Yeah, I thought this might happen, but both he and I have Netscreen 5XP's at home. You can give higher priority to SIP traffic (or any traffic for that matter). He set it up to have the highest priority, so he hasn't noticed any problems.
So, has anyone tried this? What brands of phones are you using with it? The Cisco phones are rather expensive, and I'd like to get a couple of cheap phones to play with.
Is the only way to do a POTS gateway to buy a LineJack card? Can I put the Cisco VoIP gateway software on a router connected to a PRI and route calls out that to the regular phone network?
It would be nice if there was a Howto on vovida's site. Maybe I just missed it, but I couldn't find one.
It's called Free World Dialup, and was featured on slashdot about a year ago. It seems to have disappeared though. I was a beta tester for it, and I must say, it was pretty cool. Basically, you plugged a Cisco ATA-182 device into your network, and into a PSTN line. Then you plugged your phone into the other side of the box. When you made a call, the box would check a central database to see if another box existed in the area code you were calling, and it would instruct the remote box to dial the number you want and route the call via SIP over the internet. If no box existed in the area code you were calling, it would just use your landline to make the call. Pretty cool idea.
But, if you want something similarly cool, check out Vonage. $39 a month for unlimited long distance, you choose your area code, and it routes all of your calls over your broadband connection. Someone I work with has had it for a month, and it works flawlessly. I'm looking at getting them for remote datacenters too since it gets kind of expensive to have business lines running in each one that only get used a couple times a year.
I have a sony Vaio, and that thing sounds like a friggin jet engine when it's running. The fans are unbelievably loud. You can even hear them when on a plane. I highly doubt I will buy another Sony laptop.
Actually, you can turn off snmp on the outside interface on the thing. Read the docsis spec, there's a MIB you can set which will let you turn off all snmp on the outside interface. Plus, 3com sharkfin's let you modify this MIB using the public community string, at least with the old software they did. I haven't tried it with the new software.
In any case, you're bound to get disconnected if they see anything funny. And if cable modem is your only option, you probably don't wanna mess with it unless you don't mind going back to a modem.
Yugo, the former Yugoslavian automobile manufacturer, has set up shop near Chernobyl after their plant was destroyed during the Bosnian War. Yugo claims to have perfected a cheap means of manufacturing personal nuclear reactors for automotive use. "We've done away with the complicated and expensive safety features, and this so-called 'containment' nonsense, to bring the consumer an almost neverending powersource for their disposable car."
Using the Bic Disposable lighter as a model for their prototypes, the Yugo company has finally brought something to the market which will really light up the consumer.
Owners of the new Yugo (and bystanders) can expect to also receive a great tan from the car. Due to the high acceptance of birth defects in Kentucky already, the cars are slated to be rolled out next week in Lexington, KY. Subsequent rollouts will based on which direction the fallout cloud blows.
Actually, Antarctica used to be where austrailia is, and it wasn't covered with ice. There's a very good chance that there are ruins under 2 miles of ice there. In fact, Plato had detailed maps of the land under antarctica which he says he copied from sources that were very ancient. One of the notable things about the maps is that the measurements for latitude are extremely accurate. Our current civilization didn't develop an accurate way to measure latitude until the 1400's.
A good book to check out is Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods". It gets a little fanatical towards the end but it's very interesting.
In minneapolis, at the corner of Lake and Lyndale, there used to be a big billboard with a giant chicken on it (for some meat company promoting their meat for bbq'ing). The head stood above the rest of the billboard. One night someone went up there and knocked the head off, and poured red paint down the front where the neck was. It was pretty damn funny.
Even though support is there, it still doesn't have everything. You can only switch desktops horizontally, not vertically. Back in the day, I used fvwm, and grew quite fond of having a 3x3 desktop. If only this was configurable...
I post a ton of shit anonymously because I either don't want my employer to know some of the shit I post, or I post information that I don't want traced back to me for some reason or another. I can pretty much gaurantee that the quality of slashdot is going to go down significantly. And while I can certainly make another account, it's a pain in the ass and I don't want to.
The Ericsson T68 will be available from ATT for $199. This is a steal considering it's going for $500 elsewhere.
Also, I've noticed that ATT has had some issues in markets where the I-mode stuff is being rolled out. Lately, people who call me get my voicemail and my phone doesn't ring at all. Many of my friends and co-workers using ATT have noticed this also. They pushed up their release date for this stuff by a few months, so I'm sure they are hurrying to get the networks up and working properly, which probably causes some problems with the current network.
ATT wireless rocks BTW. I've had them for like 6 years, and never had a problem. Even though sprint is coming out with 3G soon, they still suck. Don't ever sign a Sprint contract unless you use a phone from them for a month or so. The service in most areas is spotty, and you will incur roaming charges when you can't get a sprint signal. Several people I know have it for work, and all they do is complain about how much it sucks.
Now my phone will finally work out of the country. Yay.
