I prefer not to pull down the entire article, I have a web browser for this. I use a Windows reader called Klipfolio. It has panels that display just the headlines, I mouse over for the first part of the article, or open the link in my browser if I want to read it. I know I should probably start using a "regular" RSS reader, but I am not giving up Klipfolio.
Thank you for squashing that. Vonage is a great home solution, but it is NOT a PBX solution. Also, the software solution is probably obvious with Asterisk, AMP etc. But building the hardware starts to get a little pricey if you want to do your own terminating back to a circuit switched network (see cards from digium for this). But I believe the cheapest solution would be to stick with packet switching and leave the circuit switching to another carrier. You can build your own Asterisk PBX on standard x86 hardware for dirt, then find a carrier that is willing to offfer how ever many lines you need. There are SIP friendly carriers that will let you bring your own hardware, but you should shop around.
Outside of this, you are looking at buying a full solution from some company like Cisco or Nortel for 10x the price. I don't blame him for asking this question because I too have done a little bit of looking and found no middle ground between hacking togeather your own solution for close to free or spending hundreds of thousands for a full solution. I look forward to hopefully reading some comments a little more informative than "uhm, Vonage is great!"
Actually, I have a reliable source that electrons travel through a circuit at up to 1.2x the speed of light, or ~359751 km/sec. This is in part becasue a substance like copper has a greater density than air (this is also the reason sound travels better in water). And since the circuit is not a perfectly straight line, centrifugal force causes the electrons to speed up slightly while cornering.
"The problem isn't backward compatibility, it is forward compatibility. Windows doesn't offer that (in most cases)."
Actually that is not true, I used to use NT4 at work and I used a ton of software that was built for 98/2K/XP etc. Additionally, almost any software I was able to use on Win98 I am also able to install to XP. 98 -> XP is not just a version upgrade, it is an entirely different operating system. I break Linux stuff with point releases
Listen, it isn't news that Linux has poor backward/forward compatibility compared to Windows. If believing Linux has a lower TCO requires I drink the cool-aid and subscribe to the idea that this is not the case them I am going to have to side with MS on this one. I can see not liking MS, but not to the point of refusting to see the obvious just becasue they came out ahead in something.
0.0.0.0 is often used to represent anything else not found in the local routing table. Traffic for it could be sent out expecting a reply or sent to the default gateway. So it makes more sense to send traffic to loopback becasue the application could hang if it is waiting for 0.0.0.0 to reply.
Point taken, but a slightly better example would be if you compare AMD to Intel in only one benchmark and the AMD proc won, would it be safe to assume they have the fastest overall processor? No, not really.
The problems stems from third-party software that was incompatible with the Linux system they used
So? I get stuck with compatibility problems all the time on my Linux stuff, could it be that there is an actual cost to messing around trying to get stuff working? If there is one thing Windows is good for, it is backwards compatibility.
HDD will always be a bottleneck because they require actual physical movement. Even on the high end it is still thousands of times slower than you can move electrons through a bus. The only hardware solution to the problem is to compensate with allot of caching, or start using solid state storage. This is partly why Google stores data on huge banks of RAM.
Sure they sell them at a $125 loss, but it only comes with a 20 gig HDD and the place where it shines (where the $525 was spent) is in grapgics processing. Not to point out the obvious, but a 16 meg graphics card would be fine for what most people use Linux for. If the goal is to hurt MS, I don't think a few hundred (or thousand) people buying a 360 _only_ for running Linux will really do anything more than improve their sales numbers. You will just be out $400 that could have been much better spent elsewhere.
I thought I remembered this article from a few days ago. It seems that even Dell is finally starting to see the light.
We hear this same "news" every ~6 months. I suspect that Dell sees the light every single time they need to negotiate better pricing with Intel. IMHO 'till they actually ship AMD systems they are just crying wolf again.
Could it be that Intel's days as a CPU manufacturer are numbered?
From what I have heard, Intel's per processor manufacturing costs are (much?) lower than AMD's. So if Intel wanted to play the price/performance game they could, but they don't have to because they still hold > 80% of the market even when they are way behind AMD in performance.
