Call setup: 1) RAS gets voice call on a specifc channel 2) RAS opens tcp port to a ivr server and connects the data stream to that. 3) IVR server sends recored mulaw data down the line and the caller hears that a audio 4) caller sends touchtones down the line to the program on the server which does an FFT on the data to figure out what buttons where pressed. 5) RAS sends call info (like caller id) to a syslogd somewhere. Call teardown: Someone hangs up the connection. Other end gets hung up too.
How about dial out? 1) server decides it wants to make a call 2) connects to port 20032 on RAS and sends "atdt1234535645" 3) RAS makes outgoing call 4) IVR server sends recored mulaw data down the line and the caller hears that a audio 5) caller sends touchtones down the line to the program on the server which does an FFT on the data to figure out what buttons where pressed.
Seeing that the device already does 99% of this (100% if the data bit is set on the voice call) and IT WORKS, I don't see why I need all the other nonesense that the protocols give me.
The NBX 100 requires an upgrade that cost someware around AU$5000 to turn on IP.
My local ATM loop is too busy to support the phone over ADSL so thats out.
My internal ehternet and VPN's all have less jitter than the ATM loop so it seems to me that ISDN over IP would work fine. Infact I've done it using the NBX and relaying over PPP over an SSH tunnel on controlled lines and it works fine. ISDN is 64k data. There is no reason that a typical T1 with QoS can't cope with a few channles of ISDN over IP without anyone noticing but this won't work to call 1/2 around the world but I don't need a solution for that since phone lines work great for that and wholesale rates between the US and Oz are now under US$.015/min its cheaper to pick up the phone than send the data.
At work I've got a cyclades PR4000 hooked up to a E1 (30 line pri isdn link) and the device is a router. The device can take an ISDN call and hand the data off to a port on anything connected to the net but it can't (or won't) do it if its a voice call because it hands it off to an overpriced DPS module that wants to decode the signals as if they were from a modem. With the exception of a packet saying "this call came in on port 12 for phone no 99991111 from 1233212232" its got all the bits together to pull this off but no such luck. The people from cyclades said they looked at doing VoIP but everyone wanted "standards" which they didn't or couldn't squeeze into the RAS box. I don't think they ever thought that it wasn't that hard.
Now if I could tell this box, "take calles on this line and send them to port 5433 on 192.168.1.23 as a 64k mu-law stream" then I would have 99% of what I need for a VoIP gateway to the telephone company.
I also have another toy which is a 3com NBX 100 "IP Phone System". Too bad its an ethernet phone system and not an IP phone system. They claim its "open" but the only thing I've found out about it is they have illegal included gzip and gnu tar in an executable which they aren't providing source for. This from one of the few IT compaines that supported the DMCA. Maybe they had stuff to hide like stealing software. Google for "NBX rant" for more...
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So I've got this cool device hooked to the phone co and I've got another cool device that hooks to cool phones that sit on my desk and talk over the lan. Will they every talk to each other? I think not.
The next great leap in VoIT will come from someone thats got the balls to do ISDN over IP and write some sample code that works and then an RFC. Till then its just a sick game.
Advertings compaines have been lying to their clients about the effectiveness of the ads for decades. Remember that what a ad agency sells the client is service and a warm fuzzy feeling that they are getting the job done. They are not selling customers rushing to the stores to buy the lattest junk. Many compaines that have bought into these wrong ideas found out on the web that advertising just doesn't work well and there is no other media where you can quickly determine how useless ads are.
The path between antennas is not a narrow beam (like a laser) but more like a long narrow football with the end points at both ends. Any signal that crosses that football area will cause some interference but it will be minor in the case of a path 90 degrees through it and much worse at 1 degree.
So far I've found a number of sites that have flash links that try to make use of well known exploits. They typicaly start as web sites that Google thinks have useful info and when you go to the main site you get popups much like a typical pr0n site and some of the other pages will load flash programs that may have exploits. We alternate between a white list and black list of sites we allow. With this new "feature", it looks like I'll be going back to the wite list option.
At least two different times we were forced to get samples of stuff from public places and grow the samples. One was in high school and the other at 1st year university biology class. The results were quite interesting.
