Working for a cable based ISP, (I can't say who but it's not comcast) I can tell you that the cablemodems that we use for our VoIP service does not use the "internet connection" to connect to the VoIP servers at the headend. The Cablemodem actually has three network interfaces, the RF interface (the coax screw on connector), the "Managment interface" which is a private address on the RF connection and the "User" interface (Ethernet and USB ports.
The Managment interface, when locked, is provisioned at a way higher speed than the customer is subscribed at, usually about 25-30Mbps. This interface provides the two-way communication for the VoIP service, headend communication, HITS, and firmware updating as necessary. The RF interface is bridged to the User Interface once the cablemodem has been hit and the modem authorized, at which time the customer's device (PC/MAC, router, etc) gets an IP address at the subscribed bandwidth. The VoIP traffic uses the managment interface's IP to link upstream to the VoIP server at the headend and never cuts into the customer's subscribed bandwidth therefore giving the VoIP traffic a "free and clear" connection all the way to the headend. The VoIP traffic never leaves the provider's network and hits the public internet.
Vonage on the other hand does not have the luxury of being on their network, but rather that of whatever broadband you are connected to so the vonage box (or other VoIP connection here) has to go through the internet connection at whatever speed they are provisioned at and then is subject to the latency and connectivity issues that the Internet is known for all to get to the switching office.
Now if Vonage started selling DSL or Cable Internet access and their voice service, I have no doubt in my mind that Vonage would easily become a heavy hitter in the Voice over IP market just like the cable ops are now. They would have the same bonuses that the cable ops have now, un-messed with connections to their switching gear provided that their customer equipment communicated over the CPE to their own headend or DSLAM.
It's not the technology that is flawed, it's how they're getting there that is subject to debate.
I'm not trying to bash Vonage or exalt the cable companies but trying to give an unbiased opinion on what is really going on when you pick up the phone on a vonage box versus that of your local cable company.
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
IMO, modular is where you can stack two or more power supplies for added amperage or failover as is the case with some of IBM's AS/400 servers. I don't see where this power supply fits the 'modular' category unless one of those cables can uplink to another power supply for added amperage.
Maybe I am missing something, but then again i did read the article and it didn't say anything about it. The issue of 'excess cables hanging in the case' has never been an issue for me as I always clean up my installs with tiewraps and shrink wrap.
If I'm going to pay $130 for a power supply, I'm going to go with an Antec case while I am at it. Those usually ship with 400w P/S and are really reliable.
The Dell 8200 with the 2nd battery pack (fits neatly inside 2nd device bay) will often last me ~6h. This is usually at full processor but I'd bet that if I used speedstep I could get it to an hour more.
It doesn't look like that is an ACTUAL case. 1: Why would you put a side panel on it, then have something non-flexible poke through it? Any attempt to slide off the side panel would cause the plastic tube on the front of the case to break or, slice the hamster like a guillotine.
2: The U bend at the top is right on top of where the power supply goes. That's not right.
3: How is one to access their CDROM/floppy/Zip100/insert favorite media drive here if the hamster ball on the front of the case BLOCKS ALL THREE BAYS?
4: click on 'Add to wish list ad prove my point'...
i buy broken hds.. they make really geeky clocks..;)
the best ones are the old Quantum bigfoot drives.. those are the right thichkness for the clock. Drill out the hub and replace with a clock movement. Poof! easy $50.
THe best way is to make a central 'phone closet'. Run a 6pr cable from the demarc to this closet This will give you a maximum of 6 incoming lines before you have to run more. Punch that down to one 66 block. Run new cables from each jack to the phone closet and puch them down to another block. Use splice wire to go between the two blocks using the non-cutting side of the punch tool to create loops.
Wiring Code:
for 66 blocks
(primary in bold)
Pr 1:White Blue | Blue White
Pr 2:White Orange | Orange white
Pr 3:White Green | Green White
Pr 4:White Brown | Brown White
Pr 5:White Slate | Slate White
Pr 6:Red Blue | Blue Red
for 'biscuit' jacks and wall plates
Wire from Cable | Wire on Jack White/Blue | Green Blue/White | Red White/Orange | Black Orange/White | Yellow White/Green | White Green/White | Blue
When it comes to wiring the jacks, only the green/red wires are really necessary. These wires carry the dialtone that everything uses. The Black/Yellow wires are for a seccond line, or data as in the case of a phone system. You will fid black/yellow hooked up more commonly on houses with two lines. This is how they make two line phones that have only one cord. Just as a suggestion, wire them all up as if you were putting two phone lines everywhere. This will make it easier if you decide to go to a phone system with extensions, etc. (Psst.. if you do go to a phone system, get an Avaya/Lucent/whatever their name is Phone system called the Partner system. It's one of a rare few that you can connect a home type telephone/cordless/modem up to and use without additional hardware. You can get them for good prices on Ebay.)
