Try the Linkstation Pro, it's got a 400mhz cpu. With custom firmware (eg. from http://foonas.org/) it does actually deliver.
With stock firmware, ANY soho NAS sucks. Really. They take a dev-board from a CPU-company, modify it a wee bit, then take the sdk and slap on a webinterface and samba. Some haphazardly applied superglue later, a finished product. I've been hacking a lot of NAS-devices, and I've yet to see one that has *any* performance optimizations done. One example is the QNAP TS-101 (now obsolete), where disk read speeds were ~15MB/sec in the original firmware. With a new kernel and rootfs, read speeds were boosted to ~32MB/sec.
There is no such thing as a "properly optimized" off-the-shelf NAS box. Really. If you want a NAS-device with a slightly optimized OS, you've gotta cook it yourself in most cases. The OS distributed with almost all NAS-devices is a huge heap of shit, thrown together as fast as possible.
It could be a misunderstanding of the GPL or bad advice from an expert. Why, if I asked a question about the GPL, I would get dozens of posts each having their own and differing "expert" opinion of what is meant.
Yes, it could be a misunderstanding. Especially when FSF has spent five years communicating with Cisco trying to resolve the issue peacefully. If there's a misunderstanding, the people at Cisco need to get some working brains...
Seriously though. Of course the top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge PC's are irrelevant for the general populace when they are released. That doesn't mean that they're irrelevant to the general populace in a year or two. When the next Windows is released, some new fancy games are released, websites are even more riddled with flash, java and whatever new tech they come up with to use more resources.
Say what now? I had no problems listening to FM radio on my HTC p3300 (Artemis), while feeding the music over A2DP to my bluetooth headset. We're talking three wildly different frequency bands here (~100mhz, 900-2100mhz and 2.4ghz), so what exactly would be the problem?
Uh, common with non-PIN cards?! Which Norway have you been in? I've grown up here, and have yet to see a debit card (like Maestro) which does not require a PIN to work.
The boy is 13 years old, handsome, has some artistic talent, and wears a diaper because he's totally incontinent. His mom swears up and down that she can trace the changes in him to the very day he got his 18 month MMR. Even if it's anecdotal, a story like that puts the fear into you when you have your own baby.
Even if it wasn't anecdotal, it's NOT EVIDENCE. Correlation != Causation. This is what 99% of the world appears to forget.
My solution would be to make all films immediately R18+. You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase them. If the distributor wants to apply for a lesser rating, they can do so. Now all the "think of the children" morons are placated and the rest of us can watch a movie revolving around the abusive home lives of teenage skateboarders without the government getting involved.
That is actually how things work here in Norway these days. Good Thing (TM) if you ask me.
If you can connect a call, you can be pretty sure that a text can come through. Even though the call can be so garbled as to be unintelligible, the text only needs a tiny bit of data to come through. Setting up a call is more "expensive" data-wise. Also, a text doesn't need a working connection for more than an "instant", while a call requires a long, continuous connection. Oh, and if the network nears its limit with traffic, sms is given higher priority while voice calls are dropped.
Not that I support the tactics, but you should be driving so that you are prepared for anything around the next corner, be it a speed limit drop or a mad cow.
iTunes hanging is probably not Microsofts fault. As sucky as Windows is, iTunes is the app that manages to overthrow Windows and take the throne of shittyness all by itself.
In the Windows Mobile community, the "hacked" versions mostly remove crap branding and add "cool" new features. Windows Mobile *can* be locked down and only allow signed software, but so far I haven't actually seen this. So it can run whatever software you please. The SDK doesn't come with silly requirements like Apples either. So in my eyes, WinMo is far more open than both the iPhone and G1.
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And, the largest NAS-hacking community providing alternative firmware and package feeds: http://www.nslu2-linux.org/
Try the Linkstation Pro, it's got a 400mhz cpu. With custom firmware (eg. from http://foonas.org/) it does actually deliver.
