The author forgets another huge market that Linux is behind. HDTV. I would say well north of 80% of all HDTV come with some form of Linux. The next time you purchase a HDTV check the packet for something about GNU license. If you see that..your tv is running Linux….:)
Category: Hardware
as technology and pricing changes this will change. Right now here is what i would reccomend for somebody like me…a light gamer with heavy multitasking single threaded programs:
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Of course I already have a hdd, video card, optical drive that i am carrying over..:)
I have to thank my sister in law for this tip. It turns out smartphones embed gps data into every picture they take. Once you post this online that information is easily accessible and points to the EXACT location of where that picture was taken. The site icanstalkyou.com gives information on how to disable geotagging of pictures. Andriod phones are the easiest to kill only camera geotagging whle iphone/ipods are the most difficult.
On my Driod based phone store location was already off..:)
And there were 3…Sprint, ATT, and Verizon. Nearly every other carrier buys time form one of these big three. I’m wondering how much longer will Sprint hang in there?
AT&T agrees to buy T-Mobile from Deutsche Telekom — Engadget.
I had a Deacon at my church today ask me about getting audio streams from emergency scanners onto his phone. I said no problem and that I would take a look at it. I fired up blackberry app world. After I had the Deacon enter his password it asked for permission to load an update. I said no to this as Blackberry Curves are not the most stable phones in the world. The phone locked up when loading the app world. Upon rebooting the phone I got a jvm error 102 error. Google research showed this to be a corrupted file on the phone. After following a few more links I figured out the file that was corrupted was a critical system file that could not be deleted. I talked with my wife who manages nearly 100 of these 8330′s and found this file corruption is not uncommon when they reach 1.5 years or higher. I installed the Backberry Dekstop software as well as the jl_cmdr software. After an hour i could not get the phone to reveal it’s filesystem. I finally told the Deacon I had to hard reset the phone. He agreed. 10 minutes later…no dice. The only option is a full wipe from jl_cmdr. The Deacon reluctantly agreed. After the wipe was done I got an error 502 which means no OS. I connected the phone to my laptop and loaded the latest version of BB OS available for his phone 4.5.x. nearly an hour later..the phone was back with his documents, e-mail settings, phone registration, pictures and video intact. Address book was empty though. I then installed his apps(that were still there on the phone just not installed). The phone had at least been returned to operational condition without loosing absolutely everything. While he does have to re-customize his phone and try to rebuild his contacts his phone is at least operational. three hours of work proved to be very very worth it. One, I got the Deacon’s phone operating without him having to replace it out of contract and two, I gained very valuable experience “hacking” these minuscule computers called smartphones.
Microsoft has a loooong history of partnering with companies only to undercut them..IBM and OS/2(which MS morphed into NT, then 2k, XP, Vista, Windows 7, *..etc etc etc) Novell(which they used to develop Active Directory then cut the legs form under Novell).etc etc. I found it interesting that a former Microsoft exec went to head Nokia and right after that Nokia is not only dumping Symbian but nearly totally shutting down it’s own R&D to bet the farm totally on Microsoft. MS phone systems haven’t been market leaders..they’ve been followers and WP7 is no different. If part 2 of this article is correct MS just bought their way into being able to make their own hardware. If that’s correct Nokia’s market domination days are over.
Microsoft gutted Nokia and left them without a chance | SemiAccurate.
With android closing in on Apple very quickly.. by the time MS does this deal(if they do) and with how slowly MS moves they will be once again years behind the market. I think this may not only be the end of Nokia but the end of MS mobile as a significant market player of any form.
Mobile Open Source: Why I believe Microsoft will buy Nokia :: by Fabrizio Capobianco.
It’s apparently a known issue. I had to Google it to find this as this is NOT on Canon’s site.
So Intel is going to continue to sell defective products. The new fixed parts won’t be out until Apr-June timeframe. Yes you can work around the defect by not using the sata-2 ports…why should we have to do this? If anyone buys a sandy bridge part before the new chipsets come out you are rewarding Intel for selling you defective parts.
In other words, Intel will keep shipping these faulty chip sets, but only to motherboard manufacturers that promise to put them in systems that don’t use the SATA 2 ports. Note that SATA 3 ports aren’t affected by the bug. It isn’t clear — at least, I couldn’t tell by reading the press release — whether Intel is insisting that the mother board not have any functioning SATA 2 ports or if those ports must be electronically disconnected or even physically removed. The statement is vague enough that Intel may be shipping faulty chip sets to PC vendors who promise to put their hard drives on the SATA 3 connection, not the SATA 2 connection.Unless Intel modifies or clarifies its position, here’s where you stand. If you buy an i5- or i7- based PC in the next few months, the motherboard may have this basic defect. Chances are good you won’t bump into the SATA 2 problem — depending on how Intel defines “not impacted” — but if you install a SATA 2 device in the future, that device may some day start misbehaving. If you do anything else that requires a SATA 2 connection, maybe you’ll get lucky — or maybe you won’t. The description we have at this point isn’t detailed enough to tell what kind of restrictions will be put in place and how Intel will monitor those 8 million chip sets to make sure they’re treated properly.
via Intel pulls a fast one in Sandy Bridge fiasco | Processors – InfoWorld.