PS. You may also want to check out the demo of Voxbox. It offers point and click ability to do things like add extentions, call groups, voice menus, hold music etc.
Vonage offers 30, 50, and 90Kbits/sec. I use the 50 Kbps setting and I don't notice much difference over my land line. I have to say that I am also pretty happy with their service. My phone bill was $58/mo with no long distance, I save $43/mo with vonage, that alone covers the cost of my cable modem.
2005 will be the year that people understand you don't need 802.11 to use a cordless phone with VoIP. With most VoIP adapters is a standard RJ-11 connector, just get a normal multi-handset cordless phone.
I also predict that business class phones will become more popular in the home with features like xfer, speaker, conference calling etc.
Video phones will pick up slightly by the end of the year, but for the most part they will still be too expensive for general consumer use. I think cell-phone style hands free kits will be more popular than video phones in the short term.
Perhaps not exactly the pre-packages solution you are looking for, but you may want to check out Asterisk Management Portal, the OSS non commercial version of Voxbox (with screenshots) and Flash Operator Panel, it runs on AMP and gives a realtime look at call activity through the PBX.
I believe Voxbox, from a software point, does pretty much what you are looking for, now if you can just find someone to package it with small hardware platform for a decent price...
As a matter of fact, Microsoft is already leading this market with Windows terminal services. Basically the client systems are diskless, they look like a cable modem with a vid card. I have seen them used in hospitals etc. Sun has a similar system with the Sun Ray, but they seem to be losing popularity.
Exactly, people complain about XP's startup time as it is, now they want to host all their apps and the OS on a network drive at the ISP's head end? Why does this make more sense? Users can simply still run a virus that will just fsck their files over the network drive.
But why would the California Institute of Technology make it available only in real media format? They have a direct download link for real player but why not instead link the less intrusive real alternative It is nice to see that being a major technical university still does not even make you qualified to admin a small LAN of windows machines.
Actually I quit feeling sorry for them while I was at the movies. After the 25th or 30th time paying money to hear the painter and the stuntman complain about how piracy hurts them the message was pretty much lost on me.
"Its the performance hit I take with my bandwidth everytime a call comes in"
You can't stop surfing long enough to answer your phone? Besides, on a cable modem you still have more than enough bandwidth to support both things at the same time
"voice clarity is remarkably different over IP than over a land line"
Maybe I just have a better internet connection than you but I didn't notice a difference even after lowering my bandwidth setting for Vonage.
"Everytime Comcast drops my connection"
This is a risk, but less so if you have a cell phone, vonage has a feature to automaticially forward calls to my cell phone if my VoIP phone goes down.
"Also, short of re-wiring your house, you'd need to have network access at every phone you'd like to use."
I use a uniden dual cordless phone base. It comes with 2 cordless phones but you can use up to 10.
And you can get 10 more HP for being the first idiot to put a NOS sticker on a car with an electric motor.
But we joked about imports for so long, now Japan has a car that will blow the doors off almost any American sedan and still has a gas mileage of 29/37. The 145 HP 2.4L Stratus only gets 24/32.
A stock Honda Accord Hybrid with 3.0L engine (255 HP) would fucking eat that. They won't even have to remove the interior, raise the voltage, or lower it 5 inches.
I had the same problem on my brothers PC, it was a self installed little nasty called CoolWebSearch. It is a pretty common browser hijacker these days. I got around it with a removal tool called CWShredder and a windows update.
I used to use an email client called PocoMail, it too has a Bayesian engine, but it also has a configurable wordlist. eg. "rolex",+10 "realname",-10 etc. It also has advanced support for creating mail filters to sort mail, writing scripts etc. It is really an email client for power users.
"Although a few well-meaning souls volunteered to be the contacts for SpamAssassin, when it came time to test no one would step up to the plate and represent the product at a level that would make it competitive to the other enterprise-focused vendors."
That is because the non-free malware companies sponsor them and they sell shareware. It is a conflict of interest for them to promote quality freeware.
