Yes but you will only be able to access it by hitting the special keystroke for the easter egg in MS Excel (scroll down to Excel 95 for those of you not in the know)...
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I believe SBC's guide to becoming a CLEC is specifically written to confuse or dissuade anyone wanting to do so. I strongly suggest NOT using SBC's CLEC guide as your main point of reference. SBC doesn't want more CLECs because you being a CLEC means SBC has to pay you whatever you want for CABS billing when they send calls to customers who use your local service. Of course, you have to pay them whatever they want too, so you can't charge anything too crazy.
Suggestion 1: Get yourself a copy of Newton's Telecom Dictionary, 20th Edition, and read everything in there about CLEC, CABS, UNEP, Filing ASRs, and How To Read The LERG (for you non-telecom nerds thats The Local Exchange Routing Guide, a monthly database published by Telcordia).
Suggestion 2: Go to NANPA's website and get your company a CIC code. This is going to be a big paperwork nightmare but you need to do it before you go ANYWHERE with the ILECs.
Suggesiton 3: Go to Telcordia's website and buy yourself a subscription THE LERG database *spooky music*.
Suggestion 4: Find someone who has done it before, and bring him on board as a consultant. Dealing with the PUCs for each state, filing the UNEP paperwork, ordering ASRs with the ILECs (if you thought tax forms were bad, wait until you need to find values for PIU, CLLI, and ACNA), and trying to make heads or tails of LERG data is going to take any intelligent person a very long time to learn from scratch.
I was one of the fools who pre-ordered the Roku. Now maybe them being 2 months late to ship should have been a sign for me to just forget about the whole thing, but I let the geek factor get the best of me.
It literally crashes every 10 minutes if you are actually using it. If you just leave it alone and let it come on by its self in screen saver mode, you can expect it to crash only once every couple of hours... or to keep turning itsself on even when there is plenty of motion on the screen.
The response time is so slow that I am often finding myself checking the batteries in the remote just to later see the effect of my button press on screen.
The networking capabilities are, in the best of terms, alpha stage. Sometimes it finds the share, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it displays preview images, sometimes it says it can't find anything in the folder. It is very moody about networking.
Oh and that boot time... The Roku is a pass-through device, so you stick it between your HDTV and your receiver. Every time it reboots, it displays a blue screen with the Roku logo for about 3 solid minutes-- effectively blocking out whatever I may be watching on TV or DVD at the time.
I think the Roku has a lot of potential, but it was defenitely released before it was ready.
Ok maybe this thread is getting a little off topic, but really, I'm curious about this--
We've all heard about the '0'. Yes, the Arabs brought the Arabic numbering system to the West along with the '0'. What have they done since in math and in the sciences? Have any scientific, technological, or industrial advancements come out of that part of the world in the past 800 years? I can't think of one off the top of my head...
I strongly recommend that you install a modern PBX as the centralized telephone system and then contract with an IXC (like Qwest, Global Crossing, MCI, or a European equivelent) for all of your voice and data needs. A 30-house complex is equivelent to a medium-sized office in terms of data/voice requirements. Representing a group of that size will allow you get significant volume discounts. For instance, if you can gaurantee 150,000 minutes per month in voice traffic and agree to 2 years of so many megabits of data traffic, you are on much better footing than all 30 residents shopping around for their own deals-- especially if you have special needs like good voice rates to a particular destination (i.e. foreign country).
This is one of the things that I do professionally, so if you would like any help, feel free to send me an email.
Does anyone know if the 65k row limit in Excel is present in Planmaker as well? I think that MS keeps that limit in there to force people to use Access...
Well I'm sure that everyone here is very smart, but I am always suprised at this community's lack of understanding the way that business works. Its very simple. In business, you do what makes sense for your company. This is very similar to how as a person, you do what makes sense for you.
How many of you drive an American-made car even though it is less quality and more cost compared to a foreign car? Well if you don't, you are supporting foreign industry insted of American industry! How many of you buy only fruits and vegetables grown in California and Florida so that you can pay more money and support the American farmer over the one in Mexico or Argentina? None of you, right? Look around your house. See a lot of 'made in taiwan' tags? Shame on you for not buying American! Now imagine that you are slightly well off and you want to pay someone to clean your house. Do you ask for citizenship papers before hiring your cleaning lady? Take that one step further-- What if you wanted to hire someone to manage your schedule for you because you are very busy? Would you hire a qualified American at $15/hr + taxes, benefits, etc., or if you could, would you outsource that same work overseas to someone who would be available 24-7 via phone and e-mail for less than $1.50/hr? Seriously, how can you expect a business to act any different that that?
