"We've found a way to line our pockets with more money, so why shouldn't we use cheap, hard to understand overseas techs? We're greedy, plain and simple."
Okay, I was able to purchase a good condition cisco 7206 with the npe-300, latest ios, with a dual atm ds3 interface for 12k, and an 8 port IMA t1 card, gotta love ebay. why bother with trying to make a high end and "reliable" linux router (i'm sorry, but linux doesn't have nearly an efficient enough network stack to handle channelized ds3 i/o, and isp's that make the step up to ds3, generally move to multiple ds3's, and I'm not doing that on a linux box!), with pci network cards, to replace a good ol' cisco router? and moving to sonet? blah! sonet ds3 cards on a linux box? you're kidding right?
I'm always willing to support such ventures, and I even found a few artists that I would give money for, and was about to, but noticed that their "buy" page is not secure. Fix that, and I'll buy something.
We pass quite a bit of email around, but if your company is anything like mine, we tend to ignore email for long stretches at a time.
Instant Messaging is good, but invasive, but hey, you're at work, deal. We have a Jabber server setup, with fairly limited abilities for the average user, but some nice administrative features. Jabbers nice, it's free, and it's being continually developed.
well, you could always use that little protocol called "file transfer protocol". Go figure. A protocol used to copy files. Works on every platform know to man kind.
If you wanted to pull out a good ol' system that fell into disuse, get gopher working!
As a side, there are scp protocols for pretty much everything as well.
It's not a matter of free markets, it's a matter of pull your heads out of your rears and realize that to improve service, improve reliability, make it all faster, make it all better, it costs more, but people want this more expensive service for even cheaper, ever cheaper.
Price dropping to satisfy customer demands if a very big reason for a lot of isp's going belly up. In order to attract customers, they have to practically give away service, hoping that quantity will eventually make up for it, but it rarely works out.
What's this about the FCC granting them a monopoly on DSL?!? All that the FCC said, in regards to dsl service, is that the incumbants no longer have to provide UNE-P's, or in slightly more laymans terms, they no long have to allow line-sharing of their phone servuced loops to ISPs. They still HAVE TO PROVIDE unbundled loop access (unless it's a fiber loop), for dedicated line services.
This puts a fairly heavy damper on line-shared ADSL services, but you know what? The incumbants still CAN NOT provided end user dsl services.
But what about services like Qwest DSL you ask? Qwest does NOT provide the internet bound portion of the service, they simply handle the local loop, then hand off the connection to another partnered ISP. It's called their MegaHost service. The so-called Qwest direct dsl is provided through MSN.
I really, really hate this mentalitly of complaining about prices, always wanting cheaper! cheaper! But at the same time calling for Better! Better! I should be able to have a 1 mbit up and down dsl connection, guaranteed speeds, guaranteed 24x7 for 5 dollars a month! Blah I say
18 a month, 10 burnable/downloadable songs, hell, I'd almost rather do something like audiocandy's 2 dollars a song crap, though it should be closer to 1! Plus there are enough streams out there....why would anyone want an aol propriatary aol only aol quality music service? Hell, the RIAA could come up with something better than this...
So, Gates stepped down as CEO, is only a chairmain, and cheif architect...blah.
What really happened is he decided to promote himself to demigod, rather than be limited by the title CEO.
But more seriously. I love linux, wouldn't have anything else for a server; web, file, database, what have you. But when it comes to the desktop? Am I alone in the world who thinks that Windows is better for productivity?
In the desktop world, I swear all linux distros have a common motto, "Let's do everything that's already been done in the way of productivity applications, but, just not quite as good, and maybe it'll crash a bit, and takes some tweaking to even get running, but, but, it's not Windows!"
Yes, Microsoft uses nasty tactics to corner the markets, promote their product, run their world domination program, but you know what, their products work. What I would like to see is them focusing less on "more new features" and improve the ones they already have.
I think the real question is not whether Microsoft is good or evil, but rather, does the good MS produces balance the evil of the company?
Bah, you all just need dedicated unbundled loops and SDSL connections. Line-Shared ADSL? Blah I say. Not to mention this does not effect ILEC provided Line-Shared services (Like Qwest DSL). The ILECs are required to provided these services, and the times coming when they better have it, or pay the price, thanks to that fiasco of a '96 telco act.
What does this do? It forces CLEC's to get their acts together. Very few CLEC's that exist do what they were originally intended to do, compete against the incumbents! Compete with, not have the incumbents subsidise their existance...
God I love my 1.1mbit SDSL connection, I love my 30-40 ms away from such sites as yahoo and google, my 99.99%+ uptimes. I think my ISP did it right, they are fairly small fish in the world, but they are a PSC regulated, Tier 2, CLEC, that creates it's own private infrastructures (FTTH, FTTB, CTTH) or uses dedicated unbundled loops from the ILEC, are triple-redundant, ds3 and oc3 connections, and all of this where? Montana of all places. Rural broadband? How about a dark fiber loop to your home?