Toilets came out as one of the least active surfaces along with parionoid mother's kitchens.
The worst things were food trays in fast food places (their toilets were much cleaner), the water tap handles in fast food places, the door handles in fast food bathrooms.
We had done keyboards as well but I don't remember them as being any worse than most surfaces.
It looks like the patents date from 1980 on and their auto sales patent is from early 94 which will make prior art hard but not impossable to find. You need to do some research in AT&T's patents to see if you can find something since they were doing that sort of thing at that time and will have documented it (for legal defense). Look for their kiosk that used the Targa graphics stuff. Alos check out ATM machine patents since they imply a service that is covered in these patents.
Remember folks, you may not like it but if its gets patented first you have to pay. Its not about inventing it first, its about submitting it first or publishing it first. This means all these compaines that like to hide their internal procedures (even though they are the same as millions of other compaines) need to be published in exteranal documents or someone else can come in and sue you for patent infringement and win.
At work we have been blocking flash on and off for a while now and it now looks like that it will get blocked and stay that way. Its a shame too since cisco has finaly started using it for the only thing it was good for -- vector drawings.
Australia is busy doing the British style of privatization but there is no local version of a typical US states Public utilities Commission. The result is the local monoplys end up being private and still have monopolys in limited areas that aren't providing the citizens proper service.
Until they decide they need a PUC, they are going to have problems.
802.11 in the 2.4 Ghz range can carry about 415mb max. Thats based on no interference. The problem with 2.4 GHz is that it tends to bounce around things and get phase shifted so the recivers have to do lots of tricks to pull the proper bitstream out. If you have two systems that get 10% of the bits shared, you will find that your performance drops quickly. Parabolic dishes will help but the frequncy is so overused in places, you end up with slow unstable links over large distances. As you up the frequency you find that you need more directional antennas to get thigns to work but interference gets much worse. This is why 3.5Ghz wasn't used to it could be sold off to the suckers tring to do large last mile solutions. The 5Ghz is even worse but that may make it very good for wireless lans inside buildings. The 28 to 40 Ghz stuff only goes about the same distance as optical stuff and since point to multipoint optical and optical mesh systems can now be bought that do better, I don't see that as being a long term solution to the problem.
The almost 5000 year old boat that was found next to Cheops pyramid was built of wood (imported from far away) and sewn together with ropes that tightend if they got wet. It was larger than many of the early ships that sailed from Europe to the Americas. There are remains of cargo ships that were much larger.
The Egpyteans had a problem with leaving their country and they hired forieners to sail thier boats. We still don't know why. There limit wasn't technological but something else. It could have been religion, unreasonable fear (falling off the edge of the world?), social or something like taxation rates. It could have been that smart people don't take boat rides where only 50% of the people don't come back.
The c-130 winboxes (the bit that holds the wings to the rest of the plane) were all rebuilt just a few years ago and thats about as much as a non-replaceable structrual part as you can find on those planes.
Read other things that Mark Twain wrote about the mummies and you will find out how much of it was a joke and some indication of where the truth is. Some where there is a list of things that bothered him the most most and the mummys are on the list. The top of the list was being a witness to a haning as one of hist first jobs as a reporter.
it is not well known what they pyramids contained. There is no real evidence about their uses and they had all been contaminated with a much different religious culture at least twice before anyone ever started recording what was found.
ok they drill into it... and the result is a few dead people unless there is water in the area and then you may have lots of dead people. maybe it should be surrounded by a layer of something that will make well water very nasty. For a start I would say that green dye they use to track some spliages. A few drops of it can be spotted miles downstream. A layer off it (dehydraded of course) could make any water that comes up look very undrinkable.
You use gravity to prevent settling on top. There are these things called mountains and most of them have been around for quite a long time. Its very hard to build a house and grow a garden on a 30 degree slant that soil won't stay attached to.
