It's about voice recognition and its reliability. I think that everyone expects that this future is inevitable but, until voice recognition reaches a point were it can reliably interpret a vast vocabulary from multiple voices and accents, none of this can happen.
To be sure, progress is definitely being made in voice recognition technology. But, that progress is slow and we are still many stardates away from success.
I would be particularly interested in hearing from those that have tried OO1.1 and StarOffice 7.0. Specifically, what are the differences? What does StarOffice 7.0 have that OpenOffice 1.1 does not?
I am sure that everyone here would like to know which brand/model that is and avoid it like the plague.
To answer your question, almost all brand name routers offer telnet access to the CLI. They also have a console serial port offering a direct connection to the CLI into which you can plug a modem for dial-up access to the CLI. The brands to look at are Cisco, 3Com, Nortel, Juniper and many more. In fact, you should avoid any router that does not offer telnet/ssh access and a console serial port.
Some of the new home based broadband routers like the LinkSys have only a web interface which is adequate if you have physical access to the router but, as you have seen this can be problematic.
I use to make assinine glib comments like this about ISA. But, then I put it to the test and I was not able to penetrate it at all. I then went looking for anyone who had successfully penetrated a properly configured ISA server and again came up empty.
If you can find anyone who has successfully penetrated a properly configured ISA server, I would consider it a great service if you would enlighten me about it. But, until then, I have reluctantly accepted the fact that ISA is a rather good firewall that offers many features that iptables, squid proxies and the like severely lack.
I'm all for competition and I don't have any problem with M$ trying to usurp Google(good luck you M$ twits) but, Amazon is starting to tick me off. Perhaps it is their monthly patent filings that rub me the wrong way. Deep down I fear that they will beat Google by patenting the "Search" button.
The mobile phone screen angle is a red herring. The really great thing about this is that it massively reduces the bandwidth required for running X over the network and it also reduces latency. The issue is that X consumes a lot of bandwidth. In some cases, if the bandwidth is available, X will use up to 10 Mbps to display a remote application screen. This is excessive and limits the use of X. Running X through ssh with compression enabled helps tremendously but can still consume 220Kbps. VNC offers similar 220Kbps or less performance to X through ssh but has much higher latencey so, it's not perfect either.
This new NX proxy is claiming 9.6Kbps X applications. Even if it doesn't come close to delivering that and is closer to 28Kbps or even 40Kbps it is still a massive improvement over X and ssh or even VNC and it now falls in line with the Citrix ICA protocol. It also apparently adds some of the Citrix features that X was missing but, the reduction in bandwidth alone is a tremendous improvement. You don't have to use it on a mobile phone and chances are I never will.
Lawyers love all caps and they use them frequently on most legal documents. For some reason the law seems to think that being all caps makes the document even more binding than if they used lower case.
Your consultant is a moron. I'd have to side with Citrix on this one. I have built Metaframe servers with 500 concurrent users on a server and had great performance. In such an environment you will want redundancy and load balancing so, purchase the load balancing option and build your farm with an N+1 server count. That means however many servers you need to support your 1000 users(users per server depends on applications and server hardware) plus one extra server.
Do a pilot program to test server loading but, no matter what, make the servers strong. They need a minimum of 2 processors and if you go with 500 users per server you will likely want an 8 way machine. For memory a gig of RAM minimum in each but, plan on 30 megs of RAM per concurrent user as a rule of thumb. If you put 500 users on a box then plan on 15 GB of RAM. The disks don't need to be large but they do need to be FAST. They don't need to be large because you should only store the actual applications on the disk no data what so ever. Think of the Citrix server as a workstation but, since there will be so many users it must be extremely fast. But, regarless of the user count, the applications are installed only once so not much space is needed. I typically provision 4 gigs of disk on the Metframe servers but, of course there are exceptions like large numbers of user profiles in the Documents and Settings Directory. Yes, even if you use roaming profiles a cached copy of the profiles will be copied to Documents And Settings while the user is logged on.
On the client side, do not purchase Windows XP. If you are planning on using thin client hardware, go with the embedded client. But, you don't even have to get new hardware. You can continue to use the old workstations with their existing operating systems as the thin client or better yet you could strip the workstations down and make them either network bootable(best) or install a minimal OS and the Citrix client on them(Linux is great for this).
