its highly unlikely that even though the cable is CAT5, that it is run to CAT5 specs. There are a lot of physical restrictions that make a CAT5 run CAT5, such as "more than X distance from florescent lighting", and "No bends less than X inches in radius". ( I forget the exact numbers).
You can run standard 10Mbps Ethernet over Cat3 all day. FastE wants CAT5 to run clean, but you can get away with it for really short runs.
Put a box at the office that has the appropriate port to plug into the phone switch there (if there is one). Get a VOIP phone at home and peer it up there.
Bleah. Not all that hard to do. I did it with an Asterisk box and an iconnecthere.com account.
The neat trick to that is that some people have their cell phone voicemail set so that if they call it from their phone, they don't have to enter their passcode.
I can set CallerID to my cell phone number & call my cell phone and get immediately dumped into the "play messages" part of my voicemail.
Bull. There's this really nice thing in the SPARC chips called "hardware contexts". In a multiprocess environment, such as Unix, everytime a process gives up the CPU because its time slice is over you have to swap in a whole new set of registers, counters, and what not.
In the x86 world, that's 90% done in software (the Xeons and new 64-bit stuff has some hardware support). In a SPARC (all the way back to the original sun4 class of machines), that's all done in hardware.
Thats why you can throw all sorts of load at a SPARC machine and they keep on chugging, whereas the x86 machine starts falling over faster.
2) On fuel-in-space and There is no such thing as volatile fuel in an atmosphere-less environment.
Bull. The bipropellant motors on most satellites and on the shuttle use a combination of MonoMethylHydrazine and Nitrogen Tetroxide. They're hypergolic, meaning they'll light off on contact.
A little burp in the fuel system can do Bad Things(tm). See
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/ao40/ao40-faq.ht ml #BANG!
Having been an Asterisk developer for several years now, I tend to agree with the ad-hoc support of standard protocols (SIP and the ongoing battle between chan_h323 and chan_oh323). However, these days you don't see any more incompatibilities between * and other equipment than you would between, say, a Multitech MVP410 and a Cisco 7960 SIP phone.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The advantage is that you can sniff the SIP/H323 session, figure out which end isn't following standards and adapt * to work with what you've got.
"Make email addresses portable" - get your own domain name and move it from ISP to ISP as you please.
Butbutbutbut...I like my 2sexykitty4u696969@msn.com address. All my buddies have it.
"Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move?" - my home directory, including public_html, is accessible from Samba. I can copy any file there and it is live on the web instantly.
Apparently, clicking on "Put" in either Dreamweaver or Frontpage or any of the other "Web Design Expert in a Box" packages is toooooo haaaaaaard for people.
"Big music, follow the money 8 of 9 adults beyond student age still pay for songs instead of ripping them." - ripping them? That has nothing to do with whether you paid for it.
Change this to "Big music, how about releasing something that isn't crap. And when you do release it, don't fuck us up the ass for $20 per cd."
"Replace servers with P2P Too many network services - domain names, Web servers, email - rely on the old client-server model, which is vulnerable to attack." - uhhh.... eeyeah.
You find me a P2P network that doesn't use at least one client/server connection to find the other peers in the network and I'll show you one of Monica's dresses that doesn't have a big Bill stain on the front of it.
The easiest way to avoid this regulation and fees is not to tie into the telephone network, don't use the same 7/10 digit address space and don't claim you can call normal telephones. You do that and there's no fees and no regulation.
And what crackhead is going to pay $24.95 a month for a voip service that can only call other users of that service. Makes about as much sense as write-only memory.
Then what's the whole deal with gold pressed latinum? The Ferengi get some major ear wood over it.
Oh, and what happens if you're getting your dilithium from a non-Federation planet? Something of value has to be exchanged.
Dear god, someone shoot me. I'm discussing Star Trek economics on Slashdot.
Even in NA, you can get phone service where every call costs you money, be it in the next state or next door. It just depends on how much you want to pay for a monthly fee.
$10/mo and every call costs you 5 cents a minute, $20/mo and you can call within a certain area for free & everything else is 2.5 cents a minute, or $30/mo and all your intra-LATA calls are free and then you pay your LD company $24.95/mo for flat rate LD.
Nothing is free.
Wanna lower costs? Fire the CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO, COOB, SEVP, EVP. There. You've just saved yourself 7+ million dollars a year.
I'm a VoIP consultant for a small LD company and we're making a fortune because someone figured out that "Hey, we don't need 100+ middle managers to run things. Just a couple of sales guys and switch monkeys".
Nobody paid for the call directly. But someone had to be paid to mine the dilithium that powered the warp core that drove the the communications array. And someone else had to be paid to build the communications array. Its called trickle down economics.
Do you think that all the LD companies are suddenly finding it in the goodness of their heart to offer flat rate LD? Not bloody likely. One company did it to get a competitive edge, the rest had to do it or risk losing business. Even at flat rate, they're still making a killing at $24.95 a month...it costs them a fraction of a fraction of a cent to terminate an LD minute.
Tried it. Sounds like shit. Throughput on the PDA is okay, but latency just rips voip a new one. Might be the hardware I'm using though (Treo 300...maybe can't handle the data speeds).
Another decent manufacturer that's gonna go into the shitter for chosing a Piece of Shit architecture that's a throwback from the 80s.
Repeat after me:
Altivec is Good Food(tm). Processors don't need to be running at 34098210498234Thz to be "Fast".
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its highly unlikely that even though the cable is CAT5, that it is run to CAT5 specs. There are a lot of physical restrictions that make a CAT5 run CAT5, such as "more than X distance from florescent lighting", and "No bends less than X inches in radius". ( I forget the exact numbers).
You can run standard 10Mbps Ethernet over Cat3 all day. FastE wants CAT5 to run clean, but you can get away with it for really short runs.
