Something I noticed about the announcement of Office:Mac 2004 at the recent Macworld conference was this great voice recording feature that used Quicktime and MPEG4/AAC formats. How on earth is that going to be interoperable with the upcoming Windows version, I doubt very much that said feature on the Windows version would use AAC.
We were an early adopter of Cisco CallManager and IP handsets (our director was taken to lots of lunches by Cisco reps), we used uOne as the voicemail because it was before Unity was available. Within 12 months, it was being pulled out, partly due to the fact that Cisco q.sig was different from NEC q.sig and the PABX and the "PABX" could not talk to each other, partly due to the platform it was deployed on, especially when we were told Exchange had to be part of the mix. All feedback to Cisco was based around how they wanted us to replace our 99.999 carrier grade PABX systems, with... well Windows servers. We told them straight that we'd look at a CallManager solution again when it was running on IOS, Solaris or Linux. Many of the Cisco products that run on Windows are actually now appearing as applicances that run either Linux or a flavour of BSD.
Over time we will see the industry decide what will be used as a standard for the distribution of digital audio, I guess Dell and friends just don't want the "industry standard" to turn out to be MPEG-4/AAC.
Way back in my Comp Sci days, I could have sworn that when a 386 (and to some extent a 286) was running in protected mode, different areas of memory could be marked as 'code' for execution and for 'data' that could not be executed. Trying to read or write to the code area, or execute a data area would result in exceptions. It was many years ago though...
Too true. I use a Dell UltraSharp 1900FP on the desk (sits beside a Sun 21" CRT) and it annoys the hell out of me that its stuck at 1280x1024. But if you want to part with an arm, the Apple 23" HD display is simply beautiful and Sun will sell you a 24.1" TFT for an arm, leg, kidney and some other assorted organs.
Do the laptop screens really have that many pixels?
... have an extra ten keys down the left hand side that are used for window cycling, iconifying, cut & paste etc etc. i'm quite lost without them now and find myself pressing tab all too often by mistake when i'm using a pc keyboard. now that the type 6 keyboard is usb, i've been thinking about using them on a pc or Mac.
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Something I noticed about the announcement of Office:Mac 2004 at the recent Macworld conference was this great voice recording feature that used Quicktime and MPEG4/AAC formats. How on earth is that going to be interoperable with the upcoming Windows version, I doubt very much that said feature on the Windows version would use AAC.
According to that article, it seems that that IBM is quite happy for Apple to supply PowerPC based workstations to run Linux on.
We were an early adopter of Cisco CallManager and IP handsets (our director was taken to lots of lunches by Cisco reps), we used uOne as the voicemail because it was before Unity was available. Within 12 months, it was being pulled out, partly due to the fact that Cisco q.sig was different from NEC q.sig and the PABX and the "PABX" could not talk to each other, partly due to the platform it was deployed on, especially when we were told Exchange had to be part of the mix. All feedback to Cisco was based around how they wanted us to replace our 99.999 carrier grade PABX systems, with ... well Windows servers. We told them straight that we'd look at a CallManager solution again when it was running on IOS, Solaris or Linux. Many of the Cisco products that run on Windows are actually now appearing as applicances that run either Linux or a flavour of BSD.
Over time we will see the industry decide what will be used as a standard for the distribution of digital audio, I guess Dell and friends just don't want the "industry standard" to turn out to be MPEG-4/AAC.
Way back in my Comp Sci days, I could have sworn that when a 386 (and to some extent a 286) was running in protected mode, different areas of memory could be marked as 'code' for execution and for 'data' that could not be executed. Trying to read or write to the code area, or execute a data area would result in exceptions. It was many years ago though ...
yeah, but i don't have a gfx card with the 8 DVI outputs needed to drive it :-(
Too true. I use a Dell UltraSharp 1900FP on the desk (sits beside a Sun 21" CRT) and it annoys the hell out of me that its stuck at 1280x1024. But if you want to part with an arm, the Apple 23" HD display is simply beautiful and Sun will sell you a 24.1" TFT for an arm, leg, kidney and some other assorted organs. Do the laptop screens really have that many pixels?
... have an extra ten keys down the left hand side that are used for window cycling, iconifying, cut & paste etc etc. i'm quite lost without them now and find myself pressing tab all too often by mistake when i'm using a pc keyboard. now that the type 6 keyboard is usb, i've been thinking about using them on a pc or Mac.