When I signed up for Packet8 (had Vonage awhile back.. had horid echos on all calls.. they blamed my phone...but on regular lines, no echo on the same phone), they actually recommended that once I had the E911 service set, to schedule a test call w/ 911, to make sure it works, BEFORE we need it (I'm also friends w/ the 911 Dispatch manager, who also wanted to see how Packet8 handled it). Thats common sense. I've even done that with my Cell just to make sure it works properly.
The FCC did mandate that all VOIP providers had until like September 31st or something around there to have 100% E911 coverage, and, when I was reviewing VoIP providers, and their 911 coverage (based on subscriber base), Packet8 scored the highest at 93%.
So yes, he probably could sue Vonage, since they are in violation of FCC regulations on VoIP, but he also should have made sure BEFORE hand that it infact would route to a 911 center, on the actual 911 lines, instead of going to the non-emergency number at the dispatch center. Vonage, and other VoIP providers who do not have E911 coverage generally will route to the non-emergency number, and that number may be busy, may not get answered after hours, or will put you on hold ("thank you for calling Bob County 911, please hold*click*"). The only way to be sure you're going to get proper 911 response is if you talk to a real 911 dispatcher, not a receptionist who will then have to transfer your call to a 911 dispatcher, whom you will then have to tell your address to.
I've not worked a 40hr week in ages... In 3 days I've done 42-48hrs or more...and thats 7 days weeks, 10-16/hr days. And I've not had a day off in years. Not even for Christmas.
Yep.. it's Alienware's "Unique" laptop case, as well as Sager's, and a few others. Sager and Alienware let you do better on the drives though...best option dual 100meg 7200 SATA, in RAID0 format (you can do dual 120s, but they're only 5400).
I had this mouse for about 4 hours. Problems are as follows: 1. NO IMAP SUPPORT. It will work ONLY with Outlook or Outlook Express, using POP3. I think most folk that read Slashdot probably dont use Outlook (Express), and hopefully use IMAP4, making this feature useless.
2. IM Support sucks.. It will only work with yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, or AIM. It wont work with trillian, gaim, etc. I personally dont want to have 4-5 messengers running, with their extra features I never use, using a nice 150meg of ram.
If you buy it for the IM and Email Lights/buttons, you'll be disappointed bigtime. If you just want a regular laser mouse, and dont care about the buttons, you can save $20 and get a regular 3 button laser mouse.
Yep.. the Brits are strict on guns... a lot of police dont carry their guns on a regular basis... they keep it in their car, or in their desk.
Really, martial arts is the way to go... Hapkido (Joint manipulation/pain compliance) helps... someone grabs you, you can break their arm in about 2 seconds... someone's choking you, you can get out easily
I would like to echo the previous suggestion about Strattera... My 6yr old is on it... and has had dramatic improvement in school... and I'm on it myself, with same improvement (not in school though!). It's not a stimulant, so the side effects that the others have (Ritalin, Dexadrin, etc..all speed basicly) should not occur. Another perk with it is... a doctor can give out samples... which they could not do with stimulants.
I am ADD... my son is ADHD... he started on Strattera last month.. I just started it today. Now, while I do tech support, and ADD does somewhat help, I decided to try Strattera. It is, IMHO, a LOT better than Ritalin. Ritalin is a controled substance... 2 or 3 steps away from street speed. It's an amphetamine. Doctors can not give out free samples, nor can they call in perscriptions. Strattera is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. It is really brand new.. FDA approved for ADD/ADHD in February. From what I've seen (both in myself today, and my son), it works quite well. And unlike Amphetamines, it gets better over time... the Amphetamines tend to have highs and lows... you'll be fine for a few hours, then not, then be fine again... over time, with strattera, you'll get progressively less ADH.
No, I dont work for the company.. but their URL is: www.strattera.com
I second.. or fifth, or whatever...I have 2 Clies... even their lower end ones are Highrez (my newer one retails for $129). I use my other one as a mp3 player. To get those on a Palm, I would have had to spend like $299 or more.
Personally I like the idea of a robots.txt style block for slashdot. or a slashdot.txt. But also, I'm fairly sure there's at least an Apache mod that could limit connects from certain referers.. if not, there should be. It wouldnt fix everything, as the inital request would be made, but the info from the webserver would be stopped going back out (basicly)
I work at an ISP that needed a content filter for a customer... what we wound up getting claimed to be a HIPAA compliant firewall/gateway. The company is eSoft. The biggest drawback to it is the cost... we had just a 25 user license, and 25 user content filtering... it's time to renew the license... and they want like $1500... and thats for only 25 people. But it WORKS, and it fairly simple to setup... and if you dont need filtering like that, it shouldnt be too pricy.
Just wanted to say that the ships in EB look really great... I've been betatesting the game for a few weeks now... still buggy, but the graphics are really good.
I know how you feel... I'm a TS Manager for a small ISP, in GA... we get customers that dont know that lowercase means small letters, etc. As for software, we provide NS4.78, NS6, IE6, and IE5.5 using ISPWizard as a frontend setup (it autoplugs in the pop/smtp info, username, email, etc into the approprate programs, much like the Internet Setup Wizard). We generally dont have many probs supporting the software...except for those still using Eudora 3.1 Light, etc. But, our signup form states that if we didnt provide it, we wont help you beyond telling you what the DNS servers, pop/smtp servers, etc should be.
Keep in Mind... Jordan K. Hubbard is now an Apple employee working on the Darwin related stuff... and he is/was one of the lead people for FreeBSD... so even if Darwin wasn't mainly FreeBSD, it's safe to bet that a lot more FreeBSD related things will be added in.
