You need SOME kind of sofwtware to interface with your hardware... You use a PBX because you want controls over it - limiting the dial-plan, length of call, frequencies of calls, adding a *67 in front of the dial-string, etc. Asterisk does all this and is free... What's the problem?
In most corners of the US, a POTS line will be much cheaper than a cellphone or any of the commercial VoIP systems.
You can get long-distance service on your residential line with no per-month charges and no minimums for less than 1.47 cents per minute on six second billing? Where? The only plans that could come close are the flat rate ones where you would need to make something like over 2000 minutes of long-distance calls to break even. It would be a rare month that I use over 500 minutes of long-distance.
Asterisk is a big cost? It's GPL. Free. As in Beer. Runs on Linux, BSD, and Mac or even a linksys router. While I don't know how well it works, there is even a version that runs on Windows. Asterisk gives you SOOOO much more than just VoIP and cheap phone calls. It's an extremely flexible full-functionality PBX. It's really a matter of time before someone does a windows port.
You really need more than just an ATA since you want to be able to lock-down the dial-plan. Example: you allow 800 numbers because they are free, right? So someone calls 1800-call-att and makes an operator assisted long-distance call to Japan... Not so good.
That said, I tried bellster. Easy setup, works. I'm in...
No. This is not the case. You need to have both an ATA and service providor that supports the very new and rarely implemented standards that allow modems to work.
So what kind of speeds do you get??? For faxes, you have the T.38 protocol that allows them to work (requires support at both the VoIP provider AND the ATA you are using). Getting modems to work over 9600 is Much more of a trick. First, you can't use any codec that does compression so it sucks a lot of bandwidth, and second, the latency and packetization of the modem signal is going to be quite problematic. See this page for more info on modems over VoIP.
If you can get your modem to work at all over VoIP, good for you (I am VERY surprised to find that someone is using it succesfully.) It doesn't work at all for most people at this time however.
What do you mean by "traditional implementations"? Proprietary PBX systems like a Nortel or Seimens? Or other VoIP protocols? Or a closed campus that has no other off-site connectivity other than traditional phone service (POTS / PRI, etc?)
I guessing "proprietary systems..." If you think about it for more than 5 seconds or so, or haven't been hiding under a rock for the past couple years, the answers should be obvious. Flexability, open systems, and cost savings are the top three.
I don't mind recycling, but when you find out you have to pay it's going to get a lot of monitors tossed in dumpsters.
Worse, my town does not accept them ANYWHERE. Can't go in to trash since they are considered hazzardous waste, there is no recycle program, and no facility to handle residential hazzardous waste. I've started seeing them dumped on the side of the road now... What most people do put them in a big garbage bag in normal trash which does no good for anyone.
Government need to wake the hell up. The things are either going to be a major dumping problem like tires are, or end up in the garbage causing polution problems down the road. Maybe force all retailers of monitors / TV's to accept any monitor from anyone at no cost to the consumer and have a mandated industry recycling program. Some states already do something like this for tires and batteries.
I think you are missing the point of using thin clients...
But really, if you have a need for applications that don't work well on a thin client, DON'T USE A THIN CLIENT!!! Sheesh! They are NOT "The" solution to all problems...
Most USB scanners are USB-1. Some newer models are USB2.0. USB-1 is 11Mbps. Ethernet is 10 or 100Mbps (probably 100 in this environment...)
Even on USB1, If it's taking that long for the scan to get to the server, something else must be wrong. Could you somehow have the scanner in low-speed USB mode - same bus as a mouse or something?
Not to mention that the power companies wait until power poles fall over before replacing them which is why we have so many outages. We expect them to replace (modify) all their lines? Who is going to pay for that? We have power management technology that could reduce energy consumption by 40%, and reduce the need to build new plants. The California backouts would have been totally unnecessary. NONE of the US power companies is willing to install such a system despite the fact that it would pay for itself in 5 years. It IS being done in other countries (ENEL in Italy) and parts of Asia.
US utilitiy companies are so behind the times and unwilling to try anything innovative (much less perform preventative maintenance.) Nobody in their right mind would buy internet services from the power company.
Just install fiber and be done with it. Fiber has WAY more capacity for the internet of the future. With modern optical multiplexing, the costs of doing fiber to the home is much less than it was.
