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GB2RS News Sunday the 1st of October 2023 The news headlines: RSGB 2023 Convention RadCom Basics Editor retirement RSGB Director Ben Lloyd, GW4BML's SOTA challenge We're counting down to the RSGB 2023 Convention and the Society is putting the final touches to the programme. This year there will be a special, hour-long, session with the RSGB Board where the Directors will present the four strategic priorities that the Society will be focusing on until the 2024 AGM. After that, Convention attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions. This will be a positive and productive opportunity to discuss with the Board how the Society, and its members, can meet the challenges facing amateur radio today. The session will be hosted by Don Beattie, G3BJ, who is the former IARU Region 1 President as well as a former President of the Radio Society of Great Britain. The session will be recorded so if you are unable to attend the Convention but would like to hear a particular topic discussed, please email that topic with your name and callsign to comms@rsgb.org.uk before Monday the 9th of October. The discussion will include as many topics as possible but the RSGB cannot guarantee every topic will be covered. Directors will also only answer specific questions from those who attend the session at the Convention. To be part of this discussion and pose your question to the Board, book your package or day ticket to the RSGB Convention today – go to rsgb.org/convention and choose ‘Click here to book online'. Bookings close at midnight on Sunday the 8th of October. RadCom Basics Editor Lee Aldridge, G4EJB has retired. Over the past few years, Lee has been instrumental in making RadCom Basics a success. His passion for amateur radio and commitment to encouraging newcomers is infectious and has been very well received by readers. The RSGB thanks Lee for his hard work as Editor and is pleased to report that he will continue to write for RadCom Basics and provide regular technical and fault-finding articles. The new RadCom Basics Editor is Tim Hier, G5TM and the RSGB welcomes him to the role. Lee and Tim have worked together to produce the September edition of RadCom Basics. You can contact Tim with ideas or feedback for future editions via radcombasics@rsgb.org.uk  RSGB Members can access all issues of RadCom Basics by visiting rsgb.org/radcom-basics RSGB Director Ben Lloyd, GW4BML has taken on the challenge of activating ten summits during 12 days on the remote Scottish islands. He will climb some with his partner and fellow radio amateur Martha, and their two-year-old daughter Lyra. This SOTA – or Summits on the Air – challenge combines Ben's favourite hobbies of amateur radio and hiking, but it also sometimes brings with it adverse weather conditions and the need to reach remote islands by kayak! Ben is hoping that by sharing his challenge he will not only inspire radio amateurs to try SOTA, but he will also encourage people who love walking and hiking to try amateur radio. You can catch up with his adventures on the RSGB social media channels and through the special playlist of videos on the RSGB YouTube channel. Go to youtube.com/theRSGB and choose the playlist called “RSGB Director Ben Lloyd, GW4BML - SOTA challenge”. The next Tonight@8 live webinar is on Monday the 2nd of October when Lee Volante, G0MTN will give a presentation aimed at newcomers to contesting. He will explore how contesting began, explain why it is rewarding and fun, and demonstrate how anyone can take part in their first contests with equipment they have today. Watch on the RSGB YouTube channel and find out more on the RSGB website at rsgb.org/webinars The RSGB QSL Bureau reports that, due to unforeseen circumstances, well-known volunteer Roy Taylor, M0RRV is retiring from his post as volunteer sub-manager for the M1 to M7 groups. The Bureau thanks Roy for his valuable service to others and is now seeking a replacement volunteer. Expressions of interest should be emailed to qsl@rsgb.org.uk  Members are requested not to send collection envelopes to this group until further notice. IARU Region 1 will hold its next General Conference from the 1st to the 4th of November 2023 in Zlatibor, Serbia. A wide range of papers and proposals are now available online and the RSGB welcomes comments on these. Topics include: general reports; organisational and budget proposals; the new HF Bandplan; VHF, UHF and SHF changes; and consideration of WRC-23, the World Radiocommunication Conference, which follows shortly afterwards. Other themes include: strategic projects and progress, accommodating digital technologies, contests, EMC and other spectrum matters. Comments should be forwarded to the relevant HF, VHF or Microwave spectrum manager, by Thursday the 12th of October, in order to allow time to finalise the RSGB position. You can find a link to the consultation via thersgb.org/go/iaruconsult   And now for details of rallies and events The 48th Welsh Radio Rally is taking place today, the 1st of October. The venue is Llanwern High School, Hartridge Farm Road, Newport, South Wales, NP18 2YE. The doors will be open from 8am for traders and from 10am for the public. Entry is £3. Free parking, bring and buy and refreshments will be available. For more information email welshradiorally@gw6gw.co.uk  Hornsea Amateur Radio Club Rally will take place on Sunday the 15th of October. The venue will be Driffield Showground, YO25 9DW. For more information, contact Les, 2E0LBJ on 01377 252 393 or email lbjpinkney1@hotmail.co.uk Dartmoor Autumn Radio Rally will take place on Sunday the 15th of October. The venue will be Yelverton War Memorial Hall, Meavy Lane, Yelverton. Devon, PL20 6AL. There will be bring and buy, trader stands, free parking and refreshments available. The doors will open at 10am and admission will be £2.50. For more information, contact Roger on 07854 088 882 or email 2e0rph@gmail.com   Now the Special Event News The British Railways Amateur Radio Society, using the club callsign GX4LMR, is marking 185 years since the opening of Preston railway station in 1838. Mark, G1PIE will be operating during the whole month of October. Activity will be centred on the 40m band using SSB. QSL via the bureau.   Now the DX news Bob, W7YAQ and Al, K7AR are active as VK9LAA from Lord Howe Island, OC-004, until the 4th of October. They are running two stations on the 160 to 6m bands. QSL via Club Log's OQRS, Logbook of the World, or via W7YAQ. Sajid, VA3QY is active as A22EW from his homeland of Botswana until the 8th of October. He is operating on the 20 to 10m bands. He may also operate on the 6m band. QSL via eQSL. Brian, GW4DVB is active as J88PI until the 10th of October from Palm Island, NA-025, in the Caribbean. Brian is operating on the 40, 20, 17, 15, 10 and 6m bands using SSB, SSTV and FT8. QSL direct to home call.     Now the contest news The UK and Ireland Contest Club DX SSB Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday the 30th of September and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday the 1st of October. Using SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Stations from the UK and Ireland also send their District Code. This event replaces the original RSGB DX contest. It is listed on the RSGB contest calendar and, for entrants from the UK and Crown Dependencies, counts towards the HF Championship. This international DX SSB contest also has a Teams section. Team members, with a maximum of three members, can be from different DXCCs and can enter different sections. Rules, in English and eight other languages, can be found under the "DX CONTESTS" menu at ukeicc.com The Worked All Britain DX Contest started at 1200UTC on Saturday the 30th of September and ends at 1200UTC today, Sunday the 1st of October. Using SSB on the 80 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report, serial number and Worked All Britain square. On Monday the 2nd of October, the Autumn Series CW Contest runs from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using CW on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Tuesday the 3rd of October, the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1800 to 1855UTC. Using FM on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on Tuesday the 3rd of October, the 144MHz UK Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2m band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the 3rd of October, the IRTS 80m Evening Counties Contest runs from 1900 to 2000UTC. Using CW and SSB on the 80m band, the exchange is signal report and serial number. EI and GI stations also send their county code. On Wednesday the 4th of October, the 144MHz FT8 Activity four-hour Contest runs from 1700 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator. Also on Wednesday the 4th of October, the 144MHz FT8 Activity two-hour Contest runs from 1900 to 2100UTC. Using FT8 on the 2m band, the exchange is report and four-character locator. Stations entering the four-hour contest may also enter the two-hour contest. On Wednesday the 4th of October, the UK and Ireland Contest Club 80m Contest runs from 2000 to 2100UTC. Using SSB on the 80m band, the exchange is your six-character locator. The Oceania DX SSB Contest starts at 0600UTC on Saturday the 7th of October and ends at 0600UTC on Sunday the 8th of October. Using SSB on the 160 to 10m bands, where contests are permitted, the exchange is signal report and serial number. Both the IARU and RSGB 432MHz to 245GHz Contests start at 1400UTC on Saturday the 7th of October and end at 1400UTC on Sunday the 8th of October. Using all modes on 432MHz to 245GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Saturday the 7th of October, the 2.3GHz Trophy Contest runs from 1400 to 2200UTC. Using all modes on 2.3GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also on Saturday the 7th of October, the 1.2GHz Trophy Contest runs from 1400 to 2200UTC. Using all modes on 1.2GHz frequencies, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator.   Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA, and G4BAO on Thursday the 28th of September 2023 Another week of disrupted solar and geomagnetic conditions saw the Kp index go up and MUFs come down. A period of minor G1 geomagnetic storming was observed on Tuesday the 26th thanks to an enhanced solar wind stream containing a long-duration southward-facing Bz component. If the solar wind's Bz magnetic field points south, it more easily couples with the Earth's magnetic field, allowing solar plasma to flood in. The net result was a Kp index of 5.67 and visible aurora seen from the UK once again. It is worth reminding people that, at this point in the solar cycle, conditions are being governed more by the Kp index than the solar flux index. A high Kp index generally results in lower MUFs and poor HF conditions. During the week, the solar flux index was around 175, declining to 156 on Thursday the 28th. The number of solar flares also decreased as the week progressed. Next week NOAA predicts that the solar flux index will remain in the range 145 to 155, perhaps hitting 160 on the 7th. NOAA also predicts quiet geomagnetic conditions with a maximum Kp index of 2. As we said last week, at this point in the cycle solar flares and coronal mass ejections are very prevalent and hard to predict. So, do not be surprised if the Kp index goes up again. Otherwise, if it remains low, make the most of the good HF conditions that generally follow. Finally, as it is now October, we can expect another step up in HF conditions as we enter Autumn, so keep an eye on the 10m band, which should be opening up to the US and Canada in the afternoon. There are plenty of 10m beacons to listen for from 28.160 to 28.330MHz, as well as FM repeaters clustered around 29.600MHz.   And now the VHF and up propagation news Last week saw trans-equatorial openings on 50MHz with V51 Namibia reported all over the UK, as far north as Scotland around 1900UTC. On the tropo front, last week was fairly unsettled with a visit from Agnes, our first named storm of the season, which affected the north and west. The coming week is looking much more suitable for VHF radio with high pressure building over the country from Tuesday, bringing a good chance of Tropo as we go through the week. This may not be fully developed for the 144MHz UK Activity Contest on Tuesday the 3rd, but possibly starting to help lift conditions, in the south at least. The high pressure will become more widespread over the next week, but by the following weekend of the 7th and 8th of October, the 1.3GHz Trophy may have to deal with more disturbed conditions in western areas. However, conditions will still probably be good for eastern areas across the North Sea to southern Scandinavia. The meteor scatter prospects are improving as we move towards the October Draconids, which peak on the night of the 8th and 9th. Auroras have also featured recently so should remain in our checklist. Incidentally, although we are technically outside the main Sporadic-E season, Dourbes ionosonde data plotted on the Propquest website have shown occasional ‘blips' in the critical frequency of the Sporadic-E layer, for example to 7.5MHz around 1650UTC on Wednesday the 27th of September. This would certainly be enough for 10m and perhaps even 6m chance openings. ‘If in doubt call CQ' is the take-away message here. Moon declination goes positive on Friday the 29th of September and reaches its peak the following Thursday. This means increasing Moon elevation and lengthening Moon Windows until then. The downside being that path losses are increasing all week ahead of apogee on the 10th of October. 144MHz sky noise starts off low, increasing to 500 Kelvin next Thursday before dropping again for the weekend. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

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With Gareth Myles and Ted Salmon Join us on Mewe RSS Link: https://techaddicts.libsyn.com/rss iTunes | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify  Amazon | Pocket Casts | Castbox | PodHubUK Feedback, Fallout and Contributions Phillip Deackes Hi Gareth. I started my NAS journey some years ago. I use it extensively and most of my services run in Docker. I suggest you look at Nextcloud rather than using the built-in Synology services. Nextcloud is open source and free to use. It provides a cloud file service like Google Drive but also hosts your contacts and calendars which can then be synced through CalDAV and CardDAV to ask your other devices like phone, tablet, computers etc.. If you set up OnlyOffice you can edit and create MS compatible documents through a web browser, again on any device. There are many apps you can install from with Nextcloud too.. https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-nextcloud-on-your-synology-nas/ Marius has lots of tutorials for installing all manner of things on a Synology NAS. If you need any more help or advice please get in touch! Ian Barton on BackupPC: Open Source Backup to disk This is very useful for backing up your data to other computers/servers locally. It can also backup to servers that are accessible remotely. I backup my important data from my main computer to a couple of local servers. You can configure it to keep incremental backups, so you can roll back to an earlier version of documents/spreadsheets/etc. It's compatible with most operating systems. Since the system is so flexible it does take some time to configure and requires tinkering with the Apache web server setup. Since my complaint of referencing “the phone show”, I feel that every show there is a mention of or comment when phones are discussed. Just to make me feel more apologetic could you make reference to “Mr Wilmot”, (the old top gear), that way I will know when you're ridiculing me even further! Keep up the good work, love all the shows / podcasts but this is my favourite one by far! Regards Paul Hardline on the hardware The Price of a Pixel Fold on Contract - The BEST deals! Threads review: Twitter without the rough edges or news - I guess we should mention all the hoo-har?  NASA is recycling 98 percent of astronaut pee and sweat on the ISS into drinkable water New 0/1 Phone with E Ink display - Samsung Ad  TCL NXTWEAR S North America's first hydrogen-powered train debuts in Canada Exclusive: World's fastest CPU goes on sale everywhere in Europe - £10,000 Razer's first in-ear monitor is built for gamers and streamers Tech fans choose gadgets over Netflix and socialising 11.5-Inch Honor Pad X8 Pro Tablet Presented Today  - 1099 Yuan (£118.54) Google's now the number 2 smartphone brand in Japan - story also covered my Marton on The Friday Checkout with a deeper dive Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event in South Korea confirmed to take place on July 26 - Fold5, Flip5, Tab S9? Sony's new 'soundbar' is tiny but features detachable surround speakers - Juan Carlos Bagnell's YouTube Review OnePlus Nord 3 Announced - £499 for the 256GB/16GB version (until end of July) OnePlus Fold now called the ‘Open' but still no event/launch date Red Magic 8S Pro - the first phone with 24GB of RAM is here (well, China!) Tech giant 'gatekeepers' must comply with all of the EU's new digital market rules The Name of the Game Sonic The Hedgehog co-creator given suspended sentence for insider trading …talking of which… Pushing Buttons: Why Sonic and Mario duelling it out in 2D again will be a spectacle Google isn't done with online gaming, starts internally testing YouTube Playables Flap your trap about an App Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud Don't have a Twitter account? Then Twitter is now off-limits for you - this was 30th June. Still a thing? Plex Job Losses - The End of Lifetime Passes? Google Gallows & Chrome Coroner All Chrome users will see popups in the coming weeks YouTube confirms three-strikes test for ad blocking, here's how it works Keep Screen On - Quick reminder for Chromebook users who are bugged by the screen timing out at the timing whim of the system (and then having keep logging back in - even if via linked phone) that you can throw these switches to have it time out, stay on or sleep. Settings>Device>Power>When Idle Customise Google Chrome - look for button at the bottom-right of any New Tab Page, then side-panel Hark Back ZX Spectrum A J Santos on ZX Spectrum - I tried to explain the ZX Spectrum to my son. It didn't go well Scott Brady - In 1982, I'd say the Commodore line (VIC, C64) was popular in the US. Data storage on cassette tapes!

