fighting the lack of good ideas
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…
In follow-up to my post from last week, two members of the Staybridge staff contacted me on Wednesday of this week. Their replies are posted below. Also, a disclaimer: I never asked for anything to be done in recompense for the situation – I just wanted it fixed. Mr. Myers: Please accept my apology for the…
About 14 years ago, good friends of the family bought an old farm house with some outbuildings in rural Schoharie County in NY (outside Middleburgh, in a locale called “Hunter’s Land”). One of the first things they wanted to do with the house was to re-engineer the heating, which included properly insulating the house, and…
Saw in a tweet from David Pogue that someone has finally implemented a DVR-for-radio. Only took three years for someone to build 🙂 I haven’t started playing with DAR.fm yet, but it looks pretty cool!
This past Saturday, I gave a presentation/talk on Haiku for the BGLUG in Lexington KY. For those unfamiliar with Haiku, it is an open-source reimplementation of my favorite OS of all time, BeOS. Instead of having a formal slide deck for the event (as initially planned), I kept it informal with an oral history of…
From the reading-more department, I’m going to attempt to put one review of a book out every week, with a target day of Wednesday. Might end up putting a couple out on some books because they take a longer time to read, but that’s the goal. Today started with a quickie overview of Aesop’s Fables…