Regardless of the motherboard, if you get a controller card that doesn't suck (3ware) then you won't have any drive size issues.
Most onboard IDE / SATA controllers suck. Don't even get me started on Promise "we change our chip design ever 10 seconds to make drivers incompatible" garbage.
You use privoxy and are happy? I find it annoying... Not from the functionality aspect (where the filtering is awesome) but from the user experience. The proxy does not "forward" the HTML page until it has been 100% received by privoxy. The end result is that you sit there waiting and waiting for a long page to load in your browser and you don't even get a partial page until privoxy gets the whole thing. See the FAQ
This also means that no connections are opened to load images or CSS, etc. until your browser gets the main file from privoxy. While my connection is fast, many sites are not, so the impact is significant.
Are you SURE it's DirectTV? More likely it's Dish Network. DirectTV (last time I checked) does NOT provide service unless you have a land-line (yes, you can "get around" the requirement from a technical perspective, but the contract mandates being connected 24x7.)
A huge potential userbase is retired RVers, BUT I would expect that the number of RVers willing and able to pay to be a fairly small percentage. $10 / day is rape considering you can get business DSL service for $40 / month.
I doub't it. Some people never learn. Frankly, who gives a rip? If someone wants to run IE, let em. Some people still smoke too despite all the evidence of health problems, huge cost, etc. You can't cure stupidity.
While great for low-volume mail servers, you really need a beefy box to enable you to have enough MTA threads for handling the initial SMTP communication, threads for doing the virus scanning/spam filtering, and CPU to do it in the time allowed by the SMTP standard (I *think* it is 180 seconds... probably enough time).
There are many ways to speed up / scale up in-line scanning if you think about the problem for about 30 seconds or so. It doesn't matter whether you are running a home-email server or serve millions of accounts. Large ISP's have huge clusters of relays that may show up as a single server to the outside world. There really isn't a need to have a "backup MX" host that doesn't know everything that the main relays do. Backup MX's were useful 10 years ago, but are not today.
I'm not a fan of non-realtime scanning as it causes collateral spam - bouncing instead of rejecting. At this point, bouncing any mail (as opposed to rejecting it outright) received from an outside mail server should be VERY rare.
That's just silly. I routinely rip at 6-8x on a variety of drives. I can rip at 8x on an old PIII 500 and Yahmaha SCSI CDR. Or generic 56x CDROM. Or Plextor DVD R+W.
I've been ripping one or two disks here occasionaly, but a couple months ago I decided to rip 450 or so CD's as I was asked to DJ my brother-in-law's wedding. Very old and damaged disks were ripping a little on the slow side, around 3x, but most CD's were in good condition and were going around 8x. I use ripperx on Linux which uses cdparanoia.
Who knows what you are doing wrong, but something is clearly wrong...
Frankly, I find apache EASIER to configure. Try a config file without all the extra comments, examples, redundant settings (setting values to default values) and it's not all that big or difficult to understand.
If I want to create a virtual host based on the same settings of an existing vhost, cut and paste baby. Done. With IIS I have to keep clicking 100 flippin' options and duplicate my effort. Sorry, IIS is not designed for professional / enterprise use.
Trying to get back on topic, I find most of the boot time is in the BIOS level startup -- 80%-90% of the time from power on to login prompt. Boot a modern HP server and see what I mean. The kernel portion itself is pretty quick. All the services started after the kernel is done is the second most time consuming portion. It helps to make sure that only needed services are started, and that you order services correctly by when they are needed for your particular application (to minimize downtime in event of a reboot.)
I had a Mac G4 titanium that would not power on due to a bad battery. Even with the battery removed it would not power on. Went through all the PRAM reset proceedures, etc., no go. Installed a good battery and everything worked.
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You need SOME kind of sofwtware to interface with your hardware... You use a PBX because you want controls over it - limiting the dial-plan, length of call, frequencies of calls, adding a *67 in front of the dial-string, etc. Asterisk does all this and is free... What's the problem?
In most corners of the US, a POTS line will be much cheaper than a cellphone or any of the commercial VoIP systems.
