I'm not a big fan of this model. Still, it could help some people. Folks have complained that it won't stop companies like MSFT, The Gap, etc., from mailing because they'll have no problem paying for it. However... that's not the purpose of Goodmail. It's to make it so the dredge can't get in and make it so that if you do tell the sender to stop emailing you, after their email has nicely arrived in your inbox, your response will get processed and you'll stop getting their email. With the spammers there's no real or legally binding way to do that. With this model the senders will be easily and accurately identified and the processed of opting out structured and adhered to.
We switched from a smallish Bizfon POTS system to an AllWorx VoIP system and have been very happy - both with their server, their software (platform) and their feature 9112 phones. We're currently using 6 CO lines for all outbound communications but have experimented with a SIP gateway via Vonage. We also have four staff located around the country all using the same VoIP phones and connecting right into our phone system. I dial 214 and I reach a colleague in San Franciso; 217 and another in Dallas, etc. Undoubtedly the same things you'd get with other VoIP solutions - commercial or open source. The Allworx box is around $5K and the phones a little over $300 each. While we could have explored Asterisk, the Allworx solution was basically usable within an hour of plugging in. Might have been shorter if we read the manual in advance of playing around. But what are the chances of that really happening.:)
We bought a Raritan KX232 for close to $3,600. It services 32 ports over IP. Little integration dongles that connect to your PCs and talk IP over CAT5 close around $75/ea. The whole system works extremely well. The only issues we've had are that their management interface is currently an ActiveX control for IE (a Java one is promised soon) and that when I use Microsoft RDC to connect in to our network (through the firewall) and bring up a PC in the data center, mouse tracking is all messed up. Essentially I'm doing VNC at the remote desktop to a PC in the data center. It can be a little frustrating. But, the hardware is exceptional. We effectively trashed all our old Belkin crap.
This isn't aimed at the average college kid for whom even a $299 may be too much. No - it's aimed for new parents, grand parents - your parents. This thing will sell like hot cakes (to use an expression that most of us have no idea what it really means).
I just bought one of these and welcome being able to carry around my 7,000+ image iPhoto collection - with several thousand of which are associated with my two year old daughter.
Apple - you could have charged more and still made a mint.
The new G5 based iMacs are reportedly designed so that the CPU is attached to the monitor - which looks remarkably like a tablet. We'll know in 2 weeks.
Surely you jest - yes? You can't possibly suggest that the solution continue to be client-based filtering? That doesn't reduce the amount of traffic hitting ISPs - and the cost burden remains unchanged.
The RMX model really appears quite elegant. I suspect that if we magically removed 95% of the forged email traffic none of us would be spending as much time as we currently are lamenting spam, fighting spam and trying to solve it.
Planes are bathed in cell phone radiation just sitting at the gate and certainly during take-offs and landings in busy metro areas. People in the airports and surrounding areas certainly don't curb their use of cell phones. It doesn't make sense to suggest there's a serious danger to airplane navigation. Would we not have seen them before.
Alas the IDEA folks haven't updated their download page. I've been patiently waiting for this for a while now. IntelliJ's IDEA is one hell of an amazing editor.
I thought it was a math term defined decades before Brin et al. started Google thr company. There's also "googleplex" which I though was 10^100^10 (or something like that).
My 12PB works great running against my Buffalo Tech WiFi base station and high-gain attenna. How many people really need the faster throughput? 11Mbs seemed fine before the PB arrived with the extreme card and it feels fine now. How many people are buying this stuff to run directly against their DSL or Cable. Let's see... 54Mb/s right up to the goofy router and then, wham, back to 1Mbs/128Kbs down/up.
The advantage of the new PowerBook like isn't really with the "g" - it's with the great attenna placement. My signal strength has never been better.
Boycotted for what? For providing a great product at an attractive price? For being up front about privacy policies and then responsible enough to alert their customers when those policies change?And not giving your real name and related info to your ISP? What's that all about? Chill out.
Mac OSX Server is *already* available for the Intel platform. So, don't think Apple isn't thinking about alternative platforms - especially with their market cap dropping 50% this week. Don't you think some percentage of the general computing popular (which is over 80% Wintel) would consider a credible alternative to Win9X, Millenium, etc? I do - and I suspect the Apple people know this.
The fuzzy factor imposed by the US government to thwart military uses of their GPS system was lifted on May 1 of this year (see http://abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/dailynews/gps_000501.html) - making the use of GPS 10 times more accurate. So, GPS, even for folks like us, is now accurate to within 20 yards. Plus, airplance don't have too many things in their way to block signals from those satellites.
