Many of you may not recall the old 1880s when the telephone was first invented.
Many rural settlers resented it since it obviates the need to walk a healthy mile to chat with your neighbor. Not to mention the intrusion it posed into their quiet agrarian lifestyle (Amish, anyone?)
It wasn't until 1920, when the various telephone oligopolies started lobbying our Washington Capitol Hill to push telephone deployment as part of the mandated rural modernization.
The world became a closer place to live together with the telephone. Just like VideoPhone will bring them MUCH closer together.
NIANAS (Now, I am not a soothsayer) but CD-ROM media isn't going to die out anytime in the next 10 years.
With the booming production of CD-Recorder coupled with the ultra-extended lifespan of the CD itself, the lifespan of a recorded media just did an approximate 50,000 times. More CD-Recorder is sold than Cassette recorders, which is a sure sign of technology taking a firm hold in consumer market.
With the CD-ROM supposedly 100-year shelf-life as opposed to cassette's 3/4 years (or less if it's in the automobile)...
CD-ISSO-9660 format isn't going to go away anytime soon, neither is MP3's sliding scale of quality (with bit rates of 256+ attained already).
It'll be around probably for the rest of our lifespan. So, enjoy it, RIAA!
All this talk about Black hole unseemingly unlimited lifespan got me thinking..
What if black hole is just a kind of dense star that reins in light wave (and that's it)? Same principle of gravity still applies and not defied (yet). Just going the other way.
Notice that everything in nature has a balance, even must be so throughout the galaxy (only that we haven't lived long enough to see them all).
These millions-star rotating mass must have a critical limit before they go super-nova (how about ultra-nova?)
What if these ultra-nova affects every living being in the universe? Those dinosaurs may have been wiped out by these abnormal level of gamma rays soaked each day as our earth turned.
The usual standoffs between the RBOC/ILEC and the CLEC are:
1. Who pays for the filter removal? Requires a truck roll and some sleuthing to remove them amongst the thousands of wire strands.
2. DMZ at the central office. Often cooperation is poor at the central office when CLEC installs the DSLAM into a locked/caged room.
3. Troubleshooting. CLEC technician often has to seek permission (and frequently do not get them) to perform wire-fault tracing which often requires wandering around the central office premises.
4. Mini-sabatoge. A stretch of a reach. But accidential sabatoge (tripping over wires, crossovers, disconnects) do occur. Blame games starts and often poisons relation between central office administration and the CLEC technicians.
5. Who pays who. This is still an uncharted territory. This is the primary reason Covad teamed up with Southwestern Bell (SBC) is to secure valuable cooperation (as well as funding).
6. Lack of governmental regulation regarding conducts in the DMZ.
Sorry. But CLEC is in a tough bind. However, I am optimistic that various DSL industry segment is going to pressure RBOC/ILEC to owe up in the best interest of more equipment sales for all of us DSL insdustry.
While I posted a presentation paper in regard to the ultimate home network at the NTLUG, it didn't cover ultimate dream servers.
During that time, I've polished the following solutions to the current:
Private ISP (w/ dual modems/MPPP)
Voice Mail/Caller-ID
Fax Server
Fax Relay
Mail server (Real-Time Blackhole list)
Web Server (secured and virtual, but not both)
Customizable firewall
I've still got a long way to go regarding the following feature set:
Voice Mail navigation
Fax OCR to email
TDD answering machine
Secured Virtual server (coming)
MP3 server (GNUTella seems fireall-unfriendly)
Video/DVD server
Apparently, lots more work is needed before one can even reduce this to a simple configuration setting for average home use.
[scene: arm chair, TV flickering, TiVo hard drive whirring]
Narration: While I zip through the TiVo recording of my favorite porno movie "Debbie Does Dallas", I can finally relax after a hard days nite [soft Beatle corresponding background tune].
[scene: TiVo Monitoring Centre]
Marketing Guru: Hot damn, another sex-paying viewer. Our partners will pay us thru the nose for this data.
Assistant: Uh-ho, ummmph, he's underaged.
Marketing Guru: Oh sh*t! Shut it down, shut it down!
[scene: beeping Carnivore Alert Panel, FBI H.A.R.D. Center, Ft. Worth]
Agent 1: Underage viewing of porno at 412 Black Gold Avenue.
