"This is just another example of why I am glad to live here in the United States of America."
Have you ever been outside your own country? I can hardly express how happy I am to not live in the U.S. Not sure I would enjoy China either, but your sentence above is like preferring HIV over cancer or something.
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Some input from a guy working for a company selling hardware to wannabe ISPs and Telephony Service Providers. You might say I have a vested interest in saying what I say, as we sell the stuff that works. I'll just avoid dropping any names and brands and cut to the facts.
1. Yes, telephony belongs in a licensed band. you cannot build a business on providing VoIP in the 2.4G band, unless you intentionally break all kinds of regulations. If you do stick to regulations, any nutter can put you and your customers out of business any time of day, and you can't do squat about it. And even if you can do squat about it, will the nutters care about what you do? Having equipment in the licensed band limits the number of potential nutters, and eases the job of finding "spectrum violators" tremendously.
2. Providing voice services is a totally different ballgame from providing Internet services. The Bloody Link Needs To Stay Up All The Time!!! And the link quality can be utter crap and still carry data traffic in a decent way. Not so for Voice. Nope. Dropped packets are no good and a retransmission rate above just a few percent Will Impact Voice Quality Badly.
3. Carrying both data and voice on the same equipment is a natural thing, right? Sure. Just be sure you can do ToS end-to-end and 802.1p in every single piece of equipment along the route. And if the radios can't prioritize traffic, find something else. Sorry. Major Requirement.
4. Testing. When testing, do not start jumping up and down the first time you hear your buddy's voice over the Internet. Does it work when you start talking real fast? With multiple voice sessions over the link? Does it work over multiple radio hops? Can two of your customers talk to each other trough the same base station? Trough different base stations? When simultaneously downloading huge volumes of data?
Providing Internet Services is a walk in the park compared to VoIP of any decent quality.
> Everyone is going to have their individual > slant on how things are, but when you mangle > a translation in that way, it shows intent. > I find that disturbing.
When Rumsfeld says "coalition forces" I *hear* "occupation forces". No matter the thickness of your patriotic lenses, the US and UK armed forces that has invaded Iraq intends to occupy Iraq for some time.
"Occupation forces" is in line with reality. "Coalition forces" intends to hide the fact that this campaign is the work of the US authorities.
Face it: there is no "coalition". There is a shitload of US troops and token participation from UK and a few other countries.
The US media's attitude towards official propaganda is what is disturbing.
Anyone seen a nice MP3player with CF, USB connection and FM radio?
I have found exactly one MP3 player with a FMradio. (RCA something.) As I understand it, this unit use "the American way" of FM radio, using.2 MHz fixed intervals on the tuning dial. Which is pretty stupid on this side of the pond.
Why doesn't more MP3players come with a small FMchip? It is dirt cheap and great added value, doesn't suck your batteries dry either. Add RDS for the additional "wow"-factor.
And BTW. Any rumours for players with a USB 2.0 interface?
Imagine where mankind will be within 10-20-30-40 years. Then figure out the tech required to get us there, and how it will create new "needs".
Some examples of where I think we're going: We'll go to Mars. Papermoney is going the way of the dodo. Personal videophones. Broadband access everywhere. Asia will be the economic and cultural centre. Pollution will be a severe problem. Gene tech.
New technologies/problems - Power generation. (personal. distributed.) - New solutions to "the last mile" problem. - Nanotech (nanotech appears to be a reality already) - High bandwidth radiocommunications. - Crypto - Data mining - Language barriers
Make your own predictions. Or see: http://www.bt.com/sphere/insights/pearson/in dex.ht m
You are right. SGI's MIPS Big Iron will most probably never run Linux. Telling the world that SGI is dropping Irix is doing both SGI and Linux a big disservice.
ESR (and huge parts of the media) reads the SGI pressreleases and quotes pieces totally out of context, giving the impression that SGI is leaving Irix (and pretty much everything else) behind. This is not good for SGI.
Note that SGI contributes real code to Linux these days. You don't want SGI to go away.
Disclaimer: I work for SGI. I don't speak on behalf of SGI.
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"This is just another example of why I am glad to live here in the United States of America."
Have you ever been outside your own country? I can hardly express how happy I am to not live in the U.S. Not sure I would enjoy China either, but your sentence above is like preferring HIV over cancer or something.
bttv/v4l patch
bluez kernel patch (bluetooth)
matrox frame buffer patch
alsa 1.0.1 kernel patch
hostap (accesspoint sw for prism hardware)
qc-usb (quickcam express driver)
Some input from a guy working for a company selling hardware to wannabe ISPs and Telephony Service Providers. You might say I have a vested interest in saying what I say, as we sell the stuff that works. I'll just avoid dropping any names and brands and cut to the facts.