AT&T's new "Gigapower" fiber joint venture with BlackRock Alternatives initially will focus on 1 million to 1.5 million locations outside AT&T's wireline footprint. Meanwhile, Charter Communications and Comcast are embarking on major hybrid fiber/coax (HFC) upgrades. And fixed wireless access (FWA) remains a tool of interest in the broadband investment community.Those were some of the topics covered on this Light Reading Podcast with Jack Burton and Jay Rolls, two cable and broadband vets at Broadband Success Partners, a telecom consulting firm primarily focused on providing tech due diligence to investors exploring opportunities in broadband. It's an active segment, as the firm worked on 32 deals last year and recently held 35 meetings at the recent Metro Connect show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As for that AT&T-BlackRock deal, it was treated like a "completely new entity," said Burton, a principal at Broadband Success Partners who is late of Cablevision Systems and Altice USA. "We had to look at that as if it was a startup." On the cable side, operators are exploring multiple upgrade paths, including a move to DOCSIS 4.0 or a more incremental move featuring "high-split" upgrades paired with a spectrum expansion to 1.2GHz that Rolls, a former Charter CTO, likes to refer to as "DOCSIS 3.5." "I think there's a lot of life left in [DOCSIS 3.1]," he said. If you'd like to skip around and listen, here are a few topics that were discussed: A brief overview of what Broadband Success Partners is and does (1:02) The role Broadband Success Partners played in the recently announced "Gigapower" fiber joint venture between AT&T and BlackRock Alternatives and how the open access network model will apply (4:53) Why the open access model is gathering more interest in the US and a review of the variations in the open access model that are emerging (6:33) Some detail on how a new type of open access project in Colorado took shape (8:20) Thoughts on how cable operators are pursuing HFC upgrades and why this round of upgrades is different than past versions of DOCSIS (12:24) Some theories on why Charter is taking a multi-faceted, multi-phased approach to its HFC upgrade rather than going with a uniform approach across all markets (16:36) Why Comcast's path to DOCSIS 4.0 using Full Duplex DOCSIS appears to be gaining a bit more interest in the cable world (19:30) Speculation on why Comcast went with FDX and if that decision traces back to its use of millions of Digital Terminal Adapters to fuel its all-digital video transition (22:37) How fixed wireless access technology is fitting into the broadband equation for investors who are interested in sizing up broadband opportunities (25:07)— Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A by G. E. Anderson et al. on Tuesday 22 November We observed the rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A with the Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) just 11hr post-burst, tracking early-time radio variability over a 5hr period on ~15min timescales at 9.0, 16.7, and 21.2GHz. A broken power-law fit to the 9.0GHz light curve showed that the 5hr flare peaked at a flux density of 0.4+/-0.1mJy at ~13hr post-burst with a steep rise and decline. The observed temporal and spectral evolution are not expected in the standard internal-external shock model, where forward and reverse shock radio emission evolves on much longer timescales. The early-time (

Rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A by G. E. Anderson et al. on Monday 21 November We observed the rapid radio brightening of GRB 210702A with the Australian Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) just 11hr post-burst, tracking early-time radio variability over a 5hr period on ~15min timescales at 9.0, 16.7, and 21.2GHz. A broken power-law fit to the 9.0GHz light curve showed that the 5hr flare peaked at a flux density of 0.4+/-0.1mJy at ~13hr post-burst with a steep rise and decline. The observed temporal and spectral evolution are not expected in the standard internal-external shock model, where forward and reverse shock radio emission evolves on much longer timescales. The early-time (

This week's EYE ON NPI comes to us from the brilliant wireless engineers at Nordic Semiconductor - it's the Nordic nRF9160 System-in-Package with Integrated Cellular and GNSS (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/n/nordic-semi/nrf9160-sip). You know them for their popular nRF52 series of microcontrollers that have integrated Bluetooth LE - they're the market leaders for BLE development and support, with excellent software and low-power capabilities. A few years ago they decided to start branching out from their hit products and into more wireless IoT transports, like cellular and, more recently, WiFi (which perhaps we'll cover in a future EYE ON NPI!). The nRF91 series (https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/nRF9160) is the Nordic Semi flagship cellular line, but it's different than most cell modules we've used. Normally you get a modules say from Quectel, and interface to it via USB or UART - sending AT commands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_command_set) and parsing the responses. That's fine and good but means that there's often a secondary microcontroller that has to do the work, and there's always a lot of work to do that parsing and command handling. What we like about the nRF91 is that it comes as a cute SIP package, much smaller than most modules, and integrates an ARM Cortex M33 with 1MB of flash, 256KB of RAM that you can program directly. This is familiar to folks who use the nRF52 series, where the BLE stack is integrated in hardware/firmware through the 'SoftDevice' system. (https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/ug_gsg_ses/UG/gsg/softdevices.html) You get all the hardware-interfacing you need with 32 GPIO, 12-bit ADC, RTC, SPI, I2C, I2S, UART, PDM and PWM which means that ideally you can develop your entire product on a single chip without need for external peripherals or drivers. The nRF91 comes in three flavors: nRF9160-SIAA (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nordic-semiconductor-asa/NRF9160-SIAA-B1A-R7/13533593) which has only LTE-M cellular support, nRF9160-SIBA (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nordic-semiconductor-asa/NRF9160-SIBA-B1A-R7/13533587) which has only NB-IOT support, and the nRF9160-SICA (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nordic-semiconductor-asa/NRF9160-SICA-B1A-R7/13533588) which has LTE, NB-IOT and GNSS. Each one has is pin-compatible but has different price levels, so pick the one that fits your budget and wireless needs. Note there's full 700MHz - 2.2GHz band support on each version of the SIP, so you don't have to order different SIPs for North America, South America, Asia, Europe, Africa, etc. There are global certifications available that you can look up to make sure you are cleared to integrate in any country you may need (https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Low-power-cellular-IoT/nRF9160-Certifications) The Nordic nRF9160 modules have been out for a few years, so there's lots of development boards you can use. For example, Nordic's in-house made dev board is fully featured with every add-on needed, plus Arduino-compatible headers (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/nordic-semiconductor-asa/NRF9160-DK/9740721). There's also the extremely well-named Nordic Thingy 91 (https://www.digikey.com/en/videos/n/nordic-semiconductor/introducing-the-nordic-thingy-91-cellular-iot-prototyping-platform) which is a great dev kit for designing compact, battery powered, sensor-filled prototypes. The prior is better when you want to have JTAG headers and connect lots of external hardware, the latter is good if you happen to have some overlap with the built in hardware and want to prototype user experiences. If you are a Feather Fancier, there's an nRF9160 Feather (https://www.digikey.com/short/94tc2w84) that you can use to make lightweight portable designs that plug into FeatherWings. Best of all, all three versions of the nRF91 (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/n/nordic-semi/nrf9160-sip) are in stock now for immediate shipment from Digi-Key! We recommend starting with the full-featured nRF9160-SICA (https://www.digikey.com/short/j97r25p7) as you can always place the final design with one of the pared down SIAA or SIBA when you go to production. Order today for instantaneous shipment, you'll have these in your hands by tomorrow afternoon.

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The Wireless Access Providers Association (Wapa) recently called for government to free up vast tracts of radio frequency spectrum in the 6GHz band, claiming that doing so could drive a wave of economic growth. Wapa executive Paul Colmer joins the TechCentral podcast (listen below) to unpack why the association has made this call, and why it believes opening up the 6GHz band to unlicensed telecommunications providers could generate huge benefits for the country. Specifically, the spectrum could be used for Wi-Fi 6E, an evolution of Wi-Fi 6 (technically, 802.11ax) that exploits the 6GHz band. Wapa, which represents many of South Africa's wireless Internet service providers, said its own calculations suggest that more than R560-billion in increased GDP could be derived from freeing up 1.2GHz of spectrum around 6GHz. Two parts The Wi-Fi 6E band is broken up into two main portions: a lower band from 5 925MHz to 6 425MHz and an upper band from 6 425MHz to 7 125MHz. The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance has urged governments to provide unlicensed access to 700MHz of the upper band. But why should the band be made available on an unlicensed basis for Wi-Fi, rather than being allocated to mobile operators as so-called IMT spectrum for mobile broadband instead? What about existing users in the band? And if the band is made available on an unlicensed basis, how should it be done? In the podcast, Colmer looks at what other countries are doing with the band, and why he thinks the time is right for communications regulator Icasa to consider how it plans to make the band available for communications services. Don't miss the discussion. TechCentral

The Wireless Access Providers Association (Wapa) recently called for government to free up vast tracts of radio frequency spectrum in the 6GHz band, claiming that doing so could drive a wave of economic growth. Wapa executive Paul Colmer joins the TechCentral podcast (listen below) to unpack why the association has made this call, and why it believes opening up the 6GHz band to unlicensed telecommunications providers could generate huge benefits for the country. Specifically, the spectrum could be used for Wi-Fi 6E, an evolution of Wi-Fi 6 (technically, 802.11ax) that exploits the 6GHz band. Wapa, which represents many of South Africa's wireless Internet service providers, said its own calculations suggest that more than R560-billion in increased GDP could be derived from freeing up 1.2GHz of spectrum around 6GHz. Two parts The Wi-Fi 6E band is broken up into two main portions: a lower band from 5 925MHz to 6 425MHz and an upper band from 6 425MHz to 7 125MHz. The Dynamic Spectrum Alliance has urged governments to provide unlicensed access to 700MHz of the upper band. But why should the band be made available on an unlicensed basis for Wi-Fi, rather than being allocated to mobile operators as so-called IMT spectrum for mobile broadband instead? What about existing users in the band? And if the band is made available on an unlicensed basis, how should it be done? In the podcast, Colmer looks at what other countries are doing with the band, and why he thinks the time is right for communications regulator Icasa to consider how it plans to make the band available for communications services. Don't miss the discussion.

