SVG with XUL with be one of the best improvements. Dynamic Graph Stats on XUL apps and plugins. Using XUL for an internal CRM system this will be a killer and eliminate the need for excel.
(Yes, I know excel is powerful, but when used simply and all of a sudden FF can handle it internally, no need to export to excel anymore unless they need more specific stuff, which is rarer).
Ok, great, Linux, I know. But how about easing the transition? Just OpenOffice, then maybe Windows as well. I know you can't go Windows -> Linux without bundling them, but maybe a slower transition will increase the acceptance ratio?
Of course, hearing that it worked well is awesome, keep it up! =) I love OO.Org, and 2.0beta kick ass(even w/ Java, which I know I'll never be able to get it to work on FreeBSD without spending hundreds of hours of trying to get Java to work).
Actually, when I worked at a local coffeeshop that offered free wi-fi(I even hooked it up) we had several people who came in there daily, who never bought anything, stayed for 3 to 6 hours, and used the restroom without consideration, just for the internet. I finally asked them why not use it at home. Come to find out, they didn't have internet at home. You'd be surprised how many people can live without internet at home, but once they get a work laptop or something, come out to the coffeeshop, and they start getting their internet addiction on.
Geeks are assumed to have internet at home, others it is more or less flaky.
One of the benefits on knowing about the Free *nix's is that you can use it yourself for your benefit. Whether you own a company, want to start one, or want to implement something internally in your company. You make yourself look good by doing it right, undercost, and on time. Yes, it's not always possible, but you sneak it in where you can.;)
This one is basic, but it's always good to know how to mess up a program. Great if you can make it, but if you know how to mess it up really badly, it's easier to patch and fix. Of course, most C libs out there in the OSS world have better functions for the most commonly buffer-overflowed functions, but I know there are other ways.
Dept of Homeland Security will also be called "Dept of Defense of Happiness" and the "Patriot Act a.k.a. Remove All Freedom" will be known as "Cuddly Bears for Toddlers Act"
Most people now actually contend it was the enviroment that caused humans to get bigger, which accounted for the increase in brain size, not the fact that the food was denser in calories. (Men, on average being bigger than women, have bigger brains than women, on average.) The competing theory to what you said above was also that much of the denser foods were fruits such as avocado and others with a higher amount of fat as well as meat(and quite often depending on the season).
Dog, cat. Yes, not here, but in other parts of the world, they do. Many fish eat other fish. Grilled shark is a good reason to not be vegetarian for a few days for me. =)
Raw Foodies are strictly vegetarian without cooking. It's possible, but hard(and expensive!) but it can be done. Only meat has to be cooked, as well as some vegetables that we can't digest. Most vegetables do not need to be, and we, uh, "regulate" the gas biproduct our own way without a second stomach. =)
Hmm, funny, I don't take any B12 or D, or any supplements for that matter. Don't need any, everything is met with my vegetarian diet.
Ah, you must mean the vegetarians who eat fast food, same reason many meat-eaters are taking B12 and D as well as other nutrients(calcium, etc..) after seeing their Doctors.
We can somewhat tolerate meat, that's why most(not all!) of it is cooked. Try eating raw beef for a week, bloody and all. If you live go to the emergency room. =)
I remember back in the day a 486 with enough ram could fill a T1 pipe with apache, while the windows guy would still be trying to coax the installer to run(being well below the minimum requirements). Now it's never that simply, static HTML is a dinosaur that doesn't exist, and how many pages do you visit regularly that are static html? There are some out there, but which are regular(daily/weekly) visits? Yeah, there are the few exceptions, but 99% of what you see needs a CPU and Ram. Windows could have a chance here, but I'll stick with my PHP/Apache/MySQL with eAccelerator.
It's a different world and benchmarks like this just don't give a good picture, not yet anyways.
But the small time provider doesn't have access to that database to provide the E911 services, all they will be able to see is the phone number, no address or name or anything. That's been the biggest complaint, but I say hey, they asked your address 10 years ago, why not now?
When they have a DID (Incoming #) They still get charged some regulatory fees, all they are doing is passing some along to regular users. Even with a T1 or colo at the CO you have to pay a bit of fees for incoming DIDs, they're just doing what the bells do and are passing it to you. But there are some fees they are excluded from.
