For the service provider some of this is lost to businesses that use a PBX. VoIP is potentially a way for the service provider to lure the customer back. Offer a service or set of services that a PBX can't and you may regain a customer.
But don't you think VoIP will lead to companies getting cheap VoIP gateways and providing those services themselves?
Passive optical networks (PON) are cool, but I think in the long run IP/Ethernet PONs are going to be more flexible than the Marconi stuff. While the standard for EPONs is still being worked out, Alloptic is shipping some gigabit PON equipment already.
I don't know if cheap soft-802.11 cards will be a good thing for the price of the real stuff. After all, in this age of winmodems a Courier V.Everything still costs almost $300. Moore's law? What Moore's law?
AFAIK, "Tablet PC" is a Microsoft-invented term that is defined as an x86 PC running a special version of Windows XP. But maybe people are using other definitions.
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Exactly. Differencing (as used in VNC and RDP) is a form of interframe compression. I'm glad you got my point since the other two replies didn't.
Nope; NetApp implements snapshots using copy-on-write, so they consume less disk space, take effectively no time to create, and are atomic with respect to filesystem operations (so there won't be any problems if you're accessing the filesystem while the snapshot is in progress). Check out their File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance white paper for the technical details if you're interested.
Fink already includes GNOME and apt. Red Carpet is nice on Red Hat where you don't have apt by default, but if I used Fink I probably wouldn't need Red Carpet.
I use GNOME and Red Carpet on Linux, but I wouldn't even consider installing them on my OS X machine. I want native apps. (Just my opinion, of course.)
IIRC, the BeOS kernel actually had worse latency on various lmbench benchmarks than Linux. And that was before people started tuning the Linux kernel for low latency.
Forks happen. One of the goals of the GPL is to ensure that sofware doesn't stay under the control of the original author. If you want to write GPL'ed software, you need a thick skin.
And of course, the article fails to mention that the LOTR and Ali bootlegs were videotaped in the theater, and that is why they were available before the movies were released on video or DVD.
I've seen a LOTR bootleg DVD (probably not the produced by the guys busted in this article), and it wasn't from a camcorder in a theatre. See this post for the details.
Of course Valenti wants people to think that these DVD pirates are "duping" consumers, but I doubt it in most cases. When you buy a LOTR DVD for $10 from some guy on the street in New York, almost anyone would assume it's not legit. But people still knowingly buy illegal DVDs because they the legal ones aren't released yet.
IMHO, Usenet is good for binaries because the person doing the transmission only has to upload a file once for lots of people to download it (like a web server) but it is hard for an ISP to squelch it because of the automatic propagation to other ISPs.
I agree that these are good properties, but they aren't unique to Usenet. Both Freenet and MNet only require a file to be uploaded once and they both automatically propagate popular files. But they don't automatically propagate unpopular stuff like Usenet does.
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I don't see what text has to do with anything; a binary protocol is just as easy to sniff if you have the tools.
The actual data in a SIP call is sent over RTP, and it's probably not encrypted either.
For the service provider some of this is lost to businesses that use a PBX. VoIP is potentially a way for the service provider to lure the customer back. Offer a service or set of services that a PBX can't and you may regain a customer.
But don't you think VoIP will lead to companies getting cheap VoIP gateways and providing those services themselves?
Passive optical networks (PON) are cool, but I think in the long run IP/Ethernet PONs are going to be more flexible than the Marconi stuff. While the standard for EPONs is still being worked out, Alloptic is shipping some gigabit PON equipment already.
RC4 is very fast; I doubt software WEP would cause a noticeable slowdown on today's CPUs.
I don't know if cheap soft-802.11 cards will be a good thing for the price of the real stuff. After all, in this age of winmodems a Courier V.Everything still costs almost $300. Moore's law? What Moore's law?
Apple isn't using any kind of "software Wi-Fi"; AirPort cards are just OEM WaveLAN (er, Orinoco) cards.
Looks like a normal Realtek Ethernet from the photos.
AFAIK, "Tablet PC" is a Microsoft-invented term that is defined as an x86 PC running a special version of Windows XP. But maybe people are using other definitions.
Exactly. Differencing (as used in VNC and RDP) is a form of interframe compression. I'm glad you got my point since the other two replies didn't.
'nuff said.
Tablet PCs run Windows XP. The AirPanel is a large PDA running the terminal server client.
ISTR an EE Times article about the race to come up with J2K ASICs to do compression for digital cameras; this would solve the horsepower issue.
I think a better solution is to add some caching to Bugzilla so it doesn't collapse when slashdotted.
Disk capacity is doubling every year, so I predict that home users will just migrate to newer disks or add external Firewire disks. NAS is overkill.
Nope; NetApp implements snapshots using copy-on-write, so they consume less disk space, take effectively no time to create, and are atomic with respect to filesystem operations (so there won't be any problems if you're accessing the filesystem while the snapshot is in progress). Check out their File System Design for an NFS File Server Appliance white paper for the technical details if you're interested.
Wrong; the APSL is listed as an open source license at opensource.org. Or were you talking about some other kind of open source?
What's the vulnerability in Mono?
Fink already includes GNOME and apt. Red Carpet is nice on Red Hat where you don't have apt by default, but if I used Fink I probably wouldn't need Red Carpet.
I use GNOME and Red Carpet on Linux, but I wouldn't even consider installing them on my OS X machine. I want native apps. (Just my opinion, of course.)
If you just want an X replacement that supports Gtk and Qt, check out DirectFB.
IIRC, the BeOS kernel actually had worse latency on various lmbench benchmarks than Linux. And that was before people started tuning the Linux kernel for low latency.
Forks happen. One of the goals of the GPL is to ensure that sofware doesn't stay under the control of the original author. If you want to write GPL'ed software, you need a thick skin.
Actually, I click on the first one and then cmd-click on the rest. So that's another behavior that would change in your model.
And of course, the article fails to mention that the LOTR and Ali bootlegs were videotaped in the theater, and that is why they were available before the movies were released on video or DVD.
I've seen a LOTR bootleg DVD (probably not the produced by the guys busted in this article), and it wasn't from a camcorder in a theatre. See this post for the details.
Of course Valenti wants people to think that these DVD pirates are "duping" consumers, but I doubt it in most cases. When you buy a LOTR DVD for $10 from some guy on the street in New York, almost anyone would assume it's not legit. But people still knowingly buy illegal DVDs because they the legal ones aren't released yet.
IMHO, Usenet is good for binaries because the person doing the transmission only has to upload a file once for lots of people to download it (like a web server) but it is hard for an ISP to squelch it because of the automatic propagation to other ISPs.
I agree that these are good properties, but they aren't unique to Usenet. Both Freenet and MNet only require a file to be uploaded once and they both automatically propagate popular files. But they don't automatically propagate unpopular stuff like Usenet does.