I looked around for quite some time on a VoIP provider and eventually settled on callVantage. There are some annoying things (cannot run behind router, wants to be first machine in line, so I had to get a 2nd IP addy from the cable company) with using this, however, their ToS isn't as bad as most other VoIP providers. Plus, though they are a rather large phone company, they have pressure on them to make this work because of their regualer landline & corporate services. I'm sure they take liberties with this being unregulated, however, they will be more noticed and have more pressure should they screw up.
So far so good, quality has been wonderful, hardly any cutout or breaky voices due to downloading a lot (slackware off bt). The modem they provide isn't half-bad, and I got to talk my wife into letting me get a 2nd DHCP address, which provides a few other advantages for me.
Plus, its a good $30.00 cheaper then the local lec.
..when your viewing an article on slashdot about microsoft licensing, and an ad for MS Small Business server stuff pops up;-)
Seriously tho, you gotta watch out, you don't wanna get your butt in trouble. Someone said in a thread, that talking to an M$ Rep, he said 'if you have 100 people but 5 computers, buy licenses for 100 people.. If you have 100 computers but 5 people, buy licenses for 100 computers.' this isn't the first I've heard of it. Infact, we thought that we didn't have to buy 300 licenses for the 300 people we had, only 250 for the 250 computers we had. Not only did our licensing guy say we should get 300 licenses, so did our laywer.. to 'avoid possiable legal trouble' its almost as if microsoft wants 1 license per 1 person using a pc. Its quite sad. Your best bet, would be talk to Microsoft Sales Rep, THEN talk to an industry lawyer THEN talk to a few people who went thru the licensing hassels and THEN weigh out all the problems you might face. I'd say it might be config problem with your wine tho, you may not even have to use M$ at all. But development time is costly, mainly weight out your options, find out whats best for you.
Just something to think about, but how do you think DOJ will react to slashdot? Expecially after the./ effect. Possiably all slashdot viewers labeled as terrorists??;-)
Or, you could install (if you happen to have a win2k server license) turbotax on a terminal services enabled server, and just let friends connect to it. There you go,its installed on just one pc..
An interesting twist would be to block the signal in your back yard, and if other peoples sat's happen to shoot thru your back yard to get the signal, tough luck for them.. I wonder what kind of reaction that would bring..
Piracy may be illegal, but I don't want to be tempted so I just block the signal. If I can't use it, I don't want it being blasted into my back yard.
What do you guys think? if anything it should post an interesting debate.
Actually, (and damnit I forgot the link to the studies) the airbags for cars, expeically ones with side airbags are up to 5 times more dangrous if your not wearing a seatbelt, there was a guy on the news not too long ago who slammed his BMW into a tree, wasn't wearing his seatbelts and because so, his airbags caused him to smash his head all over, 3 seperate fractures on his head just because he didn't have his seat belt on, they said if his car had only 2 airbags (driver and passenger seats) he wouldn't have had as many fractures. And of course, if he was wearing his seatbelt (like a smart person) he wouldn't have had any in his skull.
Wearable computing, huh? Could be interesting, but imagine the social snafus that become possible:
You're out on a date and your Cyber-sex mistress instant message's you. How embarassing.
But imangie how interesting it would be if you had that text to face software also talked about in here;-)
Here in Orlando, Fl. we have a couple of Natural Gas stations specifically for cars that support natural gas (fords for example) and our power company has a few totally electric ford rangers. They are not that high is avilability yet, however there was a thing on the news a couple of weeks ago, about how they are pushing for incentives to go with natural gas cars here. Interesting
I personally use windows for this kind of setup, mainly cause I haven't been able to find anything really good with linux to work on this laptop. My current HTPC is a Compaq Armada E500 Laptop with a cracked LCD. Lucky the Video out even works within the bios (rarly seen in laptops) and it has 800Mhz PIII, DVD, 512MB ram, 10gb hd, 16MB Rage Mobility P. I use zoomplayer (search google) with it to make video playing manageably and use a program called media-box for the navigation. I also found a little tool to use for Packard Bell remote receiviers (remember thos) that will map *ANY* remote to any key. Pretty cool stuff. Media box also works with WinAmp so you can play your ogg/mp3 files;)
Its not stealing! Not if I'm using it for "Educational Purposes Only" and as long as I don't forget to "Delete it within 24 hours" or "buy it after trying it out."
(yea I'll prolly be trolled, but still funny anyways;)
With toshiba laptops you have to either agree to the EULA or return the full laptop. I have a copy of the agreement at my desk at work, I might scan it in one day..
Its interesting, I wonder how long before M$ requires pcs to have windows (ie.. making the bios only to boot into windows or freeze if no windows installed, etc.. it can be done)
may never happen, or it may happen tommorrow.. or M$ might turn out like Worldcom (wouldn't that be interesting?)
