Your inability to cope with four letter words aside, I really don't know what the fuck you're talking about. To install my updates I put the.zip on the drive and pushed the buttons it told me to. Easiest firmware update I think I've ever done.
Yes, the fw upgrades are easy, one can see that Android was made to be upgraded easily and often. I didn't write that it's impossible to upgrade.
We're talking fw upgrades using the SDK (adp push, fastboot etc) and zip files that we get from others than HTC. My post was about HTC supplied firmware updates, since they are the phone manufacturer and I bought my phone directly from them.
On http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=267&act=sd&cat=all I see that the last update was in october-2009 and it's a 1.5 release. Did you get your updates to 1.6 or 2.0 from HTC? In that case the support HTC is giving their customers is much better in your area than mine. One can expect, I think, some updates for a phone running Android, from the guys making the phone.
OK so what's your fucking problem then? You complained because they didn't give you the firmware, and now you point out that the firmware is on their site. Were you talking about before 1.6 was released? You know HTC doesn't design the firmware either right? You know who the fuck MAKES Android, right?
Just read what I originally wrote. 1.6 was never released by HTC for the Magic's bought from them.
That means that, even if it's possible to run, there's no supported way to get a newer Android release on your phone without voiding warranty. Ah well, I guess you just don't WANT to read what I'm on about and instead just continue to shout out your "knowledge" about Android and the English (American?) language.
Want some more friendly 'advise'? Take some more goddamn English classes.
Do you even know what the Cyanogen letter was about?
Yes, I know what the letter was about, though I haven't read the actual letter since it wasn't addressed to me.
Have you even fucking checked out the site in question to see that it's still going, back up after less than a week? Maybe you could go there and update your firmware yourself instead of bitching about it?
Have you ever fucking learned to communicate normally with people that you might not agree with? What's this for shit? To answer your rudely formed question: Yes, I have checked the site, I know how they fixed it and I was (up untill I sold the phone yesterday) running his FW. Why are you asking? I STILL expect a fucking (we are appearantly in Pulp Fiction mode because I appearantly said something REALLY bad that started that off) firmware from HTC. Since I bought the phone from them. I shouldn't be required to install an SDK and run recovery images just to get a fw with less bugs in it. For example the Location update bug that slows down the phone to a crawl within 2 days, fixed in 1.6 months ago.
And you know HTC can't help you figure out when your MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER is going to push you an update? Right? Because they don't control the goddamn radios?
They don't control the "goddamn radios"? I never bought the phone from any operator, I just bought it from HTC. It's not locked nor branded, it has a HTC logo on the back. How does that have anything to do with the "goddamn radios"? HTC is offering a newer firmware on their site as a download, that you can apply only with a Windows PC. Just as with less-official firmware, you don't need OTA updates to get updates.
I think you're just pissed off because you have absolutely no idea what's going on in the world around you.
Luckily we have you on to be the well informed guy that can help me out with some friendly advise.
Also, I like how one fucking sentence after years of being in the public spotlight can convince you that Google employees are sitting around laughing at your porn DNS requests and bad sexting attempts. Get over yourself.
If the CEO of a company that I'm a customer or user off says something, I note that as company policy. He's the CEO. He decides. If his views are not at all like mine, then I stop using them. That's what I did. You're free to use whatever phone you want.
"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."
That was 50% of the reason that I recently changed back from an Android phone to a 3GS (had a 2G before, hence the change "back"). I think it's important to understand how Google and it's CEO look at privacy, since you share EVERYTHING with them when you use an Android phone. The JesusPhone is not completely free of that "information grabbing", but you at least it's a bit more free.
The other 50% was that when I bought the Android phone, it was all about opensauce, lots of upgrades and GreatSuccess(TM). After 6 months of owning an Android the status was that Google had sent a lawyer-letter to Cyanogen (www.cyanogenmod.com), the ONLY guy that at least released SOME upgrades for people that bought a HTC Magic. HTC's support can't even tell when the buggy 1.5 release you get when buying a Magic would get an update to 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1. No more HTC or Android for me.
