here's how the DMA protects you today. A link in the local newspaper jumps me to the DMA website, www.the-dma.org, with the big white box on the left to opt out of unwanted solicitations. the resultant page has internal links to click to opt out of (a) direct mail, (b) telemarketing, (c) spam. all three links go to a 404 page that says "We're sorry, this feature is currently unavailiable."
yessir, the DMA is shit hot for our privacy.
why not jump over to the FTC, http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/in dex.htm, instead and file a comment on the Proposed Rule to put the government into whack-a-mole mode on telemarketers. that's the best game in town today.
if the FTC link is munged up, and I see a space in preview inside the word INDEX, just hit www.ftc.gov and click likely-looking boxes twice to get there.
this has run up to 5 kfeet, if you read the article end to end... which will affect the answers for the CCNA one of these days real soon now... but doesn't help anybody in their home get broadband speeds from any telco, CLEC, cable, what have you. unless you live in the shadow of the CO, this doesn't replace DSL or cable at all. DSL under DMT can go up to 17 kfeet dependent on the usual phase of the moon issues...
alas, you have to put the network points of presence where the customers are. if you could run that DS3 or OC48C into NYC from Maxbass, ND, it would have been done by now. unless the telco execs preferred golf, then maybe all the networks would be clustered around atlanta or pebble beach.
now, if friend customers had been optical, there is 20 or so miles that their muxes could have been located further away, but political boundaries in organizing the telcos make that another horrid choice.
I posted the following pipedream on mn online-service on February 16th... bowdlerized below... because I think broadband is not a destination, it is a road sign. we are headed for IP end-to-end on all public communications. my thought, and I like my current DSL just fine, is that we really need to line up the trenchers and push fiber to all neighborhoods, terminating 1 or 10-gig ethernet from several COs into each neighborhood at a specialized router with ADSL outputs. these then use existing feedline copper to customers, where what should be a $250-350 home router with 40-min or so battery backup splits the stream down into the services... anything/anytime TV, DSL data, VOIP phone, etc. all configs of the headers to the CO would be remotely done, no more truck rolls. no more fights among ILEC/CLEC/DLEC companies, you just bring in a feedline to Dropbit Destinations from Qwest or Verizon or Mudhole County Telco or wherever, and you have connectivity to sell any service to anybody. Cringe didn't have on his desk when he wrote his article... a news release that Qwest put out for Friday's fishwraps that they have just finished the first use of new Nortel gear to take all internal-office traffic on the voice network to IP streams. see at http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,33%257E17 8774%257E%257E%257Efilter,00.html
in the early 90s, there were outfits that toggled up RAMdrives in the 20-meg and slightly higher neighborhood for about anything they could think of... DEC VAX-11/780 series, PC-ATs, on and on. cost umpty-thousand dollars, of course. now the hard disks that frame relay switches boot on are half-gig flash PC-card "disks", formatted FAT I assume, since you can manipulate them with W95. flash is not infinitely rewriteable, albeit supposedly well up from 10,000 cycles nowadays, so a cheapo RAID implementation with a standard HDA for powerfail and SDRAM sticks for power-on use would be the bargain-basement route now for REAL data storage service. that also is basically used in telco stuff all around the place, and has been for at least 3 years I know of. the only real magic point for PCs or servers is deciding when to take the backup "snapshots" due to the intensity of data changes and large delta-speed between the media.
doesn't matter WHAT fuel you use, if it is capable of producing more energy than lighting it took, it can become an explosive. that sounds like a primary requirement to powering a plane/dirigible/rocket/human cannon to me. if you are going to move tens of thousands of tons of metal, fuel, knickknacks, and paying passengers overhead and hope to do so reliably, there is always going to be a risk that somebody can use the contrivance as a weapon. TWA-800 showed that jet fuel makes a dandy FAE bomb, and that fuel is little different than the number-2 fuel oil that TV ads in North Dakota used to say is so safe to have in your home, you can put matches out in a beaker of nice, clear fuel. I seem to remember the account exec telling me it took 3 takes to get that ad on film. it's all in how you present the fuel, the air, and the spark to each other... and any fuel can be vaporized and ignited explosively.
don't forget about the old monitors used with those machines... you had to clean the kerosene soot off the back of The Big Eye every weekend, or you couldn't see if the machine booted cleanly or into hexcode Hell.
