common attack vectors are browser plugins and tainted downloads.
Re: In defense of nobody...
10 Years ago I could count on every component of my system having at least a 2 year warranty. It is funny how that all changed right before they started offering "extended service" plans.
Posted in IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz
not as bad
To be fair LPT/SNAT are a *lot* less annoying to deal with than ipv4's DNAT since it is a 1:1 mapping rather than trying to map ports to multiple machines. With a 1:1 mapping the router will automatically know where to route the packet even if it's a new connection from the outside.
Re: Wide of the mark?
In this day and age I see people who are in dire need of any work and some of these offers don't look like they pay anything more than normal. The scampers even have good reasons why they need to ship through a broker or move money with a middle man. These people aren't greedy they just want to find work and are often quite shocked when their accounts end up drained instead. In fact one of my friends was offered one of these "jobs" and it took me quite awhile to convince her that there was no job and it was all a scam.
Re: Cost Analysis
I just looked at their annual report for 2010 and their net profit of £642m seems to beat your expectations by a rather large margin.
Posted in 'Fileless' malware installs into RAM
Re: Java? - Please, please, please
Cisco is one reason I am nervous about installing Java updates ever since a security update a couple of years ago rendered Java incompatible with our Cisco firewall.
Re: Not so quick
The same has been said for the HDD industry for it's entire history and I would love for you to tell me a single HDD manufacturer who hasn't had problems. There have been firmware problems, platter problems, vibration problems, heat problems, electrical failures etc. The only reason it's news on the SSD front is because they are new.
http://www.tomshardware.com/gallery/ssdfailurerates_1024,0101-302141-0-2-3-1-png-.html
In practice, the failure rates aren't worse than HDD and the failure points tend to happen in different places but the advice is the same as with HDD: if you care about your data then keep a backup and if a drive failure will be a huge problem for you then use RAID.
Re: Is Apache today really still that good?
NGINX is great provided you don't need any of the flexibility that they sacrificed to get that fast. I would call it a trade off.
Re: Meh, not really.
It is sensationalist but partially true. DRAM needs seem to have plateaued on my systems and with the sole exception of my dev machine that generates large tables, none of my machines exceed 3 GB memory usage and moving my system drives from regular HD to SSD had more effect on the overall machine performance than doubling the ram from 4GB to 8GB even on my memory starved dev machine.
it happens
I recall a few years back taking an accidental dunk in a Montreal river with my phone still in my pocket. I would probably pay a bit extra if my next phone was waterproof.
Re: Oh ho ho ho!
I had a friend like that but luckily the problem turned out to be caused by his taking Zoloft while smoking pot. Turns out antidepressants and THC don't mix.
@BristolBachelor
I guess someone must have gotten tired of trying to learn English from the endless repeats of Diagnosis Murder and Flipper.
Clockworkmod
Thanks to the Open Source nature of Android, my HTC Desire Z is already running ICS. Best part is not having to deal with that useless HTC Sense crap.
really
I take it you have no idea what pastbin is. Pastbin is for quickly passing around large amounts of text for cases such as support requests and if they took the time to accept or deny things then it would be useless for the task it was designed for.
Given their history you can bet they will take down the logs as soon as they find out about them but complaining they didn't block them in the first place is just unreasonable.
@dogged
I love how you say firewall-based as if that, instantaneously makes the site more secure. It doesn't, they still need to open ports to the outside world and you can distribute the penetration test across a bot net to avoid detection.
There are several worms and general attack tools that try multiple attack vectors such as common php/iis/asp programming errors and password guessing on any open port (ssh, ftp, smtp-sasl,pop3) that takes a password. My server logs are stuffed full with the resulting warnings even though each host can only try 4 times before being blocked.
did you even read the article?
People don't get payed much if they get anything now for peer reviewing so how will a cheaper publisher change anything?
Posted in Paramount opens Cloud-based movie shop
er no
That would be true if things were how you say they are. The downsides:
1.Not available on Android, Linux or WinPhone
2.Hi Def is not available on the Ipad or Iphone.
3.I'm guessing not compatible with most PVRs either.
So useless on my tablet or my DVDless notebook.
Those make for some large holes in "watch when and where you want". I really wanted them to succeed this time. I hate having to rip my blu ray just so I can stream things to my TV or watch them on the road but I'm just going to have to continue for the next while.
still there
It's just that YouTube allows the person who uploaded the video to disable them.
@Nergatron
I can't tell if you are trolling or just fail at reading comprehension but just in case:
"The figures just released show that of all Android devices activated to date, only 3.3% of them run Android 3.x, aka Honeycomb. Honeycomb only runs on tablets, so the numbers paint an accurate picture of just how few Android tablets have been activated. If we use Andy Rubin’s latest tweet claiming 200 million devices have been activated to date, that 3.3% running Honeycomb only represents 6.6 million Android tablets."
He adding up the numbers for ICS and Honeycomb and assuming those are the total amount of tablets when, in fact, the hottest selling tablet still runs on Gingerbread and his interpretation of the numbers will count those as cellphones rather than tablets.
really
It doesn't matter whose figures they are because they are being used to show something they can't possibly show. You can't extrapolate tablet uptake based on ICS and Honeycomb activations if most of the Tablets being sold are using Gingerbread instead.
@Nergatron two points
1. It's hard to get good numbers when your product is banned in several markets.
2. The most popular Android tablets for the moment (Samsung Galaxy Tab) are running Gingerbread making that Znet article completely pointless.
Disintegrationnotallowed is right but the problem isn't Android
It's a Blasted Samsung issue and I have the same problem with my P1000 Tab.