Saw some others suggesting this too. I think it's a great idea and I'll go for it. I also got my 100/100 connection last week and my Netgear FVS338 doesn't cut it. It gets to about 80mbit/s (24mbit IPSEC). Not like I'm using halve the connection, but it doesn't feel "right" not using the connection fully.:) Already using a ASA 5505 as a transparent firewall for my servers in the datacenter, works great. Will try to find a second hand, but if the price difference is not that big I'll just go for a new one. Great to have IOS at home and at least Cisco specifies performance right on their sites, not something I can say of the other manufacturers.
The only site that's a bit of help in the "el-cheapo homegateways" market is smallnetbuilder.com which tests and reviews these gateways.
I'm pretty aware on how peering works between large carriers, thank you. And yes politics plays a big part. Did I say it doesn't? What I replied to was that it wasn't TSIC that dropped peering with Cogent, that it doesn't say anywhere who didn't want to pay what (it just says that there was a dispute) and that I think Cogent is wrong by actively blocking traffic from TSIC even via other parties. Cogent might have a large (rented) backbone, Telia is far from small (less content providers than Cogent though, because TSIC is actually quite an expensive transit provider).
Their end-users in a handfull of european states are doing quite well I'd say. But it all doesn't matter I think who has the largest eh network.:) Thing is that they didn't agree on peering. Fine. Whoever's "fault" that was. Then you can just send traffic via partners or paid transit. Both are not tier-1, so both have transit providers. Blocking the traffic to pressure them is wrong.
Telia didn't drop ANY peering at all. They peer with almost everyone (both in the US, Europe and the rest of the world) and it was Cogent that dropped peering. Telia's network acted like it should and sent traffic to Cogent via a (paid) transit route, since there was no direct peering any longer. Cogent blocked that too after 12 hours, actively. To blackmail TSIC or something. Why Cogent should accept traffic? Because it's not COgent, it's the Internet. And that's how it works. Nobody can force others to peer with them, or else... Cogent and Telia can disagree on anything, but blocking traffic to/from networks is not done.
I don't know where you learned that Telia refused to upgrade their peering points, but that's not communicated anywhere actually. Telia said in an interview in a Swedish IT magazine that it was Cogent who wouldn't agree on upgrade pricing. Should Telia pay all even if the traffic balance is far out of the ordinary for a balanced peering session? Just because Cogent thinks they own the Intarweb and depeer+block traffic otherwise?
Your remark on the "Telia is too small anyway to care" shows that you don't have much knowledge on what end customers they have and how large their network is in reach, quality and nr of users (both end users and content providers). For me I hope everyone depeers Cogent in return and let them have it the way they want. AOL, FranceTelecom and Level3 already have had their share of Cogent-peering-policies, but maybe those are also too small to care for?
Telia is a very large transit provider in Europe with quite some content providers using them. It's a lot of end customers in Sweden, Danmark and Finland, plus endless amounts of datacenters and large customers all over Europe. They are actually the largest transit network in Europe, with their own net extending to Asia and the US.
In the Swedish press releases Telia stated that they didn't agree with Cogent on peering upgrades (peering sessions were running full). This can mean anything from Cogent who didn't want to pay anything at all to Telia who didn't want to pay (because it's most likely that Cogent is SENDING traffic much more than receiving traffic from Telia network, since they have almost only content). Neither TeliaSonera nor Cogent have stated who is not paying what, but two things are clear: 1. Cogent has been in peering disputes with Level3, AOL and FranceTelecom. All cases were caused by Cogent sending much more traffic than receiving and not wanting to upgrade and/or pay for traffic. 2. Telia stated clearly here that they wanted to upgrade the session but the costs were a problem here. If you can't agree on upgrade costs, why not drop the peering and play transit instead? Instead Cogent blocked them, whatever way traffic came in. Like in blackmail.
