That's exactly it. When we bought our house, we were informed that the house had fiber pre-installed. I didn't worry too much about it, because I'd read many stories of folks simply re-activating the copper, if it was still there.
Guess what? The copper is still there at my house, but Verizon flat out refused to turn up service on it. I was pissed. I was paying $14.95/month for my Verizon DSL at my apartment, but since Verizon wouldn't turn up the copper service at the new house, we couldn't transition that service over; instead the best they could do was their low-end FIOS service at $39.99/month, or almost 3 times what I was paying. Sure, it's faster, but I don't spend all my time online, so I didn't care. I went around and around with them for days, before I finally talked them into all sorts of discounts (which, btw, I need to call them on as they've mysteriously stopped my 6 months of discounts after just 4) to make it somewhat reasonable.
The only saving grace is the copper is still there, and if I hook a phone up to it, I can probably still dial 911 or use a calling card. But how many residents have the technical skills to re-wire their phone box?
Needless to say, when this contract is up, Verizon will see none of my business. Currently they have the best deal on cell service for my needs, by far, but I refuse to do business with them, even to the detriment of my pocketbook.
Actually there's another way -- make it much much harder for people to get their driver's licenses. Then there will be fewer cars on the road, and those that are on the road will have better drivers.
I hear in California, the driver's test is open book. This explains a lot.
Does anyone find it funny that we're looking at screenshots of a Windows clone? I mean...why not just look at Windows? Then you can see where ReactOS wants to be...
This is similar to what a lot of race and rally drivers wear. They call it a 'cool suit' and it goes on under the Nomex. Cooling is handled by an ice water filled cooler behind the seats with a small pump inside to circulate the water.
Yep, BES 4.0. Thinking back, I believe you're right -- I think it is turned off by default. Be aware, though, that it's possible to turn it on at the device level, too, so some of those oh-so-important middle managers could turn it on, if they can figure it out. Which is unlikely.
I haven't had any problems or complications administering the BES server. Pretty straightforward, after you get it set up (when making it talk to Exchange, you have to copy a DLL from your Exchange server, then register it by hand).
As for the sig at the end, there is a way to globally turn that off (if you're using BES), and I have, precisely for the reason that you outline -- why do I care that you sent it from your Blackberry? Does it make it more important?
I meant they should fix it in not allowing an untrusted remote application to be downloaded on a local computer with no interaction from the user.
So turn off the ability. In Safari, open Preferences, and on the first tab, de-select 'automatically run "safe" files upon download.' Then, it'll download it, and you can manually install the widget by copying it to/Library/Widgets. No need to restart OS X or Dashboard, it just shows up.
This was one of the first things I tweaked after switching to a Mac. I noticed it'd automatically mount disk image files, and I could see the potential security implication, so I found the checkbox and tunred it off.
they will always lack this aspect of providing what the customers REALLY want or need
Yes, but most customers don't really NEED those features. Just geeks. And the geeks who want to play with their hardware that way know they won't get that from Apple.
Basically what I'm saying is that, while it's true Apple doesn't let you play with FSB, voltage, etc, people don't buy Apple hardware to do that. And would they if Apple provided a means to make your system unstable in that way? Probably not.
Actually, my B&W G3 400 (overclocked to 450Mhz) handles windows and graphics just fine. It has the stock 16MB ATi card, which doesn't support QE, and no AltiVec instruction set. I'm actually impressed with how well this 6 year old computer runs OS X.
That sounds in-line with what our Avaya rep was telling us. IMHO, it's a major selling point. Those systems that ran on Windows came to the table with a point against them.
We're running a Definity G3 currently, on V4 of the software, and Audix that is the same vintage. It's definitely UNIXWare.
Honestly, I can't wait to move off of the Definity. It's been good, but AT&T/Lucent/Avaya's pricing model is hideous. It's almost cheaper up front for us to replace the system with a VoIP system than to upgrade the software to handle such simple tasks as caller ID. It's been good to us, but it's time to let it go.
Thanks for the info! I'm a computer geek, but this telephony stuff is quite interesting to me. I guess that's why they put me in charge of it...
