I recently came back from China on a business trip... I stayed in a expensive hotel... and they warned me at the front desk that I should use bottled water for everything. Not just drinking, but brushing my teeth, washing my face etc..
If I needed more water for such activities all I had to do was call the front desk and they provide it free of charge.
Big Bertha never replaced entire bands http://www.bandorganmusic.com/machines/mbigbertha. htm which had 369 pipes, a bass drum, a snare drum, two bells, tympani, double castanets, cymbals, a triangle, and a set of 18 bells. The very ingenious snare drum action stems back to the great Leonardo Da Vinci who designed this type of arrangement. The triangle perforations now activate the two comely bell-ringers. The Director, Big Bertha, is in time with the bass drum. The piccolos now play intermittently with the trumpets. When the piccolos are playing, the bell-ringers play in unison with the bass drum.
And this was without computers... just a role of paper with holes in it and pullys, springs and levers...
Letsee, the business owner has to manage two distinct networks, IP and telephony. However, any way you slice it, if you can come up with a technology that will enable the business to reduce the number of networks (components, cabling, management frameworks, admin personel) and hence expenses. This is a Good Thing (TM). The same holds true for storage arrays, operating systems, server vendors etc..
If you've already got people to manage your IP network, why not just extend them to include voice?
Traditional PBX doesn't even offer me the choice of reducing expenses.
...Not about home users. At work you've got a 100Mb lan... at home you've got a 6Mb down 1Mb up (if you're lucky), and you're pretty far (latency) from wherever you are calling, and I doubt that the routers/switches your provider are configured to give your voice traffic good QOS.
However, in a business, you do configure VOIP traffic to have higher COS.
Maybe home VOIP traffic isn't there yet, but as a business solution, its pretty slick. Phones are upgraded by centralized management. Heck one day I had a 'camera icon' on my phone display, and the next day I could order 'ball camera' and now if i call somebody we can set up video conferencing.
Moving phones involves carrying it with you to your new location. Heck, I can even use my PC at home to act as my desk phone by using SoftPhone and my VPN. People call my desk phone and my computer rings.
So letsee... in order to go from traditional PBX to VOIP you could either a) deploy a brand new separate IP network to directly replace your PBX or B) Upgrade your existing IP network including all of your ethernet switches so that they support PoE (Power over Ethernet).
You may need to implement QOS (you don't want some FTP transfer blocking time sensitive voice traffic.
You may need to redesign your core routers, backbone etc for this increase in traffic.
Also, if the CallManager (the computer that sets up the connection between the two telephones) goes down, you're not making phone calls. Do you really want to trust this to Windows? Yes, I realize that Cisco's CallManager runs on Windows, but rumor has it they are making a linux version.
So the question remains, with all the changes to your network that are required I doubt this will go far.. unless of course MSFT buys Juniper, Nortel...
So, if this guy has you hacking your power supply to clean it up. Why not just put a device in front of the PS to provide cleaner power to the equipment? If you clean up the feed to the inputs, they might send better signals to the AMP, but the AMP is going to muddy them up when they are sent to the speakers.
I spend my entire life managing large SANs, so RAID is done in the array (EMC, HDS) while basic volume management is done on the host (LVM, VXVM)... so when i first read this I thought that somebody had used linux and a fibrechannel HBA running in target mode (http://www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/linux/430l/target_ mode_intro.htm)
Put that up on/. and you'll have something b/c you'll have shown something more than 'look what linux can do' that the other OS's have had for years...
And then going on to mount those luns on another system (say a solaris, aix or another linux box). Instead, I was dissapointed to find out that you took a linux box and created enough software RAID to for a TB or more. If this was done with windows, it would be rejected... so why doing it with Linux make it front page news?
"Maybe the shareholders should look offshore for competitive executives who would collect less pay and fewer benefits," said Lee Conrad, national coordinator of the Alliance@IBM, a union-affiliated group that has 6,500 dues-paying members at IBM
It's not just TOE (tcp offload engines) that are coming along but full fledged iSCSI offload cards that offload the iSCSI stack as well as the tcp stack. Since the majority of hosts out there can't benefit from a $1000 2Gb fibre channel HBA, as they don't push that much data.
But an iSCSI connection might just be what the dr ordered. Plus have you priced a gigE port vs a FC port lately?
So, now that we've got billions of word 2002/2003/XP and excel/ppt docs sitting around, why can't they just open the spec up to those as well so we don't have to resave in the new format...
Now if I could just find something that would keep the idiots within 50ft of me from using their cube phones as speakerphones. Just because they are to (*$(*# lazy to either pickup the handset or use a headset.
I normally just send them an IM (if they even use the corporate IM) and ask them to pick up the phone. One woman once told me she uses speakerphone b/c
a) Handsets are unsanitary (it's her F-ing germs on it). b) She often needs to type while on the phone. c) Headsets would mess up her hair.