I've done a lot of IT and software development hiring over the past 3 years for my company, and I can tell you that I have NEVER hired an American. Is this because I'm unamerican? No.
Its because everytime I've interviewed an American (and I still do, by the way, I'll interview anyone who submits a resume to one of my monster.com ads at least via phone), the American person is always by far underqualified for the position in comparison to H1B's that apply for the same job. In the rare event that I find an American who actually knows his shit, he's so full of himself that he will ask for twice as much money as a H1B working the same position, and both people are HERE.
So, as a business person, do any of you honestly expect that I'm going to hire pompous, overpaid, and undercapable Americans when there is a HUGE supply of smart people who can do the same job or better for less money?
This difference only increases by a factor of about 20 when you take it overseas. At my company's satalite office in India or our office in Eastern Europe, I can hire American-quality IT people at $3/HR. I can hire ones with PhD's and 10 years experience for less than $10/hr. Now why on EARTH would I pass that up? Pay 10% the American price for the same or better quality, no benefits, and no headaches.
Or maybe I've just got it all wrong. Lets be very left wing radical about the whole situation and start charging huge tarriffs and fees to companies who use non-American workers. Lets subsidize American workers in IT and software development so that American companies can pay 10 times as much as companies based in other parts of the world. That ought to make everyone happy since shortly thereafter, America would cease to be a dominant world power. Now who is being unpatriotic?
My company operated a 120+ agent call center in Romania since the wage is cheap (like $2/hr for language students from the University) and they speak excellent English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian, etc.
Oh for God's sake, put your tin foil hat away and give it up. DOC is a ubiquitos standard just as much as Windows is a standard, and its well past the point where other options might replace it.
And why you might ask? Well say what you will about the bloat of Word 2003 or how much you hate Microsoft, but back in the early 90's when there were DOZENS of different word processors to choose from and Windows was far from the standard, MS Word took the cake. Microsoft did a better job on Word than the other companies did with the other options at the time, and thats why Microsoft's.doc format is today's standard.
I don't know what you are even complaining about. You can open a.doc file in Windows, on a Mac, on a Linux system, on BSD, on a cell phone, on a PDA, on pretty much anything you want. You can't say that for anything except for maybe RTF, plaintext, and HTML-- and who on earth uses RTF? As for HTML, HTML is not exactly user friendly as a format for editable stylized documents.
"Evil Empire" indeed. This passes for news these days?
Yeah the Artisoft Televantage system is basically built on Microsoft COM API, Microsft MSDE Database, and Intel Dialogic Hardware. Its got more API's and SDK's than you can shake a stick at and you can pretty much customize and add whatever you like.
Really the only significant drawbacks to the system are 1) lack of robust call center recording, quality monitoring, and reporting features (they are all there, but not as refined as I would like), and 2) stability issues due to being basically a microsoft/intel box.
However, if you're not running a 24-7 operation that considers a few minutes of downtime every week or so to be unacceptable, its a nonissue. Even in a mission critical environment, TV can be relied on quite strongly provided that there are IT staffers on call.
Wow there are so many armchair quarterbacks in here it is unbelievable!
I work at a mid-sized telco that heavily relies on IP telephony. To put it simply, this is where things are moving to on the carrier side and the PBX side. The technology is mature. Everyone is using it. 'Nuff Said.
It looks like the poster is looking for a basic IP PBX that does the stuff that pretty much EVERY modern office PBX does. AutoAttendents, lite web client, simple IVR's, voicemails, and being able to interconnect with a T1 are all very standard features.
Having researched the PBX and call center solution for my own company (about 300 users with 100 call center agents), these are my 2 recommendations:
Artisoft Televantage -------------------- -VERY Inexpensive for small offices like 5-20 people. Pretty average priced when you get up there in the users. Low base cost, high per-seat license cost. -Supports pretty much EVERY feature under the sun, along with some neat stuff like 'follow me' routing lists, announced hold times, and a free SDK for ODBC integration if you want to build your own IVR's and plugins. -Televantage runs on standard Intel Dialogic boards, so you can use T1's, DS3's, POTS lines, whatever you want. It also supports something like 1000 SIP users per server if you want to use standard SIP IP phones. -Biggest disadvantage to TeleVantage is that it runs on a lite version of MS SQL server. On average, we reboot our TeleVantage system about once a month just for stability's sake.
