| Late night musings on cellular technologies |
[Nov. 1st, 2006|01:06 am] |
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So my geekiness is about to truly show through.
Was talking to a friend about how I like the packet data on GSM a lot better than on CDMA. I came up with a rocking analogy:
Verizon's (CDMA) Packet Data is like: a 15 year old virgin teen boy about to get his rocks off for the first time (perhaps Billy the Virgin?)
Cingular/T-mobile's (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) Packet data is like: a well-traveled 40-year old whore, used like an old tire but knows how to go on and on.
The commentary:
Verizon: ...SPUM!!!!......................................................................................SPUM!!!................................................
T-mo/Cing/GSM: SPuuuuuubaby..ooobaby...spuuum...ooohabby.....oooooobaby...ooohyeah!
Tooooooo much time on my hands but LOL just the same! |
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| Lessons of Me I Learn (But always forget haha!) |
[Oct. 30th, 2006|07:01 pm] |
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| | Depeche Mode - Precious | ] |
Lessons of Me
I am one who likes N+1 redundancy in my things. In computers and cell phones especially. I always want a main phone, and a backup phone, and I always like to have two or more computers.
Part of me always goes through a reality-check cycle where I ask myself, "why do you need 2 computers?" I eventually get rid of one of them, then at some point later find a use for a second one and get a second one again.
Finally, after talking about the N+1 redundancy we always try to do at work with some of my coworkers, I realized I have always tried to do the same thing at home to make sure I never have downtime. I rule that much!
Lessons of Things I Always Forget
Every time I leave Verizon, I inevitably want to come back for two simple reasons:
A. I am in love with the concept of CDMA
(In detail: the fact that it uses reflected signal to amplify usable signal, the fact it does soft-handoff between cell sites and everyone transmits on the same channel. The fact it runs at 200mW while GSM has to scream at up to 1.6 watts to accomplish similar performance. The fact it penetrates buildings, leaves, and is nearly impervious to jamming, unlike GSM. The fact that the voice and data channels are easily upgradable, the current 1xRTT network in place here that's used for voice and data will soon be upgraded to 1xRTT for voice and 1xEV-DO for data.
On the same token: reasons I love GSM: The same 1.6 watts "complaint" from above also means in certain situations a GSM handset has a better chance of long-distance or heavy-interference connections due to sheer strength, example, with internal antennas. CDMA has a harder time dealing with close-range interference, such as a human hand covering an internal antenna than a comparable GSM handset. Thankfully antenna technology revision in CDMA handsets has started to reduce this handicap.
CALL CONTROL CALL CONTROL CALL CONTROL. GSM was built on ISDN, it was designed to have functionality like call-waiting, 3-way calling, call-hold, call-switching, call-termination built into it from the get-go. On a GSM handset, I can put one call on hold to make another, or if one call comes in while I am on another, I can choose to reject it, answer it and put the current call on hold, OR answer it and TERMINATE the current call. Not possible on Verizon's CDMA network, they only offer a clusterfucked pile of crap masquerading as call-waiting, in that the "waited" call auto-calls you back 15 seconds after you hang up the new call, and there's no easy way to tie both calls into a 3-way call on-the-fly.
Audio quality! The GSM audio codecs are SO MUCH MORE CLEAR sounding than on Verizon's crappy muddy CDMA network. People sound so much better! More on this below though!)
B. They have the fastest data network - at least in areas not where I live. However they also have one of the most latent data networks...
Verizon Audio Quality Blows
Bottom line. Qualcomm PureVoice, or more correctly their current 8k EVRC codec they use for CDMA voice calls is a shitty piece of crap. The only advantage it has over GSM audio codecs is that it does have decent background noise suppression. Beyond that, it blows. Think about talking to someone through a pile of towels. CDMA to GSM is a difference of night and day.
Verizon Latency Blows
This is the weirdest thing that always bugged me, but it wasn't until I went to GSM I realized there was a solution. When I talk to someone on my Verizon phone, especially if they're also on a Verizon phone, but it can be to a GSM subscriber too (this bit confuses me) I am always running over them when we converse. It appears that the audio latency due to buffering on CDMA is just maybe....50-a few hundred milliseconds bigger than other phone technologies, so when a person stops talking, I pause to make sure they aren't saying anything else, but on their end they've just heard silence, and more silence, so they start talking again right when I do and we run over each other. If I try to catch it by starting to speak early, we just run over each other more, and then go through a series of falter-stops as we try to figure out who's talking next. (Much like how CSMA/CD works on Ethernet/WiFi.) The odd thing is, I don't seem to have as much problem if the other person's talking on a CDMA handset and I'm talking on a GSM handset, and obviously not if we're both speaking on a GSM handset... I've never really figured out what the common denominator is with me + CDMA phone, but somehow in conversation we're just not compatible.
These two points are actually more CDMA-specific, but I focus on Verizon because Sprint's PCS network has done a decent job of utilizing CDMA and still making calls sound loud and clear. I would like to think Verizon calls sound so shitty in our area because our network equipment is upgraded slowly in this market, and we have been around and established since the old AirTouch CDMA days, so it is fully possible some points in our network connection are dated and crappy.
Verizon's Fake Data Punch-Through
Verizon's data services are so lame (beyond gross speed potential.) Until a few months ago they didn't even allow phone calls to punch through packet data sessions. Well, now they finally figured a way to hack it in there. Unfortunately it's not nearly as elegant as a GSM/GPRS/EDGE overlay data/voice punch-through. GSM definitely has it there for packet data. Freaking awesome, always-on, no need to establish a packet session, and low latency. I keep hoping Verizon's data network will improve with time to offer such usability, but I doubt I will stick around long enough to wait for them to bug-fix their hack of a network. Anyway, the data punch-through is this: When somebody calls you and you're in the middle of downloading a web page or messaging someone, your phone pauses the data connection and rings the call through. Even though every cellular technology supports concurrent data/voice in their specs in one way or another, currently the only two ways to maintain a data session and a voice session simultaneously are either A: a handset that's using data over WiFi or Bluetooth while voice calls go over cellular. B: Some really expensive phones (and possibly the BlackBerry 8706 coming out soon) that have dual-cellular radios inside them so they can use one radio for data and one for voice. These are very rare though.
