Depends on the capacity you are using it in, but I would say that this is a problem with the owners/managers not knowing what they want instead of a buggy system.
I've set up a few asterisk systems for my clients, and I hardly ever touch the systems or get phone calls about it. When I do, it's only because they want to add more phones or make changes to the way the pbx operates.
Note that changing the way the pbx operates is not exactly an option if you go the more traditional route.
I've had just the opposite experience with the polycom's. The sound quality in the handset is terrible, the desktop footprint is huge, and after working with the snom320s, the configuration is a pain in the ass.
The snom320s ( and 300/360 i assume ); Those are gold. Great speaker phone, great sound quality, awsome configuration abilities, changes are applied immediately, no reboot required unless it's a firmware upgrade or an IP thing. Every special button is configurable and you've got presence lights to work with ( which configure rather easily ).
I don't know why anybody would go with the polycoms other than the name. Snom spanks them in every catagory.
You may find that maybe you're not quite the well-adjusted human being you thought you were.
Love it; "You must conform. If you don't, you are somehow mal-adjusted. "
I'd argue that anybody who doesn't have an adversion to socializing in todays society is mal-adjusted. Look at all the scary shit out there; What sane person would subject themselves to that?
Oh please, because he doesn't like talking to people, let alone in front of the camera? That's idiotic. I hate talking to people, and I can't imagine being paid enough to talk on camera; I'm no where near a sociopath.
Of the two, I identify most with Jamie. I "get" him. Despite what the current MTV generation would have you believe, neither he nor myself have any notable mental conditions.
At some point in the future, capacity will take a back seat to recoverability ( for the average consumer ). To that end, I predict harddrive companies effectively setting up a raid 1 array on a single drive; Probably by platter. To the host system, it would appear as a single drive of 160gb ( for example ), but it would actually be two platters of 160gb, with a bit for bit copy being maintained on the fly by the drive itself.
Access would be through a standard API.
Extending this further, we could add even more intelligence to the drives, and with the sacrifice of more storage space, would could have the drive taking care of shadow copies ( this operating under the assumption that the host system knows how to handle the drive ).
This is the direction I predict for future harddrives; At some point we will come to a place where we don't really need the extra capacity. At that point the harddrive manufactures will begin to add more intelligence to the drives.
The whole purpose of childhood is to prepare the person for ADULTHOOD. Now, in that most adults now a days don't really act like adults, I can see an argument for something in the past couple decades truly ruining childhood. However, I have seen a trend over the past couple years of kids and young adults that seem to be taking responsibility for their actions, so whatever it was I would assume has been corrected.
If you ask me, the fault of poor child raising would be place solely on the parents shoulders, as it always has been.
Actually, just using a plain old nvidia card with TV out. Some config tweaks, and it outputs to the TV. The TV is of pretty poor quality, however, so any signal loss isn't noticed.
One of these days I'm actually going to drop the coin on a decently sized monitor ( 20in+ ), and just go that route for TV.
The real culprit of WoW's success is depression, in all it's varied forms. WoW represents the ultimate in escapism. Whereas before some of us used books, or even computer games, here's a world that changes based on the player and those playing.
There is never really an end to the world like there would be in a book, or a game. Therefore, those trying to escape find the perfect place to escape to; A place that never really ends.
This goes a long way in explaining the attitude when the servers would go down often ( do they still? ).
I'm not saying this is how it is for everyone, or it's the same level of escapism for everyone. Just that the majority of the addicts are depressed in one way or another, and this is their way to escape from it.
But how do you know you didn't get any false positives? You could know that only if you examined every single email marked as spam. Did you really do that?
Two reasons;
1) In my environment,if I don't acknowledge an email I get follow ups from the person until I do. I have never come across a situation where their email has been in the spam folder.
2) I glance at my spam folder on occation ( about once a week ). I look at the senders and the subjects. Takes me a minute ( usually less ).
If so, then what is the point of running spam filters?
To keep it out of my general user base.
The whole problem is that spam consumes our time, and thus we want to get rid of it without ever seeing it. We don't want to monitor our spam filters.So you want a spam appliance. Not going to happen; Spammers are constantly working to get around filters; You need someone or something constantly adapting to them. If you have an automated method for this ( bayes ), then you need a human keeping it on track.
Further, you need to train your users as to what to do if a spam gets through to their inbox ( drag it to the spam folder ).
Nothing will ever make spam go away entirely ( until we get a better protocol that is ), so the best that can be done is education combined with good spam filters.