There are a couple of solutions that use some pretty robust hardware and software. We're in the process of evaluating some different IP telephony vendors, and have looked at quite a few.
Cisco's VoIP offerings run on Windows for the backend. Now, we're a Windows shop, but even our CFO who's a die-hard Windows guy expressed grave concern over the reliability of this approach.
Shoretel uses VxWorks as their software on a custom, 1U machine. VxWorks is pretty darn stable, and is what the Mars rovers run on.
Zultys looked very interesting, and runs on a PPC chip with Linux on top, but it didn't have the features that the other vendors (Avaya, Cisco, Shoretel, Seimens, etc) had, but were planned for their next software release. The other concern is the company isn't old, and they basically came out and stated that their entire goal was to make a good product so someone would purchase their company.
Avaya is still in the running for us, as is Siemens and Shoretel (albeit Shoretel is currently the most expensive -- they have a per user license fee that's really turning us off). They all seem to be pretty relaible from what we've seen.
Also keep in mind that Avaya's Audix voicemail system actually runs on Unix. SCO UnixWare, if I remember correctly. I might have to log into our voicemail system and check it out. I could be very wrong here, though.
Exactly -- man and apropos are not intuitive. Niether is double-clicking an icon - not at first. And which mouse button to use -- left or right?
Things must be taught to a user before they can explore. Most people don't sit down at a system with no prior experience and no techie background without first being told a few simple commands.
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That's exactly it. When we bought our house, we were informed that the house had fiber pre-installed. I didn't worry too much about it, because I'd read many stories of folks simply re-activating the copper, if it was still there.
Guess what? The copper is still there at my house, but Verizon flat out refused to turn up service on it. I was pissed. I was paying $14.95/month for my Verizon DSL at my apartment, but since Verizon wouldn't turn up the copper service at the new house, we couldn't transition that service over; instead the best they could do was their low-end FIOS service at $39.99/month, or almost 3 times what I was paying. Sure, it's faster, but I don't spend all my time online, so I didn't care. I went around and around with them for days, before I finally talked them into all sorts of discounts (which, btw, I need to call them on as they've mysteriously stopped my 6 months of discounts after just 4) to make it somewhat reasonable.
The only saving grace is the copper is still there, and if I hook a phone up to it, I can probably still dial 911 or use a calling card. But how many residents have the technical skills to re-wire their phone box?
Needless to say, when this contract is up, Verizon will see none of my business. Currently they have the best deal on cell service for my needs, by far, but I refuse to do business with them, even to the detriment of my pocketbook.
Actually there's another way -- make it much much harder for people to get their driver's licenses. Then there will be fewer cars on the road, and those that are on the road will have better drivers.
I hear in California, the driver's test is open book. This explains a lot.
Does anyone find it funny that we're looking at screenshots of a Windows clone? I mean...why not just look at Windows? Then you can see where ReactOS wants to be...
You're more right than you think. Symantec's antivirus software for Mac is crap and difficult to get rid of...
This is similar to what a lot of race and rally drivers wear. They call it a 'cool suit' and it goes on under the Nomex. Cooling is handled by an ice water filled cooler behind the seats with a small pump inside to circulate the water.
Works great.
Yep, BES 4.0. Thinking back, I believe you're right -- I think it is turned off by default. Be aware, though, that it's possible to turn it on at the device level, too, so some of those oh-so-important middle managers could turn it on, if they can figure it out. Which is unlikely.
I haven't had any problems or complications administering the BES server. Pretty straightforward, after you get it set up (when making it talk to Exchange, you have to copy a DLL from your Exchange server, then register it by hand).
As for the sig at the end, there is a way to globally turn that off (if you're using BES), and I have, precisely for the reason that you outline -- why do I care that you sent it from your Blackberry? Does it make it more important?
I meant they should fix it in not allowing an untrusted remote application to be downloaded on a local computer with no interaction from the user.
/Library/Widgets. No need to restart OS X or Dashboard, it just shows up.
