moonlit
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Thought I might add some nice facts about UK mobile networks:
Orange: France Telecom (French)
Founded by Hutchison Telecom (Chinese, division of Hutchison Whampoa), sold to Mannesmann AG (German), Mannesmann AG acquired by Vodafone and Orange was sold to France Telecom due to the ownership of two mobile network licences.
T-Mobile: Deutsche Telekom (German) (Supports Virgin Mobile)
Previously Mercury One2One, One2One, and founded by Mercury Communications (British). Later owned by Cable and Wireless (British) and MediaOne Group (American, previously US West Media Group). Purchased by Deutsche Telekom and rebranded T-Mobile.
First 1800MHz GSM network.
Three: Hutchison 3G (Chinese, division of Hutchison Whampoa)
UTMS network only, 2G provided by roaming agreements.
Vodafone: Vodafone (British)
Owned by Racal Strategic Radio Ltd (British, division of Racal Electronics PLC), Millicom (Luxembourg) and Hambros Technology Trust (British). Minority shareholders later bought out resulting in total ownership by Racal. Subsequently demerged, rebranded Vodafone Group. Purchased many companies, part owns Verizon Wireless (American) with Bell Atlantic Corp (American).
O2: Telefonica (Spanish) (Supports Tesco Mobile)
Originally BT Cellnet, Cellnet, part owned by both British Telecom (British) and Securicor (British, now known as G4S, previously known as Group4Securicor). Demerged to become O2 UK under mmO2 (British, later O2 PLC) and purchased by Telefonica.
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...M-E-R-G-I-N-G.
So yeah, T-Mobile UK has after much speculation decided they'd like to merge with Orange. I don't really know what to say on the matter, but I think it's sufficiently interesting to discuss. With that said, what do you Brits imagine will happen? Will they pick a single name? What will it be? Is anyone here on either of those networks and what will it do to your choice of network in future? Discuss!
Sources:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/orange_t_mobile/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/08/t-mobil...o-longer-clash/
Press Release:
http://newsroom.orange.co.uk/2009/09/08/de...obile-champion/
Edit: I should point out that Three UK's 2G calling runs on Orange and Virgin Mobile runs entirely on T-Mobile's network. Should be interesting.
Edit2: More info: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/08/t_orange/
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How in that video did that guy afford a phone with gps in it for under $20... Some titles are so misleading honesty..
I haven't looked into it but I've often heard that even cheap phones are location-aware, so I don't think it's necessarily impossible. I considered a project involving a cheap phone and an external (either serial or bluetooth) GPS unit which would act as a tracker, that could be done for very little especially if it was based on a used prepay phone. Ultimately I abandoned it because, well, I don't know Java, so I wouldn't have been able to easily write the necessary application (though I did later write the same thing for Windows and successfully tested SMSing my laptop with an HSDPA modem attached and having it SMS me back with its co-ordinates, which is essentially the same thing).
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For a brief moment I considered the possibility of a sticky on this... then I realised the only thing it'd say is "Nuke it." in a single post, so perhaps it's not really such a good idea.
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The spell checker isn't always right, though, sometimes it will wrongly guess what you're trying to write and insert the wrong word for you. The region your spell check is set to also makes a difference, a misconfigured spellcheck in the UK might mean you miss a lot of letters or end up with Zs where Zs shouldn't be.
As for accusations of cheating, VaKo, I know what that one's like, one of the final straws for me in English class was an accusation of cheating when I wrote a huge essay on the history of Microsoft Windows, apparently I would've had to have been 20-odd to have written it and clearly copied it from a magazine. I promptly exploded, it was the first instance for some considerable time that I'd made that much of an effort in any form of school work and was told it was inadmissable because I clearly wasn't capable of such work. Fucking teachers. Can you tell I hold a grudge?
Back to the topic, though, I think it depends on the person. I don't use spell check if I can help it and I generally ignore automatic highlights. I don't actually use Word (or really any other text editor beyond Wordpad) so I don't get all that fun spelling and grammar checking, if I get really stuck I'll google a word (and sticking "define:" before it will give you inspiration for synonyms too). I can see how it might be easy to rely on but I always strive to learn how to spell as many words as I possibly can, and to keep my grammar in check as much as possible (sometimes it's easy to let it slide online). Semi-related, if you want lazy and stupid, just look anywhere online. Contracting of words to single letters, complete disregard for spelling or grammar, general abuse and misuse of the English (and American) language. Sure, language evolves, but I'm not about to adopt "u" and "cuz" into my everyday online lexicon.
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Hardly unusual though, when's the last time you got a McDonalds that looked like the menu? Do cosmetic products really make you look like a supermodel or a chiselled superman? Is Lynx (Axe) really going to make you irresistable to every member of the opposite sex? Let's face it, they're never gonna advertise that the pool is too small for a 6 year old to comfortably fit in, or that the slide is barely long enough to reach past the end of your legs. Most people expect ads or box art to glorify the product somewhat. That's not to say it's necessarily acceptable, there's a limit to how different a product can reasonably be from the box are or the posters, but some amount of visual enhacement is to be expected.
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You can't delete your account, but you can remove any personal information from your profile and change your password.
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I wouldn't worry about RAID if you're using a laptop, but there's no reason you couldn't use the laptop as a NAS. If you use the internal drive and/or external 1.8"/2.5" drives, they'll be slower but you'll use less power (no extra wall warts) and it'll be more compact and if that battery still works, it'll have a battery backup. If you want more speed, you can use a PCMCIA/CardBus (depending on the laptop's age) SATA card.
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You can't buffer overflow the audio in because the analog to digital converter physically can't output values large/long enough to overflow. I might be wrong tho, my knowledge of buffer overflows isn't that great.
