Shame on you. You have noticed the nonsense article but did not do anything about it. You could have easily marked it as a "Löschkandidat" (Candidate for Removal). Or to give it a different twist: Don't ask what Wikipedia can do for you, ask what you can do for Wikipedia. A small contribution of about two minutes of your times would have had the problem corrected over a year earlier.
> and creates a mini-gsm cell backed by a SIP provider.
Untrue. Reread the documentation provided on the webpage. This device is a client to the GSM network of your provider, like your mobile phone. It will connect to the network and receive calls and distribute them to local or remote (via sip) phones, and vice versa allows to call out over the gsm "phone".
European phone vendor Sagem has in fact marketed a GSM-DECT-Handset called Sagem DMC 830. Was not that successfull, however, mostly due to clumpsy quality. Also the DECT Module took place in the slot for the battery, so only a smaller (on much less lasting) battery was included.
This is nonsense. DeNIC does not require paperwork, and did not require paperwork, at least not since i'm in the business (since 1995).
However as a german i hope that DeNIC does not make it, because after all its still a shitty NIC with much proven incompetence.
But your "outside the US" argument is inacceptable. I for one am not too happy to have my.net registrations under US jurisdiction, so the problem is the same, be it US or be it germany.
> The wiggler is a windows only thing, which is why I don't like it.
Not true. It is just another lowcost jtag interface and can easily be accessed with linux. Having said that, its worth to note, that you can build an equivalent device yourself for under $3. Digilent (www.digilent.us) also offers some cheap jtag cable, even for usb (and some nice cpld and fpga devboards)
This is right and wrong. Ever wondered how an antenna works? Take a look at an yagi antenne: Just metal and some wires. Do you believe this includes some secret powered power amp?
What this Cardboard does is the same as every antenne with gain does: It focus the beam into a specific direction, which will "amplify" the effective radiated power in this direction. And effective radiated power (EIRP) happens to be, whats regulated.
So this cardboard is bound to the same regulations as any directional antenna.
At least for GSM such mobile base stations are technology which had already happened years ago. In fact one of the dutch mobile providers had a mobile BTS at the hacker camping HIP in 1997.
You must be a fool to do science on a system you are running outside of specification. It is a fact, that overclocking can cause miscalculations etc. which might not always be detected.
You are a liar. If you just take a short look on the Hardware page on www.asterisk.org, you will note, that asterisk supports every isdn4linux compatible isdn card.
Oh yes, the 12dB gain IS an myth. Just looking at Signal-Noise-Ratio and Signal Levels is absolute inaccurate and does tell next to nothing. If you really want to check the gain of an antenne you would need to do this with professional equipment, an reference antenna and other expensive stuff. I remotely remember having read a professional test of the pringles cantenna and the results were rather disappointing.
Additional the pringles design is neither an real waveguide nor an real yagi. Its an beast between and this is too not an guarantee for good results. It was designed by idiots who don't have any knowledge of HF and antenne design. Yes, it might work, but a good designed antenne will work much much better.
Of course this needs to be on the front page of slashdot. Why you ask? Because now you know about this bullshit story and book, and be prepared, when someone (like a stupid executive) aproaches you with that FUD and you already know whats in the book and can explain that its nonsense.
You should always be informed about the moves of your opposites.
This is utter nonsense. Prism54 is utilizing firmware as well, as do a bunch of other linux drivers. Every fricking wlan card out there has a firmware, it happens only that in the past most had the firmware flashed on the card / into the hardware, while nowadays the firmware is loaded by the driver into the card at runtime. Which is better, as upgrading the driver can (and will often) update the firmware too, without having to reflash first.
Somewhere you need to draw a line, and having firmware is nothing wrong but in fact often just necessary.
Testing only one processor for a whole batch won't make sense and be dangerous. What would be if you happen to test the one processor of a dozen which can run with 3.0 GHz, while the others only can do 2.4 GHz? You would sell a bunch of overrated processors. Therefore EACH processor is tested.
I would just like to note that all european ISP's run all their web traffic through giant Squid servers because the intercontinental traffic is so fscking expensive.
Why are you posting such anti-european nonsense? Forced proxy usage virtually ceased to exist already a few years ago, and even in it big times only a real small percentage of ISPs forced you to use their proxys.
Neither true is your statement about expensive intercontinental traffic. It doesn't even make a difference when buying traffic, if it is international, intercontinental or local. A typical price for traffic is between 0.50 EUR and 3.00 EUR per GB (enduser prices), or example a server (dedicated, provided by isp) with 100 GB allowance for EUR 30 per month.
As it seems, most of you might have missed the fact, that the system is optional. You don't have to use it, you don't have to own a special passport if you don't want to use it.
It's setup as a convenience for frequent travellers. Its opt-in, if you would like to call it that way.
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Just use this to create an empty vmdk-file. Boot virtual machine from CD-ROM and install OS.
Shame on you. You have noticed the nonsense article but did not do anything about it. You could have easily marked it as a "Löschkandidat" (Candidate for Removal). Or to give it a different twist: Don't ask what Wikipedia can do for you, ask what you can do for Wikipedia. A small contribution of about two minutes of your times would have had the problem corrected over a year earlier.