GB2RS News Sunday 26th of September 2021 The news headlines: RSGB Convention on 9 October Transatlantic centenary events Please keep emergency frequencies clear   There are less than two weeks to go before the RSGB Online Convention on the 9th of October. There will be two live streams of talks available all day with a Q&A session at the end of each talk. After the event, on the RSGB YouTube channel, you can view the lectures as many times as you wish. Allan, EA3HSO will talk about the JW0W DXpedition that was a mini-Arctic radio adventure. He is very active on the HF bands and an avid radio traveller and has taken part in several DXpeditions. He says that he loves pile-ups! Sean, KX9X is doing an Intro to Ham Radio Satellites, one of the fastest-growing areas of the hobby worldwide. It will be a beginner's guide on how the satellites function, what equipment is needed and some help to make it easier for you to get started. Questions are welcome! You can read about the other talks in the two streams at rsgb.org/convention. Whether you're new to amateur radio or have been enjoying it for years, do put the 9th of October in your diary. The RSGB and the ARRL in the USA, are jointly celebrating the achievement of transatlantic communications by radio amateurs 100 years ago. In December 1921, the ARRL sent Paul Godley, who held the US callsign 2ZE, as their representative to listen for amateur signals from North America during the Second Transatlantic Tests. Godley set up his listening equipment in Ardrossan, on the west coast of Scotland. During the morning of 12 December in Scotland, Godley received the first transatlantic message from amateur radio station 1BCG in Connecticut. These successful Transatlantic Tests, and the ones that followed in the next few years, would spur technological advances and new wireless distance records spanning the globe. There are several events celebrating these significant milestones that heralded the dawn of two-way international amateur radio communications. You can read more at rsgb.org/transatlantic-tests. The volcano on La Palmas in Spain's Canary Islands erupted for the first time in 50 years on Sunday the 19th of September. In order to facilitate communications to and from that area, EMCOM-SPAIN is asking for the Emergency Centre Of Activity frequencies to be kept clear in case the situation gets worse. The frequencies are 3.760MHz, 7.110MHz, 14.300MHz and 21.360MHz. The RSGB President, Stewart Bryant, G3YSX and Spectrum Chair Murray Niman, G6JYB attended the online IARU Region 3 Conference, hosted by the Thai National Society. One of the reasons for the RSGB attendance was to help in the preparation for the IARU Region 1 Strategic Workshop in October. The RSGB report is on the Conference website, search for IARU Region 3 Conference. Essex CW Amateur Radio Club will hold a CW Boot Camp on the 16th of October in Witham. You can find out more by searching on the internet for Essex CW ARC and clicking on the boot camp link. British Railways ARS is celebrating its 55th anniversary. During this weekend's Railways On The Air event they will be running GB0LMR and the following week GX4LMP will be on the air. There's more information on qrz.com. During the RSGB Online Convention on the 9th of October, we will be live streaming video from the National Radio Centre of real-time operations of GB3RS and GB4RS. Unlike last year when the NRC was entirely shut due to the pandemic, this year the visiting public will be able to watch proceedings. The Radio Room will need to be cordoned off due to the number of cameras and equipment required, but the public will be able to see what happens. Chelmsford Amateur Radio Society's face-to face-training will resume in October - at Danbury Village Hall CM3 4NQ. Foundation courses will be held in October and November and an Intermediate and Full course in December. See g0mwt.org.uk for full details. For 100 days, until the 23rd of December, all OH and OH0 stations may use the OF prefix to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Finnish Amateur Radio League.   And now for details of rallies and events Before travelling to any rally or event, please check the event's website as there may still be alterations or cancellations due to the pandemic. Weston-super-Mare Radio Society is holding its 6th Radio & Electronics Rally today, the 26th of September. It is in The Campus Community Centre, Highland Lane, Worle BS24 7DX, which is just off M5 junction 21. Over 60 tables have been booked and the doors will be open at 10 am. The entry fee is £3. The 3rd of October Welsh Radio Rally is cancelled, as previously publicised. The second part of the BATC Convention for amateur TV will take place on the 16th of October. It will be a day of free online talks about amateur television. Just search for BATC CAT21 and follow the link for the live stream. On the 17th of October, the Hornsea Amateur Radio Rally is due to be held in the Driffield Show Ground. Also on the 17th, the Hack Green radio Surplus Hangar Sale will be held at the Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker in Nantwich.   Now the DX news Nobby, G0VJG expects to be active as 8Q7CQ from the Maldives, AS- 013, from the 28th of September to the 13th of October. He will operate SSB and digital modes on the 80 to 10m bands. QSL via M0OXO's OQRS. Paul, G4PVM will be active as GW4PVM from Holy Island, EU-124, from the 26th of September to the 1st of October. He will operate holiday style on the 40 to 10m bands using CW and SSB. QSL via Logbook of The World and eQSL; the QSOs will be uploaded to Club Log and made available for Club Log Matching on the IOTA website.   Now the Special Event news GB8ROC will be operating from Scotland's Secret Bunker, in Fife, on Thursday the 30th of September. Further activity may take place the following weekend. This is to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the national stand-down of the Royal Observer Corps, and also to mark the 80th anniversary of the award of Royal title to the Observer Corps, in recognition of their services in the Battle of Britain. The operation will be on HF and VHF. QSL via the bureau. GB4SRM will be on the air for Railways On The Air today, the 26th of September, from Locomotion at Shildon in County Durham. All are welcome and entry to the venue is free.   Now the contest news When operating in contests, please keep yourself and fellow amateurs safe by following relevant pandemic-related government recommendations. The 48-hour CQ World Wide DX RTTY Contest ends at 2359UTC today, the 26th. Using the contest bands between 3.5 and 28MHz, the exchange is signal report and Zone, which is 14 for the UK. The UK Microwave group contest runs today from 0600 to 1800UTC. Using all modes on the 5.7 and 10GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The Practical Wireless 70MHz contest runs from 1200 to 1600UTC today, the 26th. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Monday, the seventh FT4 series contest runs from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using the 80m band, the exchange is your 4-character locator. Tuesday sees the SHF UK Activity Contest run from 1830 to 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2.3 to 10GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. The UK EI Contest Club 80m CW contest runs for just an hour from 2000UTC. The exchange is your 6-character locator square. Next weekend there are several higher frequency contests. They all have the same exchange of signal report, serial number and locator. The 432MHz to 245GHz contest runs for 24-hours ending at 1400 on the 3rd of October. The IARU 432MHz to 245GHz contest runs for the same period. Saturday the 2nd of October sees both the 1.2GHz trophy and 2.3GHz Trophy contests run from 1400 to 2200UTC. Also next weekend is the 24-hour Oceania DX SSB contest, ending at 0800UTC on the 3rd. Using the contest bands between 1.8 and 28MHz the exchange is signal report and serial number. There are multiple categories to enter and there are new trophies this year for female operators both in and outside Oceania. Read more at oceaniadxcontest.com. The Worked-All-Britain DX contest will take place on Sunday the 3rd of October from 0500 to 2300UTC. Entries to be with the contest manager by the 13th of October. There will be a multiplier point for every DXCC country worked as well as for each WAB square worked. Contacts can be made on the 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10m bands. The full rules are on the WAB website. Next Sunday, the 3rd of October, the DX Contest runs from 0500 to 2300UTC. Using CW and SSB on the contest bands between 3.5 and 28MHz, the exchange is signal report and serial number.   Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA & G4BAO on Friday the 24th of September. This week saw the Sun more active with up to five sunspot regions in place. Two of the regions are quite large, pushing the solar flux index up to 89 on Thursday with a sunspot number of 76. That should be enough to get the ionosphere up and running and we are also seeing early Autumnal HF propagation starting to take off. Gary, G0FWX reports working Central America and the Caribbean on 10 metres, namely Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Surinam. Brazil has also been logged, but we are still awaiting widespread reports of North American stations to be logged on 28MHz. Geomagnetic conditions have been variable with the Kp index hitting four on Wednesday, thanks to material from a coronal mass ejection. This sent the solar wind speed up to more than 400km per second and it was still above 300km/s on Thursday. There has been solar flare activity recently and we can expect it to continue. This could mean sudden ionospheric disturbances and HF blackouts if the flare is strong enough and occurs during daylight hours. There could also be associated coronal mass ejections to contend with. Next week NOAA predicts the solar flux index will remain in the mid-80s while the Kp index should eventually decline to two after reaching five this weekend. This is due to a coronal hole that is currently facing Earth. A high-speed solar wind stream flowing from this zone should reach Earth later this week and contribute to a geomagnetic disturbance at higher latitudes.    And now the VHF and up propagation news. As predicted last week, we had a mix of weak Tropo and rain scatter modes, with an isolated report of the Cornish 10GHz beacon GB3MCB being copied for an hour by G4DBN in East Yorkshire at 460km overland.  This coming week the Tropo conditions will take a hit as low pressure becomes the dominant pattern for the coming week. This will take the form of active fronts crossing the country together with areas of showers, so at least there will be some rain scatter potential for the GHz bands. At the moment, indications are that the return of any ridges, and hence Tropo, between the lows, will be temporary and limited in scope, so best to think of other options like meteor scatter or aircraft scatter and possibly aurora to provide the unconventional modes this week. There is one small meteor shower due to peak this week. The daytime Sextantids with a ZHR of five is due to peak on the 27th, but the timing of this peak is often uncertain. The maximum may occur even a day earlier than expected, so be alert and continue to check the early morning for the best random meteor scatter conditions. EME path losses are at their highest this week with apogee today, Sunday, but with peak Moon declination coming up on Wednesday there is plenty of Moon visibility for Moonbounce enthusiasts. The Moon is at its zenith in the early morning. And that's all from the propagation team this week.

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GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 27th of September 2020 The news headlines: RSGB introducing Full exam remote invigilation Solar Cycle 25 is officially here Latest Online Convention news   Following on from the success of the remote invigilation exams for the Foundation and Intermediate licence, the RSGB is now expanding that to include Full licence exams. The automated booking system is now accepting exam bookings for all three licence levels. Please note that the earliest date available for exam bookings at any level is Wednesday the 21st of October. It is important to read the Candidate Instructions before booking an exam. You can find a link to these and the calendar to book your exam on the Society’s website at www.rsgb.org/exampay. The Solar Cycle 25 Prediction Panel, an international group of experts co-sponsored by NASA and NOAA, announced that the solar minimum occurred in December 2019, marking the start of a new solar cycle. Because our Sun is so variable, it can take months after the fact to declare this event. Scientists use sunspots to track solar cycle progress; the dark blotches on the Sun are associated with solar activity, often as the origins for giant explosions, such as solar flares or coronal mass ejections, which can spew light, energy, and solar material into space. This and more has been explained in a video on the NASA website. Go to https://tinyurl.com/gb2rs-nasa. During the online RSGB Convention for 2020, you will be able to enjoy some excellent lectures. On Saturday the 10th of October, the RSGB will be presenting two online streams for everyone to enjoy. In An introduction to… we will have Getting Started on Low Earth Orbit Satellites by Peter Goodhall, 2M0SQL. He will look at using low earth orbit satellites, what they are, how to use them and what equipment is required both from low-cost system using a handheld and a Yagi to automated tracked systems. In the Learn more about… stream, Bruce Pea, N9WKE will explain how to Take your CW to the next level. Happily, a lot of people are learning the code, getting on the air, and having fun with CW. This presentation explores methods and options for improving your CW, head copy skills, and increasing your speed. Bruce is the founder and host of Dit Dit FM, the podcast celebrating Morse code, the CW operating mode and amateur radio. You can find out more about the whole day of lectures at www.rsgb.org.uk/convention. Like the RSGB Convention, the AMSAT-UK Colloquium 2020 will also be online this year. Taking place on Sunday 11th of October, there will be a lecture stream from 11am to 4pm. Amongst the lectures on the day, Daniel Estévez, EA4GPZ will look at Decoding Mars spacecraft and explain the bit and pieces you can learn from spacecraft telemetry. Phil Ashby, M6IPX will talk about the FUNcube and creating an open platform in space. You can find out more at www.amsat-uk.org/colloquium. The registration URL is https://tinyurl.com/amsatukreg2020. The RSGB’s next Tonight@8 webinar on Monday the 28th of September is a bumper edition! RSGB Convention Chair David Bondy, G4NRT will give a short pre-recorded interview about this year's online Convention. After that, Tim Kirby, GW4VXE will give a usual Tonight@8 live presentation on My world of VHF. You can watch and ask questions on the Society’s YouTube or BATC channels. For more details see our website at www.rsgb.org/webinars. In the lead-up to this year’s online Convention, the RSGB has just published two more 2019 Convention presentations. In the first, Alwyn Seeds, G8DOH talks about Coax and connectors, the forgotten ingredient of high performance VHF/UHF stations. Whilst focused on VHF/UHF, this talk should be of interest to all radio amateurs. The second presentation features Chris Deacon, G4IFX talking about More on the polarisation of 50MHz signals via Sporadic-E. He looks at results from previous years and from newer experiments using more comprehensive measurement techniques, which are beginning to help answer key questions about the true nature of Sporadic-E propagation. Both can be found on the Society’s YouTube channel at www.youtube.com/theRSGB. The RSGB’s Examinations Standards Committee has published its 2020 report that looks back on activities during 2019 – you can read it and previous reports on the RSGB website via tinyurl.com/esc-reports. Now the special event news Since the change of regulations applying to special event stations in the UK, many activations are now able to go ahead. UK amateurs would like to thank Ofcom for their help in making this happen. PJ4TEN is a special event station that will be active during October 2020 to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 10th of October 2010. On that date the former country of the Netherlands Antilles was dissolved and Bonaire became a special municipality of the Netherlands. As a result, Bonaire became a new DXCC entity on that date. Bonaire's radio amateurs are organising a month-long operating event. The rules for the award can be found on the PJ4TEN QRZ.com page. Hannes, OE1SGU will be active as OE1990SGU between the 1st and the 31st of October to celebrate his 30th anniversary in amateur radio. QSL via LoTW, eQSL, or via OE1SGU either direct or via the bureau. K1A will be operated as a special event station for the Amateur Radio Software Award until the 4th of October. Look for activity on 20 and 40 metres SSB. QSL direct to Claus H Niesen, PO Box 126, Ames IA 50010, USA. Now the DX news David, M0VDL will be active from Lundy Island, IOTA reference EU-120, between the 26th of September and the 1st of October. He plans to operate SSB and FT8 on 20, 40 and maybe 80 metres, primarily in the local morning and evening hours. Now the contest news Please remember to check before the contest for new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your own national and local government’s advice first and foremost, especially in the instance of local lockdowns. This weekend, the CQ World Wide DX RTTY contest ends its 48 hour run at 2359UTC today, the 27th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and Zone, which is 14 for the UK. Today, the 27th, the UK Microwave group contest runs from 0600 to 1800UTC on the 5.7 and 10GHz bands. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Also today, the 27th, the PW 70MHz contest runs from 1200 to 1600UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Monday, the seventh FT4 Series contest runs from 1900 to 2030UTC. Using the 80m band, the exchange is your 4-character locator. On Tuesday the 50MHz Machine Generated Mode Activity Contest and the 144MHz MGM AC run from 1900 to 2130UTC. The exchange is the same for both contests, signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the UK EI Contest Club 80m contest runs from 2000 to 2100UTC. It’s CW only and the exchange is your 4-character locator. Next weekend the IARU 432-245GHz contest runs for 24 hours from 1400UTC on the 3rd to 1400UTC on the 4th of October. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Saturday the 3rd of October, the 1.2GHz and 2.3GHz Trophy contests runs from 1400 to 2000UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is the same for both contests, signal report, serial number and locator. The Oceania DX SSB contest runs for 24 hours next weekend from 0800UTC on the 3rd to 0800UTC on the 4th of October. Using the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The Worked All Britain DX Contest takes place on the 4th of October from 0500 to 2300UTC. Using SSB only on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and WAB area. The DX Contest takes place next Sunday from 0500 to 2300UTC on the 4th of October. Using CW and SSB on the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The Portable Operations Challenge a new kind of HF contest, which takes place on the 3rd and 4th of October. The aim of the challenge is to create a level playing field for small portable stations against the large contest stations by using handicapping algorithms similar to the one used in golf. Open to all, participants choose their own 8 hour contiguous time window within the 48 hour weekend. Operating portable, contact distance, power level and mode affect the final score. Details can be found at foxmikehotel.com/challenge. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Friday the 25th of September. We finally broke our long-running record of zero sunspots last week thanks to active region 2773. This new solar cycle 25 spot appeared over the Sun’s limb and pushed the solar flux index to 73. The end of the week also saw unsettled conditions due to a high-speed stream from a coronal hole. The hole in the Sun’s North-Eastern quadrant pushed the Kp index to four on Wednesday evening and five by Thursday morning. A pre-auroral enhancement on Wednesday saw MUFs rise to nearly 21MHz over a 3,000km path, but by Thursday morning they were struggling to reach 14MHz. As the month has moved on we have started to see an improvement in HF conditions generally. Laurie, G3UML reported working ZL4RMF in New Zealand on 40m SSB at 0645UTC on Tuesday and Andy, G3SVD worked FK8IK New Caledonia at 1006UTC on 20m CW. If you are looking for South Pacific contacts, Rob, F5VHN reports that Jim, E51JD on the South Cook Islands is often on around 14.225MHz SSB most mornings. Next week NOAA predicts the solar flux index will be around 70 again. The week may start unsettled thanks to a coronal hole, but the Kp index should improve as the week goes on. We expect HF DX conditions to improve as we move towards October and hopefully, we can expect to see some more sunspots from the new Solar Cycle 25 as well. And now the VHF and up propagation news. The weather patterns at this time of the year can be very fickle as the major driving jet streams can be seriously distorted by former-hurricanes from the USA side of the Atlantic. The predicted return of Tropo after midweek in the week just gone, was a bust for that reason. Other major distortions of the driving jet stream pattern are likely in the coming week, so the story is one of unsettled, changeable weather with periods of rain or heavy showers. That should mean another good week for rain scatter on the GHz bands, but tropo will not get much chance during this period. Moon declination is rising this week, going positive late on Thursday night, so we’ll see longer Moon visibility windows as the week progresses, reaching a minimum on Thursday. Path losses are still increasing until we reach apogee on Saturday. 144MHz sky temperatures are low all week, but low peak Moon elevations early in the week won’t help. The daytime Sextantids meteor shower peaked today but should still be active until the 9th of October. Continue to check around local dawn for the best random meteors, ie meteors that aren’t associated with any particular shower. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

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Recorded this one live on twitch on 1/04/20. Enjoy!

