While it's true that the MOXI box can't predict what you want to watch but what your missing with the MOXI is it's goal is to be an entire home entertainment system. It's got games, news updates, some models have a DVD player, wired and wireless internet access through the box and the most important thing about it is that it has dual tuners so you can watch and record at the same time. You also don't need to run ethernet or a phone line over to your MOXI and you don't need to slap down a big chunk of money for it. Yes you pay for a monthly rental but if anything happens to your box you get it replaced for free or when they start giving out updated ones you get that too.
I work for one of the major cable companies and all our company vehicles have a gps in them.
The techs weren't told when they were first installed. We watched a guy drive in a 4 block circle for 3.5 hrs. Get rid of the dead weight.
The other big thing people are missing here is the safety aspect to having a GPS in fleet vehicles. Somebody is missing in poor weather, you can find them quick. We had a guy fall off a ladder and broke his leg and couldn't move. When he was late for his job we found his truck and had a tech go out there to see if he was ok. Who knows how long he would of been there (and it was a very cold day, -10F).
He was pushing his own copy of our cm file from his tftp server. He was changing his mac address to avoid being tracked but neglected to change his nic's mac. The rest was just a bit of investigating work. We know what areas combine to what on our network and we tools that match customer info back to the live mac addresses on the system. After that there was only a handful of people that it possibly could be.
The cisco cmts keeps a live log of it. A show cable modem command with the cable mac will provide the cpe mac and a show cable modem command with the nic mac will show the cable modem mac. A lot easier and less time consuming than parsing compressed dhcp logs.
In a two way system yes both a forward and return path are provided completely through the cable provider. In a 1 way system the return path is provided through the phone, Motorola's Surfboard 2100D has a CAT3 connector on it for this purpose. I'll bet that there is still a few of these in the US.
This violates most acceptable use policies, regardless if your own the cable modem or not changing your modems mac address would fall under hacking as your could cause service interruptions on your network segment for other people. Your paying for internet service not the right to fuck around with a companies million dollar network. We had a kid get arrested for this, changed his modems mac everyday but never changed his nic's. Pretty trivial to track him down.
Its the QAM modulation AND the upstream combining. At the headend the nodes are all combined to an upstream port, the more cmts's the lower the number of nodes combined to an upstream and more bandwidth available. The upstream combining really boils down to the overall customer count, you can have 4 nodes combined to an upstream and have 400 customers or 1 node with 400 customers and have the same performance.
Well answer this for me. How else can you prove who you are over the phone? If I have someone's address, phone number and social security number I can call just about any company and claim to be them and make any change to their account.
I can live with the possiblity that she wasn't dead and I gave the password to her email account out to someone that could verify 3 personal pieces of info about her (Wisconsin law requires only 2). What would bother me for the rest of my life is the possiblity that I denied that request to her father.
I used to take tech support phone calls for an ISP, and a father called in wanting the password to his daughter's email account because she died in a car accident. He verified the home address, phone number, and social security number of his daughter so I reset the password for him. Whether it's legally right or not I would not want that on my conscious that I denied that request to a father. He just lost someone he loved so much, I wasn't about to slap him in the face with some bullshit policy. I'm a father too and I understand.
On windows I use Gaim and on OS X I use Adium. I like Gaim, but I think Adium is a much better program to compare against Trillium. The thing about Gaim (and a lot of cross platform programs, open source or otherwise) is that they just don't feel like a quality program despite working fine. Boils down to the user interface I guess and maybe I've only noticed since recently converting to OS X but everything doesn't need to be ugly. It can be pretty while still getting the job done.
If you think of the chain of command as a pyramid the top of it being the CEO and the bottom base being the support staff/CSRS/etc, then you see that without them the entire pyramid would tumble. What typically happens with mergers and just restructuring in general is mid to upper management is the ones in jeopardy of loosing their jobs. Occasionally a few other oddball positions are eliminated, but if you have spent 2 years supporting a product (ala Peoplesoft) it doesn't make sense to eliminate those people because you'd then need to rehire someone to do that same job.
...according to nVidia will need a 550-watt power supply!
I eagerly await the mod that not only uses water to cool it but also acts a hydroelectric dam to power it.
Cable is a closed system, they can use any frequency they want. The FCC requires proof of performance testing that shows that the cable company is making sure they don't have leaks that could potentially cause interface with over the air frequencies.
When I was still doing phone cable modem support (I'm the network engineer now) I spoke with more than one person that said they opened the attachement in their email because they wanted to see if it a was a virus. This thing will spread like that goatse.cx guys ass.
While I think Bittorent is pretty easy to use when I tried to explain it to my sister she had no idea what I was talking about and wanted to know why it was better than Kaazaa.
In order for this to take off beyond the geek community to average users it needs to be somehow streamed to a easy to use media player or embeded in a webpage. There is a lot of potential with this type of technology, but it really needs to be super-easy to make any kind of splash. And I can also see this type of network abusing the end user who isn't smart enough to exit the program and then can't figure out why their internet connection has been moving at dial-up speed for the last 3 weeks.
Calling your tinfoil wearing, goverment conspiracy theory lovin' friend with a computer generated voice to play a game of strategic conquest: Priceless.
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While it's true that the MOXI box can't predict what you want to watch but what your missing with the MOXI is it's goal is to be an entire home entertainment system. It's got games, news updates, some models have a DVD player, wired and wireless internet access through the box and the most important thing about it is that it has dual tuners so you can watch and record at the same time. You also don't need to run ethernet or a phone line over to your MOXI and you don't need to slap down a big chunk of money for it. Yes you pay for a monthly rental but if anything happens to your box you get it replaced for free or when they start giving out updated ones you get that too.