Edwards got $100 initially, and the WAVs sounded like they were recorded on an old Magnecord PT6 reel recorder. the original WAVs had some component of a whistle up to speed leading them all, indicating they started the tape and pointed a cue, instead of rolling tape continuously, cueing the announcements, and putting nonmagnetic leader tape in between for cleaner digitization.
so when AOL 3.0 came out, they rehired Edwards to reprise the tags, and he got considerably more... I have heard something in the $25,000 range. they also got the whistles out.
yeah, sure, right, of course they will port to the "evil virus" that "destroys property rights" and stifles innovation. they'll port to Commodore Pet before they port to ~ix. folks, there are going to be two standards.. billg's way and the rest of the world, just like the old mainframe days. what's that, you say billg wants to take all the software off the clients and hold it and the data centrally with exclusive and proprietary features? Damn, fire up the 1610 and punch some cards, we're back in 1968 again with billg and the job deck revue!
it purely sucks. dot-not purely sucks.
best way to really learn English is to take a foreign language. we Germans-of-ancestry know COSTED is not legitimate. the tenses are
(*) cost
(*) becosted
(*) done has been becosted sie sich.
"heat and humidity" issues... heat is a problem, humidity isn't for equipment designed for the field. they just spray the boards with silicone epoxy (PairGain tm boards look like they've been dipped repeatedly, those I've seen) and all you have to worry about is creep across the fingers of the card edge connector. if you have 180-260 volts DC on the leads to self-power the boards in a single-service field enclosure, that takes care of itself (zap and all clear.)
the size of the container you mentioned (1/3 shipping container with a/c) could be a fiber hut or could be a cell phone station. but putting a full DSLAM in the field (stinger, 6100 series) will require environmental control. cisco 6100 NIU cards get hot enough to melt their coax in a CO, let alone a NEMA housing in a sea of blacktop. I have seen ads for several of the 3rd generation DSL chassis that are only 3 to 5 rack slots high, and Adtran's example allows you to put DSL, HDSL, standard T1, and some DLC phone channels in the same box, and run them back to the CO interface chassis via ATM or frame relay, T1s or T3s. These are interesting to consider because you don't need a gas-powered generator and batteries, a/c, and maybe $100,000 and up per install. you could drop them in Wall City Acres unobtrusively (if the gate guard lets in contractor trucks with lettering, not just plain-paint ones with appointments only) and just rake in the cash, cash, CASH every month servicing the needs of the noveau riche and their 3-internet-line kids' wing;)
lots of interesting things that can happen in the next two years to push DSL, and Qwest is hot on the trail, along with SBC, Bell South, and some enlightened others.
and yes, the "school lockers" are digital cable electronics chests for last-layer distribution... the corner-posted ones that are usually on the ground and 2 or 3 cabinets that size are layer-1 distribution breaking down the fiber backbone into regional coaxes or fibers.
this stuff is getting interesting, but it still took 5 years to get to me, and I have been kicking doors since I failed to get into the original DSL deployment trials.
plenty of 80% answers on this posted. Short and pithy...
DSL only runs on copper as a high-frequency sub-band in parallel with the voice-band signals. It's an encoding method. To get DSL, you need copper to the user.
Now, all DSL Access equipment (DSLAMs) run higher speed back to the central office for a combined series of customer virtual circuit paths, and use the lower DSL speeds over copper to the customer. The customer side is muxed on the copper via highpass/lowpass filter units called splitters, the lowpass side going to the traditional voice band.
The way to settle the hash for customers who are noplace in ordering DSL because of being too far from the DSLAM or having non-copper facilities between the CO DSLAM and their house is to move the DSLAMs out to the customers.
This is just starting commercially, with SBC in the lead, and Qwest fka USWest getting heavily into it this summer. Newer generations of DSLAM and some add-on cards for certain types of pairgain = DLC = SLC = high-density mux/demux systems for voice band channels make it possible to push DSLAMs into a second equipment cabinet next to the DLC cabinet (these are the size of a couple refrigerators usually, but some drop units can be the size of TV sets.)
