It would be simmilar to microsoft saying that it will still sell windows, but if anyone has a problem with any of the components (IE, Control Pannels) they are out of luck.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Microsoft already operate that way?
You're a little conservative on max line bandwidth. You can get up to around 7.5M. Up or down, it doesn't matter, cable isn't asymmetrical. The only reason cable companies make caps like they do is because no ISP in their right mind wants more data going out of their network than is coming in. It screws up their figures for determining by how much they can oversell their backbone link(s). Which is, not coincidentally, why most TOSes have a stipulation that you can't run any servers. Backbone providers don't care, obviously, there's no difference in direction for them. But I digress, your numbers are a little off, but your point is spot on. What Buckeye did was fabricate numbers in order to fraudulently utilize the resources of the FBI. I'm no big fan of the FBI, but shades of Operation Sundevil aside, there'd better be some accounting for this.
Not necessary. Anyone with sufficient technical ability can set a CMTS to only accept a few possible QOS configurations. Apparently, no one at Buckeye had the wondrous skill called "literacy" or the amazing object called "the manual". Cheap don't factor into it, these techs are stone stupid.
At work, I have a Win98 machine, and an HP-UX machine, by mandate. Can't do anything about that. Although I did abscond with an unused machine and slapped linux on it to mess around with. (And for those slow times when you get sick of solitaire and freecell and want to play something else. But don't tell anybody.)
Home is a different story. I have two linux machines, one running SuSE 7.1 which I use to read e-mail and news and share the internet connection. The second is a dual-boot Win98/SuSE 8.0 machine that I play my games on. I've been managing to get most of the games I play over on the linux side, anymore. WineX is getting pretty good, and of course id and Epic release linux binaries for their products. So mostly I'm all linux.
About eight years ago, my uncle received a computer desk from a colleague of his. Since it still had the computer in it, he asked me to remove it. As I recall, it was a minicomputer built into a shelving unit behind the kickplate. There were three sets of shelves, the bottom shelf held two power supplies, the second shelf held the hard drives and tape drive (which had an access port from the side), and the top shelf held the motherboard. Monitor and keyboard ports were in the top of the desk on the back edge, and the puck tablet (it had a puck instead of a mouse) was built into a cutout on the underside. I assume it ran some type of Unix, it wouldn't boot anything though, the drives were shot. I think there was a floppy built into the drawer, too. He also got a bunch of Bell Labs manuals, a couple of binders full of printouts of Fortran code, and about 100' of coax cable.
Although I can see it being overshadowed, if wireless hardware makers build into their access points the ability to multi-bridge and still accept client connections. That would take care of dim spots, too, and would be easier and smaller.
Since his email, journal, and a quick whois supports his identity. Plus which, the point he makes is one that is completely valid and in character. So is it live, or is it Memorex? And if you're sitting in front of a monitor, why do you care?
If anyone is interested, I'm bringing out a new line of tinfoil underwear. Aside from being anti-radiation, they have the added benefit of making it harder for aliens to control your nuts! Plus, you can easily identify people just like you.
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Not exactly - SBC is running a copper loop from EU's premise to an RT, then fiber from the RT to the CO. There's no space in that cable vault to lease to Covad, is there? So, Covad can't install their own RT out there (and it'd be REALLY expensive anyway). Covad could um.. run a dry pair from the EU's premise to their own RT, but um, that's really not economical at all. They could run a wet line, but then they'd have to provide voice, and that starts getting messy with the PUC from what I understand.
I was only joking about Covad creating their own Project Pronto. Obviously, a company struggling for solvency is *not* going to have anywhere near the capital necessary to build out overlapping fields of DSL service in order to provide complete coverage. Real estate is too expensive, equipment is too expensive, that much copper is too expensive, etc...It is theoretically possible, but highly unlikely. Were we still in the middle of the halcyon days of the dotcom boom, I wouldn't want to lay any odds against an attempt, though.
Otherwise, you're absolutely right, SBC is extending the service to customers too far away from the CO, which is great, but it's not available to CLECs, but that's OK because the CLECs can't provide service at that distance right now anyway.
On the other hand, as has been pointed out, SBC is willing to hand Covad a PVC from their RTs. For a small fee, of course.
