Category: Technology

Categories
Computing Technology Web

Best Links of August 2015 (so far)

Hickies Responsive Lacing System
Turn the Raspberry Pi into an FM Transmitter
Custom Straight Outta Compton Logo-izer
Kali Linux Pentest Linux Distro
Color Hunt – Beautiful Colours Updated Daily
Tripsafe.org – Tips and safety for LSD/Shrooms/Psychedelics
Different dosage of LSD explained
New Do Not Track Coalition for Web Browsing
Everything You Can Ask Cortana to do in Windows 10
Primer’s Complete Guide to Proper Shoe Care
Darkroom 2 Photo Editing app
Convert a phsical Linux machine into KVM virtual machine
Docker can get messy. Know how to clean up properly.
Strong End vs Weak End System Model, valuable knowledge for multihomed hosts.
(Your) life’s most important numbers in one app
Stephen Bourne – Early days of Unix and design of sh (Youtube video)
Tubio – Stream Youtube to any DLNA-enabled (smart) TV.

Categories
Computing Rants Technology

Collusion in ad-hoc mobile data bundle pricing?

The cellular networks seem to think we are all just as stupid as the government seems to think we are.

It is abundantly clear on these screen shots taken today from the Vodacom, MTN, and Cell C websites that they are either price-fixing or colluding, or deliberately being anti-competitive in their pricing for ad-hoc mobile data bundles. It must be more than coincidence they all arrive at the same prices for the same data volumes, yet each has a very different network infrastructure, backbone and peering configuration from the other.

I hate it when big corporates assume they are more intelligent than the consumer.

vodacom_data_bundles
mtn_data_bundles
cellc_data_bundle

Categories
Entertainment Technology

The astounding athletic power of quadcopters

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D’Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn.

Categories
Computing Mobile Technology

Samsung Galaxy S4 Graduation Pool Party Ad

Samsung are definitely pushing the smartphone technology envelope with some funky innovations on the S4. Here’s their latest showcasing of these features:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlXp41WwpOs” width=”640″ height=”360″]

I definitely want an S4. The lack of LTE is a minor irritation. The thought of leaving all behind and climbing out of the Apple walled garden without getting shot is quite intimidating.

Categories
Rants Technology

On the Gautrain getting Cellphone Coverage by 2014

Gautrain and the Gauteng transport MEC has announced that their 80km rail system will have end-to-end cellphone coverage by July 2014. TAT TA DADAA!

That’s not an announcement. That’s a fucking apology.

July 2014? Hello, it’s 2012 now. Their lame excuse is one of needing to test that the cellphone systems don’t interfere with the train systems or some kak. Now forgive me for pointing out the obvious, but those same cellphone systems and signals are already active in the air around the train when it is above ground. So are they saying the Gautrain control systems have never been tested in the vicinity of GSM/3G signal but they operate the train anyway? What a honky pile of crap.

The cellphone companies need to wake the fuck up. By not having coverage of the underground portions of the line they are just losing revenue. The Gautrain people need to wake up – it doesn’t take a year and a half to cover 80km of train tracks with cellular signal, most of which is above ground.

South Africa Technology Fail. Embarrassing. They have had this in Hong Kong since 1993.

MTN, CellC, Vodacom, 8ta, stop being so pathetic.