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The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals Looking for a good deal on broadband? Check out Virgin Media's 500Mb Broadband plan. For just €35 per month for the first year, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb. Plus, sign up before May 31st and get €65 off your Virgin Media broadband bill. For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband offers a good value plan. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. Enjoy great value over the long term with Pure Telecom with a low out-of-contract monthly cost and no contractual annual price increase. With eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before June 3rd and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. Interested in bundling broadband and TV? Virgin Media 500Mb Broadband with Loaded TV plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, and over 100 TV channels, all for €50 per month for 12 months. Plus, sign up before May 31st and get €65 off your Virgin Media broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers) More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €35 per month for the first year, Virgin Media's 500Mb Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb. Plus, sign up before April 30th and get €65 off your Virgin Media broadband bill. For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband offers a good value plan. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. With eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before May 1st and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers) More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband offers a good value plan. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. Enjoy great value over the long term with Pure Telecom with a low out of contract monthly cost and no contractual annual price increase. If you're looking for higher speed broadband, check out eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan. Priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before April 1st and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. For just €35 per month for the first year with Virgin Media's 500Mb Broadband, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb. Plus, sign up before March 31st and get €65 off your Virgin Media broadband bill. A €30 once-off activation fee does apply. Interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV? eir's Fibre Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak local & national calls, and over 50 TV channels, all for €49.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Plus, sign up before April 1st and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers) More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €35 per month for the first year, Virgin Media's 500Mb Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb. Plus, sign up before February 5th and get €100 off your Virgin Media broadband bill. For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband offers a good value plan. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. With eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before January 30th and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers) More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
In this Something to Think About episode, Jeff brings a bit of awareness to the data usage while updating apps. Updating apps can significantly impact your data usage, especially if you're on a limited plan. Regular updates, sometimes over 500MB per app, can quickly add up. While updates can improve security and features, it's worth considering whether automatic updates are right for you. Adjusting iPhone settings to manually update apps or restricting updates to Wi-Fi can save data and storage. Keep an eye on your app sizes and decide what's best for your needs. Something to think about! ” Full Transcript:
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. With eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before January 7th and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. Interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV? eir's Fibre Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak local & national calls, and over 50 TV channels, all for €49.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Plus, sign up before January 7th and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals If you're looking for an affordable plan, check out eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan. Priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, as part of eir's Black Friday sale, sign up before December 2nd and get €100 off your eir broadband bill! Interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV? eir's Fibre Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak local & national calls, and over 50 TV channels, all for €44.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Plus, sign up before December 2nd and get €100 off your eir broadband bill. If you're looking for a freebie this Black Friday, check out Virgin's Media Broadband and TV deals. Sign up for their 1Gb Broadband with Loaded TV or 2Gb Broadband with Loaded TV before December 2nd and get a free 43" 4K Smart TV. This is a limited-time offer and is subject to stock availability. Available on selected Broadband and TV plans only. T&Cs apply. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers) More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €35 per month for the first year, Virgin Media's 500Mb Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. Plus, sign up before October 31st and get €100 off your Virgin Media broadband bill. With eir's Fibre Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before October 21st and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. Vodafone can offer long-term savings with their 500Mb Full Fibre Broadband plan. Priced at €30 per month for 6 months, then €40p/m thereafter, Vodafone broadband customers will no longer see a significant increase in their monthly price - (often called a "thereafter price') - once their minimum contract term ends. This means customers can enjoy savings and value in the long and short term. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
Hey everyone, it's Alex (still traveling!), and oh boy, what a week again! Advanced Voice Mode is finally here from OpenAI, Google updated their Gemini models in a huge way and then Meta announced MultiModal LlaMas and on device mini Llamas (and we also got a "better"? multimodal from Allen AI called MOLMO!)From Weights & Biases perspective, our hackathon was a success this weekend, and then I went down to Menlo Park for my first Meta Connect conference, full of news and updates and will do a full recap here as well. ThursdAI - Recaps of the most high signal AI weekly spaces is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Overall another crazy week in AI, and it seems that everyone is trying to rush something out the door before OpenAI Dev Day next week (which I'll cover as well!) Get ready, folks, because Dev Day is going to be epic!TL;DR of all topics covered: * Open Source LLMs * Meta llama 3.2 Multimodal models (11B & 90B) (X, HF, try free)* Meta Llama 3.2 tiny models 1B & 3B parameters (X, Blog, download)* Allen AI releases MOLMO - open SOTA multimodal AI models (X, Blog, HF, Try It)* Big CO LLMs + APIs* OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode to all & Mira Murati leaves OpenAI * Google updates Gemini 1.5-Pro-002 and 1.5-Flash-002 (Blog)* This weeks Buzz * Our free course is LIVE - more than 3000 already started learning how to build advanced RAG++* Sponsoring tonights AI Tinkerers in Seattle, if you're in Seattle, come through for my demo* Voice & Audio* Meta also launches voice mode (demo)* Tools & Others* Project ORION - holographic glasses are here! (link)Meta gives us new LLaMas and AI hardwareLLama 3.2 Multimodal 11B and 90BThis was by far the biggest OpenSource release of this week (tho see below, may not be the "best"), as a rumored released finally came out, and Meta has given our Llama eyes! Coming with 2 versions (well 4 if you count the base models which they also released), these new MultiModal LLaMas were trained with an adapter architecture, keeping the underlying text models the same, and placing a vision encoder that was trained and finetuned separately on top. LLama 90B is among the best open-source mutlimodal models available— Meta team at launchThese new vision adapters were trained on a massive 6 Billion images, including synthetic data generation by 405B for questions/captions, and finetuned with a subset of 600M high quality image pairs. Unlike the rest of their models, the Meta team did NOT claim SOTA on these models, and the benchmarks are very good but not the best we've seen (Qwen 2 VL from a couple of weeks ago, and MOLMO from today beat it on several benchmarks) With text-only inputs, the Llama 3.2 Vision models are functionally the same as the Llama 3.1 Text models; this allows the Llama 3.2 Vision models to be a drop-in replacement for Llama 3.1 8B/70B with added image understanding capabilities.Seems like these models don't support multi image or video as well (unlike Pixtral for example) nor tool use with images. Meta will also release these models on meta.ai and every other platform, and they cited a crazy 500 million monthly active users of their AI services across all their apps
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals With eir's Gigabit Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before September 30th and get €100 off your eir broadband bill. Interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV? eir's Gigabit Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak local & national calls, and over 50 TV channels, all for €44.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Plus, sign up before September 30th and get €100 off your eir broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. With eir's Gigabit Broadband and Talk plan, priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before September 3rd and get €50 off your eir broadband bill. Vodafone can offer long-term savings with their 500Mb Full Fibre Broadband plan. Priced at €30 per month for 6 months, then €40p/m thereafter, Vodafone broadband customers will no longer see a significant increase in their monthly price - (often called a "thereafter price') - once their minimum contract term ends. This means customers can enjoy savings and value in the long, and short term. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers) More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: https://anchor.fm/irish-tech-news If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals If you're looking for an affordable plan, check out eir's Gigabit Broadband and Talk plan. Priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before July 31st and get €100 off your eir broadband bill. Interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV? eir's Gigabit Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak local & national calls, and over 50 TV channels, all for €44.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Plus, sign up before July 31st and get €100 off your eir broadband bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
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The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming. Check out eir's Gigabit Broadband and Talk plan. Priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before July 8th and get €50 off your eir bill. If you're interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV, eir's Gigabit Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak calls and over 50 TV channels, all for €44.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Sign up before July 8th and get €50 off your eir bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals For just €30 per month for the first year, Pure Telecom offer an affordable option with their Purely Broadband plan. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb, ideal for surfing, gaming or streaming! Priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, with eir's Gigabit Broadband and Talk you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before June 4th and get €50 off your eir bill. Vodafone can offer long-term savings with their 500Mb Full Fibre Broadband plan. Priced at €30 per month for 6 months, then €40p/m thereafter, Vodafone broadband customers will no longer see a significant increase in their monthly price - (often called a "thereafter price') - once their minimum contract term ends. This means customers can enjoy savings and value in the long, and short term. eir's Gigabit Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak calls and over 50 TV channels, all for €44.98 per month for 12 months. Plus, this plan also includes Amazon Prime Video. Sign up before June 4th and get €50 off your eir bill. Sky also offer another good value option with their Sky Broadband Ultrafast Plus with Ultimate TV plan. With over 100 channels, award-winning Sky Originals, Sky Exclusives and Netflix, you can access endless entertainment for €50 per month for 12 months. You can share, stream and download your favourite shows, movies or music with speeds of up to 500Mb. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
The broadband market in Ireland is now flooded with providers all offering a myriad of deals. We know it's hard to find the perfect deal that suits your needs, but we're here to help. We've teamed up with Switcher.ie, the free and impartial price comparison and switching service, to find the best broadband deals available every month. Check back regularly to stay informed of the latest deals and offers, and visit the Switcher.ie website to order one of these great packages. Best Broadband Deals Looking for broadband only? Pure Telecom's Purely Broadband is one of the cheapest broadband offers available on the market. You'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 100Mb for just €30 per month for the first year. If you're after broadband and calls, check out eir's Gigabit Broadband and Talk plan. Priced at €34.99 per month for 12 months, you'll get unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb with unlimited off-peak local & national calls. Plus, sign up before April 29th and get €50 off your eir bill. If you're interested in bundling broadband, landline and TV, eir's Gigabit Broadband with TV Plus, Talk plan includes unlimited broadband with speeds of up to 500Mb, unlimited off-peak local & national calls and over 50 TV channels, all for €44.98 per month for 12 months. Amazon Prime Video is also included, giving you access to popular movies, TV series and award-winning Amazon Originals. Sign up before April 29th and get €50 off your eir bill. (If you've come across this article after some of these deals may have expired, check out our main Broadband Deals category page to find the latest offers)
Tonight on GeekNights, we consider what to do about E-Waste and worthless old technology. Old cables, old smartphones, 500MB hard drives, and the like. It's OK to get rid of it (and you probably should), but don't just throw it in the garbage unless you're a bad person. In the news, new open gangway subway cars debut on the A train in New York, and Silicon Valley Bank collapsed.
