You can use a Digium TDM400P with 3 FXO modules. The TDM400P can accomodate up to 4 modules, with whatever combination of FXO or FXS. Works great here.:)
Microsoft Windows Beta Program Microsoft Customer Preview Program Leaked versions on the Internet
I'm currently running 2003 Server RTM (Ready To Manufacture) which is basically the final version, and it's dead stable (for Windows of course). That version was made available to me by Microsoft free-of-charge because I was part of the CPP program. That's probably why the webpage guys are saying so.
Hmm, that's kind of weird. I'm using a Bell Mobility alphanumeric pager and I get 100% of my messages, whether they were sent by my numeric pager number, TAP or email. 8 second delay for TAP or Pager#, 15 second delay by email. Bell's pretty reliable depending on the pager technology (931.7375, FLEX)
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Santa's just a PR figure. It's like HP's CEO chick, we NEVER see upper mgmt and the REAL people driving the company, we just see HER all the time. All the work is done by the elves and Santa's employees. But with the recent economic turn, I expect layoffs.
(Note that the reindeer are major shareholders, that's why we never actually see them.)
We had access (on the Internet) to the techie's installation course for the USB 180, so everything that had to be done on the unit itself (USB-to-serial configuration using the service software, for example) was done by ourselves. As for pointing the dish, I eat, sleep and drink satellite stuff so I showed my friend how to align it up on the tower while I was checking the satellite finder (brought to me by General Instrument/Motorola, go GI!) to see if GE-4 showed up. We used two-way radios to keep in touch while he was up there having fun with the dish. The techie came by with all his equipment (which proved hilariously useless after he saw my own arsenal) and he only provided his own technical reference (for the USB 180 configuration). He did "authorize" the installation, but he mostly watched the show. He has never seen such a setup so at first, he was kinda puzzled as to how he was going to install all this.
The whole installation lasted more than 4 hours (only for the StarBand part), and he wanted to stay the whole time. He was cool, but he kinda bitched when we did the dipswitch trick on our own.
Following instructions I initially read about on a Delphi satellite forum (linked somewhere in here), I successfully configured my StarBand reciever at my friend's place using standard ethernet, where he has no cable or landline phone service. He's quite deep in the woods. To make everything worse, his house is located where there is no clear sight to the south, but he did have a tower set up 200 meters away from his house where his HAM repeater/antenna is placed.
So here's what we did: We placed the StarBand dish on the tower, but we needed to get the signal to the house somehow. In the box where all his repeater equipment was housed, we put the 180 in there and hooked it up (via ethernet) to a Lucent WaveLAN transmitter to send the data from the tower to his house. (Thank god there was a line of sight between the antenna and the house in question.) Then, on the recieving end, we hooked up the home WaveLAN antenna/Orinoco card to an OpenBSD server set up as a firewall/wireless bridge (following some instructions we saw somewhere about obsd and WaveLAN) and then networked it using good old RJ-45 to his 3-pc LAN. Yes, he's a total NUT, I've told him that numerous times, but he absolutely wanted internet access at his wood cabin.
And yes, latency is EXTREMELY HORRIBLE at his place. But he has internet access and he's happy.
(Don't ask about the StarBand installer, we just told him to kindly 'buzz off'.)
At the justice system's current rate, this is going to take forever, and good ol' NSI will keep squatting domains. So I'm not too surprised about it. But hey, we might know the outcome of this lawsuit before the Supreme Court decides on who the next President is...
Well, their intellectual property is mostly contained in the source code, and we don't need any source to play it, right? We might be mad open-source advocates, but for that type of thing, people still download old games freely on sites like abandongames.com. I don't think it would change anything.
As for shareholders, if they think keeping Test Drive 1 (for example, in Accolade's case) under a license will do them good, they're idiots. TD1 hasn't generated revenue in a long time (As the original poster said, 99.99% sure), and that won't change UNLESS they remake the old game into a new one (which won't happen anyway). Just my two cents.