If you're running the mail servers for a business, how prudent is it to run a spam filter in the first place? While using something that relies on checking the content of the mail may be useful in getting rid of the most egregious spam, you don't want to block all items identified as spam. You can't run the risk of blocking your customers.
New to the business? You don't block anything in this situation; You mark it with a header ( that's part of the email message that you would likely never see. Most mailers won't display them unless you ask it specifically to do so ), and leave the blocking/filtering up to the end user.
For my uses, I have spamassassin running with a couple RBLs ( both in house and external ). I don't delete any mail; It is instead redirected to a specific folder when it's identified as spam. Over the past 6 months spam has made it into my inbox twice, and i've had no false positives.
If you know what you are doing, this is the ideal solution.
RBLs are notorious (especially SpamAssassin) for blacklisting entire domains when only a small subset of those users are actually sending spam.
Uh, no they aren't. Spamassassin isn't an RBL.
There are a few RBLs that are notorious for their blocking behavior, and as such, few use them.
If you're running your own mail server at home, then a whitelist would probably be more useful than a blacklist since you already know who you want to contact you.
I'd agree with this; Automated whitelists are the way to go.
But you gotta hand it to the Unix folks for making the task of setting up a spam filter this difficult.
It's only difficult when you don't understand the process.
I am curious how difficult it would be to set up a spam filter on an Exchange server.
Curiously enough, most of the time I hear people recommending placing a spamassassin enabled email server in front of an exchange server if you want decent spam protection.
Overall, I'd give your post a 9/10 on the troll scale. It wasn't bad, had factual data twisted in such a way as to be completely false. I even bit, not to argue with you but to make sure innocents don't read your post and get confused.
For me, dark matter is like religion. Made up to explain what we can't understand, and wrong.
Interesting observation, if a bit off. The difference being, of course, that we will eventually have a factual basis for dark matter ( whether it exists or not ), where as we will never know if $deity exists.
This is true for all supernatural values of $deity.
...but haven't they been doing this for a few years now? I seem to remember a story, at least a year back, where spammers were giving porn away for free, as long as you solved a captcha every couple views.
The very principle of being a corporation precludes any hero worship from me. Corporations are out to make money for their shareholders, that's it. It's pretty simple really. You can dress it up in fancy clothing ( "Don't do evil" ), but at the end of the day it's just PR designed to bring in more revenue.
That is not to say it's a bad thing really; Money is what this world runs on, whatever OPEC may say. It's just that as far as morality is concerned, it's not exactly a high ideal to aspire to.
But google is not it. Seriously, why would anybody put any corporation up on a pedestal?
Google will do what's best for google. End of story. If that means digging in their heels because a legal request is over reaching and would comprimise some aspect of their operations, so be it. If, in another case, it means they hand over the data, that's fair too.
You want a hero? Go hug a firefighter, or a police officer. Or a doctor, or a vet. Not a corporation.
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I feel for his kids. These poor kids are going to grow up with a father. All they are going to really know about him is going to be what they see on TV.
You don't get it. There's a big difference between your soundcard and his HD-DVDs...
The soundcard was a big improvement over the sound chip built into computers.
Actually, you missed his point. His comparison of chirps to soundcards was analogous to vhs vs dvd. When he said earlier, "When was the last time you upgraded your soundcard?", he was making the point you missed.
DVDs are 90% good enough for even the early adopters.
While critism of comcast's current antics are certainly warrented, as an ISP they have provided the most reliable and high bandwidth service in my area, out doing AT&T's t1s as far as reliability ( with a sample of 2 years ).
Sure, they are also damned expensive ( at 50-60 bucks a month ), but there is no reasonable alternative otherwise. AT&T/sbc/mabell doesn't count as reasonable.
Alienware isn't about the "fastest". True, they have fast systems, but it's more about the 'bling' factor.
They're target market is upper middle class, specifically the middle age men who like to game and have disposable income and the kids with rich parents.
It's a title. Does changing the title change any physical, measurable characteristic?
Of course not. That's why this argument is about the most worthless thing to be wasting time on. Who cares if it's a planet, a pluton, or an asteriod? One way or another, if you want to study it, you can.
I suspect *that's* why so few people voted; They don't care what it's called.
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Depends on the capacity you are using it in, but I would say that this is a problem with the owners/managers not knowing what they want instead of a buggy system.
I've set up a few asterisk systems for my clients, and I hardly ever touch the systems or get phone calls about it. When I do, it's only because they want to add more phones or make changes to the way the pbx operates.
