Not doubting MS will own this market eventually, but we are going through the shopping process for mobile devices and the blackberry won.. we can get blackberrys for $99-199 per device, they are much more rugged and durable and dependable. Active Sync has a ways to go before it is that reliable, and all the devices that can use active sync are either to fragile(large screen), too expensive vs the blackberry alternative. At this point Blackberry just works. Blackberry does need to get smart about the BES server pricing in the face of active sync though. Should be free or low one time cost or something along those lines, though they will give you the BES server and limited license as a hook if you work with a sales person.
Been very happy with these guys using them at a corporate level.. http://www.enveloc.com. Got quite a few customers that are using them and all very happy..
Many people seem to be missing the point of this device.. I don't think too many target customers for this device are worried about being able to record top 40 stations... The real target is NPR & other talk radio shows... Car Talk alone was/is worth the price of the base audible.com subscription package.
This combined with a decent Content Distribution Network solution is a pretty decent way to distribute content... I think it is Hard Rock cafe uses a Cisco based CDN solution to push all of its restaurant video content via high quality MPEGS.. they have a T1 or so to each store, a regional caching box, etc. They publish they encode and publish the files from corporate, drop them into the CDN system which then does off-peak time data distribution of the weekly videos to regional & local caching boxes for playing on the TV's. Supposedly saves them a fortune in Fedex/UPS fees and the price of DVD/vhs tapes, and having to have somebody at each site deal with loading/queing media, etc.
Imagine the media distributors could realize a huge cost savings by not having to deal with distribution issues, wear and tear on media, etc for things like short films/the unversially hated ads, etc. No mater what Lucasfilms thinks I think the full digital distribution of feature films is a way off yet, but for the disposable content this is a good system.
Obviously this is going to be a hacked version of Media Player that does not have screen overlays and pop up mouse cursors etc...
Radware Linkproof
Magic Radware box... check out the Linkproof or Linkproof LT depending on your needs. Dynamically add or drop providers seamlessly, use your exisiting IP's, handles the failover through a dynamic DNS system onboard.
Phone/switch send a tone sequence down the un used pair to verify there is actually a device that needs power on the remote end before the switch turns power on to the port...
Not an Apache based solution, but check out Packeteer Packetshapers..specifically the ISP models.. lets you set SLA's by protocol, IP, etc, perform rate limiting, and all other kinds of really cool stuff. Not exactly cheap but extremely effective, and simple to manage.
Gee I thought I was the only one! Those jerkwads aquired my prior credit card company a few years back when I was AF stationed in Germany, I called them because of some conflicting info they sent me, they told me all was well, no problems, took care of me. So I went on a trip to Turkey, while I was there they cancelled my card. Stuck me in the middle of Turkey with their piece of crap service and a useless credit card. When I got home I went through the whole mess with them and got the same story about being outside of the US, but when I came back they would welcome the chance to serve me. I went on a 2 month letter writing thing with them and just kept getting the same canned answers. No more Providian for me EVER. Jerks...
check out www.packeteer.com.
Very very cool box for bandwidth management...
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http://www.proxyvote.com/ has been doing this for a while now on stockholder voting issues, seems to have been used pretty succesfully..... just get a card in the mail or an email with a code number on it, hit the web site and go.
I don't know what these are like, but the original TIVO bracket has 4 low-end shock absorbers on its mounting bracket.. that combined with some foam would prob. be in the area of what you are looking for. I have done a few things with car mount stuff and found a good source for foam is the stuff they pack retail hard drives in.
I don't think the arcade operators have really helped the cause.. how often have I dumped $1 into a machine to find a lame flipper or something like that. On top of that the 50 cents and up per game have conspired against it. Gotta say though recently finally had a chance to play Martain Attack & the new Star Wars pinball games on that new Cyrix PC platform and was quite impressed.
Yeah... I can just see trying to do remote phone support to the poor sucker that gets theirs setup.. dealt with enough people that can't grok right click/left click/single click/double click..............
I have a Motorola Timeport Tri-Band and a Palm III, get online via IR port to the phone..works great! Just connect to your existing ISP no problem. Instructions for setup at this page. Also some other info about Palm & online access.
Nope.. TNT in the states is a different ball game.. they play mostly 80's movies now. they moved all of the classic movies over to another channel.. TNT Europe does play some of the TNT original movies from time to time though so maybe we will get lucky..........