3com NBX SuperStack -------------------- -The 3com is pretty lite on features though it does cover everything that the poster asked for. Certainly not a solution for a call center, but defenitely a great box for an office environment. -The 3com box runs Cisco Call Manager which is a plus since the poster specifically said he likes the Cisco stuff. -The 3com box is very inexpensive for small-to-mid sized offices of like 30-50 people. The license cost and the base cost are both reasonable. -The 3com box runs the same OS as artificial hearts, so it is VERY VERY VERY stable. -Disadvantage is that you have to use proprietary 3com phones since insted of going with a standard protocol, 3com uses some Layer2 ultra-efficient monster of a codec that they developed internally. -Another disadvantage is that if you want to add features that are not available in the 3com SuperStack, you basically have to put them on a seperate box next to the machine. For instance, if you desperately wanted ACD or announced hold times, you'd end up putting a 2nd box just as expensive as a PBX right next to your PBX to handle those calls on pass-through.
I actually have had the misfortune of meeting Mr. Eastlake, and I can say, without a doubt, that this guy will NEVER get any sex unless its in exchange for large amounts of money, drugs, or both.
Donald Eastlake III is a pastey white FAT FAT FAT man who smells like a sweaty gym bag and talks with a voice like the teacher on the peanuts cartoons.
I went to a computer summer camp with Mr. Eastlake way back in 1990 or so, and I can say without a doubt that he is the most visually disgusting person that I have ever met and his disturbing image will forever be engraved on my mind.
I can't put much stock in an article that talks about the top 10 FPS and doesn't even MENTION Marathon or Maration 2: Durandal. It wasn't even on their list of alternative games to vote on...
From the pictures on the site, I imagine that they are just going to make a full piece of cement to your size specifications insted of you buying a whole bunch of smaller blocks and cementing them.
You're right! Being able to see internal objects is a big no-no.
What's next? putting big glass panes in the wall? Oh wait a second...
Seriously though, there are a lot of building applications for opaque wall material. From the pictures on this website it looks like you wouldn't be able to see any more detail than you can see through those thick distorted glass bricks used in place of windows in many a public bathroom.
What is really amazing about this stuff is that it can be load bearing. Now when you want to build a huge transparent wall for cheap, you don't have to use as much glass. Or if you still want to use glass as much glass as possible, now you can have semi-transparent supports around the glass insted of just plain old concrete and dry wall.
Most modern VoIP equipment automagically supports faxings. Its built into the spec for pretty much any H323 or SIP device that you are going to buy that has come out in the past few years.
You'd be suprised how many of your so-called analog or land-line calls are being VOIPed around the Internet anyway. The company I work at (a mid-sized telecommunications carrier) uses fairly standard equipment for this-- Cisco AS5850s and 7206VXRs among other things... Its really quite transparent to the end user when the call is being transported VoIP, both for voice and for faxes.
I find that my biggest problem with a/v clutter is running out of component video ports. My receiver only switches 2 component video sources, and I don't really want to spend a bazillion dollars for a receiver that can switch 3 or 5. I'd rather have the best video quality than resort to using RCA cables or even SVIDEO for my various a/v devices-- so right now I just end up getting up and pulling wires in and out every time I want to switch devices.
Does anyone here know of a company making a really basic component video switch? Preferably one that doesn't suck.
Growing up my big brother had an Atari 400 and then an Atari 800, both of which I loved playing with and I wrote endless BASIC programs on them.
When I was about 10 year old, I FINALLY got my own computer-- An Atari 520 ST FM. Now that thing kicked ass! Everything from Object Logo to Dungeon Master, and it had all of those nice synth music channels. Ahh those were the days.
First computer with a hard drive came a couple of years later. 386SX-16 with a HUGE 20MB drive and a Zoom 2400bd modem. Its amazing how much CGA and EGA porn you can fit on a 20MB drive downloading it off local BBS's.
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sounds like that has to have been cisco PGW or cisco BTS...
Yes but you will only be able to access it by hitting the special keystroke for the easter egg in MS Excel (scroll down to Excel 95 for those of you not in the know)...