This all works great with MS Office, GroupWise, Oracle clients, Wordperfect, and many many other win32 applications. But, you need to test EVERY application because some have problems and some simply won't work at all.
For the AutoCAD users, leave them with their own workstations and their own OS thin client is not good for AutoCAD or other such locally CPU intensive applications.
Although MySQL is about 2.8 times faster for transaction processing, Prevayler retrieves 100 objects among one million 3251 TIMES FASTER than MySQL via JDBC, even when MySQL has all data cached in RAM!
Now many different people will interpret this statement differently. But, my interpretation is that under very specific circumstances it is 3000 times faster than MySQL. However, for transaction processing, which is the primary and most common role of a RDBMS, MySQL is 2.8 times faster than Prevayler.
Bottom line... For normal circumstances, MySQL is faster and many commercial SQL database servers are faster still.
There are two reasons at play here. The first reason is that thanks to VoIP the per minute cost is somewhere around 1 cent per minute and may be less. This is due to a combination of VoIP and volume discount contracts between Dartmouth and long distance carriers.
In the case of normal carriers, their very large subscriber base can be easily used to spread out the cost of the call accounting system that they use for billing and they have no issues. However, Dartmouth's subscriber base is infinitely smaller. Also, Dartmouth is using Cisco's VoIP solution whose call manager and accounting system is less than stellar in quality and capability and more than outrageous in price.
This results in a situation where it would cost Dartmouth much more to purchase and maintain the crappy accounting system than it would to give away the 1 cent per minute calls. Now, in the case of most companies this would not stop them from charging 25 cents or more per minute to cover the cost of the accounting system. But, it seems that someone at Dartmouth realized that long distance service is already available in that area for this price or less so no one would use their service and Cisco would not "underwrite" their lab. By giving the service away, it costs Dartmouth very little but, they get a high tech lab with all of the latest Cisco toys. It results in a win for Dartmouth, a win for Dartmouth students and a win for Cisco who will go around bragging about the thousands of stations that they have deployed, just like they do about all the other VoIP systems that they have given away. Ultimately, some PHB is going to fall for their sales pitch and actually pay them for their crappy system that actaully describes "Dial Tone" as a feature.
Don't worry about it. While marketers might be latching onto and redefining the "Geek" label, true geeks have shed this 80's vintage title for the more up-to-date moniker. Bitch!
Heistad starts sweating through his shirt and has long since begun calling everyone "bitch."
I don't see the marketers adopting "bitch" any time soon.
But, it may prove useful in surgery on ants and may even be used for tatoo removal on ants. This is especially important for those ants who now regret the indiscretions of their teenage years.
Lets be clear about this. Who is they? When you talk about space flight and commercial flight you are talking about Lockheed, Boeing, GE and so forth. When you talk about replicating the Wright Brothers flight, you are talking about some acedemic half-wits whose biggest accomplishment is that they were able to dupe someone into giving them a grant for this waste of time and money.
S3 making a dent would depend on what metric you you to measure the graphics card market. For instance if you consider the market to be high-end, 3D, hardware accelerated, graphics chips then, S3 probably won't have much impact. But, that is a specialized market that isn't very large when compared to the more basic or on-board graphics chips market which , accounts for probably 90 percent of the graphics chip market as a whole.
Using the broader metric of this much larger whole market, the S3 could very well have a significant impact. It would only take the right deal with a major PC manufacturer like Dell or HP and suddenly S3 would have probably >50% of the graphics chip market, regardless of the quality or performance of the chip.
Would it take the best performance and price ratio to win such a deal? No. It would take barely acceptable performance at a great price and , perhaps most importantly, the ability to meet the manufacturing demands while maintaining a low failure rate. Of course, playing golf with the guy in procurement at Dell probably wouldn't hurt too much either.
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It's about voice recognition and its reliability. I think that everyone expects that this future is inevitable but, until voice recognition reaches a point were it can reliably interpret a vast vocabulary from multiple voices and accents, none of this can happen.
To be sure, progress is definitely being made in voice recognition technology. But, that progress is slow and we are still many stardates away from success.
I would be particularly interested in hearing from those that have tried OO1.1 and StarOffice 7.0. Specifically, what are the differences? What does StarOffice 7.0 have that OpenOffice 1.1 does not?
