fighting the lack of good ideas
I have been working on my Connexions submissions again recently, and have a collection ready for use (it will be growing as time goes on): “Debugging and Supporting Software Systems” I realize there are some small typos in the current text, but I will be addressing that in a upcoming revision 🙂 I’d love to…
The LightSquared situation keeps getting more interesting. InfoWorld has another story on them attacking GPS manufacturers for not being more careful about filtering adjacent frequency bands (per a DoD recommendation from 2008). LightSquared is at loggerheads with makers and users of GPS (Global Positioning System) over interference between the navigation system and its planned cellular LTE (Long-Term…
I’ve taken an interest in LightSquared recently. Today InfoWorld reports that the FCC “won’t allow LightSquared’s proposed mobile broadband service to interfere with GPS signals, even though the potential interference would be caused by GPS receivers picking up signals outside of their designated spectrum”. So, the devices are in error, but the FCC is going to prevent LightSquared from…
I have been working on a upgrade for one of our customers for nearly a month. Last week we spent about two hours focused on one specific problem that had been rearing its ugly head on an exceedingly-frequent basis: one of the components of the application was routinely pitching OutOfMemory errors from the Java Virtual…
CentOS 6 was released today. So far, I am not impressed. I run a *lot* of virtual machines. So I thought I’d give the netinstall edition a try with the “minimal” install option: when the installer reboots at the end, there is no valid boot image on the drive and starting-up fails. So I switched…
I’ve been hearing about a new company called LightSquared a lot recently. Both arstechnica and alarm:clock have both had interesting articles on the company in the last week. The goal of LS is to create from scratch a nationwide 4G wireless network – and funder Philip Falcone thinks they can do it for about $15B. That’s a pretty…
Zynga is getting ready to IPO. They’re the group that does “Farmville” and other games on facebook. The problem with their planned $1B IPO, though, is that they rely completely on facebook’s continued existence to make any of their earnings. Last year their profits were in the neighborhood of $400M. That’s a lot of dough….
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