Masked bandits

LightSquared v. LTE

Find it a little spooky that the Government would allow LightSquared to launch a network that is proven to interfere with planes GPS, yet still forces me to turn off my iPhone “just in case”.

Giving T-mobile a whirl

This afternoon my “sim card kit” arrived from T-mobile. The process of unlocking my phone was time consuming due to a conflict between Norton 360 and iTunes on my Macbook, but was otherwise painless. After unlocking the iPhone 4s, I simply popped in the new T-mobile sim card and booted up. The phone immediately found […]

Testament to IT Waste

While trying to clean up some office wiring I grabbed a new spare 4-port Gigabit hub and discovered that it was missing its dongle power brick. That’s not the first time I’ve received an electronic device missing its power supply and figured I might be able to find one as it needs 5v and 0.6A. […]