National Broadband Ireland (NBI), the company rolling out the new high-speed fibre broadband network under the Government's National Broadband Plan (NBP), has announced there are now connections to its high-speed fibre network in each of the 26 counties, with the first premises in County Longford having now connected. Over 100,000 homes, farms and businesses are ready to connect to the NBI network, with over 30,000 premises connected or signed up to connect. A total of 27,148 premises – including homes, farms, businesses and community facilities –now have guaranteed access to minimum broadband speeds of 500Mb through connection to NBI fibre. Peter Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer, of National Broadband Ireland said: “The NBI rollout is showing real momentum and the availability of connections now in each of the 26 counties is a landmark moment. We have achieved our target of having construction underway in over 40% of the National Broadband Plan intervention area and we are now seeing a ramping up of premises moving from the construction phase to the order phase. “Over 100,000 homes, farms and businesses are now ready to connect to NBI fibre by ordering from one of our broadband provider partners. Over 30,000 premises have already done so and we expect to see more and more people take up the opportunity to increase their internet speed to 500 megabits per second, allowing households to work, study and access entertainment on multiple devices at the same time. We are encouraging people to visit the NBI website to check their Eircode and see if they are ready to connect.” Under the National Broadband Plan, 559,000 premises nationwide are included in the Intervention Area, which was established by the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications to identify areas where commercial operators are not currently providing or intending to provide access to high-speed broadband. National Broadband Ireland will ultimately connect 1.1 million people in every county, 65,000 farms, 44,000 small businesses and 679 schools. Progress to date: 245,533 premises under construction (44% of the intervention area) 117,179 premises available to order or pre-order 102,888 premises ready to connect 31,645 connections ordered, with 27,148 connected 59 retail broadband provider partners data correct as of 16/12/2022 More about Irish Tech News Irish Tech News are Ireland's No. 1 Online Tech Publication and often Ireland's No.1 Tech Podcast too. You can find hundreds of fantastic previous episodes and subscribe using whatever platform you like via our Anchor.fm page here: If you'd like to be featured in an upcoming Podcast email us at Simon@IrishTechNews.ie now to discuss. Irish Tech News have a range of services available to help promote your business. Why not drop us a line at Info@IrishTechNews.ie now to find out more about how we can help you reach our audience. You can also find and follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat.
ドコモのエコノミーMVNOに「LIBMO」を追加 500MB＋5分かけ放題が1年間月額990円に。 NTTドコモが12月1日、同社が取り扱うMVNOサービス「エコノミーMVNO」に、TOKAIコミュニケーションズを追加したことを発表。TOKAIコミュニケーションズが提供している「LIBMO（リブモ）」を、12月21日からドコモショップで取り扱う。
This week's EYE ON NPI is easy-peesy-lemon-squeezy, the simplest way to add LTE cellular data connectivity to your product or project with Blues Wireless Notecard Cellular Modem System-on-Module (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/b/blues-wireless/notecard-cellular-modem-som). These M2 cards come with 4 different cellular module types for global coverage on the LTE Cat 1 or Cat 1M (with backup CDMA and GPRS options). Each card slides into one of many different add-on boards that make connectivity to a Feather or Raspberry Pi foolproof. Blues Wireless' Notecard is a tiny 30 mm x 35 mm SoM device-to-cloud data pump. A Notecard purchase includes 500 MB of data that is usable over 10 years with the ability to top-up as needed. Connectivity is globally available in 136+ countries. The Notecard features an m.2 connector for embedding the user's board. As an embeddable SoM, the Notecard can be used with any microcontroller (MCU) for greenfield and retrofit projects using the user's design or one of Blues Wireless' custom-designed Notecarriers. With two lines of code, users can send data to the cloud in minutes without complex device registration or provisioning required. With a powerful JSON-based API, the Notecard can be programmed over USB or controlled from the preferred MCU or single-board computer (SBC) using one of Blues Wireless' open-source firmware libraries. Connect from the preferred host to the Notecard using Serial or I2C. The Notecard is designed to work with a cloud service for ingesting and processing device data. Notehub.io provides secure device connectivity, project, and fleet management, as well as simple routing to third-party cloud services. Alternatively, the user can host their device service based on Blues Wireless' open-source reference implementation. The Notecards use Quectel cellular modules, which are low cost and have been used for many years so they're very reliable. Depending on your location, you may not have LTE coverage yet (or LTE Cat M/M1) so do check your coverage maps and rollout plans - there's versions with GPRS (2G) and CDMA (3G) backup capabilities. The cellular plan itself is handled by Blues and is handled by AT&T, so no external SIM is required - although there is a insert spot for one if desired. Each module is bundled with a 10 year, 500MB cellular plan, which can be customized if needed. 500MB doesn't sound like a lot, but if you're using MQTT for sending data reports, where each packet is only a couple-hundred bytes max, it will last a long time. Check AT&T's coverage map to know which module you'll need to use for your area (https://www.att.com/maps/wireless-coverage.html) We particularly like the M.2 module design idea - it makes insertion very easy and doesn't allow for flipped boards or bent pins. Swapping out different modules can be done in a post-manufacturing step or as an add-on upgrade situation. It also means as cellular networks are upgraded and retired (which happens every 5~10 years!) the module can be changed over. If you need to source an M2 connector - Digi-Key has tons of those in stock too (https://www.digikey.com/short/zn1q8z), just make sure you get E-key type. These contacts are under a dollar a piece and come on tape-and-reel for easy pick and placing. The modules are designed for end-use cases. While prototyping you may want to use their handy "Notecarrier" breakout boards (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/b/blues-wireless/notecarrier). Each one can use any of the Notecards, so just mix and match as desired. There are ones for battery usage, Raspberry Pi HAT, and Feather breakout. (https://blues.io/products/notecarrier/) And best of all, all of the Blues Wireless Notecards and carriers are in stock right now at Digi-Key! (https://www.digikey.com/en/supplier-centers/blues-wireless) Pick up any combo you need to start prototyping your design immediately. You can get started with Blues' tutorials and code snippets (https://github.com/blues) - they promise you'll be sending data in under 30 minutes. Order today and you can be sending data over cellular by tomorrow morning. See on DigiKey.com at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kixNa2tLTLU
The latest In Touch With iOS with Dave he is joined in person by guest Guy Serle. We are attending Virtual Macstock 2021 on Saturday. iOS15 was released and we have our first impressions and review some of the new features. iOS15.1 Beta 1 was released. A We discuss if you should upgrade your iPhone. Guy brought way too many Mics on his trip to Chicago and more. . The show notes are at InTouchwithiOS.com Direct Link to Audio News Apple Releases iOS 12.5.5 Update for Older iPhones Low-Cost iPad and iPod Touch Are Last iOS Devices With Headphone Jack as iPad Mini 6 Drops Support EU Proposes to Force Apple to Switch iPhone, iPad, and AirPods From Lightning to USB-C Topics iOS15 was released to the public this past week. We discussed some of the changes and new features. What you should do before installing iOS15 Run a Backup Tap Settings > Your Account > Icloud Backup and run the backup. Check to make sure you have enough storage. You now only need 500MB free space to install per Apple. These iOS 15 Features Aren't Available on the iPhone X or Older Apple Releases iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 With Safari Updates, Focus Mode, Live Text, iCloud+, System-Wide Translate, On-Device Siri and More iOS 15, iPadOS 15, MacOS Monterey: 10 Big Changes to Your Apple Device Apple Releases watchOS 8 With Mindfulness App, Focus Mode, Messages Updates, Find My and Contacts All the iOS 15 Features You Won't Get Until Later iOS 15 Officially Released with These 7 Exciting New Features iOS 15 Removes Do Not Disturb Option That Silenced Notifications Only When iPhone Was Locked Apple Releases New HomePod 15 Software With Siri Playback Support, HomePod Mini Stereo Pairs, and More Beta this week. iOS15 was released on 9/20 and 2 days later iOS15.1 was released. We review what's new and should you wait until it's released to upgrade to iOS15.1. SharePlay has been enabled. SharePlay Re-Enabled in iOS 15.1, iPadOS 15.1, and tvOS 15.1 Betas Everything New in iOS 15.1 Beta 1 Apple Seeds First Betas of iOS 15.1 and iPadOS 15.1 to Developers Apple Seeds First Beta of watchOS 8.1 to Developers Apple Seeds First Beta of tvOS 15.1 to Developers Do you really need to upgrade your iPhone? There are many reasons not to we discuss thai 4 Features the iPhone 12 doesn't have that the iPhone 13 does. Focus mode mention check our Friend Brittany Smith on YouTube. Exploring Notifications and Focus in iOS 15 for iPhone Our Host David Ginsburg is an IT professional supporting Mac, iOS and Windows users and his wealth of knowledge of iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. Visit the YouTube channel https://youtube.com/daveg65 and find and follow him on Twitter @daveg65. About our Guest Guy Serle Is the host of the MyMac Podcast email Guy@mymac.com @MacParrot and @VertShark on Twitter Vertshark.com, Vertshark on YouTube, Skype +1 Area code 703-436-9501
The Leica M10-R Black Paint edition was announced this week, together with a crazy 16TB SSD, and rumors about the Canon 14-35mm lens! https://www.alessandrocarpentiero.com/leica-m10-r-black-paint-the-photography-news-show-07 In today's show