01. Sune - You Were Saying (Original Mix)02. Lorenz Rhode, Purple Disco Machine - Up & Down (Extended Mix)03. Sune - Rainbow Lane (Original Mix)04. Mélonade - Dreams We Share (Mere Remix)05. Osamu Shoji - Pub Casablanca06. ev.exi - Forget07. 1969年 - Cosmic Stalker08. Huxley - Reassign09. Robert Ouimet - GC Will Make You Dance (Original Mix)10. Local 86 - Fading Future11. Afronaught - Transcend Me12. TheDjLawyer - Sad Girls (Original Mix)13. Barry&Gibbs - Let Her Dance (Original Mix)14. Secret Weapon - Must Be The Music (Instrumental) more episodes athttps://ghobot.net/

Tracklist:1. Space Dimension Controller - Simmering Emotion (Stay With Me)2. baaskaT - Ups n Downs3. Stape Mega - Ohaiyo4. Sweeps - better days5. Sweeps - have a little rain6. saib. - Full Moon7. Moodymann - Sinner8. tramvai - eto ih vremya9. jinsang - smile from u.10. LaB LIFe - ポートレート11. tramvai - zima (ft. metroo)12. Mono Massive - Freedom13. baechulgi - rollercoaster

Gui Boratto - Talking TrussPrins Thomas - BobleteknoAtmosfear - Outer SpaceSmoove - Big Bird (Original Mix)Daphni - AhoraOsamu Sato - Come On AndYUNG BAE - I Want Your LoveNeon Vectors - Slow NitesNeon Vectors - BoppinBarbWalters - Go Easy (ft. crlzz)Roex - ロンギヌスの槍 (Spear of Longinus)Ness - Mutant VisionEl Choop - Return From The IslandTender H - DissolveSpecial Request - Morning RitualOmar-S - Bobien LarkinToo Rough 4 Radio - MTRLV - 856Panasonic - AinesOliver Schories - JannaDJ Seinfeld - Right, What Time Do U Wanna Meet?Floating Points - EnvironmentsKölsch - Der AlteFour Tet - OcorasOwen Ni - FingertipsRoex - ReactionOcto Octa - Imminent Spirit ArrivalBicep - Opal (Four Tet Remix)twitchtwitterblog

01. 0:00:00 Robert Heel - The Tree of The Rustling Sound02. 0:05:32 Surface 10 - 847 Chain Reactors03. 0:08:50 Martin Goodwin - Redonheim (Original Mix)04. 0:12:02 Fluxion - Waves (Solar Constant Mix)05. 0:16:16 Lootbeg - Phantoms06. 0:21:02 Caspar Pound- Walker- Laurence Potter- Jammin' Unit< - Electronic Dub 207. 0:26:24 voyd - Inf108. 0:30:56 Tin Man - Finger Paint09. 0:36:30 Legowelt - Season of samhain10. 0:38:52 Jolene, Lee Walker - What's Left (Original Mix)11. 0:41:26 Clocked Devices - Slush12. 0:45:36 FaltyDL - Beast (Original Mix)13. 0:49:20 Foamek - Tempo Amo14. 0:53:32 Convextion - JMA02060315. 0:59:10 Luke Hess - Hidden Dimension (Original Mix)

Episode Notes01. Nicolas Jaar - Etre02. The Irresistible Force - Sunstroke03. Mac Bandit - Cosmic Dreamers (ft. Quattro)04. Dam Mantle - Meet Me In The Ambulance05. Kind Mr. S - 死は私たちすべてを奪う06. Flying Lotus - All Spies07. SwuM. - Skins08. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World09. Flying Lotus - Coronus, the Terminator10. Desove - Dub Manifesto11. DARKPYRAMID - Virtualove12. City Girl - Obsidian Skyline13. Actress - Rule14. Mount Kimbie - Lie Near15. TOKiMONSTA - Madness16. Osamu Sato - Long Tall Eyelash (u-Ziq Mix)

TRACKLIST:Komartsov - Untitled 17Clork - Drill (Original Mix)Pl4net Dust - Daebak (Original Mix)Ali McK, IYZ - Driver (Original Mix)Pl4net Dust - Gwarn (Original Mix)Dakota Sixx, Doc Zee - HTSG (Murder He Wrote Remix)Huxley, Thomas Gandey - Never EasyDJ Whipr Snipr & Jaundice - Spicy ShawarmaMJ Cole - SanctuaryN-Gynn - Output (Seb Zito Remix)Ghostek - My LadyLana Del Rey - Ride (Special Request remix)

Something I've been working on for a while. Trying to get something to release on a regular basis and podcasts are cool so here it goes.  . TRACKLIST: 01. YUNG BAE - All Night02. O'Flynn - Tru Dancing03. Sharon Redd - Beat The Street (Instrumental)04. Neapolitan Soul - Welcome To The Dub (Phunky Trip) (Original Mix)05. Fouk - Night Shift (Original Mix)06. Renée - Dry Your Tears07. Barry&Gibbs - Let Her Dance (Original Mix)08. BarbWalters - FLIPSIDE (feat. Childhood)09. YUNG BAE - You've Got Me10. Creative Source - Corazon11. Atmosfear - Dancing In Outer Space12. Mélonade - Bitwise Angel13. Atmosfear - Extract14. LCD Soundsystem - Disco Infiltrator15. Leval - It's Up To You (320)    

...war das, was Google als Pixel 3a vorgestellt hat eine technische Meisterleistung - oder wo kommt der günstige Preis her...?Als Google im Zuge der i/o-Keynote am 07.05.2019 die neue günstige Pixel-Serie, beginnend mit den Geräten Google Pixel 3a und 3a XL vorstellte, war dies keine Überraschung mehr. Wirklich alle Details, bis auf den offiziellen Preis, waren im Vorfeld bereits durchgesickert... inklusive hochaufgelösten Fotomaterial. Als dann aber der Preis für das 3a mit 399 US-$/Euro bekannt gegeben wurde, ging ein kurzes Raunen durch die Menge - kann das, und was man vorher an Funktionalität gesehen hat, wirklich wahr sein oder hat das Telefon einen unschönen Haken? Google Pixel 3a XL und 3a - fehlend, die Farbe Purple-ish / Bild-Quelle: Google.comPodCaster Shownotes: Raffiniert in der Mitte der Keynote gab es die News, auf die wir alle gewartet haben: das Google Pixel 3a. Ganz und endlich dem Nutzerwunsch folgend, hat Google die doch sehr erfolgreiche aber eben bisher ausschließlich hochpreisige Pixel-Linie in der aktuellen Version 3 um zwei günstige Varianten erweitert. Dass es ein "kleines" Gerät namens 3a und ein großes namens 3a XL geben wird, war bekannt. Auch das Aussehen war bekannt. Diverse Bilder im Vorfeld, die das neue Telefon "anteasern" sollten, hatten deutlich ihre Wirkung gezeigt. Und Google darin bestätigt, an diesem Plan weiter fest zu halten. Einzig spekulativ war der Preis. Nun wissen wir: das 3a wird 399€ kosten und kann ab dem 08.05. im Google Store bestellt werden. Der Preis für die aXL-Variante ist mit 479€ auch sehr günstig gewählt. Aber, wie hat Google das technisch hin bekommen, den kleinen Bruder des Pixel 3 zu diesen Preisen anzubieten? Nun denn - durch "weglassen". Vier wichtige Punkte sind: das Gehäuse des a-Modells ist 100% Kunststoff. Auch gibt es keine Induktionsladung. Und, klar, das Plastikgehäuse bietet keinen IP68-Schutz, also weder vor Wasser noch vor Staub. Und es gibt nur eine 64-GB-Speicher-Ausstattung. Aber nun zu den Details - ich nehme das Pixel 3a aus Vereinfachungsgründen, da es sich zum a XL nur in der Display-Größe unterscheidet. Die Frage, die ich schon oft gehört habe, und hier die Antwort: Ja. Das Teil kann mit Lautsprecher Stereo-Sound spielen, auch wenn keine "Hörmuschel" am oberen Rand vorhanden ist. Der Lautsprecher hierzu ist auf der Rückseite und kann über den Rand oben Ton ausgeben. Ebenso an der Unterseite, Micro und Lautsprecher befinden sich rund um die USB-C-Ladebuchse. Wie gesagt, USB-C ist die einzige Lademöglichkeit. Aber, wie immer, legt Google einen 18-Watt-Stecker in die Verpackung: in etwas über einer halben Stunde 55% Akkuleistung, nach 90 mins ist der Akku damit voll. Und ja - das Telefon hat einen 3,5-Stecker für Kopfhörer an der Oberseite! Und ja: Zwar gibt es an der Front nur eine Kamera, ebenso an der Rückseite - wo das Pixel 3 vorne zwei hat. Aber die Leistung der Kamera, also der Hardware, ist identisch mit dem Pixel 3. Und das wichtigste hierbei ist die Software. Die hat Google 1:1 übernommen. Damit sind die Bilder und Aufnahmen absolut ebenbürtig mit dem großen teuren Bruder Pixel 3. Jetzt zur Alltagsperformance: Im Inneren arbeitet nicht ein Top-Snapdragon-Chip, sondern eine mittlere Generation, der SD670. Aber, damit das Telefon trotzdem Spaß macht und nicht nur den Akku leer saugt, bringt dieser 2 Kerne mit 2GHz und 4 Kerne mit sparsamen 1,7 GHz mit. Damit laufen im Alltag alle Apps und auch die Spiele flüssig und ohne Ruckeln, ebenso sämtliche Android-Effekte und -Übergänge. Einziges Manko: die Bildschirmhelligkeit: diese ist geringer als die Helligkeit des Pixel 3 - womit bei direkter Sonneneinstrahlung ein Ablesen schwer bis unmöglich wird. Wobei ich auch schon gehört habe, dass die dem Pixel 3 in nichts nachstehen würde - meine Meinung ist aber: Direkte Sonneneinstrahlung ist nicht dein Freund auf dem 3a. Und, kleiner Tipp: ich habe ein paar Mal im Netz bereits gelesen, dass das Display mit dem, auch hier, kleinen Bruder des Gorilla-Glas, namens Dragontrail Glass, schnell kleine Kratzer "anzieht" - hier ist eine Schutzfolie eine gute Investition! Was sonst noch? 4 GB RAM, wie auch die "großen" Geräte. Aber halt: die Gehäuse des 3a und 3 XL sind fast gleich groß, aber, dank dem dicken Rand beim 3a XL kommt es nicht an die 6,3 Zoll Diagonale ran. Dafür hat das 3a XL keine hässliche Notch! Und auch kein durch das Display geschossenes Kameraauge! Dazu mag man nun stehen wie man will... Die Apps und das Android ist 1:1 identisch, hier hat Google nicht abgespeckt. Auch bekommt man beim Kauf für die Speicherung seiner Bilder keinen unlimitierten Speicherplatz auf der Google Cloud für Original-Bildgrößen, nur für reduzierte "hohe Qualität". Und ja, es gibt für drei Jahre eine Update-Garantie für Sicherheit und Android Updates. Noch eins gibt es zu bedenken: bei dem Preis ist es nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis auch Media Markt und Saturn sowie weitere das Telefon als "Standard" in ihr Handy-Regal einräumen. Damit eröffnet sich Google eine noch breitere Nutzerbasis als bisher. Was spricht nun also für das Telefon: Der Preis, ganz klar. Android-Updates-Garantie inkl. Sicherheitsupdates für drei Jahre ab Erscheinungsdatum des Telefons. Flott und günstig, nur muss man das Plastikgehäuse und das ein wenig antiquierte Design lieben. Der Prozessor ist flott, die Akku gut und der Ladestecker schnell. Die Kamera mit der Google-KI im Hintergrund der Hammer! Immer noch, gerade bei Nachtaufnahmen, die beste Kamera, die ein Handy jemals hatte. Und: es ist ab sofort problemlos verfügbar! Und: es kommt mit "stock Android": reinem Android, direkt von Google, ohne Hersteller-Apps und sonst was... wer schon mal ein Samsung hat, weiß was ich meine... Wer also auf der Suche nach einem günstigen Mittelklasse Handy ist, sollte sich das Pixel 3a oder die Display-größere Variante, das 3a XL, ansehen. Für 399 bzw. 479 Euro kann man nicht viel kaputt machen...! Meinen PodCast abonnieren: | direkt | iTunes | Spotify | Google |

