It is as far from the open source as it gets, but the Windows Messenger includes voice features and has a software echo cancellation. Little known fact: Messenger 4.6 does not need Passport for operation, in closed enviroments any SIP server will do just fine. Also, encoded media stream it outputs uses standard encoders and standard RTP protocol. So Messenger can interoperate with many applications.
I've been using it for several years, and it does pretty good job filling out forms and remembering passwords. All personal data is stored locally, encrypted and easily exported or imoprted. After each install I go through little procedure to "pull Gator's teeth"
1 Uninstall "Offer Companion" from Control panel
2 Open Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gator.com\Gator\dyn
3 Change servers URLs to 127.0.0.1
After this I never see a banner or pop-up.
Downside:
1 Gator runs two memory-hungry processes
2 I don't know if their encryption for my data is any good
Looks like I am the only one/. reader who owns washlet in USA. Of course I got familiar with it in Tokyo hotel. Just a few days after I installed it (mine is Daelim brand) my wife got one of those illnesses which require staying within 30' to toilet at any time. After doing the "#2" about 20times in a span of a few hours she told me that the washlet was a lifesaver, because she didn't have to scratch her sore behind with a toilet paper every time. A little correcion to previous posts: most washlets don't spray your face if you push buttons while standing. They have a safety switch in the seat, which, luckily for pranksters, can be overridden via software. By the way, washlet is THE gadget to amaze ALL your friends and relatives of ANY age.
Verizon Wireless plans a trial of a high-speed network next month that would offer advanced wireless Internet connections to businesses at speeds comparable to those achieved by DSL and other landline connections.
The network, which will be tested in Tysons Corner, Va., and Rockville, Md., will be capable of data-transmission speeds of up to 2.4 megabits per second, potentially up to 100 times faster than current wireless data-transmission speeds. The trial complements Verizon Wireless' current rollout of third-generation and packet-data services by providing higher data capacity and throughput.
"We have had tremendous success with our Express Network launch, and with an eye toward the future, we are sowing the seeds for the rollout of the next evolution of this technology," said Bill Stone, executive director-Network Strategy for Verizon Wireless.
The higher-speed wireless network, using a technology labeled "1X EV-DO," is expected to help business customers enhance the productivity of their work force. For example, with Internet Protocol (IP) virtual private network (VPN) connections, business customers would be able to access the Verizon Wireless network as an extension of their corporate LAN or intranet, allowing their employees to work from any location as if they were in the office.
The test is being conducted using technology from Lucent. Verizon Wireless also plans to begin a similar test in the San Diego area beginning in June that will feature the technology of Nortel Networks.
Verizon Wireless will select participants for the trials. The trial results will help Verizon Wireless determine the best practical applications for the network.
The review is clearly written by amatour. It doesn't press the fact that connecting this unit requires a line input on a car's head unit. This feature is rare on aftermarket stereos and nonexistent on factory ones. There are workarounds for that- FM or cassette adaptors, but they impose quality penalty, and this is not mentioned either. Sound quality eva;uation was limited to "it sounded good to us". I would expect some measurements.
I work for Verizon. We have "fiber to the home" in trials. 10MB/s downstream with 3MB/s guaranteed minimum. However, I was told that the fiber nework will not be built unless HR1542 will pass. Vz will not invest billions and billions into new outside plant just to be forced to give it away to CLECs. I know that VZ is evil and ugly, and more competition should be better, but it will not work out economically. So the choice is: Do you want Bells vs AT&T/Comcast competition or you'll be happy with AT&T/Comcast alone?
Stephen King published "The Plant" in.pdf about two years ago. It was available for download at $1 per installement, for a total of $6. I remember that it generated a lot of press, including predictions of death of a publishing as we know it. However I don't see any dramtic changes. Even if things are going to be different, it will take a long time. Remember, it took 20 years to transition the majority of viewers from b/w to color TV.
I've been using Netflix for about year and a half. I've been genetally satisfied, however I notice that service goes downhill , slowly but steady. The most irritating new "feature" for me is that now, when you rent a movie which comes on 2 dvd's, you have to rent them as a two separate items!