Due to the rarity of the dual-radio handsets, and no easy way to smash a time-sensitive voice conversation in with a non-sensitive data session and keep the voice session alive, they invented the voice punch-through. Since phone calls are generally the thing phones should do first, phone calls will break data connections, at least on GSM networks. The way Verizon's worked for the longest time was that anyone calling your handset while it was on a data session would get thrown to voicemail until you disconnected. Definitely übergay. So Verizon finally found a haxx0rable way to punch voice through data, but it never works right and often you'll be data-ing along and voice calls still get tossed to voicemail. Joy!
I still do love T-mobile, they are a really cool provider, but their coverage in this area is a pittance. If they threw up another cell site or 3, coverage would be acceptable enough for me to jump back on board.
I also am not ruling Cingular out, if they get their act together and fix what they broke in the AT&T Wireless network. On the same token they've publicized that their AT&T network merge is all complete and everything is perfectly fine, so no breath-holding there either.
Bottom line? I'm keeping my T-mobile BlackBerry 8700g and unlocking it so I can take it to any GSM provider available to wherever I may end up going. I'm also keeping my Verizon BlackBerry 8703e, and Verizon service for now, in hopes I can find a way to adapt to their stupidity. Their network is still the best in everywhere I have ever traveled to in America. If I ever become more of a world-traveler, or Cingular/T-Mobile get off their asses and make their GSM networks contenders, I may jump ship again to one of them, because GSM has my heart! It is awesome in every way even though it's older!
I'm also keeping an eye on the recent developments down in the Cingular/AT&T Wireless cell site outside my apartment. Some excavators are doing shit and digging holes and moving crap around - I'm not sure if it's a Cingular upgrade, or a colocation, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on it! That very well may help shift my cell choices very soon!
Unfortunately, until then I think I am staying on stupid Verizon. Go Communists! |
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| Random thoughts from a random mind... |
[Oct. 16th, 2006|10:30 pm] |
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I don't know how but there's a hole in my pants around the cockal region, it's not on any seams and I can't recall cutting my dick off - I think it's from the sheer mass of my wang that the threads shattered... |
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| ONLY IN MICHIGAN! |
[Oct. 13th, 2006|01:36 am] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | No music, TV background noise! | ] |
SNOW IN OCTOBER?? How weird!
Some pictures to express my confusion!
Date on phone to show it's still October!
Close up of phone!
The hazy sky due to falling snow in October...
How weird! Michigan weather never ceases to surprise me. |
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| Exercise part deux |
[Sep. 21st, 2006|10:26 pm] |
So speaking of efficiency.
Another aspect I find interesting/hilarious re: exercise: Activities of today.
In the days of yore kids generally ran around outside, rode bikes, scooters, and the like. They had nothing better to do so they had to. There were action figures and dolls and crap, but they still inevitably ended up outside as there's not much fun in making your toy soldier shoot out the kitchen sink (unless first properly clogged and flooded.)
Today, kids stay indoors playing with video games, computer games, computers, the intarweb. When they do go outside, they ride those little gas powered motorcycles, the electric scooters, just about anything that doesn't involve actualy expenditure of energy to get from here to there.
I have to say, I do envy them, when I was younger, I wanted a 4-wheel-drive 4 wheeler like the one my neighbor had for hauling maple sap a lot more than my bicycle. I could just push a button and zip along at 50 miles an hour down the driveway instead of pedaling at 20 MPH if I was lucky (for 10 seconds or so.)
However at the same time, there's something gravely wrong with this situation. How can one dutifully perform those annoying life functions necessary to keep the fat burning and the muscle growing if you're just mashing buttons on a console?
That's one department where I've liked games like Dance Dance Revolution, and the upcoming Nintendo Wii. DDR looks (and is) pretty freaking gay, but it's great cardio, and something you can do indoors in a small space (barring the pad inevitably sliding across the room as it always does, first you're next to the couch, next thing you know, you're flattening the cat.) The Wii's new crazy weird controller looks like new titles could actually require players to move about a bit more than the usual gamers-slouch - definitely cool!
Next up, my study of stairs-efficiency! |
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| Exercise - world's biggest scam |
[Sep. 21st, 2006|12:55 am] |
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| | Zomgland | ] |
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| |  restless | ] |
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| | Simpsons 0825 | ] |
Exercise is supposed to be so healthy.
Humans need it to not get fat.
Basic thoughts I suppose...
At the same time, it's one of the most annoying aspects of my life.
I have to exercise, a lot, more than your average human (or bear!)
So far, with basic blood tests, the doctor says all is kosher with all my organs. Everything works fine, nothing out of wack, so that's cool. Unfortunately I still have a low metabolims compared to many.
This turns out to be lame, because I have to make sure to always eat super-healthy foods and also not eat as much as I always want. On top of that, I generally feel shaky and crappy if I don't eat enough food so it's a paradox of annoyance!
It's a portion of my life that's always helped to make me miserable. Ever since I was a little kid I always felt like I wasn't as baller-like proportioned as I would like to be.
Today, I don't care as much about that, but I do from the health perspective. I gotta make sure to keep the cholesterol numbers good and fat percentage numbers and etc. etc. Those are hard, and get harder with time as one's body ages.
My diet tends to be minimalist in nature, I try to stick to whole-grain everything, and natural this and that although being a bachelor, I haven't many cooking skills, so at times, I will get a fast food snack like 2 plain tacos or chicken or a low fat subway sub, or Lean Cuisine pizzas or Lean Pockets... Also, the money factor often comes in as I'm a "poor college student" so there are times when all I can afford is a dollar-menu taco bell meal that I can eat now, instead of a bulk 30-pak of lettuce that will spoil in 3 days.
I don't really trust eating those artificially processed garbage foods I have to eat, but at least they are a little less fatty than the actual fat-filled artificially processed garbage foods.
(That's another thing, why is healthy food so damn expensive? Maybe if we had a government mandate that forced fake-food alternatives to real food to have a higher price - people would naturally become more healthy! If you were forced to choose between $1 salad with chicken breast or a $4 burger, you'd probably go for salads!)
So why bother with any of this? Who cares about diet or exercise? Not many people! I've always cared about efficiency. That has always been my primary focus. When I walk somewhere, I plan the most efficient route. When I drive somewhere, efficient route. Walking to some place where I could drive there in 1/12th of the time is not efficient. Even walking somewhere when I could ride a bike isn't as efficient.
