Dual stream cable card (iirc) so I can record more than one show at a time. And I honestly don't remember if its 4$ a month, or a one time fee. Either way, my cable card setup/experience is not the devil that its being made out to be on/.
While I know your speaking of Sun Storage 7xxxx series, and I do agree the UI is awesome (dtrace + zfs is great) where their product line falls apart is redundancy. I can purcahse a NetApp 20xx series filer with redundant heads for cheaper than i can purchase a sun storage 7xxx appliance which is HA. The replication is still based on drbd equivilant, and only recently has ZFS introduced dedup. Sun has a long way to go before they can hold a candle to the mid-lower end Filers
While I doubt this will get modded anything other than troll, here is my cable card experience
Purchasee Tivo Series 3 HD
Go to comcast store/office
pickup CableCard, (for 4 dollars and xx change a month)
Go home
plugin cablecard to series3
CableCARD bios? appears on screen with various info
call comcast customer support
read codes on screen to customer rep
done
every channel i had on my set top box, works. No problems since. Total time on hold, approx 45 seconds.
Good god, finally the voice of reason.
I admit I don't do any development, bu ASLR seems like it defends mainly against low level attacks. By that I mean attacks written against kernel level stuff, or RING 0, whatever. When you consider that much of the malware/viruses out there are designed to spread themselves as quickly as possible and NOT attack a users data, this ASLR seems like a moot point.
Am i missing anything? Probably;)
I think Dennis Leary said it best (or bill hicks)
Because you're always telling us, "You know, ever cigarette takes six minutes off your life. If you quit now you can live an extra ten years. If you quit now, you can live an extra twenty years." Hey, I got two words for you, ok. Jim Fix. Remember Jim Fix? The big famous jogging guy? Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped out of a heart attack when? When he was fucking jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went, "Hey! That's Jim Fix, isn't it?" "Wow, what a fucking tragedy. Come on, lets go buy some buds."
It's always the yogurt sprout eating mother fuckers who get run over buy a bus drive by a guy who smokes three and a half packs a day. "Sorry officer, I didn't see him. I was too busy smoking!"
'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to... use open source to reduce our costs."
This makes Jim sound like a complete tool. People who want to save money by switching to open source solutions typically don't go to Redhat.
You really want to save money? Switch to CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu. Those are free.
In my experience companies usually use free solutions for the majority of their server fleet. For systems that require commercial support (Oracle, Weblogic, etc) they will use RHEL.
And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss...
On a personal note.....DONT DO IT! JBoss blows chunks compared to Weblogic 10.
If you want a cheaper J2EE solution, look at Glassfish its getting a lot of attention and having used the last stable version it is actually pretty good.
Especially in field operations knows how insecure our phone pedestals (the little green and brown enclosers along your neighborhood roadds) are. Typically they use just a standard hex wrench to open. Dress in the right clothing, grab your butt set and go to town.
Commercial bldgs are not much different. If you can talk the lingo and have a tool bet, its not hard to use a little social engineering to get into building telco closets. Having worked in telco for many years I can't count how many times I have been let into bldgs by just saying "I am with xyz telecom, and tenant abc needs us to work on their phone". 9 times out of 10 I don't have to present ID, they don't call the tenant they simply unlock the door.
I have worked in telco closets where I have tapped onto a copper pair to hear lawyers discussing divorce cases with a cleint. Or a stock broker discussing financials with one of their clients.
I'm sure that many people will point at his failures (IE6 for some activeX websites & visio) as proof that linux is still not ready for the desktop. But these apps aren't available for the Mac either & few are suggesting OS X is not ready for the desktop.
Unfortunately, what's preventing business's adopting Linux or OS X is the fact that the various 'solution providers' & VARs make more money reselling Microsoft products. While not free OmniGraffle Pro can open vsd files as well as save vsd files. You can alsso use visio stencils and templates. I have used it on my mac for serveral months now and it works great.
