Tag Archives: rant

Dave is sick of getting emails asking if the cheap toy DSO’s and FPGA/PIC/AVR oscilloscope kits are worth buying. Guess his response… answers by telepathy please. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Are Telstra (Bigpond), Australia’s largest Internet Service Provider deliberately throttling (capping) Youtube bandwidth on all of their plans? Try it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/my_speed My speed: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/MyTelstra.png Other Telstra customers: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra1.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra2.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra3.png http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Telstra4.png Other ISP’s: Internode: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Internode.png Netspace: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Netspace.png Optus: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/Optus.png TPG: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/TPG.png Exetel: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/exetel.png iiNet: http://www.eevblog.com/images/telstra/iinet.png Podcast: Download

Dave cuts loose on the ridiculous battery life on the Nokia E71 mobile phone. The code monkeys at Garmin and Nokia get a serve. Podcast: Download

Drive time rant. Mail Bag time, Dave answers two viewer emails about career options, and manages a rant on the coming peak oil crisis. Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download

Another drive-time rant. Dave cuts lose on people who email pointing out stuff he should have covered in the blog. Bottom line – don’t email, put it in the comments and let the community debate it! Podcast: DownloadPodcast (podcast2): Download