The answer to it all: money. Cogent doesn't have the bucks to pay for transit to/from TSIC and wants to play it cheap. If you sell 100mbit access for 1000USD, how can you have the money to seriously invest in things? Or to use transit to reach your destinations?
But it's not really that important this split. Anyone who still trusts Cogent as their sole bandwidth provider has been living on another planet for the last couple or years. It works both ways: TSIC customers can't reach Cogent. Cogent customers won't get any business from Europe.
I think most of the hosts in this list are actually end customer IPs (DLS/Cable). They block the machines that are worm infected with the kind of worm that has it's own SMTP engine.
Whenever their mailservers scan a virus/worm, a script scans the mailheaders to see where it originated, and that ip is blocked. The ISP blocking problem is solved by putting ISPs on a whitelist.
Under attack it depends if the worm has it's own SMTP engine. Most new ones have, I guess. If it would be sent through an ISP MTA which doesn't scan outgoing mail, then it would be on the list in no time. So the system will work if ISPs scan outbound mail. Then worms which do SMTP from the infected machine will be blocked by this list and the rest of the worms will be stopped at ISPs before getting anywhere.
A few days ago it appeared in Dutch webmags that QuoteOffice (a.NET based virtual office tool, offered for free in a basic version and for some 20 euros in a PRO version) stops. Not because they ran out of money, but because of technical problems. (see WebWereld (Dutch).
They didn't completely disclose what kind of tech probs they had though. Funny thing is the case is still listed on the MS site as a good example on how to use.NET.:)
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Your inability to cope with four letter words aside, I really don't know what the fuck you're talking about. To install my updates I put the .zip on the drive and pushed the buttons it told me to. Easiest firmware update I think I've ever done.
Yes, the fw upgrades are easy, one can see that Android was made to be upgraded easily and often. I didn't write that it's impossible to upgrade.
We're talking fw upgrades using the SDK (adp push, fastboot etc) and zip files that we get from others than HTC. My post was about HTC supplied firmware updates, since they are the phone manufacturer and I bought my phone directly from them.
On http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=267&act=sd&cat=all I see that the last update was in october-2009 and it's a 1.5 release. Did you get your updates to 1.6 or 2.0 from HTC? In that case the support HTC is giving their customers is much better in your area than mine. One can expect, I think, some updates for a phone running Android, from the guys making the phone.
OK so what's your fucking problem then? You complained because they didn't give you the firmware, and now you point out that the firmware is on their site. Were you talking about before 1.6 was released? You know HTC doesn't design the firmware either right? You know who the fuck MAKES Android, right?
Just read what I originally wrote. 1.6 was never released by HTC for the Magic's bought from them.
That means that, even if it's possible to run, there's no supported way to get a newer Android release on your phone without voiding warranty. Ah well, I guess you just don't WANT to read what I'm on about and instead just continue to shout out your "knowledge" about Android and the English (American?) language.
Want some more friendly 'advise'? Take some more goddamn English classes.
Grown up advise, thanks.
Do you even know what the Cyanogen letter was about?
Yes, I know what the letter was about, though I haven't read the actual letter since it wasn't addressed to me.
Have you even fucking checked out the site in question to see that it's still going, back up after less than a week? Maybe you could go there and update your firmware yourself instead of bitching about it?
Have you ever fucking learned to communicate normally with people that you might not agree with? What's this for shit? To answer your rudely formed question: Yes, I have checked the site, I know how they fixed it and I was (up untill I sold the phone yesterday) running his FW. Why are you asking? I STILL expect a fucking (we are appearantly in Pulp Fiction mode because I appearantly said something REALLY bad that started that off) firmware from HTC. Since I bought the phone from them. I shouldn't be required to install an SDK and run recovery images just to get a fw with less bugs in it. For example the Location update bug that slows down the phone to a crawl within 2 days, fixed in 1.6 months ago.