If you are AT&T, MCI, SBC or some other LEC/CLEC. If however, you are just some regualr Joe it means, no phone discounts for you!
I am sure that everyone here would like to know which brand/model that is and avoid it like the plague.
To answer your question, almost all brand name routers offer telnet access to the CLI. They also have a console serial port offering a direct connection to the CLI into which you can plug a modem for dial-up access to the CLI. The brands to look at are Cisco, 3Com, Nortel, Juniper and many more. In fact, you should avoid any router that does not offer telnet/ssh access and a console serial port.
Some of the new home based broadband routers like the LinkSys have only a web interface which is adequate if you have physical access to the router but, as you have seen this can be problematic.
Please post which router you were stuck with.
that Linux has no need or use for the evil Ctrl+Alt+Del or Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc.
Isn't it wonderful.
I use to make assinine glib comments like this about ISA. But, then I put it to the test and I was not able to penetrate it at all. I then went looking for anyone who had successfully penetrated a properly configured ISA server and again came up empty.
If you can find anyone who has successfully penetrated a properly configured ISA server, I would consider it a great service if you would enlighten me about it. But, until then, I have reluctantly accepted the fact that ISA is a rather good firewall that offers many features that iptables, squid proxies and the like severely lack.
I'm all for competition and I don't have any problem with M$ trying to usurp Google(good luck you M$ twits) but, Amazon is starting to tick me off. Perhaps it is their monthly patent filings that rub me the wrong way. Deep down I fear that they will beat Google by patenting the "Search" button.
The mobile phone screen angle is a red herring. The really great thing about this is that it massively reduces the bandwidth required for running X over the network and it also reduces latency. The issue is that X consumes a lot of bandwidth. In some cases, if the bandwidth is available, X will use up to 10 Mbps to display a remote application screen. This is excessive and limits the use of X. Running X through ssh with compression enabled helps tremendously but can still consume 220Kbps. VNC offers similar 220Kbps or less performance to X through ssh but has much higher latencey so, it's not perfect either.
This new NX proxy is claiming 9.6Kbps X applications. Even if it doesn't come close to delivering that and is closer to 28Kbps or even 40Kbps it is still a massive improvement over X and ssh or even VNC and it now falls in line with the Citrix ICA protocol. It also apparently adds some of the Citrix features that X was missing but, the reduction in bandwidth alone is a tremendous improvement. You don't have to use it on a mobile phone and chances are I never will.
Citrix like performance from X now that is news. Great news!
Lawyers love all caps and they use them frequently on most legal documents. For some reason the law seems to think that being all caps makes the document even more binding than if they used lower case.
He's probably thinking that he should have used the Ultra160 SCSI solution after all.
Your consultant is a moron. I'd have to side with Citrix on this one. I have built Metaframe servers with 500 concurrent users on a server and had great performance. In such an environment you will want redundancy and load balancing so, purchase the load balancing option and build your farm with an N+1 server count. That means however many servers you need to support your 1000 users(users per server depends on applications and server hardware) plus one extra server.
Do a pilot program to test server loading but, no matter what, make the servers strong. They need a minimum of 2 processors and if you go with 500 users per server you will likely want an 8 way machine. For memory a gig of RAM minimum in each but, plan on 30 megs of RAM per concurrent user as a rule of thumb. If you put 500 users on a box then plan on 15 GB of RAM. The disks don't need to be large but they do need to be FAST. They don't need to be large because you should only store the actual applications on the disk no data what so ever. Think of the Citrix server as a workstation but, since there will be so many users it must be extremely fast. But, regarless of the user count, the applications are installed only once so not much space is needed. I typically provision 4 gigs of disk on the Metframe servers but, of course there are exceptions like large numbers of user profiles in the Documents and Settings Directory. Yes, even if you use roaming profiles a cached copy of the profiles will be copied to Documents And Settings while the user is logged on.
On the client side, do not purchase Windows XP. If you are planning on using thin client hardware, go with the embedded client. But, you don't even have to get new hardware. You can continue to use the old workstations with their existing operating systems as the thin client or better yet you could strip the workstations down and make them either network bootable(best) or install a minimal OS and the Citrix client on them(Linux is great for this).