But, the key to exercise is: INEFFICIENCY! The best way to get a good workout is to be as inefficient as possible, going against my very nature.
I used to have a single-speed bike but always wanted gears for efficiency. I got a 10-speed and then a 21-speed. All is for naught though, as I always end up keeping them locked down in 10th or 21st gear while exercising to force myself to push as hard as possible (and as inefficiently as possible.)
When I walk somewhere, I always take the stairs, and walk as hard as I can to ensure I am being as inefficient as possible and using as much energy.
It's too bad evolution, or science, or something hasn't advanced to the point yet where efficiency in one's life is useful and applicable.
I don't like having to exercise when most of my day doesn't involve said exercise. Why can't my muscles retain their strength without constant attention?
I know life's all about toil and strife and teaching self-control...but why can't food be designed in such a way that we can engineer/grow/whatever food that not only tastes good, but can be eaten without any ill side effects. Kinda like how when you take too much vitamin B6 and B12, the excess is just thrown away by your body. There should be a way for the body to do the same thing.
Unfortunately, our bodies are running old dated firmware that still thinks like a caveman. |
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| Don' steal cable, at least not mine! |
[Sep. 15th, 2006|07:12 am] |
Two days ago (three now I guess - Tuesday) I came home from work, quite like any other day. I went to my computer to go browse the fabled Intarweb. Oddly, web pages weren't loading. No big deal, this has happened before. I assumed either my Cablemodem was continuing it's slow aged death, or my ancient Pentium III computer I use as a firewall was croaking. Nope, all systems nominal - except the Cablemodem was blinking that it was searching for signal.
Sometimes when my cat gains enough altitude to sail around the room without being held back by such Newtonian forces as gravity, she has a tendency to fly past my cable jack and knock my Internet connection loose. The cable was a bit loose, but that didn't fix the problem.
Discouraged I called Charter, fought with their automated touch-tone system, got their stupid IVR that wanted me to talk to "her" and tell "her" my "problems." I promptly said the secret backdoor "agent" code to get to a person. Upon finding a person, they told me there were no outages in my area but my modem was allegedly "slapping" a lot lately so it must be my modem died. They set up a service call for Friday...yay! They called me waking me up at 9AM sharp Wednesday morning to ask if my Internet was still out, which they should have been able to tell as my modem was unplugged from the wall, and wouldn't get signal even if I wanted it to. They got my voicemail so I didn't get the message until later in the day. (I am not too fond of answering the phone when the phone wakes me up unless it is an emergency.)
Anyway, Wednesday night I bought a new cablemodem to see if that wouldn't get me back in business. I got home that night after a day of climbing into ceilings at work to terminate network connections. I terminated my cablemodem connection (ha ha ha...) and no dice! It still didn't work. I asked Charter if they could move my freaking appointment up to Thursday and they magically were able to!
So the tech came today. After looking at my line with a scope, he determined it wasn't connected. He went down to the cable box. It was connected! He came back up, it wasn't connected! Finally he decided there must be a break somewhere in the middle of it, and scheduled a Saturday appointment to fish me a new line. Just before he left he decided to check one more place. Apparently in my apartment complex the cable TV wires run in a series of tubes (much like Senator Ted Stevens Internet is a series of tubes "explanation") between apartments in the air conditioner storage units that are outside each apartment on their balconies. He tugged on the coax cable and heard a telltale thumping noise a floor down.
So, he said he was going to grab his ladder and climb onto the neighbor's balcony to check their connection. I decided to do one better and called the landlady for him. She's always awesome, and sent over one of her repair guys to let the Charter guy into the dude's apartment even though he wasn't home. 10 minutes later he returned to tell me my neighbor had cut and swapped my live cable for his disconnected cable. The joke's on that dude though, as my cable is Internet only, and there's a filter to block TV channels. The moron didn't even have the sense to undo the mess he created!
Best part is, apparently this is the second time he's done this to Charter (who knows how many times he's done it to other providers) and...he's a DETECTIVE. Talk about the honest of the honest!
So they said they were reporting him, informing the landlord, putting a lock on our cables so they know if he's tampered with them again, and also sending him the bill for my repair (even though he doesn't have cable tv service! HAHAHAHAHA!!)
What a freaking moron...I hate humanity. |
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| Got Signal? |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|01:00 am] |
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| |  accomplished | ] |
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| | Some PBS show on slavery - not quite music - just creepy. | ] |
I’ve been trying to figure out the past few days...actually since I started working at ITS-NSS – why I’ve been so obsessive over a do-it-all phone. My phone “needs” have always been great, but since that job I went ballistic with being able to be contacted with everyone everywhere always.
Finally, tonight, the thought floated up to the front of my brain so I can make sense to not only myself, but others.
It’s not so much that I’m worried others won’t get ahold of me, it’s that I can’t get ahold of others.
These past two days working in the closets again finally brought that thought to the forefront. When I’m working in a closet on the 5th floor of the math and science building, the switch cabinet is mounted 9 feet up on the wall, so it is only accessible by stretching or a ladder/footstool. Right behind this switch cabinet, is the world’s biggest power transformer, covered by a metal shield, but nonetheless, objects that contain a large quantity of electricity. I am worried about my own safety. I want to make sure that, regardless where I am on campus, I’m able to call for help if I get hurt. This example room, is in a wing and floor currently completely NOT occupied by classes or ANYONE. I severely doubt anybody would hear me screaming for help, especially behind a closed steel door in a totally closed off room (40 feet deep, 6 feet wide, 20 feet tall) full of electrical and network equipment. (And that’s just one of many just like that.) Then, even if I could call for help, it’ll be a good 5- to 10-minute trip to get from someone in my offices to the closet I’m in with a key – possibly longer for security as they’re randomly anywhere on campus at any given time – and medical help – tough shit there, they’d need security or someone from the offices to open the closets as all the doors lock automatically behind you when entering.
So, it’s kinda...clear, unless I am an idiot, I have to stay Verizon for now. After my network audit, in the better-covered buildings I found out WiFi RARELY reaches into ANY closets, so that’s out. Nextel is spotty as shit outside the library. Cingular, No Bars in No Places. Everyone else can blow hard penis. Verizon so far has worked in every room of every building.
Finally – rational thought out of all that! Yay!
