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  1. Re:My speed on 802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds · · Score: 2

    Just thought I'd throw this out there since I was just testing it today. I have 802.11n gear (Airport Extreme, the 3x3 version with advertised 450 mbps speed). From 50ish feet away through a few walls I get 8 MB - 10 MB per second to my home server. That's getting up near 100 mbps which is good enough for me on wireless, but obviously nowhere near the 450 mbps that Windows claims my link speed to be.

    This is of course normal for wireless networking but I'd hope that 802.11ac gear would be able to do a bit better.

  2. Re:Multiple devices ? on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 2

    Feedly is cloning the Google Reader API and implementing a new back-end as part of their "Normandy" project, so it's likely that other clients will turn to it to keep their apps working (and synchronized). Naturally, the official Google ones will be left out.

  3. Re:H.265 will gain traction in video conferencing on ITU Approves H.264 Video Standard Successor H.265 · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they can keep the bandwidth the same (or not lower as much as they could) and instead take advantage of higher quality at the same bitrate... so that the channels don't look so terrible with compression artifacts all over the place.

  4. Three-mile-tall on Three-Mile-High Supercomputer Poses Unique Challenges · · Score: 1

    Mis-interpreted the article title and though that someone was building a supercomputer that is three miles tall. I bet that poses unique challenges too.

  5. Vote no or vote no more on Facebook Users Voting On Privacy, Instagram, Other Issues · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the changes in the new set of documents is the removal of this community voting process. Ars Technica has a brief article on the changes.

  6. Re:Tomorrow night? on Ralph Nader Moderates One Last 3rd-Party Debate for 2012 · · Score: 1

    For most of the world it's already Monday, so tomorrow is Tuesday. :-)

  7. Re:who cares? on OpenOffice Is Now, Officially, Apache OpenOffice · · Score: 2

    We've all moved to LibreOffice, but I still know a number of people who use or are interested in using OpenOffice, just because that name has been around long enough. If you don't follow sites like this, you might not know that LibreOffice exists. When I mention that they should look at LibreOffice instead, they say "Huh?"

    OpenOffice development was somewhat stalled for a while after the LibreOffice fork happened. If development is going to continue, I hope they pick up the improvements from LibreOffice so that everyone can benefit.

  8. Simpler question: Can it write apps for itself? on Will Developers Finally Start Coding On the iPad? · · Score: 1

    Can I use the iPad to develop fully featured iPad apps? No? I don't think you can bill it as a development platform, then.

  9. Direct3D can do better on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not necessarily better than OpenGL, but better than 270.6 fps.

    Valve's blog post, near the bottom, indicates that they plan on fixing the hang-up with Direct3D, now that they know that the hardware can do better than 270 fps.

  10. Google Swiffy on Mozilla's Open Source Project Shumway To Translate SWF To HTML5 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Google has a project going along these lines, called Swiffy. Looking at the demos, it appears to work pretty well.

  11. Google Apps on Options For Good (Not Expensive) Office Backbone For a Small Startup · · Score: 1

    I see that you mentioned Google Docs, but have you looked at Google Apps for Business (runs on a domain of your choice)? There's a free version for up to 10 accounts. Otherwise, I think it is $50 per user per year.

    It supports calendar sharing and company-wide contact sharing (from the web UI anyway). Though I think that the global contact list might be missing from the free version.

  12. What about SSL traffic? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic? · · Score: 1

    This is for a home / family network?

    Has Facebook turned on SSL by default yet? I know that Twitter has, and Facebook has the option, not sure if they've thrown it on by default yet?

    In any case, if they haven't, I imagine that it is coming, and then sniffing out contents of messages will not be so simple. You'd have to install a man-in-the-middle service with a fake SSL certificate and install said fake certificate as trusted on all of the client machines. (Good luck doing that on the iPhone.) And that's just to be able to see them in clear text. If you're trying to scrape them out, you're going to be constantly fighting with Facebook every time they change up their interface. Are you going to be tasked with updating this every time a new social service or game comes along?

    It seems like the better approach may be to just have them learn some basic Internet safety.

  13. Re:370 MB? on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 2

    Apple Software Update reports 729.6 MB for me (MacBook Pro). (Not combo update, either — updating from 10.7.3.)

  14. 370 MB? on Apple Auto-Disables Old Flash Players In Mac OS X 10.7.4 · · Score: 1

    More like 730 MB.

  15. Windows 8 Storage Spaces on Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you use Windows, the forthcoming Windows 8 "Storage Spaces" feature appears to be perfect for situations like this. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/05/virtualizing-storage-for-scale-resiliency-and-efficiency.aspx