I believe SBC's guide to becoming a CLEC is specifically written to confuse or dissuade anyone wanting to do so. I strongly suggest NOT using SBC's CLEC guide as your main point of reference. SBC doesn't want more CLECs because you being a CLEC means SBC has to pay you whatever you want for CABS billing when they send calls to customers who use your local service. Of course, you have to pay them whatever they want too, so you can't charge anything too crazy.
Suggestion 1: Get yourself a copy of Newton's Telecom Dictionary, 20th Edition, and read everything in there about CLEC, CABS, UNEP, Filing ASRs, and How To Read The LERG (for you non-telecom nerds thats
The Local Exchange Routing Guide, a monthly database published by Telcordia).
Suggestion 2: Go to NANPA's website and get your company a CIC code. This is going to be a big paperwork nightmare but you need to do it before you go ANYWHERE with the ILECs.
Suggesiton 3: Go to Telcordia's website and buy yourself a subscription THE LERG database *spooky music*.
Suggestion 4: Find someone who has done it before, and bring him on board as a consultant. Dealing with the PUCs for each state, filing the UNEP paperwork, ordering ASRs with the ILECs (if you thought tax forms were bad, wait until you need to find values for PIU, CLLI, and ACNA), and trying to make heads or tails of LERG data is going to take any intelligent person a very long time to learn from scratch.
I was one of the fools who pre-ordered the Roku. Now maybe them being 2 months late to ship should have been a sign for me to just forget about the whole thing, but I let the geek factor get the best of me.
It literally crashes every 10 minutes if you are actually using it. If you just leave it alone and let it come on by its self in screen saver mode, you can expect it to crash only once every couple of hours... or to keep turning itsself on even when there is plenty of motion on the screen.
The response time is so slow that I am often finding myself checking the batteries in the remote just to later see the effect of my button press on screen.
The networking capabilities are, in the best of terms, alpha stage. Sometimes it finds the share, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it displays preview images, sometimes it says it can't find anything in the folder. It is very moody about networking.
Oh and that boot time... The Roku is a pass-through device, so you stick it between your HDTV and your receiver. Every time it reboots, it displays a blue screen with the Roku logo for about 3 solid minutes-- effectively blocking out whatever I may be watching on TV or DVD at the time.
I think the Roku has a lot of potential, but it was defenitely released before it was ready.
Yes but my point is that all that Algebra stuff came from something like 900+ years ago... Anything new since then?
Ok maybe this thread is getting a little off topic, but really, I'm curious about this--
We've all heard about the '0'. Yes, the Arabs brought the Arabic numbering system to the West along with the '0'. What have they done since in math and in the sciences? Have any scientific, technological, or industrial advancements come out of that part of the world in the past 800 years? I can't think of one off the top of my head...
so...
14 cents per day - strategy game is ok
54 cents per day - mmorpg is too expensive?
i guess Christian Children's Fund is really wasting their time advertising towards you...
I strongly recommend that you install a modern PBX as the centralized telephone system and then contract with an IXC (like Qwest, Global Crossing, MCI, or a European equivelent) for all of your voice and data needs. A 30-house complex is equivelent to a medium-sized office in terms of data/voice requirements. Representing a group of that size will allow you get significant volume discounts. For instance, if you can gaurantee 150,000 minutes per month in voice traffic and agree to 2 years of so many megabits of data traffic, you are on much better footing than all 30 residents shopping around for their own deals-- especially if you have special needs like good voice rates to a particular destination (i.e. foreign country).
This is one of the things that I do professionally, so if you would like any help, feel free to send me an email.
This is who owns 800-513-4524
UniPoint Services / 512 735 1200
eh shouldn't that be...
Mexico: Does your computer go into sleep-mode in the middle of the day?
16k row limit? Ok forget that...
Does anyone know if the 65k row limit in Excel is present in Planmaker as well? I think that MS keeps that limit in there to force people to use Access...
as opposed to whores living in India? 25 cents an hour vs. $4 an hour for the engineer... i'd stick with the real ones!
Well I'm sure that everyone here is very smart, but I am always suprised at this community's lack of understanding the way that business works. Its very simple. In business, you do what makes sense for your company. This is very similar to how as a person, you do what makes sense for you.