I have a Cingular rant over on skuzz.com right now, hoping to draw attention to their stupidity. I also have contact information regarding the class action law suit out in Washington state, which I will try to post onto my page with their permission. Here
So, some good is coming from this! I'm finally learning how better to dig through my very complicated shades of grey. Most people never think so deep into events to ever cover as many variables as I do, and sometimes all the variables just somehow manage to not so much overwhelm me, as confuse me until I can sort through the chaos. Plus it doesn't help that a lot has been going on lately and I don't even have time to remember to buy toilet paper, ha!
On that note, finally a decent update to this since the beginning of time. :-D
In conclusion, I still hate Verizon's phones though. |
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| BUSY! |
[Apr. 24th, 2006|11:19 pm] |
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| | Some nonsense on HDTV12.1 | ] |
Grarble Shmarf!
Wow!
Last few days I've been busy! I think due to my not having a job, or even Linux to consume my time, I am creating new challenges on purpose so i can figure them out and....do something to keep my brain occupied.
Anyway - so in the past few days I have:
E-mailed Cingular about a rate plan glitch to find out it wasn't a glitch.
E-mailed Cingular about their blocking ENS-capable phones from seeing what network they are really on
Sent the FCC a note about Jeff Pulver's idea to set up a nationwide telecom voicemail system - that being, in the event of another disaster like Hurricane Katrina that takes down the phone network, people's phone numbers will default to a voicemail system (that's obviously not located in the destroyed area) so loved ones can leave them messages. Much better than just leaving the lines dead underwater!
E-mailed people about the (probably pointless) Michigan gas petition spearheaded by Gov. Granholm to send to the Fed to whack them over the head with a large trout.
Did PayPal and eBay surveys to give them both bad ratings cause they suck in regards to a recent sale I had to a person from Mexico with a fradulent Texas address. (That sale being my listed and sold Nokia 770 tablet)
Listed and sold my RAZR
Listed the Nokia 6682 - waiting for the money now haha!
Oh yeah and e-mailed Nokia about the 6682 to see if I couldn't order a replacement fascia to replace the current one now scratched.
So then - wow! I returned my Cingular 2125 phone because it wasn't quite what I wanted - so I thought. I then went to Verizon, got the Treo 700w - ported my number to them (which took over an hour.....) Later that evening when I finally had a chance to play with it, I started disliking things.
First off - CDMA is different from GSM in how it handles packet data sessions, or rather I should say Verizon's CDMA, as Sprint has always-on packet data like Cingular/Nextel/T-Mobile. Verizon phones have to "dial" a "number" (#777) to initiate a packet data session. From that point, whenever the phone rings, the call goes straight to voicemail as long as the handset is on an active session. At least they've finally improved the technology so the handset still receives calls when a packet data session is dormant.....but still.....on GSM phones, real phone calls pause packet data connections even when they're active, and then resumes them when you hang up! Much more flexible! Especially when on a Smartphone/PDA phone it will be running random Internet apps once in a while to go online and dance around. Also - the reception on the Treo seemed a lot worse than the 2125, sometimes it couldn't even "dial out" to establish a packet data connection. Which is another thing! GSM can work with very low signal on packet data sessions, it just downshifts the packet session speed to compensate for bad signal. 1xRTT, and 1xEV-DO require a stronger overall signal to even start working, let alone keep working...
The next thing, it has Microsoft voice recognition and also text to speech, so it understands what you say, and it talks back to you - really creepy. (Example if it's talking: "appointment: verizon store" - it'll announce your appointments by reading them!) However, the voice recognition can't be activated from a Bluetooth headset - WHAT WERE THEY THINKING!?! So you have to grab the handset to activate it, just like the VoiceSignal software for the Nokia 6682. BOO! Do these companies think when they design their products??
The Treo also uses a proprietary data/power jack, and it doesn't come with stereo headphones that plug into the 4-conductor 2.5mm headphone/headset jack on the bottom, so that's an added expense to hunt down. (The Cingular 2125 comes with headphones, a standard jack, and for power/data, a standard mini-USB port! It will charge off any old USB port, much more common while traveling than some proprietary jack!)
Also, the Cingular 2125 allocated 40+MB RAM to application execution, while the Verizon Treo with a 312MHz processor (over the Cingular's 200MHz) and much more advanced applications, only has 20 MB RAM. From BOOT the Treo uses 16 of the 20 MB RAM. It's like System 7.5 on a Mac SE all over again!
Finally:
MY BIGGEST IRK!
THEY CRIPPLED THE BLUETOOTH THE WORST I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!
The only Bluetooth profile that my Mac can see from scanning it other than service discovery was OBEX....wooo - amazing that Verizon even left that open!
I spent the night hacking that phone to try and enable DUN - I've found a software patch to enable it - over the USB data cable - to a Windows PC only...
I found a bunch of debug mode codes, manual NAM programming codes, system info codes, diagnostic codes...but nothing to enable DUN on the darn thing!
So, 7AM I called Cingular and ported back to them. Then around 9AM I took care of some banking, went to the Verizon store and return the phone, went back to the Cingular store and re-got the 2125, then went to RadioShack to exchange my crappy defective TV antenna that's causing HDTV to work even crappier than usual.
All the construction on the expressway sucked, I diverted myself down access roads to get around it...
Ironically though, with the undoing-the-Verizon-switch, my number was ported back to Cingular in 10 minutes. My Verizon return took 2 minutes. My Cingular phone purchase took 5 minutes. Apparently leaving Verizon and switching to other providers is faster than joining Verizon haha! Maybe they should work on making activations a bit faster!
I really hope they improve that PDA phone, because it was really awesome. With a little more memory and unlocked Bluetooth, I think overall it will be my handset of choice in the near future. (Hopefully The Missing Sync gets updated soon to support Windows Mobile 5 so I can finally sync my phone with my Mac...)
I still prefer Verizon's network over Cingular's just because CDMA is a more advanced wireless technology, but until they get their handset policy together, I'll stick with Cingular and their unlocked handsets.
(Also their illegal network...haha on that:)
Cingular's newer phones are called "ENS" capable phones, ENS being Enhanced Network Selection. ENS capable phones are supposed to intelligently bounce between AT&T Wireless and Cingular towers, and treat both as the same. Well it goes a step further and marks any Cingular roaming partner as a "Cingular" tower. This is great for those like CMU students who had their phone service cancelled because according to Cingular's coverage map, they were in "Cingular" country, but in reality they were on Centennial Wireless.