You can get long-distance service on your residential line with no per-month charges and no minimums for less than 1.47 cents per minute on six second billing? Where? The only plans that could come close are the flat rate ones where you would need to make something like over 2000 minutes of long-distance calls to break even. It would be a rare month that I use over 500 minutes of long-distance.
Kiddie wouldn't be able to make many calls unless he was also letting people use his line. He would probably find his bellster account canned quickly.
Asterisk is a big cost? It's GPL. Free. As in Beer. Runs on Linux, BSD, and Mac or even a linksys router. While I don't know how well it works, there is even a version that runs on Windows. Asterisk gives you SOOOO much more than just VoIP and cheap phone calls. It's an extremely flexible full-functionality PBX. It's really a matter of time before someone does a windows port.
You really need more than just an ATA since you want to be able to lock-down the dial-plan. Example: you allow 800 numbers because they are free, right? So someone calls 1800-call-att and makes an operator assisted long-distance call to Japan... Not so good.
That said, I tried bellster. Easy setup, works. I'm in...
Now you just need to find a WiFi SIP phone that doesn't totally suck. Good luck!!!
No. This is not the case. You need to have both an ATA and service providor that supports the very new and rarely implemented standards that allow modems to work.
So what kind of speeds do you get??? For faxes, you have the T.38 protocol that allows them to work (requires support at both the VoIP provider AND the ATA you are using). Getting modems to work over 9600 is Much more of a trick. First, you can't use any codec that does compression so it sucks a lot of bandwidth, and second, the latency and packetization of the modem signal is going to be quite problematic. See this page for more info on modems over VoIP.
If you can get your modem to work at all over VoIP, good for you (I am VERY surprised to find that someone is using it succesfully.) It doesn't work at all for most people at this time however.
What do you mean by "traditional implementations"? Proprietary PBX systems like a Nortel or Seimens? Or other VoIP protocols? Or a closed campus that has no other off-site connectivity other than traditional phone service (POTS / PRI, etc?)
I guessing "proprietary systems..." If you think about it for more than 5 seconds or so, or haven't been hiding under a rock for the past couple years, the answers should be obvious. Flexability, open systems, and cost savings are the top three.
I don't mind recycling, but when you find out you have to pay it's going to get a lot of monitors tossed in dumpsters.
Worse, my town does not accept them ANYWHERE. Can't go in to trash since they are considered hazzardous waste, there is no recycle program, and no facility to handle residential hazzardous waste. I've started seeing them dumped on the side of the road now... What most people do put them in a big garbage bag in normal trash which does no good for anyone.
Government need to wake the hell up. The things are either going to be a major dumping problem like tires are, or end up in the garbage causing polution problems down the road. Maybe force all retailers of monitors / TV's to accept any monitor from anyone at no cost to the consumer and have a mandated industry recycling program. Some states already do something like this for tires and batteries.
I fixed the security problem with IE.
I run it under CrossoverOffice on Linux sudo'ed to an account with no privs.
Works just dandy for those retard sites that can't code proper HTML.
I think you are missing the point of using thin clients...
But really, if you have a need for applications that don't work well on a thin client, DON'T USE A THIN CLIENT!!! Sheesh! They are NOT "The" solution to all problems...
Most USB scanners are USB-1. Some newer models are USB2.0.
USB-1 is 11Mbps. Ethernet is 10 or 100Mbps (probably 100 in this environment...)
Even on USB1, If it's taking that long for the scan to get to the server, something else must be wrong. Could you somehow have the scanner in low-speed USB mode - same bus as a mouse or something?
Not to mention that the power companies wait until power poles fall over before replacing them which is why we have so many outages. We expect them to replace (modify) all their lines? Who is going to pay for that? We have power management technology that could reduce energy consumption by 40%, and reduce the need to build new plants. The California backouts would have been totally unnecessary. NONE of the US power companies is willing to install such a system despite the fact that it would pay for itself in 5 years. It IS being done in other countries (ENEL in Italy) and parts of Asia.
US utilitiy companies are so behind the times and unwilling to try anything innovative (much less perform preventative maintenance.) Nobody in their right mind would buy internet services from the power company.
Just install fiber and be done with it. Fiber has WAY more capacity for the internet of the future. With modern optical multiplexing, the costs of doing fiber to the home is much less than it was.
