Joel Henderson reviews the link between the S (daringfireball.net)

S of Nexus is the new Google Android phone. It is sold exclusively by Best Buy to United States for T-mobile network.

This is my personal review of S Nexus with the advantages and disadvantages. I will update this page to learn more.

Pure Android gingerbread this is the first phone generalized running the new operating system "gingerbread", version 2.3. I prefer Android apps stocks more modules manufacturer Motorola MotoBlur as the HTC sense UI. Improving more noticible: stock keyboard is much better than 2.2 and I prefer that it Swype.

Material new front camera (but step integrated chat yet). Of smart field (but no use widespread real yet) 16 gig memory built in, but no way to upgrade or to add an SD card)

Ugly ways all phone finds "cheap" for me. Something on the mixture of plastic materials and textures look well-built and not feels solidly. The bottom of the back has a strange hump doesn't fit my hand well, fit into one generic and advice over the phone slightly back when its on a desktop. The software has a theme omnipresent lime green and fluorescent orange color. Some people may like this. Personally, I think it is ugly and removes the out-of-the-box experience. Need to understand how to change the theme color. The buttons for the home, menu, search and return are rearranged all other Android phone that I had, which makes the interface more difficult for me to use and more likely to pressing me the wrong button. For example, the home button is at the bottom below right. In addition, I am a left hander and the home button is difficult to reach easily. Curved screen appears to cause distortion, such as whether a variable thickness rather than truly an AMOLED curve glass lens; the upper area of the phone has an effect of fish jar. [Added: this destruction shows curved glass vs flat AMOLED through user GD]

Buggy in several ways, the right of the box the phone had problems finding the T-mobile network and GPS. My dynamic Samsung Galaxy S had the same problems and S Nexus has much in common with the Galaxy. The home button and the button search appear to be broken: when I go into an application as a web browser, and then press home or search page, the phone vibrates but nothing else happens. Telephone application displays an error message like "cannot complete the call. The error dialog box is impossible to dismiss, and there is no way to compose another call. The fix is to re-establish the link between the overall. Three bugs above were impossible to report so far or binds that technical support is non-existent until now. T Mobile supports this phone because it is a Best Buy exclusive, but Best Buy just said "you have to ask Google", and the line help Samsung said "sorry our contact centre is closed."

User interface slow slow in several ways: graphs are nervous and choppy, as if the graphics chip cannot follow with scrolling. In my eyes, the Jig is on a par with the Galaxy; S It is noticibly slower than an iPhone 4. The question seems to be that S Nexus is not using a dedicated graphics chip and instead try and all graphics on the main processor Edition: others are this statement too. Slow data source: data speed is terribly slow compared to other phones T-Mobile news as MyTouch 4 G. This is because S Nexus uses the older, slower network (3 G - speed HPSAS) while G MyTouch 4 uses the most recent faster network (4 G - speed HPSA +). I see S Nexus as approximately five times more slowly, which is important for me because I use the phone for tethering. Slow repair: T-Mobile, explains my S Nexus service needs to fix the broken home button, which means mailing by phone to Google and waiting as Google mail back a replacement phone. This may take several days or more, which is much slower than a replacement for T-Mobile store even normal day. S Nexus considers flawed or rushed to launch. It is not an iPhone killer, and in my opinion it is not a necessary phone unless you have absolutely pure Android gingerbread or chip Near Field. Blog comments powered by

Slightly truths - equipment frustration ++ (approx.)

Living in the world of software and is does not someone of material, usually need confidence that the equipment is ok. My new PC (no name because I like the and this is my 2nd) began starts for the first time yesterday and frozen to halfway through it. Death as a dodo. It was the end of the installation for Windows 7, which was not a good sign. Fortunately, he had the good grace, not die until after I had received the login account setup, and it has sussed LAN.

Windows 7 does not really differ much from XP (although 64-bit, more ram, more gentle and softer but otherwise identical) and after the safe mode startup and rooting in the event log viewer, I find the error - error code cryptic "c:\windows\Pather\setup.etl" 3221225485 and employment have fortunately as Google. Certain aspects of the power management was not pleasant and moving blue my PC for testing. Disabling the high precision event timer to BIOS Setup screen management fixed it and it is now usable at least. Next comes the fun bit. Migrating my my old PC without reinstalling software...

