It seems like paradise compared to here in the Irish Republic. We also have our former state monopoly(eircom) that still has that air of bureaucracy hanging stale in the air. I'm a telecoms engineer myself and have been fighting for 6 years to see some semblance of DSL enter my area. I have currently resigned to paying 3700($5000!) a month for a T1(that's 95% of my wages by the way). It all started when I tried to get someone to install a phoneline in my newly built home(CAT6 in the walls and all). What followed was a 3 month debacle during which I pleaded, begged, offered to install the line myself, buy the exchange, borrow, steal, maim and kill my way to a basic POTS line. I broke into tears several times(for the first time in years). Eventually I lost my temper and screamed obsenities down the line. 15 minutes later an eircom van arrives complete with an engineer who finaly connects my line.
Whooo... now I can get DSL!....cant I?...whaddya mean 'what's DST?'...oh god
No cable, no DSL, nothing. Fast forward 4 years...DSL arrives in select areas of Dublin due to government pressure. Still no DSL in my area I plump for a T1 out of necessity.
2 Years later: DSL arrives by surprise in our town! A group of tech-aware people in the town collective stop gnawing their nails. We make a call to a nice eircom lady who explained to us that it had only been announced that broadband was available in the town, it wasent actually available to customers, but it was planned "sometime within the next 3 years". Cue appearance of clumps of hair littering the streets.
For easy management why not try out a terminal server system? The clients can leased easily, and the ease of managment should free up a bit of your guys time. your boss will like it because of the effect on the bottom line.
You can also lease the terminal clents. They are simple devices, very little to go wrong and drop-in replacement is another advantage.
I'm working on a combo grid/shared memory/terminal server system atm to try and create a distributed destop TS system for our particular setup here.
Terminal servers would be a good option to check out.
I work for a primarily FLOSS company. We recently developed an application which we were pushing at trade shows all over Europe. During our travels, we met several other companies' suits who were developing similar or identical solutions. Even though some of these companies are direct competitors, we encouraged them to look at our code, see the solutions we had created and adopt some of our code. Result: Out of 22 companies we talked to 20 made their solutions OSS. We have now integrated some of their code into our own product just as they have used our code. Moral of the story: Sharing makes the community stronger, eliminates much inefficiency and makes the software better! We survive separately BECAUSE we have different ideas of how features should be implemented.
Look mate, 180hrs is by virtue of a limit METERED. my usage is 660h per month on a 2mbit connection. and i run servers so i need a decent ping and upload that rules out satellite all dsl available in ireland and IBB is only in dublin area
IOL offers only a 512K service that is only available in 1/4 of irish cities UTV has withdrawn its braodband offering and should ammend its site soon Eircom refuses to give me a connection at ANY price level due to my "heavy usage" e.g. (6Gig a month) and is also unavailable in ony a 1/4 on irish cities. wireless connections are near non existant i pay 23cent per KILOBYTE for my GPRS connection and even if braodband was available i waited 6 months to get my phone line in last year. There are no unmetered dialup options and i still pay per minute + $30 per month for my backup dialup. dont preach about what you havent experienced. i'm moving to madrid in august solely because of this situation.
IRIXis a typical old fashioned unix.Itdoes not evolve at a fast enough rate to keep up with advances in software or the needs of its users.
granted it may be extremly scalable but as third party companys scoff at developing software for an OS with a user-base as small as IRIXs the OS
does not show its full potential. SGI has moved to wider user base by starting to use Intel IA-32 CPUs(soon IA-64s as well). They should it expand even more by using a mainstream OS. SGIs are incredibly desirable pieces of kit(i saw one when i was 5.dreamed about owning one since). Shame about the OS.
Same here in Ireland.Everyone in the US thinks were religious nuts.We really do think that its the other way around.
P.S.:
8% of our population voted "Homer Simpson"
in our last presidential election!What
intellect is now being shown by a people
that invented the submarine,discovered
the diffusion of gases,has the largest
(and fastest growing)economy in Europe
and a world renowned education system.
Slashdot Mirror
1-way ticket to tokyo(expedia.com) - $700
new laptop - $2500
Finding home at last.. - Priceless
dude,
i've been talking to a friend at keyhole....
there's a linux version on the cards!!!!
It's something i'd do...
However i've never been fired but i'm just being honest.
I feel my normal healthy feelings of hate for authority would overspill a bit....;)
It seems like paradise compared to here in the Irish Republic.