You are correct. According to Microsoft, twhen they released NT, they called it NT because it had "new technology" 32 bit processing perhaps? What is funny about the nt moniker is that 'nt' is a trademark of Northern telecom (now Nortel Networks). and Microsoft has been paying them a lot of money to use that branding for NT.. Probably why Windows 2000 wasn't called Windows NT 5..
I have to agree with you there, When I developed an image for the MSN Companion from emachines (another of the internet access devices) I had to give up a lot to get it to run Linux, but there again i was under a space constraint of 16MB disk. I think the reason that they used telnet instead of SSH is because the telnetd daemon is self-contained at around 32K however SSH is a bit more complex than that. Personally I would've rather used SSH but then again...
I used to work at a rather large firm and would have to do at least 30 installations a day. I used the link below to learn how to merge the latest service packs and hotfixes into the source CDROM for installation. Saves about two hours having to do the post-install installation. I would recommend that if you are a high-volume installer or simply hate having to do that post-install patching that you do this and save some time. I have my copy on a CDRW so all i have to do is reburn the CD and i'm ready to go again..
Printing under linux SUCKS. Make it as easy as windows or setting up a jetdirect and we have something useful for small scall application.
Umm... under Redhat 7.3
As root: 1: run printtool 2: click 'New Printer' 3: click 'Next' 4: Name the Printer 5: click on 'HP JetDirect' 6: Enter IP address 7: Go find Printer driver in List (I use an HP LJ4) so I select HP->LaserJet4->ljet4 8: Click Next 9: Click Finish 10:click Apply,then OK to 'LPD restart' message 11:Select Printer from the list 12:Click on 'Test' then 'US LETTER Postscript Test'
Easy I'm a 12 stepper..:P
Hell. In windows it is easy too, however you need to create a local TCP/IP port to print to and I don't have those instructions..
From the looks of things, they are complaining if you are serving illegal stuff. Again no one states anything about downloading the same material. Quote:
File sharing software is most commonly used to download music and other media. Many do not realize that this software may turn your personal computer into a server, or upload site, even if that was not your intent. Files on your network connected PC may then be illegally shared with every other person connected to the World Wide Web. It is imperative that the file sharing capability of these systems be disabled. If you do not know how to disable this function, please contact the Help Desk at 581-4000.
It looks like that the are only concerned with serving illegal files rather than dlwnloading them. I know of several places that are like this already but have a don't ask/don't tell policy about downloads (provided you don't gobble up their bandwidth)
Although I don't use any P2P apps (legally or otherwise) I think that this whole panic really needs to be studied further at who the *AA is griping about. Those that download or those that serve...
I am prone to agree with the Microwave guy. This technique will not work on metal-studded jeans or other metal studded clothing but hey, unless you have access to a Radiology department, you aren't going to be able to get them all now are you. If you DO have a radiology department..... Have fun and remember to wear lead...
Take the clothes, dip in water, place in microwave, nuke for 10 seconds. If you don't see a bright flash then you're OK. If you see the flash, wave bye bye to the RFID tag that isn't there any more..:) if you run the microwave longer than 10 seconds, you risk the water evaporating and the clothing catching fire. The water gives the microwave something to warm up (attack with the microwave radiation.) and if the water evaporates, your clothing is next...
And remember kids, microwaving clothes and popcorn is a good way to get that warm toasty feeling while you're watching a movie...
I have had the same problem with computers not showing up under Network Neighborhood. As a suggestion: configure your Linux SMB server to also act as a WINS server and pass the necessary WINS statements to clients from your DHCP server (assuming you have access to it.) This will make every smb-based client (i think) register with WINS so that they are "seen" as soon as they appear, much sooner than the 20/30 minutes it normally takes for Windows/Linux clients to discover themselves by themselves.
As always, IMHO(it's my humble opinion) and YMMV..
I run JIM(for windows) (from www.jabber.com )and I have my ICQ account set up through a "gateway". This cuts down on the need for multiple clients. As of right... now the server I login to supports, ICQ,AIM,MSN,YAHOO as well as the standard JabberIM protocol.
I have recommended to all my friends to use Jabber as well as the JIM client for windows and the Psi client for Linux. these both seem to be the most stable so far.