I sat in on their interview/chat w/ Rob Young of RedHat last week...what a waste of time.... 9 questions in a 1 hour period.... and you have to keep hitting reload, etc. You can see the interview at http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?room=abc_ bobyoung
We are running a 56 CD Tower from Meridian, and a smaller 14 drive one from them. They came with some crappy Novell emulation type software, we finally got annoyed enough and went Linux.. The hardware is kind of expensive, but rock solid and cool looking on the server racks:> Lots of blinky lights when the drives are being accessed. We have had the smaller tower since end of 94(was not running Linux till last year) and it have not had any hardware failures..(KNOCK ON WOOD!!) The bigger tower has a pentium 166, 64 meg of ram and a 1.6 gig HD, the other has a 486sx25, but I was having a problem with IDE controllers on the 486 so I had to bastardize an old P100 with 16 meg of ram and use that for a controller for the CD drives. The 166 runs great off of its internal mboard. The smaller tower has 2 Adaptec 1542 scsi cards, the big one has 2 Adaptec 7870's.. the LUNS were all handled by the OS w/o any hitches at all.. If I remember correctly I did have to manually create the/dev devices for some of the higher # drives using mknod. Anyways all the CD's are mounted, then exported via Samba(would be just as easy with Appletalk and/or NFS) and users are authenticated via our NT Domain.. we went from 2 to 3 CD lockups a day that had to be manually reset to zero downtime other than to swap CD's when new ones arrived...... CD's in the tower are only quad speeds, but performs great from the far side of our network.. seems like it is your local CD drive... no problems running AVI's and stuff across a couple of 10 meg routers. One note on performance... 16 meg does not seem to be a problem on the smaller tower. It dips into its 20 meg swap file occasionally, but I have not noticed any performance problems..maybe someday I should slap some more memory in it if I think of it. There are a couple of caching options you can set to really improve Samba performance on Static file systems.. one is setting get wide cache, and there is another one I can't think of right now but can look up if you are interested... they do seem to make quite a diff. on previously accessed CD's. Anyways upshot of all this typing is that they really rock under Linux... saved us a bundle over trying to buy the companies "new improved" NT or Novell based access solutions...
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Not doubting MS will own this market eventually, but we are going through the shopping process for mobile devices and the blackberry won.. we can get blackberrys for $99-199 per device, they are much more rugged and durable and dependable. Active Sync has a ways to go before it is that reliable, and all the devices that can use active sync are either to fragile(large screen), too expensive vs the blackberry alternative. At this point Blackberry just works. Blackberry does need to get smart about the BES server pricing in the face of active sync though. Should be free or low one time cost or something along those lines, though they will give you the BES server and limited license as a hook if you work with a sales person.
please don't suck please don't suck please don't suck. I can deal with SW being a steaming pile now, don't screw this up PLEASE!
Been very happy with these guys using them at a corporate level.. http://www.enveloc.com. Got quite a few customers that are using them and all very happy..
Many people seem to be missing the point of this device.. I don't think too many target customers for this device are worried about being able to record top 40 stations... The real target is NPR & other talk radio shows... Car Talk alone was/is worth the price of the base audible.com subscription package.
This combined with a decent Content Distribution Network solution is a pretty decent way to distribute content... I think it is Hard Rock cafe uses a Cisco based CDN solution to push all of its restaurant video content via high quality MPEGS.. they have a T1 or so to each store, a regional caching box, etc. They publish they encode and publish the files from corporate, drop them into the CDN system which then does off-peak time data distribution of the weekly videos to regional & local caching boxes for playing on the TV's. Supposedly saves them a fortune in Fedex/UPS fees and the price of DVD/vhs tapes, and having to have somebody at each site deal with loading/queing media, etc.
Imagine the media distributors could realize a huge cost savings by not having to deal with distribution issues, wear and tear on media, etc for things like short films/the unversially hated ads, etc. No mater what Lucasfilms thinks I think the full digital distribution of feature films is a way off yet, but for the disposable content this is a good system.
Obviously this is going to be a hacked version of Media Player that does not have screen overlays and pop up mouse cursors etc...
Radware Linkproof
Magic Radware box... check out the Linkproof or Linkproof LT depending on your needs. Dynamically add or drop providers seamlessly, use your exisiting IP's, handles the failover through a dynamic DNS system onboard.
Check out www.mitel.com. Their 3050 is apparently a Linux based key switch/firewall package.
Check out http://www.dlink.com/products/hubs/de805/. Small 5 port hub, but it can be powered off of your PS/2 port with a little bit of work(see http://www.aitech.com/support/aig2install.htm) for an example.
Phone/switch send a tone sequence down the un used pair to verify there is actually a device that needs power on the remote end before the switch turns power on to the port...
