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RF_Savage
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Comment #44860927
And it was a pun by Ericsson engineers, as they used Erlang to program telephone switches where the capacity planing included Erlangs.
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Comment #44782597
And Apple was involved in that as well, even if it was not planed. The pod in podcast coming from iPod after all.
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Comment #44774331
Yeah...
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Comment #44764847
But only for those areas with receiver coverage that feeds them. But your own receiver will always cover your area.
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Comment #44715392
SMS routing and billing systems did cost money. Especially billing, as the standards had nothing for it, so it was done by 3rd party software for a very long time.
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Comment #44694660
M12 gets old quick if you do a lot plug/unplug cycles.
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Comment #44297805
Not a single telco wants this. So it does not get built. Interestingly DECT NR+ is a 5G standard on dedicated spectrum and has been designed to be a mesh from the start.
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Comment #44283658
Viasat fixed modems got bricked at start of the war in Ukraine and some collateral one's in border areas.
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Comment #44166780
The cheapies are less useful for debugging real problems, due to their bad UI and severe limitations. A good, fast reacting multimeter is likely better thing to get than a cheap sc…
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Comment #44133513
Can be done more cheaply if tou are good at reusing things and building.
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Comment #44113113
Exploding The Phone was an excellent read.
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Comment #44113030
Proper PoE sources have active per port current monitoring and will disable the PoE power in case of an over current event.
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Comment #44020140
Good documentation and support.
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Comment #43672221
All mosfets are like that. The marketing folksbL at Toshiba just were not able get it removed, or they have had one too many complaint from folks running them near the absolute max…
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Comment #43385760
Apparently in September 2017, when they introduced the SPARC M8.
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Comment #43281498
Naturally there needs to be filtering and some sort of analog frontend. My main point was that mainstream rigs now do direct sampling, instead of zero-if or superhet with dsp IF. A…
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Comment #43277260
The popular IC-7300 transceiver from Icom does that. Receiver samples the whole band and does downconversion in the digital domain (DDC) and same for the transmitter (DUC). On the …
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Comment #42959658
Interesting project. They have definitely raised the bar for FOSS ECAD software with their major contributions to KiCAD for example.
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Comment #42907183
"It's all about merit until merit has tits." - Naomi Wu
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Comment #42671425
He owns 84% of Automattic, so likely not.
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Comment #42607847
>Patent unencumbered in a way that someone could make a commercially viable implementation. Doesn't this exclude all modern cellular standards then?
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Comment #42576323
I guess you had safe search off?
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Comment #42551816
So have the stressor and stress testing DDoS for hire sites changed to scraping yet?
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Comment #42532587
The Yahooification of Googles search becomes more amusing when one considers that it is now led buy the dude who ran Yahoo search to the ground.