All active TiVo devices have a connection to the outside world - so wouldn't it be easy enough for you SA TiVo to dial up and download the module - or your DirecTiVo to wait until it was broadcast over the sat?
Unix systems mount multiple devices or partitions withing a filesystem space - this is much easier to represent as a filing cabinet than as a disk icon.
I have 2 hard drives but one file system space - I forget where stuff is disk wise but I always remember where files are.
It's not necessarily mis-configuration - ISPs like to peer when they think both sides will get equal benefit - smaller ISPs often aren't allowed to peer with larger ones because of politics.
Although Orange would be getting full whack from the subscribers sending messages they are getting 1/300th or less of the revenue from the SMS sent via Locust. Plus Locust can generate more than one SMS in response to an email or command send by the user.
I'm assuming that Orange have done the arithmetic and worked out that any revenue lost from customers sending messages TO locust is made up by no longer having to subsidise Locust's services.
Out of curiosity I also wonder wether Orange were sending a bill to Locust with all 300,000 text messages per month detailed. Lot's of trees there.
Locust is and always was used by a minority of users. 600 users out of Orange's 10,000,000.
It sprang up out of Orange's original free SMS service. Back in the days when SMS was hardly ever used and it was impossible to SMS across competing phone networks Orange offered, for £2.50 per month, SMS sending and receiving with no charges per message - and they didn't charge the monthly fee either.
This was on the basis that Orange hadn't perfected the system and that later on they would start to charge for the service - something that was told to everyone who signed up. Because of this Locust was able to start using very basic technology (A unix box and a phone with a serial cable) and reasonable low overheads.
When Orange started charging for Text messages they offered Text1500, a bulk text message service for £60 per month which offered unlimited messages.
At this rate, with Locust sending out 300,000 messages per month it was costing them about £0.0002 per message for the over the air portion. This compares very favourable to the £0.02 that other SMS sending services charge.
Companies today, more so with the economy slowing, are trying to make more money out of all of their subscribers and this is just one way that Orange have found to try and do that.
Also of note is that the same people as run Locust offer commercial SMS services run "properly" (Linked to mobile networks rather than using a mobile phone on a PC).
Actually it was the author who held out, as with a lot of savvy authoers she retained veto over the filming rights and passed up many offers until this one.
One of the key things was that she didn't want the film to become an Americanised version of the book - about the only concession made is the title of the film in the US - Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (It's the Philospher's Stone in the UK)
And I for one am glad that it stuck true to the book, which I've started reading after seeing the film, it didn't seem as fake as a lot of Hollywood produced films have been recently and for once it was nice to see places I know. The streets of London, Kings Cross station were all immediately recognisable - although I'm left wondering how many children will attempt to get to platform 9 and 3 quarters;o)
I don't think that the film called for Terry Gilliam's originality - if it had then there would have been alot of upset children, probably frightened out of their wits, leaving cinemas in droves. Lets not forget that although there are an awful lot of adults going to see this film it is, first and foremost, a childrens story.
It shouldn't matter what ports you open up on your firewall - what you are interested in is what will be receiving these requests.
We've all seen that access to port 80 can cause problems with incorectly configured IIS machines anyway.
Basically as a person responsible for security and firewall configuration you don't just enable access on a port just because someone asks for it - you check out what is going to be used and make a decision AND warnings to those involved.
> And it won't be the whole of London as the franchaise there is split between NTL and Telewest
If you look at some of their coverage maps for this trial NTL are actually ovvering their service across a fairly large part of Croydon from the Crystal Palace transmitter - Croydon is a telewest area!
No seriously it isn't. The telephone systems across Europe and the methods of Internet access across Europe are very different - we're still lumbered with monopolistic network providers to a large extent in some coutries and there are big differences in attitudes and technologies for broadband access.
So before I give you a Yes / No answer - how about fessing up to which country you're actually in?
What you have to do is melt the icebergs and float the sheep - this creates a level playing field (pool?) for the sheeps and they can then be herded together by a sheep dog - a sea lion will do if your dog can not stand the cold temperatures.
Failing that you can melt the sheep however I have not been able to reconstitute liquid sheep as yet.
Please be aware that in the UK you must add a generouse slosh of disinfectant to either the sheep or the icebergs while liquid to prevent contamination by foot and mouth disease.
In the UK we have DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) which provides around 40 channels of local and national radio across most of the urban areas of the country - however it's not going to take off until the receivers are portable and sub £100.
I'm not sure that I'd use the semantic web if I was using a 28.8 modem - it would have no great appeal to me as the who urge to move to the semantic web is that agents can sit in the background and set stuff up for me - without the always on connection this segment of the semantic web is almost useless. I want my PC, my Palm and my phone to tell me stuff and to remind me of stuff without having to line up IrDA ports or place one in a cradle.