Example. What could be worse then receiving the last 1/3 of the movie and wait until the beggining willl come out of the "long wait" blackhole!
I've been using it for several years, and it does pretty good job filling out forms and remembering passwords. All personal data is stored locally, encrypted and easily exported or imoprted. After each install I go through little procedure to "pull Gator's teeth"
1 Uninstall "Offer Companion" from Control panel
2 Open Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gator.com\Gator\dyn
3 Change servers URLs to 127.0.0.1
After this I never see a banner.
Downside:
1 Gator runs two memory-hungry processes
2 I don't know if their encryption for my data is any good
You can start throwing rocks at me now.
When I was working in a sat related field, I was told that huge dishes seen at major telecom companies sites are designed to have enough output to overpower any rogue control signal or DoS attempt. I think that figuring out how to control propulsion system by sniffing the control signal is difficult, if not imposible. One will need access to some serious astronomic equipment. Then he will have to monitor position and speed of the bird for very long time to see how it responds to the command, because firing the engines is a rare event. I doubt that sats can be controlled with precision needed to ram it into another one.
Yes, I agree. But we are back to the obvious now. Anybody who gives telnet access to the world and doesn't care about strong passwords and logging is asking for trouble. There is a ay to prevent it: require a license to operate a router! Just like you must have a license to operate a car, because you might kill other people, with cracked core router intruder may kill half of the Internet.
This article is short on details about using routers for DDOS. I heard about only one hole in IOS which gives "root" access to the router- an exploit of the embedded http server. Nobody I know runs it on their boxes. There is a risk of admins as educated as people who have IIS running and don't know it, but I hope that most of them only have one low-end router on ISDN link. By the way, is there a way to use router for TCP or UDP based attacks? ICMP flood with root access should be easy.
I work in DC area. I listened to the radio around noon. They had several eyewitnesses descibing the Pentagon hit. All of them talked about "small commuter plane", not a large jet.
There is something wrong when a "U.S. company" can actively discriminate against Americans in its hiring practices (how many of those jobs were offered to U.S. citizens?) while circumventing OSHA, FLSA, and other labor regulations.
Would you feel better if Plesk was a Russian company with US sales office? Would you want you apply US regulations in this case? I don't think so.
Buran abd US shuttle still have different design. Buran has to be launched with rocket ("Energia")with its own engines off until separation, while US shuttle uses own engines and carries external fuel tank with additional solid fuel boosters.
Space shuttle isn't the only example of a lok alike aircraft. Same holds true for Concord and TU-144 supersnoics. If I am not mistaken, Boeing had a supersonic jet project and it also looked very similar to other two.
May be hard drives will not become larger, but I am sure they will be cheaper, may be under $100 for max capacity. Unless a protable platform is involved, there is almost always a room for another drive. Or we might see return of 5 1/4" wide and 1" high drives.
In case you can't figure it out, there is no way for them to know. They know how many boxes they sold, because they can count them. Not so with unlicensed copies.
There is a way to roughly estimate piracy. Take number of CPUs manufactured by Intel/AMD/Transmeta. Adjust for multiprocessor boxes and propriotary devices and you have more or less quantity of new computers on the market. Use Windows market penetration data to figure number of machine running MS OS. Compare with number of lincenses sold.
Take a look on finances of all those cheap LD companies. They are loosing money on their rates. One day they might follow the way of the free ISPs. Also, some of those companies use less expensive technologies like VoIP, compressing voice to as low as 6 kBps instead of 64 kBps. With such a rate you land line sounds like a bad cell phone.
There is a similar package called NISTNet. It is an Open Source, runs on Linux. It doesn't have all the features of the Pocket Shpere, but it is free. Bythe way, we are using other software from Empirix and are not very thrilled with quality.
I don't like the idea of being behind a router with 30 of my closest neighbors.
30 neighbors is way too optimistic. In my area Comcast runs 2 Class C subnets iver the same cable. That is about 500 neighbors. Still, I get 1MBps downloads in the evening peak time.
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Who is Apple's OEM supplier for CD-ROM drives? Could it be Sony. who is a major drive manufacturer? Poetic justice...