With Gareth Myles and Ted SalmonJoin us on Mewe RSS Link: https://techaddicts.libsyn.com/rss iTunes | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Tunein | Spotify Amazon | Pocket Casts | Castbox | PodHubUK Feedback: Ian Barton on Clonezilla If you do get a 1TB Drive Ted you can use Clonezilla. I have used this several times for moving Linux to new drives. It does support Windows 10 too. The only downside is it has so many different options. You need to read the instructions carefully before starting. It's almost impossible to destroy your original drive (unless you try to restore your new blank drive onto your original Windows drive)! It's open source and free. Jeremy Harpham on Starlink Internet (context: last week's heat cut-out on dish) I have a friend who uses this. He lives in Haslemere, Surrey, but he is limited to just variable BT Internet with a max speed of 32Mbps down and 2-3Mbps up. He looked at 5G but not available in his area yet. Starlink costs him approx £90 per month. It delivers speeds consistently in the 80Mbps - 170Mbps range - and this is improving as Starlink adds more satellites. He does get dropouts of 3-6 seconds at times, now and then. The Starlink dish is mounted on his chimney and is slightly bigger than a Sky dish. It is motorised for tracking the satellites and heated to clear snow and ice. He's not had any overheating issues, but could see that might happen on a hot 30C+ day in direct sunlight. SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet could achieve global coverage by September Hardline on the hardware: Better do a Windows 11 Roundup of what's been announced? The Event Amazon and Google probed over efforts to stop fake reviews TCL teases an affordable 5G phone at the MWC, there's a 5G tablet in the works too DES – Display Electronic Slurry is next generation e-paper Leaked Samsung Galaxy S22 camera specifications showcase a modest improvement over the Galaxy S21 series Sabrent unveils a 16TB Thunderbolt 3 SSD that offers speeds up to 2,500MB/s and costs about £2,000 A 100W+ car charger is coming soon with Qualcomm's Quick Charge 5 New Lenovo Chromebooks promise compact designs, touchscreens, and $440 prices Lenovo's new lineup of Accessories includes a Wireless Charger for Laptops You need to see these Galaxy Watch 4 images! Flap your trap about an App: Google TV home screen gains autoplaying video ads Google TV begins suggesting Stadia games in ‘For you' tab The 15 greatest video games of the 1990s – ranked! A Google Drive update is going to break a bunch of your links YouTube is about to make all of your old unlisted videos private, but there's a workaround Hark Back: Radio Controlled Cars The one I have proudly staring at me Bargain Basement: Best UK deals and tech on sale we have spotted Lyare 15 in 1 Dual Monitor Laptop Dock Station - Price: £89.99 + 20% off (£72) Sony WH-1000XM4 Noise Cancelling Wireless Headphones - £285 with 5x£47 Samsung 980 1 TB PCIe 3.0 (up to 3.500 MB/s) NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Was £122.99 Now: £89.54 WD Blue SN550 1TB High-Performance M.2 Pcie NVMe SSD - Was: £123.99 Price: £83.98 Toshiba 10TB MG Series Enterprise 3.5 Inch SATA Internal Hard Drive Price: £233.99. Nintendo Switch Lite - £169 - lowest price ever? Various colours SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB microSDXC Memory Card Was: £26.59 Now: £21.49 SanDisk Ultra 1 TB microSDXC Memory Card now even cheaper at £152 down from £449 on release - (U1 means it's 10 MB/s; U3 means it's rated at 30 MB/s) Logitech K780 Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard - £65 (£10 off) - best keyboard ever! Lenovo Legion 5 15.6 Inch FHD Gaming Laptop - Was: £799.99 Now: £549.00 Main Show URL: http://www.techaddicts.uk | PodHubUK Contact:: gareth@techaddicts.uk | @techaddictsuk Gareth - @garethmyles | garethmyles.com Ted - tedsalmon.com | Ted's PayPal | Ted's Amazon | tedsalmon@post.com YouTube: Tech Addicts The PodHubUK PodcastsPodHubUK - Twitter - MeWe PSC Group - PSC Photos - PSC Classifieds - WhateverWorks - Camera Creations - TechAddictsUK - The TechBox - AAM - AAWP - Chewing Gum for the Ears - Projector Room - Coffee Time - Ted's Salmagundi - Steve's Rants'n'Raves - Ted's Amazon - Steve's Amazon - Buy Ted a Coffee
Michael Arnold was front and center in the campaign to halt ThermalKEM's incinerator. On May 22th, 1989, North Carolina Senate Bill 324 (Hazardous Waste Management) was ratified by a bipartisan majority of elected representatives. North Carolina joined a five-state compact that would commit the state to site – and build – a hazardous waste incinerator for ThermalKEM, a private company. This occurred against the backdrop of a notorious incinerator that had been allowed to dangerously operate in Caldwell County with virtually no oversight by the state. In 1990, the State of North Carolina proposed two sites in Granville County as locations for the incinerator. Residents organized with friends and supporters from around the state and – after eight months of marches, fund-raising, lawsuits, public hearings, civil disobedience, and arrests – succeeded in stopping the incinerator from being built. Whatever It Takes is a pictorial history of the successful protest campaign. The book's title comes from the protesters' pledge to do “whatever it takes” to defeat the incinerator. With Micheal we discuss his experience in this fight, what impacts a hazardous waste incinerator has, actions they did, and what led to this successful victory. IAP (Incinerator Archive Project) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDir5d8Yy14AA54YeHHxd2w https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDir5d8Yy14AA54YeHHxd2w Website http://fightoftheirlives.com Whatever It Takes (eBook...1,900 + pages. 500MB download) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8YiD_nYU28NMEZ6bFNrRU5kVGs/view?usp=sharing There's more links/information at the other video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-xhinazp0&list=PLbfZIkjeDwoNrDYiBsTZmGA89obAMxG76&pbjreload=101 Park: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd-xhinazp0&list=PLbfZIkjeDwoNrDYiBsTZmGA89obAMxG76
#TNS# Episode 7 #ThePromise (Pt 2) This week, our guest speaker Mr, Joseph Akinkuotu explains the issue using Market psychology to provide an insight into the negative expectancy disconfirmation experienced by Nigerians. Please listen, subscribe and share. Question for the week (2 winners gets 500MB each) 1. The British took advantage of the _ and _ between emirs to conquer Sokoto Caliphate (Ep 3). 2. According to Ep 4, what contributed to the British defeat of Burmi. 3. What do we mean by the Law of Romance (Episode 5) 4. How can you make politicians around you keep to their promises? Episode 6&7.
My guest today is someone very special to me because I’ve been married to her for almost 20 years … my wife Stephanie Burney! This is a special edition of the podcast that we wanted to do together because we’re home together … and actually we’ve been home together for about 13 years since I work from home and Stephanie has been a full-time teacher, home-schooling our two children. Because we know so many of YOU are working from home this week, I personally wanted to share some tech-tips & apps with you, and I invited Stephanie to share some logistical lessons-learned about being home with the kids! While we have a routine that we’ve been following for a long time, we realize that having the kids home, and overseeing their academic endeavors is something that’s being forced on you, and we wanted to share some practical pointers. We recorded this episode for YouTube so you can watch it if you prefer, so you can see some of the apps and tips as we describe them. And if any of these tips are helpful, feel free to buy us a (virtual) cup of coffee! Stephanie: www.buymeacoffee.com/bestinpickles Brett: www.buymeacoffee.com/bburney Stephanie’s Logistical Tip #1: Have a plan with articulable (and articulated!) expectations for everyone 20% of today is a good tomorrow. Momentum matters—if it’s not helping you, chuck it or change it. Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit ... wisdom is knowing that tomatoes don’t belong in a fruit salad. Brett’s Techie Tip #1: Tips for Remote Meetings (Zoom, GoToMeeting, Google Hangouts, etc.) Prop your laptop up so that folks are not looking up your NOSE! Good lighting is so important! Natural light from windows is best! Know where the MUTE button is located! In Zoom, you can actually press and hold the space bar for a "push-to-talk" while you are muted! Craig Ball's Zoom cheat-sheet You can SHARE YOUR SCREEN! Great way to collaborate on documents before they are final! MUCH better than emailing versions and drafts back and forth. Stephanie’s Logistical Tip #2: Structure, Anchors, And Boundaries Help Everyone Structure: Firm, but flexible. Have “Start” and “End” windows. Anchors: Start the day with a family meeting to go over the agenda. Be intentional about meals and breaks. Have a “Quiet Time” for the kids so they miss each other for a while. Boundaries: Have a dedicated workspace and put things away. Change clothes to signal the start and end point of every day. Never interrupt a person who is in “the zone.” Brett’s Techie Tip #2: Know how to use a VPN - a "Virtual Private Network" Know WHEN to use a VPN – when you’re connected to an open, public, wireless network and need to send a private, confidential, sensitive email. If you've NEVER used a VPN before, there are many to choose from but my best recommendation is to look at one called Tunnel Bear. It’s cute and memorable, and free to use up to 500MB a month. That’s plenty of data to get yourself familiar with how it works. Download the app to your iPhone and iPad and next time you connect to an open, public wifi, and BEFORE you send that confidential email, open the app and turn it on. You'll see a little bear dig a tunnel and it will be turned on. Stephanie’s Logistical Tip #3: Everyone Has Responsibilities, Chores, And Pulls Weight Responsibilities are specific to the individual’s development Chores are household tasks that get done for everyone’s benefit Pulling weight is doing these things to the best of your ability Webinars, conference calls, and such are a group effort (reduce noise like putting the dog in their cage, doing quiet work, don’t hog the bandwidth) Brett’s Techie Tip #3: Your Phone or iPad Hotspot Many of you know that your Phone can act as a wireless hotspot! For iPhones & iPads: Go into Settings and towards the top you’ll see “Personal Hotspot” if your phone or iPad supports that By default this is OFF and you should ALWAYS turn it OFF unless you’re using it because it can drain your data plan! Change the Wi-Fi Password so that it’s something unique to you! Stephanie’s Logistical Tip #4: Balance ⚖️