We also have our former state monopoly(eircom) that still has that air of bureaucracy hanging stale in the air. I'm a telecoms engineer myself and have been fighting for 6 years to see some semblance of DSL enter my area. I have currently resigned to paying 3700($5000!) a month for a T1(that's 95% of my wages by the way). It all started when I tried to get someone to install a phoneline in my newly built home(CAT6 in the walls and all). What followed was a 3 month debacle during which I pleaded, begged, offered to install the line myself, buy the exchange, borrow, steal, maim and kill my way to a basic POTS line. I broke into tears several times(for the first time in years). Eventually I lost my temper and screamed obsenities down the line. 15 minutes later an eircom van arrives complete with an engineer who finaly connects my line.
Whooo... now I can get DSL!....cant I?...whaddya mean 'what's DST?'...oh god
No cable, no DSL, nothing. Fast forward 4 years...DSL arrives in select areas of Dublin due to government pressure. Still no DSL in my area I plump for a T1 out of necessity.
2 Years later: DSL arrives by surprise in our town! A group of tech-aware people in the town collective stop gnawing their nails.
We make a call to a nice eircom lady who explained to us that it had only been announced that broadband was available in the town, it wasent actually available to customers, but it was planned "sometime within the next 3 years". Cue appearance of clumps of hair littering the streets.
And I still can't get DSL!
BTW: see http://www.irelandoffline.com/ http://www.eircomtribunal.com/
That's why we're working a a distributed failover system.
For easy management why not try out a terminal server system? The clients can leased easily, and the ease of managment should free up a bit of your guys time. your boss will like it because of the effect on the bottom line.
You can also lease the terminal clents.
They are simple devices, very little to go wrong and drop-in replacement is another advantage.
I'm working on a combo grid/shared memory/terminal server system atm to try and create a distributed destop TS system for our particular setup here.
Terminal servers would be a good option to check out.
So the terminator will run linux!
I work for a primarily FLOSS company. We recently developed an application which we were pushing at trade shows all over Europe. During our travels, we met several other companies' suits who were developing similar or identical solutions. Even though some of these companies are direct competitors, we encouraged them to look at our code, see the solutions we had created and adopt some of our code. Result: Out of 22 companies we talked to 20 made their solutions OSS. We have now integrated some of their code into our own product just as they have used our code. Moral of the story: Sharing makes the community stronger, eliminates much inefficiency and makes the software better! We survive separately BECAUSE we have different ideas of how features should be implemented.
The real tragedy is some ppl will associate his words with the ipod.
I'm going to try it. get myself arrested, etc. etc. might rob a bank....
Look mate,
180hrs is by virtue of a limit METERED.
my usage is 660h per month on a 2mbit connection.
and i run servers so i need a decent ping and upload that rules out satellite all dsl available in ireland and IBB is only in dublin area
sorry mate, broadband in ireland is like this:
IOL offers only a 512K service that is only available in 1/4 of irish cities
UTV has withdrawn its braodband offering and should ammend its site soon
Eircom refuses to give me a connection at ANY price level due to my "heavy usage" e.g. (6Gig a month) and is also unavailable in ony a 1/4 on irish cities.
wireless connections are near non existant
i pay 23cent per KILOBYTE for my GPRS connection and even if braodband was available i waited 6 months to get my phone line in last year.
There are no unmetered dialup options and i still pay per minute + $30 per month for my backup dialup. dont preach about what you havent experienced. i'm moving to madrid in august solely because of this situation.
i've been thinking of it dude. paying $7500 a month for a leased line is killing me(literally, i cant afford food)
Inireland we still have no HDTV no broadband and even DVB-T has been abandoned. all i can do i lament a technology i'll never see.
IRIXis a typical old fashioned unix.Itdoes not evolve at a fast enough rate to keep up with advances in software or the needs of its users. granted it may be extremly scalable but as third party companys scoff at developing software for an OS with a user-base as small as IRIXs the OS does not show its full potential. SGI has moved to wider user base by starting to use Intel IA-32 CPUs(soon IA-64s as well). They should it expand even more by using a mainstream OS. SGIs are incredibly desirable pieces of kit(i saw one when i was 5.dreamed about owning one since). Shame about the OS.
Same here in Ireland.Everyone in the US thinks were religious nuts.We really do think that its the other way around. P.S.: 8% of our population voted "Homer Simpson" in our last presidential election!What intellect is now being shown by a people that invented the submarine,discovered the diffusion of gases,has the largest (and fastest growing)economy in Europe and a world renowned education system.