I can tell you this school district is currently planning overhall of it's entire ?tip-and-ring? PBX system with VoIP, district wide. The system in most of the buildings is an oldoldold analog system, we can hear things pop, click, and yes, whir when the phones are in use. The original company who made the system has dissolved, and can be serviced by a man known only as "Telephone Bob".
One building has already been outfitted with Nortel gear (Option 11 or a "mini", I forget). We are looking at Meridian switches for the big campuses, and hopefully (fingers crossed) dark, private fiber between all our campuses from ATT/Comcast. Otherwise we have to enter into these expensive contracts from Verizon to get all our VoIP onto the local loop. Multigigabit connections between all our campuses, and up to our upstream provider, the local colleges, would be really nice(tm).
Wow i so claim copyright on that. In the 11th grade, so, 3 years ago now, i wrote a finaly paper (not the awsome grammer in this writeup) about how ducks were plotting to take over. I got an A on the paper and a C in the class, because it was the only paper that made the teacher laugh (not that it was supposed to).
Anyways. The proper line is, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, moos like a duck...{Whatever you want to say}". The Mallard Bovine (DuckCow) leader of the group shall not be pleased unless you do it this way, or shall he, being as the whole quacking bit is a cover.
Tribes two will work on any computer it is installed on, etc. They encourage users to copy the installation folders because the CD Key's are tied into your account like everquest. You log in anywhere and BAM you are on your account, which you paid for. The only thing I wish tribes2, EQ, and AIM did were store the stupid UI preferences on the server.
Now, my solution to the problems raised in your excellent post aren't going to be so well worded, however, decentralized networks can have a central node to them, sort of.
So you have implemented optimistic caching so you get local area downloads, etc, which speeds up the process for end users and ISP's alike. One thing is, ISP's will need to offer you faster downloads from LAN clients (lets say, Verizon DSL clients who are hooked into the same NOC as me) than from internet clients, which I should still get my usual 70KB/s from, this would entail doing server side traffic shaping on the ISP's part, something they should do anyways a la the cable modem uncapping.
Now how do you make said P2P network work with the pay model of total tax multiplied by the % that is your share? You take your distributed superpeers and local caches, and have them phone home. A central server or 20 can manage the statistics tracking, etc. Who downloaded what? Now, anonymously, this is harder to do because you have problems with people flooding the server. ISP's could offer you a unique ID with each account, similar to how they assign a user id to login to their networks. This is "more anonymous" than say using your email address by less anonymous than paying cash at the store.
While we are thinking of paying cash at the store, if this content is paid for, how does it get there in the first place? Are the record labels etc forced to MP3 or OGG everything they offer and put it on the networks? There is a supply problem here in legitamising this sort of network.
As for a model for this sort of deal, akamai seems to have this down. They mirror high demand websites (like msnbc, cnn, things like that) onto their servers which your ISP rents. This makes pageloads a few minutes off from live, however at the gain of performance, and not having to worry that the real server is bogged down.
For one, a lot of people hotsync their palms every evening after work. Wether this be to update the calendars on their home computers, to grab the latest news and info, or just to charge it. The daily battery suck wouldn't be so bad for those people. The other thing to remember, is a lot of people who might want or need it, wouldn't mind plugging it in after work every day.
The other thing is, it would probably go in a removeable bay. Need more battery? Just use a 128meg Memory Stick in your Clie. Need less? Take out a loan and purchase the 1gig memory stick(!). Makes it a non issue for those who don't want to lose battery life.
While I'm not sure about Gnome or KDE but if you are serving thin clients a graphical OS, then a FreeBSD X server would sure as hell need XF86-4.3.0. I have been at home moving towards getting some cheapy machines which boot into RAMdisks and then load like Mozilla over teh network in my house. X11 gives me a great protocol to do that with, coupled with passwordless ssh via rsa keys.
On the other hand, my primary workstation at home is running Windows XP, my ones at work run OS X, and FreeBSD (as a desktop). There is exactly one windows computer in the office, however thats just so we have a test bed for everyones half-sucking windows apps. While I run windows at home, my favoring of it as a primary machine fades as each registry corrupts or random file goes missing in NTFS.