Victor Dibia is a Research Engineer with Cloudera’s Fast Forward Labs. On today’s podcast, Wes and Victor talk about the realities of building machine learning in the browser. The two discuss the capabilities, limitations, process, and realities around using TensorFlow.js. The two wrap discussing techniques like Model distillation that may enable machine learning models to be deployed in smaller footprints like serverless. - While there are limitations in running machine learning processes in a resource constrained environment like the browser, there are tools like TensorFlow.js that make it worthwhile. One powerful use case is the ability to protect the privacy of a user base while still making recommendations. TensorFlow.js takes advantage of the WebGL library for its more computational intense operations. - TensorFlow.js enables workflows for training and scoring models (doing inference) purely online, by importing a model built offline with more tradition Python tools, and a hybrid approach that builds offline and finetunes online. To build an offline model, you can build a model with TensorFlow Python (perhaps using a GPU cluster). The model can be exported into the TensorFlow SaveModel Format (or the Keras Model Format) and then converted with TensorFlow.js into the TensorFlow Web Model Format. At that point, the can be directly imported into your JavaScript. - TensorFlow Hub is a library for the publication, discovery, and consumption of reusable parts of machine learning models and was made available by the Google AI team. It can give developers a quick jumpstart into using trained models. - Model compression promises to make models small enough to run in places we couldn’t run models before. Model distillation is a process where a smaller model is trained to replicate the behavior of a larger one. In one case, BERT (a library almost 500MB in size) was distilled to about 7MB (almost 60x compression). More on this: Quick scan our curated show notes on InfoQ https://bit.ly/32rWnab You can also subscribe to the InfoQ newsletter to receive weekly updates on the hottest topics from professional software development. bit.ly/24x3IVq Subscribe: www.youtube.com/infoq Like InfoQ on Facebook: bit.ly/2jmlyG8 Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/InfoQ Follow on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq Check the landing page on InfoQ: https://bit.ly/32rWnab
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We have a first PS4 kernel exploit, the long awaited OpenZFS devsummit report by Allan, DragonflyBSD 5.0 is out, we show you vmadm to manage jails, and parallel processing with Unix tools. This episode was brought to you by Headlines The First PS4 Kernel Exploit: Adieu (https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2017/ps4-namedobj-exploit/) The First PS4 Kernel Exploit: Adieu Plenty of time has passed since we first demonstrated Linux running on the PS4. Now we will step back a bit and explain how we managed to jump from the browser process into the kernel such that ps4-kexec et al. are usable. Over time, ps4 firmware revisions have progressively added many mitigations and in general tried to lock down the system. This post will mainly touch on vulnerabilities and issues which are not present on the latest releases, but should still be useful for people wanting to investigate ps4 security. Vulnerability Discovery As previously explained, we were able to get a dump of the ps4 firmware 1.01 kernel via a PCIe man-in-the-middle attack. Like all FreeBSD kernels, this image included “export symbols” - symbols which are required to perform kernel and module initialization processes. However, the ps4 1.01 kernel also included full ELF symbols (obviously an oversight as they have been removed in later firmware versions). This oversight was beneficial to the reverse engineering process, although of course not a true prerequisite. Indeed, we began exploring the kernel by examining built-in metadata in the form of the syscall handler table - focusing on the ps4-specific entries. Each process object in the kernel contains its own “idt” (ID Table) object. As can be inferred from the snippet above, the hash table essentially just stores pointers to opaque data blobs, along with a given kind and name. Entries may be accessed (and thus “locked”) with either read or write intent. Note that IDTTYPE is not a bitfield consisting of only unique powers of 2. This means that if we can control the kind of an identry, we may be able to cause a type confusion to occur (it is assumed that we may control name). Exploitation To an exploiter without ps4 background, it might seem that the easiest way to exploit this bug would be to take advantage of the write off the end of the malloc'd namedobjusrt object. However, this turns out to be impossible (as far as I know) because of a side effect of the ps4 page size being changed to 0x4000 bytes (from the normal of 0x1000). It appears that in order to change the page size globally, the ps4 kernel developers opted to directly change the related macros. One of the many changes resulting from this is that the smallest actual amount of memory which malloc may give back to a caller becomes 0x40 bytes. While this also results in tons of memory being completely wasted, it does serve to nullify certain exploitation techniques (likely completely by accident…). Adieu The namedobj exploit was present and exploitable (albeit using a slightly different method than described here) until it was fixed in firmware version 4.06. This vulnerability was also found and exploited by (at least) Chaitin Tech, so props to them! Taking a quick look at the 4.07 kernel, we can see a straightforward fix (4.06 is assumed to be identical - only had 4.07 on hand while writing this post): int sys_namedobj_create(struct thread *td, void *args) { // ... rv = EINVAL; kind = *((_DWORD *)args + 4) if ( !(kind & 0x4000) && *(_QWORD *)args ) { // ... (unchanged) } return rv; } And so we say goodbye to a nice exploit. I hope you enjoyed this blast from the past :) Keep hacking! OpenZFS Developer Summit 2017 Recap (https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/openzfs-devsummit-2017/) The 5th annual OpenZFS Developer Summit was held in San Francisco on October 24-25. Hosted by Delphix at the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco, over a hundred OpenZFS contributors from a wide variety of companies attended and collaborated during the conference and developer summit. iXsystems was a Gold sponsor and several iXsystems employees attended the conference, including the entire Technical Documentation Team, the Director of Engineering, the Senior Analyst, a Tier 3 Support Engineer, and a Tier 2 QA Engineer. Day 1 of the conference had 9 highly detailed, informative, and interactive technical presentations from companies which use or contribute to OpenZFS. The presentations highlighted improvements to OpenZFS developed “in-house” at each of these companies, with most improvements looking to be made available to the entire OpenZFS community in the near to long term. There's a lot of exciting stuff happening in the OpenZFS community and this post provides an overview of the presented features and proof-of-concepts. The keynote was delivered by Mark Maybee who spoke about the past, present, and future of ZFS at Oracle. An original ZFS developer, he outlined the history of closed-source ZFS development after Oracle's acquisition of Sun. ZFS has a fascinating history, as the project has evolved over the last decade in both open and closed source forms, independent of one another. While Oracle's proprietary internal version of ZFS has diverged from OpenZFS, it has implemented many of the same features. Mark was very proud of the work his team had accomplished over the years, claiming Oracle's ZFS products have accounted for over a billion dollars in sales and are used in the vast majority of Fortune 100 companies. However, with Oracle aggressively moving into cloud storage, the future of closed source ZFS is uncertain. Mark presented a few ideas to transform ZFS into a mainstream and standard file system, including adding more robust support for Linux. Allan Jude from ScaleEngine talked about ZStandard, a new compression method he is developing in collaboration with Facebook. It offers compression comparable to gzip, but at speeds fast enough to keep up with hard drive bandwidth. According to early testing, it improves both the speed and compression efficiency over the current LZ4 compression algorithm. It also offers a new “dictionary” feature for improving image compression, which is of particular interest to Facebook. In addition, when using ZFS send and receive, it will adapt the compression ratio to make the most efficient use of the network bandwidth. Currently, deleting a clone on ZFS is a time-consuming process, especially when dealing with large datasets that have diverged over time. Sara Hartse from Delphix described how “clone fast delete” speeds up clone deletion. Rather than traversing the entire dataset during clone deletion, changes to the clone are tracked in a “live list” which the delete process uses to determine which blocks to free. In addition, rather than having to wait for the clone to finish, the delete process backgrounds the task so you can keep working without any interruptions. Sara shared the findings of a test they ran on a clone with 500MB of data, which took 45 minutes to delete with the old method, and under a minute using the live list. This behavior is an optional property as it may not be appropriate for long-lived clones where deletion times are not a concern. At this time, it does not support promoted clones. Olaf Faaland from Lawrence Livermore National Labs demonstrated the progress his team has made to improve ZFS pool imports with MMP (Multi-Modifier Protection), a watchdog system to make sure that ZFS pools in clustered High Availability environments are not imported by more than one host at a time. MMP uses uberblocks and other low-level ZFS features to monitor pool import status and otherwise safeguard the import process. MMP adds fields to on-disk metadata so it does not depend on hardware, such as SAS. It supports multi-node HA configs and does not affect non-HA systems. However, it does have issues with long I/O delays so existing HA software is recommended as an additional fallback. Jörgen Lundman of GMO Internet gave an entertaining talk on the trials and tribulations of porting ZFS to OS X. As a bonus, he talked about porting ZFS to Windows, and showed a working demo. While not yet in a usable state, it demonstrated a proof-of-concept of ZFS support for other platforms. Serapheim Dimitropoulos from Delphix discussed Faster Allocation with the Log Spacemap as a means of optimizing ZFS allocation performance. He began with an in-depth overview of metaslabs and how log spacemaps are used to track allocated and freed blocks. Since blocks are only allocated from loaded metaslabs but freed blocks may apply to any metaslab, over time logging the freed blocks to each appropriate metaslab with every txg becomes less efficient. Their solution is to create a pool-wide metaslab for unflushed entries. Shailendra Tripathi from Tegile presented iFlash: Dynamic Adaptive L2ARC Caching. This was an interesting talk on what is required to allow very different classes of resources to share the same flash device–in their case, ZIL, L2ARC, and metadata. To achieve this, they needed to address the following differences for each class: queue priority, metaslab load policy, allocation, and data protection (as cache has