Note that changing the way the pbx operates is not exactly an option if you go the more traditional route.
I've had just the opposite experience with the polycom's. The sound quality in the handset is terrible, the desktop footprint is huge, and after working with the snom320s, the configuration is a pain in the ass.
The snom320s ( and 300/360 i assume ); Those are gold. Great speaker phone, great sound quality, awsome configuration abilities, changes are applied immediately, no reboot required unless it's a firmware upgrade or an IP thing. Every special button is configurable and you've got presence lights to work with ( which configure rather easily ).
I don't know why anybody would go with the polycoms other than the name. Snom spanks them in every catagory.
You may find that maybe you're not quite the well-adjusted human being you thought you were.
Love it; "You must conform. If you don't, you are somehow mal-adjusted. "
I'd argue that anybody who doesn't have an adversion to socializing in todays society is mal-adjusted. Look at all the scary shit out there; What sane person would subject themselves to that?
Jamie is probably borderline sociopathic
Oh please, because he doesn't like talking to people, let alone in front of the camera? That's idiotic. I hate talking to people, and I can't imagine being paid enough to talk on camera; I'm no where near a sociopath.
Of the two, I identify most with Jamie. I "get" him. Despite what the current MTV generation would have you believe, neither he nor myself have any notable mental conditions.
Illegal search and seizure?
You know, that wacky fourth admendment?
At some point in the future, capacity will take a back seat to recoverability ( for the average consumer ). To that end, I predict harddrive companies effectively setting up a raid 1 array on a single drive; Probably by platter. To the host system, it would appear as a single drive of 160gb ( for example ), but it would actually be two platters of 160gb, with a bit for bit copy being maintained on the fly by the drive itself.
Access would be through a standard API.
Extending this further, we could add even more intelligence to the drives, and with the sacrifice of more storage space, would could have the drive taking care of shadow copies ( this operating under the assumption that the host system knows how to handle the drive ).
This is the direction I predict for future harddrives; At some point we will come to a place where we don't really need the extra capacity. At that point the harddrive manufactures will begin to add more intelligence to the drives.
The whole purpose of childhood is to prepare the person for ADULTHOOD. Now, in that most adults now a days don't really act like adults, I can see an argument for something in the past couple decades truly ruining childhood. However, I have seen a trend over the past couple years of kids and young adults that seem to be taking responsibility for their actions, so whatever it was I would assume has been corrected.
If you ask me, the fault of poor child raising would be place solely on the parents shoulders, as it always has been.
I like you. You are absolutely right of course.
Actually, just using a plain old nvidia card with TV out. Some config tweaks, and it outputs to the TV. The TV is of pretty poor quality, however, so any signal loss isn't noticed.
One of these days I'm actually going to drop the coin on a decently sized monitor ( 20in+ ), and just go that route for TV.
You missed some of the best features; Video storage.
I burn a backup of my dvds, store them on my myth box. Watch them whenever I want, with just the click of a button.
The real culprit of WoW's success is depression, in all it's varied forms. WoW represents the ultimate in escapism. Whereas before some of us used books, or even computer games, here's a world that changes based on the player and those playing.
There is never really an end to the world like there would be in a book, or a game. Therefore, those trying to escape find the perfect place to escape to; A place that never really ends.
This goes a long way in explaining the attitude when the servers would go down often ( do they still? ).
I'm not saying this is how it is for everyone, or it's the same level of escapism for everyone. Just that the majority of the addicts are depressed in one way or another, and this is their way to escape from it.
But how do you know you didn't get any false positives? You could know that only if you examined every single email marked as spam. Did you really do that?
Two reasons;
1) In my environment,if I don't acknowledge an email I get follow ups from the person until I do. I have never come across a situation where their email has been in the spam folder.
2) I glance at my spam folder on occation ( about once a week ). I look at the senders and the subjects. Takes me a minute ( usually less ).
If so, then what is the point of running spam filters?
To keep it out of my general user base.
The whole problem is that spam consumes our time, and thus we want to get rid of it without ever seeing it. We don't want to monitor our spam filters.So you want a spam appliance. Not going to happen; Spammers are constantly working to get around filters; You need someone or something constantly adapting to them. If you have an automated method for this ( bayes ), then you need a human keeping it on track.
Further, you need to train your users as to what to do if a spam gets through to their inbox ( drag it to the spam folder ).