This week:  Is the i9 MacBook Pro a total ripoff?  One YouTube reviewer says yes, and his tests are convincing.  We’ll fill you in.  Plus: the journey to a trillion!  How did Apple become the most valuable company on earth?  We discuss, and remember the company's troubled history. And stay tuned for the sad decline of MoviePass.  Is the troubled movie service still worth it?   This episode supported by   Easily create a website by yourself, at Squarespace.com/cultcast. Use offer code CultCast at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.   CultCloth will keep your iPhone X, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad sparkling clean, and for a limited time use code CULTCAST at checkout to score a free CleanCloth with any order at CultCloth.co.   Thanks to Kevin McLeodfor the music you hear on today’s episode.   On the show this week @erfon / @lkahney / @lewiswallace   i9 Macbook Pro - Apple's biggest RIPOFF! - erfon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSvfEhdNT4s&frags=pl%2Cwn YouTuber Max Yuryev pitted the 2.2Ghz and 2.6Ghz i7 MacBook Pros against the the 2.9GHz i9, and the results aren’t great.  These are the tests I’ve been waiting for. in his Cinebench test, he found the i9 beat the i7 by only 2 percent, averaging only 3.15Ghz, while both the 2.2Ghz and 2.6Ghz i7’s both averaged 3.05 Ghz. And in test after test, he showed that the i9 rarely performs better than the 2.6Ghz i7. Why?  It seems like it comes down to heat.  Even with the patch, the MBP struggles to keep the i9 cool enough to keep it in turbo mode, and sometimes it’s even not cool enough to run at base clock. For example: In his Red Raven 4.5K Raw rendering test, he noticed that the 2.2Ghz i7 ran about 500Mhz over base clock speed, the 2.7 ran about 200Mhz over base, and the 2.9 ran about 500Mhz below base clock. He noted that the GPU and CPU use the same cooler, so if you’re pushing the GPU, like many rendering apps do, the CPU won’t be cooled as well, so can end up throttling more than you’d want. So what does all these mean?   It doesn’t seem to make sense to pay extra for the i9.  It matches or barely beats the 2.6Ghz in many tests, and sometimes can’t even beat the 2.2Ghz i7. A better value, and bigger a bottle neck in the 2018 MBP isn’t the CPU, it’s the GPU. The base MBP comes with a 555X Radeon GPU, whereas the premium 2.7Ghz i7 and 2.9Ghz i9 models come with a Radeon 560X, and that’s what made the biggest difference in his tests. My thoughts, go with the 2.7Ghz i7, the 560X GPU, and use the i9 money you save for extra SSD space.     The biggest takeaways from Apple’s dominant Q3 earnings results https://www.cultofmac.com/566691/the-biggest-takeaways-from-apples-dominant-q3-earnings-results/ Apple beat Wall Street’s expectations today with its Q3 2018 earnings report, shooting its stock price just below the $204 price needed to mint it as the world’s first TRILLION dollar company.  iPhone sales were up slightly year-over-year. Revenue was up big time. The ASP (average selling price) was also up big time. Even Apple’s EPS (earnings per share) was higher than some of the biggest Apple believers expected. When the iPhone X launched last year it was panned as too expensive by far too many critics, but Phone revenue was up 20% YOY. Wearable sales are up 60% year-over-year AirPods and Beats are also selling well. Combined with Apple Watch they’ve generated more than $10 billion in revenue in just the last year. TimCook also commented on Apple’s TV deal with Oprah, saying he “couldn’t be happier” that she’s on board. He also said there’d be “dramatic changes speeding up in the content industry,” and went on to say “We’re really happy to be working on something. We’re just not ready to talk about it in-depth today.” Apple sold only 3.72 Macs in its third quarter, less than any single quart since it’s Q3 of 2010.  This may be because it’s entire Mac line was ancient until just weeks ago, in Q4, when MBP was updated. iPhone and iPad now make up 65% of Apple’s yearly revenue.   The sad decline of MoviePass. Is it still worth it? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/movies/moviepass-timeline.html https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/31/17634508/moviepass-price-increase-limited-first-run-movie-access It was a year ago, in august of 2017, that MoviePass dropped their price to $9.95 a month. In the following two days, more than 150,000 new users signed up, crashing their website and app. Though AMC said MoviePass’s model could never work, they essentially created their own version of the service to compete. It’s $20 a month and their service includes digital reservations, iMax and 3D, and let’s you see the same movie more than once. Sinemia is another competitor that’s popped up.  They offer a 2 movie a month plan for $10 a month that works with any theater, offers advanced ticket options, and works on 3D movies, IMAX, 4DX, and more.  

This week: The 2018 MacBook Pro is both a beauty AND a beast.  In fact, it's one of the most exciting MBP refreshes in years.  The benchmarks are in and they’re impressive.  A popular tech reviewer warns that the i9 processor upgrade in the MBP has a major flaw, and his video proof is compelling.  We’ll fill you in. We also bring back Matthew Taylor, creator of the very popular butterfly keyboard recall petition, now with over 32,000 signatures,  to have a frank discussion on the state of the 2018 MBP keyboard.  Has Apple fixed the issues plaguing their butterfly key design?   And stay tuned for a strange new HomeKit controller and the best insulated water bottle on the market in an all-new Under Review!   This episode supported by   Easily create a website by yourself, at Squarespace.com/cultcast. Use offer code CultCast at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain.   CultCloth will keep your iPhone X, Apple Watch, Mac and iPad sparkling clean, and for a limited time use code CULTCAST at checkout to score a free CleanCloth with any order at CultCloth.co.   Thanks to Kevin McLeodfor the music you hear on today’s episode.   On the show this week @erfon / @lkahney / @lewiswallace     2018 MacBook Pro performance shows dramatic improvement https://www.cultofmac.com/562621/2018-macbook-pro-performance-geekbench-scores-benchmark/ The 15- and 13-inch MacBook Pro models launching this week boast significantly faster processors. Tests with the Geekbench benchmarking tool show speed increases as high as 86 percent. The improvements come from faster Turbo Burst frequencies and more processor cores. “For the 15-inch models, single-core performance is up 12-15%, and multi-core performance is up 39-46% “For the 13-inch models, single-core performance is up 3%-11%, and multi-core performance is up 81%-86%   2018 MacBook Pro review roundup: Apple unleashes a speed demon https://www.cultofmac.com/562925/2018-macbook-pro-review-roundup/ Majorly faster CPU Much faster SSDs Faster DD4 RAM CPU: John Poole from Geekbench: “The 2018 MacBook Pro is the most substantial upgrade (at least regarding performance) since the introduction of the quad-core processors in 2011 MacBook Pro,”  Photography Austin Mann did to covert a 4K Mavic Pro video file to 1080p H.265 (HEVC) using QuickTime Player.  2013 MBP with 16GB RAM = 33 minutes Maxed out 2016 MBP = 99 seconds Maxed out 2018 MBP = 24 seconds SSD Laptop Mag: “It’s rare that I don’t believe the results coming out of our lab, but in this case I had to do a double take,” explains Mark. It took the system just 2 seconds to duplicate 4.97GB worth of files, which translates to 2,519 megabytes per second TrueTone: TechCrunch: “I have two 15-inch MacBooks in front of me right now (that’s just how I roll), and it’s like night and day. You’ve got no idea how blue the screen you’ve been staring at is until you see it up against another True Tone-enabled display.” The most expensive laps Apple’s ever made.     Teardown reveals MacBook Pro keyboard is redesigned to prevent keys sticking https://www.cultofmac.com/562605/teardown-reveals-macbook-pro-keyboard-is-redesigned-to-prevent-keys-sticking/ Apple made potential buyers of the new MacBook Pro models very nervous when it said no effort had been made to fix the problems plaguing the keyboards in earlier versions. They even told the Verge that, though it made the Keyboard quieter, the keyboard was constructed to address the myriad issues they say are affecting only “a tiny" fraction of users. But, IFIXIT took apart they keyboard of the new 2018 MacBook Pro, and discovered  “Apple has cocooned their butterfly switches in a thin, silicone barrier” And as it turns out, Apple has a patent for just this kind of debris cover...     Beware serious thermal throttling with new Core i9 MacBook Pro https://www.cultofmac.com/563617/macbook-pro-serious-thermal-throttling/ No good deed goes unpunished Early tests have revealed that the i9 chip in Apple’s new MBP suffers severe thermal throttling under heavy loads, which dramatically reduces its clock speed and performance. Dave Lee from Youtube has tests illustrating the issue. He did a render in Adobe Premiere that took the MBP 39 minutes to complete.  In that test he monitored the CPU speed temp and saw that the chip was being throttled to BELOW base clock speed just to stay cool. In his tests, Lee found that it averaged at around 2.2GHz with a temperature of 90°C. So he tried the test again, this time with his MacBook Pro in... the freezer. This time, the same test, which took 39 minutes before, took only 27 minutes.  That’s a 44% improvement… Not just Apple’s fault There are other laptops on the market that use this chip, and they snuggle to keep the chip cooled as well.  But most of these machines are beefier with better ventilation.     Apple won’t give your older MacBook an improved keyboard https://www.cultofmac.com/562751/apple-macbook-pro-new-keyboard/ Unfortunately for existing MacBook and MacBook Pro owners, Apple won’t fit its newer 3rd gen butterfly keyboard into older machines — not even if yours is in need of repair. Earlier machines will be repaired with the same keyboard components they originally shipped with. Apple does not offer the option to upgrade for a fee, either. Only the 2018 MacBook Pro will get the new design if a repair is required.     Apple: Recall MacBook Pro w/ Defective Keyboard, Replace with DIFFERENT Working Keyboard https://www.change.org/p/apple-apple-recall-macbook-pro-w-defective-keyboard-replace-with-different-working-keyboard     Under Review!   Nanoleaf Remote https://us-shop.nanoleaf.me/products/nanoleaf-remote   Camelbak Chute  https://amzn.to/2Lcxgop

