Circumstantial evidence may not be strong evidence, but it has certainly been used. IANAL and could be wrong, but it seems I have heard about enough cases being built on circumstantial evidence. Many failed as a result, but there were trials.
The Google Desktop search seems to be faster and index a wider variety of content. It also has the ability to view cached files in html form.
The MSN Desktop search seems to do a better job of keeping the index consistant and up to date for Outlook. I haven't used it long enough to say. The interface looks nicer, but it is really poor as far as functionality.
I am currently using MSN because the Google index would keep getting screwed up, but if they fix that I will switch back for sure.
Not to mention I can get faster connections for less money in Austin from a couple of companies, both of which run fiber all the way into my building.
I was recently contacted by Time Warner Cable and they said they could do a 5x5 fiber connection for $750/mo (if I remember correctly). I went to the speakeasy site, and it turns out the 6 mbps connection is total bandwidth, and you have to decide how you want the up/down divided.
Not bad as a replacemnt for the T1 (other than the RF jamming issues and such), but late considering other better technologies are already there.
I would be quite happy to pay $50/mo for a mobile 5mbit connection, but that is a few years away.
Just follow the CentOS instructions for converting from white box, it worked for me.
Now if only I had installed Debian to begin with. Oh yeah, thats right, AS2.1 had already been purchased and we were considering Notes at the time. I have 2 licensed and supported RHEL ES machines where vendor support is needed, one CentOS machine, and the rest are Debian. Converting from RH to Debian isn't my idea of fun.
Digital cable and statelite typically use 2-2.5mbits for SD programing. With proper multicasting, QOS, large frames, you could probably get 500mbits onto GigE without trashing the network, giving us 250 SD channels.
HD mpeg2 needs about 18mbits, and HD divx needs 10-12mbps. I believe DVDs run at 4-5 mbits, and the quality is better than digital cable or satelite.
I ran linux on a 386 DX 40 with 8MB of ram as my primary computer. But this was in 1994.
startx wasn't too bad, but starting Mosaic was painfull. The font redering used the kernel FPU emulation and would lock the console for 4-5 minutes. If I switched to a text console imediately after pressing enter on "mosaic &" I could keep using the computer. If I waited 10 seconds, I would be stuck until it loaded.
I have called 911 several times from cell phones (funny, always about auto accidents). I have always been connected to a local dispatcher, although frequently the wrong one (I got the City of Austin, when I was outside the city limits.) Our local governments have formed a central call center to fix that as well.
I haven't cared much about 911, I have a cell phone, my wife has a cell phone, etc. But we have a 4 month old son. I am sure he will be old enough to call 911 before he will be old enough to give an address. How do I handle that? I need 911 and will get a land line at that point. Otherwise I want the government to stay out of it.
I think the market was already demanding the 911 access and that it was going to work itself out anyways, but now big brother has stepped in and we can be assured it will be more expensive, and take 5 years to implement.
On the other hand, even if it is reflected in higher rates I am not going to compain about the results. I was contemplating getting the cheapest possible land line (limited calls, etc) for my PBX to allow 911. Any increase in rates will most likely be less than the $10-15 I was going to have to pay.
I know I wasn't the only customer thinking along these lines. Many VoIP carriers have been working on providing 911 service because it would help them compete.
If this regulation forces the iLECs to open up access to the 911 network for VoIP carriers, then at least something good will have come out of it, but I would far prefer a market based solution.
Most people want local numbers, so even if the company is Canadian, they will still have to get the numbers delievered to their network.
I think the GPS idea won't work, simply because you can't get a reliable signal indoors.
a GPS keyfob could be made for a lot less than $100 in bulk.
I think the 911 requirement is going to be aimed at the VoIP carriers selling ATA units, to replace your primary phone. This would allow them to modify the ATA unit. Now it is possible (likely) the regulation could end up being over reaching.
I very patently setup my triple LNB dish with the TiVo setup screen. It uses the zip code to tell you the right direction, tilt, etc. It takes lots of patience. lots of it...
But on the other hand, my dish is aimed well enough to get a stronger signal than most professional installations where their goal is just to complete the job and go home.
I called Apple support for a printer issue. I could print fine from the command line, but not the apps. Until that point I hadn't realized the interface was CUPS (wasn't my mac and I hadn't spent too much time with it).
The interface is easy, but felt very restrictive. BTW, I ended up having to reinstall the OS (archive mode, worked well without messing anything up) to get the printing to work.
For the sake of argument I will agree that the reasons used to persuade the world we needed to invade Iraq turned out be flawed.
However we have already invaded Afganistan, and I belive most people would say that was justified, so our strike rate is already 50%, and would go to 66%. If you disagree, than the strike rate would be 33%. If we have invaded another country, please advise and I will stand corrected.
