That post has got to be one of the most informative posts I've ever read on Slashdot, I have nothing to add, or to rant about.
I am not quite in the market for a newer TV (although we just purchased a flat screen STB). HD is still too expensive for me, and I'm waiting a bit. But the facts that you offered about the 720P vs 1080i I had a feeling that the 720 res was better.
I remember the day my dad brought it home for Christmas. My mom could've shot him.
I remember learning about DOS and how to format disks with a program called KinderComp. It was awesome.
Tandy 1000 XT 4.77Mhz w/ memory upgrade to 640K Dual 5.25 low density floppy drives, later upgrdaed to 720k 3.5" 16 Color monitor.
Then a buddy of mine and his dad bought a computer. The Tandy 1000 SX, which was a 6Mhz computer, and a single stand alone 3.5" drive. My first copy of Thexder (wow!) was on dual 5.25 disks, which I got from the same friend. At the time, the boxed set came with both sets of disks.
I remember downloading using my 1200 baud modem, using J-Modem and using the Procomm (not plus) version.
As a Vonage subscriber, I'd like to mention my experiences thus far.
Excellent!
Although, the service did take over a month to get turned on, now that it is, I haven't had any problems. The one or two occasions that the Vonage VM had to pick up, was while I was dinking with my router, and was blocking everything by mistake. I'm still working on getting QoS to work on my side, and thus improve performance, but so far the only drawk back is that I cannot be uploading at the same time, else it sounds muted when not speaking.
I can download all day long and still recieve excellent quality voice.
The other drawback I see, however, is the ATA. I would perfer a better way to incorporate it into the existing phone wiring, but no good. I've since purhcased a dual handset cordless phone, and no problems since, going forward, it'll be easy to take with me whereever I go. Just get the broadband access connection, and walla.
Thinking ahead, I'm sure I can incorporate it into my home phone wiring, as soon as I get a home, currently living in an apartment, but again, minor.
I applaud your ISP for thinking in a forward fashion, and completely understand you're reference of living outside the US's boundries.
While downloading TV shows may be legal for you, its not for the majority of us here in the US. Granted this site reaches international users, and so we have to undestand that our laws don't apply to everyone (thank God!).
There is one point to make here. This is a one time cost savings of a little over $1 million.
Cost Savings = (5000 * ~85%) * $239 = $1,020,000
Thats a fair chunk of change. But it is quickly being replaced with the additional support department to help the users migrate to OpenOffice, that'll knock off the savings buy a quick $200k, plus management. BTW, whats the cost of the current, supported, OpenOffice release?
The money unforunately won't go where its needed for atleast another two budget years, and technically speaking, the Information Systems department really should use the money to invest internally. I don't think the money will be going to 'other areas' anytime soon.
Cost savings, yea there's some. It'll be even better when they can convert their proprietary system to include the OpenOffice application to finish out the roll out.
I'm sick and tired of hearing about people complaining that their bandwidth is in jeopardy becuase of some cap that the ISP is going to put in. Lets look at this, honestly.
Chances are no matter what extent of web surfing you are doing, you're not bringing down more than 15gig per month.
If you are using an excessive amount of bandwidth, stop bitching about it, contact the ISP and ask them (act like a man and actually confront your accuser) what are the acceptable limits, and how is it that I am breaking them.
For all of those people that have complained about downloading Linux ISOs for 'install fests', come on and be honest. Assuming that you even downloaded two recent distro's you're only talking about 7gigs, not counting SRC cds or extras. My suggestion, contact your ISP and encourage them to host local mirrors of the popular distros, including Xfree, kernel.org, and redhat/suse/debian/. Suggest that they can limit the external hog of the bulk of Linux CD downloads, not only that, but because its kept locally, you are going to get better speads from your ISP directly. I typically get 340-360KB/s which is quite sufficent, but get less than 60KB/s from Suse directly.
This is just a few thoughts from someone rambling at work...
My wife recently washed and dryed my drive. Thankfully, and in likeness to the story, the drive was completely in tact, and with a nice new fresh smell.
