Do you know the whole story? Do you know what this guy went through to try to get his doctor to actually help him before joy riding around the country looking for someone to seriously look at his problem?
After what I went through this year, a story too simular to Pat's, I DO NOT trust any doctor in the US.
I pay for copies of every piece of paper from any doctor I see, I then copy it again and keep one full medical file in my car and one in my safety deposit box. This avoids the problem you describe, except I only get a few minutes with any doctor during any visit so they usually don't read anything I bring them from any other doctor, google, pubmed, or my own observations.
The doctor who eventually diagnosed and corrected my problem after a year of being instructed to do VERY DANGEROUS AND DAMAGING things to my body by other doctors, basically instructed me to only trust myself as I am the only one who is really intested in me being healthy and alive. Scary.
I replayed my entire story to another doctor a few weeks ago and went over all my labs, health diary entries, and daily graphs. His answer was an echo of the specialist, if a doctor won't listen to you for five minutes, they will never find the problem.
Would you listen to a patient describe symptoms for five minutes?
I think they can write the strip faster than any of us can load it!
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and it's kinda like comparing the millions of compact sedans that everyone owns to the couple of hand built formula one cars. This article is about the formula one cars.
Back when I was in school, before Windows and USB, we would have taken a trash 80's I/O port and a couple pieces of lamp cord along with some electrical tape and a really long extension cord...
If they choose to buy up the best company in each market, they have still left many others to compete against them in each market.
I could choose: Nokia firewall, Juniper router, HP switches, Brocade SAN, and M$ radius server or I could cut one check to Cisco and get pretty much all the same function out of a combination of their boxes.
I'm not saying that it is right or wrong, but it is not a monopoly.
Contact your local Cisco office and ask for a SE to do a demo of Cisco Secure Agent (Cisco Security Agent?) It works agains viruses without needing an updated definition file and spyware. I can't remember much about the automated deployments and updates but it is industrial grade software.
Sorry about that mate, normally I am a very well controlled individual.
I felt physically ill after reading down the entire forum at +3. I couldn't believe how many people were poisoned with bad information, and how many more didn't even understand the very simplest terms of the industry.
I shamelessly posted under your post (FP to my browsing) to ensure that somebody saw it before being modded into nothingness. It was not related to your post in any way.
I must say that you can deploy each of the technologies mentioned previously separate from each other. There are many valid business reasons to do so depending on a companies goals and direction.
A few years ago I was doing nearly all VOIP and VOFR work with a little VOATM on the side. People only wanted to use their data WAN for toll bypass, IPT wasn't ready yet and most of us were too busy getting ready for Y2k to work on it.
The last three years has been almost 100% IP telephony, and the painful task of integrating the IPT systems with almost every imaginable TDM switch you can imagine as well as a handful of IP switches (if a vein of pure hatred for Avaya exists in my body it is for very good reasons, sometimes it comes out a little.) Because the voice is native IP to begin with there is no gateway conversion from analog voice to packet and thus it isn't VOIP, but from another perspective it is... BTW regarding this, most of my life is spent configuring systems via web servlets, and once in a while making an ass of myself on/.
I have a client that is a regional carrier, although I do not work on the gear that does the packetized voice over their optical network, I have done some network design meetings regarding backhauling my voice over their sonnet backbone with those folks. Entirely different technologies that may be used together, but if you have an old TDM switch attached via copper lines to the carrier and you call long distance you are probably using packet voice, at least in your carriers backdone.
Internet Telephony is what many of the people are referring to. Vonage uses IPT technology to provide service to it's customers, and technically it uses VOIP. I want to die when people tell me know ip voice because they use packet8 at home. Both are great products, don't get me wrong, but you do not understand the power of the dark side! Er I meant, it's not really apples to apples to a enterprise class voice system.
I really like a few posts from hobbiest who have been using Asterisk, and a couple of the posts from people who obvisouly have some enterprise background, but 95% of what was posted yesterday was pure crap.
I can't hold it in any more, damn my karma. I have ready through these posts and pretty much all of you are all idiots.
There are major differences between VOIP, IP Telephony, Internet Telephony, and packet carrier. These terms can't be used interchangably!
Avaya doesn't know IPT, not enough, not even their 8700, sorry but it's true. They will sell you whatever they can talk you into buying, DON'T BUY THEIR IP SYSTEMS!
Asterisk is an awesome system that has come a LONG way, I really look forward to when I can carve out a living with it. I just can't today the budgets are in Cisco because of it's scale, support, and maturity. (REAL IP phreaks can laugh along with me, but it's basically true.)
Holy crap! Like I am not already working like an insane monkey trying to add hard disks to our server fast enough keeping up with my shutterbug wife and her D100 then somebody needs to make a 16 megapixel camera, damn them! At least T bytes are cheap...