-American's dying in IRAQ -Iraqis dying in IRAQ -N. Korea thinking about testing Nukes -Avg Home price is about $600k. -State of Calif is bankrupt -Stanley Cup finals should have started today -Gas prices are $2.50/gal -Tuition/yr costs as much as a luxury car. -Stem Cell research
They must think it's a slow news week.
And yet Time Magazine decides to dedicate an entire issue to the top 100 Films of all time? I'm sorry but, first Newsweek makes us American's look stupid in the eyes of Muslims, and now Time wastes untold amounts of paper, ink and metal (staples) on this BS..
Bill Gates also predicted the death of the mainframe... Somebody outta tell IBM... almost $2B per year... not bad for a 'dead outdated technology...'
And now with BladeCenters you want me to deploy hundreds of small Windows machines? Great that just means that many more systems to patch/run antivirus software and reboot. Big Iron does have its advantages... fewer boxes to patch, power, cool. Ever notice that the new Boeing 777 has two HUGE engines not 500 small ones? Same holds true for computing. More product means more chance to fail. Just do the math with regard to MTBF... the more of something you have the higher the probability of having a failure.
So you're interested in saving the environment. So what you do is not spend $25k on a hybrid thinking you'll save tons of gas. What you don't realize is that it requires an awful lot of energy and petroleum to create that hybrid. While it requires no manufacturing to create a used car.
Why not just spend $10-15k on a used high MPG car (civic, tercel, corolla etc..). It may only get 30mpg, but we're talking $10-15k in savings, and that my friend translates into ALOT of gas.
In the BayArea (Calif) gas is about $2.50/gal. So if you saved $10k with the used car that comes to about 4000 gallons which at 30miles/gal is a 120,000 miles
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I recently came back from China on a business trip... I stayed in a expensive hotel... and they warned me at the front desk that I should use bottled water for everything. Not just drinking, but brushing my teeth, washing my face etc..
If I needed more water for such activities all I had to do was call the front desk and they provide it free of charge.
Let's see... if the school day starts at 9am and finishes at 3pm... so that's 6hrs...
-Anybody know of a $850 laptop with a 6hr battery?
"I can't do my homework b/c IT is reimaging the OS"
In my school system, I barely have enough budget for paper.
The first player piano was made in 1895: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player_piano
. htm which had 369 pipes, a bass drum, a snare drum, two bells, tympani, double castanets, cymbals, a triangle, and a set of 18 bells. The very ingenious snare drum action stems back to the great Leonardo Da Vinci who designed this type of arrangement. The triangle perforations now activate the two comely bell-ringers. The Director, Big Bertha, is in time with the bass drum. The piccolos now play intermittently with the trumpets. When the piccolos are playing, the bell-ringers play in unison with the bass drum.
Big Bertha never replaced entire bands http://www.bandorganmusic.com/machines/mbigbertha
And this was without computers... just a role of paper with holes in it and pullys, springs and levers...
Letsee, the business owner has to manage two distinct networks, IP and telephony. However, any way you slice it, if you can come up with a technology that will enable the business to reduce the number of networks (components, cabling, management frameworks, admin personel) and hence expenses. This is a Good Thing (TM). The same holds true for storage arrays, operating systems, server vendors etc..
If you've already got people to manage your IP network, why not just extend them to include voice?
Traditional PBX doesn't even offer me the choice of reducing expenses.
...Not about home users. At work you've got a 100Mb lan... at home you've got a 6Mb down 1Mb up (if you're lucky), and you're pretty far (latency) from wherever you are calling, and I doubt that the routers/switches your provider are configured to give your voice traffic good QOS.
However, in a business, you do configure VOIP traffic to have higher COS.
Maybe home VOIP traffic isn't there yet, but as a business solution, its pretty slick. Phones are upgraded by centralized management. Heck one day I had a 'camera icon' on my phone display, and the next day I could order 'ball camera' and now if i call somebody we can set up video conferencing.
Moving phones involves carrying it with you to your new location. Heck, I can even use my PC at home to act as my desk phone by using SoftPhone and my VPN. People call my desk phone and my computer rings.
Anybody tried this with a PBX based system?
So letsee... in order to go from traditional PBX to VOIP you could either a) deploy a brand new separate IP network to directly replace your PBX or B) Upgrade your existing IP network including all of your ethernet switches so that they support PoE (Power over Ethernet).
You may need to implement QOS (you don't want some FTP transfer blocking time sensitive voice traffic.
You may need to redesign your core routers, backbone etc for this increase in traffic.
Also, if the CallManager (the computer that sets up the connection between the two telephones) goes down, you're not making phone calls. Do you really want to trust this to Windows? Yes, I realize that Cisco's CallManager runs on Windows, but rumor has it they are making a linux version.
So the question remains, with all the changes to your network that are required I doubt this will go far.. unless of course MSFT buys Juniper, Nortel...
So, if this guy has you hacking your power supply to clean it up. Why not just put a device in front of the PS to provide cleaner power to the equipment? If you clean up the feed to the inputs, they might send better signals to the AMP, but the AMP is going to muddy them up when they are sent to the speakers.