I have it on fairly good authority that Comcast uses the Cisco SCE product line for their traffic shaping. The SCE used to be called the PCube which is a Israel based company specializing in traffic shaping / deep packet inspection technology. Having work with the SCE platform myself I can tell you it is capable of blocking / throttling / modifying any P2P protocol out there (amongst many others) When meeting with the CiscoSCE people I ask for examples of large ISP customers. They said (I am paraphrasing) "Comcast is one of our largest customers for the SCE product line". It is an extremely powerful platform. I fully admit they could have been feeding my a line of bulls**t, so take this with a grain of salt.
You got modded as flaimbait but I actually agree with you. I remember playing Halo 1 when it first came out for the Xbox. About 5 minutes into playing I had a revelation: "I have seen this somewhere before......oh yeah Halflife" Halflife was a ground breaking FPS which integrated an awesome story with great action. Halo did the same but after playing HL (think back to when HL was first released) it just seemed repetitive. I think Console Systems brought games and specifically FPS games into a more socially acceptable light. Halo just happened to be one of the first console FPS games and thus was the first FPS a lot of console gamers were exposed to.
This will probably get modded as flame bait but whatever....
I am speaking of commercial game titles here. If you are referring to Open Source games then that is a different ball game.
The linux gaming community is a hack at best, with a few interspersed titles (older titles I might add) having been built to natively play on linux.(Mainly by iD)
When game studios begin releasing titles capable of playing natively in linux, then we can consider linux gaming doing "quite well" The fact that I have to f**k around with Cedega/Wine configs to get a game to work is bulls**t. I play games to take a break from thinking not to configure yet another piece of linux software.
When people say "Game X works great except for the mini-map and any anti-aliased fonts." By definition that is a game which is not working correctly. The fact is you are accepting mediocre game support in order to say "I play games on linux with no problems, why would I need to load windows?"
Bioshock, Call of Duty Airborne, Spore are three new games which if I wanted to play under linux I would have to scour through forums, usenet posting, etc just to get the game to launch, and this is not including any other issues that tend to arise when running games through cedega/wine.
HD graphics : I'm not seeing a big improvement. In one case it looks like a step BACKWARD. Just take a look at their own comparison slide http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/DSC_2355.JPG! The PS3 version look like a pasty white guy!
Um... you might want to look a little closer at the two screenshots.
The are different shades of brown, just because one guy is lighter than the other, doesnt make him a "pasty white guy" IMHO it looks like a lighter skinned African American.
Notice the muscle definition on the arms, that blows the PS2 screenshot away. The face is also more defined, and you can see that the model is capable of more facial expressions than its PS2 counterpart.
I would wager that the movement of the character is also much more fluid and natural when compared to the PS2. I obviously can't prove this, but with the amount of detail added there is a good chance.
Blu-Ray : One word : Hype. There has yet to be a game that spans more than 1 DVD and I'm not spending $500 for a movie player AND having to re-buy my movie collection.
That really isnt fair. No one knows what the current format war is going to turn out like. Blue-Ray may actually win and be MUCH more than just "HYPE". Also, think back to the SNES. Games then rarely spanned more than 4-5Megs. Just because something has never happened,doesn't mean it will never happen.
Hard drive : Xbox did it years ago. The Xbox360 threw the ball away on it but considering the PS3 is priced at $500~$600, Sony just threw the ball back at Microsoft.
Maybe the PS3 doesn't need a HardDrive or maybe they will distribute later with certain gaimes. a la FFXI online for PS2.
Online : Old news and Sony has a poor record of online gameplay. Its SOE division is one of the worst in terms of service and considering they DOMINATED last generation with the PS2, Xbox Live CRUSHED the PS2 in terms of online marketshare.
This is actually something we agree on. SOE is the antichrist. nuff said.
After having said all that, I would like to close by saying,
I am not a sony fanboy. And I agree that the price of the PS3 is a little steap, and overall the PS3 initial annoucments were dissapointing. However, let's wait until we see the games that will be released, as well as the online interaction that I am sure Sony has planned to compete with xbox live. Until then stop searching for reasons to dislike the PS3.
can help with a lot of these situations. I used to work for a company that had a overly restrictive proxy server that all employees passed through for accessing the internet. When the company blocked email sites like hotmail, gmail etc. I got fed up. I run my own domain on my own server at home. So i loaded CGI Proxy and through my own webserver was allowed to access any site that the proxy didn't like. Since my server ran https and the url's are scrambled via CGIProxy the company's proxy server had no idea what sites I was accessing. My domain was never banned or blocked.