Actually (alltho I haven't been able to get to the website due to the/. effect) he prolly opened it up in a clean room, we have one here in the pharmacy I work at that is twice as clean as any computer clean room (has to be for some of the drugs we deal with). If he opened it up in a clean room (a real clean room) then his hard drive will be fine, provided he took all the proper steps to ensure nothing gets in it.
Actually, atleast in the old days, there was a reason.. Say you had a car phone, and a regular cell phone.. Your car phone has hands free, intergrates with your stereo, makes food, whatever.. If they both have the same number, you can call from either phone using the same service, same account, same phone number.. I don't know how viable this now with digital pcs phones and the like, but atleast back in the mid 90s it was great..
A lot of companies charge extra for 2 phones, and they can't have the same number, etc.. thats what this was perfect for..
But I think now you have more people stealing phones then using this method to make life easier.
...how long will walmart adopt this for their linux pcs? This looks a lot better then lindows (tho unfortunally I don't think they have wine preinstalled) and would have more of a standard welcoming base then mandrake.. they might even be able to sell these instore..;)
Why Do they feel it's necessary to sneak in legislation? Surely you're bypassing due debate and democracy? Eventually you're going to get a government almost wholly controlled by these huge corporations with big pockets who just want to protect their own interests.
"It is possible, for example, that the bill allows criminal prosecutions as well as private suits against anyone who uses a black Magic Marker to disable copy protection features built into some recent music CDs," Baker says. "At $25,000 a CD, that could be a very expensive experiment."
Quick! Throw away all your markers!!
seriously tho, this is getting insane, soon you'll be forced to watermark your work, but inorder to watermark it you will be charged x amount of dollars, what would this do to the opensource community, expecially since opensource doesn't incorporate drm and I seriously doubt that it will be easy to come up with a standard to incorporate drm into linux without it being hacked to shreds.. We need to contact our senate, tell them this is a big no-no, and this really cound hurt innovation!!
I know that win98 is only running some sensors and such, nothing too critical.. but you gotta laugh at the notion.. imagine how much insurance would cost if cars ran win98 for critical functions;)
provided the claims are valid, I wonder if they do decide to try to go after linux, if they will restrict the use of OpenGL with any, something similiar to this?
Personally I think thats something they would do, own the IP Patents, grant Apple a "free" use licence but turn away opensource. Calling it yet again "Virus / Backdoor" software.. (well atleast something similar)
as another guy replied too, I completely forgot they're using BSD for their hotmail service.. and I guess they do know how a stable operating system is suppose to work, they did rape bsd afterall.. I just think they like making big semi-useless patches.. (now really, does it take 22mb to close a hole in Media player??);)
Its been done for a while by HP expecially in the Vectra Line of pcs.. I have a few Kayak's and Vectra's, using their DMI/WMI Clients they detect the intrusion detection and even will report it to a central server like HP Toptools. If I'm not mistaken it will even report changes in system states (stuff removed/added) etc.. it stores it in the bios area I think, or atleast in flash.. it'll keep it even after the bios battery has been removed or reset.. (and ofcourse with no power).. I think even some asus boards support this.. anyone know of support outside of HP/Compaq?
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I looked around for quite some time on a VoIP provider and eventually settled on callVantage. There are some annoying things (cannot run behind router, wants to be first machine in line, so I had to get a 2nd IP addy from the cable company) with using this, however, their ToS isn't as bad as most other VoIP providers. Plus, though they are a rather large phone company, they have pressure on them to make this work because of their regualer landline & corporate services. I'm sure they take liberties with this being unregulated, however, they will be more noticed and have more pressure should they screw up. So far so good, quality has been wonderful, hardly any cutout or breaky voices due to downloading a lot (slackware off bt). The modem they provide isn't half-bad, and I got to talk my wife into letting me get a 2nd DHCP address, which provides a few other advantages for me. Plus, its a good $30.00 cheaper then the local lec.
Seriously tho, you gotta watch out, you don't wanna get your butt in trouble. Someone said in a thread, that talking to an M$ Rep, he said 'if you have 100 people but 5 computers, buy licenses for 100 people.. If you have 100 computers but 5 people, buy licenses for 100 computers.' this isn't the first I've heard of it. Infact, we thought that we didn't have to buy 300 licenses for the 300 people we had, only 250 for the 250 computers we had. Not only did our licensing guy say we should get 300 licenses, so did our laywer.. to 'avoid possiable legal trouble' its almost as if microsoft wants 1 license per 1 person using a pc. Its quite sad. Your best bet, would be talk to Microsoft Sales Rep, THEN talk to an industry lawyer THEN talk to a few people who went thru the licensing hassels and THEN weigh out all the problems you might face. I'd say it might be config problem with your wine tho, you may not even have to use M$ at all. But development time is costly, mainly weight out your options, find out whats best for you.
Just something to think about, but how do you think DOJ will react to slashdot? Expecially after the ./ effect. Possiably all slashdot viewers labeled as terrorists?? ;-)
Or, you could install (if you happen to have a win2k server license) turbotax on a terminal services enabled server, and just let friends connect to it. There you go,its installed on just one pc..