Put a box at the office that has the appropriate port to plug into the phone switch there (if there is one). Get a VOIP phone at home and peer it up there.
Bleah. Not all that hard to do. I did it with an Asterisk box and an iconnecthere.com account.
The neat trick to that is that some people have their cell phone voicemail set so that if they call it from their phone, they don't have to enter their passcode.
I can set CallerID to my cell phone number & call my cell phone and get immediately dumped into the "play messages" part of my voicemail.
VERY difficult to screw up just going to the ballot box?
Someone explain that to the people in Florida.
Push hole in paper. It don't get no easier than that.
Bull. There's this really nice thing in the SPARC chips called "hardware contexts". In a multiprocess environment, such as Unix, everytime a process gives up the CPU because its time slice is over you have to swap in a whole new set of registers, counters, and what not.
In the x86 world, that's 90% done in software (the Xeons and new 64-bit stuff has some hardware support). In a SPARC (all the way back to the original sun4 class of machines), that's all done in hardware.
Thats why you can throw all sorts of load at a SPARC machine and they keep on chugging, whereas the x86 machine starts falling over faster.
And then you can wave at them like this...*wiggles fingers*
Solaris = SunOS + OpenWindows.
Solaris 7 = SunOS 2.7 + OpenWindows 1.something
2) On fuel-in-space and There is no such thing as volatile fuel in an atmosphere-less environment.
t ml #BANG!
Bull. The bipropellant motors on most satellites and on the shuttle use a combination of MonoMethylHydrazine and Nitrogen Tetroxide. They're hypergolic, meaning they'll light off on contact.
A little burp in the fuel system can do Bad Things(tm). See
http://www.amsat.org/amsat/sats/ao40/ao40-faq.h
for an example.
Having been an Asterisk developer for several years now, I tend to agree with the ad-hoc support of standard protocols (SIP and the ongoing battle between chan_h323 and chan_oh323). However, these days you don't see any more incompatibilities between * and other equipment than you would between, say, a Multitech MVP410 and a Cisco 7960 SIP phone. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The advantage is that you can sniff the SIP/H323 session, figure out which end isn't following standards and adapt * to work with what you've got.
"Make email addresses portable" - get your own domain name and move it from ISP to ISP as you please.
Butbutbutbut...I like my 2sexykitty4u696969@msn.com address. All my buddies have it.
"Simplify Web publishing Why can't we post files from our desktop to a Web site in one drag-and-drop move?" - my home directory, including public_html, is accessible from Samba. I can copy any file there and it is live on the web instantly.
Apparently, clicking on "Put" in either Dreamweaver or Frontpage or any of the other "Web Design Expert in a Box" packages is toooooo haaaaaaard for people.
"Big music, follow the money 8 of 9 adults beyond student age still pay for songs instead of ripping them." - ripping them? That has nothing to do with whether you paid for it.
Change this to "Big music, how about releasing something that isn't crap. And when you do release it, don't fuck us up the ass for $20 per cd."
"Replace servers with P2P Too many network services - domain names, Web servers, email - rely on the old client-server model, which is vulnerable to attack." - uhhh.... eeyeah.
You find me a P2P network that doesn't use at least one client/server connection to find the other peers in the network and I'll show you one of Monica's dresses that doesn't have a big Bill stain on the front of it.
The easiest way to avoid this regulation and fees is not to tie into the telephone network, don't use the same 7/10 digit address space and don't claim you can call normal telephones. You do that and there's no fees and no regulation.
And what crackhead is going to pay $24.95 a month for a voip service that can only call other users of that service. Makes about as much sense as write-only memory.
Then what's the whole deal with gold pressed latinum? The Ferengi get some major ear wood over it. Oh, and what happens if you're getting your dilithium from a non-Federation planet? Something of value has to be exchanged. Dear god, someone shoot me. I'm discussing Star Trek economics on Slashdot.
Even in NA, you can get phone service where every call costs you money, be it in the next state or next door. It just depends on how much you want to pay for a monthly fee. $10/mo and every call costs you 5 cents a minute, $20/mo and you can call within a certain area for free & everything else is 2.5 cents a minute, or $30/mo and all your intra-LATA calls are free and then you pay your LD company $24.95/mo for flat rate LD. Nothing is free.
Wanna lower costs? Fire the CEO, CIO, CFO, CTO, COOB, SEVP, EVP. There. You've just saved yourself 7+ million dollars a year. I'm a VoIP consultant for a small LD company and we're making a fortune because someone figured out that "Hey, we don't need 100+ middle managers to run things. Just a couple of sales guys and switch monkeys".
Boy, that's going to irritate the FBI/CIA/other TLA agencies. Its difficult to tap a VOIP call...and its much easier to encrypt.
Nobody paid for the call directly. But someone had to be paid to mine the dilithium that powered the warp core that drove the the communications array. And someone else had to be paid to build the communications array. Its called trickle down economics. Do you think that all the LD companies are suddenly finding it in the goodness of their heart to offer flat rate LD? Not bloody likely. One company did it to get a competitive edge, the rest had to do it or risk losing business. Even at flat rate, they're still making a killing at $24.95 a month...it costs them a fraction of a fraction of a cent to terminate an LD minute.
Tried it. Sounds like shit. Throughput on the PDA is okay, but latency just rips voip a new one. Might be the hardware I'm using though (Treo 300...maybe can't handle the data speeds).
Another decent manufacturer that's gonna go into the shitter for chosing a Piece of Shit architecture that's a throwback from the 80s. Repeat after me: Altivec is Good Food(tm). Processors don't need to be running at 34098210498234Thz to be "Fast".
And you've got a CLEC in a box. Stable OS, hardened hardware, and a kick-ass piece of application software.