MythTv, Mythtv, mythtv, I am so sick an tired of hearing that Mythtv is the end all be all of PVR's. Yes it can do a lot of things that tivo can't but, Myth still can't turn the channel on my DishNetwork STB. It still cannot utilize USB-UIRT2 for Receiving and transmitting IR signals, and it still takes a lot of tweaking to get just right. Hacking my Tivo was ten times easier than doing a basic install of Mythtv and the quality of a tivo recording is better than myth, sage, beyondtv or any other software app out there. This is coming from some who ran a SageTV box for almost two years and swore to never buy a tivo. But eventually you get sick of messing with a homebrew PVR and just want something that works that you dont have to worry about updates for. Tivo provides this, and a lot better than Myth ever could.
Anyone else notice that if you were to hold the controller horizontally, it would be very similiar to "standard" controllers. D-pad on your left and buttons on the right. Or I could see Nintendo releasing some sort of addon accessory to move your A, Z1 Z2, start, select, etc buttons to the right side of the remot....er controller.
I think clearwire is definately a company to keep your eye on. Seeing as how Craig McCaugh is the guy heading up this little venture, I would bet they are going to do pretty well. He has many contacts within the wireless industry from his AT&T Wireless (McCaugh Comm) days and he seems to have a nack for creating succesfull startups. That is, until he sells them off.
Even if you tell someone to "get XP Home" (Of which, I'd NEVER tell anyone to get- Home's got a bunch of crap turned on that actually destabilize the machine...) or to "get XP Professional", you still have to tell them to "get an Anti-Virus proram" (Which is best? Your guess is as good as any- and it's more off of personal preferences, cost, etc...) and to "get an Anti-Spyware program" (Again, which is best? And, it's the same story as the Anti-Virus stuff...). This doesn't even go into an Office Suite, IM, etc.
I see your point, but I think you are wrong.
SP2 now contains firewall/antivirus/anti-spyware and automatic updates turned on by default. So really the "Choice" of which AV to use becomes irrelevant to the average user. While M$ AV may not be the best, it works fine for a home PC.
For IM, windows comes with MSN Messenger already, so its just a matter of registering an account on hotmail and signing in. And what "crap" is turned on in the HOME edition that destabilizes the machine. I have several family members all runing XP Home/SP2 and I've yet to hear a single complaint.
With a Linux distribution, there's pretty much all of that taken care of. And there's several different "go get the 'Home' version" of Linux to choose from- Mandriva, Ubuntu, Xandros, Linspire, and Knoppix come immediately to mind right out of the gate.
I am by no means a M$ fanboy, but sometimes I think windows get an undeserved bad rap. Your statement is one of the reasons why Linux will never become mainstream on the desktop. By in large, most non-techy consumers do not want choice. Choice leads to confusion and frustration. They want to be told what they need to run on their PC. Why would someone who doesnt know the difference between a CPU and a GPU want to worry about choosing between 20 different flavors of the same OS? Esepcially for something that will, in the end, make no difference in their experience as a user. Average consumer don't care about apt, yum, X.org, or alsa. Nor do they care about why one is better than the other.
Linux is a great Server OS, but it has a ways to go until it will be in as many homes as Windows is now.
I can tell you one place where VOIP will not penetrate for decades (at least with any real numbers) and that is the call center environment. The tools available for VOIP systems are pathetic when put up against a proven CMS system like Avaya's CMS. The call routing / accounting / supervisory / metrics / uptime of any proven PBX system i.e. Nortel, ROLM, Avaya will put any voip solution to shame.
The people who recommend asterix and VOIP in general the most are data guys/gals. Those who have never administered a large voice network before, let alone manage a call center environment. People who usually have no understanding of what happens in a large voice network where uptime MUST reach the 5 9's. I do not mean that to be insulting but rather an indication of two different schools of thought.
