The scope of your project was one where you could do that. That's not going to work for things like say an Oracle database replacement, or a world-class monitoring solution.
This kind of thing is easily preventable by issuing a SecureID or SafeWord tag to people. True, it will cost money, but it's comparatively cheap considering the alternatives.
Some banks in Europe have been using SecureID for years. Why don't we use them here?
I wish they would test the Memorex black cd's. If you scratch the non-readable side of them, they are actually gold. I've been using these for the past year or two. The price is good on them, and I've had no problems.
Someone needs to make a killer PDA midlet for java based phones. Limited screen space? Maybe, but if you've ever used the Picsel browser, you'll see what you can do with limited screen space.
I got Sirius back when XM still had commercials, that was the deciding factor. I had a rental car last week with XM and had a lot of time to check it out. It sucks compared to Sirius. XM repeats songs much more, and they aren't really very good songs.
Sirius plays a lot of stuff that no ClearChannel stations will play. XM is basically just repackaged ClearChannel music. Sirius plays a lot of Top 100 stuff, but there's a very appreciable amount of stuff I've never heard of before and is just simply amazing. I've bought a ton of albums (mostly through the iTunes music store) because I heard them on Sirius. Tegan and Sara, Muse, The Killers. Maybe they are playing this stuff on broadcast now, but I haven't listened to broadcast for 2 years, I can't take 22 mins of commercials every hour.
In any case, a Sirius/XM merger would suck. XM influence is bound to mess up Sirius programming.
I did this a month ago, and my tank is still on full. I took out 4 pedestrians too, a Nissan titan, someone's dog, and a row of mailboxes with no damage.
I just set a custom prefix to use on my phones to tell it to route out Bellster, next step is to make all calls default through Bellster, and then fallback to my Voicepulse account or my local phone line.
I called a buddy in NYC over it and he couldn't even tell it was VOIP. Not that I'm surprised, I've been doing VOIP for awhile now.
Now all someone needs to do is come out with a little arm based box that runs it for use in your home, or a modified Xbox distro with asterisk. You don't need a Zaptel card if you have Vonage/Voicepulse/packet8/etc.
Well, you need software to do it. And the asterisk PBX software does it. My zaptel clone is simply an Intel voice modem, and it works great with Asterisk. Asterisk is free BTW, and it runs on linux, *BSD, and OS X.
This is what FWD used to be back in 2000 or 2001. I don't think it ever made it past the beta stage. It wasn't P2P persay, but anyone using the network shared their phone line to make calls in their local calling area.
When you signed up, you put in the area codes/prefixes that were local, and when someone made a call, custom software on the Cisco ATA-182 device checked with the server to see if someone resided in that area and had an open line. If so, the call was routed over the net, the remote ATA-dialed the number, and you were patched through. If no one was in that area, your local ATA device dialed it out on your own phone line.
The project was damn cool. However, the ATA-182 had some serious hardware bugs, and probably was the greatest contributor to the demise of the project. The original plan was to get FWD branded ATA's into stores like Best Buy so anyone could pick one up and contribute. As far as making money, I think they were betting on profit from hardware sales, but I'm not sure.
FWD went away for awhile, and then re-emerged in its current incarnation. Hopefully this will address some of the security problems that were present in the beta, like the ability to dial a remote user's device by IP and be patched through to a dial tone. By doing this, you avoid the access policies and you could dial 911 or make LD calls on someone else's phone. Not good... at least for the victim.
If Real really wants to get on the Linux desktop, they need to make an iTunes clone, especially one that actually played iTunes purchased songs using that whole reverse-engineering thing they were being sued for.
Honestly, I don't install RealPlayer unless I absolutely need it for something, which is rare. I'm still pissed and annoyed at them for putting ads in their product and for installing links to the program in 90 different places when I installed it on windows years ago. AFAIK, the linux version is not like that at all, but still, I'm annoyed.
Someone should buy it and start a cult in it. Amass a huge fortune like Aum did, but then take the money and run, leaving the cult members to fend for themselves when they run out of oxygen or cut their fingers off in the rice machine.
Or, it could serve as an evil lair. You'd have to move it inside a volcano, but still, it would be sweet.
Bullshit, they totally fucked the Blackberry 7100T by crippling bluetooth support to only work with headsets. Blackberry's site even listed bluetooth data transfer as a feature for a couple of days after launch, and then they removed it. Presumably because people were pissed and returned the phone.
Fuck T-mobile for ruining the perfect business phone.
I use Office 2004 for Mac, and it's far from slow. As much as I dislike MS, Office 2004 really is a nice product. Office on the Mac works much better than it does under windows. Small things in the interface make it more usable, and it seems much more responsive. Entourage works awesome for talking to the corporate Exchange server also. All of my calendaring works great, and the integrated Project Center is a lifesaver.