no redundancy). Isaac Huang of Intel introduced DRAID, or parity declustered RAID. Once available, this will provide the same levels of redundancy as traditional RAIDZ, providing the administrator doubles the amount of options for providing redundancy for their use case. The goals of DRAID are to address slow resilvering times and the write throughput of a single replacement drive being a bottleneck. This solution skips block pointer tree traversal when rebuilding the pool after drive failure, which is the cause of long resilver times. This means that redundancy is restored quickly, mitigating the risk of losing additional drives before the resilver completes, but it does require a scrub afterwards to confirm data integrity. This solution supports logical spares, which must be defined at vdev creation time, which are used to quickly restore the array. Prakash Surya of Delphix described how ZIL commits currently occur in batches, where waiting threads have to wait for the batch to complete. His proposed solution was to replace batch commits and to instead notify the waiting thread after its ZIL commit in order to greatly increase throughput. A new tunable for the log write block timeout can also be used to log write blocks more efficiently. Overall, the quality of the presentations at the 2017 OpenZFS conference was high. While quite technical, they clearly explained the scope of the problems being addressed and how the proposed solutions worked. We look forward to seeing the described features integrated into OpenZFS. The videos and slides for the presentations should be made available over the next month or so at the OpenZFS website. OpenZFS Photo Album (https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNxYQuOm5RDxRgRQ4P8BhtoLDpyCuORKWiLPT0WlvUmZYDdrX3334zu5lvY_sxRBA?key=MW5fR05MdUdPaXFKVDliQVJEb3N3Uy1uMVFFdVdR) DragonflyBSD 5.0 (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release50/) DragonFly version 5.0 brings the first bootable release of HAMMER2, DragonFly's next generation file system. HAMMER2 Preliminary HAMMER2 support has been released into the wild as-of the 5.0 release. This support is considered EXPERIMENTAL and should generally not yet be used for production machines and important data. The boot loader will support both UFS and HAMMER2 /boot. The installer will still use a UFS /boot even for a HAMMER2 installation because the /boot partition is typically very small and HAMMER2, like HAMMER1, does not instantly free space when files are deleted or replaced. DragonFly 5.0 has single-image HAMMER2 support, with live dedup (for cp's), compression, fast recovery, snapshot, and boot support. HAMMER2 does not yet support multi-volume or clustering, though commands for it exist. Please use non-clustered single images for now. ipfw Updates IPFW has gone through a number of updates in DragonFly and now offers better performance. pf and ipfw3 are also still supported. Improved graphics support The i915 driver has been brought up to match what's in the Linux 4.7.10 kernel. Intel GPUs are supported up to the Kabylake generation. vga_switcheroo(4) module added, allowing the use of Intel GPUs on hybrid-graphics systems. The new apple_gmux driver enables switching to the Intel video chipset on dual Intel/NVIDIA and Intel/Radeon Macbook computers. Other user-affecting changes efisetup(8) added. DragonFly can now support over 900,000 processes on a single machine. Client-side SSH by default does not try password authentication, which is the default behavior in newer versions of OpenSSH. Pass an explicit '-o PasswordAuthentication=yes' or change /etc/ssh/ssh_config if you need the old behavior. Public key users are unaffected. Clang status A starting framework has been added for using clang as the alternate base compiler in DragonFly, to replace gcc 4.7. It's not yet complete. Clang can of course be added as a package. Package updates Many package updates but I think most notably we need to point to chrome60 finally getting into dports with accelerated video and graphics support. 64-bit status Note that DragonFly is a 64-bit-only operating system as of 4.6, and will not run on 32-bit hardware. AMD Ryzen is supported and DragonFly 5.0 has a workaround for a hardware bug (http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2017-August/626190.html). DragonFly quickly released a v5.0.1 with a few patches Download link (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/) News Roundup (r)vmadm – managing FreeBSD jails (https://blog.project-fifo.net/rvmadm-managing-freebsd-jails/) We are releasing the first version (0.1.0) of our clone of vmadm for FreeBSD jails today. It is not done or feature complete, but it does provides basic functionality. At this point, we think it would be helpful to get it out there and get some feedback. As of today, it allows basic management of datasets, as well as creating, starting, stopping, and destroying jails. Why another tool to manage jails However, before we go into details let's talk why we build yet another jail manager? It is not the frequent NIH syndrome, actually quite the opposite. In FiFo 0.9.2 we experimented with iocage as a way to control jails. While iocage is a useful tool when used as a CLI utility it has some issues when used programmatically. When managing jails automatically and not via a CLI tool things like performance, or a machine parsable interface matter. While on a CLI it is acceptable if a call takes a second or two, for automatically consuming a tool this delay is problematic. Another reason for the decision was that vmadm is an excellent tool. It is very well designed. SmartOs uses vmadm for years now. Given all that, we opted for adopting a proven interface rather than trying to create a new one. Since we already interface with it on SmartOS, we can reuse a majority of our management code between SmartOS and FreeBSD. What can we do Today we can manage datasets, which are jail templates in the form of ZFS volumes. We can list and serve them from a dataset-server, and fetch those we like want. At this point, we provide datasets for FreeBSD 10.0 to 11.1, but it is very likely that the list will grow. As an idea here is a community-driven list of datasets (https://datasets.at/) that exist for SmartOS today. Moreover, while those datasets will not work, we hope to see the same for BSD jails. After fetching the dataset, we can define jails by using a JSON file. This file is compatible with the zone description used on SmartOS. It does not provide all the same features but a subset. Resources such as CPU and memory can be defined, networking configured, a dataset selected and necessary settings like hostname set. With the jail created, vmadm allows managing its lifetime, starting, stopping it, accessing the console and finally destroying it. Updates to jails are supported to however as of today they are only taken into account after restarting the jail. However, this is in large parts not a technical impossibility but rather wasn't high up on the TODO list. It is worth mentioning that vmadm will not pick up jails created in other tools or manually. Only using vmadm created jails was a conscious decision to prevent it interfering with existing setups or other utilities. While conventional tools can manage jails set up with vmadm just fine we use some special tricks like nested jails to allow for restrictions required for multi-tenancy that are hard or impossible to achieve otherwise. Whats next First and foremost we hope to get some feedback and perhaps community engagement. In the meantime, as announced earlier this year (https://blog.project-fifo.net/fifo-in-2017/), we are hard at work integrating FreeBSD hypervisors in FiFo, and as of writing this, the core actions work quite well. Right now only the barebone functions are supported, some of the output is not as clear as we would like. We hope to eventually add support for behyve to vmadm the same way that it supports KVM on SmartOS. Moreover, the groundwork for this already exists in the nested jail techniques we are using. Other than that we are exploring ways to allow for PCI pass through in jails, something not possible in SmartOS zones right now that would be beneficial for some users. In general, we want to improve compatibility with SmartOS as much as possible and features that we add over time should make the specifications invalid for SmartOS. You can get the tool from github (https://github.com/project-fifo/r-vmadm). *** Parallel processing with unix tools (http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/unix-parallel-tools.html) There are various ways to use parallel processing in UNIX: piping An often under appreciated idea in the unix pipe model is that the components of the pipe run in parallel. This is a key advantage leveraged when combining simple commands that do "one thing well" split -n, xargs -P, parallel Note programs that are invoked in parallel by these, need to output atomically for each item processed, which the GNU coreutils are careful to do for factor and sha*sum, etc. Generally commands that use stdio for output can be wrapped with the stdbuf -oL command to avoid intermixing lines from parallel invocations make -j Most implementations of make(1) now support the -j option to process targets in parallel. make(1) is generally a higher level tool designed to process disparate tasks and avoid reprocessing already generated targets. For example it is used very effictively when testing coreutils where about 700 tests can be processed in 13 seconds on a 40 core machine. implicit threading This goes against the unix model somewhat and definitely adds internal complexity to those tools. The advantages can be less data copying overhead, and simpler usage, though its use needs to be carefully considered. A disadvantage is that one loses the ability to easily distribute commands to separate systems. Examples are GNU sort(1) and turbo-linecount The example provided counts lines in parallel: The examples below will compare the above methods for implementing multi-processing, for the function of counting lines in a file. First of all let's generate some test data. We use both long and short lines to compare the overhead of the various methods compared to the core cost of the function being performed: $ seq 100000000 > lines.txt # 100M lines $ yes $(yes longline | head -n9) | head -n10000000 > long-lines.txt # 10M lines We'll also define the add() { paste -d+ -s | bc; } helper function to add a list of numbers. Note the following runs were done against cached files, and thus not I/O bound. Therefore we limit the number of processes in parallel to $(nproc), though you would generally benefit to raising that if your jobs are waiting on network or disk etc. + We'll use this command to count lines for most methods, so here is the base non multi-processing performance for comparison: $ time wc -l lines.txt $ time wc -l long-lines.txt split -n Note using -n alone is not enough to parallelize. For example this will run serially with each chunk, because since --filter may write files, the -n pertains to the number of files to split into rather than the number to process in parallel. $ time split -n$(nproc) --filter='wc -l' lines.txt | add You can either run multiple invocations of split in parallel on separate portions of the file like: $ time for i in $(seq $(nproc)); do split -n$i/$(nproc) lines.txt | wc -l& done | add Or split can do parallel mode using round robin on each line, but that's huge overhead in this case. (Note also the -u option significant with -nr): $ time split -nr/$(nproc) --filter='wc -l' lines.txt | add Round robin would only be useful when the processing per item is significant. Parallel isn't well suited to processing a large single file, rather focusing on distributing multiple files to commands. It can't efficiently split to lightweight processing if reading sequentially from pipe: $ time parallel --will-cite --block=200M --pipe 'wc -l' < lines.txt | add Like parallel, xargs is designed to distribute separate files to commands, and with the -P option can do so in parallel. If you have a large file then it may be beneficial to presplit it, which could also help with I/O bottlenecks if the pieces were placed on separate devices: split -d -n l/$(nproc) lines.txt l. Those pieces can then be processed in parallel like: $ time find -maxdepth 1 -name 'l.