Not an Apache based solution, but check out Packeteer Packetshapers..specifically the ISP models.. lets you set SLA's by protocol, IP, etc, perform rate limiting, and all other kinds of really cool stuff. Not exactly cheap but extremely effective, and simple to manage.
The same product is marketed under the Symantec label(same hardware, OEM type deal) as the 200 Appliance...
Gee I thought I was the only one! Those jerkwads aquired my prior credit card company a few years back when I was AF stationed in Germany, I called them because of some conflicting info they sent me, they told me all was well, no problems, took care of me. So I went on a trip to Turkey, while I was there they cancelled my card. Stuck me in the middle of Turkey with their piece of crap service and a useless credit card. When I got home I went through the whole mess with them and got the same story about being outside of the US, but when I came back they would welcome the chance to serve me. I went on a 2 month letter writing thing with them and just kept getting the same canned answers. No more Providian for me EVER. Jerks...
check out www.packeteer.com.
Very very cool box for bandwidth management...
http://www.proxyvote.com/ has been doing this for a while now on stockholder voting issues, seems to have been used pretty succesfully..... just get a card in the mail or an email with a code number on it, hit the web site and go.
Not cheap, but very effective:
http://www.packeteer.com
Check out:
http://www.linux-hacker.net/tivo/tivo.html
I don't know what these are like, but the original TIVO bracket has 4 low-end shock absorbers on its mounting bracket.. that combined with some foam would prob. be in the area of what you are looking for. I have done a few things with car mount stuff and found a good source for foam is the stuff they pack retail hard drives in.
Hope this helps..
I don't think the arcade operators have really helped the cause.. how often have I dumped $1 into a machine to find a lame flipper or something like that. On top of that the 50 cents and up per game have conspired against it.
Gotta say though recently finally had a chance to play Martain Attack & the new Star Wars pinball games on that new Cyrix PC platform and was quite impressed.
Yeah... I can just see trying to do remote phone support to the poor sucker that gets theirs setup.. dealt with enough people that can't grok right click/left click/single click/double click..............
I have a Motorola Timeport Tri-Band and a Palm III, get online via IR port to the phone..works great! Just connect to your existing ISP no problem.
Instructions for setup at this page. Also some other info about Palm & online access.
Nope.. TNT in the states is a different ball game.. they play mostly 80's movies now. they moved all of the classic movies over to another channel.. TNT Europe does play some of the TNT original movies from time to time though so maybe we will get lucky..........
I sat in on their interview/chat w/ Rob Young of RedHat last week...what a waste of time.... 9 questions in a 1 hour period.... and you have to keep hitting reload, etc._ bobyoung
You can see the interview at http://chat.abcnews.go.com/chat/chat.dll?room=abc
We are running a 56 CD Tower from Meridian, and a smaller 14 drive one from them. :> Lots of blinky lights when the drives are being accessed. We have had the smaller tower since end of 94(was not running Linux till last year) and it have not had any hardware failures..(KNOCK ON WOOD!!) /dev devices for some of the higher # drives using mknod.
They came with some crappy Novell emulation type software, we finally got annoyed enough and went Linux.. The hardware is kind of expensive, but rock solid and cool looking on the server racks
The bigger tower has a pentium 166, 64 meg of ram and a 1.6 gig HD, the other has a 486sx25, but I was having a problem with IDE controllers on the 486 so I had to bastardize an old P100 with 16 meg of ram and use that for a controller for the CD drives.
The 166 runs great off of its internal mboard. The smaller tower has 2 Adaptec 1542 scsi cards, the big one has 2 Adaptec 7870's.. the LUNS were all handled by the OS w/o any hitches at all.. If I remember correctly I did have to manually create the
Anyways all the CD's are mounted, then exported via Samba(would be just as easy with Appletalk and/or NFS) and users are authenticated via our NT Domain.. we went from 2 to 3 CD lockups a day that had to be manually reset to zero downtime other than to swap CD's when new ones arrived...... CD's in the tower are only quad speeds, but performs great from the far side of our network.. seems like it is your local CD drive... no problems running AVI's and stuff across a couple of 10 meg routers.
One note on performance... 16 meg does not seem to be a problem on the smaller tower. It dips into its 20 meg swap file occasionally, but I have not noticed any performance problems..maybe someday I should slap some more memory in it if I think of it. There are a couple of caching options you can set to really improve Samba performance on Static file systems.. one is setting get wide cache, and there is another one I can't think of right now but can look up if you are interested... they do seem to make quite a diff. on previously accessed CD's.
Anyways upshot of all this typing is that they really rock under Linux... saved us a bundle over trying to buy the companies "new improved" NT or Novell based access solutions...