They did something strange to their wireless manager and email client. With wireless I am constantly turning it off and then on again to get it to connect to my office and home WiFi networks but my HTC (runs Cyanogenmod) doesn't have that problem. The same goes for email, I can't speak for pop3 but Samsung's clever Email client can't delete IMAP emails from the server so if I delete the message it's gone until the next time it checks the server.
Someone at Samsung thought they needed to modify Android to make it better and they failed badly.
no
Corn has been subsidized since before NAFTA was even thought of.
not just that
In the house I currently find myself powerline easily outruns Wi-Fi even when the signal is good and that's with wireless N on both sides. The issue isn't radio interference either because I only see 1 neighbor's Wi-FI and that is weak signal.
more of the same
What they really need to do is come up with some someone fresh who is NOT from the entertainment division. If this goes as planned we will just see more crippled products and customer shafting in the name of "IP protection".
@majid
Forgotten about Danger Incorporated (the company behind the Sidekick) already? Every celebrity had to have one them MS bought the company and completely destroyed the brand.
@Steve Knox
Note the large "citation needed" next to that line in the Wikipedia entry. It's there because the line actually very wrong.
Stratfor is not a security company it's a private intelligence service that keeps it's subscribers up to date on world events and their likely outcomes. While there is the odd video about physical security those videos aren't the majority and aren't the primary reason for the site. I have also never seen Stratfor claim to know anything about IT security.
not so sure
The really strange thing about all of this is that I looked up my password from the website showing off the leak and they had the wrong password for my Stratfor account..
All of this makes me suspect that someone is exaggerating what all got out.
Not that I'm taking my chances mind you, I have double checked that I haven't used a variation of that password anywhere else and my Credit Card is canceled.
It's true
After working in the online CC industry I can tell you the banks never pass up the opportunity to add a fee and it doesn't help that they view it as the merchant's fault if they get used for a fraudulent transaction and yes, people have been put out of business this way.
So far the outcry has only resulted in the credit card companies issuing a statement that there is nothing that forces the banks to add chargeback fees to their contracts but in practice I don't know of any banks that don't have a clause for chargeback fees.
I wish
If incompetence was a firing offense, a lot of the retail industry and most of the credit card processing industry would be forced to shut down.
Dealing with a processor now that has a system that was designed to use the end user's browser to contact the bank and return the reply to the merchant. Shockingly hard to work around their design and turn it into something secure.
I payed the tax
I have a Windows XP license that I never used because getting a laptop without a Windows license was more expensive.
what a load
As an Android phone owner I can tell you that you most certainty do not have to "dick with" anything on an Andoid phone. Downstairs from me is a woman who wanted my advice on a tablet. I helped her pick out a Samsung Galaxy tab and then offered to show her how to use it. Turns out she never took me up on the offer because she mastered it on her own. She is not a techie and all she wanted was GPS and the ability to browse websites and check her email and she likes her Android device because it is easy.
I, on the other hand, have rooted my company assigned Galaxy tab and replaced the OS on my HTC but I love doing that sort of thing. My point is that just because you can doesn't mean that you have to.
mostly true on point 1
At least in Canada the rich are more likely to be driving a new car while the poorer you are the older your car will be. Older cars will have less efficient engines to begin with along with the normal losses of efficiency from a worn engine.
nuts
It's clear that anonymous and friends have no idea (or don't care) how the banking system works. If they donate money from a stolen card to a charity then not only will the charity not get to keep the money, they will be charged a chargeback fee by the bank as insult to injury. The banks are _NEVER_ on the hook for the money, only the merchant and this stunt will only hurt the people they are pretending to want to help.
because it's all still search?
The only thing Google is replacing are sites that provide localized searches for information and very interesting to note that most of the companies backing this complaint are people I already had entered into my "block from search" before all of this started. When I'm doing a search I want to find the product I'm looking for and not find myself in some product search site that offers no more information than the search page I just left.
it doesn't copy
@trevor 3 you are close but Android doesn't do it the CPU does. On any modern CPU architecture the CPU can map memory however you want so a given resource can be relocated anywhere regardless of it's physical location in RAM. This is the same virtual memory function that gives us Swapping but someone has discovered a way to re-purpose it as a security tool.
Posted in Dubstep ringtone wins Nokia compo
@Emer Phud
Can't speak for the radios but at least boomboxes had real speakers. Most of the complaint I have with the cellphone music crowd is that even good music sounds terrible on a tiny speaker too small to have any decent frequency response. To make it even more annoying it seems that a lot of what the kids are listening to tends toward Base heavy and the speakers just can't handle it.
At least it's not email Interac
In Canada we have a service from the largest banks called Email Interac and the *only* way to get the money youve been sent is to click on the link in the email they send.
@Voland's right hand
Mostly true but you give far too much credit to OpenBSD, a lot f things got replaced (sendmail, WUFTPD etc) but even then in the early days OpenBSD's daemons had their fair share of exploits as well.
Thankfully these days the system software people pretty much have their act together and most Linux root kits are either password guessing or exploiting a web app.
degree doesn't mean the guy can do his job
I've run into several University grads who are useless as programmers. The attitude of "This should work so it's no my fault if it doesn't" is a problem on both sides of the fence.
I *hate* price comparison sites
I really hate them, they pollute my search results with sites that only link to other sites and are a royal pain when trying to find ratings or technical info on a product. Several of the companies listed here are already on my block list inside search settings.
that happened to my aunt as well
Some Nigerian cloned her Facebook profile and started trying to get money out of her friends and family. The solution is to use the report button on the bottom left side of the coned page and report it as someone pretending to be someone else. I got my aunt's friends to all do that and they had the cloned page down a few hours later.
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Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
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