1.
Yes, telephony belongs in a licensed band. you cannot build a business on providing VoIP in the 2.4G band, unless you intentionally break all kinds of regulations. If you do stick to regulations, any nutter can put you and your customers out of business any time of day, and you can't do squat about it. And even if you can do squat about it, will the nutters care about what you do? Having equipment in the licensed band limits the number of potential nutters, and eases the job of finding "spectrum violators" tremendously.
2.
Providing voice services is a totally different ballgame from providing Internet services.
The Bloody Link Needs To Stay Up All The Time!!!
And the link quality can be utter crap and still carry data traffic in a decent way.
Not so for Voice. Nope. Dropped packets are no good and a retransmission rate above just a few percent Will Impact Voice Quality Badly.
3.
Carrying both data and voice on the same equipment is a natural thing, right? Sure.
Just be sure you can do ToS end-to-end and 802.1p in every single piece of equipment along the route. And if the radios can't prioritize traffic, find something else. Sorry. Major Requirement.
4.
Testing.
When testing, do not start jumping up and down the first time you hear your buddy's voice over the Internet. Does it work when you start talking real fast? With multiple voice sessions over the link?
Does it work over multiple radio hops? Can two of your customers talk to each other trough the same base station? Trough different base stations? When simultaneously downloading huge volumes of data?
Providing Internet Services is a walk in the park compared to VoIP of any decent quality.
Dag
Ok. I'll bow. It's a coalition.
It is still an occupation.
> Everyone is going to have their individual
> slant on how things are, but when you mangle
> a translation in that way, it shows intent.
> I find that disturbing.
When Rumsfeld says "coalition forces" I *hear* "occupation forces". No matter the thickness of your patriotic lenses, the US and UK armed forces that has invaded Iraq intends to occupy Iraq for some time.
"Occupation forces" is in line with reality.
"Coalition forces" intends to hide the fact that this campaign is the work of the US authorities.
Face it: there is no "coalition". There is a shitload of US troops and token participation from UK and a few other countries.
The US media's attitude towards official propaganda is what is disturbing.
Bah....
Anyone seen a nice MP3player with CF, USB connection and FM radio?
.2 MHz fixed intervals on the tuning dial. Which is pretty stupid on this side of the pond.
I have found exactly one MP3 player with a FMradio.
(RCA something.) As I understand it, this unit use "the American way" of FM radio, using
Why doesn't more MP3players come with a small FMchip? It is dirt cheap and great added value, doesn't suck your batteries dry either. Add RDS for the additional "wow"-factor.
And BTW.
Any rumours for players with a USB 2.0 interface?
Imagine where mankind will be within 10-20-30-40 years.
n dex.ht m
Then figure out the tech required to get us there, and how it will create new "needs".
Some examples of where I think we're going:
We'll go to Mars.
Papermoney is going the way of the dodo.
Personal videophones.
Broadband access everywhere.
Asia will be the economic and cultural centre.
Pollution will be a severe problem.
Gene tech.
New technologies/problems
- Power generation. (personal. distributed.)
- New solutions to "the last mile" problem.
- Nanotech (nanotech appears to be a reality already)
- High bandwidth radiocommunications.
- Crypto
- Data mining
- Language barriers
Make your own predictions.
Or see:
http://www.bt.com/sphere/insights/pearson/i
...for not living in the U.S.
Simple(?) Linux software for the ProbeScope
http://www.linuxtoys.com/pscope/pscope.html
This is what I did:
- wireless mouse/keyboard.
- Cambridge Soundworks Digital speakers
- vga extender
http://www.aten.com.tw/aten%20ve-120.htm
I needed to pull the rca cable for the PCM signal to my speakers and a Cat5 stp cable for the vga extender. Those cables can be hidden.
"When your PC is screaming in the cabinet and nobody listens, does it still make a sound?"
Dag B
Just wanted to make that clear.
CmdrTaco: was that headline your idea?
You are certainly becoming a journalist by all measures....
You are right. SGI's MIPS Big Iron will most probably never run Linux. Telling the world that SGI is dropping Irix is doing both SGI and Linux a big disservice.
ESR (and huge parts of the media) reads the SGI pressreleases and quotes pieces totally out of context, giving the impression that SGI is leaving Irix (and pretty much everything else) behind. This is not good for SGI.
Note that SGI contributes real code to Linux these days. You don't want SGI to go away.
Disclaimer:
I work for SGI. I don't speak on behalf of SGI.