Actually, I suspect one of the reasons it's for sale from a Canadian firm is that US firms couldn't/wouldn't touch it?
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An explanation of extra features
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· Score: 5, Interesting
As someone who designs embedded hardware, I can probably explain a couple of the hardware-based features for those wondering why they're included.
- Sound level metering is relatively trivial to implement when you're already digitizing a sound stream
- The phone's battery pack might well already feature an IC containing a temperature sensor. It's not unusual for so-caleld "smart" battery monitor chipsets (such as the Dallas Semiconductor DS2438) to have onboard temperature sensing, because "smart" charging of modern battery cells requires this.
So, the designers of the phone just found novel ways to use the existing components. Often made even easier as a lot of the separate ICs in phones these days are actually sitting on a 1, 2 or 3-wire bus (1-wire, I2C, SPI, etc).
Well, I'm quite proud to be an (adopted) Canadian. I see this as just another way for us to poke the Nazi Americans...what with SARs, mad cow, and our threat to decriminalize pot...why shouldn't we just push the envelope a little more?;-)
Colocate your own hardware...when you buy "hosting", you're also paying for admins, backups, lease payments on hardware, etc.
Also, one size doesn't fit all...a lot of these hosting packages are setup for the average "sell 'em cheap, stack 'em high" customer...and you're a bit of an exception to that.
I'm interfacing MMCs (could just as well be SD cards in non-secure mode) via SPI to a microcontroller right now for data logging....if ~128-512Mb is sufficient for your application, this is an excellent alternative to rotating storage.
The idea is NOT to necessarily make this the best wired remote village, it's to BACKHAUL data from the satellite station that's located there. (If you read the story this becomes blatantly obvious).
Providing connectivity for the village is just a (happy) side effect. I mean, did anyone really believe the Norweigan's were spending USD$40m to provide connectivity to 1700 people?
Monday May 12th 2003 CNN is reporting that there have been a huge number of HERF gun attacks on telecom and financial systems installations in the United States in the past two days. The attacks have seriously impacted the ability of Americans to conduct day-to-day life, knocking out many telephone, TV, and radio stations and forming large lineups at banks where customers desperately try to withdraw money from stressed teller staff.
CNN has learned that the attacks were performed by the Linux fraction of al Queada which is referred to as "al Tux" in CIA circles. Apparently the group learned of concise plans to make HERF guns from a story on the geek website "Slashdot.org".
Editors at Slashdot could not be reached for comment as they had suffered malnutrition from not being able to eat microwave burritos or pizza pockets for the past 48hrs.
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Seriously, $4,500,000 is pretty damn reasonable!
;-)
It'd make one hell of a floating hoteI actually imagine there are lots of geeks who pay big $$$ to go on an aircraft carrier theme vacation
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I'll chip in a toque, a case of Blue, and $20. :-)
Actually, I suspect one of the reasons it's for sale from a Canadian firm is that US firms couldn't/wouldn't touch it?
-psy
As someone who designs embedded hardware, I can probably explain a couple of the hardware-based features for those wondering why they're included.
:-)
- Sound level metering is relatively trivial to implement when you're already digitizing a sound stream
- The phone's battery pack might well already feature an IC containing a temperature sensor. It's not unusual for so-caleld "smart" battery monitor chipsets (such as the Dallas Semiconductor DS2438) to have onboard temperature sensing, because "smart" charging of modern battery cells requires this.
So, the designers of the phone just found novel ways to use the existing components. Often made even easier as a lot of the separate ICs in phones these days are actually sitting on a 1, 2 or 3-wire bus (1-wire, I2C, SPI, etc).
FYI...just in case anyone cares
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They might have written the trojan code very, very, very small and hidden it between the lines ;-)
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P.S: It was a joke, lighten up!
...is that AirTraf secretly transmits all the information it gathers back to the authors ;-)
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Did I already mention that SunOS (aka Solaris 1.x) is BSD4.3 and that Solaris 2.x+ (aka SunOS 5.x+) is SysVR4? :-p
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SunOS (later the WIndowed version was called Solaris 1.x) up until 4.x was BSD 4.3 system...it was NOT a "free BSD" derivative, whatever you mean.
Solaris 2.x+ is very much System V Release 4. Sun were a member of that collective and Solaris still retains that structure.
You might want to check your facts.
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And Solaris isn't System V Release 4?! Gee...I guess Sun have been lying to me :-p
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When Sun gave away Solaris source code way back...did that maybe justify the cause?
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Attach:
...to yourself...And you're cooling problems will be over! ;_)
- Thermal grease
- Water cooled heatsinks
- Various overly large fans
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That's okay, we beat the crap out of both your mens and womens team in the hockey during the 2002 Winter Olympics ;-)
We're also some mean ass curlers ;-) (A nod to "Men with Brooms" which is what I watched not an hour ago).
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Well, I'm quite proud to be an (adopted) Canadian. I see this as just another way for us to poke the Nazi Americans...what with SARs, mad cow, and our threat to decriminalize pot...why shouldn't we just push the envelope a little more? ;-)
-psy
Colocate your own hardware...when you buy "hosting", you're also paying for admins, backups, lease payments on hardware, etc.
Also, one size doesn't fit all...a lot of these hosting packages are setup for the average "sell 'em cheap, stack 'em high" customer...and you're a bit of an exception to that.
-psy
Anyone else think that Slashdot editors should add a "conflict of interest" tag to news items that cross-promote their sister companies?
There've been a few such "news stories" over the past little while.
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Chimps don't have long hairy tails, doofus :-p
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I'm interfacing MMCs (could just as well be SD cards in non-secure mode) via SPI to a microcontroller right now for data logging....if ~128-512Mb is sufficient for your application, this is an excellent alternative to rotating storage.
-psy
The idea is NOT to necessarily make this the best wired remote village, it's to BACKHAUL data from the satellite station that's located there. (If you read the story this becomes blatantly obvious).
Providing connectivity for the village is just a (happy) side effect. I mean, did anyone really believe the Norweigan's were spending USD$40m to provide connectivity to 1700 people?
-psy
Isn't the (magnetic) North Pole in Canadian arctic waters? (Bear in mind there is no land mass North Pole!).
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Gee...it's not like you can modify TTL :-p
If you can run IP to a deep spacecraft, you can certainly deal with a few hops through wireless routers.
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I guess this is kinda IP over serial SCSI?
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Godzilla was seen wrestling a giant squid with the world's largest laser attached to its head... ;-)
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Monday May 12th 2003
CNN is reporting that there have been a huge number of HERF gun attacks on telecom and financial systems installations in the United States in the past two days. The attacks have seriously impacted the ability of Americans to conduct day-to-day life, knocking out many telephone, TV, and radio stations and forming large lineups at banks where customers desperately try to withdraw money from stressed teller staff.
CNN has learned that the attacks were performed by the Linux fraction of al Queada which is referred to as "al Tux" in CIA circles. Apparently the group learned of concise plans to make HERF guns from a story on the geek website "Slashdot.org".
Editors at Slashdot could not be reached for comment as they had suffered malnutrition from not being able to eat microwave burritos or pizza pockets for the past 48hrs.
Where do you insert a floppy dick....ummm....I mean floppy disk in to her?
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The cardboard case gives a whole new meaning to having a "beige box" computer ;-)
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