Assuming your VoIP provider lets you set caller id. We've started implementing filtering that only allows you to set your CID to one of the DIDs that are assigned to you.
Cause that fiber runs from CO to CO or Data Center to Data Center. This is going to have to be fiber to the curb, or at the very least, fiber to the SLIC that services the neighborhood.
You've obviously never worked in acadamia, then. Trust me, just because they're working for a college/a student at a college doesn't mean they're smarter.
Schriener College in Kerrville, Texas had the entire campus (1100+ students, 200+ faculty) on a single 56Kbps DDS circuit for internet access. And they wondered why it was slow.
It got marginally better when I migrated them to a T1.
Can't wait till they get real time flight information into it. Nothing like being able to SMS "COA123" and get the flight's location and ETA based on what's coming in from the FAA data feeds.
Having worked there for 2 years and dealt with some of the stupid customers who don't need a computer (much less try to administer their own "interweb server" [sic]), it borders on "Neurotic Support" or "Gonna go Postal If They Call One more Time" Support.
And while you can "guarantee" bandwidth, you can't guarantee that someone won't plow through a fiber bundle or reload a router somewhere between you and the distribution source.
Its a hell of a lot easier on the system and your electricity bill to keep you house at a constant temperature rather than have the temperature bounce all around the place.
Sure, if you're going to leave for 3 weeks...shut it all off, but if you're just leaving for work for the day, don't bother adjusting it.
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But I watch Windows users tolerate truly mindboggling amounts of adware/spamware/malware. The typical windows users tolerate 100 times what I would consider completely unacceptable.
Why? Because they don't know any better. They've been trained by Microsoft and their billion dollar marketing budget to accept the fact that their PeeCees are going to crash.
I've converted 4 people in my family to Mac/OSX. They're absolutely amazed at how often it doesn't crash. Sure you occasionally have an application bomb out on you, but never once has the whole system crashed a-la BSOD without some underlying hardware problem.
Its simply a case of them accepting it because thats the way they think things are. Educate them...but not with religious zealotry (LINUX IS BETTER, SO THERE!) but with (Hey, here's this other OS...it does what you need it to do and it doesn't crash and doesn't require a 34873249Thz machine with 309420394GB of ram in it to just boot)
How many people actually consider that the die-hard football fans are usually a bunch of drunk-ass rednecks who go to games when its 20 below zero, snowing, and they're sitting there with no shirt on and have their chest painted with the number of their favorite overpaid whinyass player?
Once your line has been inactive for a certain amount of time, the cable pair that its on is fair game for reuse.
There's only a finite number of cable pairs in the bundle that services your neighborhood. Take into account bad pairs, houses/businesses with multiple lines, services such as T1s/HDSL that use multiple pairs and there's no way for the telcos to leave all of those wires allocated when service is terminated.
So, they'll come along and yank your pair to use it somewhere else (sometimes even when you've got active service!)
A RAID-5 array with hot spares or a remote backup site is much more reliable and cost-effective.
BZZZZZT! I'm sorry, but thank you for playing.
What happens when the CEO deletes his stack of porn off the file server? Your RAID-5 isn't going to help you one damn bit. And maybe your company doesn't have the bandwidth to move the 100+GB of data on the fileserver to an offsite backup.
Backups don't just cover hardware failures. They cover people failures.
Exactly. Show me something else that I can store 70+GB per piece of media, can read and write to without having to blank first, and can build a mechanical media rotation system around...then maybe I'll consider it.
The X100Ps are from Digium, not Dialogic. Two entirely different beasts.
If you want to get raped on cost, go with Dialogic. If you want something that works go with Digium.
Works sometimes, doesn't work others. Get the appropriate crimps for solid core cable. Its all I use.
My experience is that connections on stranded wire made with solid core crimps are much more reliable than stranded crimps on solid core.
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But, again, your provider has to support this. Some providers allow you to set CID/ANI to anything. Others limit you to certain numbers.
Assuming your VoIP provider lets you set caller id. We've started implementing filtering that only allows you to set your CID to one of the DIDs that are assigned to you.
No. Just spend $70 and get yourself a 256 or 512Mb stick of ram. You'll thank yourself.
This one qualifies for the "Too Much Time on Their Hands Award".
Cause that fiber runs from CO to CO or Data Center to Data Center. This is going to have to be fiber to the curb, or at the very least, fiber to the SLIC that services the neighborhood.
