What I've recommended here is not to use 911 at all. Simply program a speed dial for the 911 business line, their 7 or 10 digit number. That way you'll get in and you get the right PSAP every time.
VOIP phone providers don't transfer calls over a 911 trunk anyway, they are forwarded to the PSAP over a regular telephone line. All that a VOIP phone customer needs to do is obtain that number and program it into their "phone".
I have had several VOIP phone providers call me about this so I know their working to provide 911 service for their customers. That's awfully damn nice of them, but it's not their responsibility.
Your personal safety is your personal responsibility. You should know if you have working 911 service and, if not, make it happen. If you lose a life because you dialed 911 and it didn't work it is no different than if your smoke detector didn't alert you to a fire because it didn't work. You have to test these things and know that they work.
It's not all that hard and I don't think I've ever spent more than a half hour on my federal taxes. My state (Idaho) taxes are a nightmare and usually takes me two hours to figure all that out.
Most people in the US make it a much bigger deal than it really is. That's usually because they're either trying to find legal ways to get out of paying taxes or because they're doing something illegal and trying to cover their tracks.
What ever happened to learning a skill? You ask what kind of degree and I'll ask "what do you want to do?"
In this day and age you're right and I'm wrong. People tend to advance based upon the letters after their name. In my warped mind they should instead advance based upon their mastery of skills.
The problem you're having there is that most computer power supplies are designed and built pretty cheaply.
When I designed our new 911 center I eliminated all of the wall warts by using battery backed communications power supplies. The equipment room has redundant supplies for -48 VDC, +28 VDC and +14 VDC. I did build another power supply (actually two to be redundant) that takes the +14 and gives me +9 and +5 out for some devices that required those voltages.
All of this though is communications grade stuff that is filtered, clean and built to last. It wasn't cheap stuff.
Your right, ATX supplies do fail with quite a floor show and they do so on a regular basis. Most of them are crap.
Maybe it's not at the moment. But the 'legislative creep' you speak of has already begun.
Some people just shoot the messenger. In Australia they ask the messenger to snoop around in the content of what they carry for their customers.
We know that someone working for an ISP will already have invested in a set of skills that is specific to data networking. That person will also have to study and train on a routine basis to keep up with that rapidly changing field.
Now Australia demands that these people become investigators or officers of the law. That would require a different set of skills. So this can go one of two ways.
The government will require a technician working for an ISP to study and train to work as law enforcment in addition to their other required skill set. That way they can properly discover, investigate and handle violations without harm to innocent citizens or violating the laws themselves. This will be difficult cross training for those who already have difficult skills to maintain.
Or the government will not require any training in the law for these people and the will run fast and free with the law. ISP's will be held accountable for their customers content which will require them to snoop on and turn in their customers.
No matter which way you look at it this is going to have a negative impact on the public trust. It will likely also raise the cost of the services provided by the ISP.
This week we task network technicians to battle kiddie porn. Next week we'll expect librarians to turn in people for checking out chemistry texts because those people might build bombs. And soon we'll not only make it legal for your neighbor to peek in your windows, we'll hold them responsible for what you do in your own home to make sure that they do so.
Sure, not a problem. Next will be a requirement to turn in anyone who the ISP suspects is Jewish or black. Then the government can deal with them.
Once again we have big brother enlisting the help of your neighbors and your business associates. This worries me far more than someone involved in child porn. Sure, exploitation of children is a bad thing but IMHO big brother is worse.
Wonderful. Look at what they did with the Linux version of Messenger, they released it with minimal features and have been extremely slow in updates or feature additions. Based on that performance I have a hard time believing that Yahoo is going to do anything wonderful with this toolbar on the Firefox/Linux version.
You're just reading someone elses hype. If you had ever watched the show back in "the old days" you would know that the humans in the show were not from Earth. Boomer therefore was not from Earth. Boomer had never been to Africa or America and could not possibly have been from either location.
For someone who's so uptight about someone elses political correctness, I'm suprised how misinformed you were on that count.
