Well, considering at this time that the windows site is completely slashdotted, while the linux site is up, just a little slow from the slashdotting........
But you wont need as many amps to run most devices - yes appliances will still require larger 120v lines like we already have, but things like your cell phone charger, a small 12v lamp, your electric shaver, etc - require very little amperage.
Think about the number of devices in your home that use some form of transformer to operate - Odds are it's MOST of them. With the exception of appliances, most things run on DC and require a transformer/power supply to operate. While we are at building this efficient power supply - why not make it one big efficient supply that goes in the basement of your home, with 12v 9v and 5v lines running throughout the house, instead of the 120v lines we currently have. Imagine the savings when a device no longer has to come with a special power supply, you just plug it into the 12v socket. Wire gauges inside your houses walls could be smaller and safer, with only the larger wires being run to certain devices. Even lighting could run on 12v instead of 120, likely at an energy savings........
If I could moderate a story I'd mod this as flamebait -1... I mean, who cares if we don't take "perfect" pictures. We couldnt take perfect pictures with film cameras either - or with VHS or 8mm camcorders, but who cares? these pictures of my friends and familty are good enough for me to remember the good times.
I've been using peapod , which is stop and shop's online service. I can say nothing but good things about them. The biggest benefit is that we save alot of money and time. My wife and I used to go on sunday afternoon to the grocery store, and just basically impulse buy what we thought would be enough food for the week. We'd end up with far to many cookies and ice creams and not enough healthy food. Peapod has helped us alot with this since we can just log in anytime we think of something we need or have run out of, and then save the cart until next time. We typically start making the order right after we recieve previous order, and will add items for the next couple of weeks (I find it easier to order 2 weeks of groceries at a time). Delivery fee is only about 5 dollars if you order over $100 worth of groceries. They also remember all your previous orders so you can look back and see what you ordered last month or last year, and you can copy/paste a text list into their search program to speed up searching for items. It's really a great program, and I reccomend you try it at least once if it is available in your area. And now for the shameless plug, if you do sign up as a new customer based on my positive thoughts: my account is peapod at heem.org of course substituting the word at with the @ symbol.
Sure would be nice if programmers around the world would at least follow this guys lead a little bit. I'm so sick of bloated software. For example - CD Writing software for windows. Does anyone need or even want all the dang crap that comes in those?
and it's so difficult on the other hand to explain the scientific method and the deep curiosity that makes us analyze how software works and find their flaws.
Good luck, and hopefully you will have your chance. You should be able to use your rational skills as a scientist to prove that what you were doing was just.
Hopefully, This technology will allow you to choose your own provider, similar to the way DSL does. I like my cable speeds and am not *THAT* unhappy with the service, but it would be nice to be able to choose some of the providers that offer more advanced services, such as true static IPs, control over forward and reverse DNS, and allowing servers.
What the heck is this Superb Owl I keep hearing about. Whats so great about it? Does it know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
Ya know, this whole mars thing... What if the pictures they are capturing show up with these little green martian men just like in the cartoons... I mean.. do you really think they would tell us? No, of course not - so then whats the point of the whole mission?
Unfortunatley, the article only briefly (very briefly) covers Vonage's competition. I'm using Packet 8 and have been for some time now. I've found their customer service to be EXCELLENT, unlink the article suggests - Perhaps the author of the article did not realize that they are based on the west coast, and while many people believe this to be true, the world does not revolve around Eastern Time - Before anyone starts screaming - Im also on the east coast.
Anyway, we had the packet8 service installed about 6 months ago, unfortuntatley before number portablility was available, so we got a fresh new number. I had a minor problem in the begining, since my firewall (sonicwall) had a known incompatibility with H323 packets, This has since been fixed with a firmware update on sonicwall's side, but I solved the problem just by putting the phone directly on the WAN ( I pay for 5 IP's, might as well use them).
Voice quality and overall satisfaction was poor to fair in the first month or two. The phone numbers would come into the caller ID boxes all garbled up, since they would add a "1" to the beginning of the number, making the CID info all skew by one digit.Also, the time CID info was Pacific Time, not local time.