And you know HTC can't help you figure out when your MOBILE SERVICE PROVIDER is going to push you an update? Right? Because they don't control the goddamn radios?
They don't control the "goddamn radios"? I never bought the phone from any operator, I just bought it from HTC. It's not locked nor branded, it has a HTC logo on the back. How does that have anything to do with the "goddamn radios"? HTC is offering a newer firmware on their site as a download, that you can apply only with a Windows PC. Just as with less-official firmware, you don't need OTA updates to get updates.
I think you're just pissed off because you have absolutely no idea what's going on in the world around you.
Luckily we have you on to be the well informed guy that can help me out with some friendly advise.
Also, I like how one fucking sentence after years of being in the public spotlight can convince you that Google employees are sitting around laughing at your porn DNS requests and bad sexting attempts. Get over yourself.
If the CEO of a company that I'm a customer or user off says something, I note that as company policy. He's the CEO. He decides. If his views are not at all like mine, then I stop using them. That's what I did. You're free to use whatever phone you want.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google..
That was 50% of the reason that I recently changed back from an Android phone to a 3GS (had a 2G before, hence the change "back"). I think it's important to understand how Google and it's CEO look at privacy, since you share EVERYTHING with them when you use an Android phone. The JesusPhone is not completely free of that "information grabbing", but you at least it's a bit more free.
The other 50% was that when I bought the Android phone, it was all about opensauce, lots of upgrades and GreatSuccess(TM). After 6 months of owning an Android the status was that Google had sent a lawyer-letter to Cyanogen (www.cyanogenmod.com), the ONLY guy that at least released SOME upgrades for people that bought a HTC Magic. HTC's support can't even tell when the buggy 1.5 release you get when buying a Magic would get an update to 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1. No more HTC or Android for me.
Saw some others suggesting this too. I think it's a great idea and I'll go for it. I also got my 100/100 connection last week and my Netgear FVS338 doesn't cut it. It gets to about 80mbit/s (24mbit IPSEC). Not like I'm using halve the connection, but it doesn't feel "right" not using the connection fully. :)
Already using a ASA 5505 as a transparent firewall for my servers in the datacenter, works great. Will try to find a second hand, but if the price difference is not that big I'll just go for a new one. Great to have IOS at home and at least Cisco specifies performance right on their sites, not something I can say of the other manufacturers.
The only site that's a bit of help in the "el-cheapo homegateways" market is smallnetbuilder.com which tests and reviews these gateways.
I'm pretty aware on how peering works between large carriers, thank you. And yes politics plays a big part. Did I say it doesn't?
:) Thing is that they didn't agree on peering. Fine. Whoever's "fault" that was. Then you can just send traffic via partners or paid transit. Both are not tier-1, so both have transit providers. Blocking the traffic to pressure them is wrong.
What I replied to was that it wasn't TSIC that dropped peering with Cogent, that it doesn't say anywhere who didn't want to pay what (it just says that there was a dispute) and that I think Cogent is wrong by actively blocking traffic from TSIC even via other parties.
Cogent might have a large (rented) backbone, Telia is far from small (less content providers than Cogent though, because TSIC is actually quite an expensive transit provider).
Cogent: 185m usd, 431 employees
TeliaSonera: 16billion usd, 31.000 employees
Their end-users in a handfull of european states are doing quite well I'd say. But it all doesn't matter I think who has the largest eh network.
Telia didn't drop ANY peering at all. They peer with almost everyone (both in the US, Europe and the rest of the world) and it was Cogent that dropped peering. Telia's network acted like it should and sent traffic to Cogent via a (paid) transit route, since there was no direct peering any longer. Cogent blocked that too after 12 hours, actively. To blackmail TSIC or something. Why Cogent should accept traffic? Because it's not COgent, it's the Internet. And that's how it works. Nobody can force others to peer with them, or else...
