I used to work in a car stereo shop (before my life as a Network Admin). We used to order very large and heavy subwoofer enclosures from a speaker company in Florida. These boxes typically weighed over 75lbs. Our UPS driver used to back up to our installation bays, open his back door, and "roll" the boxes end over end out the back of his truck. The boxes then fell another 3 feet to the floor! The impact was so great that the magnets fell off the subwoofer baskets and, of course, cracked the enclosures!
The final straw was having the ups guy set up two large "cow-print" boxes on his truck as a table and chair to eat his lunch!
That's a nice way to drive people away from the internet. Imagine if TV stations charged by the minute. No one would watch TV and that would kill ad revenue.
The internet was not designed to be a profit producing, commercial medium, it was designed for information exchange. The sooner these MBA's figure that out, the sooner they can cut their losses.
I've installed one with 2 macs and three pc's. It's got a built in serial port to share and external modem and a parallel port to share a printer. You can find it here.
While developing the underlying archetecture of the internet, Al Gore invented packet switching. Of course this was accomplished later in his career. Everyone knows he invented the telephone as well. Watson was his assistant, not bell's.
Isn't it clear? Microsoft knows they want a subscription buisiness model, but they don't know yet what customers will pay for. I've got news for Microsoft, consumers don't pay for anything very easily. Look at all the failed dot bombs: People like free stuff, when the model switches to a payment model, most customers drop it like a bad habit. I used to work in retail, trust me when I say most people are cheap. I admit, I am.
Do you think for a minute Napster will survive as a subscription service? No way!
How about software? Forget about it!
Now factor in a recessonary world economy, and guess what.....HailStorm, XP, and all the software subscription based models are doomed to fail.
Right on target brother! How is it that car companies can track down an owner and notify them of a recall, but MS can't even send you (a registered user) a CD in the mail?
What if you were driving a car that had an airbag that sometimes, in some accidents, didn't go off. Oh, and by the way, sometimes your seatbelt unlatches in front-end collisions. (These are both problems that affected some very recent cars.) You'd want to know and hopefully that money-hungry car company that produced that product is shamed into fixing the problem....right?
Now in your world, Consumer Reports wouldn't be allowed to independently test the car, and the public would never know about the defects. Big-Car Co. wouldn't be shamed into fixing your car, and who knows, maybe you would get into a serious accident where you were injured or killed by the defective product.
C'mon? Unchecked buffers a feature of.NET??? That's not a feature, that's bad programming. I learned bounds checking on all my IO in CS I! Yeah, it's damn tedious, check input for validity, check output for validity, but that's the way secure and stable software is written.
Other software industries (military, medical, financial, and comercial navigation systems) use incredibly complex software yet, those systems are held to much higher stability and security standards!
MS software is the product of a greedy company with very inadequate development and testing procedures! In short, these "features" as you call them are nothing more than the product of lazy programmers pushed too hard by their bonus hungry bosses.
Ford knew about the rear axle bolts puncturing the gas tanks in these cars and could have fixed the problem for as little as $5.00 per car. Ford did the cost-benefit analysis and decided it was cheaper to litigate settlements than it was to fix the car. The courts (and juries) found out about this and really screwed Ford and then made them fix the product.
The only way to ensure quality and security in MS products is to hold them liable for the results of their "defective" product. When an e-commerce site gets hacked and all the credit card data stolen, MS should foot the repair bill and pay the fraudulent charges. (Assuming the MS product allowed the hack to take place.)
I was refering to Outlook functioning in MAPI mode, ya know...
Connect to the server on port 135.
The server (usually exchange server). Randomizes two ports and tells the client to transfer data on those two ports.
POP3 uses port 110 and IMAP uses port 143 (i think).
The reason(s) this would suck is:
1. That it ties you to an MS mail client.
2. Very hard to connect to if you are behind a firewall and the mail admin has not statically fixed those two random ports I wrote about earlier. Even if the mail admin did that, you have to figure out what ports to open on your firewall.
I wasn't arguing about the monopolistic aspects of this. I was merely suggesting that limiting choices for your customer is always a bad business decision.