How many of you drive an American-made car even though it is less quality and more cost compared to a foreign car? Well if you don't, you are supporting foreign industry insted of American industry! How many of you buy only fruits and vegetables grown in California and Florida so that you can pay more money and support the American farmer over the one in Mexico or Argentina? None of you, right? Look around your house. See a lot of 'made in taiwan' tags? Shame on you for not buying American! Now imagine that you are slightly well off and you want to pay someone to clean your house. Do you ask for citizenship papers before hiring your cleaning lady? Take that one step further-- What if you wanted to hire someone to manage your schedule for you because you are very busy? Would you hire a qualified American at $15/hr + taxes, benefits, etc., or if you could, would you outsource that same work overseas to someone who would be available 24-7 via phone and e-mail for less than $1.50/hr? Seriously, how can you expect a business to act any different that that?
I've done a lot of IT and software development hiring over the past 3 years for my company, and I can tell you that I have NEVER hired an American. Is this because I'm unamerican? No.
Its because everytime I've interviewed an American (and I still do, by the way, I'll interview anyone who submits a resume to one of my monster.com ads at least via phone), the American person is always by far underqualified for the position in comparison to H1B's that apply for the same job. In the rare event that I find an American who actually knows his shit, he's so full of himself that he will ask for twice as much money as a H1B working the same position, and both people are HERE.
So, as a business person, do any of you honestly expect that I'm going to hire pompous, overpaid, and undercapable Americans when there is a HUGE supply of smart people who can do the same job or better for less money?
This difference only increases by a factor of about 20 when you take it overseas. At my company's satalite office in India or our office in Eastern Europe, I can hire American-quality IT people at $3/HR. I can hire ones with PhD's and 10 years experience for less than $10/hr. Now why on EARTH would I pass that up? Pay 10% the American price for the same or better quality, no benefits, and no headaches.
Or maybe I've just got it all wrong. Lets be very left wing radical about the whole situation and start charging huge tarriffs and fees to companies who use non-American workers. Lets subsidize American workers in IT and software development so that American companies can pay 10 times as much as companies based in other parts of the world. That ought to make everyone happy since shortly thereafter, America would cease to be a dominant world power. Now who is being unpatriotic?
My company operated a 120+ agent call center in Romania since the wage is cheap (like $2/hr for language students from the University) and they speak excellent English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Romanian, Czech, Bulgarian, Russian, etc.
You might try a firm in that area.
Oh for God's sake, put your tin foil hat away and give it up. DOC is a ubiquitos standard just as much as Windows is a standard, and its well past the point where other options might replace it.
.doc format is today's standard.
.doc file in Windows, on a Mac, on a Linux system, on BSD, on a cell phone, on a PDA, on pretty much anything you want. You can't say that for anything except for maybe RTF, plaintext, and HTML-- and who on earth uses RTF? As for HTML, HTML is not exactly user friendly as a format for editable stylized documents.
And why you might ask? Well say what you will about the bloat of Word 2003 or how much you hate Microsoft, but back in the early 90's when there were DOZENS of different word processors to choose from and Windows was far from the standard, MS Word took the cake. Microsoft did a better job on Word than the other companies did with the other options at the time, and thats why Microsoft's
I don't know what you are even complaining about. You can open a
"Evil Empire" indeed. This passes for news these days?
Yeah the Artisoft Televantage system is basically built on Microsoft COM API, Microsft MSDE Database, and Intel Dialogic Hardware. Its got more API's and SDK's than you can shake a stick at and you can pretty much customize and add whatever you like.
Really the only significant drawbacks to the system are 1) lack of robust call center recording, quality monitoring, and reporting features (they are all there, but not as refined as I would like), and 2) stability issues due to being basically a microsoft/intel box.
However, if you're not running a 24-7 operation that considers a few minutes of downtime every week or so to be unacceptable, its a nonissue. Even in a mission critical environment, TV can be relied on quite strongly provided that there are IT staffers on call.
Wow there are so many armchair quarterbacks in here it is unbelievable!
I work at a mid-sized telco that heavily relies on IP telephony. To put it simply, this is where things are moving to on the carrier side and the PBX side. The technology is mature. Everyone is using it. 'Nuff Said.
It looks like the poster is looking for a basic IP PBX that does the stuff that pretty much EVERY modern office PBX does. AutoAttendents, lite web client, simple IVR's, voicemails, and being able to interconnect with a T1 are all very standard features.
Having researched the PBX and call center solution for my own company (about 300 users with 100 call center agents), these are my 2 recommendations:
Artisoft Televantage
--------------------
-VERY Inexpensive for small offices like 5-20 people. Pretty average priced when you get up there in the users. Low base cost, high per-seat license cost.
