You mentioned the Big Three IP PBX's (Cisco Call Manager, Nortel BCM and Avaya's Comm Manager)
My company is currently planning a full rip-and-replace of all of our network gear, including LAN switching and (possibly) routing gear, but definitely will be deploying an IP PBX solution of some sort.
Your informed thoughts on this would be appreciated. Avaya claims to be the best IP PBX all around, but (I believe) their strength is in call centers. Nortel has the lead (I believe) with their install base of BCM's. Cisco claims to have a great product, but are the johnny-come-latelys and seem to take a fair amount of bashing (for good and for bad.)
However, Cisco is the 800lb gorilla that's best of breed for data/switching/routing. My thoughts are that I want to have the best possible transport (cisco) and if it takes them a while (1 - 2 years) for them to catch up to Avaya (or heck, just BUY them or someone else outright) that's OK, because I still have a rock-solid network foundation.
Again, any input from recent decision-makers would be most welcome.
I recall a joke by comedian Steven Wright (I think):
I went to a math conference recently, and the hotel at the conference labelled all the rooms with math symbols. Mine was Pi. Easy enough to find, but it took FOREVER to dial on the hotel phone system.
Lets not forget the "PacMan Fever" song
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Pacman decided to take a break after his initial success, and recorded the chart-topping "PacMan Fever" album
I got a pocket full of quarters, and I'm headed to the arcade. I don't have a lot of money, but I'm bringing ev'rything I made. I've got a callus on my finger, and my shoulder's hurting too. I'm gonna eat them all up, just as soon as they turn blue.
Chorus: 'Cause I've got Pac-Man fever; Pac-Man fever. It's driving me crazy. Driving me crazy. I've got Pac-Man fever; Pac-Man fever. I'm going out of my mind. Going out of my mind. I've got Pac-Man fever; Pac-Man fever. I'm going out of my mind. Going out of my mind.
I've got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key. I've got Speedy on my tail, and I know it's either him or me. So I'm heading out the back door and in the other side; Gonna eat the cherries up and take them all for a ride.
Chorus
I'm gonna fake it to the left, and move to the right; 'Cause Pokey's too slow, and Blinky's out of sight.
Guitar solo
Now I've got them on the run, and I'm looking for the high score; So it's once around the block, And I'll slide back out the side door. I'm really cookin' now, eating everything in sight. All my money's gone, so I'll be back tomorow night.
'Cause I've got Pac-Man fever; Pac-Man fever. It's driving me crazy. Driving me crazy. I've got Pac-Man fever; Pac-Man fever. I'm going out of my mind. Going out of my mind. Repeat and fade
Just remember, every time you masturbate God kills a puppy. In fact, I have it on good authority that if you masturbate to Pr0n while using this LiveCD He kills both a puppy AND a kitten.
If you were smart you bought an access point that lets you upgrade to the new spec simply by swapping out the PCMCIA 802.whatever card. The base unit stays the same, and most have two slots for two different radios.
Granted, I'm not talking about cheap SOHO AP's, but the last time I checked Cisco isn't in this market. (well, its subsidary Linksys is, but thats OT.)
Parent should be modded +1 Insightful.
Despite your best efforts to keep your secrets secret, there will ALWAYS be some dumb fuck who will give them out for either {sex | drugs | money}. Some of them will do it out of malice, some unwittingly, some 'just because'. The CIA and all other "spy" agencies train their field operatives in the art of manipulating HUMINT in order to derive those secrets that they cannot obtain through crypto etc. Field ops know how to read a person, figure out exactly which buttons to push, and extract whatever they need. The best crypto is useless when someone can be manipulated to give out the same secrets, and then some.
A few years back there was a pretty sick game called "Postal", where you basically went around killing people in lots of twisted ways. Your arsenal included the usual pistols, shotguns, etc, but also a moltov cocktail that I could never really find a good use for on any the levels.
Until... the "Marching Band" level (cue nefarious laugh) If you lobbed the flaming moltov cocktail just right into the marching band you'd set a bunch of the band on fire, who who begin flailing and screaming, setting other band players alight in the process. At no other point in the game could you take out so many so quickly, with such panache.
Ever since then I've always cast a curious eye towards the (albeit few) marching bands I've seen, thinking, "hmmm.. that Tuba guy really looks annoying.. where's a moltov when you need it?"
Puts a whole new spin on "this one time, at band camp.."
Here's a quick blurb from the google-translated version of the aforementioned site. Gotta love the mix of english, german, and onomatapeia.