*' | xargs -P$(nproc) -n1 wc -l | cut -f1 -d' ' | add If your file sizes are unrelated to the number of processors then you will probably want to adjust -n1 to batch together more files to reduce the number of processes run in total. Note you should always specify -n with -P to avoid xargs accumulating too many input items, thus impacting the parallelism of the processes it runs. make(1) is generally used to process disparate tasks, though can be leveraged to provide low level parallel processing on a bunch of files. Note also the make -O option which avoids the need for commands to output their data atomically, letting make do the synchronization. We'll process the presplit files as generated for the xargs example above, and to support that we'll use the following Makefile: %: FORCE # Always run the command @wc -l < $@ FORCE: ; Makefile: ; # Don't include Makefile itself One could generate this and pass to make(1) with the -f option, though we'll keep it as a separate Makefile here for simplicity. This performs very well and matches the performance of xargs. $ time find -name 'l.*' -exec make -j$(nproc) {} + | add Note we use the POSIX specified "find ... -exec ... {} +" construct, rather than conflating the example with xargs. This construct like xargs will pass as many files to make as possible, which make(1) will then process in parallel. OpenBSD gives a hint on forgetting unlock mutex (http://nanxiao.me/en/openbsd-gives-a-hint-on-forgetting-unlock-mutex/) OpenBSD gives a hint on forgetting unlock mutex Check following simple C++ program: > ``` #include int main(void) { std::mutex m; m.lock(); return 0; } ``` The mutex m forgot unlock itself before exiting main function: m.unlock(); Test it on GNU/Linux, and I chose ArchLinux as the testbed: $ uname -a Linux fujitsu-i 4.13.7-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Oct 14 20:13:26 CEST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ clang++ -g -pthread -std=c++11 test_mutex.cpp $ ./a.out $ The process exited normally, and no more words was given. Build and run it on OpenBSD 6.2: clang++ -g -pthread -std=c++11 test_mutex.cpp ./a.out pthread_mutex_destroy on mutex with waiters! The OpenBSD prompts “pthreadmutexdestroy on mutex with waiters!“. Interesting! *** Beastie Bits Updates to the NetBSD operating system since OSHUG #57 & #58 (http://mailman.uk.freebsd.org/pipermail/ukfreebsd/2017-October/014148.html) Creating a jail with FiFo and Digital Ocean (https://blog.project-fifo.net/fifo-jails-digital-ocean/) I'm thinking about OpenBSD again (http://stevenrosenberg.net/blog/bsd/openbsd/2017_0924_openbsd) Kernel ASLR on amd64 (https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/kernel_aslr_on_amd64) Call for Participation - BSD Devroom at FOSDEM (https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem18/) BSD Stockholm Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/BSD-Users-Stockholm/) *** Feedback/Questions architect - vBSDCon (http://dpaste.com/15D5SM4#wrap) Brad - Packages and package dependencies (http://dpaste.com/3MENN0X#wrap) Lars - dpb (http://dpaste.com/2SVS18Y) Alex re: PS4 Network Throttling (http://dpaste.com/028BCFA#wrap) ***
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On THIS episode:* AJ and I talk about how we can save you time, money and headache with the new phone and phone plan* And we both go a Whatcom Wandering...Contracts? we don't need no stinking contracts! Next on BPM Tech.This show: How to save money on your Mobile phone and phone bill.Getting the phone: BYOD, vs Contract, vs Referb...fight, fight, fight! * Chris & AJ * iPhone SE 64gb; AJ new ace up his sleeve * Referb phones * Amazon * Ebay (buyer beware of hot/lifted phones) * Gazelle * Overstock * NewEggMVNO vs Contract vs whatever the new sales pitchs these days are * AJ I'm all about that Ting. Average bill with TWO iPhones = $45 * Tethering? Got ya covered * Virgin mobile https://www.virginmobileusa.com (https://www.virginmobileusa.com/?seng=g&cmpid=331060956&adgid=22814364036&tgtid=kwd-29916690&locphysid=9033359&locintid=&feedid=&adid=100382991156&matchid=e&ntwk=g&device=c&dvcmod=&aceid=&adp=1t1&plcmnt=&plcmnttgt=&productid=&productgroupid=&cid=ppc_rv_aac_seng:g_cmpid:331060956_adgid:22814364036_adid:100382991156_tgtid:kwd-29916690_device:c&gclid=Cj0KEQiA6_TBBRDInaPjhcelt5oBEiQApPeTFw2FneRxujgMrz3v7mQFH9OqhwBxJpcX3R8Rr3BT3qwaAuTh8P8HAQ#!/) * $35 UNLIMITED **DATA, TALK & TEXT * 5gb 4g lte * Boost mobile https://www.boostmobile.com (https://www.boostmobile.com/specials/1045/?seng=g&cmpid=612826943&adgid=29596561220&tgtid=kwd-436959803&locphysid=9033359&locintid=&feedid=&adid=107400023660&matchid=e&ntwk=g&device=c&dvcmod=&aceid=&adp=1t1&plcmnt=&plcmnttgt=&productid=&productgroupid=&cid=ppc_rv_seng:g_cmpid:612826943_adgid:29596561220_adid:107400023660_tgtid:kwd-436959803_device:c&gclid=Cj0KEQiA6_TBBRDInaPjhcelt5oBEiQApPeTF3mc3Kz_tW2ec6kkP9WhfOxe4fZ4Sy-ac0mhTuOpHYMaAuWc8P8HAQ) * $30 Unlimted talk. text. data**** ***2GB 4G LTE High-Speed Data* Freedom Pop https://www.freedompop.com/ * 100% Free Basic Plan - 500 texts, 200 minutes, and 500MB each month* Republic Mobile (*_android_* only) https://republicwireless.com (https://republicwireless.com/phones/?gclid=Cj0KEQiA6_TBBRDInaPjhcelt5oBEiQApPeTF_iJXqIq1fnPhJHN0uNmoecPrcU91PJR2stoe3KK_xgaAlxS8P8HAQ) * Wifi based * **$20**/mo ****UNLIMITEDTalk, Text & WiFi Data 1GBCell Data * They do offer a $15 a month sans mobile data* Net 10 (http://www.net10wireless.com/#/) * **$35 - **FIRST **500 MB DATA ****AT UP TO****4G LTE SPEED, **AND THEN AT 2G** Cricket Wireless * Unlimited Talk+Text and Now get 8 GB of data for $50/mo. * Base is now $30 Unlimited Talk+Text + 1GBAJ Follow up to previous episode: **Defense Mobile (https://www.facebook.com/DefenseMobile/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE&fref=nf) SHUTTERED! **June 29 (https://www.facebook.com/DefenseMobile/posts/1056045477777422) · IMPORTANT SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Defense Mobile's CDMA (V) network is winding down.We value your business and we want to ensure you have time to switch to another service provider. Take action as soon as possible to avoid service interruption and losing your phone number.For more information, please visit http://weare.defensemobile.com/cdmav-wind-down (http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fweare.defensemobile.com%2Fcdmav-wind-down&h=bAQGMqBaWAQEp_FzSRL74AkpwEe0PSZIRp7hke4E2g8IHwg&enc=AZP1C2Ge3utxdgET8tU5zIpGvzPGmNoga0RfEwziNjR_S4XIL5o4_tguVTxlutyvY77xq7Fs_PmfzYR8KAUbJyuB-d-lfpOCLWEmSQWpg3qzc9SZN2Yot7_YgruLrdeZs8AS2JMNtW6RDEDLcR2L7mOXce6mztkX8mVsehLuIS1wtyNRuUXD0hvL3hHRjpZi20EqnvU6ffJWtDtMDnPYrMgp&s=1).Source: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4svORJRkdL8J:https://www.facebook.com/DefenseMobile/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us Data needs on the go?* Karma* Whatcom Wandering?* The Fork at Agate Bay 2530 Northshore Rd, Bellingham, WA 98226 * What does AJ like? Sitting in front of the awesome pizza oven they have, and watching your pizza bake as you wait. * What does Chris like? Taking a pleasant drive north on Hannegan Road to Lynden to have dinner at Nami Asian Bistro on Bender Road, one of the best places for sushi in the County.* * ***Listener Voicemail**Hey all you out there in PodcastLand! Give us a call at 201-731-8324 (tel:2017318324), that's **201-731-TECH** and leave us a voicemail. Let us know what you think of the show. Ask us a question about technology. We'll be happy to answer your questions —ASKED NICELY, of course — in our future shows.* * Subdued Stalking * AJ: just launched a new vlog for my Patreon patrons on how the LIFX bulb powered Light Staff was built patreon.com/ajbarse (http://patreon.com/ajbarse) or follow me on Twitter/Instagram both are @ajbarse * Chris: In addition to WhatcomWorkflow.com (http://whatcomworkflow.com/) and Twitter, my writings are now available on my personal website, chrispowell.co (http://www.chrispowell.co/).
El Growth Hacker, es una persona muy técnica y conocedora del marketing, que se basa mucho en el análisis de datos, para mejorar su sistema de adquisición. Siempre se pregunta cómo mejorar el proceso para conseguir sus objetivos , que en definitiva es hacer crecer una startup rápidamente con el menor gasto posible y haciendo participe a su audiencia de su crecimiento. Pero lo mejor es que escuches el podcast. Temas tratados en el podcast Cómo definiríamos lo que es el Growth Hacker. ¿El Growth Hacker se basa mucho en la metodología Lean startup? ¿El Growth Hacker ha dejado atrás las típicas reglas del marketing y lo que verdaderamente le interesa sería aquello que se puede probar, analizar y viralizar? Probar, mejorar, repetir y así hasta dar con lo que se llama el Product Market Fit (PMF). Estrategias al estilo Groupon, de dar un descuento si traes a un amigo o lo que hace DropBox, que te regala 500Mb si traes a alguien recomendado, ¿son buenos Growth Hacks? ¿Cómo atraer visitas a nuestro blog o página web con el Growth Hacking? Uno de los objetivos que persigue el Growth Hacker es buscar la viralidad para crecer a lo grande. ¿Cómo lo consigue? Herramientas que utiliza un Growth Hacker. El Growth Hacker ¿utiliza mucho las redes sociales y de qué manera las utiliza? Las mejores técnicas y más fáciles de implementar en nuestro proyecto. ¿Para ser un buen Growth Hacker hay que saber mucho analizando datos y no perder de vista el ROI (retorno de la inversión)? Un Growth Hacker no trabaja un producto que no quiere nadie, ¿es correcto? Consejos para los que empiezan un proyecto nuevo y como ser un buen Growth Hacker.