Ameritech has limited deployment of this method, and unknown how fast Verizon is joining this new parade by the Bells to be better neighbors to the data set. Nobody has enough of it out there to boast yet, but SBC and Qwest are making the biggest noise in terms of deployment to percentages of the potential customers.
until/unless this occurs in your neighborhood, you are limited to the one pair in a 25-pair binder of copper that can carry DSL without cross-interference with other services (including standard 2-pair T1.) if the wire is 26-gauge, loaded with 88 mH peaking coils for longer and stronger voice coverage, old and rotten with leaks and noise and broken insulation and half the pairs unuseable, the Laws of Physics say you are Stuck Outta Luck.
I provide data and support DSL-backhaul high speed links for a Bell, and I couldn't get DSL for 5-1/2 years myself, until a cable replacement on a chunk of roadwork finally put me into compliance at 15.2 kilofeet from the CO. I still had to get a manager override on the sales order. works great at the edge for me on my 1970s pairs, but as always, YMMV.
stay informed, keep trying, question authority, wave your money... eventually the gods may smile.
certainly hope this provides a measure of legitimacy for reviled and legally-troubled products and services that millions use daily.
oh, and Napster probably wouldn't suffer much by providing that to Microsoft.
SERIOUSLY... Napster has users, MS has lockdown
code to take over the MP3 market and provide a
payment scheme, as well as real green cash money, there can be no other reason for the discussions. can there? really?
the scary part of all this is that the case arose because the personal computer does not meet the limited legal definition used in the Sony Betamax case which defined a consumer recording device.
so this is all being decided under the laws of two or more generations of equipment ago. and that is the scary part, because in essence we are being told we do not have freedom of press, speech, and association because we are not using a quill, yelling from the top of a hill overlooking the plain, and we are not wearing a common uniform and massed on horses under the same guidon.
with little georgie w. bushleague IV and his buds in charge of deciding whether or not to update the laws, turn out the lights, this awful little court case casts a long, dark shadow.
RAMBUS most likely does not have ANY valid patents. As I remember the gist of lawsuits against them by Siemens and others, RAMBUS was one of 12 partners in a tech pool which took their notes and unilaterally filed patents. I have every hope that they will be found to be among the world's worst weasels and the poster boy for the dotcom stock.
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here's how the DMA protects you today. A link in the local newspaper jumps me to the DMA website, www.the-dma.org, with the big white box on the left to opt out of unwanted solicitations. the resultant page has internal links to click to opt out of (a) direct mail, (b) telemarketing, (c) spam. all three links go to a 404 page that says "We're sorry, this feature is currently unavailiable."
n dex.htm, instead and file a comment on the Proposed Rule to put the government into whack-a-mole mode on telemarketers. that's the best game in town today.
yessir, the DMA is shit hot for our privacy.
why not jump over to the FTC, http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/donotcall/i
if the FTC link is munged up, and I see a space in preview inside the word INDEX, just hit www.ftc.gov and click likely-looking boxes twice to get there.
this has run up to 5 kfeet, if you read the article end to end... which will affect the answers for the CCNA one of these days real soon now... but doesn't help anybody in their home get broadband speeds from any telco, CLEC, cable, what have you. unless you live in the shadow of the CO, this doesn't replace DSL or cable at all. DSL under DMT can go up to 17 kfeet dependent on the usual phase of the moon issues...
alas, you have to put the network points of presence where the customers are. if you could run that DS3 or OC48C into NYC from Maxbass, ND, it would have been done by now. unless the telco execs preferred golf, then maybe all the networks would be clustered around atlanta or pebble beach.
now, if friend customers had been optical, there is 20 or so miles that their muxes could have been located further away, but political boundaries in organizing the telcos make that another horrid choice.