First you need to consider that this asswipe might just start selling your software under another name or from some other URL. You need to continue to protect yourself.
Second you need to consider that he is still out there doing this to someone else. It looks like he's selling other software still and I don't think it's too big of a leap to assume that he stole that as well. You need to continue in order to protect your community.
Third you need to consider that revenge is sweet. Think of the taste of the finest honey, only sweeter. Are you tasting that yet?
Go forth and kick some ass....in the cause of the greater good.
But mostly go kick his ass for the revenge. That's what it's all about. I would guess you're about half way there.
Everyone knows that global warming is real and that it is caused by humans. Humans who work for corporations and humans knows as "The Bush Administration" or "Republicans."
Well he damn sure doesn't mean Idaho. We're so backwoods here....it's unbelievable. The state is trying to push for a statewide digital radio system but they don't have the first clue about VOIP and aren't really interested in bothering to find out.
And the system they want to build? Yeah, it's an experiment for Homeland Security. They are actually trying to build several systems that are screwed up and cant talk to each other so they can use bubble gum, duct tape and bailing wire to patch them together to talk.
I don't know what state this guy is in but he should be VERY happy that he's not in Idaho.
Al Gore is a god to the left. Unlike most folk, the left don't believe in a single divine entity, Gore is one of many.
As a god of the left, Gore was doing service in Congress in the late 60's and took the initiative he claims.
Those of you who do not believe are liars. Do not attempt to twist his words you heathen. He meant what he said and said what he meant.
Al Gore may very well be your father as well. Do not question it.
Even Snopes agrees that Gore is correct. When the internet was created, Gore took the initative. Snopes wouldn't lie about such a thing, they can't. Snopes is always accuarte 1000% of the time. Your bible is full of innacuracies and bullshit, Snopes is not.
I work in public safety. My "customers" are the 911 PSAP and all fo the public safety units in the field. Tonight is Friday and, just at quitting time when things are getting nasty out there with the slick roads, I got a report of a radio acting up and one workstation that went BSOD.
Stress?
No, not really. I've been to war, I've been shot and shot at. This job isn't stress at all.
All you can do is all you can do but all you can do is enough.
You simply do the best that you can and keep a smile on your face while you do it. When you smile, those around you will smile too.
Remember that all of this is only temporary anyway. We're all going to be dust before long. So you can either be stressed out and hate life or you can relax and enjoy.
I've got a bunch of computers running in unheated mountain top radio sites without too many problems.
The first thing I do is seal up the case as best as I can, mainly to keep rodents and bugs out. I then make any necessary BIOS changes to keep everything, especially the hard drive, running all the time.
During the summer I do monthly PM checks and end up blowing out quite a bit of dust. My last PM check of the season is October and I don't get back up there until early July if I'm lucky.
Sure. And most of it is either pay per view or on a site that is advertising supported. So I simply email the webmaster and remind them that their content is in a format that can't be viewed by all. I further remind them that by limiting the number of viewers they limit their possible income.
Sure, I don't get a lot of response to that but I have had a couple of sites reply and then change their content.
It's not much of a "world" wide web if the world can't see your content.
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What I've recommended here is not to use 911 at all. Simply program a speed dial for the 911 business line, their 7 or 10 digit number. That way you'll get in and you get the right PSAP every time.
VOIP phone providers don't transfer calls over a 911 trunk anyway, they are forwarded to the PSAP over a regular telephone line. All that a VOIP phone customer needs to do is obtain that number and program it into their "phone".
I have had several VOIP phone providers call me about this so I know their working to provide 911 service for their customers. That's awfully damn nice of them, but it's not their responsibility.
Your personal safety is your personal responsibility. You should know if you have working 911 service and, if not, make it happen. If you lose a life because you dialed 911 and it didn't work it is no different than if your smoke detector didn't alert you to a fire because it didn't work. You have to test these things and know that they work.
"What goes with US taxes? Too many calculations?"