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DISCLAIMER:
IANAL,IANAB,YMMV,INMF(it's not my fault)
I have a friend that is interested in learning Quake 3 Arena. She doesn't like video games, has a playstation that goes unused... (possible hack target) and hates guns with a passion. I keep telling her that she won't be interested and yet she still hammers me about showing her. The sad thing is when I show her, she's going to recoil in disgust and not want to ever try it again.. (even before I get in the game and slap her character right off the map) The fact of the matter is: Quake3 was designed for men. Guys with testosterone-pumping, kill everything not you, dominate, fight, win attitudes are the target audience. I for one can't say that I know of any women offhand that are like that....
When they go to resusitate him with the latest and greatest defibrillator coupled with Windows CE (to allow doctors to diagnose, perscribe and treat efficiently of course) do you think that he will let them? Or better yet when the machine asks for his credit card to "swipe and activate the DRM (digital restraint managment)" feature do you think he'll cough up? hehe.
After all if their product is so good, they should trust their life with it! (btw, this is meant as a joke only, no flamewar)
IPX is a network protocol. It's used more commonly on Novell Netware servers (up to 4.1.0) before they switched to TCP/IP. Getting TCP/IP to work on a Netware 3.12 server blows the goatse (there goes my mod points..) If you're using TCP/IP and you don't have a Novell server on the network, stick with TCP/IP. it's a lot more robust than the IPX network.
Would it be possible to boot of an IDE 16mb CF card like a SanDisk? The sandisks are already set-up to run like an IDE drive anyway. All they need is an IDE -- CF adapter. Rare but they can be found, or made.
We had a PIX diw a week out of the service contract and now Crisco won't talk to us.. I still have the software and was thinking about trying this.. (no i can not provide copies of said software. My bosses would kill me.)
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Working for a cable based ISP, (I can't say who but it's not comcast) I can tell you that the cablemodems that we use for our VoIP service does not use the "internet connection" to connect to the VoIP servers at the headend. The Cablemodem actually has three network interfaces, the RF interface (the coax screw on connector), the "Managment interface" which is a private address on the RF connection and the "User" interface (Ethernet and USB ports.
The Managment interface, when locked, is provisioned at a way higher speed than the customer is subscribed at, usually about 25-30Mbps. This interface provides the two-way communication for the VoIP service, headend communication, HITS, and firmware updating as necessary. The RF interface is bridged to the User Interface once the cablemodem has been hit and the modem authorized, at which time the customer's device (PC/MAC, router, etc) gets an IP address at the subscribed bandwidth. The VoIP traffic uses the managment interface's IP to link upstream to the VoIP server at the headend and never cuts into the customer's subscribed bandwidth therefore giving the VoIP traffic a "free and clear" connection all the way to the headend. The VoIP traffic never leaves the provider's network and hits the public internet.
Vonage on the other hand does not have the luxury of being on their network, but rather that of whatever broadband you are connected to so the vonage box (or other VoIP connection here) has to go through the internet connection at whatever speed they are provisioned at and then is subject to the latency and connectivity issues that the Internet is known for all to get to the switching office.
Now if Vonage started selling DSL or Cable Internet access and their voice service, I have no doubt in my mind that Vonage would easily become a heavy hitter in the Voice over IP market just like the cable ops are now. They would have the same bonuses that the cable ops have now, un-messed with connections to their switching gear provided that their customer equipment communicated over the CPE to their own headend or DSLAM.
It's not the technology that is flawed, it's how they're getting there that is subject to debate.
I'm not trying to bash Vonage or exalt the cable companies but trying to give an unbiased opinion on what is really going on when you pick up the phone on a vonage box versus that of your local cable company.
Yogurt: And God willing we'll all meet again in Spaceballs 2: The search for more money.
See? Mel Brooks himself (or insert scriptwriter here) even set the movie up for a sequel.
Unfortunately it's worse than what you describe.
Olympians are not allowed to write in their own personal journals about what's going on at the Games for fear of disqualification..
from CNN's own article on the issue
Participants in the games may respond to written questions from reporters or participate in online chat sessions -- akin to a face-to-face or telephone interview -- but they may not post journals or online diaries, blogs in Internet parlance, until the Games end August 29.
IMO, modular is where you can stack two or more power supplies for added amperage or failover as is the case with some of IBM's AS/400 servers. I don't see where this power supply fits the 'modular' category unless one of those cables can uplink to another power supply for added amperage.
Maybe I am missing something, but then again i did read the article and it didn't say anything about it. The issue of 'excess cables hanging in the case' has never been an issue for me as I always clean up my installs with tiewraps and shrink wrap.
If I'm going to pay $130 for a power supply, I'm going to go with an Antec case while I am at it. Those usually ship with 400w P/S and are really reliable.
