From what I can work out, it is the contrail of the SRBs. Have a look into the shuttle trajectory, the launch site is visible to start with in the downward facing camera. Then, the view moves, and the sea almost fills the view with the launch site towards the bottom of the frame. In order to insert into the correct orbit, the shuttle "rotates", and does not go straight up - if fact it only goes straight up to clear the tower and any flight paths. The launch is really a parabola, in that an orbit is a parabola its just that is goes around the body you are orbiting. As it rotates, you can see the SRB exhaust gases, and the water vapour of the main engines as the classic launch plume.
I also noticed that the SRB is still "firing" for a quite while after it seperates - watch for the clouding on the lense from the exhaust gases and the flames you see later from the motor end.
I'm kind of sorry that the above could be seen as flamebait. It does contain at least some points that are worth clarifying.
Asterisk is one of several different VoIP open-source / freeware software PBX solutions. One of the things you can do is program a phone menu system into it. It is I admit somewhat of a black art still to actually configure Asterisk but if you can get the hang of it, it is very powerful. If you don't like it, try one of the others. It runs on many platforms, some with hardware limitations and of course the underlying security as a whole. Once a call is in your PBX you can then of course program it to do anything that you can devise.
I personally think the hardware adaptors are expensive for any number/combination of ports (FXO - foreign exchange office and FXS - foreign exchange station - see http://www.voip-info.org/ for a wiki), especially here in the UK if you source locally. I do like the Sipura/Vegastream adaptors for their hardware simplicity though. It may be much better to consider IP phones such as GrandStream or SnomPhone if you are starting from scratch. A mixture of the two is of course what most people will do if they have relatively expensive analogue DTMF telephone handsets.
YMMV especially if you have to deal with a non-US type telephone system as you will need some kind of adaptor at least a one point in your network.
Obviously your IT guys just don't want to be bothered all the time. If you get past the menus then you must have a good (read important) reason to require their time. Time is money especially to four guys supporting many more poeple than perhaps they should. Not many have escaped IT cutbacks.
I did a 12 month placement at HP labs in the UK (Bristol to be exact) from Aug 2002 - whilst in the process of merging with compaq and with management slashing the research budget. At least I was insulated a bit from the fray - and it was 'interesting times' but probably for all the wrong reasons. Suffice it to say the project I was doing was miss-managed despite being praised by the upper echelons of the labs. Nevermind, now I've graduated from UMIST (now Manchester Uni), with a BSc (Hons) 2:2 in Computation and I'm earning not much more than I was paid for my placement year. My job is with a small internet company near Manchester. I'm OK, I just wonder about the people still working at the labs around the world- and the rest of HP's staff, never mind the management.
SCO have now published an correction on the previous news item. SCO are in fact demanding 1000 USD per CPU, where CPU is defined as a single 'brain'. Therefore even thinking in English will require a license.
In a statement, SCO's press spokesperson said, "We do not yet have a mechanism to ensure only licensed users infringe upon our property rights, but we are working on a system which we will release any day now. If you pay now you will not face court action".
Promptly after releasing this statement, they sued all publications reporting the statement for a record 49 billion USD.
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From what I can work out, it is the contrail of the SRBs. Have a look into the shuttle trajectory, the launch site is visible to start with in the downward facing camera. Then, the view moves, and the sea almost fills the view with the launch site towards the bottom of the frame. In order to insert into the correct orbit, the shuttle "rotates", and does not go straight up - if fact it only goes straight up to clear the tower and any flight paths. The launch is really a parabola, in that an orbit is a parabola its just that is goes around the body you are orbiting. As it rotates, you can see the SRB exhaust gases, and the water vapour of the main engines as the classic launch plume.
I also noticed that the SRB is still "firing" for a quite while after it seperates - watch for the clouding on the lense from the exhaust gases and the flames you see later from the motor end.
I'm kind of sorry that the above could be seen as flamebait. It does contain at least some points that are worth clarifying.
Asterisk is one of several different VoIP open-source / freeware software PBX solutions. One of the things you can do is program a phone menu system into it. It is I admit somewhat of a black art still to actually configure Asterisk but if you can get the hang of it, it is very powerful. If you don't like it, try one of the others. It runs on many platforms, some with hardware limitations and of course the underlying security as a whole. Once a call is in your PBX you can then of course program it to do anything that you can devise.
I personally think the hardware adaptors are expensive for any number/combination of ports (FXO - foreign exchange office and FXS - foreign exchange station - see http://www.voip-info.org/ for a wiki), especially here in the UK if you source locally. I do like the Sipura/Vegastream adaptors for their hardware simplicity though. It may be much better to consider IP phones such as GrandStream or SnomPhone if you are starting from scratch. A mixture of the two is of course what most people will do if they have relatively expensive analogue DTMF telephone handsets.
YMMV especially if you have to deal with a non-US type telephone system as you will need some kind of adaptor at least a one point in your network.
Obviously your IT guys just don't want to be bothered all the time. If you get past the menus then you must have a good (read important) reason to require their time. Time is money especially to four guys supporting many more poeple than perhaps they should. Not many have escaped IT cutbacks.
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This is just being lazy
Sky have started transmitting some channels in HD
I did a 12 month placement at HP labs in the UK (Bristol to be exact) from Aug 2002 - whilst in the process of merging with compaq and with management slashing the research budget. At least I was insulated a bit from the fray - and it was 'interesting times' but probably for all the wrong reasons. Suffice it to say the project I was doing was miss-managed despite being praised by the upper echelons of the labs. Nevermind, now I've graduated from UMIST (now Manchester Uni), with a BSc (Hons) 2:2 in Computation and I'm earning not much more than I was paid for my placement year. My job is with a small internet company near Manchester. I'm OK, I just wonder about the people still working at the labs around the world- and the rest of HP's staff, never mind the management.
In a statement, SCO's press spokesperson said, "We do not yet have a mechanism to ensure only licensed users infringe upon our property rights, but we are working on a system which we will release any day now. If you pay now you will not face court action".
Promptly after releasing this statement, they sued all publications reporting the statement for a record 49 billion USD.
This publication will now self destruct....