They made it straight with Pilsette and Ziggies on your Terasse comfortably, disturbed themselves in the afternoon there the peace of the late by dull/musty rumbling and Grummeln: The regular Umm Umm Umm Umm Umm increases slowly to a kakophonischen Umm Tss Umm Tss Umm Tss Umm Tschicki Umm Tss Umm Tss Umm Tss, under from the exerted Troeten of a aufgemotzten small car engine
VoicePulse Connect! has a low monthly rate, but its $2.95 per minute for US connectivity. Holy Crap!
No volume commitment Prepaid pricing model Get started with $10 Incoming phone numbers: $7.99 / month (each) Incoming rate: 0 / minute US long distance rate: 2.95 / minute
I think people by DVD writers for one of two reasons (or both):
1) to backup big chunks of data (large databases, GIS datasets, MP3 collections, and what-have you) 2) Rip (a'la DVDShrink, DVD X Copy, etc) some movie you rented from {Netflix | BlockBuster | corner pr0n shop} so you can watch it again (EVEN knowing that, with today's DVD capacities, you're going to have to compress and/or alter the quality of the source DVD to get it to fit on a 4.7Gb disc.
My guess is that most people aren't too worried about #1. If you have more than 5Gb or so of data, that doesn't easily fit onto today's DVDs, then well you're just going to throw it onto some form of tape backup (DLT etc) OR just split the data onto two discs. (Again, this is MOST people, which, by definition, is != most/.'ers. Still, Joe SixPack will more than likely be happy to split his 7Gb or 8Gb MP3 collection consisting of Winger, Scorpion, Europe, and Bon Jovi onto TWO DVDs rather than one.)
#2 - If you're really that worried about quality, well, its obvious from history and by reading/. that, sooner or later, a DVD format is going to come up that's 1) widely accepted 2) can rip a full DVD without compression and/or loss of quality or features. SO, either just rip the DVD to your $0.50 per Gb harddrive, and let it sit until said lossless DVD does become available (less than a year, give or take?) or just burn the lossy one, watch it a few times in the next year (give or take) and then when a lossless DVD does come out, decide whether or not to Re-NetFlix it and get a lossless copy. (Exactly how many times can you watch a movie anyways, lossy or not?)
I'm a sit-back-and-wait kind of guy when it comes to CD/DVD writers, perhaps due to the volume that I burn (very little) and my budget for the latest-and-greatest burners (even less) My guess it that most people are like this as well.
That's nothing. I can decrypt 1024-bit encryption in my head, in under 60 seconds, with Natalie Portman and Halle Berry rolling about in hot grits just off to the side of my 6 flatpanels.
Seriously though, makes you wonder how long the spooks have known about this.
There's a mod for D3 to "duct tape" your flashlight to SOME of your weapons. From the dude's site:
Under the crazy presumption that a roll of duct tape has to exist somewhere on the Mars facility, the Duct Tape mod sticks flashlights to your machinegun and shotgun. In order to preserve the atmosphere, these new lights are much narrower (and a little brighter) than the standard flashlight, and are only available on the basic weapons. The pistol is not equipped with a flashlight, so as not to spoil the early sections of the game.
Ok, so FINALLY Doom3 is upon us. I've waited and waited to upgrade my lowly P3 500mhz ATI Radeon All-in-wonder system until D3 was released. Yes, I know its about another month or so off, but given today's specs, what system should I plan on buying? (and, please, refrain from the "buy the best you can afford" posts. What I'm asking is, should I buy a P4 with Hyperthreading, or an AMD 64, or ?? Should I buy an NVidia, or Radeon [fill in the blank]? I'm PC savvy enough to know to buy the requisite 512mb of RAM (at least) and the 400gb HD for all of my pr0n, blah blah, but not up with the latest specs on which mfg has the best proc, fsb, etc. I know iD hasn't released minimum specs required for it yet, but I just want to know what I should plan on buying. Motherboard recommendations welcome. (and, on a side note, Microcenter has a $100 rebate on mobo's right now if you sign up for the credit card during purchase. scha-weeet!)
Also, should we be surprised that there's no officially released demo for D3?
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"See! I DID see your Mom on the Internet!"
You mentioned the Big Three IP PBX's (Cisco Call Manager, Nortel BCM and Avaya's Comm Manager)
My company is currently planning a full rip-and-replace of all of our network gear, including LAN switching and (possibly) routing gear, but definitely will be deploying an IP PBX solution of some sort.