The Dell 8200 with the 2nd battery pack (fits neatly inside 2nd device bay) will often last me ~6h. This is usually at full processor but I'd bet that if I used speedstep I could get it to an hour more.
You mean like this one?
It doesn't look like that is an ACTUAL case.
1: Why would you put a side panel on it, then have something non-flexible poke through it? Any attempt to slide off the side panel would cause the plastic tube on the front of the case to break or, slice the hamster like a guillotine.
2: The U bend at the top is right on top of where the power supply goes. That's not right.
3: How is one to access their CDROM/floppy/Zip100/insert favorite media drive here if the hamster ball on the front of the case BLOCKS ALL THREE BAYS?
4: click on 'Add to wish list ad prove my point'...
well.. those bigfoot drives had a good statement for them,:
If they worked out of the box, they'd work for ten years plus, If they didn't well, it's not worth fscking with it, take it back.
Unfortunately, there are too many of the latter out there and hell, it's a cool idea to get rid of 'em.. either that or take them to a range...
DEFRAG THIS!
i buy broken hds.. they make really geeky clocks.. ;)
the best ones are the old Quantum bigfoot drives.. those are the right thichkness for the clock. Drill out the hub and replace with a clock movement. Poof! easy $50.
THe best way is to make a central 'phone closet'. Run a 6pr cable from the demarc to this closet This will give you a maximum of 6 incoming lines before you have to run more. Punch that down to one 66 block. Run new cables from each jack to the phone closet and puch them down to another block. Use splice wire to go between the two blocks using the non-cutting side of the punch tool to create loops.
Wiring Code:
for 66 blocks
(primary in bold)
Pr 1:White Blue | Blue White
Pr 2:White Orange | Orange white
Pr 3:White Green | Green White
Pr 4:White Brown | Brown White
Pr 5:White Slate | Slate White
Pr 6:Red Blue | Blue Red
for 'biscuit' jacks and wall plates
Wire from Cable | Wire on Jack
White/Blue | Green
Blue/White | Red
White/Orange | Black
Orange/White | Yellow
White/Green | White
Green/White | Blue
When it comes to wiring the jacks, only the green/red wires are really necessary. These wires carry the dialtone that everything uses. The Black/Yellow wires are for a seccond line, or data as in the case of a phone system. You will fid black/yellow hooked up more commonly on houses with two lines. This is how they make two line phones that have only one cord. Just as a suggestion, wire them all up as if you were putting two phone lines everywhere. This will make it easier if you decide to go to a phone system with extensions, etc. (Psst.. if you do go to a phone system, get an Avaya/Lucent/whatever their name is Phone system called the Partner system. It's one of a rare few that you can connect a home type telephone/cordless/modem up to and use without additional hardware. You can get them for good prices on Ebay.)
Hope this helps
You are correct. According to Microsoft, twhen they released NT, they called it NT because it had "new technology" 32 bit processing perhaps? What is funny about the nt moniker is that 'nt' is a trademark of Northern telecom (now Nortel Networks). and Microsoft has been paying them a lot of money to use that branding for NT.. Probably why Windows 2000 wasn't called Windows NT 5..
Haver fun!
I have to agree with you there, When I developed an image for the MSN Companion from emachines (another of the internet access devices) I had to give up a lot to get it to run Linux, but there again i was under a space constraint of 16MB disk. I think the reason that they used telnet instead of SSH is because the telnetd daemon is self-contained at around 32K however SSH is a bit more complex than that. Personally I would've rather used SSH but then again...
I used to work at a rather large firm and would have to do at least 30 installations a day. I used the link below to learn how to merge the latest service packs and hotfixes into the source CDROM for installation. Saves about two hours having to do the post-install installation. I would recommend that if you are a high-volume installer or simply hate having to do that post-install patching that you do this and save some time. I have my copy on a CDRW so all i have to do is reburn the CD and i'm ready to go again..
http://www.bink.nu/Bootcd/default.htm
Printing under linux SUCKS. Make it as easy as windows or setting up a jetdirect and we have something useful for small scall application.
:P
Umm... under Redhat 7.3
As root:
1: run printtool
2: click 'New Printer'
3: click 'Next'
4: Name the Printer
5: click on 'HP JetDirect'
6: Enter IP address
7: Go find Printer driver in List (I use an HP LJ4) so I select HP->LaserJet4->ljet4
8: Click Next
9: Click Finish
10:click Apply,then OK to 'LPD restart' message
11:Select Printer from the list
12:Click on 'Test' then 'US LETTER Postscript Test'
Easy I'm a 12 stepper..