What we are really missing is a way to view and edit Visio VSD files. OmniGraffle will do Visio VSX files, but since Visio saves in VSD by default, it makes it a pain for us network engineers with Macs to deal with Visio files created by others. And when you deal with a network that has 20,000 devices and hundreds of gigs of network diagrams, you absolutely must resort to Windows for dealing with them.
Replicating all of the functionality of Office 2004 for the Mac is going to be a daunting, if not impossible task. But, for most users, they don't need all of those features.
2. A new G4 desktop system in Spring of 2005? No chance. Apple is moving away from the Motorola G4 archetecture, in favor of the IBM G5. The eMac and the current laptops will probably be the end of the line for the G4.
While this may be true, just look how long it took them to move away from the G3. The G3 came out in 1998 or so, and they didn't retire it until the end of last year. Even though G4's were available, they kept a G3 line alive for a damn long time. I wouldn't be surprised if they kept the G4's around for another year or more. They have to have something they can call low-end....
Isn't 2029 or somewhere around there the time that psychics and Nostradamus type people have been saying the world it going to end?
Aren't some cults based upon this too? Hmm...
1. Start cult 2. ??? 3. Profit
(And by "???", I mean let members drink poison koolaid in Nikes, then take their money)
Seriously though, I seem to remember reading about a bunch of people and groups that all think the world is going to end somewhere around 2030 or so. This just adds fuel to the fire.
So, a logical solution to this would be to give it a massive TNT or nuclear laxative?
Instead of waiting for the pressure to build to a point where we get a huge eruption, wouldn't it be better to intervene and release some of that pressure before it built up so much?
Then buy your phone from somewhere like MobileBee Only the carrier branded phones are crippled, the rest are wide open as the manufacturer intended.
I picked up a K700i a few months ago there, and it's nice that I can use all of the features on it. You will pay quite a bit more for the phone though, but if you use your phone as much as I do, it's worth it. Wireless bluetooth tether to a laptop for net access is a lifesave sometimes.
Actually, they saying is more like 100. A friend of mine in college lived by this rule. We'd go out to bars, and he'd just go up to every woman he saw and ask until one said yes. He brought someone home every night, but, you can imagine the type of women that would be likely to say yes to that....
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The scope of your project was one where you could do that. That's not going to work for things like say an Oracle database replacement, or a world-class monitoring solution.
This kind of thing is easily preventable by issuing a SecureID or SafeWord tag to people. True, it will cost money, but it's comparatively cheap considering the alternatives.
Some banks in Europe have been using SecureID for years. Why don't we use them here?
I wish they would test the Memorex black cd's. If you scratch the non-readable side of them, they are actually gold. I've been using these for the past year or two. The price is good on them, and I've had no problems.
Someone needs to make a killer PDA midlet for java based phones. Limited screen space? Maybe, but if you've ever used the Picsel browser, you'll see what you can do with limited screen space.
I got Sirius back when XM still had commercials, that was the deciding factor. I had a rental car last week with XM and had a lot of time to check it out. It sucks compared to Sirius. XM repeats songs much more, and they aren't really very good songs.
Sirius plays a lot of stuff that no ClearChannel stations will play. XM is basically just repackaged ClearChannel music. Sirius plays a lot of Top 100 stuff, but there's a very appreciable amount of stuff I've never heard of before and is just simply amazing. I've bought a ton of albums (mostly through the iTunes music store) because I heard them on Sirius. Tegan and Sara, Muse, The Killers. Maybe they are playing this stuff on broadcast now, but I haven't listened to broadcast for 2 years, I can't take 22 mins of commercials every hour.
In any case, a Sirius/XM merger would suck. XM influence is bound to mess up Sirius programming.
I did this a month ago, and my tank is still on full. I took out 4 pedestrians too, a Nissan titan, someone's dog, and a row of mailboxes with no damage.
The new Konami ECU rules.
If you're using WDS, you cannot use WPA.
I just set it up, and it works extremely well.
I just set a custom prefix to use on my phones to tell it to route out Bellster, next step is to make all calls default through Bellster, and then fallback to my Voicepulse account or my local phone line.
I called a buddy in NYC over it and he couldn't even tell it was VOIP. Not that I'm surprised, I've been doing VOIP for awhile now.
Now all someone needs to do is come out with a little arm based box that runs it for use in your home, or a modified Xbox distro with asterisk. You don't need a Zaptel card if you have Vonage/Voicepulse/packet8/etc.
Well, you need software to do it. And the asterisk PBX software does it. My zaptel clone is simply an Intel voice modem, and it works great with Asterisk. Asterisk is free BTW, and it runs on linux, *BSD, and OS X.
This is what FWD used to be back in 2000 or 2001. I don't think it ever made it past the beta stage. It wasn't P2P persay, but anyone using the network shared their phone line to make calls in their local calling area.
When you signed up, you put in the area codes/prefixes that were local, and when someone made a call, custom software on the Cisco ATA-182 device checked with the server to see if someone resided in that area and had an open line. If so, the call was routed over the net, the remote ATA-dialed the number, and you were patched through. If no one was in that area, your local ATA device dialed it out on your own phone line.