LOL... yeah, TD3 was great, perhaps one of my favorite (old) driving games at the time. Very realistic (not for today's standards though, take a peek at NFS:PU, which IMHO is the best driving game out there), but of course, even my old P100 runs it *WAY* too fast, even with MoSlo. Did great on my 286 though, with my good ol' AdLib soundcard. Ahh, those were the days...
Way back when I had a 286, I absolutely couldn't stop playing Test Drive. I love cars, racing, and time trials on some road strips. I do it once every week even though it's kinda illegal... wouldn't mind taking one more Test Drive of a Porsche.;) (Wait, there's NFS5 for that sort of thing...)
Damnit, I've worked for Ma M before, and if my l/p is still working at my old offices, maybe I can reprogram the satellites to deorbit right on 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA.:)
Suckers. You make our machines crash, time for us to make something crash on YOU! Muahahahaha!
And I thought I was cool with my Cisco 12000, my old Gandalf PACX 2000 (bought from a local college, stripped of all internals and converted into a beer cooler) and my Atari ST (heh). Sigh. At least I have 100Mbps WaveLAN.:)
Speaking of which, I use Nokia C020 cards for networking. Works great. Why don't high-tech moguls use that type of technology instead of drilling holes in their walls? At least, if I have to move, I don't have to rewire my new home completely. (Don't ask about the Cisco rack and the Gandalf:P)
Maybe I can sell my Iridium equipment for a good price on eBay after all. I'll just wait a few more days/weeks...
I've seen this news before, and as a result, it might lower Globalstar's prices, IF the new administration of Iridium Satellite LLC are smart enough to fix their old marketing practices, and more importantly be able to operate the sixty-something satellite network, in terms of money and also in terms of remote management (technical), but Motorola's in the house for that.
They might get a good shot. But I won't use their services again UNLESS they prove to me that they can beat Globalstar's prices, service and coverage.
Heh, I wonder if the little bundle of joy runs on a Transmeta chip. Low energy consumption means less breast feeding (and more for the other(s)).
(Okay, that was lame. Sorry, I've had a bad day.)
Linus, you da man!:)
Usual claptrap about Iridium and their marketing
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You're right, Iridium didn't focus on the right market segment for this service. They went with the whole nine yards, in fact. They needed to focus on ONE segment, then get on another one. Sounds like Motorola to me, heh. (Don't try to understand that one, I was a cellular dealer for a while, and it's somewhat of a running joke in the business.)
One of their problems: VERY expensive equipment (but they do come in fancy trapezoidal boxes with a neat holographic design), and frankly, if Iridium had come up with better marketing and maybe a little bit better support from other companies in the industry (for example, Globalstar has Qualcomm, Ericsson and some other manufacturer to support them) they might have been fine.
The other problem with Iridium was their high pricing for service. Believe me, 150CDN$/mo (?) for 2 sat zones of paging coverage with VoiceNet (PageNet's voicemail/dispatch service) is a lot of dough. 4 zones would cover North America including Alaska, if I recall correctly. I can get that type of service with PageMart (now Weblink Wireless in the USA, Bell Mobility in Canada) for a bit less. Don't quote me on that price though, it's been long since I got my last Iridium bill.
If this is for real (believe me, I've heard "Iridium is Saved" many times), I won't have to sell my 9501 pager on eBay as a "collection item". Every day I see someone trying to sell their Iridium stuff as "collectible satellite equipment". I originally decided to keep it until it would stop working, but I still have 4 bars of signal on my pager in my basement (where standard VHF POCSAG doesn't go through)... which is kinda ironic because I've heard from fellow users that usage of an Iridium satellite phone/pager inside a building/house/etc. is practically impossible due to the lack of signal strength. Oh well, now I can ditch the big-ass Advisor and wear my fat pager again.;)
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Instead of packet sniffing, we'll be packet peeking.
Damn Swedish legal system - it's always bork, bork, bork!
