I would like to formally announce that I, jjeffries, user #17675, will also not be entering the digital music sales market. I feel that it would detract from my primary function of making realistic Hitleresque mustaches from leftover bicycle handlebar tape.
I have a cow-orker with Alltel DSL, and their setup was messing up his VOIP. That fake IP was coming from his modem--it's got NAT in there and uses PPPOE on the WAN side. Complain loudly and to enough people and it is within their power to send you a modem set up to bridge, or get your own ADSL modem (almost any will work) and run PPPOE on your own box--you'll get a quasi-static IP just like on cable.
For the test, they should pack a house in the desert with a huge foil ball of popcorn, then attempt to pop it with the laser from 30,000 feet. That could cause the whole neighborhood to errupt into zaniness!
This is very similar to my article on procrastination... well, it would be if I'd ever gotten around to writing it... oh well, guess I don't need to now...
Nobody can see me on the other end of the telephone. It shouldn't matter if I've got a three-piece suit on, a t-shirt and shorts, or nothing. While Mister Professional sits around in his suit, scratching his head, I'll fire up a sniffer on my sticker-covered laptop and diagnose your problem in 2 minutes.
"Clothing makes the man" reflects everything I hate about society. Ok, not quite everything...
I've already got an old Fleishman Electronics Fusion@Home Jr. (TM) power plant... non-polluting and nearly cost-free, just have to remember to top off the reservoir now and then... so what does this new thingie do better?
Well, some voice traffic is packet-switched, but the phone companies charge CABS as per usual for completion. P2P VOIP avoids this of course.
As to open access to the local loop, that's a different story entirely... It would seem to me that the ILECs are making a killing on renting the copper alone. A non-small percentage of the populous in any given area hates their ILEC--I guess the ILECs like giving customers to the cable companies instead of having their share of the CLEC's pie.
In the circuit-switched telephony world, carriers exchange CABS (Carrier Access Billing System) records, which are redeemed for cash at the end of each month. For example, you call your Uncle Zed long-distance for one minute and are charged six cents or whatnot by your phone company for the privilage. Well, Zed's phone company will charge CABS to your phone company, and at the end of the month, Zed's phone company will get a check containing a cent or two in payment for completing your call. It's not a lot of money but the volume is very, very high, and a phone co. can make some decent cash if they terminate a lot of calls (think dialups.)
Pretty obvious now where this guy is coming from, eh? Too bad the internet doesn't work like that! The best they will be able to do at this point is to work on screwing up peering agreements in their favor.
IMHO, the big telcos will be the first with their backs up against the wall when the revolution comes.
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up up down down left right left right B A select (I have a brother) start!
The old-timers in the crowd probably already know about this one:
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Replacing CapsLock with Left-Control on X
Create the file ~/.Xmodmap with these contents:
remove mod4 = Meta_L
remove mod1 = Alt_L
remove lock = Caps_Lock
keysym Meta_L = Alt_L
keysym Alt_L = Meta_L
add mod4 = Meta_L
add mod1 = Alt_L
add control = Caps_Lock
If you are running something like XFree86, add
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
to your ~/.xinitrc file or ~/.xsession file. If neither of those exist, you can always do it from the command line.
text stolen from http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/swapx.htm
I would like to formally announce that I, jjeffries, user #17675, will also not be entering the digital music sales market. I feel that it would detract from my primary function of making realistic Hitleresque mustaches from leftover bicycle handlebar tape.
thank you,
jjeffries
user #17675
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
And for the record, I have about 20/800 vision (-8 lenses) and I'm allergic to Retinox 5, too.
I have a cow-orker with Alltel DSL, and their setup was messing up his VOIP. That fake IP was coming from his modem--it's got NAT in there and uses PPPOE on the WAN side. Complain loudly and to enough people and it is within their power to send you a modem set up to bridge, or get your own ADSL modem (almost any will work) and run PPPOE on your own box--you'll get a quasi-static IP just like on cable.
There must be a word for their excrement then, right?
Does anyone have any cool ideas that are feasible with 50 BILLION?
Give everybody in the world $75.47?
how about multicast?
and before someone else replies, yeah, I know... bwahahahahaha!
It was just trying to be helpful and protect the guy from The Terrible Secret of Space...
This one isn't quite on topic, but it keeps with the mood... Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom
Ex-NASA genius/nutball (you decide) Richard C. Hoagland has a page full of great pictures illustrating the above:
Hyperdimensional Hurricanes?
Everybody talks about BSDs as being fabulous firewalls, which I don't deny, but what can they do that linux + iptables & tc can't?
x .php/t1829.html
H OWTO.html
Here's a similar rate-limiting deal: http://www.linux-noob.com/forums/lofiversion/inde
And Linux has all kinds of QOS capabilities:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Adv-Routing-
This is not a troll, it's an honest question. Why BSD for firewalls?
I hereby nominate Vicki of Small Wonder for the 2007 induction ceremonies.
For the test, they should pack a house in the desert with a huge foil ball of popcorn, then attempt to pop it with the laser from 30,000 feet. That could cause the whole neighborhood to errupt into zaniness!
Did anyone else see the picture in that first link and think "Hey, what's that dude doing behind my desk???"
Yeah, but do you have one of these?
This is very similar to my article on procrastination... well, it would be if I'd ever gotten around to writing it... oh well, guess I don't need to now...
"Clothing makes the man" reflects everything I hate about society. Ok, not quite everything...
I've already got an old Fleishman Electronics Fusion@Home Jr. (TM) power plant... non-polluting and nearly cost-free, just have to remember to top off the reservoir now and then... so what does this new thingie do better?
"When you support Free software, you support malaria!"
-me
What the hell's your problem? Do you like dead babies? Do you???
No, save the precious infants!
or
Yes, let's kill some babies!
As to open access to the local loop, that's a different story entirely... It would seem to me that the ILECs are making a killing on renting the copper alone. A non-small percentage of the populous in any given area hates their ILEC--I guess the ILECs like giving customers to the cable companies instead of having their share of the CLEC's pie.
AC, please see this.
In the circuit-switched telephony world, carriers exchange CABS (Carrier Access Billing System) records, which are redeemed for cash at the end of each month. For example, you call your Uncle Zed long-distance for one minute and are charged six cents or whatnot by your phone company for the privilage. Well, Zed's phone company will charge CABS to your phone company, and at the end of the month, Zed's phone company will get a check containing a cent or two in payment for completing your call. It's not a lot of money but the volume is very, very high, and a phone co. can make some decent cash if they terminate a lot of calls (think dialups.)
Pretty obvious now where this guy is coming from, eh? Too bad the internet doesn't work like that! The best they will be able to do at this point is to work on screwing up peering agreements in their favor.
IMHO, the big telcos will be the first with their backs up against the wall when the revolution comes.
And it's confusing to us, too--what does this measurement equate to in LoCs/sec?
The number of cattle with windows into their stomachs is, surprisingly, non-zero. And what good is a cow with a view if you don't do this on a regular basis?