This has all been remedied since then. We've bought our first house and I brought the packet 8 device with me, plugged it into my network and installed a jack in the basement near where my network is setup. Simply plugged the device in, and we were up and running. The big bonus is we don't have to change our phone number, or pay bastard child SNET (SBC) any money.
I'm sure this is where VOIP has a big market - People like me who have been burned hard by the local phone company- you know, the guys that never care about you or me.
So, Give packet 8 a try - I'm happy, and I believe they offer a risk free trial.
I simply ran a telephone cable to the outside wiring of my house, where the telco's line would normally plug in. With a little cable stripping, I was able to remove the telcos line and splice the line from the ATA right on there.
You don't even have to get that complex about it. All you need to do is:
1 - make sure the phone company line is disconnected 2 - run a cable from your device directly into any wall jack
Now your entire house is energized with VOIP signal. Remember phone lines are just all one interconnected wire, unlike ethernet wiring which has one run for each jack, connected using a switch or a hub.
"IronPort claims its customers are not spammers but legitimate marketers."
To me, any marketing related mail is spam. Another user may want to be marketed things that he is interested in, but not me, and I suspect the same of most users of any type of anti-spam solution.
I have 5 domains registered with netsol. Can anyone reccomend another registrar that I can easily transfer my domains to? I will make it very clear to verisign why I'm moving my domains away from them, and i suggest anyone else do the same.
Slashdot Mirror
Well, considering at this time that the windows site is completely slashdotted, while the linux site is up, just a little slow from the slashdotting........
This log is your log
This log is my log
When lightning struck it
It kicked the bucket!
I poured some onions
Inside my trousers
This log, it used to be a tree
Now it spreads love to you and me
Hey look, it's headed out to sea!
"'the discs, by themselves, cannot be hacked.'"
uh huh.
In related news, "That gun isn't loaded" , "The dog doesnt bite" and "The Titanic is unsinkable"
"Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!"
But you wont need as many amps to run most devices - yes appliances will still require larger 120v lines like we already have, but things like your cell phone charger, a small 12v lamp, your electric shaver, etc - require very little amperage.
Think about the number of devices in your home that use some form of transformer to operate - Odds are it's MOST of them. With the exception of appliances, most things run on DC and require a transformer/power supply to operate. While we are at building this efficient power supply - why not make it one big efficient supply that goes in the basement of your home, with 12v 9v and 5v lines running throughout the house, instead of the 120v lines we currently have. Imagine the savings when a device no longer has to come with a special power supply, you just plug it into the 12v socket. Wire gauges inside your houses walls could be smaller and safer, with only the larger wires being run to certain devices. Even lighting could run on 12v instead of 120, likely at an energy savings........
If I could moderate a story I'd mod this as flamebait -1... I mean, who cares if we don't take "perfect" pictures. We couldnt take perfect pictures with film cameras either - or with VHS or 8mm camcorders, but who cares? these pictures of my friends and familty are good enough for me to remember the good times.
I've been using peapod , which is stop and shop's online service. I can say nothing but good things about them. The biggest benefit is that we save alot of money and time. My wife and I used to go on sunday afternoon to the grocery store, and just basically impulse buy what we thought would be enough food for the week. We'd end up with far to many cookies and ice creams and not enough healthy food. Peapod has helped us alot with this since we can just log in anytime we think of something we need or have run out of, and then save the cart until next time. We typically start making the order right after we recieve previous order, and will add items for the next couple of weeks (I find it easier to order 2 weeks of groceries at a time). Delivery fee is only about 5 dollars if you order over $100 worth of groceries. They also remember all your previous orders so you can look back and see what you ordered last month or last year, and you can copy/paste a text list into their search program to speed up searching for items. It's really a great program, and I reccomend you try it at least once if it is available in your area. And now for the shameless plug, if you do sign up as a new customer based on my positive thoughts: my account is peapod at heem.org of course substituting the word at with the @ symbol.
I'm sorry. this is flamebait, redundant and uninformative. but I had to say it.
Sure would be nice if programmers around the world would at least follow this guys lead a little bit. I'm so sick of bloated software. For example - CD Writing software for windows. Does anyone need or even want all the dang crap that comes in those?
and it's so difficult on the other hand to explain the scientific method and the deep curiosity that makes us analyze how software works and find their flaws.