Actually, LN2 is really cheap. You can buy it for around $2 to $3 a gallon at some welding gas shops. You just need something to transport it in, a styrofoam cooler inside of a plastic tote would probably work, but you'd have to convince the gas dealer to actually fill it for you.
You can make ice cream with it also without having to buy an ice cream maker. It's much faster too. Do a search on google if you want to try it, there are numerous sites about doing it.
Get the modbin6 util from http://www.biosmods.com, I used version 1.00.38. Get the latest version of the bios for your board. Run modbin6 on the bios file and go to Edit Setup screen. Scroll down to where the ACPI menu is blacked out, hit enter, select "Normal". Save the new bios and flash it to your board.
When you reboot, go into the bios and change your ACPI settings. Note, if you have windows installed already, this might hose your install since windows likes to remember what IRQ things are using.
I heard that tech companies are planning on moving to North Dakota. Of course, only after the state gets electricity, and Telco. And they'll still have to convince residents not to run them out with pitchforks and torches while yelling charges of witchery.
Then there's that little issue of finding the road during the winter since the ditches fill with snow and are level with the highway. Wow, I can't believe I actually lived there for over a year and made it out alive. The newest computer that I saw in that state was my apple IIe, which was 13 years old at the time. The only other computer I saw was at a bank, and made in the early 70's.
Now if they only would prove the same thing with copy protection of music and movies, maybe it could be used to finally put an end to all of the MPAA and RIAA bickering.
A few months back, there was a link to a tiny remote control car/rover thing with a wireless camera so you could beam images back to your computer monitor. Does anyone have a link to this? I can't find it anymore.
natural selection n. The process in nature by which, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations while those less adapted tend to be eliminated.
Ok, so tell me exactly how this goes against natural selection. We are humans, we are evolving, and we are doing it by learning things about our environment and putting it to use.
About the only thing that would go against natural selection is if you found a genie in a lamp and wished away all of the bad genes that cause disease. However, these diseases are part of our environment, and we've discovered how to overcome them ourselves.
I've heard that a certain government agency is always hiring math freaks. I've also heard that they are the largest employer of math freaks in the world.
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Yeah, I thought this might happen, but both he and I have Netscreen 5XP's at home. You can give higher priority to SIP traffic (or any traffic for that matter). He set it up to have the highest priority, so he hasn't noticed any problems.
So, has anyone tried this? What brands of phones are you using with it? The Cisco phones are rather expensive, and I'd like to get a couple of cheap phones to play with.
Is the only way to do a POTS gateway to buy a LineJack card? Can I put the Cisco VoIP gateway software on a router connected to a PRI and route calls out that to the regular phone network?
It would be nice if there was a Howto on vovida's site. Maybe I just missed it, but I couldn't find one.
It's called Free World Dialup, and was featured on slashdot about a year ago. It seems to have disappeared though. I was a beta tester for it, and I must say, it was pretty cool. Basically, you plugged a Cisco ATA-182 device into your network, and into a PSTN line. Then you plugged your phone into the other side of the box. When you made a call, the box would check a central database to see if another box existed in the area code you were calling, and it would instruct the remote box to dial the number you want and route the call via SIP over the internet. If no box existed in the area code you were calling, it would just use your landline to make the call. Pretty cool idea.
But, if you want something similarly cool, check out Vonage. $39 a month for unlimited long distance, you choose your area code, and it routes all of your calls over your broadband connection. Someone I work with has had it for a month, and it works flawlessly. I'm looking at getting them for remote datacenters too since it gets kind of expensive to have business lines running in each one that only get used a couple times a year.
I have a sony Vaio, and that thing sounds like a friggin jet engine when it's running. The fans are unbelievably loud. You can even hear them when on a plane. I highly doubt I will buy another Sony laptop.
Actually, you can turn off snmp on the outside interface on the thing. Read the docsis spec, there's a MIB you can set which will let you turn off all snmp on the outside interface. Plus, 3com sharkfin's let you modify this MIB using the public community string, at least with the old software they did. I haven't tried it with the new software.
In any case, you're bound to get disconnected if they see anything funny. And if cable modem is your only option, you probably don't wanna mess with it unless you don't mind going back to a modem.
Now someone can make it say "... For me to Poop On!" after everything it does.
I couldn't help but wonder how many fire extinguishers out there are as useless as tits on a bull.
So you are implying that that wasn't milk I got from that bull?
Yugo, the former Yugoslavian automobile manufacturer, has set up shop near Chernobyl after their plant was destroyed during the Bosnian War. Yugo claims to have perfected a cheap means of manufacturing personal nuclear reactors for automotive use. "We've done away with the complicated and expensive safety features, and this so-called 'containment' nonsense, to bring the consumer an almost neverending powersource for their disposable car."
Using the Bic Disposable lighter as a model for their prototypes, the Yugo company has finally brought something to the market which will really light up the consumer.
Owners of the new Yugo (and bystanders) can expect to also receive a great tan from the car. Due to the high acceptance of birth defects in Kentucky already, the cars are slated to be rolled out next week in Lexington, KY. Subsequent rollouts will based on which direction the fallout cloud blows.
