Thought its not in an extremely cool fashion. Miphone did make engadget mobile today in regards to the iphone being supported on their network. they are infact aware that miphone has a cdma network But I’m sure they didn’t know of the upcoming Gsm Platform which they plan to move to. I even heard they plan to skip Edge and go straight to 3g (from an inside source). Short post yes.. but i just thought it was kinda cool that miphone made engadget.. I figure its in relation to the name of the company and the product. miphone..iphone.. gimicky name.

Now i’m happy definitely happy that ubuntu is making a os for the much talked about umpc’s now. They’re gaining momentum in the market place so of course you need to secure your piece of the pie. However what of the UME that have been in the works form 2007. I even went as far as frequenting the IRC channel and reading their development discussions and even interviewed one of the developers. I really hope it gets completed and I’m glad either way. More options for umpc owners Therefore when i buy one I’ll have an os to run on it :).

Windows 7. A few months ago i read a blog entry on this and i really thought why am i doing this this is clearly a fake. Vista was just released there is no way they could be leaking information to the web on their new os in development. However it does seem it was all true Windows 7 is real. Why such an odd name, I’m currently uncertain.

Now windows 7 is apparently not only for the desktop and notebooks but also a flavour for the new boombing computing category knowns as umpc’s (please see gizmodo’s articile which defines the category of portable computing to get a better understanding of a umpc). The umpc’s will also feature multitouch capabilities (insert oohs and ahhhs here). The only thing that would make this a triple threat thriller for ms is releasing all of them at the same time.. but where is the third you ask, because so far i’ve talked about windows 7 desktop and notebook edition, umpc edition and nothing else. Well the third would be non other than windows mobile 7. If they can market, promote and launch with a proper campaign around the 3 things i’m sure they’ll rack up a shit load of sales just off the hype alone. I know Steve jobs could do it.

I must say I’ve been using rss for years but now i’ve taken it to a whole new level. I’ve had pocket pc’s for years now, using them for all sorts of productivity, emails, im on the go and even blogging. Yet I’ve never thought of putting an rss client on my pocket pc to keep me up to date with my news, blogs and podcasts. A bigger plus is with the podcast i can listen to the podcast on said pocket pc. I’ve recently installed a rom on my htc which came with a Rss agregator and man its just been awesome. I’m just ontop of all the news. on the hour every hour updates pulled to my handset. If your a person that just likes to be in the “know” you should definitely try this out.

The better of the rss aggregators I’ve seen is Vigo. However I use Rsshub because it was already on my pocket pc.

Alright, I haven’t made a blog entry in quite some time, and I realize that neither have the other writers. What happen nothing new happen in technology for the past 2 months? What about the Phenom debate? Intel’s announcements? AMD-ATI vs Nvidia… cho anyway

This post though after my 2 month sabbatical is aimed at ISPs. All of us have to go through them… well if it wasn’t for them none of us would have access to the internet would we? But how does your ISP treat you really? Well I can talk from a Jamaican perspective and say that we are treated like the extreme bottom of the pile people. Lots of our isp’s (especially the two major ones locally) dont even spend half the time or effort in developing solutions as they should, for the average subscriber.  But why dont they? I guess the regular average joe is important, only businesses require any amount of special service.

I write this because currently my ISP whom shall remain nameless has refused to repair my internet service which is now down for in excess of a month (or was it 2). What geek can really survive without the information available on the internet? I cant think of even one. I’ve been forced to live on other people’s internet connections and public wifi spots etcetera. And to add insult to injury my same ISP had the balls to send me a bill for last month’s internet usage (i think i managed to download about 8 mb worth of information last month… I normally do that in a matter of minutes). So of course the next logical choice would be to simply switch ISP’s, go to somebody who will at least show me some level of respect, right?

Well the only other choice I have advertises that they are the top alternative BUT they are not available in my area. In order to get their service I will have to wait until next year June or thereabout, what is the point of an islandwide advertising campain when your service is only available in one (small) part of the island? This is the BS which the average joe has to go through. So what do I do in the meantime? Now you all understand my predicament. I am now one of the weakest people in my mmo guild, i havent gotten to properly update my anime in a while and or my music library.

The only way I can assume I will get internet service sooner than next year June is if i can manage to somehow convince all the big businesses to open offices where I live and force some form of action… *sigh* anyway i’m tired, i have work to do and i cant bother wasting my time typing about people who dont even have enough time to fix a simple problem for me however I do hope that they remember, the businesses of tomorrow are started by the same average joes that are getting the shitty service today.

Lol.. This is kinda funny. Palm trashes the foleo like engadget suggested. For more on the foleo See a previous post. I wonder if this’ll be a wake up call for em.. Like seriously Stop building crap. I’ve owned a treo 600 n from that experience I’ll never ever buy a palm device. Bought a windows mobile it was like i moved up like George and weezy. They need to re-think their product line and definitely work on the operating system.

P.S go engadget thanks for showing them the error of their ways.

Nester-San says:
fucking hurricanes

Nester-San says:
sunday morning

Nester-San says:
category 3

Nester-San says:
we fucking doomed

Nester-San says:
need to go buy weather shit

Nick: says:
WTF

Nester-San says:
hurricane dean

Nester-San says:
thats what happens to us geeks who only use pc’s

Nester-San says:
we now nothing of real life (RLF)

Nick: says:
hey i hear they finally found ways to utillize multi threads

Nick: says:
for quad core in games

Nester-San says:
www.weather.com

Nick: says:
n 8 cores

Nick: says:
huh

Nick: says:
lol

Nester-San says:
Dude, there is a fucking hurricane headed towards us

Nick: says:
RLF

Nick: says:
screw rlf

Ok how many of you people have heard of a website with the url http://www.geni.com. Well i must say, that this site is simply the bomb. Its a website that allows you to build up your family tree. Now it may sound simple but this website really isn’t. It isnt a website that promises to search out your entire blood relatives and put them in your family tree for you, instead you have to do the work yourself… well not exactly. Everybody who you add to your family tree can also add more people to the family tree. Therefore so the people who know your fathers side of the family better can populate that side and your mother can populate her side etc etc.

