I was SO hopeful.
Sadly - same error. Network recognized immediately.
Is there a way to manually assign an IP to a specif MAC address (ie my BB)?
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Marvell downgraded after losing contract for BlackBerry Javelin
Chip manufacturer Freescale has won a contract from RIM for the upcoming BlackBerry 8900, leaving long-time supplier Marvell in the dust.
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Chip manufacturer Marvell saw a downgrade status rating on the stock market today from Jefferies & Co. due to losing the contract with RIM to provide parts for the upcoming BlackBerry 8900 (a.k.a Javelin) to competitor Freescale. The folks from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. didn’t see it as quite that bad of a hit to Marvell.
“Not to minimize Freescale’s successful efforts, but we still think there is plenty of room for Marvell to feed at the Blackberry trough,” [analyst Craig Berger] wrote. “We believe Marvell’s unit shipments to Research In Motion could grow by 60%-80% this year.”
RIM’s been buying from Marvell for a long time, so we’re left to wonder what spurred the change in supplier. It could be as simple as going with the lowest bidder, but maybe Freescale’s got something that Marvell doesn’t… I guess we’ll have to wait for the Javelin around late November to see if she runs any differently.
(via MarketWatch)
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Digital Strategy 2.0 builds on broadband push
Content clusters and digital hubs to break out across the land Read More
Broadband fund opens for business
Government is now accepting applications for $340 million scheme Read More
Aviation Theme for Blackberry 1.00
Aviation Theme for Blackberry 1.00
A very detailed representation of an airplanes instrument panel on your Blackberry screen. This is a must for the Blackberry owner who is also an aviation enthusiast! 
A very detailed representation of an airplanes instrument panel on your Blackberry screen. This is a must for the Blackberry owner who is also an aviation enthusiast!
A very detailed representation of an airplanes instrument panel on your Blackberry screen. This is a must for the Blackberry owner who is also an aviation enthusiast!A very detailed representation of an airplanes instrument panel on your Blackberry screen. This is a must for the Blackberry owner who is also an aviation enthusiast!
Open-Source Radeon Driver Improvements
For those following the xf86-video-ati developments or use this open-source Radeon driver for their graphics card, you may want to check out the latest development code. Committed to its git branch today was a lot of new work from Alex Deucher, Dennis Kasprzyk, David Airlie, Egbert Eich, and Corbin Simpson. There is now bi-cubic X-Video support for the Radeon R300 and R500 series GPUs, heavy optimizations in the video functions, and lots of code cleaning... 
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New Zealand's national broadcaster (TVNZ) discriminating against non-Windows users?
New Zealand's national broadcaster (TVNZ) discriminating against non-Windows users?
Update: It seems that using the gxine plugin, it is possible to view those video streams on Ubuntu anyway. Some people at least got it to work using Epiphany. I can confirm that this does work, but for some reason, it won't work for me with Firefox. ... (more in the full post) 
Update: It seems that using the gxine plugin, it is possible to view those video streams on Ubuntu anyway. Some people at least got it to work using Epiphany. I can confirm that this does work, but for some reason, it won't work for me with Firefox. ... (more in the full post)
iBerry Black BIG Blocks 8700 4.2.1 1
iBerry Black BIG Blocks 8700 4.2.1 1
Enjoy the Brand New iBerry BIG Blocks for the 8700 series blackberry (OS 4.2.1 only) Enjoy the Brand New iBerry BIG Blocks for the 8700 series blackberry (OS 4.2.1 only)
Enjoy the Brand New iBerry BIG Blocks for the 8700 series blackberry (OS 4.2.1 only)Enjoy the Brand New iBerry BIG Blocks for the 8700 series blackberry (OS 4.2.1 only)
11 Security Bulletins From Microsoft
For the month of August, Microsoft unleashed 11 new Security Bulletins- 6 of them rated as Critical and 5 Important. There are vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Microsoft technologies... Read More
Friday, August 29, 2008
PC Fun - that's Politically Correct...
PC Fun - that's Politically Correct...
Lets see, time for a bit of a challenge - with a minutiae of assistance from bored dot com's list of politically correct terms.
A fable of gargantuan proportions. Not. (Or should that read 'Un'?)