I do agree with the parent that VOIP does have its place. Small/medium sized business's or possibly a small remote office tied to a corporate branch. No need to lease a frac T1, just tie into your data network.
The bottom line is data guys think they can run a voice network, and voice guys think they know best in an IP world. Eventually there will be no telecom/datacom distinction it will simply be "communications" and both voice / data guys will have to learn to play nicely AND learn that just because something runs over IP doesn't make it better.
People take their voice communications for granted. Pure and simple. It has been around for decades and has been tested/debugged improved to the point of perfection.
It's funny how much it is taken for granted. If data communications in an organization drops, business can continue with only a minor inconvenience. People may not get their emails or surf the web but you can still (*gasp*) TALK to clients, customers, etc.
If your phones drop, business creeps to a halt. Customers don't talk to customer service, potential clients can't speak with sales. Tech support can support their customers and management cannot communicate with subordinates.
Agreed. I used to play FFXI with a friend of mine. I was much more of a casula player (BLM) and he was putting in 8-10hr days 5 days a week. It got to the point where I only talked with said friend when I was in game. Otherwise I never heard a word from him. Eventually I quit FFXI (for the same reasons as you). When it takes 45 minutes just to get a group and then another 4 hours to complete a quest that is just too much time play a game.
The planet has apparently been taken over - "conqured" if you will - by a master race fluent in the language of *NIX. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive M$ men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the geeks will soon be here.
And I for one welcome our new four-eyed overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a open-source advocate I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves, or perhaps stockpiling their offices wiht Mr. Pibb and Mountain Dew.
One thing that always pisses me off about the plethora of MythTV how-to's out there, are %99 do not cover Digital Cable box's or Dish Box's. Satellite and Digital Cable is becoming more and more popular and many times a STB is handling the channel changing NOT the internal tuner built into the PVR-250. LIRC does a fine job when receiving IR signals, but blows when dealing with the transmitting of IR signals to a STB (like Dish). No one ever touch's on this subject.
If anyone out there wants some PVR software that has close to the stability of MythTv i would give SageTV a try. You can have a really good PVR up and running in about 15min. Thats INCLUDING IR transmission to a STB. I have been running Sage for about a year now and have had about %95 up time. They have an excellent support community and have several plugins that provide additional functionality. (webserver, comercial skip, etc)
You mention that a big reason for you leaving your company is because they are switching to C# environment?(Im not a programmer so I aplogize if this is a over simplification)
Lets put this in perspective. Isnt that like a carpenter quitting his job because managment has said they are switching all tools from craftsman to dewalt? The tools feel a little different, operates a little differently, are a different color, and doesnt have the lifetime warranty:) but they still get the job done, just differently. is this an accurate comparison?
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Dual stream cable card (iirc) so I can record more than one show at a time. And I honestly don't remember if its 4$ a month, or a one time fee. Either way, my cable card setup/experience is not the devil that its being made out to be on /.
While I know your speaking of Sun Storage 7xxxx series, and I do agree the UI is awesome (dtrace + zfs is great) where their product line falls apart is redundancy. I can purcahse a NetApp 20xx series filer with redundant heads for cheaper than i can purchase a sun storage 7xxx appliance which is HA. The replication is still based on drbd equivilant, and only recently has ZFS introduced dedup. Sun has a long way to go before they can hold a candle to the mid-lower end Filers
While I doubt this will get modded anything other than troll, here is my cable card experience Purchasee Tivo Series 3 HD Go to comcast store/office pickup CableCard, (for 4 dollars and xx change a month) Go home plugin cablecard to series3 CableCARD bios? appears on screen with various info call comcast customer support read codes on screen to customer rep done every channel i had on my set top box, works. No problems since. Total time on hold, approx 45 seconds.
Good god, finally the voice of reason. I admit I don't do any development, bu ASLR seems like it defends mainly against low level attacks. By that I mean attacks written against kernel level stuff, or RING 0, whatever. When you consider that much of the malware/viruses out there are designed to spread themselves as quickly as possible and NOT attack a users data, this ASLR seems like a moot point. Am i missing anything? Probably ;)
My hatred of smokers started in that place.