Most heiroglyphics were qutie well defined before any of the bible stories were even close to being written down. Egypt was using that form of writing on stone 5000 years ago with hints of it 6000 years ago. Ciaro was a meeting place at least 10,000 years ago and they were using the water wells under what is now the spynix then. The flood story seems to have been based on events of 7500 years ago but somewhere the whole "god got mad and it rained" got added. All known forms of hebrew writing are based on concepts that were after the Egyptian heiroglyphics
What the hell we are doing is tring to hide stuff that is 50% useful fuel and 50% stuff that is less radioactive than a bunch of Bananas but we can seperate it because its illegal to do anything with waste other than store it thanks to greenpeace. Its also cheaper to buy new fuel from Australia so its just a matter of store the junk and let some other generation figure it out.
Little do the idiots making this decision know that the brats that are playing video games now will be very unhappy with the lot they have been left and are very likly to say "work or starve" and it won't matter if your 90 years old when your pension magicly goes away. too bad it didn't happen 30 years ago.
Based on the widespread removal of bodies from the graveyards in Egypt, I don't the the straight dope has the story right either. The bodies had to go somewhere and they did burn well. While Mark Twain would often exaggerate, his statments were based on truth and sometimes half truths but he was a good journalist but he was forced to tone down reality for the papers.
The dead of egypt has been used for brown butcher paper (its still colored so it looks the same), as fuel and a source of fibers.
There at least 50,000 mummies transported to the US for industrial uses. Maybe as many as a 1/4 million.
Modern Egypt has little connections to it past. for example its name was given to it by the french during the time of Napoleon when they figured the area had to have been the part talked about in the bible with moses and such so they named the area Aegypt which is now Egypt. There is no archaeological of connections between the people involved with the bible and the area now known as Egypt.
When was the last time you saw a review that changed your mind about going to go see a movie? I heard Star Wars 4 sucked so I didn't pay the AU$15 to see it knowing it would show up on the cable tv some time. It was a good decisions but it was more based on the start wars 1 directors recut that sucked so bad and not so much on reviews. I decied to see FotR becuase of some of the ads and things I had heard about how they put it together. The only review that got me into a movie was CAP's review of the South Park movie.
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Call setup:
1) RAS gets voice call on a specifc channel
2) RAS opens tcp port to a ivr server
and connects the data stream to that.
3) IVR server sends recored mulaw data down the line and the caller hears that a audio
4) caller sends touchtones down the line to the program on the server which does an FFT on the data to figure out what buttons where pressed.
5) RAS sends call info (like caller id) to a syslogd somewhere.
Call teardown:
Someone hangs up the connection. Other end gets
hung up too.
How about dial out?
1) server decides it wants to make a call
2) connects to port 20032 on RAS and sends "atdt1234535645"
3) RAS makes outgoing call
4) IVR server sends recored mulaw data down the line and the caller hears that a audio
5) caller sends touchtones down the line to the program on the server which does an FFT on the data to figure out what buttons where pressed.
Seeing that the device already does 99% of this (100% if the data bit is set on the voice call) and IT WORKS, I don't see why I need all the other nonesense that the protocols give me.
The NBX 100 requires an upgrade that cost someware around AU$5000 to turn on IP.
My local ATM loop is too busy to support the phone over ADSL so thats out.
My internal ehternet and VPN's all have less jitter than the ATM loop so it seems to me that ISDN over IP would work fine. Infact I've done it using the NBX and relaying over PPP over an SSH tunnel on controlled lines and it works fine. ISDN is 64k data. There is no reason that a typical T1 with QoS can't cope with a few channles of ISDN over IP without anyone noticing but this won't work to call 1/2 around the world but I don't need a solution for that since phone lines work great for that and wholesale rates between the US and Oz are now under US$.015/min its cheaper to pick up the phone than send the data.
At work I've got a cyclades PR4000 hooked up to a E1 (30 line pri isdn link) and the device is a router. The device can take an ISDN call and hand the data off to a port on anything connected to the net but it can't (or won't) do it if its a voice call because it hands it off to an overpriced DPS module that wants to decode the signals as if they were from a modem. With the
exception of a packet saying "this call came in on port 12 for phone no 99991111 from 1233212232" its got all the bits together to pull this off but no such luck. The people from cyclades said they looked at doing VoIP but everyone wanted "standards" which they didn't or couldn't squeeze into the RAS box. I don't think they ever thought that it wasn't that hard.
Now if I could tell this box, "take calles on this line and send them to port 5433 on 192.168.1.23 as a 64k mu-law stream" then I would have 99% of what I need for a VoIP gateway to the telephone company.