Why try to convince your boss to buy you a laptop? I started off with a Compaq 133 I assembled out of spare parts of three dead laptops coming out of the field. I used it to run all kinds of distro's mostly Slackware 3.X and it was a great way to learn, eventually I got x running and a pcmcia wireless card.
Nowadays I would suggest starting off with Damn Small Linux as a hd install dual booting with something "hard" like LFS (see flamewar above) or Slackware.
Once I was really comfortable running Linux on that little laptop, and some easy distros on my desktop (Mandrake, SuSE, RH, etc) then I setup my main work laptop as dual boot and started learning how to use it as a daily client machine. Don't discount this step. I had to setup for network printers, samba shares, office suite, email, it was actually a bit of work in my environment but by 2002 I used RH over 80% of the time both in the field and in the office. Now the only difference is I have gone full circle to Slackware (9.1 currently) and I love this distro although SuSE will probably be next given what is going on with Novell.
I want you to tell one person who is a day from death by starvation that you will bring them a dozen happy meals next week, you see the problem? Too bad everyone doesn't do a little bit all the time.
That said, I do understand where you are coming from, but consider this:
-Every month you stash 1000$ towards retirement.
-At the end of every week you average 5$ extra between your gas and dining out budget.
While building your wealth at 12,000$ a year, why not pool up a couple months of loose cash and cut a check to a tax deductable non-profit for 50$ a few times a year? Any tax accountant will tell you that you don't have to wait until April 15th to give or save, and you probably shouldn't!
Hell is this just too forign or liberal for/.ers to handle?
Not me chump, but thanks for taking eight words, out of context, and lumping me in with the market losers.
When addressing a large audience with varied backgrounds, you must speak to the lowest common denominator.
That is why I love it when people consider themselves smarter or better informed than the person speaking because they understand a little more than what is said, but not enough to understand that they are the ones being talked down too. Thanks for playing.
It has been clear that every SCO headline that has bumped the stock price has been used by execs to dump stock, if anyone still has SCO stock I say sell it now while it's still at 4$ a share before the next IBM case.
Besides what is your soul worth? Personally I didn't invest in defense contractors right after 9-11 although I know some people who did (and did very well at it.) Instead I gave away money to different charities, I will never regret that.
So sell SCO, give away money to a non-profit and get a tax write off! Even if you don't want to send food abroad, or get vacinations to kids, at least you can support Mozilla! http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html
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BTW it will come direct from HP.
Hail to the king baby.
After what I went through this year, a story too simular to Pat's, I DO NOT trust any doctor in the US.
I pay for copies of every piece of paper from any doctor I see, I then copy it again and keep one full medical file in my car and one in my safety deposit box. This avoids the problem you describe, except I only get a few minutes with any doctor during any visit so they usually don't read anything I bring them from any other doctor, google, pubmed, or my own observations.
The doctor who eventually diagnosed and corrected my problem after a year of being instructed to do VERY DANGEROUS AND DAMAGING things to my body by other doctors, basically instructed me to only trust myself as I am the only one who is really intested in me being healthy and alive. Scary.
I replayed my entire story to another doctor a few weeks ago and went over all my labs, health diary entries, and daily graphs. His answer was an echo of the specialist, if a doctor won't listen to you for five minutes, they will never find the problem.
Would you listen to a patient describe symptoms for five minutes?
Commie!
I understand you can do CDR analysis directly from the database to bill back uasage, somebody have firsthand on this?
Customer service, these days? Just throw them in a queue, give them some brainwashing MOH and let them rot!
I guess they are not drinking the water from Redmond!
I think they can write the strip faster than any of us can load it!
and it's kinda like comparing the millions of compact sedans that everyone owns to the couple of hand built formula one cars. This article is about the formula one cars.
no, this means someone found the stockpiles of WMD's...
Yes they will always find flaws, but IE is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Now show him http://slackware.com/ and he shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.
-insert old guy rant mode-
Back when I was in school, before Windows and USB, we would have taken a trash 80's I/O port and a couple pieces of lamp cord along with some electrical tape and a really long extension cord...
-end old guy rant mode-
I could choose: Nokia firewall, Juniper router, HP switches, Brocade SAN, and M$ radius server or I could cut one check to Cisco and get pretty much all the same function out of a combination of their boxes.
I'm not saying that it is right or wrong, but it is not a monopoly.
Contact your local Cisco office and ask for a SE to do a demo of Cisco Secure Agent (Cisco Security Agent?) It works agains viruses without needing an updated definition file and spyware. I can't remember much about the automated deployments and updates but it is industrial grade software.
I felt physically ill after reading down the entire forum at +3. I couldn't believe how many people were poisoned with bad information, and how many more didn't even understand the very simplest terms of the industry.
I shamelessly posted under your post (FP to my browsing) to ensure that somebody saw it before being modded into nothingness. It was not related to your post in any way.
I must say that you can deploy each of the technologies mentioned previously separate from each other. There are many valid business reasons to do so depending on a companies goals and direction.