Honestly I don't know if it's rfc 2195 compliant. It's this closed source thing that MS uses....
It would be interesting to see if another mail client would work though.
Further down this post I explained that. I think SPA uses an authentication mechanism similar to NT authentication. Basically it's a token exchange process to encrypt the name and password so the plain text name and password never go across the wire.
I setup outlook express for a friend of mine who uses MSN. It seems microsoft's way of authenticating users is some sort of "secure" authentication. It's a feature called "SPA" or secure password authentication. My guess is that they encrypt the account name and password in a similar way to NT login authentication so the actual name and password never go across the wire.
I had this history presented to me while I was in high school. My comp sci and AP comp sci classes threw this in there. We also discusses Blaise Pascal before we learned how to program...guess what language....Pascal!
It would probably be a good idea to discuss the origins of "C" and maybe the UNIX evolutionary tree in college level classes.
Who is your local telco? You may want to ask them about a point to point T1 circuit. Hook-up one end at the school and hook up the other end at your ISP.
Do you have voice service from your local telco? Typically you can get ISDN service anywhere you have voice service. Some hotels in my area bond 3 or 4 of these circuits together instead of a T1. This may or may not be cheaper depending on how your telco bills ISDN access charges.
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Windows only...atleast that's all i've figured out.
-ted
It sure looks like it did.
I used to work in a car stereo shop (before my life as a Network Admin). We used to order very large and heavy subwoofer enclosures from a speaker company in Florida. These boxes typically weighed over 75lbs. Our UPS driver used to back up to our installation bays, open his back door, and "roll" the boxes end over end out the back of his truck. The boxes then fell another 3 feet to the floor! The impact was so great that the magnets fell off the subwoofer baskets and, of course, cracked the enclosures!
The final straw was having the ups guy set up two large "cow-print" boxes on his truck as a table and chair to eat his lunch!
We stopped using UPS after that episode.
That's a nice way to drive people away from the internet. Imagine if TV stations charged by the minute. No one would watch TV and that would kill ad revenue.
The internet was not designed to be a profit producing, commercial medium, it was designed for information exchange. The sooner these MBA's figure that out, the sooner they can cut their losses.
-ted
I've installed one with 2 macs and three pc's. It's got a built in serial port to share and external modem and a parallel port to share a printer. You can find it here.
-ted
While developing the underlying archetecture of the internet, Al Gore invented packet switching. Of course this was accomplished later in his career. Everyone knows he invented the telephone as well. Watson was his assistant, not bell's.
-ted
AT&T perhaps?
Rambus has been around for quite some time. I believe they did some work in Nintendo's game consoles as well.
I've got roughly 3-4 mbps downstream and upstream from Cablevision in NJ. It goes down about once a month, but boy is it fast.
Oh, and it costs $29.99/mo in addition to my regular cable bill.
-ted
Isn't it clear? Microsoft knows they want a subscription buisiness model, but they don't know yet what customers will pay for. I've got news for Microsoft, consumers don't pay for anything very easily. Look at all the failed dot bombs: People like free stuff, when the model switches to a payment model, most customers drop it like a bad habit. I used to work in retail, trust me when I say most people are cheap. I admit, I am.
Do you think for a minute Napster will survive as a subscription service? No way!
How about software? Forget about it!
Now factor in a recessonary world economy, and guess what.....HailStorm, XP, and all the software subscription based models are doomed to fail.
Right on target brother! How is it that car companies can track down an owner and notify them of a recall, but MS can't even send you (a registered user) a CD in the mail?
Lazy, just plain lazy!
What if you were driving a car that had an airbag that sometimes, in some accidents, didn't go off. Oh, and by the way, sometimes your seatbelt unlatches in front-end collisions. (These are both problems that affected some very recent cars.) You'd want to know and hopefully that money-hungry car company that produced that product is shamed into fixing the problem....right?
Now in your world, Consumer Reports wouldn't be allowed to independently test the car, and the public would never know about the defects. Big-Car Co. wouldn't be shamed into fixing your car, and who knows, maybe you would get into a serious accident where you were injured or killed by the defective product.
Gee, that's nice.
