I submitted a story similar to this one about a month ago regarding my experiences with direcway.com.
One of my customers was behind their network and we moved his email to our server. They couldn't access their domain name of course since it didn't exist on the server direcway's dns pointed to.
So I called them. Huge mistake. I spent hours on the phone escalating through foreign phone monkies until I made it to someone in management. Her attitude was that I was in the wrong regardless of what I had to say. Finally she lowered her defense just long enough to see that I was right but told me there was nothing they could do and that I wasn't allowed to talk to the people that run the DNS servers.
So I wrote a nasty little letter to corporate. 4 days later it was fixed. Not sure if the letter helped or not.
I believe I've got a decent understanding of VoIP but not necessarily of Asterix configuration. Although like any other situation this is probably a case of me knowing so little that I realize how much I don't know!
I was actually trying to set it up at home before deploying it in a production environment. I'll check out those deployment tips.
It might be what he describes, but I want a small box with a phone plugged into it on my desk running some sort of "skype" like software that is independent of my machine running.
You seem to know asterix well. Is the on site documentation good enough or are there other resources you would recommend?
I tried out the asterix@home cd and it installed and set itself up flawlessly but I couldn't figure out a lot of tasks which I would consider simple and the asterix@home site didn't seem to have any useful docs.
You can't trick me, I saw the research paper generator. I even learned a bit by reading some sample papers, however, this story reaks of randomly generated legal speak.
Here's a snippet of my most recently generated article. This is some great stuff!
We have taken great pains to describe out evaluation setup; now, the payoff, is to discuss our results. We these considerations in mind, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we ran massive multiplayer online role-playing games on 13 nodes spread throughout the Planetlab network, and compared them against multi-processors running locally; (2) we measured database and WHOIS throughput on our human test subjects; (3) we ran SMPs on 42 nodes spread throughout the Internet-2 network, and compared them against fiber-optic cables running locally; and (4) we compared expected interrupt rate on the GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD and L4 operating systems. We discarded the results of some earlier experiments, notably when we measured database and RAID array latency on our network.
Now for the climactic analysis of the second half of our experiments. Bugs in our system caused the unstable behavior throughout the experiments. Similarly, the many discontinuities in the graphs point to amplified energy introduced with our hardware upgrades. We scarcely anticipated how accurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation.
South Koreans don't have time to build robots, every single one of them is sitting in front of a PC clicking 100,000 times per second to become a starcraft champion.
I read a link someone posted on slashdot not so long ago (can't find it now) that even though your brain can't see flicker at relatively high refresh rates, your eyes can and it fatigures them.
I think it affects people differently but I have noticed that using CRTs fatigues my eyes. It makes me feel tired even when I'm not.
I had one of the $500 dell 20" LCDs for two weeks (customer let me use it until his machine arrived.) and it was fantastic. I didn't experience the fatigue that I get when I use CRTs.
As far as CRTs I'm using 21" trinitron tubed monitors and also a 19" Samsung SYncMaster 997DF. The 21" monitors are much better monitors but the problem exists either way.
I often think I can't justify spending $500 on an LCD but if it would save my eyes it's worth every penny.
1. Always get 50% of the money up front. 2. Require a personal guarantee in addition to the companies guarantee that the contract will be paid upon completion.
However, if we were billing hourly and the customer wanted to stop at the prototype big deal. We're still billing for all the work we've done and we'll move on to the next project.
Normally though, wireframing and prototyping are in or near the discovery phase of a contract so we're guaranteed the entire amount to finish it.
With a clause that says if we go over 20% of the estimated time we'll bill for everything beyond that 20%.
But like you said, you have to educate the customer what the difference is between a prototype and a finished product.
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and refused to license it.
I submitted a story similar to this one about a month ago regarding my experiences with direcway.com.
One of my customers was behind their network and we moved his email to our server. They couldn't access their domain name of course since it didn't exist on the server direcway's dns pointed to.
So I called them. Huge mistake. I spent hours on the phone escalating through foreign phone monkies until I made it to someone in management. Her attitude was that I was in the wrong regardless of what I had to say. Finally she lowered her defense just long enough to see that I was right but told me there was nothing they could do and that I wasn't allowed to talk to the people that run the DNS servers.
So I wrote a nasty little letter to corporate. 4 days later it was fixed. Not sure if the letter helped or not.
Yes! That's what I'm looking for!
From what I can tell that box gets an Ip address and if I have a handset hooked up to it people could call me on it from their box.
Yah, but I can't dial an IP on my phone to some user using Skype (or another device similar to the one I describe) can I?