No. Skype is still as proprietary and closed source as ever.
You've obviously never worked in acadamia, then. Trust me, just because they're working for a college/a student at a college doesn't mean they're smarter.
Schriener College in Kerrville, Texas had the entire campus (1100+ students, 200+ faculty) on a single 56Kbps DDS circuit for internet access. And they wondered why it was slow.
It got marginally better when I migrated them to a T1.
Can't wait till they get real time flight information into it. Nothing like being able to SMS "COA123" and get the flight's location and ETA based on what's coming in from the FAA data feeds.
Having worked there for 2 years and dealt with some of the stupid customers who don't need a computer (much less try to administer their own "interweb server" [sic]), it borders on "Neurotic Support" or "Gonna go Postal If They Call One more Time" Support.
And while you can "guarantee" bandwidth, you can't guarantee that someone won't plow through a fiber bundle or reload a router somewhere between you and the distribution source.
I've seen a whole satellite go out only twice.
Oh, that's good. Screw around with mother nature some more.
Did you ever consider that things happen for a reason? Like balancing global heat loads and adjusting the water vapor cycle?
So instead of having a bunch of light to heavy storms, we'll end up with having ONE BIG MONSTER that we *can't* stop.
With Richard Burton playing a journalist and the music done by The Moody Blues.
The chances of anything coming from Mars...are a million to one. But still, they come.
Done it.
There was a Sprint PCS Springboard attachment for the Handspring Visor several years ago.
$350 was a bit too much for it.
If you do built in Wi-Fi, I want it to be able to switch between placing calls out my voip circuit when I'm at home and out PCS when I'm not.
I just bought a Treo 600.
Its a hell of a lot easier on the system and your electricity bill to keep you house at a constant temperature rather than have the temperature bounce all around the place.
Sure, if you're going to leave for 3 weeks...shut it all off, but if you're just leaving for work for the day, don't bother adjusting it.
But I watch Windows users tolerate truly mindboggling amounts of adware/spamware/malware. The typical windows users tolerate 100 times what I would consider completely unacceptable.
Why? Because they don't know any better. They've been trained by Microsoft and their billion dollar marketing budget to accept the fact that their PeeCees are going to crash.
I've converted 4 people in my family to Mac/OSX. They're absolutely amazed at how often it doesn't crash. Sure you occasionally have an application bomb out on you, but never once has the whole system crashed a-la BSOD without some underlying hardware problem.
Its simply a case of them accepting it because thats the way they think things are. Educate them...but not with religious zealotry (LINUX IS BETTER, SO THERE!) but with (Hey, here's this other OS...it does what you need it to do and it doesn't crash and doesn't require a 34873249Thz machine with 309420394GB of ram in it to just boot)
How many people actually consider that the die-hard football fans are usually a bunch of drunk-ass rednecks who go to games when its 20 below zero, snowing, and they're sitting there with no shirt on and have their chest painted with the number of their favorite overpaid whinyass player?
Once your line has been inactive for a certain amount of time, the cable pair that its on is fair game for reuse.
There's only a finite number of cable pairs in the bundle that services your neighborhood. Take into account bad pairs, houses/businesses with multiple lines, services such as T1s/HDSL that use multiple pairs and there's no way for the telcos to leave all of those wires allocated when service is terminated.
So, they'll come along and yank your pair to use it somewhere else (sometimes even when you've got active service!)
1GB of ram just to hold a BGP table.
Great.
A RAID-5 array with hot spares or a remote backup site is much more reliable and cost-effective.
BZZZZZT! I'm sorry, but thank you for playing.
What happens when the CEO deletes his stack of porn off the file server? Your RAID-5 isn't going to help you one damn bit. And maybe your company doesn't have the bandwidth to move the 100+GB of data on the fileserver to an offsite backup.
Backups don't just cover hardware failures. They cover people failures.
Exactly. Show me something else that I can store 70+GB per piece of media, can read and write to without having to blank first, and can build a mechanical media rotation system around...then maybe I'll consider it.
I should stop using the tape jukebox system I have on my NetBSD box?
The X100Ps are from Digium, not Dialogic. Two entirely different beasts. If you want to get raped on cost, go with Dialogic. If you want something that works go with Digium.
Works sometimes, doesn't work others. Get the appropriate crimps for solid core cable. Its all I use. My experience is that connections on stranded wire made with solid core crimps are much more reliable than stranded crimps on solid core.