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  1. Re:I have an open access point at my work on Vonage to Produce a WiFi Phone · · Score: 2, Interesting
    TCP is not used.

    Actually, that is not correct. See rfc3261.
    All SIP elements MUST implement UDP and TCP. SIP elements MAY
    implement other protocols.

    Making TCP mandatory for the UA is a substantial change from RFC
    2543. It has arisen out of the need to handle larger messages,
    which MUST use TCP, as discussed below. Thus, even if an element
    never sends large messages, it may receive one and needs to be
    able to handle them.
  2. Re:new name on Imminent Mandrake Name Change? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know: Mandows... that should be safe...

  3. Re:Rogers Wireless on Canadians Pay Extra For Their Wireless Hardware · · Score: 1

    You sir, are wrong. Rogers also operates a GSM network.

  4. Re:Booting a laptop on Security Tips for Traveling with Tech Gear · · Score: 2, Funny

    Might make it hard to get the terrorists to trial, though...

    Well, at least the suicide part of their mission will still work...

  5. Re:Safe from what? on Company Offers Disaster-Proof Storage For Records · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you want to keep something really safe, protect it well and don't tell anyone where it is.

    Security by obscurity ain't gonna work. What happened to some good old fashioned "encrypt the data on the tapes, and keep copies in several relatively safe locations"?

  6. SMP? on World's Largest Databases Ranked · · Score: 1, Funny

    France Telecom uses Oracle Corp. as its DBMS, Hewlett-Packard Co. as its storage and system vendor, and employs an SMP (symbol manipulation program) architecture.

    A case of acronym confusion, I guess. :-)

  7. Re:Silly name - MandrakeMove on MandrakeMove Bootable Linux CD Announced · · Score: 2, Informative
  8. Re:I see the problem. on Viruses and Market Dominance - Myth or Fact? · · Score: 1

    Obligatory quote: "The source of the problem is between the chair and the keyboard".

  9. Re:ssh for tunnels is a bad idea on Linux Crypto Packages Demolished · · Score: 1

    The only thing is that ssh tunneling is not TCP over TCP; the tunelled TCP connections terminate/start on the two sides of the ssh connection.

    zm

  10. Re:Microsoft Security on Microsoft Pulls Broken XP Update · · Score: 3, Funny

    See, there's this new technology called "the telephone".... :)

  11. Re:Lessons fron SQL Slammer? on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 1

    It is NOT a public network; shoot whoever moderated parent as insightful...

  12. Re:New error messages on Canadian Telco Telus Moves All Call Traffic to the Net · · Score: 1
    From RFC 3261 Session Initiation Protocol
    21.4.5 404 Not Found

    The server has definitive information that the user does not exist at
    the domain specified in the Request-URI. This status is also
    returned if the domain in the Request-URI does not match any of the
    domains handled by the recipient of the request.
    The parent is actually not joking, this is a real error code, the only thing is that reconfiguring the caller's phone... scratch phone... SIP user agent will not remedy the situation....
  13. Re:Back to the future? (-1: offtopic) on Grady Booch On Software Engineering · · Score: 2
    CASE tools provide assistance in actually producing software

    Funny you should mention that. I have a tape of one of Grady's lectures where he said:
    "CASE tools allow poor designers to produce bad designs much more quickly."
    Not that it has anything to do with .NET or this article... :-)
  14. open source? on Ballmer on Windows Server 2003, Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is nobody to turn to if you as a (Linux) customer says, 'I need this.' You can't turn to IBM. They don't write the thing. It's not like IBM can support Linux the way they support the mainframe operating system. They don't write the code for it.

    Of course, because they need access to the source code before they would be able to do any improvements... :-P

  15. From here on Where Does Spam Come From? No, Really? · · Score: 2
  16. 1984... on Webcams to Enforce Singapore Quarantine · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Big brother? Where?

  17. Ooops on Evil Bit Added to TCP/IP Packets · · Score: 1

    Looks like CmdrTaco is stuck in some kind of a temporal loop. Quick, tell CmdrData to send a message to himself over a subspace channel, this is our only chance!

  18. Linux distros? on Office Depot: Windows XP Apps Must Be Microsoft-Approved · · Score: 1

    So, any GNU/Linux distro sold by OfficeDepot after the deadline will be Microsoft certified, no?

  19. Endangered species on Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete · · Score: 1

    As I suspected all along, Micro$oft was the leading cause of disappearance of dodo, woolly mammoth, sabre tooth tiger, and probably even the dinosaurs. Someone call PETA and WWF before they are done with hackers and whales!

  20. Re:Project Stats on MySQL 4 Declared Production-Ready · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I question the relevance of index creation benchmark. In most cases, index creation is done once and then it all just works with that index. Could you provide benchmarks for some big multitable select, update and calculations (averages, sums and that stuff)?
    Same goes for unindexed select: avoid it, and give us indexed benchmarks.

    zm

  21. Here too on Sony's Cashless Smart Card Catching on in Japan · · Score: 1

    Bell Canada has been selling cash smart cards for use in public phones for a while now...

  22. 65+65 on Toms Hardware Reviews 65 CPU's, Past & Present · · Score: 1

    So, that makes it 130 CPU's reviewed in total, no?

  23. Re:great on U.S. Endorses ENUM · · Score: 1
    This is how it works:
    • someone calls you at 1-202-555-1234
    • the network translates that into 4.3.2.1.5.5.5.2.0.2.1.e164.arpa (which is basically your E.164 phone number, in a fancy format)
    • the network does a DNS lookup on that number and gets a list of your URL's
    • those URL's are most likely sip, but may also be tel, mailto, http,... (is there an URL scheme for IM?)
    • YOU give your operator your URL's and their preference
    • the caller's device will try your contacts in the order you specify, and subject to the device's own capabilities (for example, a phone will ignore any http URL)
    In other words, no, it's not the end of the world. Usenet will work just the same... And yes, I implemented an ENUM based system at my previous place of work.

    zm
  24. Re:Better Idea on 11 Digit Dialing Comes Home to New York · · Score: 1

    A few (if any) carriers will use public internet for their VoIP, meaning that thieir ENUM servers will be located in their private IP networks inaccessible from the regular 'net. The privacy implications are pretty much the same as with the phone book. Don't be paranoid for no reason. zm

  25. Re:Where's that Janie Porche Chick? on Xmas Lights + X10 + Webcam = Fun · · Score: 1

    Hey, S. Claus switched too!
    Guess that did not save Christmas from getting slashdotted....
    zm