With stock firmware, ANY soho NAS sucks. Really. They take a dev-board from a CPU-company, modify it a wee bit, then take the sdk and slap on a webinterface and samba. Some haphazardly applied superglue later, a finished product.
I've been hacking a lot of NAS-devices, and I've yet to see one that has *any* performance optimizations done.
One example is the QNAP TS-101 (now obsolete), where disk read speeds were ~15MB/sec in the original firmware. With a new kernel and rootfs, read speeds were boosted to ~32MB/sec.
There is no such thing as a "properly optimized" off-the-shelf NAS box. Really.
If you want a NAS-device with a slightly optimized OS, you've gotta cook it yourself in most cases. The OS distributed with almost all NAS-devices is a huge heap of shit, thrown together as fast as possible.
For a few devices, a distribution called "foonas" is available:
http://foonas.org/index.php/Main_Page
The speed difference is appreciable...
And new ones have appeared ;)
Not to rain on your parade, but he doesn't specify when this was. 10GB might've been a lot of changes.
Yes, it could be a misunderstanding. Especially when FSF has spent five years communicating with Cisco trying to resolve the issue peacefully. If there's a misunderstanding, the people at Cisco need to get some working brains...
Until the next version of Windows is out...
Seriously though. Of course the top-of-the-line, state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge PC's are irrelevant for the general populace when they are released. That doesn't mean that they're irrelevant to the general populace in a year or two.
When the next Windows is released, some new fancy games are released, websites are even more riddled with flash, java and whatever new tech they come up with to use more resources.
Say what now? I had no problems listening to FM radio on my HTC p3300 (Artemis), while feeding the music over A2DP to my bluetooth headset. We're talking three wildly different frequency bands here (~100mhz, 900-2100mhz and 2.4ghz), so what exactly would be the problem?
My really cheap car stereo has support for "anything" USB, right next to a SD-card reader...
Not half as good as Atheros
So, create a fake legal entity. Bingo?
Uh, common with non-PIN cards?! Which Norway have you been in? I've grown up here, and have yet to see a debit card (like Maestro) which does not require a PIN to work.
Even if it wasn't anecdotal, it's NOT EVIDENCE. Correlation != Causation. This is what 99% of the world appears to forget.
That this has been modded insightful boggles the mind...
Yeah... it's currently at -1, Interesting....
My solution would be to make all films immediately R18+. You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase them. If the distributor wants to apply for a lesser rating, they can do so. Now all the "think of the children" morons are placated and the rest of us can watch a movie revolving around the abusive home lives of teenage skateboarders without the government getting involved.
That is actually how things work here in Norway these days. Good Thing (TM) if you ask me.
If you can connect a call, you can be pretty sure that a text can come through. Even though the call can be so garbled as to be unintelligible, the text only needs a tiny bit of data to come through. Setting up a call is more "expensive" data-wise.
Also, a text doesn't need a working connection for more than an "instant", while a call requires a long, continuous connection.
Oh, and if the network nears its limit with traffic, sms is given higher priority while voice calls are dropped.
You can't possibly be responsible for what the idiot behind you in traffic does. Him driving like an asshole doesn't make it OK for you to do so too.
Yeah, but that only works at night
Not that I support the tactics, but you should be driving so that you are prepared for anything around the next corner, be it a speed limit drop or a mad cow.
There. You've got a click. Happy now?
The capital is "nuuk", which would be pretty fitting.
iTunes hanging is probably not Microsofts fault. As sucky as Windows is, iTunes is the app that manages to overthrow Windows and take the throne of shittyness all by itself.
Replying to myself here... I got rid of my WinMo and got myself an iPhone. Dumbest thing I've ever done.
In the Windows Mobile community, the "hacked" versions mostly remove crap branding and add "cool" new features. Windows Mobile *can* be locked down and only allow signed software, but so far I haven't actually seen this. So it can run whatever software you please. The SDK doesn't come with silly requirements like Apples either. So in my eyes, WinMo is far more open than both the iPhone and G1.