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It’s Gareth and James this week talking about the most exciting news in mobile tech. This week James reviews the Blackberry Curve 9320 and Gareth challenges his views that the 9320 is the best budget phone around. Samsung create an ad what makes known there is a Samsung Galaxy SIII and HTC announces a new baby brother to the Desire name. Direct DownloadiTunesDownload the iPhone AppDownload the Android AppRSS FeedRegulars - Gareth, Matt, Tracy and JamesEmail us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk Tel: 0208 123 3757 Show NotesHTC Desire C Full SpecsT-Mobile announces pricing for the HTC Desire CSamsung GALAXY S III Official TV CommercialSamsung announce the Omnia M Windows PhoneEU roaming charges set to fall from JulyBlackBerry Curve 9320 ReviewOctopus Keyboard for iPhone mimics BlackBerry 10Contact Monkey – Share your details with one clickHuawei Honor U8860 Unboxing Video Tablet Table Bargain BasementMotorola ATRIX + Laptop DockFree HTC One X – 12 MONTH Vodafone contract £36 a month 300 minutes, unlimited texts, 500MB data Listeners GardenApp AtticVCMSAirdroid (again)iPeriod Ultimate – MattJames’ Bric A Brac BazaarWin a prize! ------Email us: Podcast@tracyandmatt.co.uk Tel: 0208 123 3757Gareth Myles – @garethmylesJames Richardson – @j4mes73Matt and Tracy Davis - @tracyandmattCyril - @cyrilthedonkeyMobile 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 AppDownload the Android App Posted by: Gareth Post Tags: Podcast,mobiletechaddicts,uk,three,iphone,mobile,apple,blackberry,orange,t-mobile,vodafone,htc,samsung,palm,rim,motorola,nokia,advent,android,webos,symbian,o2,3uk,playbook,galaxy,ipad 2,HP,ZTE,Xperia,Archos,Arnova,Acer,Windows Phone 7,LG,Xoom,Flyer,gingerbread,honeycomb,Microsoft,9900,Asus,Ice Cream sandwich,ios,4S
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Episode 32Freezing Works This episode of Jay Wont dart's podcast, I talk about Freezing Works, a New Zealand occupation, basically an abattoir or slaughterhouse where the meat is frozen at the end and exported overseas.Download Episode directly hereMy intro was from No Agenda episode 104.I'll start with a quote.The meat processing industry is in a constant stateof change. These changes will continue to meet therequirements of the 21st Century. The meat plant of100 years hence will probably feature a high degree ofautomation. But this will be beyond our lifetime. If wefocus upon the immediate future the meat plant of the21st Century will probably incorporate many of thecurrent trends or developments.Operating margins will remain small with theemphasis upon high productivity and enhanced revenue.We may see the rise of the mega-plant linked with anational or international network of specialised addedvalue operations.The international demand for meat and proteins isexpected to grow. The challenge of the meat plant willbe to meet this demand and produce a range of productsto the exact requirements of the customer.'In the public eye, the Freezing Worker is one of thelowest status individuals in our society. A rough,irresponsible layabout who jeopardises the economy forsheer greed and goes on strike at the drop of a hat. Heearns high wages for very simple work. He's at a keypoint in the economy, responsible for processing oneor our biggest export commodities. He can hold thecountry to ransom. So runs the popular myth.No-one who has not seen what a freezing works islike, and the kind of jobs freezing workers do is in aposition to criticise. The industry carries massproduction to its extreme. A freezing works is a giantdis-assembly line along which carcasses and organs rollwith a deadening inevitability while the men scuttle tokeep up. The machine is truly king. A butcher on thechain must carry out the same operation over and overagain, day after day until the season ends. Not for himthe carpenter's pride in his skill, the watersiders varietyof tasks, the shearers' sense of completing a meaningfuljob. Instead endless, mindless, meaningless work, oftenstanding in the same place all day using a dangerouslysharp knife, surrounded by hundreds of other men doingthe same thing, and by the unedifying sights and smellsof freshly dismembered animals.'Kerr Inkson of OtagoUniversity, 1977I had to look up the term Watersider, it means a person who loads and unloads ships, a dock worker.In Southland , there are a few different Freezing Works, or "The Works", as they are known colloquially. Freezing Works are common in New Zealand rural areas, farmers grow animals like cows, sheep and pigs, and they are sent off to The Works to be killed. When you go past a Freezing Works, they are quite large factory buildings, normally white, and with lots of metal frames outside, where the animals were kept. Trains or trucks will bring the animals in, they will go through pens, to be stunned and then murdered, or in Freezing Works terms, Slaughtered, inside. Their skin is removed for leather, bones are cut and pulled out, heads cut off, tongues cut out, their muscles sold as meat. Their organs are snatched out and thrown in stainless steel trays for inspection, if they are fit for sale, then they are sold for people to eat. Intestines are used as the casings for sausages, the intestines are like socks that get stuffed with low grade meat, to make sausages. I've read that glands are sold, some powdered up and sold overseas as a health thing, some such as testicles, are probably bought in an attempt to spice up the bedroom. In old photos I've seen, you know from the 80's, hairy old men, without gloves on , are wringing out the intestines to make sausage casings, I assume that nowadays they have to wear gloves at least. The intestines go through a wringer, and get washed. A little about the history of meat exported from New Zealand. Canning of meat was started in 1869 in New Zealand, only the best meat was canned. In 1874, american cooled meat was sent to Britain, natural ice kept the meat cold.The first ship to carry frozen meat from New Zealand to the United Kingdom was The Dunedin. The Dunedin used 3 tonnes of coal a day, through a steam powered refrigeration machine, to cool The Dunedins hold, down to 4 degrees celsius. The ship was rigged up for refrigeration in 1881, and its first journey, from Oamaru New Zealand, thats in Otago just north of Southland, left for London on the 15th of February, 1882. It took The Dunedin 98 days to arrive, on the 24th of May."It is difficult to realise that only about thirty-five years have elapsed since one of the most important of the world's industries was inaugurated, resulting in the enormous and increasing trade of the present day. And yet the whole of this great industry, and to a very great extent the general prosperity and advancement of New Zealand, hangs on the slender piston rod of a refrigerating machine". M A Elliot The Frozen Meat Industry of New Zealand - NZ Journal of Science and Technology, May 1918.How the Freezing Works, work.The animals are brought in, they are To do this episode, I read a book about the Alliance Freezing Works here in Southland, the books name is A Cut Above, the book came out in 1985, two years before I were born.A Cut Above was pretty difficult to read in parts, I read it every day at work while the other people around me ate meat, and I had my normal sandwiches. I'd ask questions to my dad, since he worked at Alliance, and he would casually explain things. Theres lots of disgusting sounding jobs, and sections of the Freezing works. Places like " the fellmongery" , which sounds like something from The Lord of the Rings, its where the wool is taken off sheep. I'll read a few passages that stood out to me.Just to explain this first quote, from the 1950s until the mid-1970s New Zealand was a highly protected economyOk, hearing that nowadays, with our Free Trade Agreements and all, the idea that the government can deny the right of a company to import a crucial device from overseas, it sounds nuts to me! I asked some older friends, and they could agree that it was the right thing to do, "new zealand jobs" and all, but I dont think its a good plan to just ban imported goods, and instead churn out inferior, and more expensive local versions. Imagine if we could only have New Zealand made computers, that had to have every part made in this country, we'd have to spend billions to reinvent every component, and then still be behind! I dont think I'd want to swap my Apple iPhone for a Kiwifruit brand, Choice-as phone, would you?This part of A Cut Above is about one of many strikes and protests. I couldnt believe that happened when I read the book, the farmers were angry that the freezing works were overloaded, they couldnt deal with extra sheep at the time, so the farmers were being forced to hold onto their animals for longer than they wanted. The farmers went crazy, in my opinion, and brought the animals right into Invercargill city, from their farms, and set them free in the main streets, I cant imagine what that must have been like to see. Scared sheep were running about on busy roads, I guess the farmers would have been having a great time, laughing as police struggled to control the animals that must have been running in front of cars, and in every direction. The farmers managed to get the sheep under control, they took them somewhere close to the Invercargill prison, they dug ruts in the ground for blood to flow through, and started killing sheep in public, out in front of tv crews. Thats horrible, the animals were made about as scared as possible, running free on city roads having lived on farms all their lives, the police couldnt deal with it, it would be scary for drivers not wanting to hit an animal, all while the farmers would have been enjoying themselves. Then, to start killing the animals in public, they show no respect at all for the lives of the sheep, they wanted to protest by driving into Invercargill, setting them off on the streets, so they did it. They want to kill the sheep, so they get them back ,take them to another public place and kill them out in the open, on camera, just to get attention. What was their complaint? That they had to wait for the freezing works to kill their animals, and they couldnt be bothered having these poor sheep kept alive that long.One more section from A Cut Above. "Continued industrial stoppages in the freezing industry had not escaped the notice of the new National Government which had been elected to office on promises of being tough with irresponsible unions. Late in 1976, it was to demonstrate some theoretical muscle when it introduced the Industrial Relations Amendment (No. 3) Act.The act obliged those in the industry to give three days notice of industrial action, and they faced fines of up to $150 if they did not kill out sock either in a works or in transit before going on strike. The legislation was an abysmal failure. From one end of the country to the other, the provisions of the act were ignored. A chorus of farmer protest grew. The Alliance company did not escape and February, 1977, saw a foolish stoppage that made a mockery of the law and industrial relations in general. On 8 February, slaughtermen demanded that security in their dining room be improved, so a door leading from their amenities was locked. During the night, the lock was removed and when some workers other than butchers were found in the dining room the next day, the butchers had a meeting and went home. A meeting was held the next day with union officials and an agreement was drawn up about steps to be taken to prevent non-butchers using their dining