Anyone remember a few years ago when Oracle did the same thing? They cut about 1 billion per year in expenses by switching a lot of their backoffice stuff over to Linux. Think that's in Microsoft's plans?
"Telemarketers say the registry will devastate their business." This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If anything, a do not call list would help them reduce the costs by eliminating unnecessary phone calls. The people who sign up for this list are those who are least likely to purchase anything through a telemarketer. Now that they have a list of numbers not likely to buy anything, they can skip over that and save the cost of a phone call.
My guess is it send out the 3 note tone that indicates a disconnected phone number ("We're sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer is service"). Computers pick that up and (in theory) will remove your number, thinking it's a disconnected number. I've heard reports that putting that tone at the beginning of your answering machine anouncement will accomplish the same thing.
I realize that 10-digit dialing has been commonplace for many areas now, but what about those of us that live in rural areas, where the entire state is using a single area code. 10-digit dialing would be a complete waste for us because ALL of our local calls are in our area code.
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Anyone remember a few years ago when Oracle did the same thing? They cut about 1 billion per year in expenses by switching a lot of their backoffice stuff over to Linux. Think that's in Microsoft's plans?
The users that I develop for are too lazy to read the weekly updates I e-mail them, much less actually go through the effort of reading a web page.
Maybe if I embedded it in an eBay auction tho...
"Telemarketers say the registry will devastate their business."
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If anything, a do not call list would help them reduce the costs by eliminating unnecessary phone calls. The people who sign up for this list are those who are least likely to purchase anything through a telemarketer. Now that they have a list of numbers not likely to buy anything, they can skip over that and save the cost of a phone call.
I've heard good things that the Navy has been using Tomcats in production use for quite a while now. They even made a movie about it.
When I mentioned SysAdmin Day to my co-workers, they didn't believe me. Until I had to show them the web page for it, they thought I was joking.
My guess is it send out the 3 note tone that indicates a disconnected phone number ("We're sorry, the number you have dialed is no longer is service"). Computers pick that up and (in theory) will remove your number, thinking it's a disconnected number. I've heard reports that putting that tone at the beginning of your answering machine anouncement will accomplish the same thing.
I think it's time to go back to a.out binaries. Who's with me?
2001-03-16 19:57:32 ok i wont use caps.
Is anybody else worried that the title of this project relates so closely to another Deep Impact?
Can you run ReiserFS on a software RAID-[045] device yet?
I realize that 10-digit dialing has been commonplace for many areas now, but what about those of us that live in rural areas, where the entire state is using a single area code. 10-digit dialing would be a complete waste for us because ALL of our local calls are in our area code.