Back in the Chronologically gifted days, lived a displaced home owner. Now this non-discretionally scented individual could hold his/her/it's posessions (sorry, I couldn't find one for this) in a processed tree carcass. The local youth group from the barrio-ethnically homogenous area more than several times attempted to reverse-love (that's mine, folks, but you can borrow it) the above-mentioned non-specifically destinated individual.
The local law enforcement officer/s, being uniquely proficient in their own area of expertise (which means nothing, basically) held that this non-random earth child was actually a member of the mental explorers club. In other words he/she/it was one of the selectively perceptive. Or just non-adorned motivationally dispossed. A uniquley fortuned individual on an alternative career path. Kinesthetically challenged, the size ten clod-hoppers would treat the unaffiliated applicant for private sector funding to a time of leisure-seeking within the fenced-in boundaries of the non-global correctional institution.
There was less than something but I mean Far Less that the client didn't hate than a good prescription's worth of constructive feminist (non-masculine) psychtherapy, where he would have a conjoined meeting nasally with persons of the difficult-to-meet needs variety, cost of living adjustment speciallists and other least-best men of differing unclean-lucre gathering skills. PIndividuals of the non-doubtful trickster persuasion.
After more than one of these hourly or more appointments our in-vain-man-with-his-underwear-on-the-outside-of-his-tights was led to a non-planned re-examination of previously digested food choices. This being the learning outcome of the economically marginalised human, the powers that exist in an ongoing time continuum were manipulated in a hand-tied-behind-the-back manner perspicuous to the event in hand (but not-tied before the retro spinal-osteo-varietal [variety]) to open the door of opportunity and rotate an un-seeing optic to the outwoard travelling of the victim of society.
Have I lost you completely yet? I will finish on a positive sounding musical-verbosity...
He/she/it veered off the chosen path to find himself the nearest rapid-nutrition outlet and bought himself a non metric measurement of seared mutilated animal flesh. Transitionlising his non-counter ego into a petroleum transfer technician, with over the top designs of one sunshine-filled twelve hours of becoming a garbologist in the university of non-deadness, our inept exterior-undie wearer existed in a basically existential existance neither sadly nor tearfully in what is known as an any-number-divided-by zero time zone.
Now wasn't that uniquely proficient of the person who environmentally non-correctly behind this dermis? 
Lets see, time for a bit of a challenge - with a minutiae of assistance from bored dot com's list of politically correct terms.
A fable of gargantuan proportions. Not. (Or should that read 'Un'?)
Back in the Chronologically gifted days, lived a displaced home owner. Now this non-discretionally scented individual could hold his/her/it's posessions (sorry, I couldn't find one for this) in a processed tree carcass. The local youth group from the barrio-ethnically homogenous area more than several times attempted to reverse-love (that's mine, folks, but you can borrow it) the above-mentioned non-specifically destinated individual.
The local law enforcement officer/s, being uniquely proficient in their own area of expertise (which means nothing, basically) held that this non-random earth child was actually a member of the mental explorers club. In other words he/she/it was one of the selectively perceptive. Or just non-adorned motivationally dispossed. A uniquley fortuned individual on an alternative career path. Kinesthetically challenged, the size ten clod-hoppers would treat the unaffiliated applicant for private sector funding to a time of leisure-seeking within the fenced-in boundaries of the non-global correctional institution.
There was less than something but I mean Far Less that the client didn't hate than a good prescription's worth of constructive feminist (non-masculine) psychtherapy, where he would have a conjoined meeting nasally with persons of the difficult-to-meet needs variety, cost of living adjustment speciallists and other least-best men of differing unclean-lucre gathering skills. PIndividuals of the non-doubtful trickster persuasion.
After more than one of these hourly or more appointments our in-vain-man-with-his-underwear-on-the-outside-of-his-tights was led to a non-planned re-examination of previously digested food choices. This being the learning outcome of the economically marginalised human, the powers that exist in an ongoing time continuum were manipulated in a hand-tied-behind-the-back manner perspicuous to the event in hand (but not-tied before the retro spinal-osteo-varietal [variety]) to open the door of opportunity and rotate an un-seeing optic to the outwoard travelling of the victim of society.
Have I lost you completely yet? I will finish on a positive sounding musical-verbosity...
