Funny that, but with the number of ssh scanning and php/exec() style worms, that have jumped onto linux machines and sent spam, etc I've cleaned up over the past few years I'd have to disagree with you there!
> And yes, I am a longtime Slashdot reader, > and I know that it's sometimes hard to find real, > thought-out discussion. But we can certainly try for it.
Could be a number of factors - bittorrent, trojans ending email etc
Results in the other party not being able to hear you (properly/at all)
2. Poor downstream B/W
Could be torrents, downloads, windows updates, some arse pingflooding you
Results in you not being able to hear the other party
3. Poor Provider B/W
Caused by overselling bandwidth, overloaded routers, cr*p hardware... Call sounds like a conversation with M-M-Max H-H-eadroom-room-room
I think this is most peoples troubles, as comcast seem to be about as good as buying BB direct from BT here in the uk. You can get away with setting jitterbuffers on your phone/VoIP server if you can, but you'll get odd artifacts!
Any kind of latency will make the call sound echo-y and packetloss will make things stuttery.
4. Using a stupid codec.
Codecs are very important, use G729 if you can - if not try GSM/speex or other low bandwidth codec that is supported - don't use ALAW/ULAW unless you have lots of bandwidth to spare. Three A/ULAW calls can saturate a 256K upstream ADSL most cable providers only supply 128K here in the UK (iirc)
5. Using NAT
SIP over nat = bad idea in general. OK, you have STUN to help out, but the best solution IMO is to get your VoIP server to realise you're running over nat, send keep-alive packets, and ignore the ip & ports sent in the headers, instead to send the data back to the ip&port it was sent from.
As for Vonage, I have no idea what the settings are there:o)
Any ISP who blocks ports, is not providing unrestricted access to the internet. If i caught my ISP blocking ports without good reason (filtering CIFS/M$SQL Server to stop worms is acceptable) I'd drop them in a heartbeat!
Alas safari seems to be corrupt on my machine, and camino's free, and standards compliant - I also found that camitools has a nice interface to override CSS on a per site basis, so there is the potential there for something similar to greasemonkey on FF.
I have an increasing userbase of customers using macs, mostly in the photographic/art side of things.:o)
I've had a soft spot for classic (and I mean until OS 7.5ish - then it went to the dogs), so I'm not a Mac nut at all. In fact I was quite suprised when the machine I bought for a project that fell through (a mac based travel agency) actually became my preferred machine:o)
The only reasons (In my mind) that joe sixpack buys wintel boxes is because "it runs windows like at work", not to mention the/initial/ price difference of an entry level maching (£600 ibook, vs £450 wintel laptop).
sigh, I could go on, but it's getting late and I can't be bothered writing more right now:o)
As an aside, do you actually like the macs you play with in-store ?
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Yep, like ODBC you mean?
Don't you have something called the constitution that prevents laws being made like this?
*chuckle*
This is my point. Windows 95 was MSDOS under the hood, with a 32bit version of windows over it.
MSDOS/Windows 3.11 (and below) were operating environments, and marketed as such.
It wasn't til '95 M$ started saying "Windows" was an Operating System
badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger
.... normal service in ...3 ...2 ...1
IT'S A SNAAAAAKKKEEEEEE! IT'S A SNAAAAAKKKEEEEEE!
I for one welcome our snake overlords.
> When did we start confusing a desktop "shell" application
> and a handfull of basic functions with an "Operating System"?
Since Windows 95.
Rubbish, that would make me older than Earth ... oh wait - that would make me a god right?
No but they might feel unconfortable with you staring at their breasts.
Funny that, but with the number of ssh scanning and php/exec() style worms, that have jumped onto linux machines and sent spam, etc I've cleaned up over the past few years I'd have to disagree with you there!
cool stuff!
Explorer does! it stores thumbnail info
Ironic that your linked image in your sig is worksafe, but the photoalbum that it's linked to isn't and also has no warning...
Just a thought!
What he said, mod parent up
It's much easier for me YMMV though.
Exim for teh win
Funny must be why my 12" G4 iBook can do that too at some stupidly high resolutions at times!
:o)
but then again that was done by a small firmware hack before I bought it
> And yes, I am a longtime Slashdot reader,
:o)
> and I know that it's sometimes hard to find real,
> thought-out discussion. But we can certainly try for it.
You don't come here often then?
I certainly did! :o)
I almost went to freshmeat to check if there was an anti-vi package on there, just before reading this post!
The format is binary, and looks like some M$ Serialised format
:o)
No doubt someone will reverse engineer it and build a 3ds converter so everyone else can import the models.
Ahh summer of code is coming up
Personaly I'd like /your/ MILF in my car ;-)
I thought the USS Enterprise was on a 5 year mission to boldy go ? :o)
(Oh come on, it's slashdot ffs!)
It could be a number of reasons;
... Call sounds like a conversation with M-M-Max H-H-eadroom-room-room
:o)
1. Poor upstream B/W
Could be a number of factors - bittorrent, trojans ending email etc
Results in the other party not being able to hear you (properly/at all)
2. Poor downstream B/W
Could be torrents, downloads, windows updates, some arse pingflooding you
Results in you not being able to hear the other party
3. Poor Provider B/W
Caused by overselling bandwidth, overloaded routers, cr*p hardware
I think this is most peoples troubles, as comcast seem to be about as good as buying BB direct from BT here in the uk. You can get away with setting jitterbuffers on your phone/VoIP server if you can, but you'll get odd artifacts!
Any kind of latency will make the call sound echo-y and packetloss will make things stuttery.
4. Using a stupid codec.
Codecs are very important, use G729 if you can - if not try GSM/speex or other low bandwidth codec that is supported - don't use ALAW/ULAW unless you have lots of bandwidth to spare. Three A/ULAW calls can saturate a 256K upstream ADSL most cable providers only supply 128K here in the UK (iirc)
5. Using NAT
SIP over nat = bad idea in general. OK, you have STUN to help out, but the best solution IMO is to get your VoIP server to realise you're running over nat, send keep-alive packets, and ignore the ip & ports sent in the headers, instead to send the data back to the ip&port it was sent from.
As for Vonage, I have no idea what the settings are there
Any ISP who blocks ports, is not providing unrestricted access to the internet. If i caught my ISP blocking ports without good reason (filtering CIFS/M$SQL Server to stop worms is acceptable) I'd drop them in a heartbeat!
Alas safari seems to be corrupt on my machine, and camino's free, and standards compliant - I also found that camitools has a nice interface to override CSS on a per site basis, so there is the potential there for something similar to greasemonkey on FF.
:o)
Well I'm happy with it
I have an increasing userbase of customers using macs, mostly in the photographic/art side of things. :o)
:o)
/initial/ price difference of an entry level maching (£600 ibook, vs £450 wintel laptop).
:o)
I've had a soft spot for classic (and I mean until OS 7.5ish - then it went to the dogs), so I'm not a Mac nut at all. In fact I was quite suprised when the machine I bought for a project that fell through (a mac based travel agency) actually became my preferred machine
The only reasons (In my mind) that joe sixpack buys wintel boxes is because "it runs windows like at work", not to mention the
sigh, I could go on, but it's getting late and I can't be bothered writing more right now
As an aside, do you actually like the macs you play with in-store ?
and here I was thinking they were going to have a preferences panel to stop all the activex and flash shit that crashes camino.
I hate having umpteen videos and mp3s and a dozen flash movies start all at once!
Not to mention 1995 wanting their webdesigns back
*sigh*