It's not all that hard and I don't think I've ever spent more than a half hour on my federal taxes. My state (Idaho) taxes are a nightmare and usually takes me two hours to figure all that out.
Most people in the US make it a much bigger deal than it really is. That's usually because they're either trying to find legal ways to get out of paying taxes or because they're doing something illegal and trying to cover their tracks.
What ever happened to learning a skill? You ask what kind of degree and I'll ask "what do you want to do?"
In this day and age you're right and I'm wrong. People tend to advance based upon the letters after their name. In my warped mind they should instead advance based upon their mastery of skills.
Silly me.
The problem you're having there is that most computer power supplies are designed and built pretty cheaply.
When I designed our new 911 center I eliminated all of the wall warts by using battery backed communications power supplies. The equipment room has redundant supplies for -48 VDC, +28 VDC and +14 VDC. I did build another power supply (actually two to be redundant) that takes the +14 and gives me +9 and +5 out for some devices that required those voltages.
All of this though is communications grade stuff that is filtered, clean and built to last. It wasn't cheap stuff.
Your right, ATX supplies do fail with quite a floor show and they do so on a regular basis. Most of them are crap.
Yes, another THEORY.
Note that it is one of many. As gambit3 pointed out, nobody is confident enough to present anything as fact.
Maybe it's not at the moment. But the 'legislative creep' you speak of has already begun.
Some people just shoot the messenger. In Australia they ask the messenger to snoop around in the content of what they carry for their customers.
We know that someone working for an ISP will already have invested in a set of skills that is specific to data networking. That person will also have to study and train on a routine basis to keep up with that rapidly changing field.
Now Australia demands that these people become investigators or officers of the law. That would require a different set of skills. So this can go one of two ways.
The government will require a technician working for an ISP to study and train to work as law enforcment in addition to their other required skill set. That way they can properly discover, investigate and handle violations without harm to innocent citizens or violating the laws themselves. This will be difficult cross training for those who already have difficult skills to maintain.
Or the government will not require any training in the law for these people and the will run fast and free with the law. ISP's will be held accountable for their customers content which will require them to snoop on and turn in their customers.
No matter which way you look at it this is going to have a negative impact on the public trust. It will likely also raise the cost of the services provided by the ISP.
This week we task network technicians to battle kiddie porn. Next week we'll expect librarians to turn in people for checking out chemistry texts because those people might build bombs. And soon we'll not only make it legal for your neighbor to peek in your windows, we'll hold them responsible for what you do in your own home to make sure that they do so.
Sure, not a problem. Next will be a requirement to turn in anyone who the ISP suspects is Jewish or black. Then the government can deal with them.
Once again we have big brother enlisting the help of your neighbors and your business associates. This worries me far more than someone involved in child porn. Sure, exploitation of children is a bad thing but IMHO big brother is worse.
My $0.02
Firefox on Windows is important. Firefox on Linux.....wanna be that goes nowhere fast?
Wonderful. Look at what they did with the Linux version of Messenger, they released it with minimal features and have been extremely slow in updates or feature additions. Based on that performance I have a hard time believing that Yahoo is going to do anything wonderful with this toolbar on the Firefox/Linux version.
The problem with your theory is, I believe, Writer C wasn't present at that meeting.
If I remember right he was seeing in thearapy at the time having just learned about Enterprise being canceled.
I think you're confused. The show you are talking about is called Andromeda.
"Boomer was an African-American guy."
You're just reading someone elses hype. If you had ever watched the show back in "the old days" you would know that the humans in the show were not from Earth. Boomer therefore was not from Earth. Boomer had never been to Africa or America and could not possibly have been from either location.
For someone who's so uptight about someone elses political correctness, I'm suprised how misinformed you were on that count.
Odd, I was just looking at what I thought was a Canadian province on there. I guess I didn't get the memo that we took them over.
What a relief that will be. The US Customs guys are the rudest bastards I've ever met and now I won't have to deal with them when I come home.
Thanks AC!