I think Dennis Leary said it best (or bill hicks)
Because you're always telling us, "You know, ever cigarette takes six minutes off your life. If you quit now you can live an extra ten years. If you quit now, you can live an extra twenty years." Hey, I got two words for you, ok. Jim Fix. Remember Jim Fix? The big famous jogging guy? Jogged fifteen miles a day. Did a jogging book. Did a jogging video. Dropped out of a heart attack when? When he was fucking jogging, that's when! What do you wanna bet it was two smokers who found the body the next morning and went, "Hey! That's Jim Fix, isn't it?" "Wow, what a fucking tragedy. Come on, lets go buy some buds."
It's always the yogurt sprout eating mother fuckers who get run over buy a bus drive by a guy who smokes three and a half packs a day. "Sorry officer, I didn't see him. I was too busy smoking!"
http://thepiratebay.org/search/Microsoft%20Vista/0/99/0 http://thepiratebay.org/search/%20Windows%20XP/0/99/0
'I've had a couple of conversations with CIOs who said, "We're a Microsoft shop and we don't use any open source whatsoever, but we're already getting pressure to reduce our operating costs and we need you to help put together a plan for us to... use open source to reduce our costs."
This makes Jim sound like a complete tool. People who want to save money by switching to open source solutions typically don't go to Redhat. You really want to save money? Switch to CentOS or Debian/Ubuntu. Those are free. In my experience companies usually use free solutions for the majority of their server fleet. For systems that require commercial support (Oracle, Weblogic, etc) they will use RHEL.
And we've had other customers literally looking at ripping and replacing WebLogic or WebSphere for JBoss ...
On a personal note.....DONT DO IT! JBoss blows chunks compared to Weblogic 10. If you want a cheaper J2EE solution, look at Glassfish its getting a lot of attention and having used the last stable version it is actually pretty good.
Especially in field operations knows how insecure our phone pedestals (the little green and brown enclosers along your neighborhood roadds) are. Typically they use just a standard hex wrench to open. Dress in the right clothing, grab your butt set and go to town. Commercial bldgs are not much different. If you can talk the lingo and have a tool bet, its not hard to use a little social engineering to get into building telco closets. Having worked in telco for many years I can't count how many times I have been let into bldgs by just saying "I am with xyz telecom, and tenant abc needs us to work on their phone". 9 times out of 10 I don't have to present ID, they don't call the tenant they simply unlock the door. I have worked in telco closets where I have tapped onto a copper pair to hear lawyers discussing divorce cases with a cleint. Or a stock broker discussing financials with one of their clients.
I have it on fairly good authority that Comcast uses the Cisco SCE product line for their traffic shaping. The SCE used to be called the PCube which is a Israel based company specializing in traffic shaping / deep packet inspection technology. Having work with the SCE platform myself I can tell you it is capable of blocking / throttling / modifying any P2P protocol out there (amongst many others) When meeting with the CiscoSCE people I ask for examples of large ISP customers. They said (I am paraphrasing) "Comcast is one of our largest customers for the SCE product line". It is an extremely powerful platform. I fully admit they could have been feeding my a line of bulls**t, so take this with a grain of salt.
You got modded as flaimbait but I actually agree with you. I remember playing Halo 1 when it first came out for the Xbox. About 5 minutes into playing I had a revelation: "I have seen this somewhere before......oh yeah Halflife" Halflife was a ground breaking FPS which integrated an awesome story with great action. Halo did the same but after playing HL (think back to when HL was first released) it just seemed repetitive. I think Console Systems brought games and specifically FPS games into a more socially acceptable light. Halo just happened to be one of the first console FPS games and thus was the first FPS a lot of console gamers were exposed to.
This will probably get modded as flame bait but whatever....
I am speaking of commercial game titles here. If you are referring to Open Source games then that is a different ball game.