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I will. Project Pronto has very little to do with the COs themselves. It has to do with the building of cable vaults some distance away from the CO, between which is a fiber connection, from which DSL qualified copper comes out. Now, the thing with these cable vaults is, in order for them to be feasibly built, the LEC can't put any colo space in them, if they do, the economics of it don't work, and it makes more sense for them not to build. Now, in a sense, Project Pronto could potentially harm Covad, since Covad would only be able to run DSL lines from the COs, while SBC can run DSL from both their COs and their cable vaults, so someone not in range from the CO, but in range from the cable vault could receive a DSL line from SBC, but not from Covad. However, Covad doesn't have those customers *now*, so if they are resigned to not having them, it doesn't matter. If someone develops an extended range form of DSL (that is worthwhile, meaning 1.5M/348K down/up, or somewhere in that range) Project Pronto falls through. It's a gamble. Covad could run their own version of Project Pronto, too. It just takes money.
That sounds like the port you were jacked into on the Turnstone (or whatever Covad uses) went flaky. Obviously, this doesn't help you now, and nobody replaces a full blade for just one port on it, but if you went back, you probably wouldn't have that problem, since by now somebody else is probably provisioned to that jack (and having the same problems) unless, of course, your line hasn't been removed. Or it could have been your jack on the DSLAM, but either way, switching you to a different one for a test period should have determined that.
There are a lot of experiences you'll miss if you jump straight into the workforce full-time. College is not wholly (or mainly) about learning a field. College is about learning to think. College is about broadening your horizons. It's about meeting new and interesting people. It's about getting blind stinking drunk and passing out on a sorority's lawn in your underwear.
Employment, on the other hand, is about one thing. Making enough money to keep yourself solvent and in good health for the entirety of your lifespan. And that's a long time. The material possessions part of it is something you get to work on once you've fulfilled the first two requirements.
So go to college. You don't have to go to an expensive four year right off the bat. Go to juco and take a wide range of classes for a couple years. Get a job in sysadminning on the side. Bounce around a little, it won't be held against you. You gotta see systems, and that's the only way to do it. And it might turn out you don't like them as much as you think you do. Or that you have a knack and a desire to program. Or something even weirder. But keep the GPA up and try as best you can to get a cheap ride to a four year. Preferably away from home. Drop yourself into a brand new environment and try to handle it.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Microsoft already operate that way?
You're a little conservative on max line bandwidth. You can get up to around 7.5M. Up or down, it doesn't matter, cable isn't asymmetrical. The only reason cable companies make caps like they do is because no ISP in their right mind wants more data going out of their network than is coming in. It screws up their figures for determining by how much they can oversell their backbone link(s). Which is, not coincidentally, why most TOSes have a stipulation that you can't run any servers. Backbone providers don't care, obviously, there's no difference in direction for them. But I digress, your numbers are a little off, but your point is spot on. What Buckeye did was fabricate numbers in order to fraudulently utilize the resources of the FBI. I'm no big fan of the FBI, but shades of Operation Sundevil aside, there'd better be some accounting for this.
Not necessary. Anyone with sufficient technical ability can set a CMTS to only accept a few possible QOS configurations. Apparently, no one at Buckeye had the wondrous skill called "literacy" or the amazing object called "the manual". Cheap don't factor into it, these techs are stone stupid.
At work, I have a Win98 machine, and an HP-UX machine, by mandate. Can't do anything about that. Although I did abscond with an unused machine and slapped linux on it to mess around with. (And for those slow times when you get sick of solitaire and freecell and want to play something else. But don't tell anybody.)
Home is a different story. I have two linux machines, one running SuSE 7.1 which I use to read e-mail and news and share the internet connection. The second is a dual-boot Win98/SuSE 8.0 machine that I play my games on. I've been managing to get most of the games I play over on the linux side, anymore. WineX is getting pretty good, and of course id and Epic release linux binaries for their products. So mostly I'm all linux.
Or send somebody else instead of the guy who'll die.
About eight years ago, my uncle received a computer desk from a colleague of his. Since it still had the computer in it, he asked me to remove it. As I recall, it was a minicomputer built into a shelving unit behind the kickplate. There were three sets of shelves, the bottom shelf held two power supplies, the second shelf held the hard drives and tape drive (which had an access port from the side), and the top shelf held the motherboard. Monitor and keyboard ports were in the top of the desk on the back edge, and the puck tablet (it had a puck instead of a mouse) was built into a cutout on the underside. I assume it ran some type of Unix, it wouldn't boot anything though, the drives were shot. I think there was a floppy built into the drawer, too. He also got a bunch of Bell Labs manuals, a couple of binders full of printouts of Fortran code, and about 100' of coax cable.
