Maybe you should take a look at Freeside. It's aimed at ISP management, so it has most of the functions you'll need, plus it's pretty easy to extend so you could have it set up to provision your VOIP services. If you have a perl guy around it would be easy.
I played with it for a while but the bosses where I work went with anther, Windows-based management system, that has as yet proven too difficult and unstable to actually put into production.
a couple of macroprocessors get drunk, start messing around... they wake up the next morning full of regret... next thing you know, there's a new microprocessor for someone to install, dress up in a nice case, feed it RAM, and reboot it when it makes a mess, which will be all the damn time for the first few months...
...this happens all the time. I have a cheap-ass sound effects CD that I picked up, oh, 10 or 12 years ago that has a particular sample of a cat meowing--kinda freaking out actually. I've heard this sample in dozens of movies and TV shows--it's very unique and easy to pick out. It's pretty much sure to be in every film with more than a few seconds of cat sounds.
If I make up a cool name for the cat sample, can we make a big fuss over it too?
Just a guess: It's a lot easier/more lucrative for to turn a blind eye to a spammer with a $1000/mo T1 bill than one on a $35 DSL connection or a $15 dialup.
That said, the ground images from the Terra satellites are nothing short of amazing. Since I live in Southern California, it really put a perspective on things.
what kind of puny setup do you have? you need to get a man's desktop--I'm talking big. A real man would take two 15" monitors over a single 17" any day, and over a 19" every day except perhaps the sabbath.
Anything less than 2000 pixels wide is just weak. Only problem is, it's damn tough to find a background. You'll have to re-scan your ass in a higher resolution if you don't want the jaggies, and nobody wants the jaggies on their ass, mon!
"Microsoft said the next-generation BIOS would allow future versions of Windows to manage server blades when they are connected to a system, without needing to be turned on."
so... who else thinks this is a fantasticly bad idea, discounting everything else that's wrong with this plan?
How long until this scheme is hacked? What does "turned on" mean if a computer can be managed when "off"?
Network-aware BIOS worms that never sleep... That's Freedom to Innovate (TM)!
It could never be so simple. Cable companies are unregulated and not considered telecommunications carriers, so they don't generally have to deal with the univesal service fee--unless they are also selling phone service, in which case they get to collect it.
DSL customers pay the fee in one way or another, as them copper pairs coming to your house _are_ considered telecom stuffs, even if like me, you don't have a voice line.
If your cablemodem is out all the time you don't have anyone to complain to other than the cable co., but if your DSL is messed up, you can probably complain to your local public service commission who generally has the authority to rip your carrier a new... anyway...
The fee is supposed to be used for wiring up folks that live out beyond where it's profitable to run copper. Of course, it's a mismanaged mess and doesn't make any sense, but what did you expect?
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I played with it for a while but the bosses where I work went with anther, Windows-based management system, that has as yet proven too difficult and unstable to actually put into production.
a couple of macroprocessors get drunk, start messing around... they wake up the next morning full of regret... next thing you know, there's a new microprocessor for someone to install, dress up in a nice case, feed it RAM, and reboot it when it makes a mess, which will be all the damn time for the first few months...
no doubt delivered to you as 15,923 shares in SCOX...
it tastes like it's real silver to me
Uh... that was you.
this dark star?
He is
the modren
man
(secret secret, he's got a secret)
...this happens all the time. I have a cheap-ass sound effects CD that I picked up, oh, 10 or 12 years ago that has a particular sample of a cat meowing--kinda freaking out actually. I've heard this sample in dozens of movies and TV shows--it's very unique and easy to pick out. It's pretty much sure to be in every film with more than a few seconds of cat sounds.
If I make up a cool name for the cat sample, can we make a big fuss over it too?
"...lucrative for (bracket)Your ISP Here(bracket)..."
so "plain old text" posting rips out everything between brackets... nice to know...
Just a guess: It's a lot easier/more lucrative for to turn a blind eye to a spammer with a $1000/mo T1 bill than one on a $35 DSL connection or a $15 dialup.
* my mom was a librarian** for a while, chill out
** then she got a real job
instead of looking in your desk and finding out that your password is 'pencil', Rutger Hauer types are going to rip your eyes out. Yay for progress!
Yes, and it's also scheduled to be connected to South America's National LambadaRail, aka "the forbidden network."
and piles, loosly organized with my "recently used documents" near the top. unless they've slid off onto the floor.
I was wondering who bought all the Itanium 2s....
How about now?
SHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! The first rule of Scientology is, you do not talk about Scientology!
yes, you are so very small!
what kind of puny setup do you have? you need to get a man's desktop--I'm talking big. A real man would take two 15" monitors over a single 17" any day, and over a 19" every day except perhaps the sabbath. Anything less than 2000 pixels wide is just weak. Only problem is, it's damn tough to find a background. You'll have to re-scan your ass in a higher resolution if you don't want the jaggies, and nobody wants the jaggies on their ass, mon!
now you'll need three people to reset your machine!
CONTROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!
ALTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!
DELETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
gives an entirely different meaning to "chording", eh?
It's a screen saver. For TVs.
Wow. Revolutionary.
What's the patent number?
"The only way to win, is not to play."
How about a nice game of gobal thermonuclear war?
so... who else thinks this is a fantasticly bad idea, discounting everything else that's wrong with this plan?
How long until this scheme is hacked? What does "turned on" mean if a computer can be managed when "off"?
Network-aware BIOS worms that never sleep... That's Freedom to Innovate (TM)!
There's a cell tower on top of my building. I spend all day within 50 feet of it.
Consider me interested.
It could never be so simple. Cable companies are unregulated and not considered telecommunications carriers, so they don't generally have to deal with the univesal service fee--unless they are also selling phone service, in which case they get to collect it.
DSL customers pay the fee in one way or another, as them copper pairs coming to your house _are_ considered telecom stuffs, even if like me, you don't have a voice line.
If your cablemodem is out all the time you don't have anyone to complain to other than the cable co., but if your DSL is messed up, you can probably complain to your local public service commission who generally has the authority to rip your carrier a new... anyway...
The fee is supposed to be used for wiring up folks that live out beyond where it's profitable to run copper. Of course, it's a mismanaged mess and doesn't make any sense, but what did you expect?