Cogent and Telia can disagree on anything, but blocking traffic to/from networks is not done.
I don't know where you learned that Telia refused to upgrade their peering points, but that's not communicated anywhere actually. Telia said in an interview in a Swedish IT magazine that it was Cogent who wouldn't agree on upgrade pricing. Should Telia pay all even if the traffic balance is far out of the ordinary for a balanced peering session? Just because Cogent thinks they own the Intarweb and depeer+block traffic otherwise?
Your remark on the "Telia is too small anyway to care" shows that you don't have much knowledge on what end customers they have and how large their network is in reach, quality and nr of users (both end users and content providers). For me I hope everyone depeers Cogent in return and let them have it the way they want. AOL, FranceTelecom and Level3 already have had their share of Cogent-peering-policies, but maybe those are also too small to care for?
Telia is a very large transit provider in Europe with quite some content providers using them. It's a lot of end customers in Sweden, Danmark and Finland, plus endless amounts of datacenters and large customers all over Europe. They are actually the largest transit network in Europe, with their own net extending to Asia and the US.
In the Swedish press releases Telia stated that they didn't agree with Cogent on peering upgrades (peering sessions were running full).
This can mean anything from Cogent who didn't want to pay anything at all to Telia who didn't want to pay (because it's most likely that Cogent is SENDING traffic much more than receiving traffic from Telia network, since they have almost only content).
Neither TeliaSonera nor Cogent have stated who is not paying what, but two things are clear:
1. Cogent has been in peering disputes with Level3, AOL and FranceTelecom. All cases were caused by Cogent sending much more traffic than receiving and not wanting to upgrade and/or pay for traffic.
2. Telia stated clearly here that they wanted to upgrade the session but the costs were a problem here. If you can't agree on upgrade costs, why not drop the peering and play transit instead? Instead Cogent blocked them, whatever way traffic came in. Like in blackmail.
The answer to it all: money. Cogent doesn't have the bucks to pay for transit to/from TSIC and wants to play it cheap. If you sell 100mbit access for 1000USD, how can you have the money to seriously invest in things? Or to use transit to reach your destinations?
But it's not really that important this split. Anyone who still trusts Cogent as their sole bandwidth provider has been living on another planet for the last couple or years. It works both ways: TSIC customers can't reach Cogent. Cogent customers won't get any business from Europe.
I think most of the hosts in this list are actually end customer IPs (DLS/Cable). They block the machines that are worm infected with the kind of worm that has it's own SMTP engine.
Whenever their mailservers scan a virus/worm, a script scans the mailheaders to see where it originated, and that ip is blocked. The ISP blocking problem is solved by putting ISPs on a whitelist.
Under attack it depends if the worm has it's own SMTP engine. Most new ones have, I guess. If it would be sent through an ISP MTA which doesn't scan outgoing mail, then it would be on the list in no time. So the system will work if ISPs scan outbound mail. Then worms which do SMTP from the infected machine will be blocked by this list and the rest of the worms will be stopped at ISPs before getting anywhere.
Definately a step in the right direction!
A few days ago it appeared in Dutch webmags that QuoteOffice (a .NET based virtual office tool, offered for free in a basic version and for some 20 euros in a PRO version) stops. Not because they ran out of money, but because of technical problems. (see WebWereld (Dutch).
They didn't completely disclose what kind of tech probs they had though. Funny thing is the case is still listed on the MS site as a good example on how to use .NET. :)
It's not delayed, it will be out next week (according to www.electricblue.nl) for 499 Euros.
Soon there will also be cable (DVB-C) and DVB-T versions. This 7000 can also hold a harddisk. The cheapo-model will not be able to hold a HDD.
Think it'll be a very nice box, but we have to see how stable everything will be ofcourse.
I'm using my RedBlade BT module for the Visor for months now. Think I got it in December!
:)
Works pretty well, but as with a lot of other stuff: after you get it to work, you don't actually use it anymore.