Good luck, and hopefully you will have your chance. You should be able to use your rational skills as a scientist to prove that what you were doing was just.
"Yea you got the wrong number... this is.. 9-1...2."
Hopefully, This technology will allow you to choose your own provider, similar to the way DSL does. I like my cable speeds and am not *THAT* unhappy with the service, but it would be nice to be able to choose some of the providers that offer more advanced services, such as true static IPs, control over forward and reverse DNS, and allowing servers.
In Connecticut, this practice is illegal. You can not say something is free if it involves a rebate - you must say something like :
$100
-$100 rebate
Computers have screws??
What the heck is this Superb Owl I keep hearing about. Whats so great about it? Does it know how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop?
Ya know, this whole mars thing... What if the pictures they are capturing show up with these little green martian men just like in the cartoons... I mean.. do you really think they would tell us? No, of course not - so then whats the point of the whole mission?
are you suggesting I run a RJ-45 line from my modem or a phone cable line from VoIP router (some device) into a dead jack for normal telephone service
Run a standard telephone wire from your VOIP device into any dead jack.
then I can make calls? Where's the activation?! Please clarify..
The activation is from where your VOIP device came from, packet8, vonage, other competitors....
$15 - basic cable
$35 - hs internet
$27 - local phone line
$30 - long distance
$15 - taxes on local phone line and long distance
In order to even make a fair comparison, you'll likely have to beef up that $27 local phone line - remember with packet8 you are getting:
Caller ID
Voicemail
Call Waiting
Call forwarding
To have my former phone line equipped equally from SNET/SBC (spits on the ground) It cost me over $65 a month just in basic charges.
Unfortunatley, the article only briefly (very briefly) covers Vonage's competition. I'm using Packet 8 and have been for some time now. I've found their customer service to be EXCELLENT, unlink the article suggests - Perhaps the author of the article did not realize that they are based on the west coast, and while many people believe this to be true, the world does not revolve around Eastern Time - Before anyone starts screaming - Im also on the east coast.
Anyway, we had the packet8 service installed about 6 months ago, unfortuntatley before number portablility was available, so we got a fresh new number. I had a minor problem in the begining, since my firewall (sonicwall) had a known incompatibility with H323 packets, This has since been fixed with a firmware update on sonicwall's side, but I solved the problem just by putting the phone directly on the WAN ( I pay for 5 IP's, might as well use them).
Voice quality and overall satisfaction was poor to fair in the first month or two. The phone numbers would come into the caller ID boxes all garbled up, since they would add a "1" to the beginning of the number, making the CID info all skew by one digit.Also, the time CID info was Pacific Time, not local time.
This has all been remedied since then. We've bought our first house and I brought the packet 8 device with me, plugged it into my network and installed a jack in the basement near where my network is setup. Simply plugged the device in, and we were up and running. The big bonus is we don't have to change our phone number, or pay bastard child SNET (SBC) any money.
I'm sure this is where VOIP has a big market - People like me who have been burned hard by the local phone company- you know, the guys that never care about you or me.
So, Give packet 8 a try - I'm happy, and I believe they offer a risk free trial.
I simply ran a telephone cable to the outside wiring of my house, where the telco's line would normally plug in. With a little cable stripping, I was able to remove the telcos line and splice the line from the ATA right on there.
:
You don't even have to get that complex about it. All you need to do is
1 - make sure the phone company line is disconnected
2 - run a cable from your device directly into any wall jack
Now your entire house is energized with VOIP signal. Remember phone lines are just all one interconnected wire, unlike ethernet wiring which has one run for each jack, connected using a switch or a hub.
9600 baud. And in my day 2400 baud was something to get excited about.
"IronPort claims its customers are not spammers but legitimate marketers."
To me, any marketing related mail is spam. Another user may want to be marketed things that he is interested in, but not me, and I suspect the same of most users of any type of anti-spam solution.
I have 5 domains registered with netsol. Can anyone reccomend another registrar that I can easily transfer my domains to? I will make it very clear to verisign why I'm moving my domains away from them, and i suggest anyone else do the same.
Ctwxman, Now if we could only get some of your co-workers to do their bit in fast forward mode....