I posted the following pipedream on mn online-service on February 16th... bowdlerized below... because I think broadband is not a destination, it is a road sign. we are headed for IP end-to-end on all public communications. my thought, and I like my current DSL just fine, is that we really need to line up the trenchers and push fiber to all neighborhoods, terminating 1 or 10-gig ethernet from several COs into each neighborhood at a specialized router with ADSL outputs. these then use existing feedline copper to customers, where what should be a $250-350 home router with 40-min or so battery backup splits the stream down into the services... anything/anytime TV, DSL data, VOIP phone, etc. all configs of the headers to the CO would be remotely done, no more truck rolls. no more fights among ILEC/CLEC/DLEC companies, you just bring in a feedline to Dropbit Destinations from Qwest or Verizon or Mudhole County Telco or wherever, and you have connectivity to sell any service to anybody. Cringe didn't have on his desk when he wrote his article... a news release that Qwest put out for Friday's fishwraps that they have just finished the first use of new Nortel gear to take all internal-office traffic on the voice network to IP streams. see at http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1002,33%257E17 8774%257E%257E%257Efilter,00.html
in the early 90s, there were outfits that toggled up RAMdrives in the 20-meg and slightly higher neighborhood for about anything they could think of... DEC VAX-11/780 series, PC-ATs, on and on. cost umpty-thousand dollars, of course. now the hard disks that frame relay switches boot on are half-gig flash PC-card "disks", formatted FAT I assume, since you can manipulate them with W95. flash is not infinitely rewriteable, albeit supposedly well up from 10,000 cycles nowadays, so a cheapo RAID implementation with a standard HDA for powerfail and SDRAM sticks for power-on use would be the bargain-basement route now for REAL data storage service. that also is basically used in telco stuff all around the place, and has been for at least 3 years I know of. the only real magic point for PCs or servers is deciding when to take the backup "snapshots" due to the intensity of data changes and large delta-speed between the media.
doesn't matter WHAT fuel you use, if it is capable of producing more energy than lighting it took, it can become an explosive. that sounds like a primary requirement to powering a plane/dirigible/rocket/human cannon to me. if you are going to move tens of thousands of tons of metal, fuel, knickknacks, and paying passengers overhead and hope to do so reliably, there is always going to be a risk that somebody can use the contrivance as a weapon. TWA-800 showed that jet fuel makes a dandy FAE bomb, and that fuel is little different than the number-2 fuel oil that TV ads in North Dakota used to say is so safe to have in your home, you can put matches out in a beaker of nice, clear fuel. I seem to remember the account exec telling me it took 3 takes to get that ad on film. it's all in how you present the fuel, the air, and the spark to each other... and any fuel can be vaporized and ignited explosively.
don't forget about the old monitors used with those machines... you had to clean the kerosene soot off the back of The Big Eye every weekend, or you couldn't see if the machine booted cleanly or into hexcode Hell.
Edwards got $100 initially, and the WAVs sounded like they were recorded on an old Magnecord PT6 reel recorder. the original WAVs had some component of a whistle up to speed leading them all, indicating they started the tape and pointed a cue, instead of rolling tape continuously, cueing the announcements, and putting nonmagnetic leader tape in between for cleaner digitization. so when AOL 3.0 came out, they rehired Edwards to reprise the tags, and he got considerably more... I have heard something in the $25,000 range. they also got the whistles out.
yeah, sure, right, of course they will port to the "evil virus" that "destroys property rights" and stifles innovation. they'll port to Commodore Pet before they port to ~ix. folks, there are going to be two standards.. billg's way and the rest of the world, just like the old mainframe days. what's that, you say billg wants to take all the software off the clients and hold it and the data centrally with exclusive and proprietary features? Damn, fire up the 1610 and punch some cards, we're back in 1968 again with billg and the job deck revue! it purely sucks. dot-not purely sucks.
best way to really learn English is to take a foreign language. we Germans-of-ancestry know COSTED is not legitimate. the tenses are (*) cost (*) becosted (*) done has been becosted sie sich.
lol, now that's gotta be a hit song for somebody! "ah knew ah was through with yer pals and with you when country/western don't want me no more"
"heat and humidity" issues... heat is a problem, humidity isn't for equipment designed for the field. they just spray the boards with silicone epoxy (PairGain tm boards look like they've been dipped repeatedly, those I've seen) and all you have to worry about is creep across the fingers of the card edge connector. if you have 180-260 volts DC on the leads to self-power the boards in a single-service field enclosure, that takes care of itself (zap and all clear.) the size of the container you mentioned (1/3 shipping container with a/c) could be a fiber hut or could be a cell phone station. but putting a full DSLAM in the field (stinger, 6100 series) will require environmental control. cisco 6100 NIU cards get hot enough to melt their coax in a CO, let alone a NEMA housing in a sea of blacktop. I have seen ads for several of the 3rd generation DSL chassis that are only 3 to 5 rack slots high, and Adtran's example allows you to put DSL, HDSL, standard T1, and some DLC phone channels in the same box, and run them back to the CO interface chassis via ATM or frame relay, T1s or T3s. These are interesting to consider because you don't need a gas-powered generator and batteries, a/c, and maybe $100,000 and up per install. you could drop them in Wall City Acres unobtrusively (if the gate guard lets in contractor trucks with lettering, not just plain-paint ones with appointments only) and just rake in the cash, cash, CASH every month servicing the needs of the noveau riche and their 3-internet-line kids' wing ;)
lots of interesting things that can happen in the next two years to push DSL, and Qwest is hot on the trail, along with SBC, Bell South, and some enlightened others.