It's these wired and connection based boundaries that will cause the problem. What we need to develop first is the "two way web" which can remind or push information to you through whatever device you are logged onto. Then we can start to make the web machine readable and get the sematics into the two way.
I've been moving all the domains I control over to A.N.Other registry because of inconsistencies like this - plus you can get a domain for $10 a pop at some places helps.
Verisign have kept on billing us for these though even though their whois claims it's registered through someone-else. When I talk to them about this I get back totally random answers that don't pertain to the question asked.
Bottom line is that Network Solutions are no longer capable of operating a customer facing service and if you can find an alternative registrar who are efficient, courteous and give the right answer to your questions at the first attempt then you will be better off changing to them.
This utopian information access idea is great in principle but at the moment we just don't have the always on style internet access available.
A similar idea is being touted by Orange whose grand plan is to use an always on mobile terminal device with their Wildfire personal assistant who will listen to your day and arrange things to happen, inform you of information and collate calls and messages wether they are voicemail, email or faxes.
But until we have the always on alway connected devices we're still going to be pretty much tethered to our desks.
Unfortunately the last line in the article doesn't smack of common sense.
"I'm very disappointed," Ylonnen said after the meeting. "What will I do next? Consult my lawyers."
I hope his lawyers have a little more common sense than he seems to display - after all the protocol has been named for longer than SSH Communications Security has held the trademark there should be no legal reason why the standard should be renamed.
Because "the UK channel adds value to the sun product line".
It's amazing how Sun have managed to pass off a $700 price hike onto people who don't control the price of the machines. (I'm refering to the UK Netra X1 which launched at 1200STG in the UK as opposed to $999 in the US.)
I'm left wondering how the service is going to be delivered - iMode works on a packet basis and Europe doesn't have GPRS (The 2.5G addition to GSM that provide Packet based working) going yet and no handsets launched.
iMode is going to be horibly expensive to use in an always on mode - much like WAP is now. Admittedly the better markup language will help but without technical details of how the service will be offered I can only see this failing in the same way the WAP has - after all if it's running on a switched circuit then it's just WAP with slightly different protocols and language.
But if you want both DVD and CD output at decent quality then most sub £300 decks just don't cut it.
You get far superior CD playback from a £300 CD player than you do a £300 DVD player. Arcam have combined a quality (£400) DVD player with a quality (£400) CD player and have made a unit that also manages to do more. The original question was "What's the best" - best doesn't have to mean most affordable.
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All active TiVo devices have a connection to the outside world - so wouldn't it be easy enough for you SA TiVo to dial up and download the module - or your DirecTiVo to wait until it was broadcast over the sat?
Details of how they use Linux.
Obviously not a comment from a Unix system user.
:o)
Unix systems mount multiple devices or partitions withing a filesystem space - this is much easier to represent as a filing cabinet than as a disk icon.
I have 2 hard drives but one file system space - I forget where stuff is disk wise but I always remember where files are.
M@t
It's not necessarily mis-configuration - ISPs like to peer when they think both sides will get equal benefit - smaller ISPs often aren't allowed to peer with larger ones because of politics.
Although Orange would be getting full whack from the subscribers sending messages they are getting 1/300th or less of the revenue from the SMS sent via Locust. Plus Locust can generate more than one SMS in response to an email or command send by the user.
:o)
I'm assuming that Orange have done the arithmetic and worked out that any revenue lost from customers sending messages TO locust is made up by no longer having to subsidise Locust's services.
Out of curiosity I also wonder wether Orange were sending a bill to Locust with all 300,000 text messages per month detailed. Lot's of trees there.
M@t
Locust is and always was used by a minority of users. 600 users out of Orange's 10,000,000.
It sprang up out of Orange's original free SMS service. Back in the days when SMS was hardly ever used and it was impossible to SMS across competing phone networks Orange offered, for £2.50 per month, SMS sending and receiving with no charges per message - and they didn't charge the monthly fee either.
This was on the basis that Orange hadn't perfected the system and that later on they would start to charge for the service - something that was told to everyone who signed up. Because of this Locust was able to start using very basic technology (A unix box and a phone with a serial cable) and reasonable low overheads.
When Orange started charging for Text messages they offered Text1500, a bulk text message service for £60 per month which offered unlimited messages.
At this rate, with Locust sending out 300,000 messages per month it was costing them about £0.0002 per message for the over the air portion. This compares very favourable to the £0.02 that other SMS sending services charge.