The provider we went with first gave us two T1's, on physical the other over the air to their downtown office(Antenna on the roof). Physical was for VoIP, with QoS, and auto fallback to the Antenna on the roof. Roof antenna was for data. Works great, like a charm, and still much cheaper.
And don't forget, for $10/channel/year your VoIP data goes from 64k streams to 8k streams. A lot of people don't like it because it's proprietary, but show me a business than can't afford that, and I'll show you a business that can't afford having telephones at all.
Once you've knocked it down with G.729, you can fit 8 more calls where it took one before(assuming going from ulaw to g729). That's pretty good. Yes, it takes more traffic, and you'll want a separate net connection for it, but even if you don't get one, you'll still be able to fit a lot of channels at once before hitting max. And hell, if you're that big of a call center, you should be able to afford another T1 or SDSL connection no problem, and you're back to square one, except saving a ton of money.
Ditto. I need a real telephone. I'm using a 5.8Ghz AT&T Exampandable up to 8 system. But, I am using VoIP. Haven't had a POTS line in years. With the D-Link DVG-1402s (unlocked from http://sipphone.com/adapters/ ) I get great quality. I work with asterisk a lot, so I've got my own custom set up, $11/mo incoming line w/ free incoming minutes, and 1.3c/min outgoing, but I rarely make any outgoing calls, so my bill is $22(2 lines, one in Houston, one in Dallas, although they both ring the same hard phone, and it's expansion, as well as my laptop softphone, and my cell phone after a certain number of rings).
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SVG with XUL with be one of the best improvements. Dynamic Graph Stats on XUL apps and plugins. Using XUL for an internal CRM system this will be a killer and eliminate the need for excel.
(Yes, I know excel is powerful, but when used simply and all of a sudden FF can handle it internally, no need to export to excel anymore unless they need more specific stuff, which is rarer).
Ditto. Now we just need XUL2 and we'll be good to go. =) And Xulrunner.
Ok, great, Linux, I know. But how about easing the transition? Just OpenOffice, then maybe Windows as well. I know you can't go Windows -> Linux without bundling them, but maybe a slower transition will increase the acceptance ratio?
Of course, hearing that it worked well is awesome, keep it up! =) I love OO.Org, and 2.0beta kick ass(even w/ Java, which I know I'll never be able to get it to work on FreeBSD without spending hundreds of hours of trying to get Java to work).
1) Block out all IM traffic, E-Mail, SSH Sessions, Tunnels, and porn sites(YES! I'm serious! I worked at a coffee shop for a few years not long ago).
2) Use that program they had a DEFCon a few years back that replaces all the images over a wifi network with goatse.
Actually, when I worked at a local coffeeshop that offered free wi-fi(I even hooked it up) we had several people who came in there daily, who never bought anything, stayed for 3 to 6 hours, and used the restroom without consideration, just for the internet. I finally asked them why not use it at home. Come to find out, they didn't have internet at home. You'd be surprised how many people can live without internet at home, but once they get a work laptop or something, come out to the coffeeshop, and they start getting their internet addiction on.
Geeks are assumed to have internet at home, others it is more or less flaky.
I wonder if people ever get those phising notices for banks that are actually fake and involved in escrow scams.
I'm sure Maxis will patent this from their use of the tech from SimCity!
One of the benefits on knowing about the Free *nix's is that you can use it yourself for your benefit. Whether you own a company, want to start one, or want to implement something internally in your company. You make yourself look good by doing it right, undercost, and on time. Yes, it's not always possible, but you sneak it in where you can. ;)
"Oh God! The Dead are Rising and Voting Republican!!" ~ Bart "The Simpsons"
And watch me run over those little Hybrids. =)
This one is basic, but it's always good to know how to mess up a program. Great if you can make it, but if you know how to mess it up really badly, it's easier to patch and fix. Of course, most C libs out there in the OSS world have better functions for the most commonly buffer-overflowed functions, but I know there are other ways.
