According to Apple.com: That site is about 740k (as of right now, I assume it was about the same when Apple tested it) so that works out to about 37k/second. If that’s how fast the iPhone can download data, then to use the 400mb/month allocated in the cheapest $60/month Rogers plan, you’d have to be [...]
A friend of mine plays World of Warcraft, and for a while, took over the market for a particular item in the Warcraft auction house. Let’s say it was Khorium Ore. Buddy logs in, buys up all the Khorium that’s for sale for less than a certain amount, and then lists it for sale at [...]
Microsoft released a tool that lets you move your content licenses from one console to another. This is a great thing for me because my 5 previous repairs (between Christmas 2005 and Christmas 2007) left me with content licensed to a mish mash of consoles, and a lot of content I purchased not tied to [...]
Rogers Sucks.
While testing out my cable modem speeds at home (10mbps down, 1mbps up), I ran across the Global Stats page at speedtest.net. There are some eye-opening results there. The #1 ISP in the world is giving out almost 60mbps! Even #10 in the top 10 is offering over 30mbps. Neither Canada nor the US is [...]
Finally! Hauppauge has a video capture device that can capture HD component video that’s priced near consumer level. Here’s a review. It’s the HD PVR Model 1212, and it’s a USB device that you plug into your cable box through the YPbPr (component video). This is an unencrypted HD analog video signal that the device [...]
I’ve migrated the Ottawa Events site from the server in my basement to a real host, and in the process, migrated it from ASP.NET to PHP. As much as I like ASP.NET, hosting is just easier with PHP. If you have a moment try out the new site and see if anything seems broken. It [...]
The couch in my living room is a bit of a WiFi black hole for me for some reason, which is unfortunate because it’s also one of the places I most want to use it. The signal is weak, and occasionally disappears. 802.11n can run at 2.4ghz and be compatible with 802.11b/g, or can run [...]
This Financial Post article presents some information from Rogers president and COO Nadir Mohamed: Rogers now earns about $63 in average revenue per user (ARPU), a figure that has risen rapidly over the past few years with the increasing usage of data-heavy services such as text messaging and over-the-air music downloads. With the introduction of [...]
One of the drawbacks of your small company turning into a big company is it becomes hard to do fun things.