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PS. You may also want to check out the demo of Voxbox. It offers point and click ability to do things like add extentions, call groups, voice menus, hold music etc.
Vonage offers 30, 50, and 90Kbits/sec. I use the 50 Kbps setting and I don't notice much difference over my land line. I have to say that I am also pretty happy with their service. My phone bill was $58/mo with no long distance, I save $43/mo with vonage, that alone covers the cost of my cable modem.
I also predict that business class phones will become more popular in the home with features like xfer, speaker, conference calling etc.
Video phones will pick up slightly by the end of the year, but for the most part they will still be too expensive for general consumer use. I think cell-phone style hands free kits will be more popular than video phones in the short term.
Ausome, now I can dialup over VoIP if my broadband connection goes down!
I believe Voxbox, from a software point, does pretty much what you are looking for, now if you can just find someone to package it with small hardware platform for a decent price...
As a matter of fact, Microsoft is already leading this market with Windows terminal services. Basically the client systems are diskless, they look like a cable modem with a vid card. I have seen them used in hospitals etc. Sun has a similar system with the Sun Ray, but they seem to be losing popularity.
Exactly, people complain about XP's startup time as it is, now they want to host all their apps and the OS on a network drive at the ISP's head end? Why does this make more sense? Users can simply still run a virus that will just fsck their files over the network drive.
But why would the California Institute of Technology make it available only in real media format? They have a direct download link for real player but why not instead link the less intrusive real alternative It is nice to see that being a major technical university still does not even make you qualified to admin a small LAN of windows machines.
Actually I quit feeling sorry for them while I was at the movies. After the 25th or 30th time paying money to hear the painter and the stuntman complain about how piracy hurts them the message was pretty much lost on me.
You can't stop surfing long enough to answer your phone? Besides, on a cable modem you still have more than enough bandwidth to support both things at the same time
"voice clarity is remarkably different over IP than over a land line"
Maybe I just have a better internet connection than you but I didn't notice a difference even after lowering my bandwidth setting for Vonage.
"Everytime Comcast drops my connection"
This is a risk, but less so if you have a cell phone, vonage has a feature to automaticially forward calls to my cell phone if my VoIP phone goes down.
"Also, short of re-wiring your house, you'd need to have network access at every phone you'd like to use."
I use a uniden dual cordless phone base. It comes with 2 cordless phones but you can use up to 10.
With tactics like this I hope they don't wonder why people don't feel sorry for them.
You pay $55/month for verizon so you can save 1MB/day in bandwidth?
But we joked about imports for so long, now Japan has a car that will blow the doors off almost any American sedan and still has a gas mileage of 29/37. The 145 HP 2.4L Stratus only gets 24/32.
A stock Honda Accord Hybrid with 3.0L engine (255 HP) would fucking eat that. They won't even have to remove the interior, raise the voltage, or lower it 5 inches.
It's not the size of the UID that counts, it's how you use it.
I had the same problem on my brothers PC, it was a self installed little nasty called CoolWebSearch. It is a pretty common browser hijacker these days. I got around it with a removal tool called CWShredder and a windows update.
I read that as Rendezvous with Trillian (eg. ZeroConf).
RTA, you can keep the bike for 24 hours for $15 (EUR), or $60.00 for a week.
I used to use an email client called PocoMail, it too has a Bayesian engine, but it also has a configurable wordlist. eg. "rolex",+10 "realname",-10 etc. It also has advanced support for creating mail filters to sort mail, writing scripts etc. It is really an email client for power users.
"Although a few well-meaning souls volunteered to be the contacts for SpamAssassin, when it came time to test no one would step up to the plate and represent the product at a level that would make it competitive to the other enterprise-focused vendors."
Here is the link to the bugmenot firefox extention.
Either NYT left that out or I missed it, so what is it?
That is because the non-free malware companies sponsor them and they sell shareware. It is a conflict of interest for them to promote quality freeware.
Here is a link to the google translated cases page
So $540 + shipping for a case that you can't even buy without the gay window in it. No thanks.