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  1. Re:Cell phone VoIP FXO port on VOIP Meets Cell Phones · · Score: 1



    Looks like WMO2 only does messaging. I want something in the same form factor as a Cisco VIC-2FXO that lets me connect to the cellular network the same fashion that this card lets me talk to land lines.

    I suppose an external device that was cellular on one side and FXS on the other would do the trick ... haven't seen such a beast offered anywhere yet.

  2. Cell phone VoIP FXO port on VOIP Meets Cell Phones · · Score: 1



    This is an interesting concept but what is really needed is a device that provides cellular service but is a black box that allows interfacing to a phone system. Every company of any size with a standard cell carrier would have a bank of phones attached to their PBX to cut cellular costs.

    Cell companies should jump on this by offering DS1 service for calls onto their network ...

  3. Re:-1, Useless Cert Overload on BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco · · Score: 1


    My paper credentials mean that I make as much as I did four years working 2,200 hours a year but I only have to show up 800 hours to get there.

    Let me translate that to you in real world terms you can easily understand.

    I worked till midnight last night then slept in until 10:00 because I didn't have anything to do this morning. I spent a few hours at the office, then went to my girlfriend's house for milk & cookies, then we had a nice nap. I visited one of the guys I work with later in the afternoon, and now I'm making Big Bucks(tm) on site with my favorite customer.

    Tomorrow I'll have the same horrid grind. Go to my little office (only 200 square feet) in an artists colony, watch pretty girls going into the yoga studio right next door, and maybe try out the full size couch that I moved in last week - the love seat was cute, but just not big enough for proper napping.

    Oh, and I never, ever touch Windows. Ever.

    Sucks to have Useless Cert Overload, doesn't it?

  4. Look at http://www.mikrotik.com on BusinessWeek On XORP vs. Cisco · · Score: 1



    I'm not using MikroTik these days but I have deployed it in the past at Wireless ISPs. I hold the Cisco Certified Network and Design Professional ratings, the Wireless LAN SE and FE certificates, and I'll collect the Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional by the end of the year - I know a bit about IOS and I think MikroTik provides a much better interface than IOS for many things and it definitely gets all over Cisco in the wireless arena.

    Take a look at http://www.soekris.com after you get done looking at http://www.mikrotik.com - this is one of my favorite hardware platforms for the OS. Its the same size as a Cisco radio, does a whole lot more, and when you add the MikroTik software its still cheaper than the Cisco product.

  5. Re:better solution on DIY Ordnance Disposal With An RC Truck · · Score: 1


    Put an end to oppression and injustice? Excellent!

    What would you replace capitalism with? The other choices I can think of are despotism, communism, etc, etc - do you have a better option? I mean a realpolitik option that would actually work, rather than a starry eyed 'lets all get along' method?

  6. Re:better solution on DIY Ordnance Disposal With An RC Truck · · Score: 1


    You're in a position to type that message because a whole lot of people shot the hell out of anyone who didn't mind their own business.

    War has cured slavery, imperialism, more imperialism, facism, nazism, communism a couple of times, and it might put a stop to terrorism, although this is a rather different problem than the other, state based issues that I mentioned.

    I'm a practicing Buddhist and I agree with you in principle, but I'm still considering a donation to AdoptASniper.org

  7. Re:Too much is toxic for liver and kidneys on An Update on Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 1



    Its nice to know, but what a crappy page - how *much* is toxic? If you're taking a single drop, which is what I do, and the toxic frontier is 50ml ... well ... WTF do you do with information like that?

    *sigh* more research needed on this one and its true of most natural stuff - lots of studies showing it to be good, but the outer bounds are not well defined.

  8. Re:He found the Oregano oil ... on An Update on Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 1



    Much natural human flora is adapted to oregano oil - this is why it is such a powerful thing - lays waste to the bad guys, leaves your normal stuff alone. Google around and you can find a few small studies on this.