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You could go high end... and spend thousands.. and http://www.richardgrayspowercompany.com/index2.ht
or you could go to Circuit City/Good Guys and pick up something more mainstream for much less. http://www.monstercable.com/power/lineRefPower.as
Atleast rolling your own like falconstor's takes a bit of skill, rather than this "Linux for Dummies" example.
I spend my entire life managing large SANs, so RAID is done in the array (EMC, HDS) while basic volume management is done on the host (LVM, VXVM)... so when i first read this I thought that somebody had used linux and a fibrechannel HBA running in target mode (http://www.emulex.com/ts/docfc/linux/430l/target_ mode_intro.htm)
/. and you'll have something b/c you'll have shown something more than 'look what linux can do' that the other OS's have had for years...
Put that up on
And then going on to mount those luns on another system (say a solaris, aix or another linux box). Instead, I was dissapointed to find out that you took a linux box and created enough software RAID to for a TB or more. If this was done with windows, it would be rejected... so why doing it with Linux make it front page news?
From the news.com version of this:
"Maybe the shareholders should look offshore for competitive executives who would collect less pay and fewer benefits," said Lee Conrad, national coordinator of the Alliance@IBM, a union-affiliated group that has 6,500 dues-paying members at IBM
It's not just TOE (tcp offload engines) that are coming along but full fledged iSCSI offload cards that offload the iSCSI stack as well as the tcp stack. Since the majority of hosts out there can't benefit from a $1000 2Gb fibre channel HBA, as they don't push that much data.
But an iSCSI connection might just be what the dr ordered. Plus have you priced a gigE port vs a FC port lately?
"helping Microsoft to understand Open Source and community-based projects."
Translation: MSFT is paying me more money than g-d to jump up and down "Balmer Style" yelling Open-Source Open-Source...
I use Meeting Maker '99....
I can book conference rooms... they force me to use it at work.
So, now that we've got billions of word 2002/2003/XP and excel/ppt docs sitting around, why can't they just open the spec up to those as well so we don't have to resave in the new format...
So this would in essence reduce the footprint of Longhorn by say 3 bytes for each instance of "My "?
Way to trim the fat MSFT!
I get the people two cubes away call me... they can't IM or for the love of all that's good...
Get off their FAT A$$ and walk the 20ft over to my cube.
Now if I could just find something that would keep the idiots within 50ft of me from using their cube phones as speakerphones. Just because they are to (*$(*# lazy to either pickup the handset or use a headset.
I normally just send them an IM (if they even use the corporate IM) and ask them to pick up the phone. One woman once told me she uses speakerphone b/c
a) Handsets are unsanitary (it's her F-ing germs on it).
b) She often needs to type while on the phone.
c) Headsets would mess up her hair.
Ok, So what's going on in the world...
-American's dying in IRAQ
-Iraqis dying in IRAQ
-N. Korea thinking about testing Nukes
-Avg Home price is about $600k.
-State of Calif is bankrupt
-Stanley Cup finals should have started today
-Gas prices are $2.50/gal
-Tuition/yr costs as much as a luxury car.
-Stem Cell research
They must think it's a slow news week.
And yet Time Magazine decides to dedicate an entire issue to the top 100 Films of all time? I'm sorry but, first Newsweek makes us American's look stupid in the eyes of Muslims, and now Time wastes untold amounts of paper, ink and metal (staples) on this BS..
I feel much better now.
Can anybody recommend a left handed trackball?
Haley's comet would have been spectacular this year if not for it being blocked by the 50mile wide ad for Depends Undergarments.
Lest we forget that an ISP turning over an IP address could be one way to catch a pedophile...
Which IMHO, is paramount to some kid downloading movies...
Bill Gates also predicted the death of the mainframe...
Somebody outta tell IBM... almost $2B per year... not bad for a 'dead outdated technology...'
And now with BladeCenters you want me to deploy hundreds of small Windows machines? Great that just means that many more systems to patch/run antivirus software and reboot. Big Iron does have its advantages... fewer boxes to patch, power, cool. Ever notice that the new Boeing 777 has two HUGE engines not 500 small ones? Same holds true for computing. More product means more chance to fail. Just do the math with regard to MTBF... the more of something you have the higher the probability of having a failure.
-Puck
So you're interested in saving the environment. So what you do is not spend $25k on a hybrid thinking you'll save tons of gas. What you don't realize is that it requires an awful lot of energy and petroleum to create that hybrid. While it requires no manufacturing to create a used car.
Why not just spend $10-15k on a used high MPG car (civic, tercel, corolla etc..). It may only get 30mpg, but we're talking $10-15k in savings, and that my friend translates into ALOT of gas.
In the BayArea (Calif) gas is about $2.50/gal. So if you saved $10k with the used car that comes to about 4000 gallons which at 30miles/gal is a 120,000 miles
Plus your insurance will be lower.
So what's the difference between Windows CE.. Windows Mobile and Windows Pocket Edition?
I can generate huge amounts of bandwidth in my lab with load cannons from Spirient or Agilent...