Cody Taylor

Lorien_the_first_one brings word that in Europe, a breakthrough for post-4G communications has been announced. A public-private consortium known as IPHOBAC has been developing new communications technology that is near commercialization now. Quoting: “With much of the mobile world yet to migrate to 3G mobile communications, let alone 4G, European researchers are already working on a new technology able to deliver data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s. The technology — known as ‘millimeter-wave’ or microwave photonics — has commercial applications not just in telecommunications (access and in-house networks) but also in instrumentation, radar, security, radio astronomy and other fields.”

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Here is a list of some cool robot illustrations to inspire you and enhance your ideas.

There are several ways to backup MySQL data. In this article we’ll look at how to backup your databases using different methods, we will also learn how to achieve an automatic backup solution to make the process easier.

A second generation of Microsoft’s Surface computing device is two to three years away, the South by SouthWest Festival has heard.

CNETNate writes “A tour of Sennheiser’s Hanover factory reveals for the first time how its audiophile headphones are assembled by hand. The company recently announced its most expensive and innovative headphones to date, the HD 800, which discarded the conventional method of headphone driver design for a new ‘donut-shaped’ ring driver idea. Only 5,000 of these headphones can be made in a year, and this gallery offers a behind-the-scenes look at the construction process.”

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Amazon recently threatened the smackdown on a site offering instructions on how to trick the Kindle into reading other types of files. This isn’t a question of copyright infringement, it’s a question of control.

Digg’s Kevin Rose is again peddling his Apple rumors, this time in regards to the upcoming 3.0 preview scheduled for this Tuesday. He was dead on last time around—can he do it again?

Could Apple be about to take aim at Nintendo’s gaming market share by introducing a Wii-like games console of its own?

Iddo Genuth writes “After several delays, including twice over the past week, the space shuttle Discovery has finally been launched into space. The spacecraft took off at precisely 7:43 p.m. EDT, embarking on the STS-119 mission, which will provide the International Space Station with the fourth and final set of solar arrays — and which will make the ISS brighter than Venus. The shuttle will also deliver to the ISS its newest crew member, Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata, who will replace flight engineer Sandra Magnus at the station.”

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An anonymous reader writes “I work for a small (400 customers) local cable ISP. For the company, the ISP is only a small side business, so my whole line of expertise lies in other areas, but since I know the most about Linux and networking I’ve been stuck into the role of part-time sysadmin. In examining our backbone and customer base I’ve found out that we are oversubscribed around 70:1 between our customers’ bandwidth and our pipe. I’ve gone to the boss and showed him the bandwidth graphs of us sitting up against the limit for the better part of the day, and instead of purchasing more bandwidth, he has asked me to start implementing traffic shaping and packet inspection against P2P users and other types of large downloaders. Because this is in a certain limited market, the customers really only have the choice between my ISP and dial-up. I’m struggling with the desire to give the customers I’m administering the best experience, and the desire to do what my boss wants. In my situation, what would you do?”

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