room, which included re-locking the offending door. That upset the freezer workers who decided to go on strike until the door was unlocked. There was no discussion with either the company or the union on the matter. Having made their decision, they simply walked out. Later, Jim Barnes learned that freezer workers were in the habit of using the butchers' dining room as an accessway to their own facilities. The company had, of course, provided an alternative entrance but that was marginally further walking distance. A shed meeting of all workers the next day supported the stand taken by the freezer workers and over the weekend, a series of meetings resulted in the disputes committee chairman, Aubrey Begg, being asked to make a decision.He, in turn, upheld the authority of the union officials to make agreements with the company, thereby deciding in favour of the slaughtermen. Work started on Monday, 14 February, with six chains in full production, but ended at 3 PM when freezer workers went home saying they would not return until the door was unlocked. The following day, another shed meeting was held and in a secret ballot, the men decided to uphold Begg's decision and work resumed at 2 pm that day. In the meantime, the company had lost 80,000 head of stock and workers about $150,000 in wages over one door.To cap it all off, no sooner had work started than there was a telephone call to say there was a bomb on the slaughterboard. This meant evacuating the works while management, including Bill Pottinger, Ray Dunn and supervisors fruitlessly searched for any bomb-like object or container. "And you're back to me talking again, all that talking is making me tempted to rely on Alex again!To translate that into modern english, Butchers were annoyed that other people, who worked in the freezer section, used their dining room. The Butchers said that their things were being stolen by the freezing guys walking through their area, and they demanded the door to the room be kept locked. They said they would go on strike if the door was NOT locked. The Freezer workers said they would go on strike if the door WAS locked, they walked through that room to get to where they wanted to go. One side would strike no matter what happened with the door. The door ended up being locked, and the freezer workers went on strike. As A Cut Above says, the Freezer workers had another way to get to where they wanted to go, without going through the locked door, but they said it was longer that way, they wouldnt do it. The whole Freezing Works couldnt work properly without all workers, and in the end they "lost 80,000 head of stock", I think that means those animals would be sent out of Southland to another place to be killed, so the Alliance Freezing works didnt get paid for killing those animals since they didnt do it, someone else would have, and all the workers were not working, so they would have lost about $150,000 1977 NZ dollars in lost wages. I dont know what that would be in todays money, but I've been told around that time you could buy a house for 20,000 or so, 20 grand bought a house, and 150,000 didnt get paid out to the workers because they didnt do their work. All over one door!I have a special invited guest on this episode, my dad, who worked for a long time at a local Freezing works, slaughtering lambs, his job was to open up the sheep around the back legs.I'm pretty happy he decided to come on my podcast and talk about working in a slaughter house.“Thine is the task of blood.Discharge thy task with mercy.Let thy victim feel no pain.Let sudden blow bring death;Such death as thou thyself would ask for.”The Slaughterman’s CreedI've prepared a clip from a BBC documentary, Slaughterhouse, a task of blood to play. I found Slaughterhouse on Veg TV, which you can find at veg hyphen tv.info, you can probably find it by searching for veg tv. its in my notes also. I downloaded the 500MB clip, which put me over my bandwidth cap for this month, but its worth it. Slaughterhouse is a very personal documentary, it has actual characters in the different slaughtermen, most are 20 something year old guys with awful English smiles, the crooked and broken off teeth were what upset me the most in this documentary. If you have the time, I highly recommend downloading Slaughterhouse, A Task of Blood.About the pig mentioned in the last part, if I were cruel, I'd leave what what happening to her to your imagination. But, Im a nice guy, so I'll explain it, the pig had escaped from the pens that the animals are kept in, she was running about the parking lot of the abattoir, and she ran out onto the road. I guess in the end they will have gotten her back inside, but its nice to think that she could have been left alone to run off down the road to freedom.I liked hearing what the workers think, even if I dont agree with how the animals are treated by slaughtermen. It was interesting to hear one of the jewish slaughterers being concerned about the animals wellbeing, and that he even considered himself an animal lover! I dont know how he can say that, and work in a slaughtherhouse, remember, he said that humans are a higher order, we are above animals, so we have the right to kill them, according to him. I dont agree with that at all, I guess its a matter of perception, that a slaughterer could think animals were great, but that we had to eat them and because we are smarter when it comes to making iPods, we have the right to kill cows. I liked the vegetarian message at the start and finish of Slaughterhouse, A Task of Blood too, I think it makes a compelling point, who would want to eat meat after seeing inside an abattoir? Not me, thats for sure. However, this clip is a little disheartening if you read into it like I did, I get the point of "ok, im going to leave off the meat" but its not like you have to eat less if you are vegetarian or vegan, taking off a huge steak and being left with just the steamed carrots and mashed potato on the side, now your main course. Have THREE vegetables on your plate! For the price of the corpse, you could buy a much larger amount of vegan food, you could have chocolate for desert afterwards, being vegan has nothing to do with suffering through mealtimes.I think its reasonable to think that people who eat meat dont want to see how its made so to speak, how the animals are kept, treated, hacked to bits. I like bringing that up anytime someone says something like "you're less of a man now you're vegan", I can pull out my iPhone and show them Earthlings on it, Im quite used to gory slaughterhouse footage now, I'd be willing to beat that the average meat eating person would be more upset to see how meat is made than I am.Theres a good vegetarian message to be learnt when you've seen inside of an abattoir. You see the truth, how things really are. I'd like to play a clip from Compassionate Cooks, I love Colleens podcast where she talks about being vegan and cooking. If you search iTunes for " compassionate cooks" it will show up, I'll have a link to her website compassionate cooks .com in my notes as well.Thank you very much for the work you do Colleen, I've donated some money towards the running costs of your podcast. My friend Sam is a young New Zealand vegan, its always good to find other vegans in New Zealand, especially guys, it breaks down any perceptions that only women are vegan. I'd like to mention Sam's new podcast, NZ Vegan Teen, you can find it on iTunes by searching NZ Vegan Teen. Sam has many websites up, I first came across his anti Dairy site, here is a clip Sam sent me to play on this episode.You can find Sam on iTunes by searching for NZ Vegan Teen, also http://nzveganteen.blogspot.com/ is one of Sams pages, nz vegan teen . blogspot . com.Howard Lyman is a former American Cattle Rancher, a cow farmer in New Zealand terms, who decided to be vegan. Howard used modern chemicals on his farm, in 1979 he was diagnosed with a tumor on his spine. He was told he could be paralysed from the tumor, he vowed to switch to non chemical methods of farming if he beat the cancer. He survived the operation to remove the tumor, and changed his farm into an organic operation. Around 1990, Howard Lyman faced health problems, he became vegetarian and found his health improved. He started looking into Mad Cow Disease, which was affecting Great Britain. In 1996 Howard Lyman appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show, he made comments that offended the National Cattlemens Beef Association, he basically said "meat is bad for you, bad things are fed to cows, ground up roadkill, pets who have been put to sleep etc, cows dont naturally eat meat, its wrong." Oprah agreed , shocked by what she heard she said she wouldnt eat hamburgers again. The Beef Association was very mad about that, it was a bit like the recent New Zealand Pork scandal, my term for it, with the Pork Board denying that New Zealand pigs are badly treated in factory farming conditions. The Beef association were hurt by the drop in sales, when people find out how meat is brought to their supermarket, they often buy less, at least temporarily. Both Lyman and Oprah were sued, they eventually won the trial. In time Howard became Vegan. I have a clip of Howard Lyman, from one of his speeches,Im near the end of this episode, so I'd like to thank you for listening now. If you want to contact me, even just to say you listened, send an email to jaywontdart@gmail.com, j a y w o n t d a r t @ gmail.com, I'd appreciate it. My outro will be the song Meat is Murder, sung live by The Smiths, I heard it and rushed off to buy it on iTunes. I've noticed that iTunes doesnt show my earlier podcast episodes, I have the full set of links to each and every episode on my blog page, jaywontdart.blogspot.com , so you can download every one of my episodes.I'd like to put forth a message to anyone who eats meat and who has listened to this episode, go and see what the inside of a "meat factory" looks like, no matter what its called, an abattoir, a slaughterhouse, or The Freezing Works. Its as simple as typing in " slaughterhouse" or something similar into Google Images, theres no cost or inconvenience to you. Have a look, and ask yourself, "could I work here? Could I cut these animals throats, watching litres of blood come out while they are hung upside down? Could I stand the smell of blood, guts, animal waste?" If you think these places are awful to see, well, why would you pay money for them to stay in business? Why would you want to touch what comes from them, if even the sight is upsetting, the thought is upsetting, the sounds are upsetting, the smell is upsetting, why would you want to eat it? This beautiful creature must dieA death for no reasonAnd death for no reason is murderAnd the flesh you so fancifully fryIs not succulent, tasty or kindIts death for no reasonAnd death for no reason is murderKitchen aromas arent very homely Its not comforting, cheery or kindIts sizzling blood and the unholy stenchOf murderIts not natural, normal or kindThe flesh you so fancifully fryThe meat in your mouthAs you savour the flavourOf murderHave a super happy day, bye.Sources=========http://www.techhistory.co.nz/19thcentury/Meat.htm meat historywww.meatupdate.csiro.au/data/Meat_95_14.pdf intro quote about freezing worksA Cut Above book, 1985My father, who worked at Alliance Freezing Works!http://veg-tv.info/ Slaughterhouse, a task of blood documentaryhttp://www.compassionatecooks.com/ outro song, Meat is Murder by The Smiths, awesome song, go and buy it to support musicians!
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