Actually, Antarctica used to be where austrailia is, and it wasn't covered with ice. There's a very good chance that there are ruins under 2 miles of ice there. In fact, Plato had detailed maps of the land under antarctica which he says he copied from sources that were very ancient. One of the notable things about the maps is that the measurements for latitude are extremely accurate. Our current civilization didn't develop an accurate way to measure latitude until the 1400's.
A good book to check out is Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods". It gets a little fanatical towards the end but it's very interesting.
I thought Ogg wouldn't play on an ARM based device because the decoder supplied by Xiph used floating point, and the ARM processor has no FPU?
Did someone make a non-FPU version of the decoder? Or does the kernel on the Zaurus have FPU emulation enabled?
In minneapolis, at the corner of Lake and Lyndale, there used to be a big billboard with a giant chicken on it (for some meat company promoting their meat for bbq'ing). The head stood above the rest of the billboard. One night someone went up there and knocked the head off, and poured red paint down the front where the neck was. It was pretty damn funny.
Even though support is there, it still doesn't have everything. You can only switch desktops horizontally, not vertically. Back in the day, I used fvwm, and grew quite fond of having a 3x3 desktop. If only this was configurable...
I post a ton of shit anonymously because I either don't want my employer to know some of the shit I post, or I post information that I don't want traced back to me for some reason or another. I can pretty much gaurantee that the quality of slashdot is going to go down significantly. And while I can certainly make another account, it's a pain in the ass and I don't want to.
The Ericsson T68 will be available from ATT for $199. This is a steal considering it's going for $500 elsewhere.
Also, I've noticed that ATT has had some issues in markets where the I-mode stuff is being rolled out. Lately, people who call me get my voicemail and my phone doesn't ring at all. Many of my friends and co-workers using ATT have noticed this also. They pushed up their release date for this stuff by a few months, so I'm sure they are hurrying to get the networks up and working properly, which probably causes some problems with the current network.
ATT wireless rocks BTW. I've had them for like 6 years, and never had a problem. Even though sprint is coming out with 3G soon, they still suck. Don't ever sign a Sprint contract unless you use a phone from them for a month or so. The service in most areas is spotty, and you will incur roaming charges when you can't get a sprint signal. Several people I know have it for work, and all they do is complain about how much it sucks.
Now my phone will finally work out of the country. Yay.
Scum suing scum. I feel bad about hoping one of them will win. Why can't they both lose?
Does this mean I get to do cocaine again?
Well, our government obviously is doing it, so you might as well also.
For the cost of the liquid nitrogen ....
Actually, LN2 is really cheap. You can buy it for around $2 to $3 a gallon at some welding gas shops. You just need something to transport it in, a styrofoam cooler inside of a plastic tote would probably work, but you'd have to convince the gas dealer to actually fill it for you.
You can make ice cream with it also without having to buy an ice cream maker. It's much faster too. Do a search on google if you want to try it, there are numerous sites about doing it.
Get the modbin6 util from http://www.biosmods.com, I used version 1.00.38. Get the latest version of the bios for your board. Run modbin6 on the bios file and go to Edit Setup screen. Scroll down to where the ACPI menu is blacked out, hit enter, select "Normal". Save the new bios and flash it to your board.
When you reboot, go into the bios and change your ACPI settings. Note, if you have windows installed already, this might hose your install since windows likes to remember what IRQ things are using.
This is for Abit boards. Will it work with the Soyo Dragon+ Bios also?
RIM is hiring also. Get your Rimjob today!
I heard that tech companies are planning on moving to North Dakota. Of course, only after the state gets electricity, and Telco. And they'll still have to convince residents not to run them out with pitchforks and torches while yelling charges of witchery.
Then there's that little issue of finding the road during the winter since the ditches fill with snow and are level with the highway. Wow, I can't believe I actually lived there for over a year and made it out alive. The newest computer that I saw in that state was my apple IIe, which was 13 years old at the time. The only other computer I saw was at a bank, and made in the early 70's.
Now if they only would prove the same thing with copy protection of music and movies, maybe it could be used to finally put an end to all of the MPAA and RIAA bickering.
A few months back, there was a link to a tiny remote control car/rover thing with a wireless camera so you could beam images back to your computer monitor. Does anyone have a link to this? I can't find it anymore.
natural selection
n.
The process in nature by which, according to Darwin's theory of evolution, only the organisms best adapted to their environment tend to survive and transmit their genetic characteristics in increasing numbers to succeeding generations while those less adapted tend to be eliminated.
Ok, so tell me exactly how this goes against natural selection. We are humans, we are evolving, and we are doing it by learning things about our environment and putting it to use.
About the only thing that would go against natural selection is if you found a genie in a lamp and wished away all of the bad genes that cause disease. However, these diseases are part of our environment, and we've discovered how to overcome them ourselves.
I've heard that a certain government agency is always hiring math freaks. I've also heard that they are the largest employer of math freaks in the world.