While I didn't read the article, the 'more than 4' ide drives could have easily been achieved by using a add on PCI-IDE card. I've got the ACard, 4 channel there, plus the 4 channel onboard ide. gives me access to a total of 8 devices.
I too setup QoS and received the same fix. This is an awesome service in general, although now we just need a few more competitors to bring the price down another $5 or so.
Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to actually travel with it yet, although thats an excellent idea.
I may end up just bringing it to work, and testing.
I have been using Vonage now for the past 3 months, and let me tell you this, the only problem with it is that when you are downloading, or uploading something, the phone cuts out a bit. You never lose the call, it just sounds less like a phone.
That being said, I haven't found any other problem with it. If I decide to take it with me to work, I can (although i wonder if it'll work ? ) I can just unplug the ATA and goto town. Its an awesome piece of hardware, and i wouldn't be caught dead using a POTS line now. It just doesn't make any sense. Vonage also has a feature to forward calls after a certain period of No Answer. i can forward to voicemail or to a cell phone, or whatever.
I was just speaking to a Dr. friend to mention this treatment for his father, he was already on top of researching this.
Apparently there is a catch. It doesn't necessarily work on all cancer due to location. It has to be some where where Reovirus can be injected directly to it, such as the photos of the neck tumor. Another good potential candidate for treatment is for patients with Ovarian Cancer or even Prostate cancer.
Alternatively this may not work as well for cancer of the liver or other such internal organs.
Not from personal knowledge, but from a reliable source nonetheless. Anyway you look at it though, this is a definate step in the right direction. With the proper delivery method it could indeed assist with the internal organs as well. Way to go guys!
Perhaps I should have been more clear, what I meant to say was that (talking from experience rather than from books) the handful of buildings I've been to with stand pipe system have never been connected. Once the standing water supply went out, thats it.
Speaking as a fire fighter, I can say this, sprinklers are usally cut off almost immediately upon arrival. The reason is this, the water supply is limited as it is, and the stand piper are intdended to be filled by the arriving pumper/tanker trucks.
Additionally, I like the idea of having sealed rooms. I have seen some concrete enclosure that are great for keeping the room cool in general, although sometimes a moisture buildup is the side effect, but is also good for keeping heat out. As an aside, firefighters are notorious for breaking stuff. A good way to help keep the extra water from being introduced is advise the fire department of certain rooms of importance. Believe it or not, fire departments are willing to work with your company, as long as you give them advance notice, this is also a good time to let them come in and do a 'Pre-Plan' of your building.
Are you telling me that you cannot run a single VoIP call behind your NAT router? Seriously? No, I mean, really?
What software are you trying to use that doesn't connect to a single port? I'm using vonage, and the way the provide the hardware is already preconfigured, drop it in behind your NAT (Bering LRP in my case) and turn it on, thats it, simple, done.
Now, when working with multiple VoIP calls behind the same router, I'm sure that can be a bit unique and may require some additional configuration, I don't know as I haven't tried it yet. But it seems atleaast the way that vonage does it, is to establish a connection (always on?) that keeps the port open and live. This is slightly different because they have a central location for thier calls to tie back to.
But, I relate what you are talking about to the equivalent of Yahoo's Messanger - Super Mode video conferencing. That requires some additional configuration, and it requires you to point the port to an internal IP, not an IP range, although it might work as well, again haven't tried it.
Perhaps I don't fully understand what you are talking about, but at face value it doesn't seem to make any sense that you cannot do port assignments through your NAT.
If anyone hasn't already mentioned it, this is exactly what Nextel is doing now. Their complete network is based on VoIP. Last year or so we bought a bunch of the Nextel phones, and I bought the cable to plug them into the computer, (for programming 10 phones worth of speed dial numbers, rather quickly I might add). at any rate, one of the neat things that this same software displays is the IP address of the phone, which (surprise) is a 10.x series address. VoIP & 802.11(x) is a great thing. Nextel's biggest problem is the coverage, although I admit that it has gotten magnitudes better than when they first came out. I envision a hybrid in the next 5 years that is a cross of VoIP/802.11 (ala Nextel) and some cross of PCS/CMDA service. Sprint PCS/Vision service is similar in this fashion, although I cannot confirm that it uses assigned IP addresses.