Hell. In windows it is easy too, however you need to create a local TCP/IP port to print to and I don't have those instructions..
---^v---^v---^v-------
Eeep...eep...eep..eeeeeeeeeeee
time of death 927PM CST.
Damnit jim I'm a doctor not a webserver admin..
Thanks to the persons mirrioring this!
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From the looks of things, they are complaining if you are serving illegal stuff. Again no one states anything about downloading the same material. Quote:
File sharing software is most commonly used to download music and other
media. Many do not realize that this software may turn your personal
computer into a server, or upload site, even if that was not your
intent. Files on your network connected PC may then be illegally shared
with every other person connected to the World Wide Web. It is
imperative that the file sharing capability of these systems be
disabled. If you do not know how to disable this function, please
contact the Help Desk at 581-4000.
It looks like that the are only concerned with serving illegal files rather than dlwnloading them. I know of several places that are like this already but have a don't ask/don't tell policy about downloads (provided you don't gobble up their bandwidth)
Although I don't use any P2P apps (legally or otherwise) I think that this whole panic really needs to be studied further at who the *AA is griping about. Those that download or those that serve...
Just my
I am prone to agree with the Microwave guy. This technique will not work on metal-studded jeans or other metal studded clothing but hey, unless you have access to a Radiology department, you aren't going to be able to get them all now are you. If you DO have a radiology department..... Have fun and remember to wear lead...
:)
Take the clothes, dip in water, place in microwave, nuke for 10 seconds. If you don't see a bright flash then you're OK. If you see the flash, wave bye bye to the RFID tag that isn't there any more..
if you run the microwave longer than 10 seconds, you risk the water evaporating and the clothing catching fire. The water gives the microwave something to warm up (attack with the microwave radiation.) and if the water evaporates, your clothing is next...
And remember kids, microwaving clothes and popcorn is a good way to get that warm toasty feeling while you're watching a movie...
I have had the same problem with computers not showing up under Network Neighborhood. As a suggestion: configure your Linux SMB server to also act as a WINS server and pass the necessary WINS statements to clients from your DHCP server (assuming you have access to it.) This will make every smb-based client (i think) register with WINS so that they are "seen" as soon as they appear, much sooner than the 20/30 minutes it normally takes for Windows/Linux clients to discover themselves by themselves.
As always, IMHO(it's my humble opinion) and YMMV..
I run JIM(for windows) (from www.jabber.com )and I have my ICQ account set up through a "gateway". This cuts down on the need for multiple clients. As of right... now the server I login to supports, ICQ,AIM,MSN,YAHOO as well as the standard JabberIM protocol.
I have recommended to all my friends to use Jabber as well as the JIM client for windows and the Psi client for Linux. these both seem to be the most stable so far.
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DISCLAIMER: IANAL,IANAB,YMMV,INMF(it's not my fault)
I have a friend that is interested in learning Quake 3 Arena. She doesn't like video games, has a playstation that goes unused... (possible hack target) and hates guns with a passion. I keep telling her that she won't be interested and yet she still hammers me about showing her. The sad thing is when I show her, she's going to recoil in disgust and not want to ever try it again.. (even before I get in the game and slap her character right off the map) The fact of the matter is: Quake3 was designed for men. Guys with testosterone-pumping, kill everything not you, dominate, fight, win attitudes are the target audience. I for one can't say that I know of any women offhand that are like that....
hehehe.. sounds like some of the MS EULA's i have had to run through.. :P
When they go to resusitate him with the latest and greatest defibrillator coupled with Windows CE (to allow doctors to diagnose, perscribe and treat efficiently of course) do you think that he will let them? Or better yet when the machine asks for his credit card to "swipe and activate the DRM (digital restraint managment)" feature do you think he'll cough up? hehe.
After all if their product is so good, they should trust their life with it!
(btw, this is meant as a joke only, no flamewar)
IPX is a network protocol. It's used more commonly on Novell Netware servers (up to 4.1.0) before they switched to TCP/IP. Getting TCP/IP to work on a Netware 3.12 server blows the goatse (there goes my mod points..) If you're using TCP/IP and you don't have a Novell server on the network, stick with TCP/IP. it's a lot more robust than the IPX network.
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just my
I have been looking for one like this for ages!
Thank you!
Would it be possible to boot of an IDE 16mb CF card like a SanDisk? The sandisks are already set-up to run like an IDE drive anyway. All they need is an IDE -- CF adapter. Rare but they can be found, or made.
We had a PIX diw a week out of the service contract and now Crisco won't talk to us.. I still have the software and was thinking about trying this..
(no i can not provide copies of said software. My bosses would kill me.)