Glo Networks Technical Blog (Glo Blog)

So Navigon have released 1.1.0 a day or two ago. So have they fixed the problems that I believe made it usless ?

Post Code Search
Still only able to search on the first 5 characters of a UK post code. So it’s a right pain when quickly trying to find somewhere. BROKEN

Decent Call Support
The ability to sort and take a phone call without completely killing the navigation. A call comes in and right away you loose the direction screen. Very handy if you’re using it to navigate somewhere ! BROKEN

GPS Stability
On a motorway the bar at the top of the screen turns red and you loose the signal. Can’t see why so just leave the Navigator to pic the signal back up again. If your lucky it will, however 2 out of 3 times you need to exit to the home screen and reload the software. Then you get the signal right away so it’s not the signal rather the lovely software. BROKEN

Map Data
Still using map data that’s at least 4 years old … great . BROKEN

Exit / Crashing
This one is new to me, but on a 2 hour journey today a number of times the device dropped back to the iPhone Home screen. No calls came in and it was happily powered on a car cradle but at least 5 times it just gave up. NEW FAULT

And before someone comments. Before the install of this version I erased and setup the phone from scratch. It’s not jailbroken and a 3GS. Would love to know the fixes ….. but doubt there are any ! Worth the money … what do you think ?

Will TomTom be any better or is GPS on the iPhone just impossible ?

Posted by Chris in Mobile | 2 Comments »

Want to keep track of your staff / friends ? Want to work out where someone is that your trying to meet up with ? Might be a little big brother’ish but we can see the benifits of it.

Try it about and see what you think ? It works on the iPhone of course and may other mobile.

Google Latitude Link

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Windows Server 2008 R2 has been at RC (release candidate) for a little while now which means it’s almost finished and the RTM date has now been announced as August, so we have started having a look at 2008 R2.

Over the coming weeks we will post as we find and try out new features.

To kick it off, Microsoft have finally made a good process explorer in 2008 R2 and Windows 7, the screen shot shows – in top box a list of all the running processes for the CPU which I have selected services.exe

The next box down shows the Associated Handles for that process where you can select an individual one and end it if it is causing problems, you can also search the handles if there are a lot, which with some processes there are.

Next down is the Associated Modules, this shows every running module for that process, its PID, version and the full path for you can find it.

Under overview Tab you can select the process which then becomes selected in each of the other tabs for CPU and Memory making it easier to view exactly what that process is doing. Below is a screen shot of the new Resource monitor (Click the image to see full size)

Posted by Dave in Operating Systems | No Comments »

Where possible we, at Glo Networks, like to automate stuff. It makes our life easier, which in turn makes the running of our customer’s systems smoother. One of the tools that we’ve started using more and more recently is Powershell.

The problem that we had was using our favourite editor(s) to create Powershell scripts; although the syntax is very similar to languages, it does have some quirks.

Happily, for those of us that insist on using Vim here, Peter Provost has created a syntax file. It’s available via the Vim scripts archive. Whilst it’s been out for a while, this is the first time that we’ve come across it, and in combination with other scripts from Peter, we love it!

Posted by Karl in General | No Comments »

Bing.com is a new search engine from microsoft, the latest attempt to get back some of the search market from Google. A lot of people say its too late for Microsoft and that they have missed the boat.

Stats from the U.S show that Google in 2008 had 69% of searches done, while Yahoo was doing 19% and Microosft trailing in 3rd with 5.9%

We are currently trying it out at the moment to see if Microsoft have made any progress since Live search (its predecessor) initial thoughts are good but it’s no Google Killer, Google is still the king of search and for most poeple is the first thing they think of when they need to search the web.

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