One thing I have considered is if there is any way to perhaps extend the capabilities of the Linux drivers?
A wireless access point consists of a wireless card and some software, providing some features that are really good in a WiFi network. Would it be possible to re-engineer a linux card driver to make it act like an access point? This would be far cheaper that having to buy a proper access point, as well as being more flexible and customisable.
Presently, I've got a Cisco card running under Linux. It's in ad-hoc mode, meaning that I can't use any fancy authentication methods like LEAP. With all the spare cycles in my gateway box, it would be good to put these to use somehow.
Also turns you on to new music you otherwise wouldnt know about.
This is one of the best reasons!! With internet streaming radio, you usually get the track title and artist. A quick trip to AllMusic, then you can see if you are interested in getting more tracks.
A large percentage of the music I listen to came to me this way.
Sure, however millions of these phones are braindead and can't access the internet in any way, or install new applications, so we can discount them straight away.;-) When you go down to the region where phones can access tge net and handle proper HTML, then JavaScript support is on the majority of them. As the author of this app has used HTML, this restriction has already been made.
If you want to maximise compatability with the phones in use today, WAP would be the way to go. However, as someone with a phone that does HTML, I don't even know how to use WAP. HTML is far better, WAP pr0n doesn't really cut it!
What mobile phone supports Javascript? Even most PDA webbrowsers don't.
Any that have Opera or PocketIE do, we aren't in Nokia land here.;-) Which is a surprising amount of the new smartphones coming on to the market. Highly recommended by the way. They don't claim "JavaScript support" on the box or in the literature, but if your HTML browser conforms to the standards, you should have JavaScript. It's an intregal part of the WWW.
I'm trying to say (like the other poster) that server-side is not the way to do this. Sure, I take your point on it being less dependant on the browsers capability, but it's HTML so JavaScript support is a part of the standard. If the phone can render HTML, it should be able to handle JavaScript. Otherwise, hardly any websites would render correctly.
On these devices, you pay by the byte. I have a GPRS phone myself that has full web browser capability, including JavaScript. No Java though, but you can write your own apps in C++ if you want.
If this is something you indend to use often, then installing on the phone is a far better way to go. GPRS, at it's rarely met max speed, is comparable to a 56k modem, so storing it on the phone is also a lot faster. Although they say these phones have "always on" connections, that's not true and it takes 5 secs just to get a connection, then 2 secs for DNS to resolve, then another 5-10 secs to load the page.
Forget Java, you could do this in JavaScript in a plain normal HTML file. Who wrote this in PHP? Are they mad? Can any phones handle PHP natively? Nope. Ever thought of coding for your target platform? If you have HTML, you have JavaScript. It's a perfectly fine language for simple applications like this.
I've got an HTML set of webpages on my phone already, where you can do ASCII lookups, Trig functions, unit conversions, prime number checks blah blah blah. This is hardly revolutionary, I've had this for 6 months. Never actually used it though!
If 128kb/sec mp3s are what is available on the p2p network you use
I download the odd file or two from p2p, yet I don't touch the 128kbit/s ones ever. It's never stopped me getting anything I've looked for, most users are using at least 160kbit/s now.
Sure, a lot of files on p2p are 128kbit/s or less, but I'd estimate that most are actually above that.
Of course. Determining which package installed it must be difficult, you'd need to maintain a "known malware" database, to cross-reference this stuff. Would be very useful, especially for people new to the problem, like every PC I'm asked to look at "'cos it's running slow"...;-) 9 times out of 10, it's spyware causing it.
The next step I think will be anti-virus style adaware programs, that run in memory all the time. Pain in the ass really, that's just more wasted cycles. It's interesting though that none of the anti-virus software packages detect spyware...I'd shift to another virus scanner instantly if this were available on it.
However, I think you can schedule AdAware to run on boot, or cron it, so it's not all that bad.
People who say mp3 is poor quality don't have a clue. Chances are they are listening to 128kb/s, recorded through the soundcard, from a cheap CD-ROM's audio output, played through crappy on-board sound chips, onto poor quality speakers. Of course it's going to be poor!
Try using a digitally ripped audio file, converted to HQ VBR mp3, played back through a good soundcard, amp and hi-fi speakers. In tests conducted by a German Hi-Fi magazine, most people can't tell the difference between the orignal PCM and the mp3 file. This was done as a blind test, and was covered at the "r3mix" site (r3mix is a predetermined high quality setting for many mp3 encoders). Unfortunatly, their domain has been jacked by the look of it...
2 weeks later, it (same version, same install) found it again even though I had only been using Phoenix in the meantime.
Well, something on your system is clearly re-installing Gator without your permission. Most adware-funded packages crippled if you forcably remove the spyware components. They will attempt to repair themselves if this happens.