Dept of Homeland Security will also be called "Dept of Defense of Happiness" and the "Patriot Act a.k.a. Remove All Freedom" will be known as "Cuddly Bears for Toddlers Act"
Most people now actually contend it was the enviroment that caused humans to get bigger, which accounted for the increase in brain size, not the fact that the food was denser in calories. (Men, on average being bigger than women, have bigger brains than women, on average.) The competing theory to what you said above was also that much of the denser foods were fruits such as avocado and others with a higher amount of fat as well as meat(and quite often depending on the season).
A good site is:
http://www.ecologos.org/meat-eating.htm
also:
http://www.ecologos.org/fft.htm
Dog, cat. Yes, not here, but in other parts of the world, they do. Many fish eat other fish. Grilled shark is a good reason to not be vegetarian for a few days for me. =)
Raw Foodies are strictly vegetarian without cooking. It's possible, but hard(and expensive!) but it can be done. Only meat has to be cooked, as well as some vegetables that we can't digest. Most vegetables do not need to be, and we, uh, "regulate" the gas biproduct our own way without a second stomach. =)
Hmm, funny, I don't take any B12 or D, or any supplements for that matter. Don't need any, everything is met with my vegetarian diet.
Ah, you must mean the vegetarians who eat fast food, same reason many meat-eaters are taking B12 and D as well as other nutrients(calcium, etc..) after seeing their Doctors.
We can somewhat tolerate meat, that's why most(not all!) of it is cooked. Try eating raw beef for a week, bloody and all. If you live go to the emergency room. =)
I remember back in the day a 486 with enough ram could fill a T1 pipe with apache, while the windows guy would still be trying to coax the installer to run(being well below the minimum requirements). Now it's never that simply, static HTML is a dinosaur that doesn't exist, and how many pages do you visit regularly that are static html? There are some out there, but which are regular(daily/weekly) visits? Yeah, there are the few exceptions, but 99% of what you see needs a CPU and Ram. Windows could have a chance here, but I'll stick with my PHP/Apache/MySQL with eAccelerator.
It's a different world and benchmarks like this just don't give a good picture, not yet anyways.
But the small time provider doesn't have access to that database to provide the E911 services, all they will be able to see is the phone number, no address or name or anything. That's been the biggest complaint, but I say hey, they asked your address 10 years ago, why not now?
Asterisk does call accounting in CSV format, with plugins for Postgresql or MySql.
When they have a DID (Incoming #) They still get charged some regulatory fees, all they are doing is passing some along to regular users. Even with a T1 or colo at the CO you have to pay a bit of fees for incoming DIDs, they're just doing what the bells do and are passing it to you. But there are some fees they are excluded from.
The provider we went with first gave us two T1's, on physical the other over the air to their downtown office(Antenna on the roof). Physical was for VoIP, with QoS, and auto fallback to the Antenna on the roof. Roof antenna was for data. Works great, like a charm, and still much cheaper.
And don't forget, for $10/channel/year your VoIP data goes from 64k streams to 8k streams. A lot of people don't like it because it's proprietary, but show me a business than can't afford that, and I'll show you a business that can't afford having telephones at all.
Once you've knocked it down with G.729, you can fit 8 more calls where it took one before(assuming going from ulaw to g729). That's pretty good. Yes, it takes more traffic, and you'll want a separate net connection for it, but even if you don't get one, you'll still be able to fit a lot of channels at once before hitting max. And hell, if you're that big of a call center, you should be able to afford another T1 or SDSL connection no problem, and you're back to square one, except saving a ton of money.
D-Link 1402S from SipPhone(Unlocked) at http://sipphone.com/adapters/ Works great, with QoS Quality rocks even with Bittorrent running. =)
I'm definately going to get some Sipura's though, and with QoS it'll help a lot. But for home, the 1402S works great.
Ditto. I need a real telephone. I'm using a 5.8Ghz AT&T Exampandable up to 8 system. But, I am using VoIP. Haven't had a POTS line in years. With the D-Link DVG-1402s (unlocked from http://sipphone.com/adapters/ ) I get great quality. I work with asterisk a lot, so I've got my own custom set up, $11/mo incoming line w/ free incoming minutes, and 1.3c/min outgoing, but I rarely make any outgoing calls, so my bill is $22(2 lines, one in Houston, one in Dallas, although they both ring the same hard phone, and it's expansion, as well as my laptop softphone, and my cell phone after a certain number of rings).
Some places have number portability, you'll just have to check around though.