![]() ![]() I've had a dropbox account for a few months now, and it's probably the most used web service / piece of software on my laptop. Two good sets of photos from other talented people, not me. I haven't been out with my camera yet, I was going to focus (no pun intended) on the aftermath, when it finally dies down. I couldn't think of a nicer place to re-group and refresh.įinally, lots more photos emerging from people, some of which are very good. The pub is obviously closed to the public, but it is now patronised by fire fighters during their well earned breaks. The Golden Retriever pub which was evacuated on Monday - not least because it has a thatched roof - has been turned into the Fire and Rescue HQ offices. Of course, we continue to hear about the hard work and dedication of the people that are fighting this fire on the front line. Can you imagine the operation if they had to evacuate that place? The Daily Mail, in true Daily Mail fashion, has grasped the story too, focusing on how close the fire came (has come?) to Broadmoor. I respect the decision was made with good intentions, but was it really necessary? Was it smoke and wind direction or was it to keep traffic off the roads? Let me know what you think. On a practical level it seems that schools that were closed yesterday, have re-opened today. ![]() ![]() With the wind dying down a little, we hope this will help the fire fighting effort which is still very much ongoing. The place was unusually quiet, with less road noise coming from the closed bypass and a stillness in the air that we hadn't experienced for a number of days. We went for a walk last night into Wildmoor Heath, around the back of our house, and although there have not been any major fires here, there were some small places with charred trees and fences. Several residents have spent a second night away from their houses after being evacuated, I feel for them and hope they get back to their intact homes soon, ready to start clearing the smell of smoke which has soaked everyones clothes and houses. Many road closures are manned by police, who seem happy to talk to people about the events of the day. To get to Bracknell from Crowthorne last night we had to drive all the way to Jennetts Park near the A329M and then back on ourselves past the Waitrose depots. ![]() The disruption caused by the fire continues, with roads still closed around the whole area. However, the combination of 11n and the fact that most enterprises were recognising the cost benefits of architecting distributed wifi networks, has meant that distributing real intelligence to the APs while maintaining command and control in the centre, is probably the way forward - for now. To give them credit, it wasn't really until 802.11n started becoming more widely deployed, that controller bottlenecks were a real world problem. But as is always the case with technology vendors, a lousy feature is only lousy until it has been implemented, and now the bottleneck problem magically exists. Up until 12 months ago, this was the norm and claims of this architecture being a bottleneck were met with marketing sneers. So why hasn't this method of deploying WiFi been done before? It's largely down to the manufacturers ability to support this type of deployment architecture, that was until recently based on sending WiFi traffic back to a centralised cluster of controllers where is was processed, marked, dropped, prioritised or spat out to its destination. You do still need your proprietary white cable though! I like the no nonsense way it instantly displays the music already on the device, and allows me to drag and drop my DRM-free mp3s onto it. It's free, lightweight, and you don't even have to install it, it works straight off as an executable. Now I don't have any affiliation with SharePod or its author but if you too own an iPod for the purpose of playing music, then I recommend you download it and try it out. So I wanted to share an alternative called SharePod. I don't buy music from Apple and I have a product that doesn't support video or Apps, i just want to put music onto my music player and have it do the job it was made for. I'm not going to get on my box about how inflated and overpowering the software is, because I don't need it. I dislike the perceived requirement to buy into the whole Apple experience just to use my 8GB music player, and iTunes is the pinnacle of my dislike. And it's certainly not what Apple have created in the software either. In short it's the ecosystem around the product that makes it so attractive, not what Apple created in the hardware. I bought it a few years ago, not because I feel the need to own everything with an Apple logo on it, but because it's small, very portable and because I like the ubiquitous support for car connections and the myriad of accessories. Like millions of other people I own an iPod. ![]()
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