Flight Wi-Fi

About yesterday around 7:00 pm, Virgin America’s ran test their GoGo flight Wi-Fi, 35k feet over San Fransico. Yeah, it’s in-flight Wi-Fi. Pretty cool, huh? I always wished there’s a Wi-Fi on an airplane and now it’s come true. The speed might be slower than cable modem but still faster than DSL (shared at 3.6Mbps downstream and 1.8Mbps upstream.). And the fact that pay $13 (if it’s over 13 hours) isn’t a very expensive at all. And yet, thanks to them that they won’t block porn.

Some facts:

1. Your last bastion of Internet Free peace is gone. Forever. You’ll be forced to work on flights instead of valium napping or reading comic books, and your boss will expect you to be checking email. Time to plan a camping trip.
2. Total bandwidth is not as fast as Cable Modem, but it seems faster than slow DSL. (We were sharing 3.6Mbps down and 1.8Mbps up, which isn’t bad at all, on this Virgin America test flight, and it felt this fast when benching.)
3. But bandwidth is shared between customers. Aircell’s GoGo a 3GHz EVDO-Rev A related tech modded for ground to air, started crawling as soon as other passengers signed on. (I got a test result measuring 66kbps down at one point, but Ryan showed about a mbit down. )
4. You have to pay. Virgin America charges, for example $9.95 for flights under 3 hours, and $12.95 on flights over 3 hours.
5. You will still need to close your laptops and shut off your devices until you reach cruising altitude.
6. Most airlines, even those that are not blocking ports, are blocking known VOIP ports. For our sanity. Although I WAS able to initiate a really solid iChat video session, but they may filter this on real flights. (See Below, courtesy of Nick Bilton from the NYTimes.)
7. Although plenty of airlines will have Wi-Fi by the end of next year, I prefer Virgin America because they’ve got 110v AC power plugs in coach.
8. WiFi porn won’t be blocked by Virgin America (or American Airlines according to a test we performed earlier this week). But blocking porn is silly — people can easily play porn on DVDs or predownloaded files, but people generally have refrained so there’s no reason to think they’ll do otherwise now.
9. Flights using Go Go service will be able to connect to a VPN.
10. You can file share with other computers on the 802.11 a/b/g Wi-Fi network. That’s good for gaming, but also, make sure your firewall is up.

Source: Gizmodo

Typing Mania 4 – The game will made you cry

If you’re get bored with Guitar Hero or you think you’re type pretty fast then this thing. It will made you say “OMG!!” or cry or maybe feel sorry that you were born. Don’t be addicted and break down your keyboard.

After I have tried for few minutes I found out that it’s f**king hard… Yeah it’s even harder than DJMax. But this flash game has many great anime op/ed song like “Aimo from Macross Frontier” so you won’t get bored or given up to this game that easily.

If you want to try something insane then “Motteke! Sailor Fuku from Lucky☆Star” is there to fulfill your needs.

Good luck my man… The game is right HERE

つづく

Google’s browser (Chrome) test drive

Get bored with firefox 3 or IE7 already? Then Google’s new browser, Chrome, is here for you to test it and crush all hopes of IE. Well in this entry, I will give you some of my opinions after I test drive this babe, and include screenshot as well.

Alright! The first impression is the browser is looks nice and a bit faster than Firefox, especially when maximize the browser, it bring you full screen-like on IE7. And flash is working fine as well. But I feel retard when I scroll down the page (feel like using Theworld browser in different ver.).

Surprised, when I open-up Windows task manager for… you know, checking that’s whether Chrome using RAM more than FF or not. I found many of chrome.exe in separate line. While I’m writing this entry I’m using Chrome for test as well. And I guess it’s suck than suppose to be… Well, I can’t resize the pic and I can’t drag n’ drop the highlight words. F**k that up.

End the review…

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Aahamm, my conclusion is Chrome is a good browser, but it’s still in beta so I won’t switch from Firefox to Chrome yet. But if you wanna test drive anyway? Just go on Google’s page, download it, and test it (no Mac/Linux ver yet).

Note: Jack Sparrow’s pic down’t relate anything to this entry.

Note#2: Why my task is look like Mac? Well, I customized my Vista to look like Mac