-Supports pretty much EVERY feature under the sun, along with some neat stuff like 'follow me' routing lists, announced hold times, and a free SDK for ODBC integration if you want to build your own IVR's and plugins.
-Televantage runs on standard Intel Dialogic boards, so you can use T1's, DS3's, POTS lines, whatever you want. It also supports something like 1000 SIP users per server if you want to use standard SIP IP phones.
-Biggest disadvantage to TeleVantage is that it runs on a lite version of MS SQL server. On average, we reboot our TeleVantage system about once a month just for stability's sake.
3com NBX SuperStack
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-The 3com is pretty lite on features though it does cover everything that the poster asked for. Certainly not a solution for a call center, but defenitely a great box for an office environment.
-The 3com box runs Cisco Call Manager which is a plus since the poster specifically said he likes the Cisco stuff.
-The 3com box is very inexpensive for small-to-mid sized offices of like 30-50 people. The license cost and the base cost are both reasonable.
-The 3com box runs the same OS as artificial hearts, so it is VERY VERY VERY stable.
-Disadvantage is that you have to use proprietary 3com phones since insted of going with a standard protocol, 3com uses some Layer2 ultra-efficient monster of a codec that they developed internally.
-Another disadvantage is that if you want to add features that are not available in the 3com SuperStack, you basically have to put them on a seperate box next to the machine. For instance, if you desperately wanted ACD or announced hold times, you'd end up putting a 2nd box just as expensive as a PBX right next to your PBX to handle those calls on pass-through.
I actually have had the misfortune of meeting Mr. Eastlake, and I can say, without a doubt, that this guy will NEVER get any sex unless its in exchange for large amounts of money, drugs, or both.
Donald Eastlake III is a pastey white FAT FAT FAT man who smells like a sweaty gym bag and talks with a voice like the teacher on the peanuts cartoons.
I went to a computer summer camp with Mr. Eastlake way back in 1990 or so, and I can say without a doubt that he is the most visually disgusting person that I have ever met and his disturbing image will forever be engraved on my mind.
I can't put much stock in an article that talks about the top 10 FPS and doesn't even MENTION Marathon or Maration 2: Durandal. It wasn't even on their list of alternative games to vote on...
From the pictures on the site, I imagine that they are just going to make a full piece of cement to your size specifications insted of you buying a whole bunch of smaller blocks and cementing them.
You're right! Being able to see internal objects is a big no-no.
What's next? putting big glass panes in the wall? Oh wait a second...
Seriously though, there are a lot of building applications for opaque wall material. From the pictures on this website it looks like you wouldn't be able to see any more detail than you can see through those thick distorted glass bricks used in place of windows in many a public bathroom.
What is really amazing about this stuff is that it can be load bearing. Now when you want to build a huge transparent wall for cheap, you don't have to use as much glass. Or if you still want to use glass as much glass as possible, now you can have semi-transparent supports around the glass insted of just plain old concrete and dry wall.
Most modern VoIP equipment automagically supports faxings. Its built into the spec for pretty much any H323 or SIP device that you are going to buy that has come out in the past few years.
You'd be suprised how many of your so-called analog or land-line calls are being VOIPed around the Internet anyway. The company I work at (a mid-sized telecommunications carrier) uses fairly standard equipment for this-- Cisco AS5850s and 7206VXRs among other things... Its really quite transparent to the end user when the call is being transported VoIP, both for voice and for faxes.
I find that my biggest problem with a/v clutter is running out of component video ports. My receiver only switches 2 component video sources, and I don't really want to spend a bazillion dollars for a receiver that can switch 3 or 5. I'd rather have the best video quality than resort to using RCA cables or even SVIDEO for my various a/v devices-- so right now I just end up getting up and pulling wires in and out every time I want to switch devices.
Does anyone here know of a company making a really basic component video switch? Preferably one that doesn't suck.
Growing up my big brother had an Atari 400 and then an Atari 800, both of which I loved playing with and I wrote endless BASIC programs on them.
When I was about 10 year old, I FINALLY got my own computer-- An Atari 520 ST FM. Now that thing kicked ass! Everything from Object Logo to Dungeon Master, and it had all of those nice synth music channels. Ahh those were the days.
First computer with a hard drive came a couple of years later. 386SX-16 with a HUGE 20MB drive and a Zoom 2400bd modem. Its amazing how much CGA and EGA porn you can fit on a 20MB drive downloading it off local BBS's.