Wired actually had on article on this not so far back when they were discussing the demise of the Music Industry. (Wired hath spoken, and so it shall be done. Even if the magazine is degrading.) Sony Electronics has to deal with Sony Music and Sony Pictures. Do you "drive your Sony to the Sony to pick up more Sony?"
What is MS trying to accomplish here? Can you imagine the licensing fees involved here? I don't care what your stupid website runs on, so long as it gets to me, however if you buy Sun or Microsoft servers for a brand name, then they have made a buck. Either server, I just get HTML out the other end, however Microsoft or Sun has "won" your company over.
The key, if you even begin to skim the article, is that the fees are collected on a case by case basis. Your outlook or eudora or kmail or pine would have a button to push, "Collect" or "Reject". When your girlfriend sends you an email, you push "Reject", and you get the email for free (maybe reject isn't the right word, you are rejecting the fee only). When spammers send you an email, you push collect, and get.50 cents deposited into your e-stamp account.
At my rate, I would get 10$ a day for all the semi-spam stuff thats been signed up for by proxy. However I have my spam filters setup so I only get 10ish peices daily. The key to this working is everyone sending to you would need to be forced to use an e-stamp. There can't be exemptions for email lists, and order confirmations, etc, thats why telemarketing is still bothersome. However, Amazon could, by proxy, charge you the exact e-stamp fee (or 3, order conf, shipping conf, shipping problem), and tell you to simply collect your money back when you get the emails.
As a computer geek with a small circle of non-geek friends, I would personally help each one of them setup e-stamps with their email, and then simply begin flat-rejecting the emails from anyone who hasn't bothered. I think amazon and my credit card company can hire a geek to set this up for them.
Yup. You pay $30/month for service that sucks. My girlfriends phone disconnects incoming calls 75% of the time, a retry then works probably 75% of the time. Odd? odd. Outbound calls are worse, sometimes it will flat out refuse to call, no error messages nothing.
The idea behind it is they are writing data where they shouldn't be. That track is reserved for booting information, not ID tracking. If i install a new bootloader or whatnot there my TurboTax install shouldn't break. Thats just stupid on the part of intuit.
TurboTax also broke my DX8.1 install. Turns out, those fancy movies that come with it are Macrovision encoded. NT user? check your Services for a magical new service (I can't remember the name, I've long since ripped it a new one) which even if you disable it, running turbotax fires it right back up to automatic. Lord this gives me a new reason to get a full refund from them. How can one tell if their bootsector has some extra bits in it?
6,085,223 - giving DB info to non requesting client? If you read it, it patents what every fricken crappy (mine included) PHP+MySQL website ever written! (Well close enough for dilution grenades) Oh man this is funny stuff. Anyone written a webpage like that prior to 2000?:) (sorry, I picked a random patent to comment on it's absurdity.)
I think those fees are a great determiner of who was actually wanting solaris/intel, vs those who just said "But you can get rid of that!". Sun is asking us to all put our money where our mouth is. I for one, won't, I don't have much interest in Solaris past the uses I have for it on our current servers. However, I imagine a lot of you do, and i would encourage you to plunk down the 20$ and buy it. Another reason could be that they don't get any money from hardware sales to accompany a sparc purchase of solaris.
It would not surprise me in the least if there was only one manufacturer of Li-Ion laptop batteries around. It's the same deal for car batteries. Underneath that Die Hard and Runny-Runny-LongTime battery, is the same battery from one (possibly two) companies who manufactures lead acid batteries in the US.
Like most major components which are "hard" to make , most things are merely relabeled products from one company. Ever notice how Castrol doesn't have a refinery, or that Listerine advertises that it is never a generic brand?
Two words: Random access. Anyone whose ever had to seek from one end of a tape to the other just to go back again will know what I'm talking about. Seek times to anywhere in your movie are now 1second, rather than what could turn into 5-10 minutes.
I work down in the NOC of Claremont High School, and we get our internet connection through the Claremont Colleges (specifically HMC), and now i have a reasonable scapegoat for why my internet connection is slow today!
(Ok so it's still lightning fast, but you know how the world works)
My officemate/Sysadmin called down to HMC's noc to tell them about this, halfway through reading the blurb on the frontpage he was laughing and saying "this sounds like something we would do", at which point he got to the "Three Harvey Mudd College students..." at which point I could hear him laughing through the phone across the room! Much fun was had:)
I went to download some Rage Pro drivers for my computer. Turns out they have two sets of drivers, one that is WHQL certified, for what it's worth, but it says uses a barebones featureset. The other one then goes on to say how it uses your card to the fullest potential, but they can't seem to get it certified.
