Without getting into a MyNetowrkIsBetterThanYours competition, It probably also has a lot to do with the handsets and the geography of the region your using it in. I work mostly in the North, and (apart from underground) I can't remember a single instance of losing netowkr coverage with my P900, and I've travelled into Wales, through the Pennines, and pleanty of time in major cities (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, York). Whereas my girlfriend uses a Nokia 6230 on Vodafone, and shes always getting signal dropouts in Liverpool and in the Pennines.
The only thing that DOES irritate me with these is when employees go to places like China w/ laptops, and complain that its really slow, I consider explaining 3G vs GPRS/GSM, but is about as productive as explaining why we cant use bluetooth to make free calls.
This kind of thing has been in the UK for quite a while now.
I've used both the VodaPhone 3G and the Orange 3G datacard
for employees. I personally prefer the Orange one for the
benefit of the superiour network, but the Vodaphone one
has a real no-brainer user interface, so I spend less time
with employees ringing me up with that one. The one I'm REALLY
waiting for is a 3G datacard that incorporates an 802.11b tranciever
with seemless switchover when our employees enter one of our WiFi zones.
I was kinda just assuming that some human interaction was required for the reboot process,
such as enaging backup radar, or notifying appropriate people first. (Though that is just an assumption), otherwise, yes, as other people have suggested, you could just have an automatic reboot.
Surely the simplest 'fudge' to fix this problem is
to write a script that beeps loudly every 10 mins
or some other (read: more sensible) notification
after the system uptime exceeds 30 or so days?
But seriously, if its running windows its not the
monthly reboots the need to worry about, its the
quaterly format/reinstall procedure thats required
for stable operation.
I dont think I've had a stable (home) windows install for
more than 6 months without reinstall, but maybe I'm
pushing my luck by actually USING the computer.
Anyone else notice, that last years contestants
already worked out the SCO/IBM case in
This task? They talk about a hypothetical RBN vs. HAL anti-trust case, which looks suspisiously like rot-1 encryption to me. (For those of you who prefer not to think RBN=>SCO & HAL=IBM)
You might be interested in FPGA's Which are practiaclly 'universal chips' you simply have a chunk of RAM (EEPROM) next to it that sets up the logic gates within the chip. They're only ~£15 ($20) per chip, and you can load whatever you want into them to perform any function. More info at http://www.xilinx.com/ (One of the industry leaders)
As a business model this works while its still profitable for the phone companies to discount the phone and expect profit from the contract. But what about when everyone already has a contract? (as will happen when all people who want a phone have one. IE - When the market reaches saturation). (And this isnt as far off as you'd thing). People are far more likely to upgrade their phone than their contract, so theres no additional profit to be made for the telco in discounting upgrade handsets.
>>> The huge cost savings will be in inventory. Imagine either enough readers in your warehouse to scan every location, OR a robot that drives around at night pinging RFID tags. Imagine being able to just push your cart through a metal detector & have everything scanned in seconds.
This was the one of the primary reasons we wanted to implement RFID for, but wide area scanning just isn't practical at the moment. A *LONG RANGE* reader module has a range of about 1M, and it costs 800 (~$1470).
As far as I can see, RFID is currently limited to point scanning (~20cm) (cheapish reader module) up to portal scanning (like a doorway or conveyer belt) (expensive reader unit).
It still needs development before 'super-warehouse-scan RFID (TM)' is available.
RFID may be coming, but its not exactly bursting out at least in the UK.
I investigated RFID for implementation within my company, but came up with
next to no suppliers, apart from one company who after several phone calls
'forgot' about the samples and paperwork they were meant to send. And I simply don't have the
time to implement from electronics up.
IMHO if someone wants to make some money on this, set up a company now, as no-one
else seems to have their act together with customer relations or advertising (yet).
I actually *wanted* to implement this, so imagine the chance someone who's indifferent,
or uninterested in this technology has of being persuaded to implement it in industry.