Companies today, more so with the economy slowing, are trying to make more money out of all of their subscribers and this is just one way that Orange have found to try and do that.
Also of note is that the same people as run Locust offer commercial SMS services run "properly" (Linked to mobile networks rather than using a mobile phone on a PC).
Actually it was the author who held out, as with a lot of savvy authoers she retained veto over the filming rights and passed up many offers until this one.
;o)
One of the key things was that she didn't want the film to become an Americanised version of the book - about the only concession made is the title of the film in the US - Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone (It's the Philospher's Stone in the UK)
And I for one am glad that it stuck true to the book, which I've started reading after seeing the film, it didn't seem as fake as a lot of Hollywood produced films have been recently and for once it was nice to see places I know. The streets of London, Kings Cross station were all immediately recognisable - although I'm left wondering how many children will attempt to get to platform 9 and 3 quarters
I don't think that the film called for Terry Gilliam's originality - if it had then there would have been alot of upset children, probably frightened out of their wits, leaving cinemas in droves. Lets not forget that although there are an awful lot of adults going to see this film it is, first and foremost, a childrens story.
It shouldn't matter what ports you open up on your firewall - what you are interested in is what will be receiving these requests.
We've all seen that access to port 80 can cause problems with incorectly configured IIS machines anyway.
Basically as a person responsible for security and firewall configuration you don't just enable access on a port just because someone asks for it - you check out what is going to be used and make a decision AND warnings to those involved.
Visit Hadspring's UK site and they mention a Dual band 900/1800 version.
It's what I use on my Nokia 6210 and it's great, user dictionary entries and multiple languages mean even my French is spelt correctly ;o)
If you look at some of their coverage maps for this trial NTL are actually ovvering their service across a fairly large part of Croydon from the Crystal Palace transmitter - Croydon is a telewest area!
And yup, Handera is a silly name - remind me of Thundercats :o)
No seriously it isn't. The telephone systems across Europe and the methods of Internet access across Europe are very different - we're still lumbered with monopolistic network providers to a large extent in some coutries and there are big differences in attitudes and technologies for broadband access.
So before I give you a Yes / No answer - how about fessing up to which country you're actually in?
Failing that you can melt the sheep however I have not been able to reconstitute liquid sheep as yet.
Please be aware that in the UK you must add a generouse slosh of disinfectant to either the sheep or the icebergs while liquid to prevent contamination by foot and mouth disease.
In the UK we have DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) which provides around 40 channels of local and national radio across most of the urban areas of the country - however it's not going to take off until the receivers are portable and sub £100.
My AMD motherboard has no ISA slots or bus. Everything is PCI with one AGP slot.
It's these wired and connection based boundaries that will cause the problem. What we need to develop first is the "two way web" which can remind or push information to you through whatever device you are logged onto. Then we can start to make the web machine readable and get the sematics into the two way.
Verisign have kept on billing us for these though even though their whois claims it's registered through someone-else. When I talk to them about this I get back totally random answers that don't pertain to the question asked.
Bottom line is that Network Solutions are no longer capable of operating a customer facing service and if you can find an alternative registrar who are efficient, courteous and give the right answer to your questions at the first attempt then you will be better off changing to them.
Didn't they say that about Esperanto? The onlyplace I see that now is on re-runs of the early Red Dwarf series.
A similar idea is being touted by Orange whose grand plan is to use an always on mobile terminal device with their Wildfire personal assistant who will listen to your day and arrange things to happen, inform you of information and collate calls and messages wether they are voicemail, email or faxes.
But until we have the always on alway connected devices we're still going to be pretty much tethered to our desks.
"I'm very disappointed," Ylonnen said after the meeting. "What will I do next? Consult my lawyers."
I hope his lawyers have a little more common sense than he seems to display - after all the protocol has been named for longer than SSH Communications Security has held the trademark there should be no legal reason why the standard should be renamed.
It's amazing how Sun have managed to pass off a $700 price hike onto people who don't control the price of the machines. (I'm refering to the UK Netra X1 which launched at 1200STG in the UK as opposed to $999 in the US.)
Are you another of those idiots in America that thinks that the UK uses Kilometers for road signs?
We use miles.
iMode is going to be horibly expensive to use in an always on mode - much like WAP is now. Admittedly the better markup language will help but without technical details of how the service will be offered I can only see this failing in the same way the WAP has - after all if it's running on a switched circuit then it's just WAP with slightly different protocols and language.
You get far superior CD playback from a £300 CD player than you do a £300 DVD player. Arcam have combined a quality (£400) DVD player with a quality (£400) CD player and have made a unit that also manages to do more. The original question was "What's the best" - best doesn't have to mean most affordable.