A few years ago I was doing nearly all VOIP and VOFR work with a little VOATM on the side. People only wanted to use their data WAN for toll bypass, IPT wasn't ready yet and most of us were too busy getting ready for Y2k to work on it.
The last three years has been almost 100% IP telephony, and the painful task of integrating the IPT systems with almost every imaginable TDM switch you can imagine as well as a handful of IP switches (if a vein of pure hatred for Avaya exists in my body it is for very good reasons, sometimes it comes out a little.) Because the voice is native IP to begin with there is no gateway conversion from analog voice to packet and thus it isn't VOIP, but from another perspective it is... BTW regarding this, most of my life is spent configuring systems via web servlets, and once in a while making an ass of myself on /.
I have a client that is a regional carrier, although I do not work on the gear that does the packetized voice over their optical network, I have done some network design meetings regarding backhauling my voice over their sonnet backbone with those folks. Entirely different technologies that may be used together, but if you have an old TDM switch attached via copper lines to the carrier and you call long distance you are probably using packet voice, at least in your carriers backdone.
Internet Telephony is what many of the people are referring to. Vonage uses IPT technology to provide service to it's customers, and technically it uses VOIP. I want to die when people tell me know ip voice because they use packet8 at home. Both are great products, don't get me wrong, but you do not understand the power of the dark side! Er I meant, it's not really apples to apples to a enterprise class voice system.
I really like a few posts from hobbiest who have been using Asterisk, and a couple of the posts from people who obvisouly have some enterprise background, but 95% of what was posted yesterday was pure crap.
Again my apologies for abusing your FP.
Cheers!
There are major differences between VOIP, IP Telephony, Internet Telephony, and packet carrier. These terms can't be used interchangably!
Avaya doesn't know IPT, not enough, not even their 8700, sorry but it's true. They will sell you whatever they can talk you into buying, DON'T BUY THEIR IP SYSTEMS!
Asterisk is an awesome system that has come a LONG way, I really look forward to when I can carve out a living with it. I just can't today the budgets are in Cisco because of it's scale, support, and maturity. (REAL IP phreaks can laugh along with me, but it's basically true.)
mod away, I feel much better.
But it doesn't look like they have embraced Adobe's new DNG format yet, wonder who is going to be first with that one? http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html
Nowadays I would suggest starting off with Damn Small Linux as a hd install dual booting with something "hard" like LFS (see flamewar above) or Slackware.
Once I was really comfortable running Linux on that little laptop, and some easy distros on my desktop (Mandrake, SuSE, RH, etc) then I setup my main work laptop as dual boot and started learning how to use it as a daily client machine. Don't discount this step. I had to setup for network printers, samba shares, office suite, email, it was actually a bit of work in my environment but by 2002 I used RH over 80% of the time both in the field and in the office. Now the only difference is I have gone full circle to Slackware (9.1 currently) and I love this distro although SuSE will probably be next given what is going on with Novell.
My Keys:
smartjack key, thanks Verizon!
T1 loopback plug, thanks Adtran!
Leatherman Micra, thanks me!
I want you to tell one person who is a day from death by starvation that you will bring them a dozen happy meals next week, you see the problem? Too bad everyone doesn't do a little bit all the time.
That said, I do understand where you are coming from, but consider this:
-Every month you stash 1000$ towards retirement.
-At the end of every week you average 5$ extra between your gas and dining out budget.
While building your wealth at 12,000$ a year, why not pool up a couple months of loose cash and cut a check to a tax deductable non-profit for 50$ a few times a year? Any tax accountant will tell you that you don't have to wait until April 15th to give or save, and you probably shouldn't!
Hell is this just too forign or liberal for /.ers to handle?
I used to be a grunt, so I sent some to the soldiers via the USO http://www.usocares.org/
The rest went to International Aid (a christian org, although I am Buddhist I really believe in much of their work) http://www.internationalaid.org/
THIS YEAR I PLEDGE TO DONATE TO:
My favorite distro: http://store.slackware.com/cgi-bin/store
My favorite browser: http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html
And my favorite office suite: http://www.openoffice.org/contributing/donate.html
I urge everyone who can afford to donate, please donate to the people devoloping the software you love!
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040818/google_jackpots_3.h tml
At least it was the first place I saw both of them listed together in one book.
When addressing a large audience with varied backgrounds, you must speak to the lowest common denominator.
That is why I love it when people consider themselves smarter or better informed than the person speaking because they understand a little more than what is said, but not enough to understand that they are the ones being talked down too. Thanks for playing.
Besides what is your soul worth? Personally I didn't invest in defense contractors right after 9-11 although I know some people who did (and did very well at it.) Instead I gave away money to different charities, I will never regret that.
So sell SCO, give away money to a non-profit and get a tax write off! Even if you don't want to send food abroad, or get vacinations to kids, at least you can support Mozilla! http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/donate.html