I work for one of the major cable companies and all our company vehicles have a gps in them. The techs weren't told when they were first installed. We watched a guy drive in a 4 block circle for 3.5 hrs. Get rid of the dead weight. The other big thing people are missing here is the safety aspect to having a GPS in fleet vehicles. Somebody is missing in poor weather, you can find them quick. We had a guy fall off a ladder and broke his leg and couldn't move. When he was late for his job we found his truck and had a tech go out there to see if he was ok. Who knows how long he would of been there (and it was a very cold day, -10F).
He was pushing his own copy of our cm file from his tftp server. He was changing his mac address to avoid being tracked but neglected to change his nic's mac. The rest was just a bit of investigating work. We know what areas combine to what on our network and we tools that match customer info back to the live mac addresses on the system. After that there was only a handful of people that it possibly could be.
The cisco cmts keeps a live log of it. A show cable modem command with the cable mac will provide the cpe mac and a show cable modem command with the nic mac will show the cable modem mac. A lot easier and less time consuming than parsing compressed dhcp logs.
There was some other factors surrounding this, but I can't discuss it.
Theft of service. He wasn't paying for it.
In a two way system yes both a forward and return path are provided completely through the cable provider. In a 1 way system the return path is provided through the phone, Motorola's Surfboard 2100D has a CAT3 connector on it for this purpose. I'll bet that there is still a few of these in the US.
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This violates most acceptable use policies, regardless if your own the cable modem or not changing your modems mac address would fall under hacking as your could cause service interruptions on your network segment for other people. Your paying for internet service not the right to fuck around with a companies million dollar network. We had a kid get arrested for this, changed his modems mac everyday but never changed his nic's. Pretty trivial to track him down.
Its the QAM modulation AND the upstream combining. At the headend the nodes are all combined to an upstream port, the more cmts's the lower the number of nodes combined to an upstream and more bandwidth available. The upstream combining really boils down to the overall customer count, you can have 4 nodes combined to an upstream and have 400 customers or 1 node with 400 customers and have the same performance.
Still working on the ipod killer but I got the ethernet killer down pat. http://www.tburke.net/fun_stuff/pictures/computers /ethernetkiller.htm
Well answer this for me. How else can you prove who you are over the phone? If I have someone's address, phone number and social security number I can call just about any company and claim to be them and make any change to their account.
Funny that I now run that complete network..
I can live with the possiblity that she wasn't dead and I gave the password to her email account out to someone that could verify 3 personal pieces of info about her (Wisconsin law requires only 2). What would bother me for the rest of my life is the possiblity that I denied that request to her father.
I used to take tech support phone calls for an ISP, and a father called in wanting the password to his daughter's email account because she died in a car accident. He verified the home address, phone number, and social security number of his daughter so I reset the password for him. Whether it's legally right or not I would not want that on my conscious that I denied that request to a father. He just lost someone he loved so much, I wasn't about to slap him in the face with some bullshit policy. I'm a father too and I understand.
On windows I use Gaim and on OS X I use Adium. I like Gaim, but I think Adium is a much better program to compare against Trillium. The thing about Gaim (and a lot of cross platform programs, open source or otherwise) is that they just don't feel like a quality program despite working fine. Boils down to the user interface I guess and maybe I've only noticed since recently converting to OS X but everything doesn't need to be ugly. It can be pretty while still getting the job done.
If you think of the chain of command as a pyramid the top of it being the CEO and the bottom base being the support staff/CSRS/etc, then you see that without them the entire pyramid would tumble. What typically happens with mergers and just restructuring in general is mid to upper management is the ones in jeopardy of loosing their jobs. Occasionally a few other oddball positions are eliminated, but if you have spent 2 years supporting a product (ala Peoplesoft) it doesn't make sense to eliminate those people because you'd then need to rehire someone to do that same job.
I have always wanted a car that looks like a door wedge.
Believe that would be black Irish.
...according to nVidia will need a 550-watt power supply!
I eagerly await the mod that not only uses water to cool it but also acts a hydroelectric dam to power it.
Cable is a closed system, they can use any frequency they want. The FCC requires proof of performance testing that shows that the cable company is making sure they don't have leaks that could potentially cause interface with over the air frequencies.
I bet Van Gogh would trade it for a some absinthe and a human ear.
When I was still doing phone cable modem support (I'm the network engineer now) I spoke with more than one person that said they opened the attachement in their email because they wanted to see if it a was a virus. This thing will spread like that goatse.cx guys ass.
While I think Bittorent is pretty easy to use when I tried to explain it to my sister she had no idea what I was talking about and wanted to know why it was better than Kaazaa. In order for this to take off beyond the geek community to average users it needs to be somehow streamed to a easy to use media player or embeded in a webpage. There is a lot of potential with this type of technology, but it really needs to be super-easy to make any kind of splash. And I can also see this type of network abusing the end user who isn't smart enough to exit the program and then can't figure out why their internet connection has been moving at dial-up speed for the last 3 weeks.
Laptop: $1500
Wireless Access Point: $80
Broadband Internet: $40
VOIP Service: $20
Calling your tinfoil wearing, goverment conspiracy theory lovin' friend with a computer generated voice to play a game of strategic conquest: Priceless.