I don't want a VoIP provider. I want to dial over the internet without using a PC.
Thanks for the site reference.
I believe I've got a decent understanding of VoIP but not necessarily of Asterix configuration. Although like any other situation this is probably a case of me knowing so little that I realize how much I don't know!
I was actually trying to set it up at home before deploying it in a production environment. I'll check out those deployment tips.
It might be what he describes, but I want a small box with a phone plugged into it on my desk running some sort of "skype" like software that is independent of my machine running.
Does such a box exist?
You seem to know asterix well. Is the on site documentation good enough or are there other resources you would recommend?
I tried out the asterix@home cd and it installed and set itself up flawlessly but I couldn't figure out a lot of tasks which I would consider simple and the asterix@home site didn't seem to have any useful docs.
Ah! Another great link. Thanks for the info. Now if I can dig up those 3 floppies I had laying around. haha. Might be easier to find a copy on ebay.
I haven't read the docs for dosbox but how well does it handle sound? Does it map everything to directsound or something of that nature?
I used to love colonization but the darn game wouldn't run so hot after windows 95.
You can't trick me, I saw the research paper generator. I even learned a bit by reading some sample papers, however, this story reaks of randomly generated legal speak.
Here's a snippet of my most recently generated article. This is some great stuff!
We have taken great pains to describe out evaluation setup; now, the payoff, is to discuss our results. We these considerations in mind, we ran four novel experiments: (1) we ran massive multiplayer online role-playing games on 13 nodes spread throughout the Planetlab network, and compared them against multi-processors running locally; (2) we measured database and WHOIS throughput on our human test subjects; (3) we ran SMPs on 42 nodes spread throughout the Internet-2 network, and compared them against fiber-optic cables running locally; and (4) we compared expected interrupt rate on the GNU/Hurd, FreeBSD and L4 operating systems. We discarded the results of some earlier experiments, notably when we measured database and RAID array latency on our network.
Now for the climactic analysis of the second half of our experiments. Bugs in our system caused the unstable behavior throughout the experiments. Similarly, the many discontinuities in the graphs point to amplified energy introduced with our hardware upgrades. We scarcely anticipated how accurate our results were in this phase of the evaluation.
It's still the right answer. The guy just needs more people to file complaints that have the same problem.
I would hope that Icann would jump in and help out even if he is a little guy. I mean that's what they exist for right?
You win the award for most clueless poster on Slashdot. Congrats dude!
I'm glad someone said it. That analogy made me cringe beyond any other I've ever read.
Don't use any soap or detergent and make sure it's *completely* dry before plugging it back in.
Tie the cord up so that it doesn't get caught in any moving parts.
Redundant but UserFriendly liked it.
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050410
South Koreans don't have time to build robots, every single one of them is sitting in front of a PC clicking 100,000 times per second to become a starcraft champion.
He'll hope those convicts he'll be sharing a cell with haven't been buying viagra from him.
Microsoft has no problem open sourcing software that isn't going to make them money it seems.
So I would be willing to guess that they feel open sourcing software makes it profitless.
I read a link someone posted on slashdot not so long ago (can't find it now) that even though your brain can't see flicker at relatively high refresh rates, your eyes can and it fatigures them.
I think it affects people differently but I have noticed that using CRTs fatigues my eyes. It makes me feel tired even when I'm not.
I had one of the $500 dell 20" LCDs for two weeks (customer let me use it until his machine arrived.) and it was fantastic. I didn't experience the fatigue that I get when I use CRTs.
As far as CRTs I'm using 21" trinitron tubed monitors and also a 19" Samsung SYncMaster 997DF. The 21" monitors are much better monitors but the problem exists either way.
I often think I can't justify spending $500 on an LCD but if it would save my eyes it's worth every penny.
Did anyone laugh? Maybe I'm getting grumpy in my old age but these jokes aren't even making me smile.
Is there any reason they couldn't use FCKeditor for this functionality?
I'm sure google wants to do their own better, but FCKeditor works really well and is simple to implement.
1. Always get 50% of the money up front.
2. Require a personal guarantee in addition to the companies guarantee that the contract will be paid upon completion.
We don't polish our prototypes up at all.
However, if we were billing hourly and the customer wanted to stop at the prototype big deal. We're still billing for all the work we've done and we'll move on to the next project.
Normally though, wireframing and prototyping are in or near the discovery phase of a contract so we're guaranteed the entire amount to finish it.
With a clause that says if we go over 20% of the estimated time we'll bill for everything beyond that 20%.
But like you said, you have to educate the customer what the difference is between a prototype and a finished product.