Sagacious Himself — brevity in circumlocution – suffering genius

February 15, 2008

Cowon A3 plays Matroska.. Q5W filters out MKV extension.. no play joy

Filed under: HardWare — Sagacious Himself @ 10:43 am

Q5W won’t play MP4,
Q5W won’t play  MKV,
Q5W won’t play  M4K

… very disappointing

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February 12, 2008

dd-wrt 23 sp2 vs tomato 1.15 — screencaps and whatnot

Filed under: DARPA, Geeky goodness, HardWare, Sagacious Himself, Software Review — Sagacious Himself @ 8:59 am

briefly


tomato has more intuitive QoS controls

tomato has shinier bandwidth graphs

  • tomato bandwidth realtime

  • tomato QoS connections distribution

dd-wrt screenshots later

When KAID, VPN, and VoIP are not an issue tomato is the way to go.

I’m days away from donating $20 to dd-wrt to try their ’special’ QoS edition!

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January 11, 2008

low cost alternative to cowon Q5W + GPS – MTWO Technologies GPS-288 – FLAC xvid TV-out SDRAM 2gigs

Filed under: CIO, Cowon Q5W, GPS, HardWare, PMP, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 8:00 pm
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MTWO Technologies GPS-288

2.8-inch Multimedia Player with GPS Navigation Function

http://m-two.manufacturer.globalsources.com/si/6008811374324/pdtl/Portable-GPS/1004679615/Portable-GPS.htm

MTWO Technologies GPS-288

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Plays videos and the beloved FLAC… TV-out, secondary to GPS

Key Specifications/Special Features:

  • GPS navigation, music player, video player, photo viewer, FM radio, voice recording, E-book and gaming all-in-one
  • Embedded Linux system (version 2.6.14)
  • Actions ATT2200 processor (MIPS + DSP, 180MHz)
  • Screen: 2.8-inch TFT LCD, QVGA 320 x 240, 260K colors, touch screen
  • Storage: build-in NAND flash, up to 1GB, external SD/MMC card up to 2GB
  • Music format: WMA, DRM WMA, ASF, OGG, APE, FLAC, WAV, AUDIBLE
  • Supports ID3 LRC
  • Equalizer: seven mode, SRS WOW, SRS WOW HD, user mode
  • Recording: FM recording, MIC recording. Format: WAV, ACT
  • Photo viewer: support JPEG, BMP, GIF format
  • Video format: XviD, AMVB, WMV
  • Video out: TV out
  • USB OTG
  • FM radio and FM recording
  • Support actions DRM
  • Build-in stereo speaker
  • System:
    • CPU: Actions ATT2200 processor (MIPS + DSP, 180MHz)
    • SDRAM: 64MB
    • NAND flash: 64MB (up to 1GB)
    • OS: embedded Linux system (version 2.6.14)
  • Functions:
    • Channels: 20
    • Position: less than 10m
    • Velocity: 0.1m/seconds
    • Time: 0.01 seconds to GPS time
    • TTFF (open sky)
    • Reacquisition: 0.1 seconds, average
    • Hot start: 8 seconds, average
    • Warm start: 29 seconds, average
    • Cold start: 42 seconds, average
    • Antenna: embedded antenna[ Himself.wordpress.com ]

August 10, 2007

mobile phone laptop cars? AlphaCOM rolling over in grave

AlphaCOM, pioneers of mobile PCMCIA cards, rolls eyes over “new” mobile phone company’s laptop cards.  It was cool at 1997 COMDEX.  19.2k with LOTS of compression?  Remember when I suggested bonding multiple cards TEN YEARS AGO?  Bonding isn’t new, but its time has come again.  Most laptops have two PCMCIA slots.  2x broadband > 1x broadband

But $49 is better than the $600 I spent four years ago testing cards from VerizonEvil Wireless and AT&T.  I had a less unpleasant experience tethering my laptop to my moto.

September 16, 2006

newegg scam digg in top ten on google

Filed under: BULLSHIT, HardWare, Review, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 4:40 pm

websearch for: NewEgg scam

how do you like those eggs, NewEgg?  A little bitter?

August 25, 2006

RFID Passport Shield Failure Demo — using the gestapo to kill more flying Americans

solution? 666 tatoo time

Farraday shielding for US RFID passports? … let the RFID poison spamming begin

yes, its a sad day when citizens need tiny Farraday enclosures for their identification.  Farraday cages?  No, this is a new kind of digital draconia

http://www.paraben-forensics.com/rfid-passport-security.html

http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5203/1ox1.jpg

see also

http://percybuilt.com/

http://rfid-shield.com/

(I’ve been saying this for years)

the best way to poison data harvesting is to (continuously) provide LOTS AND LOTS of BAD information. 

let the RFID spamming begin!!