The linux gaming community is a hack at best, with a few interspersed titles (older titles I might add) having been built to natively play on linux.(Mainly by iD)
When game studios begin releasing titles capable of playing natively in linux, then we can consider linux gaming doing "quite well" The fact that I have to f**k around with Cedega/Wine configs to get a game to work is bulls**t. I play games to take a break from thinking not to configure yet another piece of linux software.
When people say "Game X works great except for the mini-map and any anti-aliased fonts." By definition that is a game which is not working correctly. The fact is you are accepting mediocre game support in order to say "I play games on linux with no problems, why would I need to load windows?"
Bioshock, Call of Duty Airborne, Spore are three new games which if I wanted to play under linux I would have to scour through forums, usenet posting, etc just to get the game to launch, and this is not including any other issues that tend to arise when running games through cedega/wine.
HD graphics : I'm not seeing a big improvement. In one case it looks like a step BACKWARD. Just take a look at their own comparison slide http://www.joystiq.com/media/2006/05/DSC_2355.JPG! The PS3 version look like a pasty white guy!
,doesn't mean it will never happen.
Um... you might want to look a little closer at the two screenshots.
The are different shades of brown, just because one guy is lighter than the other, doesnt make him a "pasty white guy" IMHO it looks like a lighter skinned African American.
Notice the muscle definition on the arms, that blows the PS2 screenshot away. The face is also more defined, and you can see that the model is capable of more facial expressions than its PS2 counterpart.
I would wager that the movement of the character is also much more fluid and natural when compared to the PS2. I obviously can't prove this, but with the amount of detail added there is a good chance.
Blu-Ray : One word : Hype. There has yet to be a game that spans more than 1 DVD and I'm not spending $500 for a movie player AND having to re-buy my movie collection.
That really isnt fair. No one knows what the current format war is going to turn out like. Blue-Ray may actually win and be MUCH more than just "HYPE". Also, think back to the SNES. Games then rarely spanned more than 4-5Megs. Just because something has never happened
Hard drive : Xbox did it years ago. The Xbox360 threw the ball away on it but considering the PS3 is priced at $500~$600, Sony just threw the ball back at Microsoft.
Maybe the PS3 doesn't need a HardDrive or maybe they will distribute later with certain gaimes. a la FFXI online for PS2.
Online : Old news and Sony has a poor record of online gameplay. Its SOE division is one of the worst in terms of service and considering they DOMINATED last generation with the PS2, Xbox Live CRUSHED the PS2 in terms of online marketshare.
This is actually something we agree on. SOE is the antichrist. nuff said.
After having said all that, I would like to close by saying, I am not a sony fanboy. And I agree that the price of the PS3 is a little steap, and overall the PS3 initial annoucments were dissapointing. However, let's wait until we see the games that will be released, as well as the online interaction that I am sure Sony has planned to compete with xbox live. Until then stop searching for reasons to dislike the PS3.
can help with a lot of these situations. I used to work for a company that had a overly restrictive proxy server that all employees passed through for accessing the internet. When the company blocked email sites like hotmail, gmail etc. I got fed up. I run my own domain on my own server at home. So i loaded CGI Proxy and through my own webserver was allowed to access any site that the proxy didn't like. Since my server ran https and the url's are scrambled via CGIProxy the company's proxy server had no idea what sites I was accessing. My domain was never banned or blocked.
MythTv, Mythtv, mythtv, I am so sick an tired of hearing that Mythtv is the end all be all of PVR's. Yes it can do a lot of things that tivo can't but, Myth still can't turn the channel on my DishNetwork STB. It still cannot utilize USB-UIRT2 for Receiving and transmitting IR signals, and it still takes a lot of tweaking to get just right. Hacking my Tivo was ten times easier than doing a basic install of Mythtv and the quality of a tivo recording is better than myth, sage, beyondtv or any other software app out there. This is coming from some who ran a SageTV box for almost two years and swore to never buy a tivo. But eventually you get sick of messing with a homebrew PVR and just want something that works that you dont have to worry about updates for. Tivo provides this, and a lot better than Myth ever could.