  9. He found the Oregano oil ... on An Update on Patrick Volkerding · · Score: 3, Informative



    At least he found the Oregano oil ... that stuff is like swallowing napalm as far as any bacterial/yeast stuff - it'll pretty much toast anything bothering you in about forty eight hours. Can't understand the part about it tasting good, however, as concentrated Oregano oil *burns* like the hottest hot sauce you've ever seen and it keep on burning for *hours*. You put it in a gel cap and swallow with *a lot* of water.

    Hope Patrick is feeling better soon - cardiac stuff is scary++ and the things he describes are going to cause him long term troubles even if he does recover :-(

  10. A fascinating ... fake on A New Elena Story · · Score: -1, Flamebait



    She faked the first two stories and a woman like that will fake orgasms, bank statements, and anything else to get her way. Elena is the poster child for the moral decline the Russians endured under communism. She is cute, but sad ...

  11. Re:Cisco routers use PCI bus on OpenBSD Project Announces OpenBGPD · · Score: 1



    Cisco EOL is not an issue.

    http://www.optimumdata.com
    http://www.nhri.com
    http://www.whirled-routers.com
    http://www.quadra source.com

    and on and on and on and on ...

    and

    http://ebay.com

  12. Re:How about the 6500 series? on OpenBSD Project Announces OpenBGPD · · Score: 1



    The 6500 has a 32 gig backplane and each slot is 32 gig. You used to add a switch fabric module to turn the backblane into a nonblocking crossbar switch with 256 gig of capacity. I think they now integrate that crossbar stuff in the newer engines, but its been a while since I touched one.

    Yes, the PIX series is Wintel based. The older ones actually had an ATX mainboard you could upgrade, or you could convert the whole thing to a rackmount PC if you didn't mind drilling a keyboard hole in the case.

  13. Re:And no children need respond ... on OpenBSD Project Announces OpenBGPD · · Score: 1



    I misspoke and I apologize. I said 'child' when I meant 'querulous binary Linux distribution fanboy'.

    BSD might be dying, but not in this century, and it's kernel will be a much prettier corpse than anything to come out of kernel.org

  14. And no children need respond ... on OpenBSD Project Announces OpenBGPD · · Score: -1, Troll


    I find when I make simple statements of fact verifiable via a quick web search there is *always* some child about the same age as my first Usenet post who is going to jump right in and 'sk3wl' me about my lack of knowledge. If you read some stuff on Tom's Hardware this week, while I took a couple of computer architecture classes at a top twenty five engineering school while you were still in preschool do ya think it'd be to much to ask that you Google before you spew here? Danke.

  15. Cisco routers use PCI bus on OpenBSD Project Announces OpenBGPD · · Score: 4, Informative



    The Cisco 3600 series *does* use PCI for its bus. Those two or four or six slots on a 36xx series are good ol' PCI, they're just in a Cisco form factor, not the Wintel PCI form factor you're used to seeing. I do believe this means every NM form factor slot is a PCI - 26xx, 28xx, 36xx, 37xx, 38xx, and some other stuff all use it.

    Cisco uses PCI because its a fast, competent bus, with lots of inexpensive parts due to PC volume driving chipset costs. They get more out of an 80MHz MIPS processor in a 3620 than you get out of a 1GHz Athlon because the hardware is tuned to do nothing but move packets from point A to point B.

  16. coal is 1ppm - 10ppm Uranium, some bomb grade on Nuclear Rockets Moving Along · · Score: 3, Interesting



    Burning coal puts 25 tons of bomb grade Uranium into the air every year and I forget the exact amount of U238. The U238 gets hit by high energy neutrons from cosmic ray impacts and changes into ... Plutonium.

    Launching a little dab of Uranium under highly controlled conditions doesn't seem like such a big deal when you know this fact.