Regardless of the motherboard, if you get a controller card that doesn't suck (3ware) then you won't have any drive size issues.
Most onboard IDE / SATA controllers suck. Don't even get me started on Promise "we change our chip design ever 10 seconds to make drivers incompatible" garbage.
You use privoxy and are happy? I find it annoying... Not from the functionality aspect (where the filtering is awesome) but from the user experience. The proxy does not "forward" the HTML page until it has been 100% received by privoxy. The end result is that you sit there waiting and waiting for a long page to load in your browser and you don't even get a partial page until privoxy gets the whole thing. See the FAQ
This also means that no connections are opened to load images or CSS, etc. until your browser gets the main file from privoxy. While my connection is fast, many sites are not, so the impact is significant.
He's probably confused. It's amazing how many people I talk to that say they have DSL that actually have cable modems.
Interesting. I have Never stayed in a hotel that charged that much. They have all been flat-rate or free.
No point in staying somewhere where it isn't free at this point, since it is free at so many hotels.
I see a lot of RVs in campgrounds with DirecTV
Are you SURE it's DirectTV? More likely it's Dish Network. DirectTV (last time I checked) does NOT provide service unless you have a land-line (yes, you can "get around" the requirement from a technical perspective, but the contract mandates being connected 24x7.)
A huge potential userbase is retired RVers, BUT I would expect that the number of RVers willing and able to pay to be a fairly small percentage. $10 / day is rape considering you can get business DSL service for $40 / month.
then you will probably care enough to switch
I doub't it. Some people never learn. Frankly, who gives a rip? If someone wants to run IE, let em. Some people still smoke too despite all the evidence of health problems, huge cost, etc. You can't cure stupidity.
While great for low-volume mail servers, you really need a beefy box to enable you to have enough MTA threads for handling the initial SMTP communication, threads for doing the virus scanning/spam filtering, and CPU to do it in the time allowed by the SMTP standard (I *think* it is 180 seconds... probably enough time).
There are many ways to speed up / scale up in-line scanning if you think about the problem for about 30 seconds or so. It doesn't matter whether you are running a home-email server or serve millions of accounts. Large ISP's have huge clusters of relays that may show up as a single server to the outside world. There really isn't a need to have a "backup MX" host that doesn't know everything that the main relays do. Backup MX's were useful 10 years ago, but are not today.
I'm not a fan of non-realtime scanning as it causes collateral spam - bouncing instead of rejecting. At this point, bouncing any mail (as opposed to rejecting it outright) received from an outside mail server should be VERY rare.
FYI: Regardless of the RFC's, you will find many of ther larger ISP's have short timeouts - 30 seconds in some cases.
That's just silly. I routinely rip at 6-8x on a variety of drives. I can rip at 8x on an old PIII 500 and Yahmaha SCSI CDR. Or generic 56x CDROM. Or Plextor DVD R+W.
I've been ripping one or two disks here occasionaly, but a couple months ago I decided to rip 450 or so CD's as I was asked to DJ my brother-in-law's wedding. Very old and damaged disks were ripping a little on the slow side, around 3x, but most CD's were in good condition and were going around 8x. I use ripperx on Linux which uses cdparanoia.
Who knows what you are doing wrong, but something is clearly wrong...
Frankly, I find apache EASIER to configure. Try a config file without all the extra comments, examples, redundant settings (setting values to default values) and it's not all that big or difficult to understand.
If I want to create a virtual host based on the same settings of an existing vhost, cut and paste baby. Done. With IIS I have to keep clicking 100 flippin' options and duplicate my effort. Sorry, IIS is not designed for professional / enterprise use.
Trying to get back on topic, I find most of the boot time is in the BIOS level startup -- 80%-90% of the time from power on to login prompt. Boot a modern HP server and see what I mean. The kernel portion itself is pretty quick. All the services started after the kernel is done is the second most time consuming portion. It helps to make sure that only needed services are started, and that you order services correctly by when they are needed for your particular application (to minimize downtime in event of a reboot.)
Simple fix. Install sunglasses on all your light bulbs. That ought to work...
I had a Mac G4 titanium that would not power on due to a bad battery. Even with the battery removed it would not power on. Went through all the PRAM reset proceedures, etc., no go. Installed a good battery and everything worked.