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I'm not a big fan of this model. Still, it could help some people. Folks have complained that it won't stop companies like MSFT, The Gap, etc., from mailing because they'll have no problem paying for it. However... that's not the purpose of Goodmail. It's to make it so the dredge can't get in and make it so that if you do tell the sender to stop emailing you, after their email has nicely arrived in your inbox, your response will get processed and you'll stop getting their email. With the spammers there's no real or legally binding way to do that. With this model the senders will be easily and accurately identified and the processed of opting out structured and adhered to.
We switched from a smallish Bizfon POTS system to an AllWorx VoIP system and have been very happy - both with their server, their software (platform) and their feature 9112 phones. We're currently using 6 CO lines for all outbound communications but have experimented with a SIP gateway via Vonage. We also have four staff located around the country all using the same VoIP phones and connecting right into our phone system. I dial 214 and I reach a colleague in San Franciso; 217 and another in Dallas, etc. Undoubtedly the same things you'd get with other VoIP solutions - commercial or open source. The Allworx box is around $5K and the phones a little over $300 each. While we could have explored Asterisk, the Allworx solution was basically usable within an hour of plugging in. Might have been shorter if we read the manual in advance of playing around. But what are the chances of that really happening. :)
We bought a Raritan KX232 for close to $3,600. It services 32 ports over IP. Little integration dongles that connect to your PCs and talk IP over CAT5 close around $75/ea. The whole system works extremely well. The only issues we've had are that their management interface is currently an ActiveX control for IE (a Java one is promised soon) and that when I use Microsoft RDC to connect in to our network (through the firewall) and bring up a PC in the data center, mouse tracking is all messed up. Essentially I'm doing VNC at the remote desktop to a PC in the data center. It can be a little frustrating. But, the hardware is exceptional. We effectively trashed all our old Belkin crap.
This isn't aimed at the average college kid for whom even a $299 may be too much. No - it's aimed for new parents, grand parents - your parents. This thing will sell like hot cakes (to use an expression that most of us have no idea what it really means).
I just bought one of these and welcome being able to carry around my 7,000+ image iPhoto collection - with several thousand of which are associated with my two year old daughter.
Apple - you could have charged more and still made a mint.
The new G5 based iMacs are reportedly designed so that the CPU is attached to the monitor - which looks remarkably like a tablet. We'll know in 2 weeks.
The RMX model really appears quite elegant. I suspect that if we magically removed 95% of the forged email traffic none of us would be spending as much time as we currently are lamenting spam, fighting spam and trying to solve it.
Planes are bathed in cell phone radiation just sitting at the gate and certainly during take-offs and landings in busy metro areas. People in the airports and surrounding areas certainly don't curb their use of cell phones. It doesn't make sense to suggest there's a serious danger to airplane navigation. Would we not have seen them before.
Alas the IDEA folks haven't updated their download page. I've been patiently waiting for this for a while now. IntelliJ's IDEA is one hell of an amazing editor.
I thought it was a math term defined decades before Brin et al. started Google thr company. There's also "googleplex" which I though was 10^100^10 (or something like that).
My 12PB works great running against my Buffalo Tech WiFi base station and high-gain attenna. How many people really need the faster throughput? 11Mbs seemed fine before the PB arrived with the extreme card and it feels fine now. How many people are buying this stuff to run directly against their DSL or Cable. Let's see... 54Mb/s right up to the goofy router and then, wham, back to 1Mbs/128Kbs down/up.
The advantage of the new PowerBook like isn't really with the "g" - it's with the great attenna placement. My signal strength has never been better.
Why would a spam company need to buy it? They can already grab everyone's email addresses.
Boycotted for what? For providing a great product at an attractive price? For being up front about privacy policies and then responsible enough to alert their customers when those policies change?And not giving your real name and related info to your ISP? What's that all about? Chill out.
Mac OSX Server is *already* available for the Intel platform. So, don't think Apple isn't thinking about alternative platforms - especially with their market cap dropping 50% this week. Don't you think some percentage of the general computing popular (which is over 80% Wintel) would consider a credible alternative to Win9X, Millenium, etc? I do - and I suspect the Apple people know this.
Those would be the Cauzin strips, I believe. BTW - the :CueCat is a ridiculous piece of crap. It's a horrible scanner.
The fuzzy factor imposed by the US government to thwart military uses of their GPS system was lifted on May 1 of this year (see http://abcnews.go.com /sections/tech/dailynews/gps_000501.html) - making the use of GPS 10 times more accurate. So, GPS, even for folks like us, is now accurate to within 20 yards. Plus, airplance don't have too many things in their way to block signals from those satellites.
Airplanes can figure out their own altitude and include it with the positional data they obtain from GPS.