Cingular's Alleged "Cingular Nation"
Cingular's response to this:
You subscribe to the Cingular Nation Plan. Cingular's network provides most
of the coverage on that plan, but a portion is provided by other
carriers. Cingular has agreements with other carriers so that our
customers can travel outside our network area and still make and receive
calls. When you are using service that is not on Cingular's network,
Cingular pays the additional cost for using the off-network service
without passing the additional cost along to you. Our rate plans
provide that no more than fifty percent of your usage can be on another
carrier.
What I do not understand: How can Cingular actively enforce this? They don't tell their customers where their service actually is, they don't even let the customer's handset tell them if they are roaming or not because everything always says Cingular.
In lieu of this situation, even Verizon's stupid idea of network management would be a godsend. Verizon's method: True Verizon says "Verizon Wireless" on the home screen, one of Verizon's roaming partners that doesn't cost the customer, "Extended Network," and finally, "Roaming" to denote true roaming.
It kills me that Cingular can't even be THIS advanced because GSM is designed to broadcast what network a phone is on so the handset can automatically display the network on the home screen, and CINGULAR PURPOSELY DISABLED THIS!
I've filed with the state Attorney General's office, as well as sent info to WirelessWeek, and The Flint Journal as The Journal ran an article on the issue, and WirelessWeek would be the perfect place to alert the industry to how Cingular's deceptive practices should be interpreted and handled!
Ugh! I hate companies that do evil things to customers! I agree they deserve profit and to not be shelling out big bucks to customers who are technically off their network, but they shouldn't lie and tell the customers the ARE on the network then!
Anyway, off to play Vice City! |
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| Resolutions |
[Apr. 21st, 2006|01:00 am] |
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| | Conan O'Brien | ] |
Some pics comparing the resolution of the Nokia 6682 to the HTC Faraday aka. Cingular 2125.
Nokia 6682
Cingular 2125 |
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| Zomgsnake! |
[Apr. 19th, 2006|11:51 pm] |
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| | giddy | ] |
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| | HDTV 28.1 - Some show on the Dead Sea | ] |
Click on the image to see a bigger one - From left-to-right: Motorola RAZR v3 Black, HTC Faraday (aka Cingular 2125), Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, Nokia 6682 Series 60 SmartPhone.
It might as well be my family LOLOLOL!!! (Some of them are being sold off to market soon though... :( ) |
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| LOLRivers |
[Apr. 17th, 2006|02:46 am] |
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| | tired | ] |
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| | HDTV Garbage | ] |
So I was talking to people online as I oft do - and created lyrics to a song that just wouldn't stop! Here they are!
(more like - a small poem than a song but nonetheless LOL.)
so then i hate the world so gray
and smoke my dirty lungs away
and buy new cell phones every daaaaaaaaaaay
to somehow muffle the bleets and brays
of the goats and sheep of our world today
{fin} |
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| HDTV HAHAHAHAHA! |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|03:18 am] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | Something on analog channel 66 | ] |
I'm always amused, or contemplative, or annoyed, or angry - those are really my only emotions.
LOL though - here's my deal. I was searching the net a few days ago to see if some stupid ass companies are actually selling HDTV set-top boxes for old skool TVs yet - finally found one by Samsung for pretty cheap, then found out the local Circuit City had it. ($249 - not exactly "cheap," but much cheaper than the usual $800+.)
So I've been using it.............wow.....
HDTV is WEIRD. It's so an early-adopter technology so far it's ridiculous.
Here's the basics without going too detailed. One HDTV data stream runs at 19.1Mbps. This data stream can handle a full 1080i picture, or various quantities of other resolution pictures. Most TV stations right now (since most programming isn't HDTV widescreen yet) broadcast in 480i or 480p on 2-3 channels, and then one 720p channel for their prime programming for widescreen. So you'll have like, ABC12 HDTV as 12.1, ABC12 alternative 480i programming on 12.1 and ABC12 constant weather on 480i 12.3.
Every TV station has several sub-stations.
Sometimes they subdivide this so the first station and the second have the same programming, just one is square (480i or 480p) and the other is widescreen (720p) so those with wide TVs can enjoy the widescreen, and those with square can enjoy square.
Overall though it's a total crapshoot right now.
There are not too many remotely consistent guides that show what shows are being aired on all the sub-channels, channels aren't really always the same as their analog counterparts even though the TV shows they are (28.1 28.2 both run on analog channel 52 even though they are really analog channel 28.)
Basically it's a complete and utter clusterfuck.... and the best part is, since it's all analog broadcast, and it's all digital MPEG streams, you either have enough signal to have error correction compensate for losses and you get a brilliant perfect picture, or you get nothing. (Or if you get it just right, you get this really neat MPEG corruption thingy with choppy hicuppy digital audio, and blocky green/grey boxes all through people's faces, to be replaced with full motion video like they got block-zombiefied - and then perfect pic again until signal drops too low and you get stillframe freeze - then grey screen....etc....)
Also, I wouldn't recommend HDTV from your local cable company, cable companies are evil, they'll take the local broadcasts and grab them with their own antennas, reencode them with their own MPEG encoders that are set to an even higher compression ratio, which takes the already compressed MPEG2 and makes it compressed a second time....the picture is NOT pretty. (Plus you have to rent a box from the cable company and pay a monthly fee for this rental etc. etc......)
Best thing if you want HDTV is get one of those roof-mount antennas on a rotor like the old skool 1950s ones to get good digital signal........arrr!
It is kinda neat though, TV stations during the day will broadcast their usual garbage soaps on their .1 channel, but on their .2 and/or .3 .4 channels they'll broadcast sitcoms and other things that are actually entertaining - if you can receive the even worse signal during the day due to ionosphere charging from the sun.
Tonight I even caught music videos being played on channel 25.2 instead of infomercials - that was a trip! Music videos on broadcast TV!
It's a mixed bag though - because to find out what show you want, you need to flip channels to find a show, which means either checking online guides for analog and digital separately as they both don't cover the same area - or the same number of channels on each one, or check on the on-the-receiver guide for the HD channels - which also means readjusting your antenna randomly while it picks up programming data from every channel..... The other method involves old skool channel surfing, first the analog channels from your TV or VCR as the HD tuner can't pick up analog broadcasts, and then over to the HD box to scan the HD channels - and readjust your antenna for each channel as they all require probably 60-80% SNR to get a decent enough signal to grab what show is on........................... One thing I would definitely recommend to the FCC/TV channels HINT HINT is to require all stations in a given area to retransmit the guide info for nearby TV stations on their own guide carrier - so that way a person's HDTV receiver can receive a complete guide for their area from the strongest TV channel possible - and then proceed to fight to get the weak ones in - doubt we'd ever see something that intuitive though.