Come on guys, the Rage Pro is eons old, and you still can't write a decent driver for it?
Hrm, the other comment below mine makes me thing that the DSL is provided by a third party (possibly another baby company of the local telco provider). The adding of @bellsouth.net to the username, like with dialup-pools, seems to indicate "who to bill" or something of the like, as I personally have installed three different peoples verizon DSL, and all i had to do was plug in, and it went online.
Interesting how some areas would be aflicted with PPPoE, while others not. I am in the East LA area.
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Verizon DSL has DHCP, and is dirt simple to setup. The phone filters are also easy as cake to install if you have the phone network in your house setup properly. If you split the lines coming out of the access point into "computer room" and "the rest", you simply install a filter on "the rest", and possibly one more onto whatever phone you want in the computer room, you're good to go.
The only companies i've seen using PPPoE (via WinPoET) recently, are AOLDSL. Are you admitting to using AOLDSL?;-) Actually, i remember a couple years ago PPPoE was the dominate way to connect, and it was hell to get setup if you couldn't use the cd that it came with, however the telco's have wised up that it's more of a PITA to deal with it, than to just let people plug in, and let the default settings of windows/mac's take over. "Shut down, plug in, start up" and you get a DHCP lease is pretty failsafe for the average Joe.
The other thing that no one mentioned, was is there a Winamp Plug-In? But wow, liquid audio survives? I remember downloading their player when it first came out years and years ago.
Wasn't like the weather channel supposed to be working on X drivers for the Radeon 8500 to use in weather simulation software? I wonder if this is the fruits of that labor, released under the ATI name. I for one would be hesitant, as JoeUser to download the latest weather.com drivers. Knowing that they use the drivers all day everyday on the weather channel to render those cool pictures of rain? I would, especially knowing ATI's track record with drivers.
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I can tell you this school district is currently planning overhall of it's entire ?tip-and-ring? PBX system with VoIP, district wide. The system in most of the buildings is an oldoldold analog system, we can hear things pop, click, and yes, whir when the phones are in use. The original company who made the system has dissolved, and can be serviced by a man known only as "Telephone Bob".
One building has already been outfitted with Nortel gear (Option 11 or a "mini", I forget). We are looking at Meridian switches for the big campuses, and hopefully (fingers crossed) dark, private fiber between all our campuses from ATT/Comcast. Otherwise we have to enter into these expensive contracts from Verizon to get all our VoIP onto the local loop. Multigigabit connections between all our campuses, and up to our upstream provider, the local colleges, would be really nice(tm).
Or so the ducks would have you think ;-)
Wow i so claim copyright on that. In the 11th grade, so, 3 years ago now, i wrote a finaly paper (not the awsome grammer in this writeup) about how ducks were plotting to take over. I got an A on the paper and a C in the class, because it was the only paper that made the teacher laugh (not that it was supposed to).
Anyways. The proper line is, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, moos like a duck...{Whatever you want to say}". The Mallard Bovine (DuckCow) leader of the group shall not be pleased unless you do it this way, or shall he, being as the whole quacking bit is a cover.
Tribes two will work on any computer it is installed on, etc. They encourage users to copy the installation folders because the CD Key's are tied into your account like everquest. You log in anywhere and BAM you are on your account, which you paid for. The only thing I wish tribes2, EQ, and AIM did were store the stupid UI preferences on the server.
Now, my solution to the problems raised in your excellent post aren't going to be so well worded, however, decentralized networks can have a central node to them, sort of.
So you have implemented optimistic caching so you get local area downloads, etc, which speeds up the process for end users and ISP's alike. One thing is, ISP's will need to offer you faster downloads from LAN clients (lets say, Verizon DSL clients who are hooked into the same NOC as me) than from internet clients, which I should still get my usual 70KB/s from, this would entail doing server side traffic shaping on the ISP's part, something they should do anyways a la the cable modem uncapping.