OK, I'm a bastard and all, but with the most
recent SCO (SCOX)
stock jumps can you wait to leave them in the dirt for a few more days. I'll be able to buy my 8 160gb drives in a just another day or two if you'll let the stock continue to climb.
But seriously. This is a good thing. SCO needs to be slapped down like a bad habbit. Darl has pushed this long enough, and with a tool like this, we can finally push back.
There goes my chance at being rich.. thanks guys...
But seriously.. did anyone doubt that this day would come? I did buy some SCO stocks, and am going to ride out the loss, in the end I think it'll be better for me.
Worse case... I lost the money I would've spent drinking, no biggie.
SCO is able to charge for the binary as this is allowed through the GPL. Much the same way that nVidia
Plus the call is finishing up... did not get a chance to ask my question which is simply:
What can Linux developers do to remove the infringing code, and develop a similar function but from a rewrite.
Bastards
atleast for it's only the 2.4 and 2.5 kernel. However, it seems that it would continue through the kernel series until the 'alleged' infringing code. Will verify in one moment, I'll ask.
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Wow!
All I can say is wow!
That post has got to be one of the most informative posts I've ever read on Slashdot, I have nothing to add, or to rant about.
I am not quite in the market for a newer TV (although we just purchased a flat screen STB). HD is still too expensive for me, and I'm waiting a bit. But the facts that you offered about the 720P vs 1080i I had a feeling that the 720 res was better.
I (for one) truly appreciate this post.
TANDY 1000 (250-1000) Specifications Faxback Doc. # 1041
Processor: 8088 CPU Speed: 4.77
FCC Class: B, UL Listed Wait States: N/A
# of Slots: (3) 8-bit XT slots
Std. Memory: 128K
Max. Memory: 640K
Thus, this box was for sure an XT.
Hmm.. no.. I think (atleast fairly sure) that the box was an XT. It used an 8088 processor, not the 8086.
I'll have to find the specs and post them back.
I remember the day my dad brought it home for Christmas. My mom could've shot him.
I remember learning about DOS and how to format disks with a program called KinderComp. It was awesome.
Tandy 1000 XT 4.77Mhz w/ memory upgrade to 640K
Dual 5.25 low density floppy drives, later upgrdaed to 720k 3.5"
16 Color monitor.
Then a buddy of mine and his dad bought a computer. The Tandy 1000 SX, which was a 6Mhz computer, and a single stand alone 3.5" drive. My first copy of Thexder (wow!) was on dual 5.25 disks, which I got from the same friend. At the time, the boxed set came with both sets of disks.
I remember downloading using my 1200 baud modem, using J-Modem and using the Procomm (not plus) version.
Ahh.. those were the days...
harryk
As a Vonage subscriber, I'd like to mention my experiences thus far.
Excellent!
Although, the service did take over a month to get turned on, now that it is, I haven't had any problems. The one or two occasions that the Vonage VM had to pick up, was while I was dinking with my router, and was blocking everything by mistake. I'm still working on getting QoS to work on my side, and thus improve performance, but so far the only drawk back is that I cannot be uploading at the same time, else it sounds muted when not speaking.
I can download all day long and still recieve excellent quality voice.
The other drawback I see, however, is the ATA. I would perfer a better way to incorporate it into the existing phone wiring, but no good. I've since purhcased a dual handset cordless phone, and no problems since, going forward, it'll be easy to take with me whereever I go. Just get the broadband access connection, and walla.
Thinking ahead, I'm sure I can incorporate it into my home phone wiring, as soon as I get a home, currently living in an apartment, but again, minor.
my 2 cents.
harryk
I applaud your ISP for thinking in a forward fashion, and completely understand you're reference of living outside the US's boundries.
While downloading TV shows may be legal for you, its not for the majority of us here in the US. Granted this site reaches international users, and so we have to undestand that our laws don't apply to everyone (thank God!).
Anyway, again I applaud your ISP.