What a freaking pain in the ass....
Once it's all set up, you've found your channel, show and antenna position, and the show's longer than 30 minutes to make it worth the effort, you'll experience the best 20 minutes of a TV show you'll ever see from broadcast! Digital surround sound, crisp MPEG2 digital widescreen picture that looks like a DVD.....BRILLIANT!!
The technology has a LONG way to go...hopefully by the FCC's mandatory 2009 cutoff of analog broadcasting they'll make some progress....
Oi! |
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| Random Thoughts on Brains, Medication, and Rivers |
[Mar. 29th, 2006|10:45 pm] |
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| | contemplative | ] |
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| | XM 113 - XM Pops - Hofstetter - Serenade | ] |
It is interesting musing on past events at times - a thing I rarely bother doing.
I never see any reason to live in the past, or even think about the past, other than in passing, as it's the past, who cares? As long as you learned some "lesson" from it and you're still adhering to the knowledge of the lesson, the past can just go into a black hole. (Yet at the same time, I archive everything that has ever come in contact with my life, maybe just in case I get in that almost-fatal soap-opera car wreck that leaves me in a coma for 3 years, to wake up remembering nothing - and since rebuilding my character structure would require an accurate record of events, this would serve those means...er....anyways random babble!)
So like...hmm...I've wanted to go to the optometrist lately, but I don't have health insurance anymore and I don't quite have piles of funds to pay out-of-pocket - so I have definitely been dragging my feet on that til my next stipend comes. With that thought in mind...
With medical insurance in mind, last year sometime - well actually it probably started developing 2 years ago, I went through some "anxiety" thing - some people close to me who were trying to do their best to help me suggested doctors, psych evaluations, and medications from said doctors and psych medications.
Knowing that they only meant the best for me, I dutifully did their medical puppet dance. My family's never been stout believers in medicine - it's not that doctors are all quacks, it's just that - they can't always magically diagnose a patient even if they know "all" the symptoms - they always guess - and to humor patients nowadays give them placebos and the likes of penicillin just to make them feel like their doctor gave them a fix-pill. Or worse yet, they prescribe something the patient requests even though the patient doesn't really exhibit the behavior that requires said medication, and they don't bother doing any further testing to see if it is absolutely necessary to put the patient on such a dangerous drug. Also, a patient's definition of a problem might not be the same way a doctor classifies it, so unless they are a smart doctor - they won't be able to hit the nail on the head.
Frankly, I'd rather try hitting that nail myself, but that's me, captain independence!
So I got on all these nasty medications that were allegedly supposed to make the anxiety go away - but I was never informed at what cost, other than - minor things like a broken skuzzles jr. - mood abnormalities - and severe mood spikes when running low on the medications. To boot, the medication I was on was recalled due to the time-release mechanism being defective - joy!
What did I learn? In my case at least, medications did nothing but screw my life up even more. I started the stupid things and went into this crazy cycle of uncontrolled sleeping - when I slept, I'd always wake up late, and I was late for work on several occasions - it almost cost me my job. Not only that, but those helping me got the butt-end of it, because they had to deal with the mood spikes, and random abnormalities in behavior (I don't mean my normal random excited bouncey self - I mean odd, moodey, snappey, sarcastic, and downright mean - like maybe a chick on a constant period haha, what a scary thought that would be in any situation!)
I stopped taking the medications, the doctor was adamant that I MUST take the meds and I can't quit them, or in a matter of months my anxiety attacks and symptoms would return. Funny thing is, after getting off the medications cold-turkey I felt nothing but better. (Of course the first week was pure hell because those are the drugs you aren't supposed to quit cold-turkey because they are addictive - I guess worse than crack cocaine - yet the drug company literature states that it's not "addictive" - the patient just needs to be "weened off." A lame-ass technicality if I ever did see one. Drug companies, nay - the entire medical industry should be shot in the face for leading people on the way they do, with alleged hope and unnecessary mood-altering drugs.) Actually quitting was nasty stuff - I would randomly black out while walking around at work for split seconds - just enough to lose maybe 1 or 2 seconds of what I was doing, so I would thankfully not fall over - more like a mental "brownout," that 1 or 2 seconds could easily lead to a car wreck however, so that....sucked a lot...
Recently though - almost a year after the doctor alleged my symptoms should be coming back, I'm just now seeing a few days every few weeks where I can't sleep due to chest pain, anxiety and the like. It seems to be mostly occurring on nights when I have caffeine too late at night, or nights where i try to shift my sleep schedule back, as I am trying to slowly shift it back at least a few hours now that hellwinter is finally ending, so I can enjoy more daytime.
The irony of all that - I had found my own remedy for the situation (almost makes me wonder if it's something in my messed up genes that cause this result) - smoking (tobacco cigarettes) seems to do a hell of a lot better for me than those worthless medications ever did. (It also was an important ingredient in getting off those horrible drugs.) After quitting hard-to-break things like those medications, quitting something like smoking is a breeze, although I don't think I ever actually got "addicted" to them, nor do I think an addiction is anything more than a thought in someone's head to repeat a pattern - I don't seem to have that problem.
Too bad I can't do any kind of scientific research regarding this, ha! I avoid smoking because it causes "lung cancer" and "diseases" and "wah wah wah" shit that people can pick up from just about anything these days, just in more concentrated quantities. Actually if the cigarette companies didn't treat the tobacco with so many additives, crap and flavoring garbage, they wouldn't carry nearly as much of the deadly stuff - they apparently had this "technology" back in the 70s but they never released "healthy" cigarettes because their lawyers advised them doing so would mean they were admitting previous cigarettes were dangerous....ah politics vs. death.