>>You're stupid. The idea is to only accept mail from.mail TLDs because they have been verified.
Just a few points:
1. Who would verify the requests (worldwide)?
2. How do you REALLY verify an account is never going to be abused?
3. Where do you draw the line? Is a company of 20 allowed email? How about 4? How about just me?
4. How do you persuade EVERYONE who currently uses email to change?
5. How much do you think it would cost to make the switch globally?
I might have missed something, but how would changing the TLD prevent spam?
* I could still sign up for bogus accounts with www.hotmail.mail
* I can still have a poorly configured box that relays spam to www.myisp.mail
Changing the name will not fix this unless the roots of the problem are addressed, unless
it was intended that only servers with a.mail TLD be able to send mail to each other?
"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - William Shakespeare
Precicely. It may also be that this is a product
targeted at non-technical staff within companies. I know quite a few managment types that would jump at this kind of offer without even consulting someone on the technical background.
Very sorry. Its 6am (uk time). I have a very badly broken access DB, and 2 hours to start of monday business. The intricacies of Latin root words are the last of my concerns.:)
My company outsources email virus protection to a dedicated service (Star Internet) which checks and forwards. Its pretty cheap, and I've not had to worry about any email virii for years. I'd (personally) like to see more companies (or even ISPs) going this sort of route as not only does it take the hassle away from sysadmins (so you don't have to drive in at X in the morning to apply a patch), but it consequently helps reduce the rate of spread.
Because FAX requires that the recipient have a fax
machine, whereas Letter->whatever->Letter can be delivered regardless of what hardware the final recipient has.
I think Eddie Izzard was also widely tipped as
the new doctor, though I can't see it not turning
into a comedy had he played the doctor.
Incidentally for those of you who have no idea who
Dr Who is, the BBC is probably a good place to start:
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/
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I just feel it sums up windows....
Do nothing,
Do nothing,
Do nothing,
Do nothing,
Reboot.
Without getting into a MyNetowrkIsBetterThanYours competition, It probably also has a lot to do with the handsets and the geography of the region your using it in.
I work mostly in the North, and (apart from underground) I can't remember a single instance of losing netowkr coverage with my P900, and I've travelled into Wales, through the Pennines, and pleanty of time in major cities (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, York). Whereas my girlfriend uses a Nokia 6230 on Vodafone, and shes always getting signal dropouts in Liverpool and in the Pennines.
The only thing that DOES irritate me with these is when employees go to places like China w/ laptops, and complain that its really slow, I consider explaining 3G vs GPRS/GSM, but is about as productive as explaining why we cant use bluetooth to make free calls.
This kind of thing has been in the UK for quite a while now. I've used both the VodaPhone 3G and the Orange 3G datacard for employees. I personally prefer the Orange one for the benefit of the superiour network, but the Vodaphone one has a real no-brainer user interface, so I spend less time with employees ringing me up with that one. The one I'm REALLY waiting for is a 3G datacard that incorporates an 802.11b tranciever with seemless switchover when our employees enter one of our WiFi zones.
I was kinda just assuming that some human interaction was required for the reboot process,
such as enaging backup radar, or notifying appropriate people first. (Though that is just an
assumption), otherwise, yes, as other people have suggested, you could just have an automatic reboot.
Surely the simplest 'fudge' to fix this problem is
to write a script that beeps loudly every 10 mins
or some other (read: more sensible) notification
after the system uptime exceeds 30 or so days?
But seriously, if its running windows its not the
monthly reboots the need to worry about, its the
quaterly format/reinstall procedure thats required
for stable operation.
I dont think I've had a stable (home) windows install for
more than 6 months without reinstall, but maybe I'm
pushing my luck by actually USING the computer.
I just had to reply to this given my standard sig :)
(For brevity I won't convert my hex to base2.)