Now how do you make said P2P network work with the pay model of total tax multiplied by the % that is your share? You take your distributed superpeers and local caches, and have them phone home. A central server or 20 can manage the statistics tracking, etc. Who downloaded what? Now, anonymously, this is harder to do because you have problems with people flooding the server. ISP's could offer you a unique ID with each account, similar to how they assign a user id to login to their networks. This is "more anonymous" than say using your email address by less anonymous than paying cash at the store.
While we are thinking of paying cash at the store, if this content is paid for, how does it get there in the first place? Are the record labels etc forced to MP3 or OGG everything they offer and put it on the networks? There is a supply problem here in legitamising this sort of network.
As for a model for this sort of deal, akamai seems to have this down. They mirror high demand websites (like msnbc, cnn, things like that) onto their servers which your ISP rents. This makes pageloads a few minutes off from live, however at the gain of performance, and not having to worry that the real server is bogged down.
For one, a lot of people hotsync their palms every evening after work. Wether this be to update the calendars on their home computers, to grab the latest news and info, or just to charge it. The daily battery suck wouldn't be so bad for those people. The other thing to remember, is a lot of people who might want or need it, wouldn't mind plugging it in after work every day.
The other thing is, it would probably go in a removeable bay. Need more battery? Just use a 128meg Memory Stick in your Clie. Need less? Take out a loan and purchase the 1gig memory stick(!). Makes it a non issue for those who don't want to lose battery life.
While I'm not sure about Gnome or KDE but if you are serving thin clients a graphical OS, then a FreeBSD X server would sure as hell need XF86-4.3.0. I have been at home moving towards getting some cheapy machines which boot into RAMdisks and then load like Mozilla over teh network in my house. X11 gives me a great protocol to do that with, coupled with passwordless ssh via rsa keys.
On the other hand, my primary workstation at home is running Windows XP, my ones at work run OS X, and FreeBSD (as a desktop). There is exactly one windows computer in the office, however thats just so we have a test bed for everyones half-sucking windows apps. While I run windows at home, my favoring of it as a primary machine fades as each registry corrupts or random file goes missing in NTFS.
Wired actually had on article on this not so far back when they were discussing the demise of the Music Industry. (Wired hath spoken, and so it shall be done. Even if the magazine is degrading.) Sony Electronics has to deal with Sony Music and Sony Pictures. Do you "drive your Sony to the Sony to pick up more Sony?"
What is MS trying to accomplish here? Can you imagine the licensing fees involved here? I don't care what your stupid website runs on, so long as it gets to me, however if you buy Sun or Microsoft servers for a brand name, then they have made a buck. Either server, I just get HTML out the other end, however Microsoft or Sun has "won" your company over.
The key, if you even begin to skim the article, is that the fees are collected on a case by case basis. Your outlook or eudora or kmail or pine would have a button to push, "Collect" or "Reject". When your girlfriend sends you an email, you push "Reject", and you get the email for free (maybe reject isn't the right word, you are rejecting the fee only). When spammers send you an email, you push collect, and get .50 cents deposited into your e-stamp account.
At my rate, I would get 10$ a day for all the semi-spam stuff thats been signed up for by proxy. However I have my spam filters setup so I only get 10ish peices daily. The key to this working is everyone sending to you would need to be forced to use an e-stamp. There can't be exemptions for email lists, and order confirmations, etc, thats why telemarketing is still bothersome. However, Amazon could, by proxy, charge you the exact e-stamp fee (or 3, order conf, shipping conf, shipping problem), and tell you to simply collect your money back when you get the emails.
As a computer geek with a small circle of non-geek friends, I would personally help each one of them setup e-stamps with their email, and then simply begin flat-rejecting the emails from anyone who hasn't bothered. I think amazon and my credit card company can hire a geek to set this up for them.
Yup. You pay $30/month for service that sucks. My girlfriends phone disconnects incoming calls 75% of the time, a retry then works probably 75% of the time. Odd? odd. Outbound calls are worse, sometimes it will flat out refuse to call, no error messages nothing.
The idea behind it is they are writing data where they shouldn't be. That track is reserved for booting information, not ID tracking. If i install a new bootloader or whatnot there my TurboTax install shouldn't break. Thats just stupid on the part of intuit.
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TurboTax also broke my DX8.1 install. Turns out, those fancy movies that come with it are Macrovision encoded. NT user? check your Services for a magical new service (I can't remember the name, I've long since ripped it a new one) which even if you disable it, running turbotax fires it right back up to automatic. Lord this gives me a new reason to get a full refund from them. How can one tell if their bootsector has some extra bits in it?