It is as far from the open source as it gets, but the Windows Messenger includes voice features and has a software echo cancellation. Little known fact: Messenger 4.6 does not need Passport for operation, in closed enviroments any SIP server will do just fine. Also, encoded media stream it outputs uses standard encoders and standard RTP protocol. So Messenger can interoperate with many applications.
I've been using it for several years, and it does pretty good job filling out forms and remembering passwords. All personal data is stored locally, encrypted and easily exported or imoprted. After each install I go through little procedure to "pull Gator's teeth"
1 Uninstall "Offer Companion" from Control panel
2 Open Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gator.com\Gator\dyn
3 Change servers URLs to 127.0.0.1
After this I never see a banner or pop-up.
Downside:
1 Gator runs two memory-hungry processes
2 I don't know if their encryption for my data is any good
Petswarehouse is /.ed- Get ready for for a suit, Taco!
Looks like I am the only one /. reader who owns washlet in USA. Of course I got familiar with it in Tokyo hotel. Just a few days after I installed it (mine is Daelim brand) my wife got one of those illnesses which require staying within 30' to toilet at any time. After doing the "#2" about 20times in a span of a few hours she told me that the washlet was a lifesaver, because she didn't have to scratch her sore behind with a toilet paper every time. A little correcion to previous posts: most washlets don't spray your face if you push buttons while standing. They have a safety switch in the seat, which, luckily for pranksters, can be overridden via software. By the way, washlet is THE gadget to amaze ALL your friends and relatives of ANY age.
Text below is from Verizon press release
Verizon Wireless plans a trial of a high-speed network next month that would offer advanced wireless Internet connections to businesses at speeds comparable to those achieved by DSL and other landline connections. The network, which will be tested in Tysons Corner, Va., and Rockville, Md., will be capable of data-transmission speeds of up to 2.4 megabits per second, potentially up to 100 times faster than current wireless data-transmission speeds. The trial complements Verizon Wireless' current rollout of third-generation and packet-data services by providing higher data capacity and throughput. "We have had tremendous success with our Express Network launch, and with an eye toward the future, we are sowing the seeds for the rollout of the next evolution of this technology," said Bill Stone, executive director-Network Strategy for Verizon Wireless. The higher-speed wireless network, using a technology labeled "1X EV-DO," is expected to help business customers enhance the productivity of their work force. For example, with Internet Protocol (IP) virtual private network (VPN) connections, business customers would be able to access the Verizon Wireless network as an extension of their corporate LAN or intranet, allowing their employees to work from any location as if they were in the office. The test is being conducted using technology from Lucent. Verizon Wireless also plans to begin a similar test in the San Diego area beginning in June that will feature the technology of Nortel Networks. Verizon Wireless will select participants for the trials. The trial results will help Verizon Wireless determine the best practical applications for the network.
The review is clearly written by amatour. It doesn't press the fact that connecting this unit requires a line input on a car's head unit. This feature is rare on aftermarket stereos and nonexistent on factory ones. There are workarounds for that- FM or cassette adaptors, but they impose quality penalty, and this is not mentioned either. Sound quality eva;uation was limited to "it sounded good to us". I would expect some measurements.
I work for Verizon. We have "fiber to the home" in trials. 10MB/s downstream with 3MB/s guaranteed minimum. However, I was told that the fiber nework will not be built unless HR1542 will pass. Vz will not invest billions and billions into new outside plant just to be forced to give it away to CLECs. I know that VZ is evil and ugly, and more competition should be better, but it will not work out economically. So the choice is: Do you want Bells vs AT&T/Comcast competition or you'll be happy with AT&T/Comcast alone?
Stephen King published "The Plant" in .pdf about two years ago. It was available for download at $1 per installement, for a total of $6. I remember that it generated a lot of press, including predictions of death of a publishing as we know it. However I don't see any dramtic changes. Even if things are going to be different, it will take a long time. Remember, it took 20 years to transition the majority of viewers from b/w to color TV.
I've been using Netflix for about year and a half. I've been genetally satisfied, however I notice that service goes downhill , slowly but steady. The most irritating new "feature" for me is that now, when you rent a movie which comes on 2 dvd's, you have to rent them as a two separate items! Example. What could be worse then receiving the last 1/3 of the movie and wait until the beggining willl come out of the "long wait" blackhole!