There is one point to make here. This is a one time cost savings of a little over $1 million.
Cost Savings = (5000 * ~85%) * $239 = $1,020,000
Thats a fair chunk of change. But it is quickly being replaced with the additional support department to help the users migrate to OpenOffice, that'll knock off the savings buy a quick $200k, plus management. BTW, whats the cost of the current, supported, OpenOffice release?
The money unforunately won't go where its needed for atleast another two budget years, and technically speaking, the Information Systems department really should use the money to invest internally. I don't think the money will be going to 'other areas' anytime soon.
Cost savings, yea there's some. It'll be even better when they can convert their proprietary system to include the OpenOffice application to finish out the roll out.
Great job guys!
I'm sick and tired of hearing about people complaining that their bandwidth is in jeopardy becuase of some cap that the ISP is going to put in. Lets look at this, honestly.
Chances are no matter what extent of web surfing you are doing, you're not bringing down more than 15gig per month.
If you are using an excessive amount of bandwidth, stop bitching about it, contact the ISP and ask them (act like a man and actually confront your accuser) what are the acceptable limits, and how is it that I am breaking them.
For all of those people that have complained about downloading Linux ISOs for 'install fests', come on and be honest. Assuming that you even downloaded two recent distro's you're only talking about 7gigs, not counting SRC cds or extras. My suggestion, contact your ISP and encourage them to host local mirrors of the popular distros, including Xfree, kernel.org, and redhat/suse/debian/. Suggest that they can limit the external hog of the bulk of Linux CD downloads, not only that, but because its kept locally, you are going to get better speads from your ISP directly. I typically get 340-360KB/s which is quite sufficent, but get less than 60KB/s from Suse directly.
This is just a few thoughts from someone rambling at work...
g'night
My wife recently washed and dryed my drive. Thankfully, and in likeness to the story, the drive was completely in tact, and with a nice new fresh smell.
PNY made the drive, gotta give'em credit!
And not to mention that everyone that posted said the same fucking thing about using additional cards.
The article would have been a pointless read.
Blow me.
I was merely responding to the poster. He was obviously mis-informed about the availability of having more than 4 ide devices within a single box.
so, as you put it, since you didn't read the parent post, here's your pimp slap back. thwacka!
While I didn't read the article, the 'more than 4' ide drives could have easily been achieved by using a add on PCI-IDE card. I've got the ACard, 4 channel there, plus the 4 channel onboard ide. gives me access to a total of 8 devices.
harryk
I too setup QoS and received the same fix. This is an awesome service in general, although now we just need a few more competitors to bring the price down another $5 or so.
Unfortunately, I have not had the opportunity to actually travel with it yet, although thats an excellent idea.
I may end up just bringing it to work, and testing.
I have been using Vonage now for the past 3 months, and let me tell you this, the only problem with it is that when you are downloading, or uploading something, the phone cuts out a bit. You never lose the call, it just sounds less like a phone.
That being said, I haven't found any other problem with it. If I decide to take it with me to work, I can (although i wonder if it'll work ? ) I can just unplug the ATA and goto town. Its an awesome piece of hardware, and i wouldn't be caught dead using a POTS line now. It just doesn't make any sense. Vonage also has a feature to forward calls after a certain period of No Answer. i can forward to voicemail or to a cell phone, or whatever.
I'm all for VoIP, and at $35US, its worth it!
harryk
I was just speaking to a Dr. friend to mention this treatment for his father, he was already on top of researching this.
Apparently there is a catch. It doesn't necessarily work on all cancer due to location. It has to be some where where Reovirus can be injected directly to it, such as the photos of the neck tumor. Another good potential candidate for treatment is for patients with Ovarian Cancer or even Prostate cancer.
Alternatively this may not work as well for cancer of the liver or other such internal organs.
Not from personal knowledge, but from a reliable source nonetheless. Anyway you look at it though, this is a definate step in the right direction. With the proper delivery method it could indeed assist with the internal organs as well. Way to go guys!
harryk
Perhaps I should have been more clear, what I meant to say was that (talking from experience rather than from books) the handful of buildings I've been to with stand pipe system have never been connected. Once the standing water supply went out, thats it.