The project was damn cool. However, the ATA-182 had some serious hardware bugs, and probably was the greatest contributor to the demise of the project. The original plan was to get FWD branded ATA's into stores like Best Buy so anyone could pick one up and contribute. As far as making money, I think they were betting on profit from hardware sales, but I'm not sure.
FWD went away for awhile, and then re-emerged in its current incarnation. Hopefully this will address some of the security problems that were present in the beta, like the ability to dial a remote user's device by IP and be patched through to a dial tone. By doing this, you avoid the access policies and you could dial 911 or make LD calls on someone else's phone. Not good... at least for the victim.
If Real really wants to get on the Linux desktop, they need to make an iTunes clone, especially one that actually played iTunes purchased songs using that whole reverse-engineering thing they were being sued for.
Honestly, I don't install RealPlayer unless I absolutely need it for something, which is rare. I'm still pissed and annoyed at them for putting ads in their product and for installing links to the program in 90 different places when I installed it on windows years ago. AFAIK, the linux version is not like that at all, but still, I'm annoyed.
Someone should buy it and start a cult in it. Amass a huge fortune like Aum did, but then take the money and run, leaving the cult members to fend for themselves when they run out of oxygen or cut their fingers off in the rice machine.
Or, it could serve as an evil lair. You'd have to move it inside a volcano, but still, it would be sweet.
There's an OLED display in that picture??
Bullshit, they totally fucked the Blackberry 7100T by crippling bluetooth support to only work with headsets. Blackberry's site even listed bluetooth data transfer as a feature for a couple of days after launch, and then they removed it. Presumably because people were pissed and returned the phone.
Fuck T-mobile for ruining the perfect business phone.
I use Office 2004 for Mac, and it's far from slow. As much as I dislike MS, Office 2004 really is a nice product. Office on the Mac works much better than it does under windows. Small things in the interface make it more usable, and it seems much more responsive. Entourage works awesome for talking to the corporate Exchange server also. All of my calendaring works great, and the integrated Project Center is a lifesaver.
What we are really missing is a way to view and edit Visio VSD files. OmniGraffle will do Visio VSX files, but since Visio saves in VSD by default, it makes it a pain for us network engineers with Macs to deal with Visio files created by others. And when you deal with a network that has 20,000 devices and hundreds of gigs of network diagrams, you absolutely must resort to Windows for dealing with them.
Replicating all of the functionality of Office 2004 for the Mac is going to be a daunting, if not impossible task. But, for most users, they don't need all of those features.
Hmm, this is screaming for use on the Gumball 3000 next year. :)
Pass a cop going 180, get away, peel it off, and continue on.
I'm sick of cleaning deer and cows out of my headlights and front grill. Now I'll finally have a road that will fit my Canyonero.
2. A new G4 desktop system in Spring of 2005? No chance. Apple is moving away from the Motorola G4 archetecture, in favor of the IBM G5. The eMac and the current laptops will probably be the end of the line for the G4.
While this may be true, just look how long it took them to move away from the G3. The G3 came out in 1998 or so, and they didn't retire it until the end of last year. Even though G4's were available, they kept a G3 line alive for a damn long time. I wouldn't be surprised if they kept the G4's around for another year or more. They have to have something they can call low-end....
Isn't 2029 or somewhere around there the time that psychics and Nostradamus type people have been saying the world it going to end?
Aren't some cults based upon this too? Hmm...
1. Start cult
2. ???
3. Profit
(And by "???", I mean let members drink poison koolaid in Nikes, then take their money)
Seriously though, I seem to remember reading about a bunch of people and groups that all think the world is going to end somewhere around 2030 or so. This just adds fuel to the fire.
Doesn't the lock bar just go through the spokes?
:)
They didn't even think of just cutting all of the spokes out of way. Dummies.
My ex is asian. She'd always catch people saying oriental. Her response was always "Oriental is for rugs and food, not people." :)
That is a great song. I laugh my azz off everytime I hear it. Satellite radio is great.
So, a logical solution to this would be to give it a massive TNT or nuclear laxative?
:)
Instead of waiting for the pressure to build to a point where we get a huge eruption, wouldn't it be better to intervene and release some of that pressure before it built up so much?
We could use all the WMD's we found in iraq.
Then buy your phone from somewhere like MobileBee Only the carrier branded phones are crippled, the rest are wide open as the manufacturer intended.
I picked up a K700i a few months ago there, and it's nice that I can use all of the features on it. You will pay quite a bit more for the phone though, but if you use your phone as much as I do, it's worth it. Wireless bluetooth tether to a laptop for net access is a lifesave sometimes.
Actually, they saying is more like 100. A friend of mine in college lived by this rule. We'd go out to bars, and he'd just go up to every woman he saw and ask until one said yes. He brought someone home every night, but, you can imagine the type of women that would be likely to say yes to that....