Frustration 2 has discovered that a web server rent for some web sites had been "improved" to a new server box and that they had missed some Apache modules such as mcrypt broken form captcha contact and gzip compression modules. Two well heard arrived at the end of week, which is at this time support weekends off the ground, so I expect answers Monday.

The point is that change is not always a good thing and a certain amount of "friction" comes with the territory. You need patience allows attitude "try a few things. My Manager at work never put at its software except for firearms.

Put yourself in shoes user of your try and anticipate problems with upgrades, etc., all errors, provide test tools and Advisor of what to do if key files are missing etc. The most important lesson is never trust the user to that say that they are "not I delete the file password", te confused and so on. Always check with tools, newspapers, etc.

Asynchronous associated OVERLAPPED I/O is passed by address, and you can take advantage of this (The Old New Thing)

When you emit e/S asynchronous, completion function or the e/S port endpoint receives, among other things, a pointer to the OVERLAPPED I/o structure was originally issued against. And it is your key to the Golden riches.

If you need to associate information with the e/S operation, there is no obvious to say, place if some people end up doing things like maintaining a master table records all I/O outstanding overlapped as well as related information that i/o. When each I/O completes, they find the e/S in the master table to locate additional information.

But it is easier.

Given that the OVERLAPPED structure is passed by address, you can store your extra information alongside the OVERLAPPED structure:

/ / in Cstruct OVERLAPPEDEX {OVERLAPPED o;} CClient * AssociatedClient; {CLIENTSTATE ClientState;}; / / or c ++ struct OVERLAPPEDEX: OVERLAPPED struct {CClient * AssociatedClient;} {CLIENTSTATE ClientState;} ;

When e/S is finished, you can use the macro CONTAINING_RECORD or just static_cast LPOVERLAPPED OVERLAPPEDEX * and bingo, there is some additional information. Of course, you need to know the e/S one issued against a structure OVERLAPPEDEX instead of an ordinary OVERLAPPED structure, but there are ways to keep track of who. If you use an end function, and then just use a completion function OVERLAPPEDEX-aware when the OVERLAPPED structure is part of a structure OVERLAPPEDEX. If you use an I/O completion port, you can use the key end or to distinguish boring OVERLAPPED I/O for OVERLAPPEDEX e/S asynchronous OVERLAPPED.hEvent.

ASP.NET 4 0-ScriptManager Enhancement part-enable CAN property. (Weblogs @ ASP.NET)

ASP.NET 4.0 was a major step forward in programming. Microsoft has done incredible work performance. One of them is property can enable in asp.net 4.0 script manager. Say that it explore in detail. As you all know, Microsoft is providing a network delivery content for all the Ajax script that is used by Microsoft Ajax and any version of jQuery and JQuery UI. This property can enable script manager will retrieve all the script that can automatically. Developer does not have to worry about. As you know generation browsers are like IE8 and Firefox creates a new thread for each JS or CSS include in the Web page where they come from the CDN (content delivery network). Therefore, it will be largely step towards it. Let us take an example to explore things. I take a simple example that will demonstrate the use of this. I pray a TextBox and a button. The button click event will update the text box text property. I used to use Microsoft Ajax update panel. For this first I needed a script manager so I took the script manager and I set its property EnalbleCdn = true. So without publish any return after return only the portion that are required. I putted the text box in the control panel to update content model and I created the trigger back asynchronous post for the button click event. It will therefore updated the text in the text box without creating a post back. Let's look at how I created. Here is simple HTML to do so.

Now, I'm going to create a click event that will change the text in the text box '. Here is a code to do this.

protected void btnHelloWorld_Click (object sender, EventArgs e) {txtHelloWorld.Text = "Hello World";}

It is running let's with Ctrl + F5, and it will be displayed in the browser firefox as follows.

Now see us his point of view source to see how things will look like. Here is a screenshot display source.