Your informed thoughts on this would be appreciated. Avaya claims to be the best IP PBX all around, but (I believe) their strength is in call centers. Nortel has the lead (I believe) with their install base of BCM's. Cisco claims to have a great product, but are the johnny-come-latelys and seem to take a fair amount of bashing (for good and for bad.)
However, Cisco is the 800lb gorilla that's best of breed for data/switching/routing. My thoughts are that I want to have the best possible transport (cisco) and if it takes them a while (1 - 2 years) for them to catch up to Avaya (or heck, just BUY them or someone else outright) that's OK, because I still have a rock-solid network foundation.
Again, any input from recent decision-makers would be most welcome.
Upon resurrection they just moaned:
GRRRRRAAAAIIINNNSSSS.
I recall a joke by comedian Steven Wright (I think):
I went to a math conference recently, and the hotel at the conference labelled all the rooms with math symbols.
Mine was Pi. Easy enough to find, but it took FOREVER to dial on the hotel phone system.
I got a pocket full of quarters, and I'm headed to the arcade.
I don't have a lot of money, but I'm bringing ev'rything I made.
I've got a callus on my finger, and my shoulder's hurting too.
I'm gonna eat them all up, just as soon as they turn blue.
Chorus:
'Cause I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
It's driving me crazy.
Driving me crazy.
I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
I'm going out of my mind.
Going out of my mind.
I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
I'm going out of my mind.
Going out of my mind.
I've got all the patterns down, up until the ninth key.
I've got Speedy on my tail, and I know it's either him or me.
So I'm heading out the back door and in the other side;
Gonna eat the cherries up and take them all for a ride.
Chorus
I'm gonna fake it to the left, and move to the right;
'Cause Pokey's too slow, and Blinky's out of sight.
Guitar solo
Now I've got them on the run, and I'm looking for the high score;
So it's once around the block, And I'll slide back out the side door.
I'm really cookin' now, eating everything in sight.
All my money's gone, so I'll be back tomorow night.
'Cause I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
It's driving me crazy.
Driving me crazy.
I've got Pac-Man fever;
Pac-Man fever.
I'm going out of my mind.
Going out of my mind.
Repeat and fade
* Makes lots of money
* Enjoy what you do
* Keep it legal
Pick two.
-- Ivan Boesky (IIRC)
"Ever notice that the people that are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck anyway?" --George Carlin
(Yeah, OT I know, but I couldn't resist.)
Just remember, every time you masturbate God kills a puppy. In fact, I have it on good authority that if you masturbate to Pr0n while using this LiveCD He kills both a puppy AND a kitten.
Granted, I'm not talking about cheap SOHO AP's, but the last time I checked Cisco isn't in this market. (well, its subsidary Linksys is, but thats OT.)
Parent should be modded +1 Insightful. Despite your best efforts to keep your secrets secret, there will ALWAYS be some dumb fuck who will give them out for either {sex | drugs | money}. Some of them will do it out of malice, some unwittingly, some 'just because'. The CIA and all other "spy" agencies train their field operatives in the art of manipulating HUMINT in order to derive those secrets that they cannot obtain through crypto etc. Field ops know how to read a person, figure out exactly which buttons to push, and extract whatever they need. The best crypto is useless when someone can be manipulated to give out the same secrets, and then some.
I think the wheelbarrel symbolizes this perfectly, as in "Bring out your Dead!" a'la Monty Python's Holy Grail. Larry just HAS to be John Cleese.
A few years back there was a pretty sick game called "Postal", where you basically went around killing people in lots of twisted ways. Your arsenal included the usual pistols, shotguns, etc, but also a moltov cocktail that I could never really find a good use for on any the levels.
Until... the "Marching Band" level (cue nefarious laugh) If you lobbed the flaming moltov cocktail just right into the marching band you'd set a bunch of the band on fire, who who begin flailing and screaming, setting other band players alight in the process. At no other point in the game could you take out so many so quickly, with such panache.
Ever since then I've always cast a curious eye towards the (albeit few) marching bands I've seen, thinking, "hmmm.. that Tuba guy really looks annoying.. where's a moltov when you need it?"
Puts a whole new spin on "this one time, at band camp.."
Aren't there issues with the setup you describe, specifically with Shoutcast and the bitrate the freeware version can (re)broadcast at?
How about:
* Goatse guy's proctologist.
and they usually stink.
If these guys show up at your door, then yes, definitely tell them to piss off.