That was my thought after considering it for a while, you can't give the driver values that the physical hardware can't create, not from the input side of the hardware at least, you could in software, but that's a little useless here. If the driver's written properly, there shouldn't be any data that comes out of the hardware which can't be handled.
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The only ways I can think of to exploit analog audio in/out is either by some fluke involving the audio stack and some meticulously crafted sound, or via some app which uses audio input as data (for example an audio editing suite or an app which takes audio data and interprets it as sensor data or perhaps translates it into digital data like data over radio), the latter being the more likely scenario but still extremely difficult if it could be done at all. Of course, I'm no expert and I could be missing something obvious, but it wouldn't be easy any way you slice it.
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Absolutely no idea, but try Unetbootin instead, it's specifically designed to cram liveCDs onto USB sticks.
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Hah, welcome to Linux.
Just so this post has a point, though, an SD card (regardless of capacity or physical size) in a card reader is, as far as the computer's concerned, a USB stick, so it'll behave exactly the same as a flash drive.
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The only smartphone I've owned is my current phone, an HTC TyTN II, aka Kaiser, Tilt, Stellar. It runs Windows Mobile 6 (and 6.5, if you check out xda-developers) and a fairly well developed (but not perfect) port of Android. I can't compare this to any other smartphone but battery life is half decent (in the range of days, not hours) if I don't hammer it all day long, it has Office on it and browsing's a breeze with Opera Mobile. It has GPS, 3G, wifi, bluetooth and a full hardware keyboard. Can tether via bluetooth, USB or even wifi (especially helpful is WMWifiRouter, turns your device into a 3G wifi router). Solid construction, despite the sliding screen, and the screen itself is clear, reasonably large (though fairly average for a WM device). Touchscreen works well, but could be a touch more sensitive. Has very little onboard storage but that's pretty much the rule with these older WM phones, not the exception, but it does have an SDHC-capable microSD slot which happily takes 8GB and larger cards.
On the downsides, it's quite large and a little heavy, it's an older model which has been superceded. However, that does mean you can pick one up used for a very reasonable price. If you hammer it all day, your battery will be dead in short order, but that's the case with any smartphone. I recommend carrying a spare battery or two if you plan to use heavy GPS and data, especially at the same time, or if you're often travelling, at least a car charger. WM's UI does sort of deserve its criticism but while I agree that it needs work, the OS itself is very powerful and feels quite the opposite to Android on the same device, very raw, ready to be used however you feel like, Android feels a lot more UI-centric and, while I'm sure it's also powerful, feels a little "soft".
But yeah, that's kind of why I put this info up originally, so people could get to play with smartphone OSs and see what they preferred - the hardware's a little different, sure, but you can see that in a store on the shelf or online in spec sheets and such.
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That works ;)
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Report it to IT. If it's infected some/all of the network, they need to know, and they will reimage your laptop.
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fuck jolicloud.
You gonna expand on that at all?
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If you're going to break into a system, where's the challenge in asking someone what the hash is?
I won't give the "your own box" speech here, you know the drill, but even if you're recovering your own password there are plenty of methods you can try yourself, why bother asking someone else?
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Awesome, very helpful, thanks Moonlit.
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What they said, I'm a mediocre coder and, while I have used that to help me learn other things, it's not at all essential. I'd specifically echo what VaKo said, curiosity, a drive to learn and the ability to think outside the box are all important, and much more important than coding. Don't get me wrong, it can be useful, for example it helped me learn somethings about GPS, GSM modems and bluetooth, but I could've learnt most of it with a terminal emulator just fine, I just chose to do it the hard way. Otherwise though, there's not much I've actually used my programming skills (however weak) for which has actually required them.
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Yes: http://hak5.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=10230
It was a while ago I posted that, so I should add that there is an iPhone emulator, you'll need a machine capable of running OSX (x86, unless you feel like messing about) and the iPhone SDK. Windows Mobile 6.5 images are now available, and there are likely newer Blackberry models available now too. Multiple Android images are also out there, from the original 1.0 prerelease up to the latest 1.5. You can also use QEMU to run Maemo for Nokia phones but I haven't yet tried that. If you grab a copy of the Palm WebOS SDK, it contains a VirtualBox image of WebOS.
WebOS 1.0, Android 1.5, Blackberry 4.7, Windows Mobile 6.5
PalmOS 4, PalmOS 5.4.9, WebOS 1.0
Various BlackberryOS in chronological order
Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 6.1, Windows Mobile 6.5
Android 1.0, Android 1.1, Android 1.5
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Depends on the network. Some networks obfuscate or "cloak" your IP with a hostmask or vanity host and others just display your IP. Some networks will provide a vhost upon request, like Freenode, you just have to ask a staff member to provide you with one. Alternatively, if you're particularly paranoid and the network allows it, you can proxy/connect through a shell, which provides the network the IP of your shell instead of you home machine.
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That's exactly what my reponse was about. Banning now...
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It's cheap, cheerful, and not all that secure, but putting your bootloader on an SD card or USB stick would work just as well for casual or unprepared users. The upside is that it works with pretty much any OS. The downside is that if I have a USB stick with GRUB on it, and a boot.conf with every likely boot choice, I have your system.
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Doesn't make sense to me either, but you should probably know that there's no such thing as Hackers 2, it's a standalone movie which has no connection whatsoever to the original Hackers movie, someone just mislabelled it on a filesharing service and the whole world seemed to believe it.
Orange and T-Mobile...
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Being an Orange customer, I'm hoping to (eventually, if/when this all happens) reap the benefits of improved coverage - I can get T-Mobile HSDPA (actually, Virgin HSDPA, runs on T-Mobile) in my house but not Orange HSDPA, it's just a shame I'm not actually on T-Mobile (or Virgin) with a phone I use day to day...
Edit: As for names, I'd like to see a revival of One2One somehow.