Well I have never tried to "sudo bash" in Ununtu, but I have done a "sudo passwd root" which works nearly just as good becasue then you can just su to root with the new password. You may also be able to just type "sudo su", but I have never tried it.
I know that. The point is I don't think I have any "truly private matters", I just like to have some level of privacy for anything that is not work related. People who do not even know me should not know every detail of when I sent my car in for repair or if I am making plans that weekend just because they sit near my cube, it is creepy. I don't care that my IM's are company property because I really have nothing to hide, but having something to hide and wanting some level of privacy are 2 different things.
I have found that IM is also great for this. Most of my coworkers and I IM each other stuff rather than say it to avoid world+dog hearing everything we say. Where I can't use IM I try to use email, and when I HAVE to make a personal phone call at work I walk out of the building and use my cell phone.
There are just too many things that computer science teaches that you can not pick up in the workplace.
Well apparently your curriculum (like many) didn't skip arrogance. But as a former CS major I would have to disagree with you. Most of the classes you take are just filler stuff, and some simesters I found myself taking only 1 or 2 classes in my major. All the best people I have worked with are people who are just passionate about what they do but do not have degrees.
It is true, this industry sucks. Sometimes you are lucky to string along 3 to 5 years in one company before they fold or get purchased. There is little job security even if you are really good at what you do. You will find yourself traveling city to city for work. That is great if you are single, but as soon as you have kids or *gasp* a girlfriend, going from company to company will get really old really fast. If you are going to invest the kind of time and money to come out of school with a 4 year engineering degree or a masters the grass is definitely greener on the other side.
I tried Ubuntu also, but I found that it was just too difficult to install software. There is limited community support with sites like ubuntuguide.org but the descriptions on that site are just too difficult to follow for me. The other thing I really hated about it were the overly bright colors and useless eye candy, it gives me a head ache. I with I could change it to something a little more earthy and easy on the eyes. It is out of my price range.
What is the point of paying thousands to get one from eBay and then having to wait for shipping? Why not just pre-order? At worst it would take you 1 or 2 days longer than eBay.
Pennsylvania! I live very comfortably in rural PA on a salary you couldn't get an apartment in NYC or Silicon Valley with. There might not be much to see, but I travel a couple times a year on vacation and have stuff to play with so I don't get too bored.
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It would contain porn, so in a way yes.
It is nice to hear an alternitave opinion once in a while. Open Source is not a cure-all, it has a dark side too.
I uploaded a screenshot of Klipfolio here.
I prefer not to pull down the entire article, I have a web browser for this. I use a Windows reader called Klipfolio. It has panels that display just the headlines, I mouse over for the first part of the article, or open the link in my browser if I want to read it. I know I should probably start using a "regular" RSS reader, but I am not giving up Klipfolio.
Outside of this, you are looking at buying a full solution from some company like Cisco or Nortel for 10x the price. I don't blame him for asking this question because I too have done a little bit of looking and found no middle ground between hacking togeather your own solution for close to free or spending hundreds of thousands for a full solution. I look forward to hopefully reading some comments a little more informative than "uhm, Vonage is great!"
The nick is not named after Judas. BTW, it is always nice to meet other pastafarians.
You had a very unhappy childhood didn't you?
Actually, I have a reliable source that electrons travel through a circuit at up to 1.2x the speed of light, or ~359751 km/sec. This is in part becasue a substance like copper has a greater density than air (this is also the reason sound travels better in water). And since the circuit is not a perfectly straight line, centrifugal force causes the electrons to speed up slightly while cornering.
Actually that is not true, I used to use NT4 at work and I used a ton of software that was built for 98/2K/XP etc. Additionally, almost any software I was able to use on Win98 I am also able to install to XP. 98 -> XP is not just a version upgrade, it is an entirely different operating system. I break Linux stuff with point releases
Listen, it isn't news that Linux has poor backward/forward compatibility compared to Windows. If believing Linux has a lower TCO requires I drink the cool-aid and subscribe to the idea that this is not the case them I am going to have to side with MS on this one. I can see not liking MS, but not to the point of refusting to see the obvious just becasue they came out ahead in something.