Anyway - I am just - amazed maybe? Or maybe just thoughtfully observant of human behavior, one's own behavioral development, and the big note-to-self mood-altering medications are BAD BAD BAD BAD BAD! Doctors know crap. If one (a person, not a doctor) is in tune with their body and it's behavior, and eats healthy enough, one shouldn't need to visit doctors for placebo fixes all the time. The results are never pleasant, and they certainly weren't in this place as I lost touch with several people I would have rather not. |
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| L00nix! |
[Mar. 22nd, 2006|04:10 am] |
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| | contemplative | ] |
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| | XM 80 - The Move - Pressure - Spirit - Scrabble | ] |
So one of the other things John recently brought to my attention - which took a bit to actually become a conscious SkuzzThought until a few days ago-ish - is this:
Just because you are technically-minded to use something doesn't mean you explicitly do.
This is an odd new shade of grey to wrap my head around.
Generally speaking, as time has progressed, I have been able to jump into new hobbies, projects and knowledge, and just assimilate it all into my daily function. Those things that were either more boring to me, less applicable in real life, or seemingly less "productive" than other things were slowly dropped to the back burner.
Overall though, I try to cycle through my more "productive" things when I get time. (Having no job right now gives me PLENTY of time - even web design doesn't seem that painful lately - egad...)
However, this Linux beast is...strange. I am fully starting to understand all the little crevices of this operating system, and am actually thankful I've spent so much time learning it. The knowledge will apply to many aspects of OS X when I inevitably find a way to get a new Mactop again and slowly replace this gross network of PCs with Macs again - thus finally bringing peace to the universe.
The main point, however, is that even though I am technically savvy enough to wrap my head around linux, and even learn how to write drivers instead of just hacking their source, and write config scripts and ebuilds and all those fancy linux term'd things - that doesn't justify my using it!
As I said, I just assimilate new knowledge and assume because I have "advanced" to the "next level" I must gravitate to this new technology-pool and this is my new swimming hole. This seems to be one case however, where learning is beneficial, but since it doesn't really fit my needs at all, other than it not being Windows.
With that - I'm pretty sure that my brain won't shrivel up and die just because I'm not actively utilizing the Linux-knowledge. It's been very frustrating because I want to get back into music writing more serious, I want to continue the always-fun puzzle of hacking cell phones, both of which, as previously blogged, really require Windows as the support in Linux is - nonexistent to say the least.
Still at the same time I feel like I'm selling myself short for some reason, and that I should "go to the next level." Swim in the Linux-hole for my new Nick, embrace the open-source OS, and just shed these old hobbies for greener (albeit thornier) pastures.
Definitely been increasing percentage of time allocated to job-searching in hopes of getting rid of my free time spent on this OS dilemma...
Oh what to do...
I still need a Mac. |
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| Random musings... |
[Mar. 16th, 2006|06:09 pm] |
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| | contemplative | ] |
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| | Seinfeld - I still don't like this show but all I get is Fox | ] |
Natasha pointed me to this: http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp - which is one of many Jungian tests to show one's psych makeup based on these results...and of course these tests are never all-encompassing and all-inclusive, but it's interesting how the defintion of the person I rated as (listed below) compares to that previous political views survey. My profile's listed here http://typelogic.com/entj.html .
Extroverted = 11%
Intuitive = 62%
Thinking = 12%
Judging = 44%
as far as strength of preferences.
It does make sense then - why when I stop thinking and just "do things" I suddenly do things better - if I gravitate more towards intuition - that meager 12% thinking is really holding me back!
So - I jokingly compared these results to my operating system debacle of yore. Especially since this claims I am very decisive, being stuck between Linux and Windows is LOLable.
So why can't I make my mind up on this? The same could be said for my Verizon/Cingular debates that never end.
I have known, although rarely mentioned to anyone, that my real reason for these constant bouncings-around, isn't because I can't decide. I have decided, unfortunately my current income level as a poor college student limits my realization of my solution. That being: for the cell phone debate: I would probably stick with Verizon's network as it is better than Cingulars in almost every way - other than the vocoder, but I guess you can't win them all. Their handset selection blows however, so while I'm making this magical fantasy plan, I'd have a 1xRTT/1xEV-DO data card for my computer for data services (the unlimited package of course) - and then I would pick out an Asian CDMA phone that had all the features I wanted and that could be modded to properly work on Verizon's network. Finally I'd keep a quadband GSM phone on the back burner for travel so I can still access the worldwide standard GSM networks on the rest of the planet. Of course all of this is too prohibitive money-wise right now, so instead I bounce to Cingular when I crave awesome handsets, and Verizon when I crave being "IN," awesome voice-dial, a cellular radio that doesn't interfere with stereos, and so I can yabber with my friends who don't want to move to Cingular. It's not too bad as I switch frequently enough I can use the unsubsidized sale price of a handset to compensate for the ETF (Early Termination Fee) of another provider so switching only costs about $50 tops. Actually in an unrelated comment - I would like to see more users doing this, or another method I found on MI-Telecom involving using your cell phone with roaming partners a high enough percentage of the time to make your provider cancel your agreement without ETF. ETFs are the stupidest thing ever, and they should be made illegal. Anyway...that's for another rant!
As for the OSes - my answer is again a lack of funds. I want a PowerBook like the G4 I had last year, and was too stupid to keep. That was the perfect computer, it had a great keyboard with the cool fiber optic backlight as a perk - and keycaps that wouldn't wear out even with my insane typing. Best of all, it ran MacOS X, which is intuitive, graphically polished, and running on a BSD core, so I can still jump to a unix command line when I crave those power-user moments.
So in the fiscal interim with the computers, I have all PC hardware because it's much more affordable. Consequently, I just keep bouncing between Windows and Linux, because I love the principles behind Linux, but hate that so much stuff doesn't work right in Linux. With Windows - it is "compatible" because everyone uses it, but I have to deal with the below-mentioned problems.
I think the top things about Windows that I dislike, is the low-quality commercialization, not to mention their ridiculous licensing scheme and closed-everything. Windows XP the operating system all by itself isn't so bad (other than the licensing crap and security issues) - but it's useless without userspace applications. Application writers have added the intrusive and annoying "product activation" to almost every Windows app. Every other app is pay-only, the number of freeware and open applications is much more limited than even a few years ago. (Probably as a result of a popularity increase in Linux and all the FS/OSS development ends up there.) The overall feel is just - so low-quality and annoying though. Applications are rarely polished to behave properly or have any form of aesthetics - which begs the question, why bother? Why pay the overinflated prices for Windows applications when you can get the exact same experience in Linux for free?