Fanless server setup with FreeBSD, NetBSD on pinebooks, another BSDCan trip report, transparent network audio, MirBSD's Korn Shell on Plan9, static site generators on OpenBSD, and more. ##Headlines Silent Fanless FreeBSD Desktop/Server Today I will write about silent fanless FreeBSD desktop or server computer … or NAS … or you name it, it can have multiple purposes. It also very low power solution, which also means that it will not overheat. Silent means no fans at all, even for the PSU. The format of the system should also be brought to minimum, so Mini-ITX seems best solution here. I have chosen Intel based solutions as they are very low power (6-10W), if you prefer AMD (as I often do) the closest solution in comparable price and power is Biostar A68N-2100 motherboard with AMD E1-2100 CPU and 9W power. Of course AMD has even more low power SoC solutions but finding the Mini-ITX motherboard with decent price is not an easy task. For comparison Intel has lots of such solutions below 6W whose can be nicely filtered on the ark.intel.com page. Pity that AMD does not provide such filtration for their products. I also chosen AES instructions as storage encryption (GELI on FreeBSD) today seems as obvious as HTTPS for the web pages. Here is how the system look powered up and working This motherboard uses Intel J3355 SoC which uses 10W and has AES instructions. It has two cores at your disposal but it also supports VT-x and EPT extensions so you can even run Bhyve on it. Components Now, an example system would look like that one below, here are the components with their prices. $49 CPU/Motherboard ASRock J3355B-ITX Mini-ITX $14 RAM Crucial 4 GB DDR3L 1.35V (low power) $17 PSU 12V 160W Pico (internal) $11 PSU 12V 96W FSP (external) $5 USB 2.0 Drive 16 GB ADATA $4 USB Wireless 802.11n $100 TOTAL The PSU 12V 160W Pico (internal) and PSU 12V 96W FSP can be purchased on aliexpress.com or ebay.com for example, at least I got them there. Here is the 12V 160W Pico (internal) PSU and its optional additional cables to power the optional HDDs. If course its one SATA power and one MOLEX power so additional MOLEX-SATA power adapter for about 1$ would be needed. Here is the 12V 96W FSP (external) PSU without the power cord. This gives as total silent fanless system price of about $120. Its about ONE TENTH OF THE COST of the cheapest FreeNAS hardware solution available – the FreeNAS Mini (Diskless) costs $1156 also without disks. You can put plain FreeBSD on top of it or Solaris/Illumos distribution OmniOSce which is server oriented. You can use prebuilt NAS solution based on FreeBSD like FreeNAS, NAS4Free, ZFSguru or even Solaris/Illumos based storage with napp-it appliance. ###An annotated look at a NetBSD Pinebook’s startup Pinebook is an affordable 64-bit ARM notebook. Today we’re going to take a look at the kernel output at startup and talk about what hardware support is available on NetBSD. Photo Pinebook comes with 2GB RAM standard. A small amount of this is reserved by the kernel and framebuffer. NetBSD uses flattened device-tree (FDT) to enumerate devices on all Allwinner based SoCs. On a running system, you can inspect the device tree using the ofctl(8) utility: Pinebook’s Allwinner A64 processor is based on the ARM Cortex-A53. It is designed to run at frequencies up to 1.2GHz. The A64 is a quad core design. NetBSD’s aarch64 pmap does not yet support SMP, so three cores are disabled for now. The interrupt controller is a standard ARM GIC-400 design. Clock drivers for managing PLLs, module clock dividers, clock gating, software resets, etc. Information about the clock tree is exported in the hw.clk sysctl namespace (root access required to read these values). # sysctl hw.clk.sun50ia64ccu0.mmc2 hw.clk.sun50ia64ccu0.mmc2.rate = 200000000 hw.clk.sun50ia64ccu0.mmc2.parent = pllperiph02x hw.clk.sun50ia64ccu0.mmc2.parent_domain = sun50ia64ccu0 Digital Ocean http://do.co/bsdnow ###BSDCan 2018 Trip Report: Mark Johnston BSDCan is a highlight of my summers: the ability to have face-to-face conversations with fellow developers and contributors is invaluable and always helps refresh my enthusiasm for FreeBSD. While in a perfect world we would all be able to communicate effectively over the Internet, it’s often noted that locking a group of developers together in a room can be a very efficient way to make progress on projects that otherwise get strung out over time, and to me this is one of the principal functions of BSD conferences. In my case I was able to fix some kgdb bugs that had been hindering me for months; get some opinions on the design of a feature I’ve been working on for FreeBSD 12.0; hear about some ongoing usage of code that I’ve worked on; and do some pair-debugging of an issue that has been affecting another developer. As is tradition, on Tuesday night I dropped off my things at the university residence where I was staying, and headed straight to the Royal Oak. This year it didn’t seem quite as packed with BSD developers, but I did meet several long-time colleagues and get a chance to catch up. In particular, I chatted with Justin Hibbits and got to hear about the bring-up of FreeBSD on POWER9, a new CPU family released by IBM. Justin was able to acquire a workstation based upon this CPU, which is a great motivator for getting FreeBSD into shape on that platform. POWER9 also has some promise in the server market, so it’s important for FreeBSD to be a viable OS choice there. Wednesday morning saw the beginning of the two-day FreeBSD developer summit, which precedes the conference proper. Gordon Tetlow led the summit and did an excellent job organizing things and keeping to the schedule. The first presentation was by Deb Goodkin of the FreeBSD Foundation, who gave an overview of the Foundation’s role and activities. After Deb’s presentation, present members of the FreeBSD core team discussed the work they had done over the past two years, as well as open tasks that would be handed over to the new core team upon completion of the ongoing election. Finally, Marius Strobl rounded off the day’s presentations by discussing the state and responsibilities of FreeBSD’s release engineering team. One side discussion of interest to me was around the notion of tightening integration with our Bugzilla instance; at moment we do not have any good means to mark a given bug as blocking a release, making it easy for bugs to slip into releases and thus lowering our overall quality. With FreeBSD 12.0 upon us, I plan to help with the triage and fixes for known regressions before the release process begins. After a break, the rest of the morning was devoted to plans for features in upcoming FreeBSD releases. This is one of my favorite discussion topics and typically takes the form of have/need/want, where developers collectively list features that they’ve developed and intend to upstream (have), features that they are missing (need), and nice-to-have features (want). This year, instead of the usual format, we listed features that are intended to ship in FreeBSD 12.0. The compiled list ended up being quite ambitious given how close we are to the beginning of the release cycle, but many individual developers (including myself) have signed up to deliver work. I’m hopeful that most, if not all of it, will make it into the release. After lunch, I attended a discussion led by Matt Ahrens and Alexander Motin on OpenZFS. Of particular interest to me were some observations made regarding the relative quantity and quality of contributions made by different “camps” of OpenZFS users (illumos, FreeBSD and ZoL), and their respective track records of upstreaming enhancements to the OpenZFS project. In part due to the high pace of changes in ZoL, the definition of “upstream” for ZFS has become murky, and of late ZFS changes have been ported directly from ZoL. Alexander discussed some known problems with ZFS on FreeBSD that have been discovered through performance testing. While I’m not familiar with ZFS internals, Alexander noted that ZFS’ write path has poor SMP scalability on FreeBSD owing to some limitations in a certain kernel API called taskqueue(9). I would like to explore this problem further and perhaps integrate a relatively new alternative interface which should perform better. Friday and Saturday were, of course, taken up by BSDCan talks. Friday’s keynote was by Benno Rice, who provided some history of UNIX boot systems as a precursor to some discussion of systemd and the difficulties presented by a user and developer community that actively resist change. The rest of the morning was consumed by talks and passed by quickly. First was Colin Percival’s detailed examination of where the FreeBSD kernel spends time during boot, together with an overview of some infrastructure he added to track boot times. He also provided a list of improvements that have been made since he started taking measurements, and some areas we can further improve. Colin’s existing work in this area has already brought about substantial reductions in boot time; amusingly, one of the remaining large delays comes from the keyboard driver, which contains a workaround for old PS/2 keyboards. While there seems to be general agreement that the workaround is probably no longer needed on most systems, the lingering uncertainty around this prevents us from removing the workaround. This is, sadly, a fairly typical example of an OS maintenance burden, and underscores the need to carefully document hardware bug workarounds. After this talk, I got to see some rather novel demonstrations of system tracing using dwatch, a new utility by Devin Teske, which aims to provide a user-friendly interface to DTrace. After lunch, I attended talks on netdump, a protocol for transmitting kernel dumps over a network after the system has panicked, and on a VPC implementation for FreeBSD. After the talks ended, I headed yet again to the hacker lounge and had some fruitful discussions on early microcode loading (one of my features for FreeBSD 12.0). These led me to reconsider some aspects of my approach and saved me a lot of time. Finally, I continued my debugging session from Wednesday with help from a couple of other developers. Saturday’s talks included a very thorough account by Li-Wen Hsu of his work in organizing a BSD conference in Taipei last year. As one of the attendees, I had felt that the conference had gone quite smoothly and was taken aback by the number of details and pitfalls that Li-Wen enumerated during his talk. This was followed by an excellent talk by Baptiste Daroussin on the difficulties one encounters when deploying FreeBSD in new environments. Baptiste offered criticisms of a number of aspects of FreeBSD, some of which hit close to home as they involved portions of the system that I’ve worked on. At the conclusion of the talks, we all gathered in the main lecture hall, where Dan led a traditional and quite lively auction for charity. I managed to snag a Pine64 board and will be getting FreeBSD installed on it the first chance I get. At the end of the auction, we all headed to ByWard for dinner, concluding yet another BSDCan. Thanks to Mark for sharing his experiences at this years BSDCan ##News Roundup Transparent network audio with mpd & sndiod Landry Breuil (landry@ when wearing his developer hat) wrote in… I've been a huge fan of MPD over the years to centralize my audio collection, and i've been using it with the http output to stream the music as a radio on the computer i'm currently using… audio_output { type "sndio" name "Local speakers" mixer_type "software" } audio_output { type "httpd" name "HTTP stream" mixer_type "software" encoder "vorbis" port "8000" format "44100:16:2" } this setup worked for years, allows me to stream my home radio to $work by tunnelling the port 8000 over ssh via LocalForward, but that still has some issues: a distinct timing gap between the 'local output' (ie the speakers connected to the machine where MPD is running) and the 'http output' caused by the time it takes to reencode the stream, which is ugly when you walk through the house and have a 15s delay sometimes mplayer as a client doesn't detect the pauses in the stream and needs to be restarted i need to configure/start a client on each computer and point it at the sound server url (can do via gmpc shoutcast client plugin…) it's not that elegant to reencode the stream, and it wastes cpu cycles So the current scheme is: mpd -> http output -> network -> mplayer -> sndiod on remote machine | -> sndio output -> sndiod on soundserver Fiddling a little bit with mpd outputs and reading the sndio output driver, i remembered sndiod has native network support… and the mpd sndio output allows you to specify a device (it uses SIO_DEVANY by default). So in the end, it's super easy to: enable network support in sndio on the remote machine i want the audio to play by adding -L to sndiod_flags (i have two audio devices, with an input coming from the webcam): sndiod_flags="-L10.246.200.10 -f rsnd/0 -f rsnd/1" open pf on port 11025 from the sound server ip: pass in proto tcp from 10.246.200.1 to any port 11025 configure a new output in mpd: audio_output { type "sndio" name "sndio on renton" device "snd@10.246.200.10/0" mixer_type "software" } and enable the new output in mpd: $mpc enable 2 Output 1 (Local speakers) is disabled Output 2 (sndio on renton) is enabled Output 3 (HTTP stream) is disabled Results in a big win: no gap anymore with the local speakers, no reencoding, no need to configure a client to play the stream, and i can still probably reproduce the same scheme over ssh from $work using a RemoteForward. mpd -> sndio output 2 -> network -> sndiod on remote machine | -> sndio output 1 -> sndiod on soundserver Thanks ratchov@ for sndiod :) ###MirBSD’s Korn Shell on Plan9 Jehanne Let start by saying that I’m not really a C programmer. My last public contribution to a POSIX C program was a little improvement to the Snort’s react module back in 2008. So while I know the C language well enough, I do not know anything about the subtleness of the standard library and I have little experience with POSIX semantics. This is not a big issue with Plan 9, since the C library and compiler are not standard anyway, but with Jehanne (a Plan 9 derivative of my own) I want to build a simple, loosely coupled, system that can actually run useful free software ported from UNIX. So I ported RedHat’s newlib to Jehanne on top of a new system library I wrote, LibPOSIX, that provides the necessary emulations. I wrote several test, checking they run the same on Linux and Jehanne, and then I begun looking for a real-world, battle tested, application to port first. I approached MirBSD’s Korn Shell for several reason: it is simple, powerful and well written it has been ported to several different operating systems it has few dependencies it’s the default shell in Android, so it’s really battle tested I was very confident. I had read the POSIX standard after all! And I had a test suite! I remember, I thought “Given newlib, how hard can it be?” The porting begun on September 1, 2017. It was completed by tg on January 5, 2018. 125 nights later. Turn out, my POSIX emulation was badly broken. Not just because of the usual bugs that any piece of C can have: I didn’t understood most POSIX semantics at all! iXsystems ###Static site generator with rsync and lowdown on OpenBSD ssg is a tiny POSIX-compliant shell script with few dependencies: lowdown(1) to parse markdown, rsync(1) to copy temporary files, and entr(1) to watch file changes. It generates Markdown articles to a static website. It copies the current directory to a temporary on in /tmp skipping .* and _*, renders all Markdown articles to HTML, generates RSS feed based on links from index.html, extracts the first tag from every article to generate a sitemap and use it as a page title, then wraps articles with a single HTML template, copies everything from the temporary directory to $DOCS/ Why not Jekyll or “$X”? ssg is one hundred times smaller than Jekyll. ssg and its dependencies are about 800KB combined. Compare that to 78MB of ruby with Jekyll and all the gems. So ssg can be installed in just few seconds on almost any Unix-like operating system. Obviously, ssg is tailored for my needs, it has all features I need and only those I use. Keeping ssg helps you to master your Unix-shell skills: awk, grep, sed, sh, cut, tr. As a web developer you work with lots of text: code and data. So you better master these wonderful tools. Performance 100 pps. On modern computers ssg generates a hundred pages per second. Half of a time for markdown rendering and another half for wrapping articles into the template. I heard good static site generators work—twice as fast—at 200 pps, so there’s lots of performance that can be gained. ;) ###Why does FreeBSD have virtually no (0%) desktop market share? Because someone made a horrible design decision back in 1984. In absolute fairness to those involved, it was an understandable decision, both from a research perspective, and from an economic perspective, although likely not, from a technology perspective. Why and what. The decision was taken because the X Window System was intended to run on cheap hardware, and, at the time, that meant reduced functionality in the end-point device with the physical display attached to it. At the same time, another force was acting to also limit X displays to display services only, rather than rolling in both window management and specific widget instances for common operational paradigms. Mostly, common operational paradigms didn’t really exist for windowing systems because they also simply didn’t exist at the time, and no one really knew how people were going to use the things, and so researchers didn’t want to commit future research to a set of hard constraints. So a decision was made: separate the display services from the application at the lowest level of graphics primitives currently in use at the time. The ramifications of this were pretty staggering. First, it guaranteed that all higher level graphics would live on the host side of the X protocol, instead of on the display device side of the protocol. Despite a good understanding of Moore’s law, and the fact that, since no X Terminals existed at the time as hardware, but were instead running as emulations on workstations that had sufficient capability, this put the higher level GUI object libraries — referred to as “widgets” — in host libraries linked into the applications. Second, it guaranteed that display organization and management paradigms would also live on the host side of the protocol — assumed, in contradiction to the previous decision, to be running on the workstation. But, presumably, at some point, as lightweight X Terminals became available, to migrate to a particular host computer managing compute resource login/access services. Between these early decisions reigned chaos. Specifically, the consequences of these decisions have been with us ever since: Look-and-feel are a consequence of the toolkit chosen by the application programmer, rather than a user decision which applies universally to all applications. You could call this “lack of a theme”, and — although I personally despise the idea of customizing or “theming” desktops — this meant that one paradigm chosen by the user would not apply universally across all applications, no matter who had written them. Window management style is a preference. You could call this a more radical version of “theming” — which you will remember, I despise — but a consequence to this is that training is not universal across personnel using such systems, nor is it transferrable. In other words, I can’t send someone to a class, and have them come back and use the computers in the office as a tool, with the computer itself — and the elements not specific to the application itself — disappearing into the background. Both of these ultimately render an X-based system unsuitable for desktops. I can’t pay once for training. Training that I do pay for does not easily and naturally translate between applications. Each new version may radically alter the desktop management paradigm into unrecognizability. Is there hope for the future? Well, the Linux community has been working on something called Wayland, and it is very promising… …In the same way X was “very promising” in 1984, because, unfortunately, they are making exactly the same mistakes X made in 1984, rather than correcting them, now that we have 20/20 hindsight, and know what a mature widget library should look like. So Wayland is screwing up again. But hey, it only took us, what, 25 years to get from X in 1987 to Wayland in in 2012. Maybe if we try again in 2037, we can get to where Windows was in 1995. ##Beastie Bits New washing machine comes with 7 pages of open source licenses! BSD Jobs Site FreeBSD Foundation Update, May 2018 FreeBSD Journal looking for book reviewers zedenv ZFS Boot Environment Manager Tarsnap ##Feedback/Questions Wouter - Feedback Efraim - OS Suggestion kevr - Raspberry Pi2/FreeBSD/Router on a Stick Vanja - Interview Suggestion Send questions, comments, show ideas/topics, or stories you want mentioned on the show to feedback@bsdnow.tv

　　在过去的一周中，位于巴塞罗那举办的2017世界移动通信大会可谓是科技圈的年度盛会，圈内各大厂商与媒体纷纷聚集于此，而手机中国也同样派出了前方记者奔赴现场报道，首先我们就来聊一聊在MWC 大会上的一些热点新闻！　　毫无疑问，在这个万众瞩目的舞台上，大多数手机厂商都推出了为之惊艳的新品，比如索尼带来了全球首款骁龙835旗舰，华为发布了采用徕卡技术的P10系列，拥有18:9屏幕比例的LG G6也正式亮相，当然也少不了贩卖情怀的黑莓和诺基亚；既然是同台PK总会被大家拿以比较，纵观各大厂商的新作，恐怕还是华为的P10系列要更胜一筹，除了强大的旗舰配置外，P10系列搭载的徕卡双摄，以及徕卡全球首款前置自拍镜头，再次延续了两大品牌的经典结合，而EMUI 5.1系统和全新草木绿、钻雕蓝的外观配色更使得此系列表现更为全面，自华为P6开始，P系列在国内乃至国际市场已经逐渐打响名气，想必P10系列又将成为一经典之作！　　而OPPO和魅族虽未发布新机，但也都在大会上带来了各自推出的一项新技术，OPPO涉及到的是拍照，而魅族则为快充。　　OPPO在MWC 2017大会上发布了5倍双摄变焦技术，这项双摄变焦技术与目前市场上常见的截然不同。OPPO通过复杂的工艺做出了一整套光学变焦镜组，包括一个普通的CMOS镜头模组以及一个横置的潜望式光学变焦镜组。这一整套光学变焦镜头组厚度仅有5.7mm，由于在光变模组中增加了光学防抖模块，它的稳定性要比传统设计提升40%，防抖精度可以达到0.0025°，即使在5倍光学变焦时也能保证画面稳定。可以说在这个对拍照要求越来越高的年代，OPPO的5倍双摄变焦技术正是用户所需要的，相比未来会出现在在旗舰机上。　　至于魅族，这家国产厂商在MWC大会上发布了第三代快充技术——Super mCharge。Super mCharge是魅族推出的第三代快充技术，采用11V/5A全新高压直充方案，最高功率可达55W，20分钟即可充满3000mAh电池，相比普通充电速度提升5倍以上。魅族官方称，Super mCharge不仅效率极高而且解决了发热问题。魅族老大黄章透露，希望能在2018年将这项技术量产。　　就在MWC 2017大会火热召开的同时，小米在北京发布了自主芯片澎湃S1。澎湃S1为八核64位，主频高达2.2GHz，为4个主频2.2GHz的A53核心+四个主频为1.4GHz的A53核心，使用的是28nm HPC工艺制程，采用14位双核ISP处理器，拥有图像增强功能。小米表示，其目标是做可大规模量产的中高端芯片，追求性能与功耗的绝佳平衡。而作为继华为之后，第二个推出自主芯片的国产厂商，外界对澎湃S1有着较高的期望，但性能是否稳定，要满足市场需求与认可，恐怕还需走上很长的一段路吧！本期的节目就是这样啦，我们下期再见！

