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With major service providers taking their users towards “the clouds”, it appears that the leaders in the space will continue to primarily advance products and services for mobile devices such as superphones and tablets where storage and processing are limited. Recent advances from Apple and Amazon have been hitting headlines however Google in [...]  I awoke very surprised Sunday morning to see my mobile phone, synced to network time, was off by an hour. It was not my fancy new Cyanogenmod ROM either. I was flabbergasted to discover Rogers Communications’ NTP servers on their mobile network were broadcasting an unadjusted GMT-5 signal to my phone. A quick [...] The social and political instability in Egypt has been headline news in the past week. I find the discussion of the Internet connectivity that is a core issue to be fascinating, however I do not pretend to have good perspective on everything that is going on. My commentary on the negative aspects is going to [...] Nearly a week into the Olympics, CTV unveiled their Olympic widget. The widget is put together by ClearSpring and can be embedded just about anywhere easily, including any WordPress-based blog. Check out the left pane of http://www.theupsons.net for a peek at what the finished product looks like. The process is automated if [...] Better to be upgraded and safe then sorry [...] Today I was following up on some harmless messages I have been seeing on some iSCSI Initiators I have setup that provide disk to a number of ESX servers over a Gigabit LAN. It appears that there may be some limitations running the newest flavour of ESX with current IET. One recent comment from [...] A few years ago Toronto Hydro replaced my household hydro meter with a digital one (aka Smart Meter). Since logging in initially a few years back, I receive periodic updates reminding me of the fact that I can review my consumption levels and the impact of Time-Of-Use (TOU) billing online. Out of sheer curiosity, [...] Recently I acquired a Novatel Ovation MC950D UMTS Modem. A quick google to find links on how to setup revealed a few generic methods, with nothing very Ubuntu specific. As is turns out, the Mobile Broadband setup is build right into the Network Manager. I simply configured a udev script to activate the [...] Well, I caught a glimpse of what I expect will be the realm of my next computer purchase; A cheap, functional and powerful netbook with built in UMTS modem and a high resolution LED backlit convertible tablet display with SSD drive and enough RAM to do real tasks and drive a feature rich desktop. [...] For some time now I have observed the Ubuntu dmesg line [ 10.799981] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8 and wondered if this was (a) a properly recognized piece of hardware, (b) a feature of my laptop or my Seagate STxxxxxxxx hard disk and (c) what applications might take advantage of it, assuming I [...] |
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