August 8, 2006

30% off at Best Buy

Filed under: HardWare, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 8:27 am

http://flickr.com/photos/inju/tags/bb30off/

As you’ll see in the photos, the 30% off ones have slightly different
copyright text than the lower (10% 5% 15%) booklets. If you get one
with a 29528_1 to the left of the copyright symbol on the back cover,
you have a lower one. If there’s no text to the left of the the
copyright symbol, you’ve got the 30% off!

August 7, 2006

sony mylo … only nine year old technology pirated from SkyTel

Filed under: Geeky goodness, HardWare, Review, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 9:48 pm

mylo .. sony wireless social networking device

for people who use instant messaging as a primary form of communication
and networking for their social life. … lets you use instant
messaging, browse the Internet, listen to music, send emails and view
photos concurrently…. pocket small, color LCD, Google Talk, Skype and
Yahoo.

remember the “CLIE S320 with MYLO wireless sled”

http://img164.imageshack.us/img164/3543/sonymylotp0.jpg

it bears a striking resemblance to the SkyTel attachment for Palm about NINE YEARS AGO

NINE YEARS AGO this was cutting edge… just like 3G via PCMCIA.

:sigh:

August 1, 2006

Rockbox is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players — see how badly iPod firmware sucks

Filed under: CIO, Geeky goodness, Hacking, HardWare, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, SoftWare, Software Review — Sagacious Himself @ 4:26 am

http://rockbox.org/
http://rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/FeatureComparison#Apple

if you must buy an iPod you REALLY MUST use rockbox firmware…. otherwise you’re a TOTAL cretin.

get the FLAC support you deserve!

July 16, 2006

call our NEW Sagacious Hotline ™ and leave feedback about products made in eureka

Filed under: 1-651-204-9080, HardWare, Humor, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, made in eureka — Sagacious Himself @ 4:30 am

1-651-204-9080

call now… an operator is standing by to record your call… operator not made in erueka

yes, a real voicemail line dedicated to made in eureka

fascist-ready ™ chip implant technology: its for the children

Filed under: Geeky goodness, Hacking, HardWare, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, Word Coined by Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 4:05 am

A tiresome argument for fascist-ready ™ technology sounds like AlGore: its for the children

http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2006/07/15/raise-your-right-hand-chip-implants-for-everyone/

Or children who have been abducted.

remember Franklin….

They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither

The Sagacious Solution ™ is to carry a device that spams RFID signals. There’s little sense trying to block the information… so give LOTS and LOTS of bad data to devalue the information ;)

Camera with a lens made of ice… and some photos

Filed under: Geeky goodness, Hacking, HardWare, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 3:52 am

July 15, 2006

Just bought Vantec LapCool 4 Notebook Cooler – review

Filed under: Geeky goodness, HardWare, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself — Sagacious Himself @ 5:41 am

http://reviews.pcapex.com/cooling/vantec_lapcool_4_notebook_cooler.php

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5647/lc4moneymf7.jpg

finally!  one that blows air onto the laptop’s bottom!    hopefully the multiformat card reader won’t require any pesky drivers

July 14, 2006

ThinkBack memory backup drive — experience other people’s dreams — Sagacious REdREamREplay ™ – made in eureka

Filed under: 1-651-204-9080, HardWare, Humor, Sagacious, Sagacious Himself, made in eureka — Sagacious Himself @ 3:38 am

Call our REAL Sagacious Hotline ™ to leave us feedback about products made in eureka, or suggest
new products that should be made in eureka, or to bitch. Messages will be posted to blog in MP3 format for
all to hear.

1-651-204-9080
1-651-204-9080
1-651-204-9080
1-651-204-9080

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/2301/productpic8do.jpg

Never forget anything again! After downloading every moment, dream and
experience you’ve ever had through the ocular interface (resembles a
pair of goggles), the ThinkBack Memory Backup Drive stores them on a
special hard disk, which will allow you to review your memories on the
LCD screen. Now you’ll be able to call up the lyrics of a song you
heard last week or relive that amazing weekend you had by the lake
house.

Take lucid dreaming to the next level! With the optional long range scanner you can borrow anyones dreams. Deploy multiple REdREamREplay scanners througout your neighborhood for hours of fun.

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