Agent 2: SWAT dispatched
[scene: outside TiVo HQ]
SWAT: [megaphone] Come out with your hands up in the air.
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Many of you may not recall the old 1880s when the telephone was first invented.
Many rural settlers resented it since it obviates the need to walk a healthy mile to chat with your neighbor. Not to mention the intrusion it posed into their quiet agrarian lifestyle (Amish, anyone?)
It wasn't until 1920, when the various telephone oligopolies started lobbying our Washington Capitol Hill to push telephone deployment as part of the mandated rural modernization.
The world became a closer place to live together with the telephone. Just like VideoPhone will bring them MUCH closer together.
- Make faces, not war!
How prevelant is Linux usage and how contributive is it toward Microsoft's product creations?
Just wait ten years for the prostate cancer to go back down after untold amount of EM-exposures to our testicle area, from laptops used as "laptop".
Noticed that marketing stop using "laptop" and adopted "notebooks" instead?
Fork 'em over to Microsoft.
How about the following project names?
/.
LNL (LisTAR is not ListSTAR)
My take on other borderline project names
Micromicrosoft
Ceun
Orekel
EyeBeeEmm
SlashDash, sorry
Verizon hasn't plan to deploy GoLong yet because their CTO isn't as saavy as one would like him to be.
GoLong is a digital ADSL Repeater.
This involved the use of two ADSL chipsets to convert the analog signal to digital and then retransmitting it as analog.
Not anymore...
Symmetricon has created an ADSL repeater called "GoLong" that would make it possible to reach up to 55,000 feet.
The URL is http://www.symmetricom.com/products/GoLong.html
So, it's coming. Just be patient.
That's Easy,
Given the example friend's email address is john@doe.com and your email is "mine@yob.com"
I modified my sendmail to automatically update the "From:" into "mine+john.doe.com@yob.com". Of course, its different for each target email.
Then when I received it, it must match the sender's IP address or I'll rejected.
To ensure protection against falsification, my address book is consulted for additional verification.
This enforces point-to-point and reverts back to the original intent by email philosophy and hopefully eliminate SPAM forever!
Cool, UH?
NIANAS (Now, I am not a soothsayer) but CD-ROM media isn't going to die out anytime in the next 10 years.
With the booming production of CD-Recorder coupled with the ultra-extended lifespan of the CD itself, the lifespan of a recorded media just did an approximate 50,000 times. More CD-Recorder is sold than Cassette recorders, which is a sure sign of technology taking a firm hold in consumer market.
With the CD-ROM supposedly 100-year shelf-life as opposed to cassette's 3/4 years (or less if it's in the automobile)...
CD-ISSO-9660 format isn't going to go away anytime soon, neither is MP3's sliding scale of quality (with bit rates of 256+ attained already).
It'll be around probably for the rest of our lifespan. So, enjoy it, RIAA!
This just brings out the road rage in me.
Rip the damn GPS thing out of my car. (BTW, it costs as low as about $23 per unit).
Hell, let the cop catch me. Government can try to insert this GPS govenor into my hot rod and my Smith-n-Wesson will be waiting for them.
This is getting too way too Orwellian (1984).
Like it's going to prevent security clearance worker from snip-snip, paste-paste.
WTF?
Afghanistan has wireless. I can only imagine who is using it. OSS (yes, those aging agents), KGB, Mossad.. whatever.
Surprised?
Can Trusted BSD hope attain the covet A1 rating in the DoD Orange Book with OpenSource community as the maintainer?
The Orange requirement for a corporate entity (not exactly worded) to exist before obtaining any level, can be waived for this?
What's your take?
All this talk about Black hole unseemingly unlimited lifespan got me thinking..
What if black hole is just a kind of dense star that reins in light wave (and that's it)? Same principle of gravity still applies and not defied (yet). Just going the other way.
Notice that everything in nature has a balance, even must be so throughout the galaxy (only that we haven't lived long enough to see them all).
These millions-star rotating mass must have a critical limit before they go super-nova (how about ultra-nova?)
What if these ultra-nova affects every living being in the universe? Those dinosaurs may have been wiped out by these abnormal level of gamma rays soaked each day as our earth turned.