Anyone else notice, that last years contestants already worked out the SCO/IBM case in This task? They talk about a hypothetical RBN vs. HAL anti-trust case, which looks suspisiously like rot-1 encryption to me. (For those of you who prefer not to think RBN=>SCO & HAL=IBM)
You might be interested in FPGA's Which are practiaclly 'universal chips' you simply have a chunk of RAM (EEPROM) next to it that sets up the logic gates within the chip. They're only ~£15 ($20) per chip, and you can load whatever you want into them to perform any function. More info at http://www.xilinx.com/ (One of the industry leaders)
As a business model this works while its still profitable for the phone companies to discount the phone and expect profit from the contract. But what about when everyone already has a contract? (as will happen when all people who want a phone have one. IE - When the market reaches saturation). (And this isnt as far off as you'd thing). People are far more likely to upgrade their phone than their contract, so theres no additional profit to be made for the telco in discounting upgrade handsets.
>>> The huge cost savings will be in inventory. Imagine either enough readers in your warehouse to scan every location, OR a robot that drives around at night pinging RFID tags. Imagine being able to just push your cart through a metal detector & have everything scanned in seconds.
This was the one of the primary reasons we wanted to implement RFID for, but wide area scanning just isn't practical at the moment.
A *LONG RANGE* reader module has a range of about 1M, and it costs 800 (~$1470).
As far as I can see, RFID is currently limited to point scanning (~20cm) (cheapish reader module) up to portal scanning (like a doorway or conveyer belt) (expensive reader unit).
It still needs development before 'super-warehouse-scan RFID (TM)' is available.
RFID may be coming, but its not exactly bursting out at least in the UK.
I investigated RFID for implementation within my company, but came up with
next to no suppliers, apart from one company who after several phone calls
'forgot' about the samples and paperwork they were meant to send. And I simply don't have the
time to implement from electronics up.
IMHO if someone wants to make some money on this, set up a company now, as no-one
else seems to have their act together with customer relations or advertising (yet).
I actually *wanted* to implement this, so imagine the chance someone who's indifferent,
or uninterested in this technology has of being persuaded to implement it in industry.
>>You're stupid. The idea is to only accept mail from .mail TLDs because they have been verified.
:
Just a few points
1. Who would verify the requests (worldwide)?
2. How do you REALLY verify an account is never going to be abused?
3. Where do you draw the line? Is a company of 20 allowed email? How about 4? How about just me?
4. How do you persuade EVERYONE who currently uses email to change?
5. How much do you think it would cost to make the switch globally?
I might have missed something, but how would changing the TLD prevent spam?
.mail TLD be able to send mail to each other?
* I could still sign up for bogus accounts with www.hotmail.mail
* I can still have a poorly configured box that relays spam to www.myisp.mail
Changing the name will not fix this unless the roots of the problem are addressed, unless
it was intended that only servers with a
"That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" - William Shakespeare
Precicely. It may also be that this is a product targeted at non-technical staff within companies. I know quite a few managment types that would jump at this kind of offer without even consulting someone on the technical background.
Am I to take it from that statment, that you don't pay YOUR upstream provides, who are also party to your emails?
Very sorry. Its 6am (uk time). I have a very badly broken access DB, and 2 hours to start of monday business. The intricacies of Latin root words are the last of my concerns. :)
My company outsources email virus protection to a dedicated service (Star Internet) which checks and forwards.
Its pretty cheap, and I've not had to worry about any email virii for years.
I'd (personally) like to see more companies (or even ISPs) going this sort of route as not only does it take the hassle away from sysadmins
(so you don't have to drive in at X in the morning to apply a patch), but it consequently helps reduce the rate of spread.
Because FAX requires that the recipient have a fax machine, whereas Letter->whatever->Letter can be delivered regardless of what hardware the final recipient has.
Does anyone else see a stiking similarity with the old telegraph system?
I think Eddie Izzard was also widely tipped as the new doctor, though I can't see it not turning into a comedy had he played the doctor. Incidentally for those of you who have no idea who Dr Who is, the BBC is probably a good place to start:
www.bbc.co.uk/cult/doctorwho/