Two hours?! I used my Canadian Certificate of Birth Abroad (no photo ID) to prove my American citizenship when entering the US. It took less than five minutes.
While the phone may run Mac OS X it doesn't fall into the typical Mac line up so calling it MacPhone doesn't quite fit. In addition MacPhone sounds like a piece of software (IMHO). I suppose there is some precedent for your speculation with the AirMac (in Japan). I could see Apple Phone, but it is a mouthful.
How about iCell? It won't go over well with ex-Cons, but that's probably not their target audience.
The epicenter of the Kashmir earthquake (2005, Pakistan & India, 7.6) was 62 miles (100km) away from Islamabad and yet it knocked an apartment building down.
There are a number of ISPs that block outgoing SMTP on port 25. Mine even blocks it for static addresses. They do provide the ability to have the port unblocked for static users. My brother-in-law's ISP blocks 25, 465 and 587 and will only accept outgoing mail which has the sender in their domain. (That's a stupid idea btw.)
"It might be better if they'd get rid of the archaic requirement for a speed test for morse code. I mean if you're wanting to broadcast voices only...why bother with morse code?"
Odd, they let me get a license without any code...better not let the FCC know.
When I lived in BC we measured fuel efficiency in litres/100km, but called it mileage. In the stores we'd asked for imperial quantities, but be billed in metric. (Ask for 1/2 lb of ham, pay for 250g.)
I'm really screwed up, I've lived in fully imperial, mixed and metric countries. When it comes to temperature, I understand hot temperatures in F and cold in C. 18F means nothing to me, but -8C does. Similarly I've seen 50C but until I knew it was 122F it didn't really mean that much either.
My bank has gone to a "registered" computer (seems to be a cookie), a login name, a user specific greeting, a user chosen image and a reasonable strength password (>=8 chars, must include both alpha and numeric). My insurance company moved to a login name and a decent password (>= 6 chars).
In contrast my 401K plan, arguably the most important for the future, uses my SS and a four character password.
It's interesting to see that most people when talking about VoIP security are looking for stream encryption. In my opinion encrypting the voice stream is nearly meaningless until the entire worldwide system is VoIP with the possibility of encrypted voice streams. If your call is connected to or through the PSTN at any point it can be listened to with ease.
The focus of security should be in the setup of a call. If it is difficult to spoof a phone device and place calls on someone else's dime the system becomes more secure than the PSTN. If you are having difficulty selling your PHB on VoIP based soley on the perceived lack of security walk him through the abysmal state of security for the PSTN.
VoIP needs work in security but the primary focus should be in call setup and management.
TMI illustrated that a nuclear plant can be designed to fail safely. Despite human error the plant shutdown safely, that is a success but a success by the designers not the operators. Stop spreading FUD about TMI and do some actual reading about it.
The reason for the illiteracy has mostly to do with the fact that ASL is not English with signs (that would be Signed Exact English SEE) but is in fact a completely distinct language with it's own grammatical structure. For a deaf person to sign ASL and read English is like me speaking and thinking in English and reading in Hindi (or other language where the grammatical structure is significantly different from English).
The more amazing thing is so many deaf people are so capably bi-lingual.
We're throwing out so much food in the farmer welfare programs. Send that food to Africa and use the soybeans for oil. It would probably be more nutritious.
part of living in a liberal democracy is having thick skin.
Very nicely put. Much of the problem today is we as a society have lost much of that concept, too many people today have the opinion that they should never be offended. My opinion is that when we are offended by someone else's speech we should be grateful; grateful that we live in a society where it is our right to speak in such a way that may offend others.
If we cannot stand for others in our society to exercise the rights we all have we will slowly lose those rights.
You're absolutely correct, the proprietary systems do not include the redundancy but they do include onsite service for a fixed length of time. The redundnacy is one of the ways we were able to sell the system to management, well the cost helped to.
I am currently deploying Asterisk in a mid sized business, about 100 employees but only about 70 phones. We were looking at a quoted cost of $55K - $60K for a bare bones system from any vendor. Our total costs with Asterisk are going to be less than $20K and probably more like $17K. The test users absolutely love the system and a number of users are forgoing the $250 phone for the X-Lite softphone.
The costs include two Asterisk servers with T1 cards, the POE switches and the phones. The second server is a backup for the first and is rsync'd from the first every 5 minutes. If we lose our primary system we're back up in minutes.
In addition, I can work from home and appear to be at my desk. <grin>
Or another favorite. Their setup instructions are for Asterisk. Bad points? Well they don't really take into account that someone may want to go straight to an ATA (like my father-in-law). Oh well, service is very good.
Well part of the reason you see engineers graduating faster from private schools has to do with the cost. I'm still paying off my loans ten years later.
I don't know about other schools, but where I went I was floored by the attrition rate for engineering degrees. At the beginning of my freshman year the head of the enigneering departments (small school) got all the freshmen engineering majors together. There were about 300 people (very small school). For graduation all of us that made it sat in one row, about 30 people made it out the other end as engineers. If other schools have a 90% rate of attrition as well I can easily see the 70,000 number as accurate.
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Two hours?! I used my Canadian Certificate of Birth Abroad (no photo ID) to prove my American citizenship when entering the US. It took less than five minutes.
I'm in the Silicon Valley and get 6M/768K with three static IPs for $50/month. It would be cheaper elsewhere but I liked the TOS of my DSL company.
That's odd, I run OS X PPC binaries on my MacBook all the time.