Although I can see it being overshadowed, if wireless hardware makers build into their access points the ability to multi-bridge and still accept client connections. That would take care of dim spots, too, and would be easier and smaller.
Since his email, journal, and a quick whois supports his identity. Plus which, the point he makes is one that is completely valid and in character. So is it live, or is it Memorex? And if you're sitting in front of a monitor, why do you care?
If anyone is interested, I'm bringing out a new line of tinfoil underwear. Aside from being anti-radiation, they have the added benefit of making it harder for aliens to control your nuts! Plus, you can easily identify people just like you.
I was only joking about Covad creating their own Project Pronto. Obviously, a company struggling for solvency is *not* going to have anywhere near the capital necessary to build out overlapping fields of DSL service in order to provide complete coverage. Real estate is too expensive, equipment is too expensive, that much copper is too expensive, etc...It is theoretically possible, but highly unlikely. Were we still in the middle of the halcyon days of the dotcom boom, I wouldn't want to lay any odds against an attempt, though.
Otherwise, you're absolutely right, SBC is extending the service to customers too far away from the CO, which is great, but it's not available to CLECs, but that's OK because the CLECs can't provide service at that distance right now anyway.
On the other hand, as has been pointed out, SBC is willing to hand Covad a PVC from their RTs. For a small fee, of course.
I will. Project Pronto has very little to do with the COs themselves. It has to do with the building of cable vaults some distance away from the CO, between which is a fiber connection, from which DSL qualified copper comes out. Now, the thing with these cable vaults is, in order for them to be feasibly built, the LEC can't put any colo space in them, if they do, the economics of it don't work, and it makes more sense for them not to build. Now, in a sense, Project Pronto could potentially harm Covad, since Covad would only be able to run DSL lines from the COs, while SBC can run DSL from both their COs and their cable vaults, so someone not in range from the CO, but in range from the cable vault could receive a DSL line from SBC, but not from Covad. However, Covad doesn't have those customers *now*, so if they are resigned to not having them, it doesn't matter. If someone develops an extended range form of DSL (that is worthwhile, meaning 1.5M/348K down/up, or somewhere in that range) Project Pronto falls through. It's a gamble. Covad could run their own version of Project Pronto, too. It just takes money.
That sounds like the port you were jacked into on the Turnstone (or whatever Covad uses) went flaky. Obviously, this doesn't help you now, and nobody replaces a full blade for just one port on it, but if you went back, you probably wouldn't have that problem, since by now somebody else is probably provisioned to that jack (and having the same problems) unless, of course, your line hasn't been removed. Or it could have been your jack on the DSLAM, but either way, switching you to a different one for a test period should have determined that.
Bud Selig has too much influence.
According to the RIAA, if you wanted to find out, you'd have to buy them all anyway.
I can't help but notice there's no mention of how much the artist will see from each sale.
And also, it's not much of a price break, is it?
That may be an unfortunate turn of phrase. Hopefully Gordon was thinking of the automobile manufacturers.
There are a lot of experiences you'll miss if you jump straight into the workforce full-time. College is not wholly (or mainly) about learning a field. College is about learning to think. College is about broadening your horizons. It's about meeting new and interesting people. It's about getting blind stinking drunk and passing out on a sorority's lawn in your underwear.
Employment, on the other hand, is about one thing. Making enough money to keep yourself solvent and in good health for the entirety of your lifespan. And that's a long time. The material possessions part of it is something you get to work on once you've fulfilled the first two requirements.
So go to college. You don't have to go to an expensive four year right off the bat. Go to juco and take a wide range of classes for a couple years. Get a job in sysadminning on the side. Bounce around a little, it won't be held against you. You gotta see systems, and that's the only way to do it. And it might turn out you don't like them as much as you think you do. Or that you have a knack and a desire to program. Or something even weirder. But keep the GPA up and try as best you can to get a cheap ride to a four year. Preferably away from home. Drop yourself into a brand new environment and try to handle it.