　　在过去的一周中，位于巴塞罗那举办的2017世界移动通信大会可谓是科技圈的年度盛会，圈内各大厂商与媒体纷纷聚集于此，而手机中国也同样派出了前方记者奔赴现场报道，首先我们就来聊一聊在MWC 大会上的一些热点新闻！　　毫无疑问，在这个万众瞩目的舞台上，大多数手机厂商都推出了为之惊艳的新品，比如索尼带来了全球首款骁龙835旗舰，华为发布了采用徕卡技术的P10系列，拥有18:9屏幕比例的LG G6也正式亮相，当然也少不了贩卖情怀的黑莓和诺基亚；既然是同台PK总会被大家拿以比较，纵观各大厂商的新作，恐怕还是华为的P10系列要更胜一筹，除了强大的旗舰配置外，P10系列搭载的徕卡双摄，以及徕卡全球首款前置自拍镜头，再次延续了两大品牌的经典结合，而EMUI 5.1系统和全新草木绿、钻雕蓝的外观配色更使得此系列表现更为全面，自华为P6开始，P系列在国内乃至国际市场已经逐渐打响名气，想必P10系列又将成为一经典之作！　　而OPPO和魅族虽未发布新机，但也都在大会上带来了各自推出的一项新技术，OPPO涉及到的是拍照，而魅族则为快充。　　OPPO在MWC 2017大会上发布了5倍双摄变焦技术，这项双摄变焦技术与目前市场上常见的截然不同。OPPO通过复杂的工艺做出了一整套光学变焦镜组，包括一个普通的CMOS镜头模组以及一个横置的潜望式光学变焦镜组。这一整套光学变焦镜头组厚度仅有5.7mm，由于在光变模组中增加了光学防抖模块，它的稳定性要比传统设计提升40%，防抖精度可以达到0.0025°，即使在5倍光学变焦时也能保证画面稳定。可以说在这个对拍照要求越来越高的年代，OPPO的5倍双摄变焦技术正是用户所需要的，相比未来会出现在在旗舰机上。　　至于魅族，这家国产厂商在MWC大会上发布了第三代快充技术——Super mCharge。Super mCharge是魅族推出的第三代快充技术，采用11V/5A全新高压直充方案，最高功率可达55W，20分钟即可充满3000mAh电池，相比普通充电速度提升5倍以上。魅族官方称，Super mCharge不仅效率极高而且解决了发热问题。魅族老大黄章透露，希望能在2018年将这项技术量产。　　就在MWC 2017大会火热召开的同时，小米在北京发布了自主芯片澎湃S1。澎湃S1为八核64位，主频高达2.2GHz，为4个主频2.2GHz的A53核心+四个主频为1.4GHz的A53核心，使用的是28nm HPC工艺制程，采用14位双核ISP处理器，拥有图像增强功能。小米表示，其目标是做可大规模量产的中高端芯片，追求性能与功耗的绝佳平衡。而作为继华为之后，第二个推出自主芯片的国产厂商，外界对澎湃S1有着较高的期望，但性能是否稳定，要满足市场需求与认可，恐怕还需走上很长的一段路吧！本期的节目就是这样啦，我们下期再见！

　　面对双11强大的攻势，所有的新闻都瞬间黯然失色。不断刷新的数字，让我们看到了成功男人背后的败家女人们……每一年双11都这样撩拨着我们的神经，平时贵得要死的东西就好像不要钱了一样，被我们装进购物车，然后双手不听使唤的结账、付款。接下来就去楼下挖点土当明天的早饭吧。买买买是天性，剁手更无罪！　　今年天猫双11交易总额一共是1207亿元，其中移动支付占比82%，共产生6.57亿物流订单。这个数字赤裸裸地为我们揭示了这样一个现实：不是不买，而是时候未到！从11号凌晨开始，无数的人们守着手机和电脑，全家齐出动，架势完全不输春运抢火车票。除了宝贝卖光、支付失败，系统繁忙，还要面对各种人为因素，如今真是剁手都不容易！　　除此之外，在智能手机普及的今天，手机购物已经成为了主流。毕竟随时随地剁手才是当今的趋势。蚂蚁金服的数据显示，在所有订单当中，有超过1400亿笔订单，近90%的用户使用了移动支付方式来支付货款，也就是说九成用户选择在手机上抢购。不用起床，不占空间，轻松便捷，送货到家。如今我们的生活方式已经被彻底改变，打开手机，世界都是你的！　　除了网络上的人气，线下今年也是人气爆棚。小米之家的门口挤满了前来排队购买小米MIX手机的米粉。粉丝们有的席地而坐，有的自带干粮。帝都的严寒丝毫没能阻挡米粉们的热情，这景象仿佛让我们看到了当年的iPhone。小米MIX这么有人气其实也在预料之中，这部概念机用其惊艳的外观，和考究的用料征服了无数颜控，为小米拿掉了多年的“屌丝”帽子。不说了，小编要去赶紧排队了！　　走出国门之征服外国人大厂：一加，最近又爆出有新品即将来袭。这次主要是性能上的提升。一加3T将会搭载高通骁龙821芯片，CPU主频由2.2GHz提升到2.4GHz，GPU主频由624MHz提升到650MHz，该芯片还改进了能耗，节能又强劲。还有消息称，一加3T使用的是索尼IMX398传感器，配合基于Android 7.0开发的氧OS系统，就这配置和逼格，无论中外，我们都爱它啊！

　　面对双11强大的攻势，所有的新闻都瞬间黯然失色。不断刷新的数字，让我们看到了成功男人背后的败家女人们……每一年双11都这样撩拨着我们的神经，平时贵得要死的东西就好像不要钱了一样，被我们装进购物车，然后双手不听使唤的结账、付款。接下来就去楼下挖点土当明天的早饭吧。买买买是天性，剁手更无罪！　　今年天猫双11交易总额一共是1207亿元，其中移动支付占比82%，共产生6.57亿物流订单。这个数字赤裸裸地为我们揭示了这样一个现实：不是不买，而是时候未到！从11号凌晨开始，无数的人们守着手机和电脑，全家齐出动，架势完全不输春运抢火车票。除了宝贝卖光、支付失败，系统繁忙，还要面对各种人为因素，如今真是剁手都不容易！　　除此之外，在智能手机普及的今天，手机购物已经成为了主流。毕竟随时随地剁手才是当今的趋势。蚂蚁金服的数据显示，在所有订单当中，有超过1400亿笔订单，近90%的用户使用了移动支付方式来支付货款，也就是说九成用户选择在手机上抢购。不用起床，不占空间，轻松便捷，送货到家。如今我们的生活方式已经被彻底改变，打开手机，世界都是你的！　　除了网络上的人气，线下今年也是人气爆棚。小米之家的门口挤满了前来排队购买小米MIX手机的米粉。粉丝们有的席地而坐，有的自带干粮。帝都的严寒丝毫没能阻挡米粉们的热情，这景象仿佛让我们看到了当年的iPhone。小米MIX这么有人气其实也在预料之中，这部概念机用其惊艳的外观，和考究的用料征服了无数颜控，为小米拿掉了多年的“屌丝”帽子。不说了，小编要去赶紧排队了！　　走出国门之征服外国人大厂：一加，最近又爆出有新品即将来袭。这次主要是性能上的提升。一加3T将会搭载高通骁龙821芯片，CPU主频由2.2GHz提升到2.4GHz，GPU主频由624MHz提升到650MHz，该芯片还改进了能耗，节能又强劲。还有消息称，一加3T使用的是索尼IMX398传感器，配合基于Android 7.0开发的氧OS系统，就这配置和逼格，无论中外，我们都爱它啊！

Infinitum Ep.40 - Post-Apple-event Follow up Alek grdno iznenađen “…i uvređen kao čovek i komu…” AirPods se i dalje bazirane na Bluetooth-u, iako Apple niti jednom nigde nije spomenuo to njesra od tehnologije Cela fora sa W1 čipom se izgleda sastoji u magiji koja pokušava da zaobiđe sve BT probleme Nahvališe razni AirPods, kako zvuk i rad tako i postojanost u uvetu (Alek: poverovaću kada ih probam) Takođe info koji sam ostao dužan: Pokemon Go je zaslužan za 4.6 milijarde prehodanih kilometara. Cene u Evropi za iPhone skočile 20-50€, kako gde, javlja nam Boris Velinović. Mnogo drvljenja o tome šta je hrabrost Miki FU na epizodu o programiranju. Alek dodao ovaj link - kako biti fenomenalan developer Dropbox kaže “nije tako kao što izgleda” Potvrdio čovek da je moguće klonirati NAND čipove sa 5c modela (hi FBI) BTW, naša prethodna odma-posle-eventa priča je bila u Infinitumu 20 Vesti Manje cene za iPad Pro Stari tv sklonjen iz Apple Retail prodavnica Belkin napravio neke kablove za neke sluške O:) Ooops Nakon Note 7 sada ima reporta da se i S7 Edge telefoni samozapaljuju. Bloomberg ima detaljniju priču kako je do ovog problema došlo Gift Card Apple ukinuo prodaju Gift Cardova preko emaila Takođe objavili i upozorenje o prevarama Reviews iOS, watchOS… Viticci iOS 10 review Ben Brooks iOS 10 review Šetnja po lockscreenu watchOS 3 MacStories review iOS 10 još malo pa na 40% svih uređaja iPhone, Watch… iPhone 7 = best display ever Kamera otkida MacStories iPhone 7 review MacStories Watch Series 2 overview iPhone i RAW Geekbench rezultati iPhone 7, tj. za A10 Fusion 3233 single core, 5363 multicore iPhone 6s postiže 2495 single, 4128 multicore E sad: MacBook 1.2GHz (m5) koji Alek koristi: 2695 single, 5462 multicore Što će reći, A10 Fusion je jači CPU od ovog Intelovog m5 na kome Alek uredno kucka, programira u Xcodeu i tako to. I to je primetno jači u Single core. Kada se tome doda Intelov roadmap do 2018 za MBP procesore, stvari postaju zanimljive za špekulaciju… iWork Miki traži s kim da proba iWork collaboration Viticci nije najsrećniji, Speirs je optimista macOS Kratak opis šta je novo i šta je podržano macOS Sierra review na Ars Technica Hackettov review Kako napraviti bootabilni USB Detalji o hardveru 3GB memorije u iPhone 7 Plus Kako resetovati / ući u DFU mode na iPhoneu 7 Šta je Appleov novi Ceramic materijal na novom fancy satu i kakve su mu šanse da se pojavi u narednom iPhoneu Vezano za ceramic, zanimljiv komentar is struke Sitnice Font na kutiji više nije Myriad, sada je San Francisco. Autor tog fonta - Antonio Cavedoni - završio posao u Appleu i ide kući u Italiju. Njegovo predavanje o tipografiji sa WWDC 2016 je odlično Saveti za prebacivanje sadržaja sa starog na novi iPhone Evropsko spremanje: As of September 25, 2016, iTunes S.à r.l. will complete its merger with Apple Distribution International in Cork, Ireland and will relocate its business from Luxembourg to Cork in early 2017. Softverisanje Tweetovi postali duži Retrospect podržava Dropbox Izašao novi VMWare 8.5 Alek isprobao Castro 2 podcast player Zahvalnice Snimljeno 21.09.2016. Uvodna muzika by Vladimir Tošić, stari sajt je ovde. Logotip by Aleksandra Ilić. Artwork epizode Iluzija/Mirage (2016) by Saša Montiljo, njegov kutak na Devianartu.

Vesti End of the road for MacNN: 21 years of changes for Apple, and for us | MacNN Stigle pare od presude Appleu u slučaju elektronskih knjiga Zanimljivosti Dream desk projekat Hardware RIP, Thunderbolt Display – 512 Pixels Headphone Jacks Are the New Floppy Drives The ultimate Apple I/O death chart | The Verge The Talk Show ep 159 AV: ponovio sam se MacBook 1.2GHz m5, 512GB SSD, 8GB mem Kupio da bude moj računar do daljnjeg Iznenađujuće agilna zverčica Anker PowerCore+ 26000 mAh + kablovi i USB punjači WWDC Apple najavio macOS Sierra, iOS 10, tvOS - 10? 2? :) - i watchOS 3 Ceo broj TidBITSa posvećen WWDC-u macOS macOS Sierra donosi Siri na Macu, Auto unlock, deljenje clipboarda među uređajima, automatsko prebacivanje Documents i Destop foldera u iCloud Drive, novi Photos Apple Announces macOS Sierra: Siri, Better iOS Convergence, New Metal Features, & More Myths and Misconceptions about macOS Sierra Vest koja nije ni bila u keynoteu, a najviše je obradovala Mikija i Sirakuzu: novi fajl sistem APFS Opis APFS na Appleovom sajtu za developere Digging into the dev documentation for APFS, Apple’s new file system | Ars Technica Šta je dobro, a šta loše u APFS-u, tekst Adama Levantala, jednog od developera ZFS fajl sistema ATP ep 175 - Siracusa o APFS detaljima iOS 10 iOS 10: Our Complete Overview iOS 10 will let you uninstall the Apple apps you never use Apple restricts iOS 10 to iPhone 5, iPad 2 or newer Apple brings coding to the iPad with Swift Playground Zahvalnice Snimljeno 30.06.2016. Uvodna muzika by Vladimir Tošić, stari sajt je ovde. Logotip by Aleksandra Ilić. Artwork epizode Embrace (2012) by Saša Montiljo, njegov kutak na Devianartu.

Parker ordered all the parts for the SAIM this week. The v-slot rails and brackets from OpenBuild, iES-1706 servos from Leadshine, and 3D printed parts from Shapeways. MacroFab uses 3D printed parts to make custom spacers and tooling for assembly of PCB boards. Parker will be adding acceleration to the motor controller code to make sure the SAIM does not jerk around to much. Maximum Smoothness as Stephen puts it. Stephen has bee working more on the FX Dev Board. The board has a couple different power rails. It has +15VDC, -15VDC, an adjustable +9VDC and a half rail that tracks the +9VDC rail. The half rail uses a voltage divider for the reference voltage and is powered by an opamp. See Figure 2. The 16in/16out board that Stephen made has a 16bit A/D and a 16bit D/A on it. MAX5217BGUA+ and MAX11100EUB+. One uses I2C and the other uses 3 wire spi which Parker thinks is unfortunate. See Figure 2. Stephen has some old mylar 60's era caps that his mentor in junior high gave to him. They are 500pF caps. The Super Simple Power Supply has not had a lot of work done on it this week. Parker has started working on the front control panel. Block diagram of the design is done. See Figure 3. SSPS with IOT? Who would follow a twitter account of a power supply? Parker would. Big Ben clock in London is tilting? Parker measures the picture the newspaper posted and it shows the tower tilting at 3 degrees instead of the 0.26 degrees the engineers say its tilted. KORG and Noritake release the Nutube datasheet. Stephen is stoked to say the least. Its not vaporware as Parker thought. Parker suggests they design an iPhone case that has one of these tubes in it for a headphone amp. Raspberry Pi 3 was released this week. Built in wifi, bluetooth 4.0, and a beafy 64-bit ARM A53. Runs at 1.2GHz. Parker says if a computer can't run beefy web apps it is worthless. RPI2 was enough power. Stephen likes DOOM PI Students at MIT develop a kind of Sensor Tape. It has a ATmega328P, a couple sensors, and blinking LEDs. LEDs are important says Parker. Arduino friendly and all those things. Parker is going to look into what it will take to make some. Hernando Barragán wrote an article about the early history of Wiring and how it led to the Arduino environment. Parker really likes the hardware aspect of the article and what could have been for Parallax and Microchip if they had open source tool chains in the mid and early 00's.