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"We've found a way to line our pockets with more money, so why shouldn't we use cheap, hard to understand overseas techs? We're greedy, plain and simple."
I always love these articles, such depth, such information, such...nothing.
Okay, I was able to purchase a good condition cisco 7206 with the npe-300, latest ios, with a dual atm ds3 interface for 12k, and an 8 port IMA t1 card, gotta love ebay. why bother with trying to make a high end and "reliable" linux router (i'm sorry, but linux doesn't have nearly an efficient enough network stack to handle channelized ds3 i/o, and isp's that make the step up to ds3, generally move to multiple ds3's, and I'm not doing that on a linux box!), with pci network cards, to replace a good ol' cisco router? and moving to sonet? blah! sonet ds3 cards on a linux box? you're kidding right?
I'm always willing to support such ventures, and I even found a few artists that I would give money for, and was about to, but noticed that their "buy" page is not secure. Fix that, and I'll buy something.
you can also get wav's ripped direct from master cd
problem is, the DMCA gives the RIAA some rather broad supeona powers. This couldn't have happened until our friend the DMCA came into existance.
Instant Messaging is good, but invasive, but hey, you're at work, deal. We have a Jabber server setup, with fairly limited abilities for the average user, but some nice administrative features. Jabbers nice, it's free, and it's being continually developed.
well, you could always use that little protocol called "file transfer protocol". Go figure. A protocol used to copy files. Works on every platform know to man kind. If you wanted to pull out a good ol' system that fell into disuse, get gopher working! As a side, there are scp protocols for pretty much everything as well.
One less language to be used in obfuscated code contests. Where's the fun without macros and overloading? sigh....
Exactly my point, running an ISP is not cake, and people think it is, one of the reason they demand better service and cheaper prices
Price dropping to satisfy customer demands if a very big reason for a lot of isp's going belly up. In order to attract customers, they have to practically give away service, hoping that quantity will eventually make up for it, but it rarely works out.
This puts a fairly heavy damper on line-shared ADSL services, but you know what? The incumbants still CAN NOT provided end user dsl services.
But what about services like Qwest DSL you ask? Qwest does NOT provide the internet bound portion of the service, they simply handle the local loop, then hand off the connection to another partnered ISP. It's called their MegaHost service. The so-called Qwest direct dsl is provided through MSN.
I really, really hate this mentalitly of complaining about prices, always wanting cheaper! cheaper! But at the same time calling for Better! Better! I should be able to have a 1 mbit up and down dsl connection, guaranteed speeds, guaranteed 24x7 for 5 dollars a month! Blah I say
18 a month, 10 burnable/downloadable songs, hell, I'd almost rather do something like audiocandy's 2 dollars a song crap, though it should be closer to 1! Plus there are enough streams out there....why would anyone want an aol propriatary aol only aol quality music service? Hell, the RIAA could come up with something better than this...
Well, let's take it a step further! Nothing is a programming language because it all has to be interpreted at the hardware level!
What really happened is he decided to promote himself to demigod, rather than be limited by the title CEO.
But more seriously. I love linux, wouldn't have anything else for a server; web, file, database, what have you. But when it comes to the desktop? Am I alone in the world who thinks that Windows is better for productivity?
In the desktop world, I swear all linux distros have a common motto, "Let's do everything that's already been done in the way of productivity applications, but, just not quite as good, and maybe it'll crash a bit, and takes some tweaking to even get running, but, but, it's not Windows!"
Yes, Microsoft uses nasty tactics to corner the markets, promote their product, run their world domination program, but you know what, their products work. What I would like to see is them focusing less on "more new features" and improve the ones they already have.
I think the real question is not whether Microsoft is good or evil, but rather, does the good MS produces balance the evil of the company?
Bah, you all just need dedicated unbundled loops and SDSL connections. Line-Shared ADSL? Blah I say. Not to mention this does not effect ILEC provided Line-Shared services (Like Qwest DSL). The ILECs are required to provided these services, and the times coming when they better have it, or pay the price, thanks to that fiasco of a '96 telco act. What does this do? It forces CLEC's to get their acts together. Very few CLEC's that exist do what they were originally intended to do, compete against the incumbents! Compete with, not have the incumbents subsidise their existance... God I love my 1.1mbit SDSL connection, I love my 30-40 ms away from such sites as yahoo and google, my 99.99%+ uptimes. I think my ISP did it right, they are fairly small fish in the world, but they are a PSC regulated, Tier 2, CLEC, that creates it's own private infrastructures (FTTH, FTTB, CTTH) or uses dedicated unbundled loops from the ILEC, are triple-redundant, ds3 and oc3 connections, and all of this where? Montana of all places. Rural broadband? How about a dark fiber loop to your home?