Not that I like the large telcos or excessive regulations, but there are many good social services that regular telephone companies are legally required to provide at their expense that these new VoIP companies will not have to provide:
- Free access and services for the disabled, e.g. speech to text translators for the deaf/mute and hearing/speech impaired as well as mute people. (You call a 1-800 number and a person types what you say into a TTY and tells you what the other person wrote and vice-versa)
- Cheaper rates for the poor
- 911 location service - e.g. you have a stroke at your home and call 911 and can't speak, they can still locate you
My biggest beaf with ASN.1 is that ASN.1 does not have any language mapping. It only specifies the bits on the wire.
To interface to it you will need a special library and compiler.
If you would have a project written in C then you would use a ASN.1-to-C compiler that would generate some kind of lookup table and then you would use that in combination with some special C library to encode/decode the PDUs you send over the network.
Every ASN.1 library/compiler you use to talk ASN.1 is completley different. So if you want to change it (maybe you don't like the way it decodes a PDU) you most likely will have to rewrite your application.
In other words, except for the bits on the wire there is no standard interface you can expect.
CORBA and others standards specify C, C++,... language mappings, so you don't have to care too much how the tools you use look.
Also working ASN.1 compiler are quite pricey. (Around $10k for the compiler and a few more grand for the library).
Look at the price of XML tools... (and there are plenty)
I am using telocity. The nice thing is that they give you a static IP and explicitly allow you to run a server for private use with their residential offer.
They say it take 6 weeks to get. It took 3 months though. I think because Pac Bell was playing delay taktics (supposedly they had to upgrade their CO before the could hook me up...)
That will boost sales. A Video Recording device that does not record your favorite TV show. My parents already have serious problems using their VCR for recording purposes. This gives them three usage patterns:
View live show
View rented DVD/VHS tape
Read the newspaper or a good book
Maybe Tivo has a way around this? After all you can allways change the SW.
I love the FCC...
florian nierhaus
P.S.
Vote democrat in the next election otherwise you will have even more "industry represenatives" in the FCC. The democrats traditionally try to appoint more custumer friendly representatives. The current breed is as far as I know mostly leftovers from Bush...
For a developer the GPL should guarantee that the GPL'd work would infect any other code it is linked to and therefore the code of the whole would be available (viral nature).
This is what IMHO Donald Becker wants. If someone wants to distribute Solaris with his drivers, then Solaris would need to be compatible with the GPL. (Free source code, etc...)
Otherwise he would have chosen the LGPL. The LGPL does not infect other code. LGPL'd code can be linked to any proprietary code and this is ok. The proprietary code can stay proprietary. Only if you change the LGPL'd code you need to distribute those changes.
Bruce Perens position was allways that you can allways dynamically link with GPL'd code without infecting your proprietary code.
The RMS opinion on that is that that is a GPL violation.
It all depends on who you ask. My bet is that the GPL will be bugfixed. It is not in our interrest that anyone can make GLP'd code a plugin/module/library for his proprietary SW.
The LGPL is the licence for that.
florian nierhaus
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The article is right on target. I just became a EFF member and when I got my membership number 101xx I was appalled.
The EFF only has about 10,000 members???
Look at other political organization like the NRA (Which I do NOT endorse). They have about 3,000,000 members.
Any political organization with so few members will be laughed at as a bunch of crazy extremist lunatics.
Each and every American Slashdot reader needs to get a EFF membership. And each EFF member has to recruit more members. Only then we can make a difference.
"And so, my fellow Geeks, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (stolen from JFK).
"There yet remains a value in the IPv4 addressing Scheme, which surpasses the promises of IPv6, and could conceivably satisfy our needs indefinitely without an expansion beyond the 32 Bit address range. That is, if it were distributed with country and or state codes as its prefix."