So turn off the ability. In Safari, open Preferences, and on the first tab, de-select 'automatically run "safe" files upon download.' Then, it'll download it, and you can manually install the widget by copying it to
This was one of the first things I tweaked after switching to a Mac. I noticed it'd automatically mount disk image files, and I could see the potential security implication, so I found the checkbox and tunred it off.
It's not rocket science, just basic research.
Actually, at DefCon they do this. It's called the 'Running Man' (check out this story: Click!). It looks pretty cool...
Yeah, I got a free copy at Fry's, too. Those guys at the doors don't run very fast.
Keep an eye on dealmac.com, specifically the Systems page. Lots of good stuff there.
Oooh, at the Beaverton one, too eh? Oh good, that's on my way home from work...
Boilerplate rocks...
Boilerplate EXPOSED!"
they will always lack this aspect of providing what the customers REALLY want or need
Yes, but most customers don't really NEED those features. Just geeks. And the geeks who want to play with their hardware that way know they won't get that from Apple.
Basically what I'm saying is that, while it's true Apple doesn't let you play with FSB, voltage, etc, people don't buy Apple hardware to do that. And would they if Apple provided a means to make your system unstable in that way? Probably not.
I mean, the company motto is "It Just Works."
Check out dealmac.com in thier systems page. Some pretty good deals in there.
Well, right now the iBook and PowerBook have the same processor family. What seperates them now?
I drank what?
Yeah, but I thought they were the top ten advances of 2004. Is it not an advancement to have relatively cheap, private sector spaceflight?
How about GTorrent?
Actually, my B&W G3 400 (overclocked to 450Mhz) handles windows and graphics just fine. It has the stock 16MB ATi card, which doesn't support QE, and no AltiVec instruction set. I'm actually impressed with how well this 6 year old computer runs OS X.
That sounds in-line with what our Avaya rep was telling us. IMHO, it's a major selling point. Those systems that ran on Windows came to the table with a point against them.
We're running a Definity G3 currently, on V4 of the software, and Audix that is the same vintage. It's definitely UNIXWare.
Honestly, I can't wait to move off of the Definity. It's been good, but AT&T/Lucent/Avaya's pricing model is hideous. It's almost cheaper up front for us to replace the system with a VoIP system than to upgrade the software to handle such simple tasks as caller ID. It's been good to us, but it's time to let it go.
Thanks for the info! I'm a computer geek, but this telephony stuff is quite interesting to me. I guess that's why they put me in charge of it...
There are a couple of solutions that use some pretty robust hardware and software. We're in the process of evaluating some different IP telephony vendors, and have looked at quite a few.
Cisco's VoIP offerings run on Windows for the backend. Now, we're a Windows shop, but even our CFO who's a die-hard Windows guy expressed grave concern over the reliability of this approach.
Shoretel uses VxWorks as their software on a custom, 1U machine. VxWorks is pretty darn stable, and is what the Mars rovers run on.
Zultys looked very interesting, and runs on a PPC chip with Linux on top, but it didn't have the features that the other vendors (Avaya, Cisco, Shoretel, Seimens, etc) had, but were planned for their next software release. The other concern is the company isn't old, and they basically came out and stated that their entire goal was to make a good product so someone would purchase their company.
Avaya is still in the running for us, as is Siemens and Shoretel (albeit Shoretel is currently the most expensive -- they have a per user license fee that's really turning us off). They all seem to be pretty relaible from what we've seen.
Also keep in mind that Avaya's Audix voicemail system actually runs on Unix. SCO UnixWare, if I remember correctly. I might have to log into our voicemail system and check it out. I could be very wrong here, though.
I hate when my carbonated planet goes flat...
Exactly -- man and apropos are not intuitive. Niether is double-clicking an icon - not at first. And which mouse button to use -- left or right?
Things must be taught to a user before they can explore. Most people don't sit down at a system with no prior experience and no techie background without first being told a few simple commands.
I've posted this above, but here it is again. Every n00b needs to know of the command 'ls' and 'apropos'.
Yeah, it'll give you lots of hits if you type 'apropos print', but it's a place to start.
Ideally, every n00b should be dropped into KDE or Gnome, and only graduate to the command line at a later date.
But, that's typically not how it works.