Wireless Headphones You've probably heard us stress over and over again how important surround sound is to your HDTV and home theater experience. Without surround sound, it's really just surveillance, not home theater. But we are regular guys too, and we leave in the real world. We know that sometimes you have to make sacrifices and compromises. You aren't the only one in the house, or the building or the neighborhood. Sometimes that compromise means using a sound bar. Other times it may mean throwing on some headphones so you can still enjoy HDTV when the volume may otherwise disrupt the delicate balance of your ecosystem. Like many of you, Braden has young children. He has many of them, in fact. Sometimes it's nice to let them sleep a little at night and headphones can come in quite handy for that. You have a couple major decisions to make when buying headphones for your home theater, the most important is how well they sound. But beyond that, there are some logistics questions, the main one being: wired or wireless? Wired have reliable quality, and no need to recharge batteries. But they have long cables that need to be stored, if the cable isn't long enough, they can be uncomfortable, and so on. Wireless headphones are much more convenient and, provided you buy the right ones, can sound just as good. Sony MDRRF985RK Wireless RF Headphone Buy now: $86 Sony makes some of our all time favorite studio monitor headphones, the MDR7506 Professional Large Diaphragm Headphones that go for $102. They may not be the best headphones around anymore, but they are a tried and true classic, and still quite good. If you're in the market for wired headphones, they're worth checking out. But, for this round-up, we aren't interested in wired, we're going wireless. It may have been our sentimentality that pushed us to them, but the Sony MDRRF985RK are the first pair of headphones on the list. These phones from Sony give you the freedom to travel up to 150 feet from your sound source while delivering stereo quality sound. Hopefully your couch isn't 150 feet away from your TV, but just in case it is, you're all set. They run on the 900MHz RF wireless band, which is fine, but not the best choice. They have a 40mm driver for decent bass performance, and claim frequency response from 20 Hz to 20 kHz.  They have an auto tuning feature that conveniently scans up and down the band to automatically tune in channels. And like most units on our list, they are rechargeable. They include Ni-MH rechargeable batteries with a max run time of 25 hours. You'll probably pass out before they do. All-in-all a solid performer at a decent price. They won't blow you away with their quality, but they will be reliable and that also won't blow away your whole checking account. JVC HAW600RF 900MHZ Wireless Headphones Buy now: $54 These headphones from JVC are feature for feature nearly identical the the prior model from Sony. They run on the same 900 MHz RF frequency, but boast a slightly larger effective distance of 164 feet. They too have the auto tuning feature to hopefully provide the best quality sound at all times. Couple that with a 40mm driver for full-bodied sound and you've got a pair of headphones that are tough to distinguish from the Sony pair. The JVC HAW600RF does offer a convenient paging or voice call function that allows for voice communication from the base station to the headset user. So if someone wanders off wearing the headphones, or you simply want to play practical jokes on someone to annoy them, you've got that going for you. But what really got us to put these above the Sony is the price. They're close to half the cost of the Sony model. Sennheiser RS120 On-Ear 926MHz Wireless RF Headphones with Charging Cradle Buy now: $80 In the bang-for-the-buck category, the RS120 may take the cake. It is a lightweight RF wireless headphone system with Open-Aire Supra-Aural design for hi-fidelity audio reproduction. They feature a transparent, well-balanced sound with solid bass reproduction, and are a great choice for both hi-fi and TV use. The transmitter has an “easy recharge” function for conveniently recharging the included headphone batteries. The RS120 headphones run on the 926 MHz frequency, which is still in the 900 MHz band, but for some reason they don't seem to suffer the same interference issues that others on the 900 MHz band struggle with. And somehow this allows them to claim a 328 foot reception distance, even though walls and ceilings.  Unlike other units on the list, however, these Sennheisers don't have the auto-tuning functionality, but instead provide three user-selectable channels. If you want a pair of really good headphones without spending too much money, the Sennheiser RS120 would be our first pick in the under $100 category. Sennheiser RS 170 Digital Wireless Headphone with Dynamic Bass and Surround Sound Buy now: $198 If you'd like to step up from a solid performer to a stand out, you'll want to look at the Sennheiser RS170 headphones. They aren't the top of the line Sennheiser model, but they're close enough that you still get superior sound quality without over-paying for it. The RS180 for $240 or the even more expensive RS220 for $495 are fighting for supremacy in the Sennheiser wireless headphone showdown. But in the real world, cost is a factor in deciding what to buy, and at under $200, the RS170 headphones are ideal. The RS170 utilizes KLEER's lossless digital wireless audio transmission for audiophile-grade sound and reception. They claim KLEER technology will not interfere with wireless networks or other 2.4GHz devices. Up to 4 compatible Sennheiser KLEER headphones can be paired with the same transmitter for private listening for multiple individuals. Which, at that point, begs the question - can't all four of you just take off the headphones and use the speakers instead? The RS170 wasn't built for the average listener, they were built with the audiophile in mind, the  transducer systems' neodymium magnets deliver clear and detailed audio reproduction. The sealed, private earcups prevent sound leakage and make sure you can hear everything you're supposed to. They also feature selectable Dynamic Bass Boost for deeper bass and selectable Surround Sound simulation for a more immersive pseudo-home theater experience. This pair of headphones run on a different frequency that the others, using 2.4 - 2.8 GHz, with built-in auto selecting technology. They have a range of up to 260 feet. The wireless headphones operate on 2 AAA NiMH rechargeable batteries, which are included and should get you around 24 hours of listening time. The transmitter also acts as a charging stand for the headphones when not in use, and can fully recharge depleted headphone batteries in about 16 hours. Sony MDR-DS7500 Wireless Digital Surround Headphones System Buy now: $429 Speaking of over-paying, the Sony MDR-DS7500 clock in at an impressive $429. But before you freak out about how you can buy an entire surround sound receiver for that, consider what you're getting.  First, and perhaps most importantly, these headphones were developed in cooperation with Sony Pictures Entertainment, a place near and dear to the HT Guys' hearts. But beyond that, if you want to build something for the home theater, it makes sense to work with the experts in cinema sound. What did that joint development produce? The outcome was Sony's new "New Cinema mode" which was designed around analyzing the measured data for movie production in real movie theaters and sound stages. By combining Sony's VPT (Virtualphones Technology) this "New Cinema mode"  is said to reproduce the sound of an ideal movie theater. The MDR-DS7500 comes with a newly developed chipset for 3D audio as well as Dolby NR professional Logic II z decoder supporting audio signals up to 7.1Ch. DMI inputs on the processor enables the new DS7500 to decode HD audio such as Dolby TrueHD. Also supports multi-channel linear PCM as well as Bravia HDMI CEC. Three HDMI inputs with 1 line HDMI output allows you to connect to your devices freely. The MDR-DS7500 has a dynamic reproduction range of 5 Hz to 25 kHz and the full list of codecs it supports is: Dolby NR TrueHD, Dolby Digital plus, Dolby Digital, Dolby NR professional logic II z, Dolby NR professional logic. x, DTS-HD mastering audio, DTS-HD high-resolution audio, DTS 96/24, DTS-ES, DTS, Neo:6, MPEG-2 AAC, and linear PCM 7.1ch/5.1ch.  The headphones operate on the 2Ghz spectrum and the built-in rechargeable batteries provide up to 18 hours of continuous playback. Some Amazon reviews mentioned getting a Japanese instruction manual; obviously not helpful for most of us. But luckily they reported that some strategic googling led them to an English version that got the job done. Who reads the instructions anyways ;) Other There are also a handful of surround sound gaming headsets out there like the Skullcandy PLYR1 7.1 Surround Sound Wireless Gaming Headset for $130 or the Turtle Beach Ear Force X42 Wireless Dolby Surround Sound Gaming Headset for $123. If you're into gaming and can get a pair like this, they may be able to double for you as a solid home theater solution as well. There isn't a huge advantage in price, and connectivity may be more challenging since they're intended to be connected to a gaming console. But buying one pair of headphones that can serve dual purpose might make sense for some. Conclusion There are plenty of approaches available today to listen to all the booming explosions and dynamic action you want from your home theater without disturbing anyone else. There are also cases where people with hearing impairments or who have experienced a loss of hearing could benefit from their own headphones, even if they're listening to the same thing as everyone else. Whatever your requirements, there's sure to be a set of headphones for you that will meet your needs and keep the finance committee happy.

Gareth and James get stuck into the iPhone 5 contracts and struggle to like the deals currently available from the networks. There is however a clear winner however. Direct DownloadiTunesDownload the iPhone AppDownload the Android AppRSS FeedFeaturing - Gareth and JamesEmail us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk Tel: 0208 123 3757 Show NotesThe Motorola RAZR i with a 2GHz processor is announcediPhone 5 contract prices - Phones 4U, Mobiles, CPWH, O2, Vodafone, 3uk (best value?), Orange, T-Mobile, EE - Pre Order from Friday 14th September on Orange and T-Mobileand then easily move over to EE when it goes liveMoto RAZR i Pricing sim free Tablet TablePegatron will be rolling out anywhere from 50% to 60% of the new iPad mini production orders3G-enabled Google Nexus 7 could arrive in six weeks3GB Lag issue on Nexus 7 Bargain BasementNokia Lumia 800 £159.99 when you top up £15CEX are offering iPhone 5:16GB any network Grade A: £540 cash / £540 credit 32GB any network Grade A: £615 cash / £615 credit 64GB any network Grade A: £715 cash / £715 credit Motorola RAZR £ 249.00Samsung Galaxy Note 2 £544.98 inc VATSAMSUNG GALAXY S III £354.99Samsung Galaxy Nexus 16GB £286.00 Listeners GardenRob says Hi!!!!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lPOynhOVpw@iROB752d looks like @stevelitchfield is a fan pic.twitter.com/8gXSuTL @timsalmonGreat to have you back on the pod @j4mes73 Adorable nutter! Ben Dover! Oh no, hang on, here's the wife... What’s the number with James App AtticDeath Worm for PlayBookReal Racing 2 - iPadNesoid ------Email us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk Tel: 0208 123 3757Gareth Myles – @garethmylesJames Richardson – @j4mes73Matt and Tracy Davis - @tracyandmattMobile Tech Addicts Facebook Many thanks to The Stetz for the music Subscribe in iTunes to our weekly podcastRSS Feed for our weekly podcastDownload the iPhone App

http://hothardware.com - The Motorola Droid RAZR features a slim body that measures 7.1mm thick. According to Motorola and Verizon Wireless, the Droid RAZR is the world's thinnest 4G smartphone. And while thin is definitely a key feature in today's competitive smartphone market, we all know horsepower is equally important. Motorola has given the Droid RAZR a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, a 4.3-inchd qHD Super AMOLED Advanced display, 8MP camera, and Android 2.3. The phone will be upgradeable to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) at some point in the future. By HotHardware Tags : 4G, Android, Cell, Cellphone, Droid, Google, LTE, Motorola, Phone, RAZR, Verizon, Wireless, cream, fourth, generation, ice, sandwich, smartphone, wireless

http://hothardware.com - To summarize the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus’ purpose in a crowded field is easy enough, though: It’s specialty is giving you all the perks of a WiFi-connected device (email, Web browsing, social networking, etc.) along with some impressive home media functionality--more on that in a bit--and also offering ample offline entertainment when you’re out and about and away from a WiFi connection, such as gaming and e-reading. The specs are solid enough--it runs a tasty 1.2GHz dual-core Samsung Exynos processor and has 1GB of RAM, and you can augment the onboard 16GB of storage with up to 32GB of microSD storage--but it’s the extras, which we’ll delve into shortly, that really make the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus an excellent entry in the 7-inch tablet market. By HotHardware Tags : 7.0, Android, Galaxy, HotHardware, Mobile, Plus, Review, Samsung, Tab, galaxy, tab, tablet

Links Mentioned in this Episode: Gartner's iPhone, Android predictions radically revised in a year and a half Rumor: iPad 3 to get 2GHz dual-core Samsung CPU AT&T Isn't Targeting Android Tethering nphonetrack Apple's Phil Schiller: White iPhone 4 Isn't Thicker | ZDNet Osama and iPhone 4 cartoon First White iPhone Teardown Reveals Modified Lens, Proximity Sensor  Apple's iOS doubles operating system market share iPhone 4 Cases, iPhone 4 Reflex Series Case // OtterBox.com SK Tel, KT suspend iPad 2 online sale less than week after debut Sn0wbreeze brings untethered jailbreak to Verizon iPhone for Windows users -- Engadget 35% of iOS Devices in China Are Jailbroken iPad Pants AT&T rep claims Apple said no new iPhone in June or July Gigwalk Launches: Wanna Get Paid for Taking Pictures with Your iPhone? Gigwalk for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 with fixes for location database controversy iPhone Location Update - TechCrunch Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, iOS 4.2.8 for Verizon iPhone YouTube - Apple - iPad 2 - TV Ad - If You Asked Apple iPad 3 "dead cert" to be 3D enabled - Phone Arena Apple and Verizon to deliver over-the-air iOS updates The Daily gets 800K downloads but loses $10 million this quarter Iszyverse - Awesome iOS Artwork Paul Mesner Puppets YouTube - Jailbreak App Tutorial - CyDelete Apps Mentioned in this Episode: Tii App Brushes - iPad Pizza Stuff Cash Register TripIt Facely HD Cydelete - Cydia

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Kezdődik most is a Macians, Marci műsorvezetésével. Jelenlévők még Gemy és Tonyo. Két darab PowerMac G5-ös géppel készültek az adásra, amit szét is fognak szedni a műsorban. Az egyikbe 2 darab 2Ghz-s processzor a másikba 2 darab 2,7Ghz-es processzor van, és a fiúk bemutatják mennyire jelentős a különbség teljesítményben. Gemy bemutatja a Toast népszerű cd/dvd […]

Kezdődik most is a Macians, Marci műsorvezetésével. Jelenlévők még Gemy és Tonyo. Két darab PowerMac G5-ös géppel készültek az adásra, amit szét is fognak szedni a műsorban. Az egyikbe 2 darab 2Ghz-s processzor a másikba 2 darab 2,7Ghz-es processzor van, és a fiúk bemutatják mennyire jelentős a különbség teljesítményben. Gemy bemutatja a Toast népszerű cd/dvd […]