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When I signed up for Packet8 (had Vonage awhile back.. had horid echos on all calls.. they blamed my phone...but on regular lines, no echo on the same phone), they actually recommended that once I had the E911 service set, to schedule a test call w/ 911, to make sure it works, BEFORE we need it (I'm also friends w/ the 911 Dispatch manager, who also wanted to see how Packet8 handled it). Thats common sense. I've even done that with my Cell just to make sure it works properly.
The FCC did mandate that all VOIP providers had until like September 31st or something around there to have 100% E911 coverage, and, when I was reviewing VoIP providers, and their 911 coverage (based on subscriber base), Packet8 scored the highest at 93%.
So yes, he probably could sue Vonage, since they are in violation of FCC regulations on VoIP, but he also should have made sure BEFORE hand that it infact would route to a 911 center, on the actual 911 lines, instead of going to the non-emergency number at the dispatch center. Vonage, and other VoIP providers who do not have E911 coverage generally will route to the non-emergency number, and that number may be busy, may not get answered after hours, or will put you on hold ("thank you for calling Bob County 911, please hold*click*"). The only way to be sure you're going to get proper 911 response is if you talk to a real 911 dispatcher, not a receptionist who will then have to transfer your call to a 911 dispatcher, whom you will then have to tell your address to.
What is this... 39hrs/week thing?
I've not worked a 40hr week in ages...
In 3 days I've done 42-48hrs or more...and thats 7 days weeks, 10-16/hr days. And I've not had a day off in years. Not even for Christmas.
Yep.. it's Alienware's "Unique" laptop case, as well as Sager's, and a few others. Sager and Alienware let you do better on the drives though...best option dual 100meg 7200 SATA, in RAID0 format (you can do dual 120s, but they're only 5400).
I had this mouse for about 4 hours. Problems are as follows:
1. NO IMAP SUPPORT. It will work ONLY with Outlook or Outlook Express, using POP3. I think most folk that read Slashdot probably dont use Outlook (Express), and hopefully use IMAP4, making this feature useless.
2. IM Support sucks.. It will only work with yahoo messenger, MSN messenger, or AIM. It wont work with trillian, gaim, etc. I personally dont want to have 4-5 messengers running, with their extra features I never use, using a nice 150meg of ram.
If you buy it for the IM and Email Lights/buttons, you'll be disappointed bigtime. If you just want a regular laser mouse, and dont care about the buttons, you can save $20 and get a regular 3 button laser mouse.
Dude, you realize I know your real ISP, and name... and I could garner favors for turnin ya in?:P
Is it just me.. or is this movie strikingly similar to Crimson Skies (a MS Game!)?
Yep.. the Brits are strict on guns... a lot of police dont carry their guns on a regular basis... they keep it in their car, or in their desk.
Really, martial arts is the way to go... Hapkido (Joint manipulation/pain compliance) helps... someone grabs you, you can break their arm in about 2 seconds... someone's choking you, you can get out easily
I would like to echo the previous suggestion about Strattera... My 6yr old is on it... and has had dramatic improvement in school... and I'm on it myself, with same improvement (not in school though!). It's not a stimulant, so the side effects that the others have (Ritalin, Dexadrin, etc..all speed basicly) should not occur. Another perk with it is... a doctor can give out samples... which they could not do with stimulants.
I am ADD... my son is ADHD... he started on Strattera last month.. I just started it today. Now, while I do tech support, and ADD does somewhat help, I decided to try Strattera. It is, IMHO, a LOT better than Ritalin. Ritalin is a controled substance... 2 or 3 steps away from street speed. It's an amphetamine. Doctors can not give out free samples, nor can they call in perscriptions. Strattera is a norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. It is really brand new.. FDA approved for ADD/ADHD in February. From what I've seen (both in myself today, and my son), it works quite well. And unlike Amphetamines, it gets better over time... the Amphetamines tend to have highs and lows... you'll be fine for a few hours, then not, then be fine again... over time, with strattera, you'll get progressively less ADH.
No, I dont work for the company.. but their URL is: www.strattera.com
I second.. or fifth, or whatever...I have 2 Clies... even their lower end ones are Highrez (my newer one retails for $129). I use my other one as a mp3 player. To get those on a Palm, I would have had to spend like $299 or more.
Personally I like the idea of a robots.txt style block for slashdot. or a slashdot.txt. But also, I'm fairly sure there's at least an Apache mod that could limit connects from certain referers.. if not, there should be. It wouldnt fix everything, as the inital request would be made, but the info from the webserver would be stopped going back out (basicly)
I work at an ISP that needed a content filter for a customer... what we wound up getting claimed to be a HIPAA compliant firewall/gateway. The company is eSoft. The biggest drawback to it is the cost... we had just a 25 user license, and 25 user content filtering... it's time to renew the license... and they want like $1500... and thats for only 25 people. But it WORKS, and it fairly simple to setup... and if you dont need filtering like that, it shouldnt be too pricy.
Just wanted to say that the ships in EB look really great... I've been betatesting the game for a few weeks now... still buggy, but the graphics are really good.
I know how you feel... I'm a TS Manager for a small ISP, in GA... we get customers that dont know that lowercase means small letters, etc. As for software, we provide NS4.78, NS6, IE6, and IE5.5 using ISPWizard as a frontend setup (it autoplugs in the pop/smtp info, username, email, etc into the approprate programs, much like the Internet Setup Wizard). We generally dont have many probs supporting the software...except for those still using Eudora 3.1 Light, etc. But, our signup form states that if we didnt provide it, we wont help you beyond telling you what the DNS servers, pop/smtp servers, etc should be.
Keep in Mind... Jordan K. Hubbard is now an Apple employee working on the Darwin related stuff... and he is/was one of the lead people for FreeBSD... so even if Darwin wasn't mainly FreeBSD, it's safe to bet that a lot more FreeBSD related things will be added in.