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Ofcom eyes Lloyd Webber's analogue bits
Blog is releasing a chunk of UHF spectrum around 800 MHz - something which has been planned for decades. Ofcom's answer is to get whoever lands up with the new 800 MHz licence to pay for whatever new kit is needed for the hoofing thespians.
[February 2, 2009, 12:34]
Morning has broken on Mobile World Congress...
Blog You might care that Qualcomm, Huawei and Telefonica have successfully tested HSDPA on 900 MHz - the original GSM frequencies, which provide better in-building and rural coverage than the 2100 MHz used so far.
[February 11, 2008, 7:51]
SFF PCs
Blog These are the specs: magnesium (the black one) o 800 MHz Geode o 256 MB RAM o 6 GB CF drive o Onboard graphics, audio, serial, parallel, USB & 10/100 ethernet P&P potassium (the grey one) o 300 MHz Geode o 256 MB RAM o 6 GB 2.5″ IDE drive o...
[July 11, 2008, 9:17]
Google to bid for US spectrum
Blog Open services: third parties (resellers) should be able to acquire wireless services from a 700 MHz licensee on a wholesale basis, based on reasonably nondiscriminatory commercial terms; and Open networks: third parties (like Internet service...
[July 20, 2007, 16:18]
xG shows off two-way radio
Blog The handsets are able to change channel, base station or whatever, thirty three times a second - which is a very high rate, much higher than other systems, and one that may be dictated by the need to keep dodging interference in the 900 MHz...
[September 29, 2009, 20:15]
Compact Hot Flashes
Blog I found some old low-power 500 MHz P3 CPUs chips that I would like to try in the board. The low power ones are supposed to be good for 12 watts and max out at 500 MHz, so we'll see. It was a nice change of pace from having to ride home @ 5 or 6 or...
[June 24, 2009, 10:51]
P3 Xubuntu
Blog I've been running Xubuntu 8.1 on a 700 Mhz P3 COMPAQ ENPRO computer with 512 MB of RAM. This system originally had Windows 2000 on it and it ran fairly well if a little slow. I've tried Debian 4.0 on it and wasn't really impressed.
[December 30, 2008, 8:35]
DebbieToo has a brother named paqman and HIT * chores
Blog paqman (small p, yes I'm converting to *nix-isms) is a small ATX case 700 MHz P3 with 512MB of RAM and (these days) a relatively small hard drive of 20 GB. It used to be made by pre-HP-acquisition COMPAQ.
[July 7, 2008, 9:48]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog There's nothing wrong in theory with this, except that while your Pentium is working hard it's not available for other jobs - in effect, your 233 MHz Pentium is running like a 133MHz machine. Wow! V.90 modems already!
[March 7, 1998, 6:00]
Junkbox Print Server Update #1
Blog One reason to use this junked CPU is that it can be dialed down to less than 500 MHz to further reduce the heat. This project has taken a somewhat twisted tortured path. Targeted hardware is a tossed (or redundant) P3 industrial ETX SBC with two...
[April 20, 2009, 8:35]
Dual core - a lesson from history?
Blog Go back far enough, to the time of the 8-bit processors, and there were plenty of times when there was a huge price differential between, say a 4MHz Z80A and the next serious step up like a 16 MHz 68000.
[October 22, 2007, 0:21]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog My AGP/300 MHz Pentium II machine has arrived, so settle down with screwdriver and copy of 3D benchmarks to test the old hype. Tuesday See Monday. Still, had a rather useful burst of hallucinatory fiction writing.
[September 13, 1997, 9:00]
Trans-atlantic balloon attempt survives the night
Blog Receiving the data is quite an art: if you fancy it, the balloon's on 10.1463 MHz transmitting a mix of CW and RTTY every ten minutes or so. Much excitement this morning. A small group of enthusiasts based in Knoxville, Tennessee has been building...
[March 12, 2008, 8:31]
Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog The 6.06 computer is an ancient Compaq Armada with a 500 MHz PIII, a smear of memory, a shagged battery, and an unusually large hard disk that got transplanted in from a dead Windows laptop. Well, not at this precise moment (just three, as it...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Dang, Darn, Damn Small Linux!
Blog I have played with it a little bit and its amazing how fast a 600 Mhz P3 can run when its not having to drag around Windows baggage or a large Linux OS install. I've been looking at a very interesting variant of Linux called Damn Small Linux...
[July 15, 2008, 9:11]
Toshiba touts Quantum Key Distribution
Blog This limits the clock rate of current QKD systems to around 10 MHz and thus the secure key bit rate to under 10 kbit/sec for a 20 km fibre. Toshiba research scientists have developed a method of distributing quantum keys more efficiently, the...
[October 9, 2008, 17:24]
CPU Frequency Scaling
Blog Sure enough, it did the trick - as soon as I rebooted, the CPU monitor showed the frequency dropping from 1.6GHz to 800 MHz when the system was idle, the cooling fan didn't run nearly as much (mostly not at all), and the bottom of the Mini-Note...
[April 3, 2009, 14:03]
Tuesday
Blog The processor, a 6502 variant, ran at a modest 1 MHz, and the video stretched to 16 colours at 320x200 pixels. Tuesday 11/02/03 Old 8-bit computers never die, they simply slip into cyberspace. It doesn't matter how obscure the machine of your...
[February 14, 2003, 17:03]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog If you're going to put an enormous radio transmitter into a place, you might as well plaster the area with posters advertising "Radio Sinn Fein -- 99.5 MHz. Tuesday 14/9/2004 It's not often that radio technology has a direct effect on national...
[September 17, 2004, 17:30]
Virtually Dude. Its Really Cool!
Blog Its running on a 700 Mhz P3 with 512 MB of RAM and a 20GB hard drive. I have downloaded the Live CD images for OpenSolaris 10, Fedora 9 and 10, Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.1, Mandriva2009 and openSuse11 and installed them into virtual machines running on...
[December 18, 2008, 2:43]