I also have another toy which is a 3com NBX 100 "IP Phone System". Too bad its an ethernet phone system and not an IP phone system. They claim its "open" but the only thing I've found out about it is they have illegal included gzip and gnu tar in an executable which they aren't providing source for. This from one of the few IT compaines that supported the DMCA. Maybe they had stuff to hide like stealing software. Google for "NBX rant" for more...
</rant off>
So I've got this cool device hooked to the phone co and I've got another cool device that hooks to cool phones that sit on my desk and talk over the lan. Will they every talk to each other? I think not.
The next great leap in VoIT will come from someone thats got the balls to do ISDN over IP and write some sample code that works and then an RFC. Till then its just a sick game.
Advertings compaines have been lying to their clients about the effectiveness of the ads for decades. Remember that what a ad agency sells the client is service and a warm fuzzy feeling that they are getting the job done. They are not selling customers rushing to the stores to buy the lattest junk. Many compaines that have bought into these wrong ideas found out on the web that advertising just doesn't work well and there is no other media where you can quickly determine how useless ads are.
The path between antennas is not a narrow beam (like a laser) but more like a long narrow football with the end points at both ends. Any signal that crosses that football area will cause some interference but it will be minor in the case of a path 90 degrees through it and much worse at 1 degree.
So far I've found a number of sites that have flash links that try to make use of well known exploits. They typicaly start as web sites that Google thinks have useful info and when you go to the main site you get popups much like a typical pr0n site and some of the other pages will load flash programs that may have exploits. We alternate between a white list and black list of sites we allow. With this new "feature", it looks like I'll be going back to the wite list option.
At least two different times we were forced to get samples of stuff from public places and grow the samples. One was in high school and the other at 1st year university biology class. The results were quite interesting.
Toilets came out as one of the least active surfaces along with parionoid mother's kitchens.
The worst things were food trays in fast food places (their toilets were much cleaner), the water tap handles in fast food places, the door handles in fast food bathrooms.
We had done keyboards as well but I don't remember them as being any worse than most surfaces.
It looks like the patents date from 1980 on and their auto sales patent is from early 94 which will make prior art hard but not impossable to find. You need to do some research in AT&T's patents to see if you can find something since they were doing that sort of thing at that time and will have documented it (for legal defense). Look for their kiosk that used the Targa graphics stuff. Alos check out ATM machine patents since they imply a service that is covered in these patents.
Remember folks, you may not like it but if its gets patented first you have to pay. Its not about inventing it first, its about submitting it first or publishing it first. This means all these compaines that like to hide their internal procedures (even though they are the same as millions of other compaines) need to be published in exteranal documents or someone else can come in and sue you for patent infringement and win.
At work we have been blocking flash on and off for a while now and it now looks like that it will get blocked and stay that way. Its a shame too since cisco has finaly started using it for the only thing it was good for -- vector drawings.
Australia is busy doing the British style of privatization but there is no local version of a typical US states Public utilities Commission. The result is the local monoplys end up being private and still have monopolys in limited areas that aren't providing the citizens proper service.
Until they decide they need a PUC, they are going to have problems.
802.11 in the 2.4 Ghz range can carry about 415mb max. Thats based on no interference. The problem with 2.4 GHz is that it tends to bounce around things and get phase shifted so the recivers have to do lots of tricks to pull the proper bitstream out. If you have two systems that get 10% of the bits shared, you will find that your performance drops quickly. Parabolic dishes will help but the frequncy is so overused in places, you end up with slow unstable links over large distances. As you up the frequency you find that you need more directional antennas to get thigns to work but interference gets much worse. This is why 3.5Ghz wasn't used to it could be sold off to the suckers tring to do large last mile solutions. The 5Ghz is even worse but that may make it very good for wireless lans inside buildings. The 28 to 40 Ghz stuff only goes about the same distance as optical stuff and since point to multipoint optical and optical mesh systems can now be bought that do better, I don't see that as being a long term solution to the problem.
The almost 5000 year old boat that was found next to Cheops pyramid was built of wood (imported from far away) and sewn together with ropes that tightend if they got wet. It was larger than many of the early ships that sailed from Europe to the Americas. There are remains of cargo ships that were much larger.
