I can confirm it, at least in the one I picked up from CompUSA a few months ago. I ended up returning it for exactly that reason. Maybe Logitech has updated the drivers by now.
But they also block cable modems and dialups. Maybe this is a new story for Slashdot, but AOL's been doing this for at least a few weeks. When I moved my server from a frame-relay connection to Comcast Pro at home, AOL (and several other ISP's) began blocking every single message from my box. Some of the RBL lists also blacklist every IP block that is known to be used for dialup, DSL, or cable.
Solution? See if your ISP has an outgoing mail server you can use. AOL blocks my cable modem but not smtp-out.comcast.net.
I've had a T68i since last August. And while it's the best phone I've ever owned (and still one of the best on the market), there are a few things about it that bug me. So all I can say about the 610 is: drool........
Oh yeah, here's the link to purchase one. Tim says they still have more than 200 phones left at $99 each (but read all the way down the page; you may want to have him unlock the flash chip and/or reflash with a Linux-compatible bootloader for you, which costs a few bucks more)
The TuxScreen phone itself was selling for $99 not too long ago. I have one in my closet (which I will now have to drag out so I can play with this project).
IMHO that's what makes this implementation so revolutionary. Other posters were asking why this is newsworthy? Well, a $100 phone that runs open-source VoIP is pretty newsworthy to me. I've done both VoIP and voice-over-frame-relay installations, and you're talking about thousands of dollars for even a small implementation (using IP phones or regular digital PBX phones, special cards in the PBX and the router, special software, and so on).
Compare this to $100 phones and a gateway running on a cheap Linux box.
Given the mania for connecting appliances to the net (coke machines, coffee machines, refrigerators and microwaves), how long will it be before we have the web toilet?
I can imagine some of the options it will offer...
The best one I ever saw was at the University of Delaware when I was an undergraduate. There was a roomfull of SPARC IPC's, all named after flavors of ice cream: strawberry.udel.edu, chocolate.udel.edu, vanilla.udel.edu, etc. The file server, of course, was named freezer.udel.edu.
Well, I thought it was kinda cute, anyway. Obviously you'd be hard pressed to come up with 4,000 flavors of ice cream. Most large sites I've consulted at use some variation on your first idea, e.g. site code + (function or department) + number.
The Inspirons are, or were, made in Taiwan by Compal. My Winbook Z1 is also made by them.
Oh yes, and my Winbook ran Mandrake 8.1 very well, both with the stock kernel and with a 2.4.17 kernel I built myself.
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I can confirm it, at least in the one I picked up from CompUSA a few months ago. I ended up returning it for exactly that reason. Maybe Logitech has updated the drivers by now.
But they also block cable modems and dialups. Maybe this is a new story for Slashdot, but AOL's been doing this for at least a few weeks. When I moved my server from a frame-relay connection to Comcast Pro at home, AOL (and several other ISP's) began blocking every single message from my box. Some of the RBL lists also blacklist every IP block that is known to be used for dialup, DSL, or cable. Solution? See if your ISP has an outgoing mail server you can use. AOL blocks my cable modem but not smtp-out.comcast.net.
Of course, the pirates have already posted the Q815411 hotfix to various newsgroups.
I've had a T68i since last August. And while it's the best phone I've ever owned (and still one of the best on the market), there are a few things about it that bug me. So all I can say about the 610 is: drool........
Oh yeah, here's the link to purchase one. Tim says they still have more than 200 phones left at $99 each (but read all the way down the page; you may want to have him unlock the flash chip and/or reflash with a Linux-compatible bootloader for you, which costs a few bucks more)
The TuxScreen phone itself was selling for $99 not too long ago. I have one in my closet (which I will now have to drag out so I can play with this project).
IMHO that's what makes this implementation so revolutionary. Other posters were asking why this is newsworthy? Well, a $100 phone that runs open-source VoIP is pretty newsworthy to me. I've done both VoIP and voice-over-frame-relay installations, and you're talking about thousands of dollars for even a small implementation (using IP phones or regular digital PBX phones, special cards in the PBX and the router, special software, and so on).
Compare this to $100 phones and a gateway running on a cheap Linux box.
Given the mania for connecting appliances to the net (coke machines, coffee machines, refrigerators and microwaves), how long will it be before we have the web toilet?
I can imagine some of the options it will offer...
Who is using the toilet right now?
Average bidet water temperature
Dump log
OK, OK, enough already...
The best one I ever saw was at the University of Delaware when I was an undergraduate. There was a roomfull of SPARC IPC's, all named after flavors of ice cream: strawberry.udel.edu, chocolate.udel.edu, vanilla.udel.edu, etc. The file server, of course, was named freezer.udel.edu.
Well, I thought it was kinda cute, anyway. Obviously you'd be hard pressed to come up with 4,000 flavors of ice cream. Most large sites I've consulted at use some variation on your first idea, e.g. site code + (function or department) + number.
The Inspirons are, or were, made in Taiwan by Compal. My Winbook Z1 is also made by them. Oh yes, and my Winbook ran Mandrake 8.1 very well, both with the stock kernel and with a 2.4.17 kernel I built myself.