God I feel old
Anyone else notice that if you were to hold the controller horizontally, it would be very similiar to "standard" controllers. D-pad on your left and buttons on the right. Or I could see Nintendo releasing some sort of addon accessory to move your A, Z1 Z2, start, select, etc buttons to the right side of the remot....er controller.
I think clearwire is definately a company to keep your eye on. Seeing as how Craig McCaugh is the guy heading up this little venture, I would bet they are going to do pretty well. He has many contacts within the wireless industry from his AT&T Wireless (McCaugh Comm) days and he seems to have a nack for creating succesfull startups. That is, until he sells them off.
Linux is a great Server OS, but it has a ways to go until it will be in as many homes as Windows is now.
I can tell you one place where VOIP will not penetrate for decades (at least with any real numbers) and that is the call center environment. The tools available for VOIP systems are pathetic when put up against a proven CMS system like Avaya's CMS. The call routing / accounting / supervisory / metrics / uptime of any proven PBX system i.e. Nortel, ROLM, Avaya will put any voip solution to shame.
The people who recommend asterix and VOIP in general the most are data guys/gals. Those who have never administered a large voice network before, let alone manage a call center environment. People who usually have no understanding of what happens in a large voice network where uptime MUST reach the 5 9's. I do not mean that to be insulting but rather an indication of two different schools of thought.
I do agree with the parent that VOIP does have its place. Small/medium sized business's or possibly a small remote office tied to a corporate branch. No need to lease a frac T1, just tie into your data network.
The bottom line is data guys think they can run a voice network, and voice guys think they know best in an IP world. Eventually there will be no telecom/datacom distinction it will simply be "communications" and both voice / data guys will have to learn to play nicely AND learn that just because something runs over IP doesn't make it better.
People take their voice communications for granted. Pure and simple. It has been around for decades and has been tested/debugged improved to the point of perfection.
It's funny how much it is taken for granted. If data communications in an organization drops, business can continue with only a minor inconvenience. People may not get their emails or surf the web but you can still (*gasp*) TALK to clients, customers, etc.
If your phones drop, business creeps to a halt. Customers don't talk to customer service, potential clients can't speak with sales. Tech support can support their customers and management cannot communicate with subordinates.
Agreed. I used to play FFXI with a friend of mine. I was much more of a casula player (BLM) and he was putting in 8-10hr days 5 days a week. It got to the point where I only talked with said friend when I was in game. Otherwise I never heard a word from him. Eventually I quit FFXI (for the same reasons as you). When it takes 45 minutes just to get a group and then another 4 hours to complete a quest that is just too much time play a game.
The planet has apparently been taken over - "conqured" if you will - by a master race fluent in the language of *NIX. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive M$ men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the geeks will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new four-eyed overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a open-source advocate I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves, or perhaps stockpiling their offices wiht Mr. Pibb and Mountain Dew.
One thing that always pisses me off about the plethora of MythTV how-to's out there, are %99 do not cover Digital Cable box's or Dish Box's. Satellite and Digital Cable is becoming more and more popular and many times a STB is handling the channel changing NOT the internal tuner built into the PVR-250. LIRC does a fine job when receiving IR signals, but blows when dealing with the transmitting of IR signals to a STB (like Dish). No one ever touch's on this subject.
If anyone out there wants some PVR software that has close to the stability of MythTv i would give SageTV a try. You can have a really good PVR up and running in about 15min. Thats INCLUDING IR transmission to a STB. I have been running Sage for about a year now and have had about %95 up time. They have an excellent support community and have several plugins that provide additional functionality. (webserver, comercial skip, etc)
I've had Microsoft's Disk backup utility since DOS 5.0. diskcopy
You mention that a big reason for you leaving your company is because they are switching to C# environment?(Im not a programmer so I aplogize if this is a over simplification)
:) but they still get the job done, just differently. is this an accurate comparison?
Lets put this in perspective. Isnt that like a carpenter quitting his job because managment has said they are switching all tools from craftsman to dewalt? The tools feel a little different, operates a little differently, are a different color, and doesnt have the lifetime warranty