The fact is, AdAware found it and removed it. You check back a few weeks later and it was back. How is that AdAware's fault?
Did you read my post? He was caught because he had paid membership to a known illicit kiddie porn site that was shut down! That's not hearsay, it's fact. That's how the international sting worked, they turned over the organisation then worked their way through the members. {found through Google News search, there were at least 5 other people also recently charged in the search, from the same sting)
So, point one, you are wrong. Why pay to get into a site then not bother? A credit card receipt not only pinpoints that it was his card that was used, but due to the way e-commerce works, it would also contain records of his ISP and IP address at the time, so it can be easilly proven that it was his PC used. Had that not been the case, the charges would never even have been made (due to the level of credit card fraud on the net). That's the first thing the police would have checked. His "research" thing is clearly bullshit, as he hasn't been able to come forward with any other "research" he has done. Again, had that been the case, he would have came out and said that straight away, showing the research to prove completely his inocence. Instead, the best he could do was roll his eyes upwards and say "it's errr, for errrrr, a book, yes, a book err, that I'm writing". He hasn't contacted any support groups for information. He has nothing to back up the fact that he's really writing a book. Sorry, if I'm going to research something like e.g. rape, I wouldn't start by raping someone or downloading "REAL_RAPE.AVI" from Kazaa, instead I'd ask the police for information.
Point two, there isn't enough evidence to convict, that doesn't mean he is innocent. He received a caution instead...do you know much about UK law? Guess not.
And finally, point three I don't read any tabloids. Just the facts, 'mam.
You can't make fun of a national hero like that. [Jessica Lynch]
Well, she pretended to have amnesia so that the lie that was her "rescue" won't be fully exposed. Poor girl, her transport crashes after getting lost, breaking some of her limbs in the accident. Then she gets taken by ambulance to the allies and returned back to an Iraqi hospital after the allies attack the ambulance. She gets treated well in hospital, then gets "rescued" by soldiers firing blanks for the TV cameras (there were no Iraqi soldiers for miles) and ferryied home as a fake "hero", through no choice of her own.
I really feel sorry for her. The US Government has treated her far worse than the Iraqis did. And they lied their ass off to us about the whole thing. And she has to live with that lie. I hope they pay her well to keep her mouth shut.
Getting really pedantic in this silly discussion.:-) Wouldn't having multiple routes more represent the road network? For bonding channels, perhaps multiple loading and unloading bays at either end? Even if you have two bonded channels, you still are using the same internet. (Unless you have a leased PPP link or similar);-)
"was not in possession of any downloaded child abuse images,"
Oh, so he knows how to clear his internet cache. He got caught because he bought a membership with his visa to a kiddie porn website that got busted, along with many other people around the world.
He claimed it was "research for a book". If I were researching kiddie porn, I'd start with studies into the problem and contact support groups for information. Sorry, I just don't buy his "I'm innocent" act.
How many of you haven't re-installed your desktop OS since '99? Anyone? As a Windows desktop user, you need to do it every 18 months to keep things working. That would completely remove all evidence from his PC. If that's what the courts are requiring, then I don't have much hope for them.
Yeah, but isn't having multiple trucks the same as bonding multiple IP channels together? Simplest bandwidth calculation would be the data size divided by the time it took to get there.
The PCM ringtones are the sampled ones. Most phones stick to the standard 44.1kHz, 22kHz and 11kHz samplerates, and as such cannot reproduce sounds higher than 22kHz, 11kHz and 5.5kHz respectively. (other posters have pointed this out in other threads). It's NyQuist sampling theorem, an important factor in analogue to digital conversion techniques.
CDs use 44kHz as the human ear generally doesn't go above 20kHz. Vinyl purists will argue that one though...
I saw a larger version about a year ago that was supposedly big enough to clear a large field of Scotish midges, which are like mosquitos with tamer bite, but they make up for it in volume of bites.
phone network can only handle frequencies up to about 4 KHz -- so why would a cell phone maker bother trying to make their speaker reproduce frequencies above that?
They aren't just used for calls now. My cell phone can play mp3s in stereo through headphones, or mono from the speaker. It's pretty loud, compariable to a similar sized radio. Very good when staying in hotels etc.
does this seem like nothing more than making a movie poster an RFID and a cellphone a portable reader?
Depends how it's done. A simple version could involve a bar code reader in the phone, and a bar code on the relevant poster. RFID could do it as well, but the scanners are probably expensive.
Shit, if the bar code was basically the IMDB ID for the movie, then I'd buy it. However, if it points you to "pre-approved" reviews, then it's pointless. You could watch the trailer with a 3G phone as well though.