I've been using it for several years, and it does pretty good job filling out forms and remembering passwords. All personal data is stored locally, encrypted and easily exported or imoprted. After each install I go through little procedure to "pull Gator's teeth"
1 Uninstall "Offer Companion" from Control panel
2 Open Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Gator.com\Gator\dyn
3 Change servers URLs to 127.0.0.1
After this I never see a banner.
Downside:
1 Gator runs two memory-hungry processes
2 I don't know if their encryption for my data is any good
You can start throwing rocks at me now.
When I was working in a sat related field, I was told that huge dishes seen at major telecom companies sites are designed to have enough output to overpower any rogue control signal or DoS attempt. I think that figuring out how to control propulsion system by sniffing the control signal is difficult, if not imposible. One will need access to some serious astronomic equipment. Then he will have to monitor position and speed of the bird for very long time to see how it responds to the command, because firing the engines is a rare event. I doubt that sats can be controlled with precision needed to ram it into another one.
http://www.lib.ru/PELEWIN/omon_engl.txt
Yes, I agree. But we are back to the obvious now. Anybody who gives telnet access to the world and doesn't care about strong passwords and logging is asking for trouble. There is a ay to prevent it: require a license to operate a router! Just like you must have a license to operate a car, because you might kill other people, with cracked core router intruder may kill half of the Internet.
This article is short on details about using routers for DDOS. I heard about only one hole in IOS which gives "root" access to the router- an exploit of the embedded http server. Nobody I know runs it on their boxes. There is a risk of admins as educated as people who have IIS running and don't know it, but I hope that most of them only have one low-end router on ISDN link. By the way, is there a way to use router for TCP or UDP based attacks? ICMP flood with root access should be easy.
I work in DC area. I listened to the radio around noon. They had several eyewitnesses descibing the Pentagon hit. All of them talked about "small commuter plane", not a large jet.
There is something wrong when a "U.S. company" can actively discriminate against Americans in its hiring practices (how many of those jobs were offered to U.S. citizens?) while circumventing OSHA, FLSA, and other labor regulations.
Would you feel better if Plesk was a Russian company with US sales office? Would you want you apply US regulations in this case? I don't think so.
Buran abd US shuttle still have different design. Buran has to be launched with rocket ("Energia")with its own engines off until separation, while US shuttle uses own engines and carries external fuel tank with additional solid fuel boosters. Space shuttle isn't the only example of a lok alike aircraft. Same holds true for Concord and TU-144 supersnoics. If I am not mistaken, Boeing had a supersonic jet project and it also looked very similar to other two.
May be hard drives will not become larger, but I am sure they will be cheaper, may be under $100 for max capacity. Unless a protable platform is involved, there is almost always a room for another drive. Or we might see return of 5 1/4" wide and 1" high drives.
In case you can't figure it out, there is no way for them to know. They know how many boxes they sold, because they can count them. Not so with unlicensed copies.
There is a way to roughly estimate piracy. Take number of CPUs manufactured by Intel/AMD/Transmeta. Adjust for multiprocessor boxes and propriotary devices and you have more or less quantity of new computers on the market. Use Windows market penetration data to figure number of machine running MS OS. Compare with number of lincenses sold.
Take a look on finances of all those cheap LD companies. They are loosing money on their rates. One day they might follow the way of the free ISPs. Also, some of those companies use less expensive technologies like VoIP, compressing voice to as low as 6 kBps instead of 64 kBps. With such a rate you land line sounds like a bad cell phone.
There is a similar package called NISTNet. It is an Open Source, runs on Linux. It doesn't have all the features of the Pocket Shpere, but it is free. Bythe way, we are using other software from Empirix and are not very thrilled with quality.
I don't like the idea of being behind a router with 30 of my closest neighbors.
30 neighbors is way too optimistic. In my area Comcast runs 2 Class C subnets iver the same cable. That is about 500 neighbors. Still, I get 1MBps downloads in the evening peak time.
Iridium was not wholly owned my Motorola. I think Motorola had about 20%.