> and creates a mini-gsm cell backed by a SIP provider.
Untrue. Reread the documentation provided on the webpage. This device is a client to the GSM network of your provider, like your mobile phone. It will connect to the network and receive calls and distribute them to local or remote (via sip) phones, and vice versa allows to call out over the gsm "phone".
European phone vendor Sagem has in fact marketed a GSM-DECT-Handset called Sagem DMC 830. Was not that successfull, however, mostly due to clumpsy quality. Also the DECT Module took place in the slot for the battery, so only a smaller (on much less lasting) battery was included.
This is over 50 years ago. Learn to calculate.
Why do you link to a wikipedia ripoff instead of the original?
Fine. We don't want to speak to servers of clueless assholes like you anyway.
> "Fraulein," is neuter! Please explain the logic of that.
Please don't use 'Fraeulein'. Its considered outfashioned and often downright rude in nowadays german.
This is nonsense. DeNIC does not require paperwork, and did not require paperwork, at least not since i'm in the business (since 1995).
.net registrations under US jurisdiction, so the problem is the same, be it US or be it germany.
However as a german i hope that DeNIC does not make it, because after all its still a shitty NIC with much proven incompetence.
But your "outside the US" argument is inacceptable. I for one am not too happy to have my
> The wiggler is a windows only thing, which is why I don't like it.
Not true. It is just another lowcost jtag interface and can easily be accessed with linux. Having said that, its worth to note, that you can build an equivalent device yourself for under $3. Digilent (www.digilent.us) also offers some cheap jtag cable, even for usb (and some nice cpld and fpga devboards)
And guess what: It does. At least mine.
CueCat reads EAN just fine.
Check your facts. Cue Cat can easily read EAN, i know, because i'm using one in germany with local barcodes.
This is right and wrong. Ever wondered how an antenna works? Take a look at an yagi antenne: Just metal and some wires. Do you believe this includes some secret powered power amp?
What this Cardboard does is the same as every antenne with gain does: It focus the beam into a specific direction, which will "amplify" the effective radiated power in this direction. And effective radiated power (EIRP) happens to be, whats regulated.
So this cardboard is bound to the same regulations as any directional antenna.
At least for GSM such mobile base stations are technology which had already happened years ago. In fact one of the dutch mobile providers had a mobile BTS at the hacker camping HIP in 1997.
You must be a fool to do science on a system you are running outside of specification. It is a fact, that overclocking can cause miscalculations etc. which might not always be detected.
You are a liar. If you just take a short look on the Hardware page on www.asterisk.org, you will note, that asterisk supports every isdn4linux compatible isdn card.
who modded this troll? the question is interesting.
> 12dB gain is hardly an urban myth.
Oh yes, the 12dB gain IS an myth. Just looking at Signal-Noise-Ratio and Signal Levels is absolute inaccurate and does tell next to nothing. If you really want to check the gain of an antenne you would need to do this with professional equipment, an reference antenna and other expensive stuff. I remotely remember having read a professional test of the pringles cantenna and the results were rather disappointing.
Additional the pringles design is neither an real waveguide nor an real yagi. Its an beast between and this is too not an guarantee for good results. It was designed by idiots who don't have any knowledge of HF and antenne design. Yes, it might work, but a good designed antenne will work much much better.
Of course this needs to be on the front page of slashdot. Why you ask? Because now you know about this bullshit story and book, and be prepared, when someone (like a stupid executive) aproaches you with that FUD and you already know whats in the book and can explain that its nonsense.
You should always be informed about the moves of your opposites.
This is utter nonsense. Prism54 is utilizing firmware as well, as do a bunch of other linux drivers. Every fricking wlan card out there has a firmware, it happens only that in the past most had the firmware flashed on the card / into the hardware, while nowadays the firmware is loaded by the driver into the card at runtime. Which is better, as upgrading the driver can (and will often) update the firmware too, without having to reflash first.
Somewhere you need to draw a line, and having firmware is nothing wrong but in fact often just necessary.
Testing only one processor for a whole batch won't make sense and be dangerous. What would be if you happen to test the one processor of a dozen which can run with 3.0 GHz, while the others only can do 2.4 GHz? You would sell a bunch of overrated processors. Therefore EACH processor is tested.
I would just like to note that all european ISP's run all their web traffic through giant Squid servers because the intercontinental traffic is so fscking expensive.
Why are you posting such anti-european nonsense? Forced proxy usage virtually ceased to exist already a few years ago, and even in it big times only a real small percentage of ISPs forced you to use their proxys.
Neither true is your statement about expensive intercontinental traffic. It doesn't even make a difference when buying traffic, if it is international, intercontinental or local. A typical price for traffic is between 0.50 EUR and 3.00 EUR per GB (enduser prices), or example a server (dedicated, provided by isp) with 100 GB allowance for EUR 30 per month.
As it seems, most of you might have missed the fact, that the system is optional. You don't have to use it, you don't have to own a special passport if you don't want to use it.
It's setup as a convenience for frequent travellers. Its opt-in, if you would like to call it that way.
In germany some companies started to sell packs with 10 cigarettes, which seems to make much more sense than only leaving 1 cigarette out of 20.