I have a nice time planner from tempus. You can order it at www.tempus.de. The only drawback is, that you can't get the paper inserts in every US store. Oh, the cover is made of circuit boards of course. By the way, the Tech museum store in San Jose, CA has some nice pencil cases, etc too. ciao, florian
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Not that I like the large telcos or excessive regulations, but there are many good social services that regular telephone companies are legally required to provide at their expense that these new VoIP companies will not have to provide:
- Free access and services for the disabled, e.g. speech to text translators for the deaf/mute and hearing/speech impaired as well as mute people. (You call a 1-800 number and a person types what you say into a TTY and tells you what the other person wrote and vice-versa)
- Cheaper rates for the poor
- 911 location service - e.g. you have a stroke at your home and call 911 and can't speak, they can still locate you
and there are quite a few more.
best regards,
Florian
Yes, they did have support for any OS. All you needed was DHCP and Ethernet...
My biggest beaf with ASN.1 is that ASN.1 does not have any language mapping. It only specifies the bits on the wire.
... language mappings, so you don't have to care too much how the tools you use look.
To interface to it you will need a special library and compiler.
If you would have a project written in C then you would use a ASN.1-to-C compiler that would generate some kind of lookup table and then you would use that in combination with some special C library to encode/decode the PDUs you send over the network.
Every ASN.1 library/compiler you use to talk ASN.1 is completley different. So if you want to change it (maybe you don't like the way it decodes a PDU) you most likely will have to rewrite your application.
In other words, except for the bits on the wire there is no standard interface you can expect.
CORBA and others standards specify C, C++,
Also working ASN.1 compiler are quite pricey. (Around $10k for the compiler and a few more grand for the library).
Look at the price of XML tools... (and there are plenty)
regards,
Florian
I am using telocity. The nice thing is that they give you a static IP and explicitly allow you to run a server for private use with their residential offer.
They say it take 6 weeks to get. It took 3 months though. I think because Pac Bell was playing delay taktics (supposedly they had to upgrade their CO before the could hook me up...)
Other than that it just works (TM).
regards,
florian
- View live show
- View rented DVD/VHS tape
- Read the newspaper or a good book
Maybe Tivo has a way around this? After all you can allways change the SW.I love the FCC...
florian nierhaus
P.S.
Vote democrat in the next election otherwise you will have even more "industry represenatives" in the FCC. The democrats traditionally try to appoint more custumer friendly representatives. The current breed is as far as I know mostly leftovers from Bush...
This is what IMHO Donald Becker wants. If someone wants to distribute Solaris with his drivers, then Solaris would need to be compatible with the GPL.
(Free source code, etc...)
Otherwise he would have chosen the LGPL. The LGPL does not infect other code. LGPL'd code can be linked to any proprietary code and this is ok. The proprietary code can stay proprietary. Only if you change the LGPL'd code you need to distribute those changes.
Bruce Perens position was allways that you can allways dynamically link with GPL'd code without infecting your proprietary code.
The RMS opinion on that is that that is a GPL violation.
It all depends on who you ask. My bet is that the GPL will be bugfixed. It is not in our interrest that anyone can make GLP'd code a plugin/module/library for his proprietary SW.
The LGPL is the licence for that.
florian nierhaus
The EFF only has about 10,000 members???
Look at other political organization like the NRA (Which I do NOT endorse). They have about 3,000,000 members.
Any political organization with so few members will be laughed at as a bunch of crazy extremist lunatics.
Each and every American Slashdot reader needs to get a EFF membership. And each EFF member has to recruit more members. Only then we can make a difference.
"And so, my fellow Geeks, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." (stolen from JFK).
regards,
florian nierhaus
If you use any Unix you don't need it.
The Print Appliance helps a Windows machine to print to "Unix" ldp printers.
With Unix just print directly to the printer or set up a print spool on a unix machine and tell the Print Appliance to use that spool/printer.
Oh, and Linux is a Unix as far as I care.
florian
I mean UNIX (TM) has been using this fix since 1972...
regards,
florian
P.S.
I do know, that AT&T doesn't own the UNIX Trademark anymore.
"There yet remains a value in the IPv4 addressing Scheme, which surpasses the promises of IPv6, and could conceivably satisfy our needs indefinitely without an expansion beyond the 32 Bit address range. That is, if it were distributed with country and or state codes as its prefix."
I have a nice time planner from tempus. You can order it at www.tempus.de. The only drawback is, that you can't get the paper inserts in every US store. Oh, the cover is made of circuit boards of course. By the way, the Tech museum store in San Jose, CA has some nice pencil cases, etc too. ciao, florian