They made it straight with Pilsette and Ziggies on your Terasse comfortably, disturbed themselves in the afternoon there the peace of the late by dull/musty rumbling and Grummeln: The regular Umm Umm Umm Umm Umm increases slowly to a kakophonischen Umm Tss Umm Tss Umm Tss Umm Tschicki Umm Tss Umm Tss Umm Tss, under from the exerted Troeten of a aufgemotzten small car engine
VoicePulse Connect! has a low monthly rate, but its $2.95 per minute for US connectivity. Holy Crap!
No volume commitment
Prepaid pricing model
Get started with $10
Incoming phone numbers:
$7.99 / month (each)
Incoming rate:
0 / minute
US long distance rate:
2.95 / minute
I think people by DVD writers for one of two reasons (or both):
/.'ers. Still, Joe SixPack will more than likely be happy to split his 7Gb or 8Gb MP3 collection consisting of Winger, Scorpion, Europe, and Bon Jovi onto TWO DVDs rather than one.)
/. that, sooner or later, a DVD format is going to come up that's 1) widely accepted 2) can rip a full DVD without compression and/or loss of quality or features. SO, either just rip the DVD to your $0.50 per Gb harddrive, and let it sit until said lossless DVD does become available (less than a year, give or take?) or just burn the lossy one, watch it a few times in the next year (give or take) and then when a lossless DVD does come out, decide whether or not to Re-NetFlix it and get a lossless copy. (Exactly how many times can you watch a movie anyways, lossy or not?)
1) to backup big chunks of data (large databases, GIS datasets, MP3 collections, and what-have you)
2) Rip (a'la DVDShrink, DVD X Copy, etc) some movie you rented from {Netflix | BlockBuster | corner pr0n shop} so you can watch it again (EVEN knowing that, with today's DVD capacities, you're going to have to compress and/or alter the quality of the source DVD to get it to fit on a 4.7Gb disc.
My guess is that most people aren't too worried about #1. If you have more than 5Gb or so of data, that doesn't easily fit onto today's DVDs, then well you're just going to throw it onto some form of tape backup (DLT etc) OR just split the data onto two discs. (Again, this is MOST people, which, by definition, is != most
#2 - If you're really that worried about quality, well, its obvious from history and by reading
I'm a sit-back-and-wait kind of guy when it comes to CD/DVD writers, perhaps due to the volume that I burn (very little) and my budget for the latest-and-greatest burners (even less) My guess it that most people are like this as well.
That's nothing. I can decrypt 1024-bit encryption in my head, in under 60 seconds, with Natalie Portman and Halle Berry rolling about in hot grits just off to the side of my 6 flatpanels.
Seriously though, makes you wonder how long the spooks have known about this.
(yells out) "Hon? Where's the tin foil?"
There's a mod for D3 to "duct tape" your flashlight to SOME of your weapons. From the dude's site:
Under the crazy presumption that a roll of duct tape has to exist somewhere on the Mars facility, the Duct Tape mod sticks flashlights to your machinegun and shotgun. In order to preserve the atmosphere, these new lights are much narrower (and a little brighter) than the standard flashlight, and are only available on the basic weapons. The pistol is not equipped with a flashlight, so as not to spoil the early sections of the game.
ducttape.gelnmurphy.com
"I expected the Rocky Mountains to be a little rockier than this."
"I was thinkin' the same thing. That John Denver's fulla shit, man."
Star Wars III: Return of the Suckage
Or a really good one if he's trying to get a Darwin Award
Yay! Go stupid (soon to be dead) guy!
PS - Something tells me this guy has a mullet, too.
Ok, so FINALLY Doom3 is upon us. I've waited and waited to upgrade my lowly P3 500mhz ATI Radeon All-in-wonder system until D3 was released. Yes, I know its about another month or so off, but given today's specs, what system should I plan on buying? (and, please, refrain from the "buy the best you can afford" posts. What I'm asking is, should I buy a P4 with Hyperthreading, or an AMD 64, or ?? Should I buy an NVidia, or Radeon [fill in the blank]? I'm PC savvy enough to know to buy the requisite 512mb of RAM (at least) and the 400gb HD for all of my pr0n, blah blah, but not up with the latest specs on which mfg has the best proc, fsb, etc. I know iD hasn't released minimum specs required for it yet, but I just want to know what I should plan on buying. Motherboard recommendations welcome. (and, on a side note, Microcenter has a $100 rebate on mobo's right now if you sign up for the credit card during purchase. scha-weeet!) Also, should we be surprised that there's no officially released demo for D3?