The website also gives you birthday reminders and you can add pictures and stuff etcetera. Its only in beta form though so dont expect it to run fault free. But for the time being, its perfect for me. So far my tree has gone up to around 450 people and we still trying to go back further in the family tree. Through this I got to talk to cousins I havent spoken to in years (or even met for that matter) and i’m learning that my family is much huuger than originally thought. Check it out people.

Ok. I have a project…

Doing said Project I have to interact with:

A: IT Manager who was supplanted by her enemy.
B: The Enemy of A, who sucks up to me cause the CEO wants me in, don’t know a Processor from a Network Cable.

State of the Network:

Imagine 50 unraveled balls of yarn + 3 Crackhead cats + 15 LSD Monkeys.

Why ??

Object A =

No thinking out of Box at all..

Basically a 1/4 step above the “We do it that way, cause that is how my forefather’s n their forefathers did it.” mentality..

Drivers from 1989 are fine, bug fix = “what is a bug ??”

Checking Error logs on Servers = “ehhh??”.

Windows Update for Servers = see above.

Servers have no Anti-virus.

They have cool *** imaging software for real-timebackup. Does anyone check that it is running ?

Of course not, so last image = When Dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Array Controllers use Battery Backed Cache for performance = Battery Dies (Array kills cache to preserve data in case of power failure= Huge Performance Penalty), pointed out 1 month ago. Found part online, suggested to get two, since both servers use a battery, and lifespan of battery is 3 years, which is up for both. Reminded Object A everyday.

A = “I forgot” x 1 month.

Got into big argument with A, cause I was told that without SP2, Windows XP cannot create dial-up connections.

Suggestions to check X or Y to get Servers and Network online = “Ask Object B, THAT is the Manager” ( A is carrying major belly for B, and vice-versa)

Switches on two floors have collisions

No one knows specs on machines at remote branches…It was suggested to DRIVE all over island like a noob to get machine specs, info that “My Computer” can tell you in 10 seconds.

Installed an app to monitor Server HD space on a system running low on space. NOT ONLY INSTALLED, PUT ON DESKTOP, POINTED TO, RUN FOR FIRST TIME, SHOWN HOW TO USE. Nester-san then says to A:

“Check this, every couple of days”.

A = “He means whenever the moon is in alignment with Jupiter and Venus”

So of course, a useage trend which would take 1 week to see, takes a month and a half.

B had a brilliant solution to “GO LIVE” with the new application package. Yes, utterly brilliant if you bear in mind she only told CEO and a handfull of the users. (HANDFULL = 15% of Staff)

I can’t write no more tonight….Me stress, mi a grey…

A = my friend, but #$%@#$%@#$%, I want to go postal on them %@#$%@#$%

I was browsing around the net searching for some tutorials for LDAP on ubuntu and something dawned on me while reading through some blogs, forums and websites. What the hell are Linux’s goals? Now at first I thought I had the answer for the question but then I realized, that what I thought definately cant be the goals because nobody in the net is facing in that direction.

To bring you up to speed on what I’m saying here, I thought initially that the goal of linux and all the distro’s available out there is to provide a cheap (free) alternative to windows that is both user-friendly, secure and … well… close to perfect. However I have come to the realization that none of the users of linux really think about those goals (if those are the goals). Linux is only made for the L33T it seems, you can say all you want about how the distro’s are getting so user-friendly and how they are getting rid of dependency on CLI but, why is it that when I search around linux forums all i see are topics with names that include abbreviations like fsck and ldap (which is strange cuz thats wat i was searching for) etc.

What about the simple problems that Joe n00b may have, and what about the simple explanations that Joe may require? This is the reason why linux hasn’t been taking off in the consumer market they way we linux users feel it should be. If you search for a simple thing as installing software with linux, you are faced with hundreds of webpages that all talk about package managers and packages and the .tar.gz etc … Why the hell should Joe n00b switch to a different o/s when he cant even understand what the hell the people who know about the o/s are saying? When is the last time you tried to explain something linux based in proper english without the use of one abbreviation? If you cant answer this question in 3 seconds then obviously you are a part of the problem.

Now you may say that i am being harsh by calling it a problem, but the fact is its the truth. Linux and all of its users are l33t there are no non-l33t hardcore linux users, the reason is its too hard to understand what the bloody hell the l33t users are talking about. How can we expect to get support for this o/s if we cant sell it to the majority of computer users (Joe n00b’s family + cousins, + second cousins, +3 cousins, +5th cousins twiced removed and the other billion family members he has).

Before ending I will further establish my point by saying this… Find one of joe n00b’s relatives (Nadine N00b) and try to explain to her how to install a program in windows, and then try to do the same thing with any linux distro. When you realize that you start ranting and raving about things you MIGHT have to do and things you SHOULDNT forget to do or else you might have to start over the installation or the o/s, then you will get what i’ve been saying. I wont even get into teaching people how to configure stuff lol.

Oh and here’s just a few lines from a page I found about installing and configuring Ldap the lines i posted are instructions on how to install it. I rest my case.

$ sudo aptitude install slapd ldap-utils libnss-ldap libpam-ldap

    samba smbldap-tools smbclient

    samba-doc perl-doc