Uh, ipconfig/flushdns isn't telling the DNS server to flush, it is flushing the client so you can get updates from the DNS server again.
As for the TTL problem, I haven't seen it, and I work with DNS and large providers frequently. I haven't exactly looked for the problems either though.
I am not saying buy new equipement.... $100,000 is a lot of money. Now if the equipment manufacturer (assuming they were still in business) offered software and support upgrades to allow you to be able to upgrade to a supported Windows, there would have been some value.
If you replace the computer you will most likely pay the microsoft tax, and then downgrade it to 4.0.
I am not saying in that this was an example that should have been upgraded. You were forced to find a workaround to the security issues. But it does a very good job of illustrating the complexity of the work around. For those that have a choice not constrained by $100k or speciallized software, it is something to seriously consider.
Uh, no comparison. These bakers aren't using tax payer money to pay for their ingrediants and time so they can give away the pies for free.
If they did, and they were making enough of them so that anyone who wanted a pie could get a free pie whenever they wanted, you can be the big food companies would be all over it.
Instead, if they only gave pies to the needy and homeless in shelters, there wouldn't be a problem.
This is why it is just fine for Cities to provide wireless in parks, libraries, etc, but a real threat to inovation and capital investment when they do it across the entire city.
But that is a lot of hoops to jump through to secure an unsupported OS. Think of how much time and effort you could have saved if updates had been availible?
Sure, there are always workarounds, but you reinforced the point of support.
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Circumstantial evidence may not be strong evidence, but it has certainly been used. IANAL and could be wrong, but it seems I have heard about enough cases being built on circumstantial evidence. Many failed as a result, but there were trials.
The Google Desktop search seems to be faster and index a wider variety of content. It also has the ability to view cached files in html form.
The MSN Desktop search seems to do a better job of keeping the index consistant and up to date for Outlook. I haven't used it long enough to say. The interface looks nicer, but it is really poor as far as functionality.
I am currently using MSN because the Google index would keep getting screwed up, but if they fix that I will switch back for sure.
I use Broadvoice too, but their reliability sucks. Please let me know if you have experienced otherwise.
I want them to get their act together, because noone else comes close on price/features when combined with Asterisk.
Snap Appliances would seem to meet your requirements.
They are linux based, web management, have the scsi port, and they sell backup and restore software.
I use one, but I back it up as a linux server with Veritas Netbackup to an existing tape robot on another linux server.
Not to mention I can get faster connections for less money in Austin from a couple of companies, both of which run fiber all the way into my building.
I was recently contacted by Time Warner Cable and they said they could do a 5x5 fiber connection for $750/mo (if I remember correctly). I went to the speakeasy site, and it turns out the 6 mbps connection is total bandwidth, and you have to decide how you want the up/down divided.
Not bad as a replacemnt for the T1 (other than the RF jamming issues and such), but late considering other better technologies are already there.
I would be quite happy to pay $50/mo for a mobile 5mbit connection, but that is a few years away.
Read rather than scan the article. It says 6mbits for $800/mo instead of 1.5mbps for $500 (obviously refering to T1 lines).
It is clear they are currently aiming this to be a cost effective upgrade from T1 lines.
6mbps fixed wireless for $800 a month, and it isn't mobile (at this time).
Just follow the CentOS instructions for converting from white box, it worked for me.
Now if only I had installed Debian to begin with. Oh yeah, thats right, AS2.1 had already been purchased and we were considering Notes at the time. I have 2 licensed and supported RHEL ES machines where vendor support is needed, one CentOS machine, and the rest are Debian. Converting from RH to Debian isn't my idea of fun.
Digital cable and statelite typically use 2-2.5mbits for SD programing. With proper multicasting, QOS, large frames, you could probably get 500mbits onto GigE without trashing the network, giving us 250 SD channels.
HD mpeg2 needs about 18mbits, and HD divx needs 10-12mbps. I believe DVDs run at 4-5 mbits, and the quality is better than digital cable or satelite.
I ran linux on a 386 DX 40 with 8MB of ram as my primary computer. But this was in 1994.
startx wasn't too bad, but starting Mosaic was painfull. The font redering used the kernel FPU emulation and would lock the console for 4-5 minutes. If I switched to a text console imediately after pressing enter on "mosaic &" I could keep using the computer. If I waited 10 seconds, I would be stuck until it loaded.
Tri-band, quad band, has nothing to do with it. CDMA and GSM can run in the same bands, but still be completely incompatible.
This isn't to say that a multimode phones doesn't exist, they do, but they are not very common and I think you are probably mistaken.
Which we have in the US too, and same result.
I actually got a home stereo CD recorder (free), but I have never hooked it up as it will only work with audio CD-R discs, and I see no advantage.
It will make a digital copy if the source is a pressed CD, but if the source is a CDR it will go through a digital-analog-digital conversion first.
