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Wi-Fi, Linux, And VoIP In Canada

Posted by timothy on from the not-just-in-africa dept.

WEFUNK writes "Canadian Business magazine has a cover story promoting Wi-Fi, VoIP, and Linux as 'Stuff that Works: 3 hot technologies that live up to their hype.' The article goes on to describe a number of Canadian success stories, ranging from Spotnik Mobile's growing network of Wi-Fi hotspots to the Canadian National Railway's use of Linux since 1993, and quantifies the benefits of VoIP to a Canadian insurance company's call centre. The article also includes some shipment numbers for Linux servers in Canada, mentions the growing number of Linux apps, and nicely downplays the SCO debacle."

16 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. from a Canadian by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 4, Funny
    " The protocol is rather inefficient, because of the Canadian necessity of adding "eh?" to the header of every packet."

    I would have been kind of annoyed if this was modded as funny. (Well it was.) But it irks me even more that it was modded as redundant ;-)

  2. But VOIP doesn't work on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    VOIP is illegal to run on Linux because its made by Microsoft. And I thought that VOIP is slower than DSL so why not just use to mics's to connect the telephones or just use cell phones, eh?

    And Wi-Fi would not reach the distance from my house to the house across the street, so unless I want to call myself it is useless ... therefore I conclude that all 3 technologies are useless.

    I bet I'll be modded down for dissing Linux, as always...

    1. Re:But VOIP doesn't work on Linux by Sabalon · · Score: 3, Funny

      its made by Microsoft

      Huh?

    2. Re:But VOIP doesn't work on Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Is there any documentation for VoA? If not I would like to comeup with a bussiness plan of competing with VoIP and just include 2 mic's in the package. Do you think it would work?

      Thanks

  3. a technolibertarian state? by Thinkit3 · · Score: 1, Funny

    This plus allowing gay marriage makes it sound like a nice place. The average /. raving technolibertarian might be at home. But there's still the gun laws.

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    -Libertarian secular transhumanist
    1. Re:a technolibertarian state? by Angry+White+Guy · · Score: 4, Funny

      We make up for that with the pot laws. You don't want stoned people with firearms.

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      You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
  4. the growing number of Linux apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    the growing number of Linux apps

    17000 text editors
    12000 terminals
    95000 programming languages
    12000 web browsers
    1350 assorted web servers and databases
    500 window managers
    200 clones of breakout & tetris
    100 doom3d clones
    0 practical applications

    1. Re:the growing number of Linux apps by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      2365200 unfinished and abandoned "projects" on Sourceforge.

  5. WEP just gets easier and easier to break... by Valar · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that we know the last five characters of the data segment of every wifi packet will be ", eh?", it should be even easier to get those keystreams...

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    Crudely Drawn Games
  6. Re:Canadian National Railway. by trompete · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, if the government is ever looking for this guy, all they have to do is look for the guy on the train with the linux laptop and the hard-on.
    I'm not sure what else to say about the parent post. Immagine a hacker Gollum....

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    More than enough BS
  7. Re:You're wrong by Requiem · · Score: 4, Funny

    And of course you had the nursing students who were just surfing pr0n.

    Nah, they were just studying for their anatomy tests.

  8. Useful technology by AvantLegion · · Score: 3, Funny
    --- connection established ---

    FRANCOIS: Hey Jerome!
    JEROME: .... ey f-f-f-rancois...
    FRANCOIS: This crap is lagging, eh!
    JEROME: ...it'sss ok what's up?
    FRANCOIS: It's aboot the SARS! The SARS is coming, eh!
    JEROME: not our big...st problem.....eline returning from L...s..egas... run away...
    FRANCOIS: Oh shit, eh! I'm oot of here!

  9. Re:VoIP is awesome! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reminds me of the first program I wrote in assembler on an Apple II computer. It ran so fast that I thought it didn't work at all and I had to insert debugging code to find out it was working...

  10. This is Awesome! by craig2787 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Having recently gotten electricity up here, VoIP is a very nice touch indeed! Now we can communicate between igloos much more easily.

    Life is good.

  11. Re:VoIP is awesome! by Andrewkov · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think I've ever heard anyone complain about an Apple II being too fast before..

  12. Re:Sidetone by Jucius+Maximus · · Score: 2, Funny
    "A portion of the transmit audio is also mixed in to the receive audio. If you don't do this, people think the phone is broken. Analog phones do this by unbalancing the hybrid that separates transmit and receive audio."

    True. Supposedly this is why people talk so loudly on cellphones -- usually you DON'T hear yourself in the earpiece so instinctively you talk more loudly because your brain thinks it's not being picked up by the mic.

    I grock the theory that people speak more loudly on cells to attract attention to themselves because of this. Sure, there are your occasional freaks but most people don't mean to do it.