For most computer users I would willingly advocate a move to Linux - I see no reason for people to keep feeding the retarded corporate software companies that can't actually release products that work right. (Good example: Microsoft Office 2003. $500 - yet Outlook 2003 can't even properly send e-mail to clients in a format that is compatible with them reliably. There's no way to shut off "Outlook Rich Text Format" 100% - so random e-mails will be delivered to people with their attachments rolled into a winmail.dat file. Microsoft's response to the issue on their web site: "It's a known issue." That's it! No fix! No patch! No mention they may ever fix this horrid incompatibility, just - "there it is - deal with it." Way to go!)
For me, I can't go full-Linux because I don't like how several pieces of hardware in my systems aren't supported. The VIA SATA/PATA card in my desktop has PATA channels that don't work due to the PATA portion of the Linux driver never being finished. This means I can't use 2 of my hard drives unless I redo the layout of my IDE busses in my system - which could mean losing other drives in trade for those drives. My laptop's fingerprint sensor, hard drive "airbag" system, and security chip, all have minimal Linux support, and the only way to implement them properly involves endless configuration nightmares. Also - the laptop's video card isn't properly supported, so 3D support isn't there, and 2D support is kinda meh. If I get good 2D/3D support, I can never drop to a text console or log out a user, because XDM will somehow make fglrx die.
On the software end, the apps I use to write music aren't at all compatible with Linux, nor are most of my cell phone hack apps, so I essentially have to give up on two of my other hobbies to "make the switch." There's also a neat suite of software that IBM has for the ThinkPad called the ThinkVantage software suite - it properly handles all the hardware in my laptop, the authentication mechanisms, the hard drive APS system, and network connection management - this suite is of course Windows-only.
Overall - the decision should be clear, duh. Windows! Thing is, I just love the fuzzy-brain feeling I get when I'm using Linux though. Having to figure out how to make all the hardware and software dance together in harmony is such a fun challenge! I also love how everything is free, and you don't have to worry about doing the licensing dance to get the job done.
I would also like to do a few projects that would be noteworthy to add to resumes and/or my web site project archive I would like to start soon.
So, what is the conclusion of all this?
I need a Mac. |
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| Random Newspaper Articles! |
[Mar. 14th, 2006|05:31 am] |
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| | accomplished | ] |
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| | DroneZone on SomaFM (Internet Stream) | ] |
So like - funny schoolbus pic for those whom my stupid Microsoft Outlook can't email them to. (My second image is a blatant reference to the old Oregon Trail game btw - they forded the river and lost all their oxen!)
Also - an article about some worthless scum of the earth from Kansas. How can anyone - especially those allegedly "Christians" be so nearsighted and worthless?? Ugh - I hate people!
As always - my images are clickable to view larger versions (the same image actually - just bigger - for those who are on dialup and don't want to have to download 50 different images! ;) )
Look at those signs! How repulsive!! I'm so glad those motorcyclists follow these people around to drown out their retarded protesting with engines! XD!! |
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| Ah decisions... |
[Mar. 8th, 2006|03:10 am] |
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| |  energetic | ] |
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| | XM 80 - The Move - Pressure - Baron - Redhead | ] |
I find it strange that my Averatec project like 2 pages in or whatever - was infinitely easier than my Compaq project now in progress.
First off - the model number on the USB bluetooth module is very similar to the one on the bluetooth/S-vid daughterboard inside the Compaq - and made by the same company. The bluetooth module that's supposed to go inside the Compaq is allegedly a Broadcom job that doesn't really exist. Compaq apparently switched to a Broadcom hybrid WiFi/Bluetooth MiniPCI card just before they apparently discontinued the whole lot - talk about short product life cycles!
Here's a nice picture collage - what I am probably going to do is take the D-Link bluetooth USB module and just hard-solder it to a USB port like I did in the Averatec. Weird thing is though - even that won't be easy. The Averatec was a TINY computer - but it somehow still had more room in itself than this blasted Compaq! Compaq placed things in the way EVERYWHERE so I have little room to tuck this little monster - except where the bluetooth expansion module is SUPPOSED to go but I can't easily solder to that USB port's rump as you'll see below because the 8-pin mystery internal BT interface is in front of it! Grr! If only I could find a pinout somewhere!
Hopefully I can locate the mystery Broadcom bluetooth module and do it that way - it would be a much more elegant solution...aarrrr!!
This is the USB/firewire region - looks nice and empty except that the speaker module and the case sandwich real tight here - so not much room to work with unless I made a hole in the speaker module.
This is the USB port next to where the hard drive sits. Again little room as the hard drive bay practically squashes the foil region, and I can't put it too close to the processor cooling module as that would probably overheat the bluetooth module and make it malfunction...
Here's the blasted part I need - it is NOT a MiniPCI card contrary to what all HP/Compaq's literature says - I think they discontinued it but kept the same part number, and changed the description and just started shipping the new one....arrrr!!!!
This is the best place to put it - inside this little spot designed for the internal bluetooth module I don't own. I would LOVE to just hook it to that 8-pin interface but who knows what they do? I traced the ground pin so I at least know which that one is - but the other pins just trace off to the interface bus that goes onto the motherboard - so I'd have to remove the mobo and trace off which wires follow a connection to the USB controller to wire that up - and then pinouts for that would still be a 4-pin guessing game - oi!
What a pain! |
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| Apparently I am a political contradiction... |
[Mar. 6th, 2006|10:55 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
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| | XM84 - MY CHANNEL - Grey Area - Slowly | ] |
Either that or I really am meant to rule the world!!!!
Best part is - this image:
I'ma da freaking pope! |
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| HOLY FUCK! |
[Mar. 3rd, 2006|08:42 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  annoyed | ] |
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| | XM84 Chill - NEW CHANNEL! RULES!! | ] |
I WILL BE WRITING THIS IN SIZE H1. HOLY FUCK IT IS ABOUT FUCKING TIME. THE DAMN WORTHLESS COCKSUCKING GOVERNMENT FINALLY REALIZED I AM AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT AND I NO LONGER HAVE TO PUT MY PARENTS TAX INFO ON MY FAFSA!!!!
Wow, sure glad I'm already 3/4 through my senior year and it PROBABLY WON'T MATTER.
FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!
I don't think I've ever been so excited and so pissed at the same time!!!
HERE IS A SCREENSHOT FOR MY VIEWING PUBLIC! (me)
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