Everyone one /. knows the answer to that! You compare the seperate strengths of each of them to Windows 98. Gawd, you are such a n00b!1!one1!!
0.0.0.0 is often used to represent anything else not found in the local routing table. Traffic for it could be sent out expecting a reply or sent to the default gateway. So it makes more sense to send traffic to loopback becasue the application could hang if it is waiting for 0.0.0.0 to reply.
Point taken, but a slightly better example would be if you compare AMD to Intel in only one benchmark and the AMD proc won, would it be safe to assume they have the fastest overall processor? No, not really.
So? I get stuck with compatibility problems all the time on my Linux stuff, could it be that there is an actual cost to messing around trying to get stuff working? If there is one thing Windows is good for, it is backwards compatibility.
HDD will always be a bottleneck because they require actual physical movement. Even on the high end it is still thousands of times slower than you can move electrons through a bus. The only hardware solution to the problem is to compensate with allot of caching, or start using solid state storage. This is partly why Google stores data on huge banks of RAM.
Sure they sell them at a $125 loss, but it only comes with a 20 gig HDD and the place where it shines (where the $525 was spent) is in grapgics processing. Not to point out the obvious, but a 16 meg graphics card would be fine for what most people use Linux for. If the goal is to hurt MS, I don't think a few hundred (or thousand) people buying a 360 _only_ for running Linux will really do anything more than improve their sales numbers. You will just be out $400 that could have been much better spent elsewhere.
We hear this same "news" every ~6 months. I suspect that Dell sees the light every single time they need to negotiate better pricing with Intel. IMHO 'till they actually ship AMD systems they are just crying wolf again.
Could it be that Intel's days as a CPU manufacturer are numbered?
From what I have heard, Intel's per processor manufacturing costs are (much?) lower than AMD's. So if Intel wanted to play the price/performance game they could, but they don't have to because they still hold > 80% of the market even when they are way behind AMD in performance.
Well I have never tried to "sudo bash" in Ununtu, but I have done a "sudo passwd root" which works nearly just as good becasue then you can just su to root with the new password. You may also be able to just type "sudo su", but I have never tried it.
I know that. The point is I don't think I have any "truly private matters", I just like to have some level of privacy for anything that is not work related. People who do not even know me should not know every detail of when I sent my car in for repair or if I am making plans that weekend just because they sit near my cube, it is creepy. I don't care that my IM's are company property because I really have nothing to hide, but having something to hide and wanting some level of privacy are 2 different things.
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I have found that IM is also great for this. Most of my coworkers and I IM each other stuff rather than say it to avoid world+dog hearing everything we say. Where I can't use IM I try to use email, and when I HAVE to make a personal phone call at work I walk out of the building and use my cell phone.
Well apparently your curriculum (like many) didn't skip arrogance. But as a former CS major I would have to disagree with you. Most of the classes you take are just filler stuff, and some simesters I found myself taking only 1 or 2 classes in my major. All the best people I have worked with are people who are just passionate about what they do but do not have degrees.
It is true, this industry sucks. Sometimes you are lucky to string along 3 to 5 years in one company before they fold or get purchased. There is little job security even if you are really good at what you do. You will find yourself traveling city to city for work. That is great if you are single, but as soon as you have kids or *gasp* a girlfriend, going from company to company will get really old really fast. If you are going to invest the kind of time and money to come out of school with a 4 year engineering degree or a masters the grass is definitely greener on the other side.
I tried Ubuntu also, but I found that it was just too difficult to install software. There is limited community support with sites like ubuntuguide.org but the descriptions on that site are just too difficult to follow for me. The other thing I really hated about it were the overly bright colors and useless eye candy, it gives me a head ache. I with I could change it to something a little more earthy and easy on the eyes. It is out of my price range.
What is the point of paying thousands to get one from eBay and then having to wait for shipping? Why not just pre-order? At worst it would take you 1 or 2 days longer than eBay.
Pennsylvania!
I live very comfortably in rural PA on a salary you couldn't get an apartment in NYC or Silicon Valley with. There might not be much to see, but I travel a couple times a year on vacation and have stuff to play with so I don't get too bored.