and yes, the "school lockers" are digital cable electronics chests for last-layer distribution... the corner-posted ones that are usually on the ground and 2 or 3 cabinets that size are layer-1 distribution breaking down the fiber backbone into regional coaxes or fibers.
this stuff is getting interesting, but it still took 5 years to get to me, and I have been kicking doors since I failed to get into the original DSL deployment trials.
plenty of 80% answers on this posted. Short and pithy... DSL only runs on copper as a high-frequency sub-band in parallel with the voice-band signals. It's an encoding method. To get DSL, you need copper to the user. Now, all DSL Access equipment (DSLAMs) run higher speed back to the central office for a combined series of customer virtual circuit paths, and use the lower DSL speeds over copper to the customer. The customer side is muxed on the copper via highpass/lowpass filter units called splitters, the lowpass side going to the traditional voice band. The way to settle the hash for customers who are noplace in ordering DSL because of being too far from the DSLAM or having non-copper facilities between the CO DSLAM and their house is to move the DSLAMs out to the customers. This is just starting commercially, with SBC in the lead, and Qwest fka USWest getting heavily into it this summer. Newer generations of DSLAM and some add-on cards for certain types of pairgain = DLC = SLC = high-density mux/demux systems for voice band channels make it possible to push DSLAMs into a second equipment cabinet next to the DLC cabinet (these are the size of a couple refrigerators usually, but some drop units can be the size of TV sets.) Ameritech has limited deployment of this method, and unknown how fast Verizon is joining this new parade by the Bells to be better neighbors to the data set. Nobody has enough of it out there to boast yet, but SBC and Qwest are making the biggest noise in terms of deployment to percentages of the potential customers. until/unless this occurs in your neighborhood, you are limited to the one pair in a 25-pair binder of copper that can carry DSL without cross-interference with other services (including standard 2-pair T1.) if the wire is 26-gauge, loaded with 88 mH peaking coils for longer and stronger voice coverage, old and rotten with leaks and noise and broken insulation and half the pairs unuseable, the Laws of Physics say you are Stuck Outta Luck. I provide data and support DSL-backhaul high speed links for a Bell, and I couldn't get DSL for 5-1/2 years myself, until a cable replacement on a chunk of roadwork finally put me into compliance at 15.2 kilofeet from the CO. I still had to get a manager override on the sales order. works great at the edge for me on my 1970s pairs, but as always, YMMV. stay informed, keep trying, question authority, wave your money... eventually the gods may smile.
certainly hope this provides a measure of legitimacy for reviled and legally-troubled products and services that millions use daily. oh, and Napster probably wouldn't suffer much by providing that to Microsoft. SERIOUSLY... Napster has users, MS has lockdown code to take over the MP3 market and provide a payment scheme, as well as real green cash money, there can be no other reason for the discussions. can there? really?
only if the computers are previously bound to another server....
the scary part of all this is that the case arose because the personal computer does not meet the limited legal definition used in the Sony Betamax case which defined a consumer recording device. so this is all being decided under the laws of two or more generations of equipment ago. and that is the scary part, because in essence we are being told we do not have freedom of press, speech, and association because we are not using a quill, yelling from the top of a hill overlooking the plain, and we are not wearing a common uniform and massed on horses under the same guidon. with little georgie w. bushleague IV and his buds in charge of deciding whether or not to update the laws, turn out the lights, this awful little court case casts a long, dark shadow.
RAMBUS most likely does not have ANY valid patents. As I remember the gist of lawsuits against them by Siemens and others, RAMBUS was one of 12 partners in a tech pool which took their notes and unilaterally filed patents. I have every hope that they will be found to be among the world's worst weasels and the poster boy for the dotcom stock.