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Does anyone here have the foggiest notion of how big Matsushita is? $22 billion U.S. in third-quarter sales. Matsushita Reports Gains in Third Quarter The cartel doesn't need Bill Gates to decide where its interests lie.

I'm not sure what that says of Bush or of Interap. And it certainly doesn't seem to have anything to do with SixApart.

How about a 1Gbps connection :)

If rumours are true, SkypeIn (which will allow Skype users to receive inbound PSTN calls) is being released July 2005.

At a news conference here today, the company plans to announce new fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployment to homes and businesses in Virginia as well as in parts of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania -- bringing to nine the total number of states where work is under way. The company had previously announced FTTP deployment in California, Florida and Texas as part its plan to pass some 1 million homes and businesses with the new technology this year. Verizon plans to pass some 2 million additional homes and businesses with the new technology next year.

Canadians can expect to have this convergance within 3 months, here's the
press release and heres an overview

The technology was provided by Siemens with its SURPASS line of switches, and is really amazing. You'll be able to provision multiple lines, virutual PBX's and high bandwidths with their business offerings as well.

GFS was well-liked at supercomputing centers I have worked with until Sistina dropped the GPL license in favor of proprietary. They did this very suddenly and without warning. It pissed off a lot of potential users and the open source community. It has since fallen out of favor.

This move by Red Hat gives new life (and resources) to GFS beyond the OpenGFS Project that has also been continuing to work on the code.

Another recent development in this area is HP's decision to productize Lustre. Lustre is perhaps the most prominent and promising HPC filesystem.

SGI also announced a major deal last week involving Luster:

The new file system is expected to sustain write rates in excess of 8GB/sec and demonstrate single client write rates of more than 600MB/sec. To achieve this performance, the new file system will leverage Lustre, an open source, object-oriented file system with development lead by Cluster File System Inc., with funding from DOE. Lustre currently is used on four of the top five supercomputers, including the PNNL cluster based on 1,900 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors.

Maybe the Big Phone Booth (SBC Park)?

IBM Also announced a ton of new PPC information and tech today at an event in new york. Opening up the ISA to third parties including Sony.

Googling for the phone number yielded a few-months-old column against telemarketing regulations.

In it, he posts numbers for the ATA and DMA (Direct Marketing Association).

...on a related note, the home page currently has a poll: "Is The National Do Not Call List Unconstitutional?"

Googling for the phone number yielded a few-months-old column against telemarketing regulations.

In it, he posts numbers for the ATA and DMA (Direct Marketing Association).

...on a related note, the home page currently has a poll: "Is The National Do Not Call List Unconstitutional?"

A hell of a lot of batteries? How about a regenerateive fuel cell? Check out this cool diagram which illustrates that fuel cells are reversible. Some day we'll all have something like this in our basement.

Another idea is to cache some power when it's cheaper and available, by electrolyzing water into hydrogen, like charging up your UPS battery. Then when the power goes down, they've got a few days to get it back up before anyone blacks out, while everyone generates (and potentially shares) electricity they make with their regenerative fuel cell system.

There's a really good article called "Where in the World is VOIP Banned" here with a followup here.

There's a really good article called "Where in the World is VOIP Banned" here with a followup here.

let's see.... private investors dump big money into DSL and "last mile" internet boom companies.

billions of dollars go into laying networks all over the country.

said private companies go bankrupt because they invested everything in hardware, and before they could get to having a customer base and providing quality services, the well of infinite VC money dries up.

now, there are networks running everywhere, going unused or underused because the companies that built them are no longer solvent.

then, here comes HR1291, and the market gets picked up and closed up.

so, in the end, the giant telcos that were once declared a monopoly and broken up, will now be seeing a lot more flexibility in joining forces. they won't have to open up their local markets anymore. they will inherit the networks laid out by defunct companies that built on the money of investors who lost their shirts. and then, they'll control internet telephony.

what a beautiful scam.