You mean what was the procedure the last time they did it, or what will be the procedure the next time?
That would imply they actually stopped at some point. Echelon is complete fact, not a tinfoil-hat wearers wet dream. They are routinely monitoring your calls, emails and faxes. This offical EU report details a lot about the system.
You are stuck in the past. The recording instrustry came about through the invertion of a media to sell music on. That media is now obselete.
The RIAA is going the way of horse drawn carts and book scribes. There are better ways to do these things now, and I'll be damned if I'm going to allow a corporation to stiffle technology so that they can keep on making money. We are talking about the technological evolution of the human race, verses big business. How would you feel if the telephone had been held back so that the telegraph companies could continue charging you by the word?
You want to make money from music? Start playing live music etc. It's the only way for the future.
"Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity." - GWB
That phrase horrifies me. Osama wants the USA Army out of Saudi Arabia, as they are currently supporting a brutal dictatorship. Forget Iraq, forget Afganistan. In Saudi the women have no vote and can't even legally drive a car.
He is consistently lying to everyone, to make you fear an enemy. Godwin time again, but the fact is that's exactly how the Nazis made the people of Germany hate the Jews. But no one in the media seems to be willing to challenge him over it.
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Thanks! I know thanking is not the norm here, but I really arpreciate the pointer!
A wireless access point consists of a wireless card and some software, providing some features that are really good in a WiFi network. Would it be possible to re-engineer a linux card driver to make it act like an access point? This would be far cheaper that having to buy a proper access point, as well as being more flexible and customisable.
Presently, I've got a Cisco card running under Linux. It's in ad-hoc mode, meaning that I can't use any fancy authentication methods like LEAP. With all the spare cycles in my gateway box, it would be good to put these to use somehow.
This is one of the best reasons!! With internet streaming radio, you usually get the track title and artist. A quick trip to AllMusic, then you can see if you are interested in getting more tracks.
A large percentage of the music I listen to came to me this way.
If you want to maximise compatability with the phones in use today, WAP would be the way to go. However, as someone with a phone that does HTML, I don't even know how to use WAP. HTML is far better, WAP pr0n doesn't really cut it!
Any that have Opera or PocketIE do, we aren't in Nokia land here. ;-) Which is a surprising amount of the new smartphones coming on to the market. Highly recommended by the way. They don't claim "JavaScript support" on the box or in the literature, but if your HTML browser conforms to the standards, you should have JavaScript. It's an intregal part of the WWW.
On these devices, you pay by the byte. I have a GPRS phone myself that has full web browser capability, including JavaScript. No Java though, but you can write your own apps in C++ if you want.
If this is something you indend to use often, then installing on the phone is a far better way to go. GPRS, at it's rarely met max speed, is comparable to a 56k modem, so storing it on the phone is also a lot faster. Although they say these phones have "always on" connections, that's not true and it takes 5 secs just to get a connection, then 2 secs for DNS to resolve, then another 5-10 secs to load the page.
Exactly. That's my point. It's the wrong tool for the job.
I've got an HTML set of webpages on my phone already, where you can do ASCII lookups, Trig functions, unit conversions, prime number checks blah blah blah. This is hardly revolutionary, I've had this for 6 months. Never actually used it though!
I download the odd file or two from p2p, yet I don't touch the 128kbit/s ones ever. It's never stopped me getting anything I've looked for, most users are using at least 160kbit/s now.
Sure, a lot of files on p2p are 128kbit/s or less, but I'd estimate that most are actually above that.
Well, here in the UK, license plates have very strict rules about typeface and spacing. Ideal for OCR.
The next step I think will be anti-virus style adaware programs, that run in memory all the time. Pain in the ass really, that's just more wasted cycles. It's interesting though that none of the anti-virus software packages detect spyware...I'd shift to another virus scanner instantly if this were available on it.
However, I think you can schedule AdAware to run on boot, or cron it, so it's not all that bad.
People who say mp3 is poor quality don't have a clue. Chances are they are listening to 128kb/s, recorded through the soundcard, from a cheap CD-ROM's audio output, played through crappy on-board sound chips, onto poor quality speakers. Of course it's going to be poor!
Try using a digitally ripped audio file, converted to HQ VBR mp3, played back through a good soundcard, amp and hi-fi speakers. In tests conducted by a German Hi-Fi magazine, most people can't tell the difference between the orignal PCM and the mp3 file. This was done as a blind test, and was covered at the "r3mix" site (r3mix is a predetermined high quality setting for many mp3 encoders). Unfortunatly, their domain has been jacked by the look of it...
Well, something on your system is clearly re-installing Gator without your permission. Most adware-funded packages crippled if you forcably remove the spyware components. They will attempt to repair themselves if this happens.