You can use a Digium TDM400P with 3 FXO modules. The TDM400P can accomodate up to 4 modules, with whatever combination of FXO or FXS. Works great here. :)
They (and I) know because of a few reasons:
Microsoft Windows Beta Program
Microsoft Customer Preview Program
Leaked versions on the Internet
I'm currently running 2003 Server RTM (Ready To Manufacture) which is basically the final version, and it's dead stable (for Windows of course). That version was made available to me by Microsoft free-of-charge because I was part of the CPP program. That's probably why the webpage guys are saying so.
Hmm, that's kind of weird. I'm using a Bell Mobility alphanumeric pager and I get 100% of my messages, whether they were sent by my numeric pager number, TAP or email. 8 second delay for TAP or Pager#, 15 second delay by email. Bell's pretty reliable depending on the pager technology (931.7375, FLEX)
Santa's just a PR figure. It's like HP's CEO chick, we NEVER see upper mgmt and the REAL people driving the company, we just see HER all the time. All the work is done by the elves and Santa's employees. But with the recent economic turn, I expect layoffs.
(Note that the reindeer are major shareholders, that's why we never actually see them.)
Can't wait to hear some preteen rap artist sing about gibs, frags and big f!@$in' guns. Get down, Quake it baby. Sheesh.
We had access (on the Internet) to the techie's installation course for the USB 180, so everything that had to be done on the unit itself (USB-to-serial configuration using the service software, for example) was done by ourselves. As for pointing the dish, I eat, sleep and drink satellite stuff so I showed my friend how to align it up on the tower while I was checking the satellite finder (brought to me by General Instrument/Motorola, go GI!) to see if GE-4 showed up. We used two-way radios to keep in touch while he was up there having fun with the dish. The techie came by with all his equipment (which proved hilariously useless after he saw my own arsenal) and he only provided his own technical reference (for the USB 180 configuration). He did "authorize" the installation, but he mostly watched the show. He has never seen such a setup so at first, he was kinda puzzled as to how he was going to install all this.
The whole installation lasted more than 4 hours (only for the StarBand part), and he wanted to stay the whole time. He was cool, but he kinda bitched when we did the dipswitch trick on our own.
Following instructions I initially read about on a Delphi satellite forum (linked somewhere in here), I successfully configured my StarBand reciever at my friend's place using standard ethernet, where he has no cable or landline phone service. He's quite deep in the woods. To make everything worse, his house is located where there is no clear sight to the south, but he did have a tower set up 200 meters away from his house where his HAM repeater/antenna is placed.
So here's what we did: We placed the StarBand dish on the tower, but we needed to get the signal to the house somehow. In the box where all his repeater equipment was housed, we put the 180 in there and hooked it up (via ethernet) to a Lucent WaveLAN transmitter to send the data from the tower to his house. (Thank god there was a line of sight between the antenna and the house in question.) Then, on the recieving end, we hooked up the home WaveLAN antenna/Orinoco card to an OpenBSD server set up as a firewall/wireless bridge (following some instructions we saw somewhere about obsd and WaveLAN) and then networked it using good old RJ-45 to his 3-pc LAN. Yes, he's a total NUT, I've told him that numerous times, but he absolutely wanted internet access at his wood cabin.
And yes, latency is EXTREMELY HORRIBLE at his place. But he has internet access and he's happy.
(Don't ask about the StarBand installer, we just told him to kindly 'buzz off'.)
At the justice system's current rate, this is going to take forever, and good ol' NSI will keep squatting domains. So I'm not too surprised about it. But hey, we might know the outcome of this lawsuit before the Supreme Court decides on who the next President is...
Well, their intellectual property is mostly contained in the source code, and we don't need any source to play it, right? We might be mad open-source advocates, but for that type of thing, people still download old games freely on sites like abandongames.com. I don't think it would change anything. As for shareholders, if they think keeping Test Drive 1 (for example, in Accolade's case) under a license will do them good, they're idiots. TD1 hasn't generated revenue in a long time (As the original poster said, 99.99% sure), and that won't change UNLESS they remake the old game into a new one (which won't happen anyway). Just my two cents.