C'mon? Unchecked buffers a feature of .NET??? That's not a feature, that's bad programming. I learned bounds checking on all my IO in CS I! Yeah, it's damn tedious, check input for validity, check output for validity, but that's the way secure and stable software is written.
Other software industries (military, medical, financial, and comercial navigation systems) use incredibly complex software yet, those systems are held to much higher stability and security standards!
MS software is the product of a greedy company with very inadequate development and testing procedures! In short, these "features" as you call them are nothing more than the product of lazy programmers pushed too hard by their bonus hungry bosses.
-ted
Ford knew about the rear axle bolts puncturing the gas tanks in these cars and could have fixed the problem for as little as $5.00 per car. Ford did the cost-benefit analysis and decided it was cheaper to litigate settlements than it was to fix the car. The courts (and juries) found out about this and really screwed Ford and then made them fix the product.
The only way to ensure quality and security in MS products is to hold them liable for the results of their "defective" product. When an e-commerce site gets hacked and all the credit card data stolen, MS should foot the repair bill and pay the fraudulent charges. (Assuming the MS product allowed the hack to take place.)
-ted
Good point, now consider the electrical crosstalk problem. It looks like fiber interconnects are the ONLY way to go (in the long run).
-ted
Scientist: Looky here, isn't this cool!
Lucent Exec: That's nice, but how will this help me sell more telephone systems?
Scientist: AAAAARGH! I feel like dilbert you PHB! I'm going to work for IBM research! At least their innovations eventually turn into products!
Lucent Exec: Good ridance! You can join those damn Unix guys. I'm going to play golf....
Umm, yes I do
I was refering to Outlook functioning in MAPI mode, ya know...
Connect to the server on port 135.
The server (usually exchange server). Randomizes two ports and tells the client to transfer data on those two ports.
POP3 uses port 110 and IMAP uses port 143 (i think).
The reason(s) this would suck is:
1. That it ties you to an MS mail client.
2. Very hard to connect to if you are behind a firewall and the mail admin has not statically fixed those two random ports I wrote about earlier. Even if the mail admin did that, you have to figure out what ports to open on your firewall.
I wasn't arguing about the monopolistic aspects of this. I was merely suggesting that limiting choices for your customer is always a bad business decision.
-ted
Honestly I don't know if it's rfc 2195 compliant. It's this closed source thing that MS uses....
It would be interesting to see if another mail client would work though.
-ted
Further down this post I explained that. I think SPA uses an authentication mechanism similar to NT authentication. Basically it's a token exchange process to encrypt the name and password so the plain text name and password never go across the wire.
-ted
I setup outlook express for a friend of mine who uses MSN. It seems microsoft's way of authenticating users is some sort of "secure" authentication. It's a feature called "SPA" or secure password authentication. My guess is that they encrypt the account name and password in a similar way to NT login authentication so the actual name and password never go across the wire.
-ted
They could force everyone to use a MAPI client.
I had this history presented to me while I was in high school. My comp sci and AP comp sci classes threw this in there. We also discusses Blaise Pascal before we learned how to program...guess what language....Pascal!
It would probably be a good idea to discuss the origins of "C" and maybe the UNIX evolutionary tree in college level classes.
-ted
Just ask any Rambus shareholder if suing everyone on the planet is the way to increase shareholder value.
Who is your local telco? You may want to ask them about a point to point T1 circuit. Hook-up one end at the school and hook up the other end at your ISP.
Do you have voice service from your local telco? Typically you can get ISDN service anywhere you have voice service. Some hotels in my area bond 3 or 4 of these circuits together instead of a T1. This may or may not be cheaper depending on how your telco bills ISDN access charges.
-ted
I purchased a RIO receiver from Best Buy for $149 and let me tell you....it's not all it's cracked up to be.
First, the software doesn't run as a service on windows, you must manually run the software (stupid if you have a server in your house).
Second, the RIO receiver emits a high frequency noise from its case, not through the audio. Don't know what causes this.
Third, the screen is too damn small. A TV output display would have been a better option.
The Turtle Beach product is probably worth $300 if it doesn't have these problems.
-ted