I did not mean to imply that we turned them off.
Speaking as a fire fighter, I can say this, sprinklers are usally cut off almost immediately upon arrival. The reason is this, the water supply is limited as it is, and the stand piper are intdended to be filled by the arriving pumper/tanker trucks.
Additionally, I like the idea of having sealed rooms. I have seen some concrete enclosure that are great for keeping the room cool in general, although sometimes a moisture buildup is the side effect, but is also good for keeping heat out. As an aside, firefighters are notorious for breaking stuff. A good way to help keep the extra water from being introduced is advise the fire department of certain rooms of importance. Believe it or not, fire departments are willing to work with your company, as long as you give them advance notice, this is also a good time to let them come in and do a 'Pre-Plan' of your building.
what in the fuck are you talking about?
Are you telling me that you cannot run a single VoIP call behind your NAT router? Seriously? No, I mean, really?
What software are you trying to use that doesn't connect to a single port? I'm using vonage, and the way the provide the hardware is already preconfigured, drop it in behind your NAT (Bering LRP in my case) and turn it on, thats it, simple, done.
Now, when working with multiple VoIP calls behind the same router, I'm sure that can be a bit unique and may require some additional configuration, I don't know as I haven't tried it yet. But it seems atleaast the way that vonage does it, is to establish a connection (always on?) that keeps the port open and live. This is slightly different because they have a central location for thier calls to tie back to.
But, I relate what you are talking about to the equivalent of Yahoo's Messanger - Super Mode video conferencing. That requires some additional configuration, and it requires you to point the port to an internal IP, not an IP range, although it might work as well, again haven't tried it.
Perhaps I don't fully understand what you are talking about, but at face value it doesn't seem to make any sense that you cannot do port assignments through your NAT.
If anyone hasn't already mentioned it, this is exactly what Nextel is doing now. Their complete network is based on VoIP. Last year or so we bought a bunch of the Nextel phones, and I bought the cable to plug them into the computer, (for programming 10 phones worth of speed dial numbers, rather quickly I might add). at any rate, one of the neat things that this same software displays is the IP address of the phone, which (surprise) is a 10.x series address. VoIP & 802.11(x) is a great thing. Nextel's biggest problem is the coverage, although I admit that it has gotten magnitudes better than when they first came out. I envision a hybrid in the next 5 years that is a cross of VoIP/802.11 (ala Nextel) and some cross of PCS/CMDA service. Sprint PCS/Vision service is similar in this fashion, although I cannot confirm that it uses assigned IP addresses.
my 2 cents
OK, I'm a bastard and all, but with the most recent SCO (SCOX) stock jumps can you wait to leave them in the dirt for a few more days. I'll be able to buy my 8 160gb drives in a just another day or two if you'll let the stock continue to climb.
But seriously. This is a good thing. SCO needs to be slapped down like a bad habbit. Darl has pushed this long enough, and with a tool like this, we can finally push back.
Great work Eric!
harryk
Get bittorrent silly man.
decent quality trailer, I like the fact that they finally are bringing some light back into the shots.
Its symbolic, a good vs. evil kinda symbol. one of the reasons the first two were so dark.
checkout the bittorrent link!
harryk
There goes my chance at being rich .. thanks guys...
But seriously.. did anyone doubt that this day would come? I did buy some SCO stocks, and am going to ride out the loss, in the end I think it'll be better for me.
Worse case... I lost the money I would've spent drinking, no biggie.
as a look back at my original post, I realize that it was abit absurd, but it was NOT intended to be troll like... harryk
SCO is able to charge for the binary as this is allowed through the GPL. Much the same way that nVidia Plus the call is finishing up... did not get a chance to ask my question which is simply: What can Linux developers do to remove the infringing code, and develop a similar function but from a rewrite. Bastards
atleast for it's only the 2.4 and 2.5 kernel. However, it seems that it would continue through the kernel series until the 'alleged' infringing code. Will verify in one moment, I'll ask.