As a former customer of Nortel Networks gear I don't see it. I owned most of the OSPF bugs and supplied thier workaround solutions from 1997 to 1999 when I replaced it all with Cisco gear. I also knew more about encapsulation of X.25 traffic over ip and OSPF than thier designers. With the roll out of inexpensive Windoze machines that actually had the power to do something other than slog through Zork the network actually had to begin to perform..unfortuanatly the Nortel gear and software just didn't measure up. Thier service provider chassis of that era, the BCN ( backbone concentrator node) was a really strange midplane design with the processor(s) and memory in the front plane (13 slots) and the interface cards (LAN, and WAN again 13 slots) in the back. 220V 30amp chassis with up to 4 (i think I remember) power supplies per chassis. I won't even begin with the horror of the Accelars and how often they die...
Replace crap with less flashy stuff that works!
I bought a copy of the movie on DVD in Kuwait for 7 dollars (thats 2.12 Kuwati Dinars) the day it came out. So don't give me guff about it only being on VHS and in poor quality...
Archos Multimedia 20 with Camera attachement. About 400 bucks , does still and MP4 movies, you can get an adapter to read flash from your cameras, does firewire and both flavors of USB.
What more do you want except Garmin to add in GPS!
So why Laos ? What makes them a better canidate for internet access than most of the first world ? How many substance farmers surf the web ? Charlie Don't Surf!
You've got to have a target audience first. Digital had been slipping for quite a while some due to its outragious support costs. When I was living in Norhtern Virgina in the 80's I had to get a DEC engineer on site for some hardware work and it cost me $5,000.00 just to have him dispatched! I'm a DEC user from the 780 cluster days who moved on to Burroughs, then Unisys, then HP/UX, then Sun back to HP andcurrently am on Sun. Software is always the determining factor on servers.
I guess that's why PCS is trading at $2 and change. Bringing products to market that no one really wants to buy. Whats next ? Sprint Smell-O-Vision ? (Just as an aside "PCS" is a generic term specifying a suite of services...not a specific technology. Sprint got cute and coopted the term and uses it exclusively in thier context as thier service only) We built a nation wide network that only uses our format and we dare our customers to use our over priced phones on any one elses!
Ahh Good old George, King of the guilds of strange unearthly powers... too many months lurking as a vampire named SgtMayhem. Anyone hear from him lately ?
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As a former customer of Nortel Networks gear I don't see it. I owned most of the OSPF bugs and supplied thier workaround solutions from 1997 to 1999 when I replaced it all with Cisco gear. I also knew more about encapsulation of X.25 traffic over ip and OSPF than thier designers. With the roll out of inexpensive Windoze machines that actually had the power to do something other than slog through Zork the network actually had to begin to perform..unfortuanatly the Nortel gear and software just didn't measure up. Thier service provider chassis of that era, the BCN ( backbone concentrator node) was a really strange midplane design with the processor(s) and memory in the front plane (13 slots) and the interface cards (LAN, and WAN again 13 slots) in the back. 220V 30amp chassis with up to 4 (i think I remember) power supplies per chassis. I won't even begin with the horror of the Accelars and how often they die... Replace crap with less flashy stuff that works!
I bought a copy of the movie on DVD in Kuwait for 7 dollars (thats 2.12 Kuwati Dinars) the day it came out. So don't give me guff about it only being on VHS and in poor quality...
Archos Multimedia 20 with Camera attachement. About 400 bucks , does still and MP4 movies, you can get an adapter to read flash from your cameras, does firewire and both flavors of USB. What more do you want except Garmin to add in GPS!
So why Laos ? What makes them a better canidate for internet access than most of the first world ? How many substance farmers surf the web ? Charlie Don't Surf!
You've got to have a target audience first. Digital had been slipping for quite a while some due to its outragious support costs. When I was living in Norhtern Virgina in the 80's I had to get a DEC engineer on site for some hardware work and it cost me $5,000.00 just to have him dispatched! I'm a DEC user from the 780 cluster days who moved on to Burroughs, then Unisys, then HP/UX, then Sun back to HP andcurrently am on Sun. Software is always the determining factor on servers.
Troll bait.
I guess that's why PCS is trading at $2 and change. Bringing products to market that no one really wants to buy. Whats next ? Sprint Smell-O-Vision ? (Just as an aside "PCS" is a generic term specifying a suite of services...not a specific technology. Sprint got cute and coopted the term and uses it exclusively in thier context as thier service only) We built a nation wide network that only uses our format and we dare our customers to use our over priced phones on any one elses!
Kind of gives a new meaning to "outcall"
Ahh Good old George, King of the guilds of strange unearthly powers... too many months lurking as a vampire named SgtMayhem. Anyone hear from him lately ?