The fact is, AdAware found it and removed it. You check back a few weeks later and it was back. How is that AdAware's fault?
So, point one, you are wrong. Why pay to get into a site then not bother? A credit card receipt not only pinpoints that it was his card that was used, but due to the way e-commerce works, it would also contain records of his ISP and IP address at the time, so it can be easilly proven that it was his PC used. Had that not been the case, the charges would never even have been made (due to the level of credit card fraud on the net). That's the first thing the police would have checked. His "research" thing is clearly bullshit, as he hasn't been able to come forward with any other "research" he has done. Again, had that been the case, he would have came out and said that straight away, showing the research to prove completely his inocence. Instead, the best he could do was roll his eyes upwards and say "it's errr, for errrrr, a book, yes, a book err, that I'm writing". He hasn't contacted any support groups for information. He has nothing to back up the fact that he's really writing a book. Sorry, if I'm going to research something like e.g. rape, I wouldn't start by raping someone or downloading "REAL_RAPE.AVI" from Kazaa, instead I'd ask the police for information.
Point two, there isn't enough evidence to convict, that doesn't mean he is innocent. He received a caution instead...do you know much about UK law? Guess not.
And finally, point three I don't read any tabloids. Just the facts, 'mam.
Well, she pretended to have amnesia so that the lie that was her "rescue" won't be fully exposed. Poor girl, her transport crashes after getting lost, breaking some of her limbs in the accident. Then she gets taken by ambulance to the allies and returned back to an Iraqi hospital after the allies attack the ambulance. She gets treated well in hospital, then gets "rescued" by soldiers firing blanks for the TV cameras (there were no Iraqi soldiers for miles) and ferryied home as a fake "hero", through no choice of her own.
I really feel sorry for her. The US Government has treated her far worse than the Iraqis did. And they lied their ass off to us about the whole thing. And she has to live with that lie. I hope they pay her well to keep her mouth shut.
Getting really pedantic in this silly discussion. :-) Wouldn't having multiple routes more represent the road network? For bonding channels, perhaps multiple loading and unloading bays at either end? Even if you have two bonded channels, you still are using the same internet. (Unless you have a leased PPP link or similar) ;-)
Oh, so he knows how to clear his internet cache. He got caught because he bought a membership with his visa to a kiddie porn website that got busted, along with many other people around the world.
He claimed it was "research for a book". If I were researching kiddie porn, I'd start with studies into the problem and contact support groups for information. Sorry, I just don't buy his "I'm innocent" act.
How many of you haven't re-installed your desktop OS since '99? Anyone? As a Windows desktop user, you need to do it every 18 months to keep things working. That would completely remove all evidence from his PC. If that's what the courts are requiring, then I don't have much hope for them.
Yeah, but isn't having multiple trucks the same as bonding multiple IP channels together? Simplest bandwidth calculation would be the data size divided by the time it took to get there.
CDs use 44kHz as the human ear generally doesn't go above 20kHz. Vinyl purists will argue that one though...
I saw a larger version about a year ago that was supposedly big enough to clear a large field of Scotish midges, which are like mosquitos with tamer bite, but they make up for it in volume of bites.
They aren't just used for calls now. My cell phone can play mp3s in stereo through headphones, or mono from the speaker. It's pretty loud, compariable to a similar sized radio. Very good when staying in hotels etc.
Depends how it's done. A simple version could involve a bar code reader in the phone, and a bar code on the relevant poster. RFID could do it as well, but the scanners are probably expensive.
Shit, if the bar code was basically the IMDB ID for the movie, then I'd buy it. However, if it points you to "pre-approved" reviews, then it's pointless. You could watch the trailer with a 3G phone as well though.
That would imply they actually stopped at some point. Echelon is complete fact, not a tinfoil-hat wearers wet dream. They are routinely monitoring your calls, emails and faxes. This offical EU report details a lot about the system.
The RIAA is going the way of horse drawn carts and book scribes. There are better ways to do these things now, and I'll be damned if I'm going to allow a corporation to stiffle technology so that they can keep on making money. We are talking about the technological evolution of the human race, verses big business. How would you feel if the telephone had been held back so that the telegraph companies could continue charging you by the word?
You want to make money from music? Start playing live music etc. It's the only way for the future.
That phrase horrifies me. Osama wants the USA Army out of Saudi Arabia, as they are currently supporting a brutal dictatorship. Forget Iraq, forget Afganistan. In Saudi the women have no vote and can't even legally drive a car.
He is consistently lying to everyone, to make you fear an enemy. Godwin time again, but the fact is that's exactly how the Nazis made the people of Germany hate the Jews. But no one in the media seems to be willing to challenge him over it.