Piracy may be illegal, but I don't want to be tempted so I just block the signal. If I can't use it, I don't want it being blasted into my back yard.
What do you guys think? if anything it should post an interesting debate.
Actually, (and damnit I forgot the link to the studies) the airbags for cars, expeically ones with side airbags are up to 5 times more dangrous if your not wearing a seatbelt, there was a guy on the news not too long ago who slammed his BMW into a tree, wasn't wearing his seatbelts and because so, his airbags caused him to smash his head all over, 3 seperate fractures on his head just because he didn't have his seat belt on, they said if his car had only 2 airbags (driver and passenger seats) he wouldn't have had as many fractures. And of course, if he was wearing his seatbelt (like a smart person) he wouldn't have had any in his skull.
Or rather a friend of mine, he use to work at what most people I know, call "Tech Support Hell," Convergy, they do outsourceing for a whole bunch of people, you can see it all on their website, anyways he posted a few things on (tho got a little carried away, prolly while drunk) and ended up getting himself canned (hence the reason he started posting on how to beat warrenty system. He's lucky he didn't get sued, he still claims its not him. But they threated him, fired him, and said if he ever said anything about it again they'd "sue him into poverty" they even made him sign some lame ass paper (to which he has a copy of) that basically says if he doesn't say anything, they won't sue, if he does they have the right to garnish his current wages for an unspecified amount of damages (he was 18 at the time which is the only reason I could think that he would even sign such a paper)
You're out on a date and your Cyber-sex mistress instant message's you. How embarassing.
But imangie how interesting it would be if you had that text to face software also talked about in here ;-)
Here in Orlando, Fl. we have a couple of Natural Gas stations specifically for cars that support natural gas (fords for example) and our power company has a few totally electric ford rangers. They are not that high is avilability yet, however there was a thing on the news a couple of weeks ago, about how they are pushing for incentives to go with natural gas cars here. Interesting
I bet tho, they will try to sue the maker since their browser would undoubtedly surf music sites.
I personally use windows for this kind of setup, mainly cause I haven't been able to find anything really good with linux to work on this laptop. My current HTPC is a Compaq Armada E500 Laptop with a cracked LCD. Lucky the Video out even works within the bios (rarly seen in laptops) and it has 800Mhz PIII, DVD, 512MB ram, 10gb hd, 16MB Rage Mobility P. I use zoomplayer (search google) with it to make video playing manageably and use a program called media-box for the navigation. I also found a little tool to use for Packard Bell remote receiviers (remember thos) that will map *ANY* remote to any key. Pretty cool stuff. Media box also works with WinAmp so you can play your ogg/mp3 files ;)
(yea I'll prolly be trolled, but still funny anyways ;)
Its interesting, I wonder how long before M$ requires pcs to have windows (ie.. making the bios only to boot into windows or freeze if no windows installed, etc.. it can be done)
may never happen, or it may happen tommorrow.. or M$ might turn out like Worldcom (wouldn't that be interesting?)
Actually (alltho I haven't been able to get to the website due to the /. effect) he prolly opened it up in a clean room, we have one here in the pharmacy I work at that is twice as clean as any computer clean room (has to be for some of the drugs we deal with). If he opened it up in a clean room (a real clean room) then his hard drive will be fine, provided he took all the proper steps to ensure nothing gets in it.
A lot of companies charge extra for 2 phones, and they can't have the same number, etc.. thats what this was perfect for..
But I think now you have more people stealing phones then using this method to make life easier.
...how long will walmart adopt this for their linux pcs? This looks a lot better then lindows (tho unfortunally I don't think they have wine preinstalled) and would have more of a standard welcoming base then mandrake.. they might even be able to sell these instore.. ;)
What I find scary, is people are actually DOWNLOADING episodes of Seinfeld ;)
You mean its not??
~slak
Quick! Throw away all your markers!!
seriously tho, this is getting insane, soon you'll be forced to watermark your work, but inorder to watermark it you will be charged x amount of dollars, what would this do to the opensource community, expecially since opensource doesn't incorporate drm and I seriously doubt that it will be easy to come up with a standard to incorporate drm into linux without it being hacked to shreds.. We need to contact our senate, tell them this is a big no-no, and this really cound hurt innovation!!
~slak
I know that win98 is only running some sensors and such, nothing too critical.. but you gotta laugh at the notion.. imagine how much insurance would cost if cars ran win98 for critical functions ;)
Personally I think thats something they would do, own the IP Patents, grant Apple a "free" use licence but turn away opensource. Calling it yet again "Virus / Backdoor" software.. (well atleast something similar)
slak
Seriously tho, it would be interesting, mabey they will be able to see first hand how a stable Operating system is suppose to work! ;)
and I never read Enders, so your not alone ;)
~slak