  17. slashdotted after one reply! on To Mars and Back in Ninety Days · · Score: 1


    Too funny ... it melted down after one reply posted :-)

  18. Re:Paypal is an irresponsible sweatshop on Paypal Grinds To A Halt · · Score: 1



    Their rep is already so bad I don't care to know what they do here :-( They need a management change all over the place and then stick to it for a couple of years before anyone will trust them enough to try again.

  19. Paypal is an irresponsible sweatshop on Paypal Grinds To A Halt · · Score: 4, Informative


    Paypal recently relocated their stuff to Omaha, Nebraska. Why Omaha? Something like 60% of all VISA/MC transactions pass through First Data's bunker at 72nd and Pacific and a good portion of the other 40% goes through First National Bank's facilities downtown.

    A fellow who used to work for me spent less than three months at Paypal as a Windows server admin. I forget the exact details but he said they wanted him to complete something like thirty projects a quarter and his impression was that eight projects of the sort they were asking would be a reasonable schedule.

    I have heard that Paypal is pretty much a madhouse. Omaha isn't big enough to have a huge pool of IT talent and if they're grinding people into the dirt word will get around quickly. I predict you'll see lots of monster.com job posts for them as they poison their reputation here.

  20. I have IOS 11.3 source. Where is FBI? on Arrest in Cisco Code Theft · · Score: 5, Interesting



    I've got and have had IOS 11.3 source sitting here for about two years. I kept notes on the dork who gave it to me. I contacted Cisco asset recovery, whom I had worked with before, and they got me to the IP guys. I've been waiting and waiting to be interviewed and nothing happens ... maybe they don't care about old school code or something, but I found the lack of interest somewhat strange.

  21. Donate to pj@groklaw.com - much need now on Report Claims SCO Intends to Charge IBM with Fraud · · Score: 1



    Given this blizzard of filings someone is going to have to pay to have them copied, and that would be PJ. I sent the $8 that was in my paypal account and uploaded another $100 from the bank that she'll get next week.

    SCOX is turning a pretty IBM blue and we don't want to give them an instant to breath - you never know when Groklaw might turn out something that IBM's lawyers use, so lets keep the heat on SCOX :-)

  22. Re:A 250 watt pager?? on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1


    250 watts is pretty common for a paging system. I used to work in the Woodmen building in downtown Omaha, right next to what I think was a poorly maintained 929 MHz paging system owned by Union Pacific Railroad. Right after five PM, just like clock work, the thing would start kicking out pages and anyone working in the area got to feeling a bit funny pretty quickly.

    You thought you were joking, but you're dead serious - 900MHz resonates with eyeballs and other things roughly that size(!)

  23. 900MHz 40 miles? maybe on the moon on One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles · · Score: 1



    Receive sensitivity is good down to -110dBm which is just fantastic for a radio that size - Cisco Aironet cards are only good down to about -95dBm.

    HOWEVER ... have you looked at the noise floor for the 900MHz band in your area? Better bet its -100dBm minimum, maybe much worse if there are a good crop of 900MHz phones in the area, and woe unto you if a poorly maintained 929Mhz pager (250 watts!) is right near your stuff.

    Its not magic, but its cool - 9600 baud at a cheap price with a band that has good propogation is perfect for insturmentation.

    If you want 900MHz data check out Alvarion Breeze Access 900 or maybe nose around and find some 2.4GHz to 900MHz transverters ...

  24. Re:Judy Blume? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1



    The fundies were crazy before Blume came along ... I've seen that for myself.

    I wish I'd have noticed this stuff in the seventies myself ...

  25. Re:Judy Blume? on Top Banned Books of 2003 · · Score: 1



    I'm a right wing Buddhist, and I know that there are *always* bad consequences for bad behavior, but these are not always readily apparent in this lifetime.

    It seems from my brief googling that Blume may provide an accurate, sensitive portrayal of puberty, which is of course at odds with right wing Christian views, since they reproduce via a variety of asexual strategies.