While the phone may run Mac OS X it doesn't fall into the typical Mac line up so calling it MacPhone doesn't quite fit. In addition MacPhone sounds like a piece of software (IMHO). I suppose there is some precedent for your speculation with the AirMac (in Japan). I could see Apple Phone, but it is a mouthful.
How about iCell? It won't go over well with ex-Cons, but that's probably not their target audience.
The epicenter of the Kashmir earthquake (2005, Pakistan & India, 7.6) was 62 miles (100km) away from Islamabad and yet it knocked an apartment building down.
There are a number of ISPs that block outgoing SMTP on port 25. Mine even blocks it for static addresses. They do provide the ability to have the port unblocked for static users. My brother-in-law's ISP blocks 25, 465 and 587 and will only accept outgoing mail which has the sender in their domain. (That's a stupid idea btw.)
"It might be better if they'd get rid of the archaic requirement for a speed test for morse code. I mean if you're wanting to broadcast voices only...why bother with morse code?"
Odd, they let me get a license without any code...better not let the FCC know.
The second div's size will now change if it feels like it, because it does not have a specified width.
If you were to read the GP you would find that was exactly what was asked for...those of us who can actually read are now snickering at you.
When I lived in BC we measured fuel efficiency in litres/100km, but called it mileage. In the stores we'd asked for imperial quantities, but be billed in metric. (Ask for 1/2 lb of ham, pay for 250g.)
I'm really screwed up, I've lived in fully imperial, mixed and metric countries. When it comes to temperature, I understand hot temperatures in F and cold in C. 18F means nothing to me, but -8C does. Similarly I've seen 50C but until I knew it was 122F it didn't really mean that much either.
Well count me in. After a few years of wavering I'm buying a MacBook. Apple has dealt with almost all my objections and done enough to get my money.
My bank has gone to a "registered" computer (seems to be a cookie), a login name, a user specific greeting, a user chosen image and a reasonable strength password (>=8 chars, must include both alpha and numeric). My insurance company moved to a login name and a decent password (>= 6 chars).
In contrast my 401K plan, arguably the most important for the future, uses my SS and a four character password.
I don't know if it should not be used, but aptitude is definately easier to use than apt-???
It's interesting to see that most people when talking about VoIP security are looking for stream encryption. In my opinion encrypting the voice stream is nearly meaningless until the entire worldwide system is VoIP with the possibility of encrypted voice streams. If your call is connected to or through the PSTN at any point it can be listened to with ease.
The focus of security should be in the setup of a call. If it is difficult to spoof a phone device and place calls on someone else's dime the system becomes more secure than the PSTN. If you are having difficulty selling your PHB on VoIP based soley on the perceived lack of security walk him through the abysmal state of security for the PSTN.
VoIP needs work in security but the primary focus should be in call setup and management.
Yes TMI was a success.
TMI illustrated that a nuclear plant can be designed to fail safely. Despite human error the plant shutdown safely, that is a success but a success by the designers not the operators. Stop spreading FUD about TMI and do some actual reading about it.
The reason for the illiteracy has mostly to do with the fact that ASL is not English with signs (that would be Signed Exact English SEE) but is in fact a completely distinct language with it's own grammatical structure. For a deaf person to sign ASL and read English is like me speaking and thinking in English and reading in Hindi (or other language where the grammatical structure is significantly different from English).
The more amazing thing is so many deaf people are so capably bi-lingual.
We're throwing out so much food in the farmer welfare programs. Send that food to Africa and use the soybeans for oil. It would probably be more nutritious.
part of living in a liberal democracy is having thick skin.
Very nicely put. Much of the problem today is we as a society have lost much of that concept, too many people today have the opinion that they should never be offended. My opinion is that when we are offended by someone else's speech we should be grateful; grateful that we live in a society where it is our right to speak in such a way that may offend others.
If we cannot stand for others in our society to exercise the rights we all have we will slowly lose those rights.
Still no concept of position: fixed in IE7. Ugh.
You're absolutely correct, the proprietary systems do not include the redundancy but they do include onsite service for a fixed length of time. The redundnacy is one of the ways we were able to sell the system to management, well the cost helped to.
If you're going to use the cards use the following echo canceling settings:
I am currently deploying Asterisk in a mid sized business, about 100 employees but only about 70 phones. We were looking at a quoted cost of $55K - $60K for a bare bones system from any vendor. Our total costs with Asterisk are going to be less than $20K and probably more like $17K. The test users absolutely love the system and a number of users are forgoing the $250 phone for the X-Lite softphone.
The costs include two Asterisk servers with T1 cards, the POE switches and the phones. The second server is a backup for the first and is rsync'd from the first every 5 minutes. If we lose our primary system we're back up in minutes.
In addition, I can work from home and appear to be at my desk. <grin>
Oops. Make that http://telasip.com/
Or another favorite. Their setup instructions are for Asterisk. Bad points? Well they don't really take into account that someone may want to go straight to an ATA (like my father-in-law). Oh well, service is very good.
And what about PostgreSQL? It should fare very well.
Well part of the reason you see engineers graduating faster from private schools has to do with the cost. I'm still paying off my loans ten years later.
I don't know about other schools, but where I went I was floored by the attrition rate for engineering degrees. At the beginning of my freshman year the head of the enigneering departments (small school) got all the freshmen engineering majors together. There were about 300 people (very small school). For graduation all of us that made it sat in one row, about 30 people made it out the other end as engineers. If other schools have a 90% rate of attrition as well I can easily see the 70,000 number as accurate.