This all works great with MS Office, GroupWise, Oracle clients, Wordperfect, and many many other win32 applications. But, you need to test EVERY application because some have problems and some simply won't work at all.
For the AutoCAD users, leave them with their own workstations and their own OS thin client is not good for AutoCAD or other such locally CPU intensive applications.
Although MySQL is about 2.8 times faster for transaction processing, Prevayler retrieves 100 objects among one million 3251 TIMES FASTER than MySQL via JDBC, even when MySQL has all data cached in RAM!
Now many different people will interpret this statement differently. But, my interpretation is that under very specific circumstances it is 3000 times faster than MySQL. However, for transaction processing, which is the primary and most common role of a RDBMS, MySQL is 2.8 times faster than Prevayler.
Bottom line... For normal circumstances, MySQL is faster and many commercial SQL database servers are faster still.
These should help you;
Vonage
Net2Phone
Quicknet
There are two reasons at play here. The first reason is that thanks to VoIP the per minute cost is somewhere around 1 cent per minute and may be less. This is due to a combination of VoIP and volume discount contracts between Dartmouth and long distance carriers.
In the case of normal carriers, their very large subscriber base can be easily used to spread out the cost of the call accounting system that they use for billing and they have no issues. However, Dartmouth's subscriber base is infinitely smaller. Also, Dartmouth is using Cisco's VoIP solution whose call manager and accounting system is less than stellar in quality and capability and more than outrageous in price.
This results in a situation where it would cost Dartmouth much more to purchase and maintain the crappy accounting system than it would to give away the 1 cent per minute calls. Now, in the case of most companies this would not stop them from charging 25 cents or more per minute to cover the cost of the accounting system. But, it seems that someone at Dartmouth realized that long distance service is already available in that area for this price or less so no one would use their service and Cisco would not "underwrite" their lab. By giving the service away, it costs Dartmouth very little but, they get a high tech lab with all of the latest Cisco toys. It results in a win for Dartmouth, a win for Dartmouth students and a win for Cisco who will go around bragging about the thousands of stations that they have deployed, just like they do about all the other VoIP systems that they have given away. Ultimately, some PHB is going to fall for their sales pitch and actually pay them for their crappy system that actaully describes "Dial Tone" as a feature.
Don't worry about it. While marketers might be latching onto and redefining the "Geek" label, true geeks have shed this 80's vintage title for the more up-to-date moniker. Bitch!
Heistad starts sweating through his shirt and has long since begun calling everyone "bitch."
I don't see the marketers adopting "bitch" any time soon.
Did you think it was like this? IP Address Locator
Most popular search will certainly be...
Babes | Chicks | Hot Teens | Nude | Sexy
We're actually Slashdotting Google.
Stop. Stop
But, it may prove useful in surgery on ants and may even be used for tatoo removal on ants. This is especially important for those ants who now regret the indiscretions of their teenage years.
I can't help but come to the conclusion that; You don't get out much, do you?
Lets be clear about this. Who is they? When you talk about space flight and commercial flight you are talking about Lockheed, Boeing, GE and so forth. When you talk about replicating the Wright Brothers flight, you are talking about some acedemic half-wits whose biggest accomplishment is that they were able to dupe someone into giving them a grant for this waste of time and money.
S3 making a dent would depend on what metric you you to measure the graphics card market. For instance if you consider the market to be high-end, 3D, hardware accelerated, graphics chips then, S3 probably won't have much impact. But, that is a specialized market that isn't very large when compared to the more basic or on-board graphics chips market which , accounts for probably 90 percent of the graphics chip market as a whole.
Using the broader metric of this much larger whole market, the S3 could very well have a significant impact. It would only take the right deal with a major PC manufacturer like Dell or HP and suddenly S3 would have probably >50% of the graphics chip market, regardless of the quality or performance of the chip.
Would it take the best performance and price ratio to win such a deal? No. It would take barely acceptable performance at a great price and , perhaps most importantly, the ability to meet the manufacturing demands while maintaining a low failure rate. Of course, playing golf with the guy in procurement at Dell probably wouldn't hurt too much either.
Is it as hot as Chernobyl? Will a cooling pond be required to run it for long periods of time?
Newsforge reports is reporting that this story is untrue. Sad but, as I suspected.