The Egpyteans had a problem with leaving their country and they hired forieners to sail thier boats. We still don't know why. There limit wasn't technological but something else. It could have been religion, unreasonable fear (falling off the edge of the world?), social or something like taxation rates. It could have been that smart people don't take boat rides where only 50% of the people don't come back.
Space geology programs have made major advancements in the ways we find oil and many minerals.
The biggest advance of space research is that it can sweep away old wrong ideas that are just too ingrained in some fields of science.
The c-130 winboxes (the bit that holds the wings to the rest of the plane) were all rebuilt just a few years ago and thats about as much as a non-replaceable structrual part as you can find on those planes.
It could be worse. What would happen if Larry Wall decided this type of thing was a "good thing[tm]"?
Remember he has only won IOCCC twice so far.
VB's syntax is very close to the microware os/9 basic that was written before the 68000 was finished (in part by one of the guys who was designing it)
One new sunfire 4800. Small amounts of shipping damage....
Read other things that Mark Twain wrote about the mummies and you will find out how much of it was a joke and some indication of where the truth is. Some where there is a list of things that bothered him the most most and the mummys are on the list. The top of the list was being a witness to a haning as one of hist first jobs as a reporter.
it is not well known what they pyramids contained. There is no real evidence about their uses and they had all been contaminated with a much different religious culture at least twice before anyone ever started recording what was found.
ok they drill into it... and the result is a few dead people unless there is water in the area and then you may have lots of dead people. maybe it should be surrounded by a layer of something that will make well water very nasty. For a start I would say that green dye they use to track some spliages. A few drops of it can be spotted miles downstream. A layer off it (dehydraded of course) could make any water that comes up look very undrinkable.
You use gravity to prevent settling on top. There are these things called mountains and most of them have been around for quite a long time. Its very hard to build a house and grow a garden on a 30 degree slant that soil won't stay attached to.
Most heiroglyphics were qutie well defined before any of the bible stories were even close to being written down. Egypt was using that form of writing on stone 5000 years ago with hints of it 6000 years ago. Ciaro was a meeting place at least 10,000 years ago and they were using the water wells under what is now the spynix then. The flood story seems to have been based on events of 7500 years ago but somewhere the whole "god got mad and it rained" got added. All known forms of hebrew writing are based on concepts that were after the Egyptian heiroglyphics
What the hell we are doing is tring to hide stuff that is 50% useful fuel and 50% stuff that is less radioactive than a bunch of Bananas but we can seperate it because its illegal to do anything with waste other than store it thanks to greenpeace. Its also cheaper to buy new fuel from Australia so its just a matter of store the junk and let some other generation figure it out.
Little do the idiots making this decision know that the brats that are playing video games now will be very unhappy with the lot they have been left and are very likly to say "work or starve" and it won't matter if your 90 years old when your pension magicly goes away. too bad it didn't happen 30 years ago.
Based on the widespread removal of bodies from the graveyards in Egypt, I don't the the straight dope has the story right either. The bodies had to go somewhere and they did burn well. While Mark Twain would often exaggerate, his statments were based on truth and sometimes half truths but he was a good journalist but he was forced to tone down reality for the papers.
do a few google searches.
The dead of egypt has been used for brown butcher paper (its still colored so it looks the same), as fuel and a source of fibers.
There at least 50,000 mummies transported to the US for industrial uses. Maybe as many as a 1/4 million.
Modern Egypt has little connections to it past. for example its name was given to it by the french during the time of Napoleon when they figured the area had to have been the part talked about in the bible with moses and such so they named the area Aegypt which is now Egypt. There is no archaeological of connections between the people involved with the bible and the area now known as Egypt.
When was the last time you saw a review that changed your mind about going to go see a movie? I heard Star Wars 4 sucked so I didn't pay the AU$15 to see it knowing it would show up on the cable tv some time. It was a good decisions but it was more based on the start wars 1 directors recut that sucked so bad and not so much on reviews. I decied to see FotR becuase of some of the ads and things I had heard about how they put it together. The only review that got me into a movie was CAP's review of the South Park movie.