6,085,223 - giving DB info to non requesting client? If you read it, it patents what every fricken crappy (mine included) PHP+MySQL website ever written! (Well close enough for dilution grenades) Oh man this is funny stuff. Anyone written a webpage like that prior to 2000? :) (sorry, I picked a random patent to comment on it's absurdity.)
I think those fees are a great determiner of who was actually wanting solaris/intel, vs those who just said "But you can get rid of that!". Sun is asking us to all put our money where our mouth is. I for one, won't, I don't have much interest in Solaris past the uses I have for it on our current servers. However, I imagine a lot of you do, and i would encourage you to plunk down the 20$ and buy it. Another reason could be that they don't get any money from hardware sales to accompany a sparc purchase of solaris.
It would not surprise me in the least if there was only one manufacturer of Li-Ion laptop batteries around. It's the same deal for car batteries. Underneath that Die Hard and Runny-Runny-LongTime battery, is the same battery from one (possibly two) companies who manufactures lead acid batteries in the US.
Like most major components which are "hard" to make , most things are merely relabeled products from one company. Ever notice how Castrol doesn't have a refinery, or that Listerine advertises that it is never a generic brand?
Two words: Random access. Anyone whose ever had to seek from one end of a tape to the other just to go back again will know what I'm talking about. Seek times to anywhere in your movie are now 1second, rather than what could turn into 5-10 minutes.
So would this be an application of Micropayments? Damn, i can be an asshole for $1.50/shot? I can already do that now, for free! :)
I work down in the NOC of Claremont High School, and we get our internet connection through the Claremont Colleges (specifically HMC), and now i have a reasonable scapegoat for why my internet connection is slow today!
:)
(Ok so it's still lightning fast, but you know how the world works)
My officemate/Sysadmin called down to HMC's noc to tell them about this, halfway through reading the blurb on the frontpage he was laughing and saying "this sounds like something we would do", at which point he got to the "Three Harvey Mudd College students..." at which point I could hear him laughing through the phone across the room! Much fun was had
I went to download some Rage Pro drivers for my computer. Turns out they have two sets of drivers, one that is WHQL certified, for what it's worth, but it says uses a barebones featureset. The other one then goes on to say how it uses your card to the fullest potential, but they can't seem to get it certified.
Come on guys, the Rage Pro is eons old, and you still can't write a decent driver for it?
Gold cartriges? Like the one my friend had of Zelda? are those worth anything? What other games were put out on gold carts?
Hrm, the other comment below mine makes me thing that the DSL is provided by a third party (possibly another baby company of the local telco provider). The adding of @bellsouth.net to the username, like with dialup-pools, seems to indicate "who to bill" or something of the like, as I personally have installed three different peoples verizon DSL, and all i had to do was plug in, and it went online.
Interesting how some areas would be aflicted with PPPoE, while others not. I am in the East LA area.
Verizon DSL has DHCP, and is dirt simple to setup. The phone filters are also easy as cake to install if you have the phone network in your house setup properly. If you split the lines coming out of the access point into "computer room" and "the rest", you simply install a filter on "the rest", and possibly one more onto whatever phone you want in the computer room, you're good to go.
;-) Actually, i remember a couple years ago PPPoE was the dominate way to connect, and it was hell to get setup if you couldn't use the cd that it came with, however the telco's have wised up that it's more of a PITA to deal with it, than to just let people plug in, and let the default settings of windows/mac's take over. "Shut down, plug in, start up" and you get a DHCP lease is pretty failsafe for the average Joe.
The only companies i've seen using PPPoE (via WinPoET) recently, are AOLDSL. Are you admitting to using AOLDSL?
The other thing that no one mentioned, was is there a Winamp Plug-In? But wow, liquid audio survives? I remember downloading their player when it first came out years and years ago.
Wasn't like the weather channel supposed to be working on X drivers for the Radeon 8500 to use in weather simulation software? I wonder if this is the fruits of that labor, released under the ATI name. I for one would be hesitant, as JoeUser to download the latest weather.com drivers. Knowing that they use the drivers all day everyday on the weather channel to render those cool pictures of rain? I would, especially knowing ATI's track record with drivers.