Talk about multiple Big-Bangs.
Definitely the Apex 600A rocks.
I am able to play any region DVD, gold-DVDR, gold-CDR, blue-CDR, MP3 in ISO9660 format (cruddy 8.3 filename format).
Plus I can play burnt DVD with this player!
Rad!
The usual standoffs between the RBOC/ILEC and the CLEC are:
1. Who pays for the filter removal? Requires a truck roll and some sleuthing to remove them amongst the thousands of wire strands.
2. DMZ at the central office. Often cooperation is poor at the central office when CLEC installs the DSLAM into a locked/caged room.
3. Troubleshooting. CLEC technician often has to seek permission (and frequently do not get them) to perform wire-fault tracing which often requires wandering around the central office premises.
4. Mini-sabatoge. A stretch of a reach. But accidential sabatoge (tripping over wires, crossovers, disconnects) do occur. Blame games starts and often poisons relation between central office administration and the CLEC technicians.
5. Who pays who. This is still an uncharted territory. This is the primary reason Covad teamed up with Southwestern Bell (SBC) is to secure valuable cooperation (as well as funding).
6. Lack of governmental regulation regarding conducts in the DMZ.
Sorry. But CLEC is in a tough bind. However, I am optimistic that various DSL industry segment is going to pressure RBOC/ILEC to owe up in the best interest of more equipment sales for all of us DSL insdustry.
Heaven forbid for starting this thread, but a thought occurred to me.
Since Gore camp insist that absentee ballots composes of mostly American Jews living in Israel and not the military like Bush camp purported to be.
I've checked every Israel major media's website and they are all rooting for Al Gore.
If this is true for rest of Israel, what is to prevent forging the postmarks by the Israel Postmasters, et. al., of their absentee ballots?
Must we let a foreign nation dictate our election?
Heaven forbid for starting this thread, but a thought occurred to me.
Since Gore camp insist that absentee ballots composes of mostly American Jews living in Israel and not the military like Bush camp purported to be.
I've checked every Israel major media's website and they are all rooting for Al Gore.
If this is true for rest of Israel, what is to prevent forging the postmarks by the Israel Postmasters, et. al., of their absentee ballots?
Biggest snafu is Florida vote while Bush is ahead 51% (with 29% precints in) and Gore is 47%.
Yet, CNN announces that Gore wins the Florida.
WOrse yet, ABC, CBS, M$NBC relayed the exact same information.
While I posted a presentation paper in regard to the ultimate home network at the NTLUG, it didn't cover ultimate dream servers.
During that time, I've polished the following solutions to the current:
Private ISP (w/ dual modems/MPPP)
Voice Mail/Caller-ID
Fax Server
Fax Relay
Mail server (Real-Time Blackhole list)
Web Server (secured and virtual, but not both)
Customizable firewall
I've still got a long way to go regarding the following feature set:
Voice Mail navigation
Fax OCR to email
TDD answering machine
Secured Virtual server (coming)
MP3 server (GNUTella seems fireall-unfriendly)
Video/DVD server
Apparently, lots more work is needed before one can even reduce this to a simple configuration setting for average home use.
[scene: arm chair, TV flickering, TiVo hard drive whirring]
Narration: While I zip through the TiVo recording of my favorite porno movie "Debbie Does Dallas", I can finally relax after a hard days nite [soft Beatle corresponding background tune].
[scene: TiVo Monitoring Centre]
Marketing Guru: Hot damn, another sex-paying viewer. Our partners will pay us thru the nose for this data.
Assistant: Uh-ho, ummmph, he's underaged.
Marketing Guru: Oh sh*t! Shut it down, shut it down!
[scene: beeping Carnivore Alert Panel, FBI H.A.R.D. Center, Ft. Worth]
Agent 1: Underage viewing of porno at 412 Black Gold Avenue.
Agent 2: SWAT dispatched
[scene: outside TiVo HQ]
SWAT: [megaphone] Come out with your hands up in the air.
Take element U232 and U234 and weld them together?
Twice the power, twice the BANG?
Microsoft code, then we'll call it freedom!
It would be alot cheaper to cover the whole moon with a reflective material so that our earth-based solar panels will keep on going 26 days out of 29.