Nothing will ever make spam go away entirely ( until we get a better protocol that is ), so the best that can be done is education combined with good spam filters.
If you're running the mail servers for a business, how prudent is it to run a spam filter in the first place? While using something that relies on checking the content of the mail may be useful in getting rid of the most egregious spam, you don't want to block all items identified as spam. You can't run the risk of blocking your customers.
New to the business? You don't block anything in this situation; You mark it with a header ( that's part of the email message that you would likely never see. Most mailers won't display them unless you ask it specifically to do so ), and leave the blocking/filtering up to the end user.
For my uses, I have spamassassin running with a couple RBLs ( both in house and external ). I don't delete any mail; It is instead redirected to a specific folder when it's identified as spam. Over the past 6 months spam has made it into my inbox twice, and i've had no false positives.
If you know what you are doing, this is the ideal solution.
RBLs are notorious (especially SpamAssassin) for blacklisting entire domains when only a small subset of those users are actually sending spam.
Uh, no they aren't. Spamassassin isn't an RBL.
There are a few RBLs that are notorious for their blocking behavior, and as such, few use them.
If you're running your own mail server at home, then a whitelist would probably be more useful than a blacklist since you already know who you want to contact you.
I'd agree with this; Automated whitelists are the way to go.
But you gotta hand it to the Unix folks for making the task of setting up a spam filter this difficult.
It's only difficult when you don't understand the process.
I am curious how difficult it would be to set up a spam filter on an Exchange server.
Curiously enough, most of the time I hear people recommending placing a spamassassin enabled email server in front of an exchange server if you want decent spam protection.
Overall, I'd give your post a 9/10 on the troll scale. It wasn't bad, had factual data twisted in such a way as to be completely false. I even bit, not to argue with you but to make sure innocents don't read your post and get confused.
For me, dark matter is like religion. Made up to explain what we can't understand, and wrong.
Interesting observation, if a bit off. The difference being, of course, that we will eventually have a factual basis for dark matter ( whether it exists or not ), where as we will never know if $deity exists.
This is true for all supernatural values of $deity.
...but haven't they been doing this for a few years now? I seem to remember a story, at least a year back, where spammers were giving porn away for free, as long as you solved a captcha every couple views.
The very principle of being a corporation precludes any hero worship from me. Corporations are out to make money for their shareholders, that's it. It's pretty simple really. You can dress it up in fancy clothing ( "Don't do evil" ), but at the end of the day it's just PR designed to bring in more revenue.
That is not to say it's a bad thing really; Money is what this world runs on, whatever OPEC may say. It's just that as far as morality is concerned, it's not exactly a high ideal to aspire to.
So I'm convinced
I think you might be missing the point; It's not that these things are unique, it's that they are semi-unique and hard to replicate.
But google is not it. Seriously, why would anybody put any corporation up on a pedestal?
Google will do what's best for google. End of story. If that means digging in their heels because a legal request is over reaching and would comprimise some aspect of their operations, so be it. If, in another case, it means they hand over the data, that's fair too.
You want a hero? Go hug a firefighter, or a police officer. Or a doctor, or a vet. Not a corporation.
I feel for his kids. These poor kids are going to grow up with a father. All they are going to really know about him is going to be what they see on TV.
You don't get it. There's a big difference between your soundcard and his HD-DVDs...
The soundcard was a big improvement over the sound chip built into computers.
Actually, you missed his point. His comparison of chirps to soundcards was analogous to vhs vs dvd. When he said earlier, "When was the last time you upgraded your soundcard?", he was making the point you missed.
DVDs are 90% good enough for even the early adopters.
While critism of comcast's current antics are certainly warrented, as an ISP they have provided the most reliable and high bandwidth service in my area, out doing AT&T's t1s as far as reliability ( with a sample of 2 years ).
Sure, they are also damned expensive ( at 50-60 bucks a month ), but there is no reasonable alternative otherwise. AT&T/sbc/mabell doesn't count as reasonable.
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Alienware isn't about the "fastest". True, they have fast systems, but it's more about the 'bling' factor.
They're target market is upper middle class, specifically the middle age men who like to game and have disposable income and the kids with rich parents.
It's a title. Does changing the title change any physical, measurable characteristic?
Of course not. That's why this argument is about the most worthless thing to be wasting time on. Who cares if it's a planet, a pluton, or an asteriod? One way or another, if you want to study it, you can.
I suspect *that's* why so few people voted; They don't care what it's called.
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Wish I had mod points.