Too bad it's not ready. Ready or not it IS being used for those applications and will continue to be.
Yeah that would be funny if it were written like a real Windows error message.
The thing is, Windows error messages don't give you that much useful information.
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Nigel, you haven't won yet.
First you need to consider that this asswipe might just start selling your software under another name or from some other URL. You need to continue to protect yourself.
Second you need to consider that he is still out there doing this to someone else. It looks like he's selling other software still and I don't think it's too big of a leap to assume that he stole that as well. You need to continue in order to protect your community.
Third you need to consider that revenge is sweet. Think of the taste of the finest honey, only sweeter. Are you tasting that yet?
Go forth and kick some ass....in the cause of the greater good.
But mostly go kick his ass for the revenge. That's what it's all about. I would guess you're about half way there.
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"Appart from the environmental unfriendliness it tasted like shit!."
Environmental unfriendliness almost always tastes like shit.
I know, you're one of those guys whos all natural and prefers good, old fashioned real shit....the natural way.
"But being a brave soul (and not caring if my Virtual PC image dies a horrible death) I click Run."
Well of course he didn't care. His virtual PC was already infected with Windows and IE.
Everyone knows that global warming is real and that it is caused by humans. Humans who work for corporations and humans knows as "The Bush Administration" or "Republicans."
There is no other cause for climate change.
Science has proven this.
Well he damn sure doesn't mean Idaho. We're so backwoods here....it's unbelievable. The state is trying to push for a statewide digital radio system but they don't have the first clue about VOIP and aren't really interested in bothering to find out.
And the system they want to build? Yeah, it's an experiment for Homeland Security. They are actually trying to build several systems that are screwed up and cant talk to each other so they can use bubble gum, duct tape and bailing wire to patch them together to talk.
I don't know what state this guy is in but he should be VERY happy that he's not in Idaho.
Al Gore is a god to the left. Unlike most folk, the left don't believe in a single divine entity, Gore is one of many.
As a god of the left, Gore was doing service in Congress in the late 60's and took the initiative he claims.
Those of you who do not believe are liars. Do not attempt to twist his words you heathen. He meant what he said and said what he meant.
Al Gore may very well be your father as well. Do not question it.
Even Snopes agrees that Gore is correct. When the internet was created, Gore took the initative. Snopes wouldn't lie about such a thing, they can't. Snopes is always accuarte 1000% of the time. Your bible is full of innacuracies and bullshit, Snopes is not.
All hail Al.
I work in public safety. My "customers" are the 911 PSAP and all fo the public safety units in the field. Tonight is Friday and, just at quitting time when things are getting nasty out there with the slick roads, I got a report of a radio acting up and one workstation that went BSOD.
Stress?
No, not really. I've been to war, I've been shot and shot at. This job isn't stress at all.
All you can do is all you can do but all you can do is enough.
You simply do the best that you can and keep a smile on your face while you do it. When you smile, those around you will smile too.
Remember that all of this is only temporary anyway. We're all going to be dust before long. So you can either be stressed out and hate life or you can relax and enjoy.
I've made my choice.
I've got a bunch of computers running in unheated mountain top radio sites without too many problems.
The first thing I do is seal up the case as best as I can, mainly to keep rodents and bugs out. I then make any necessary BIOS changes to keep everything, especially the hard drive, running all the time.
During the summer I do monthly PM checks and end up blowing out quite a bit of dust. My last PM check of the season is October and I don't get back up there until early July if I'm lucky.
So were the things he mentioned. The government rarely builds it's own tools, they are most often purchased from the lowest bidding contractor.
"um, lots of web content is only offered in WMV?"
Sure. And most of it is either pay per view or on a site that is advertising supported. So I simply email the webmaster and remind them that their content is in a format that can't be viewed by all. I further remind them that by limiting the number of viewers they limit their possible income.
Sure, I don't get a lot of response to that but I have had a couple of sites reply and then change their content.
It's not much of a "world" wide web if the world can't see your content.