LOL... yeah, TD3 was great, perhaps one of my favorite (old) driving games at the time. Very realistic (not for today's standards though, take a peek at NFS:PU, which IMHO is the best driving game out there), but of course, even my old P100 runs it *WAY* too fast, even with MoSlo. Did great on my 286 though, with my good ol' AdLib soundcard. Ahh, those were the days...
Way back when I had a 286, I absolutely couldn't stop playing Test Drive. I love cars, racing, and time trials on some road strips. I do it once every week even though it's kinda illegal... wouldn't mind taking one more Test Drive of a Porsche. ;) (Wait, there's NFS5 for that sort of thing...)
Damnit, I've worked for Ma M before, and if my l/p is still working at my old offices, maybe I can reprogram the satellites to deorbit right on 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA. :)
Suckers. You make our machines crash, time for us to make something crash on YOU! Muahahahaha!
From what I've heard, DoD sysadmins are all clones/offsprings of Pitr.
(If you didn't get that one, read User Friendly.)
"Off my systemzisch, zlotniks!"
And I thought I was cool with my Cisco 12000, my old Gandalf PACX 2000 (bought from a local college, stripped of all internals and converted into a beer cooler) and my Atari ST (heh). Sigh. At least I have 100Mbps WaveLAN. :)
:P)
Speaking of which, I use Nokia C020 cards for networking. Works great. Why don't high-tech moguls use that type of technology instead of drilling holes in their walls? At least, if I have to move, I don't have to rewire my new home completely. (Don't ask about the Cisco rack and the Gandalf
Maybe I can sell my Iridium equipment for a good price on eBay after all. I'll just wait a few more days/weeks...
I've seen this news before, and as a result, it might lower Globalstar's prices, IF the new administration of Iridium Satellite LLC are smart enough to fix their old marketing practices, and more importantly be able to operate the sixty-something satellite network, in terms of money and also in terms of remote management (technical), but Motorola's in the house for that.
They might get a good shot. But I won't use their services again UNLESS they prove to me that they can beat Globalstar's prices, service and coverage.
Heh, I wonder if the little bundle of joy runs on a Transmeta chip. Low energy consumption means less breast feeding (and more for the other(s)). (Okay, that was lame. Sorry, I've had a bad day.) Linus, you da man! :)
You're right, Iridium didn't focus on the right market segment for this service. They went with the whole nine yards, in fact. They needed to focus on ONE segment, then get on another one. Sounds like Motorola to me, heh. (Don't try to understand that one, I was a cellular dealer for a while, and it's somewhat of a running joke in the business.)
One of their problems: VERY expensive equipment (but they do come in fancy trapezoidal boxes with a neat holographic design), and frankly, if Iridium had come up with better marketing and maybe a little bit better support from other companies in the industry (for example, Globalstar has Qualcomm, Ericsson and some other manufacturer to support them) they might have been fine.
The other problem with Iridium was their high pricing for service. Believe me, 150CDN$/mo (?) for 2 sat zones of paging coverage with VoiceNet (PageNet's voicemail/dispatch service) is a lot of dough. 4 zones would cover North America including Alaska, if I recall correctly. I can get that type of service with PageMart (now Weblink Wireless in the USA, Bell Mobility in Canada) for a bit less. Don't quote me on that price though, it's been long since I got my last Iridium bill.
If this is for real (believe me, I've heard "Iridium is Saved" many times), I won't have to sell my 9501 pager on eBay as a "collection item". Every day I see someone trying to sell their Iridium stuff as "collectible satellite equipment". I originally decided to keep it until it would stop working, but I still have 4 bars of signal on my pager in my basement (where standard VHF POCSAG doesn't go through)... which is kinda ironic because I've heard from fellow users that usage of an Iridium satellite phone/pager inside a building/house/etc. is practically impossible due to the lack of signal strength. Oh well, now I can ditch the big-ass Advisor and wear my fat pager again. ;)