He/she/it veered off the chosen path to find himself the nearest rapid-nutrition outlet and bought himself a non metric measurement of seared mutilated animal flesh. Transitionlising his non-counter ego into a petroleum transfer technician, with over the top designs of one sunshine-filled twelve hours of becoming a garbologist in the university of non-deadness, our inept exterior-undie wearer existed in a basically existential existance neither sadly nor tearfully in what is known as an any-number-divided-by zero time zone.
Now wasn't that uniquely proficient of the person who environmentally non-correctly behind this dermis?
11 Security Bulletins From Microsoft
11 Security Bulletins From Microsoft
For the month of August, Microsoft unleashed 11 new Security Bulletins- 6 of them rated as Critical and 5 Important. There are vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Microsoft technologies...
For the month of August, Microsoft unleashed 11 new Security Bulletins- 6 of them rated as Critical and 5 Important. There are vulnerabilities affecting a wide range of Microsoft technologies...
GNU/Linux popularity around the world
Pingdom has produced a nice article about the popularity of GNU/Linux around the world. They did that by using Google's search insight, and show maps for the popularity of Linux in general, as well as various distributions.For example, here... (more in the full post) 
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Bad Question On "Anti Anti Smacking Referendum"
So it appears that the petition which was calling for a referendum on the "anti smacking bill" (which was very poorly named so by the media, if it has been called the "anti whacking kids so hard it causes injury bill" not many people would complain I'm sure) was verified as achieving the level required to trigger a referendum. That's great and all, democracy in work, I don't need to agree with the premise to agree with your right to be heard.
BUT
Am I the only person to see the serious flaw. Here's the question that the petition, and apparently the forthcoming referendum will pose:
Seems innocuous enough you say. But let's break it down...
If you say "Yes it should be illegal" to on the face of it indicate that you are "anti smacking" then by the terms of reference you are indicating that you think that "good parental correction" should be criminal.
The question has asserted the answer it wants, it states that "a smack [is a] part of good parental correction" before it even gets to asking the question about that!
So it puts anybody with half a mind in a real quandry when this referendum (which appears will be a postal ballot next year) arrives, at least if you are opposed to phyical discipline. I think I'll simply return the ballot voided to indicate that the question is invalid.
Now, I don't know the rules regarding referenda, but if the government is not bound to use the same question as was posed in the petition, then perhaps somebody in government could come up with a fairer question to ask, 
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BUT
Am I the only person to see the serious flaw. Here's the question that the petition, and apparently the forthcoming referendum will pose:
"Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand?"
Seems innocuous enough you say. But let's break it down...
If you say "Yes it should be illegal" to on the face of it indicate that you are "anti smacking" then by the terms of reference you are indicating that you think that "good parental correction" should be criminal.
The question has asserted the answer it wants, it states that "a smack [is a] part of good parental correction" before it even gets to asking the question about that!
So it puts anybody with half a mind in a real quandry when this referendum (which appears will be a postal ballot next year) arrives, at least if you are opposed to phyical discipline. I think I'll simply return the ballot voided to indicate that the question is invalid.
Now, I don't know the rules regarding referenda, but if the government is not bound to use the same question as was posed in the petition, then perhaps somebody in government could come up with a fairer question to ask,
Breaking Down Blog Spam Malware
Breaking Down Blog Spam Malware
Jesper Johansson, co-author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious Attacks, recently wrote an article in The Register which dissects a new type of threat. Anyone with a blog...
Jesper Johansson, co-author of Windows Vista Security: Securing Vista Against Malicious Attacks, recently wrote an article in The Register which dissects a new type of threat. Anyone with a blog...
Best Western refutes story claiming records breached
Best Western refutes story claiming records breached
Only 13 customer records actually exposed, says hotel chain
Only 13 customer records actually exposed, says hotel chain
Follow me on Twitter
Follow me on Twitter
I have (finally) just got my act together with Twitter.Its something I avoided for a long time, treating it as a bit of a gimmick, but now, having used it for only a short time, I subscribe to the notion that its like a chat room, but inste... (more in the full post) 
I have (finally) just got my act together with Twitter.Its something I avoided for a long time, treating it as a bit of a gimmick, but now, having used it for only a short time, I subscribe to the notion that its like a chat room, but inste... (more in the full post)
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