As you can see its extracting all JS Microsoft Ajax Content delivery network. Isn't that much. You just activate property CAN = true and it will still work. It is the power of asp.net 4.0. Hope you liked it. Stay tuned over 2 side.

Make mSATA operating with mini PCI Express (Hackaday.com)

[Trucki] wanted to upgrade its JooJoo internal storage. MSATA inside the connector but peripheral that use this Protocol are hard to find and when you do'll it cost you and arm and leg. He knew he could get the solid state at an advantageous price drives that use the mini PCI Express standard, which is mechanically compatible with mSATA. So he set out to change a mini-PCI Express device to work with the mSATA Protocol. This involves swapping transmission lines and to reorganize the traces of tension on the connector. To manage the TX - and TX lines + it desoldered their decoupling capacitors and reorganized their business their signals. 3. 3V, lines, he had to cut food and rider soldering wires for correct pads.

This is some nice work enable to add a drive 32 GB for only 60 euros. Given that the device only comes with a SSD of 4 GB upgrade is almost mandatory if you plan to install a different operating system on the Joojoo.

iPad Predictor Busted in Insider Trading Round-Up (java .sys - con .com)

Second RAID Government alleged material inside information traders began Thursday with the arrest of James Fleishman, a seller of global research, a so-called expert-networking firm with Flextronics Senior Development Director of the company Walter Shimoon, AMD supply chain manager Marne Anthony Longoria and Taiwan Semiconductor bus North America dev Manager Manosha Karunatilaka.

As hired consultants Shimoon, Longoria and Karunatilaka told at least two hedge funds anonymous who were clients of first world of things that they oughtn can't have.

Flextronics guys is charged with leak information about Apple products such as the restricted iPad codename K48 and its release date, for the iPhone and iPod sales figures and the design of a new iPhone to a witness who has cooperated with the Department of justice.

The spilled AMD guy would AMD revenue and margin. The TSMC guys would have revealed that sales and shipments of the company.

Another person, Manager supply global ex-Dell Daniel DeVore, has already pleaded guilty of fraud and conspiracy to commit securities and wire fraud on 10 December. And Don Ching Trang Chu first overall was arrested on November 24 and charged with indiscretions on Atheros Communications.

As in the case of Galleon Group, which broke last year, the Government had wire taps.

Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara issued a statement saying "today's fresh allege that a corrupt Insider to some of the world leader in business technology network served also known as"consultants"that it was sold to employers by flight and peddling then their valuable information."

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Learn HTML5, JavaScript and CSS with free "School of Webcraft Mozilla" (Mashable) (Yahoo!)

Mozilla readies for the half of January Webcraft, school run 100% free developer training resource in partnership with the University of Peer 2 peer.

Last semester, school Webcraft offered 15 classes. Mozilla tent now bypass 30 January semester classes.

Classes will be between six and ten weeks; they turn you on topics relevant to web designers and developers, including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS. Previous classes also included non-developer topics such as the organic listing. Required skill levels will take place range from beginner to expert. Volunteer courses will start on 26 January, and proposals for new ideas of course are always accepted.

Students learn through a combination of free and open learning materials, online study and practical assignments groups who test their skills of piracy.

If you are a leader in the developer community, you can also step up and lead to a course for yourself. If you want to organize a class, you'll get P2PU and Mozilla support in the form of course design, materials, facilitation and other learning resources.

Registration opens January 8. until then, you can subscribe to Webcraft school e-mail list.

Mozilla believes that the developer training is "both secondary and university level... date, ugly students and lose." Another problem is that young learners simply do not have access to good web dev resources for learning. And the certification training is expensive and often out by current practices.

Creating a field training completely free and open for developers and future developers of all stripes, Mozilla hopes to correct some issues surrounding education technology.

We fully support this mission. while allowing more people to become better informed and more knowledgeable in web development and related technologies is a victory in our book.

Of course, we would like to see more just front-end and explored markup languages. but for that to happen, some knowledgeable developers will have to volunteer to teach their peers the basics (or not-so-base) of other programming languages.