Stupid stupid stupid.
I have called 911 several times from cell phones (funny, always about auto accidents). I have always been connected to a local dispatcher, although frequently the wrong one (I got the City of Austin, when I was outside the city limits.) Our local governments have formed a central call center to fix that as well.
I haven't cared much about 911, I have a cell phone, my wife has a cell phone, etc. But we have a 4 month old son. I am sure he will be old enough to call 911 before he will be old enough to give an address. How do I handle that? I need 911 and will get a land line at that point. Otherwise I want the government to stay out of it.
No, they just get a very good connection directly to 1 or more LD carriers, buy the minutes in bulk, and go.
I can get $0.02/minute LD at the office, if I get a T1 to the LD carrier. I get $0.02/minute at home using VoIP and Asterisk.
I think the market was already demanding the 911 access and that it was going to work itself out anyways, but now big brother has stepped in and we can be assured it will be more expensive, and take 5 years to implement.
On the other hand, even if it is reflected in higher rates I am not going to compain about the results. I was contemplating getting the cheapest possible land line (limited calls, etc) for my PBX to allow 911. Any increase in rates will most likely be less than the $10-15 I was going to have to pay.
I know I wasn't the only customer thinking along these lines. Many VoIP carriers have been working on providing 911 service because it would help them compete.
If this regulation forces the iLECs to open up access to the 911 network for VoIP carriers, then at least something good will have come out of it, but I would far prefer a market based solution.
Most people want local numbers, so even if the company is Canadian, they will still have to get the numbers delievered to their network.
I think the GPS idea won't work, simply because you can't get a reliable signal indoors.
a GPS keyfob could be made for a lot less than $100 in bulk.
I think the 911 requirement is going to be aimed at the VoIP carriers selling ATA units, to replace your primary phone. This would allow them to modify the ATA unit. Now it is possible (likely) the regulation could end up being over reaching.
With what broadcast towers? VoIP is typically done with an ethernet cable.
It should also be noted that some carriers triangulate the possition from the towers, others use handset GPS.
I very patently setup my triple LNB dish with the TiVo setup screen. It uses the zip code to tell you the right direction, tilt, etc. It takes lots of patience. lots of it...
But on the other hand, my dish is aimed well enough to get a stronger signal than most professional installations where their goal is just to complete the job and go home.
I called Apple support for a printer issue. I could print fine from the command line, but not the apps. Until that point I hadn't realized the interface was CUPS (wasn't my mac and I hadn't spent too much time with it).
The interface is easy, but felt very restrictive. BTW, I ended up having to reinstall the OS (archive mode, worked well without messing anything up) to get the printing to work.
Well, if you read all of the post, you would note that this wasn't with EVDO, but 1xRTT. The one time he tested EVDO he got 600kbps,
The lack of units does suck though, and it apears that he has the up/down reversed.
I use 1xRTT every now an then, and it is about like dialup.
But keep in minde that 80% of the taxes are paid by the top 20% of the poputlation, not average americans.
I think the math could come close to working.
For the sake of argument I will agree that the reasons used to persuade the world we needed to invade Iraq turned out be flawed.
However we have already invaded Afganistan, and I belive most people would say that was justified, so our strike rate is already 50%, and would go to 66%. If you disagree, than the strike rate would be 33%. If we have invaded another country, please advise and I will stand corrected.
Uh, ipconfig /flushdns isn't telling the DNS server to flush, it is flushing the client so you can get updates from the DNS server again.
As for the TTL problem, I haven't seen it, and I work with DNS and large providers frequently. I haven't exactly looked for the problems either though.
I am not saying buy new equipement.... $100,000 is a lot of money. Now if the equipment manufacturer (assuming they were still in business) offered software and support upgrades to allow you to be able to upgrade to a supported Windows, there would have been some value.
If you replace the computer you will most likely pay the microsoft tax, and then downgrade it to 4.0.
I am not saying in that this was an example that should have been upgraded. You were forced to find a workaround to the security issues. But it does a very good job of illustrating the complexity of the work around. For those that have a choice not constrained by $100k or speciallized software, it is something to seriously consider.
Uh, no comparison. These bakers aren't using tax payer money to pay for their ingrediants and time so they can give away the pies for free.
If they did, and they were making enough of them so that anyone who wanted a pie could get a free pie whenever they wanted, you can be the big food companies would be all over it.
Instead, if they only gave pies to the needy and homeless in shelters, there wouldn't be a problem.
This is why it is just fine for Cities to provide wireless in parks, libraries, etc, but a real threat to inovation and capital investment when they do it across the entire city.
But that is a lot of hoops to jump through to secure an unsupported OS. Think of how much time and effort you could have saved if updates had been availible?
Sure, there are always workarounds, but you reinforced the point of support.
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Charlie