I setup my GC account a year or more ago. It's pretty slick for the most part. I have GC forward my incoming calls to my free Gizmo (http://gizmo5.com/pc/) SIP soft phone or SIP desk phone depending on whether I'm on the road or at my home office. For my friends I also have it ring my cellphone/homephone.
I was also able to have GC import my Outlook address book (before they removed the feature) so all my contacts are already loaded.
The nice part is that ALL calls are in-bound to me (so far) so I essentially pay nothing (if sent to a phone other than my cellphone). If I need to make a call I can make it through my GC Address Book. There are even some free apps floating around that let you quickly dial your contacts or a phone number without having to log into the GC website.
I'm happy that Google is *finally* doing something with the technology. I'm willing to give Google Voice a shot once my account gets the upgrade.
IIRC (from way back in my PoliSci classes in college) high voter turnout is considered "bad" for the incumbent (regardless of political affiliation) as it is an indication of greater voter dissatisfaction. The theory goes that happy/satisfied people don't get out in large numbers to vote... but unhappy/dissatisfied people do.
Of course, the apathetic people just don't give a rats *ss and stay home as well.
Wow -- you should not talk about Sun ONE because you obviously don't know what you are talking about. What version of Sun ONE did you use? 4.x from 1999? You information is not correct at all and badly outdated.
As of iPlanet 5.1 (before re-branding) you could do 2 way multi-master replication (with schema replication, etc etc etc) and with Sun ONE 5.2 (post-rebranding) you can do true attribute-based multi-master replication.
eDirectory has a MAJOR fault where the thread processing a BIND attempt goes to sleep for 3sec to prevent brute force password attacks. In a high traffic environment, 3sec is a damn eternity. Oh yeah, the morons at Novell decided that this is hardcoded into the product and cannnot be disabled
AD is a total joke. Don't even talk about using it in a *real* production environment. Most of the shit is badly documented and is not used by serious retail consumer sites.
You are 100% correct that the eDir replication robustness is the best in the business. If you are serious about a true multi-datecenter environment that is replicated in real-time over a WAN -- eDir is great. Also, the eDir admin console is light years ahead as well -- but who the hell ever uses the GUI to admin a production Directory server??? Sun ONE has EVERY command available via the command line -- and some that the GUI can't even comprehend.
For pure read speed -- not many products can touch Sun ONE when properly tuned (allidthreshold, indexes, etc).
"In May last year, the planned deployment schedule suffered a knock-back when Virgin Airlines postponed delivery of the A380 until 2007 - a year later than planned. The company cited difficulties in kitting out the aircraft, and added that "delays in airports - particularly that of Los Angeles (LAX) - preparing to receive the enormous aircraft are partly behind the decision", as we reported at the time."
What no one has mentioned yet is that there is only 1 or 2 airports that have a terminal/jetway/runway configuration that can support this mammoth aircraft!
I can't find the link right now but LAX and other US airports (probably other worldwide ones as well) are going to have to spend millions of $$$ to convert their existing gates, etc to handle these things.
Who do you think is going to be willing to pay for this? Boeing's strategy of using smaller, more efficient jets do not require an overhaul of the major terminals...
Obviously you are talking about replication agreements that can only be defined at distinctive branch points in your DIT (ie, OUs). The more rebust Directories can do replication on an attribute level (Novell eDir comes to mind but there are others).
Bottom line: It's very 1995 to create your DIT based upon location or department. I've worked with more than 1 Fortune 10 company that had several million entries in a Directory with only a handful of branches in their DIT. Think about having to move users in your directory every time they change departments or your company re-orgs..It is a HORRIBLE way to design a DIT.
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Cost, Time and Quality and you can only have 2 out of the 3.
For instance, you can have a project done fast and cheap but the quality will be lacking. Or you can have a project done correctly and quickly but it will cost you a fortune!
QA is part of that "having it done correctly" piece that most companies tend to cut out. Most companies can only grasp the Time and Cost factor and fail at the whole "Quality" component when doing pre-project analysis. I do not have enough fingers to count the projects I've witnessed that have been running behind schedule (which is usually a BS timeframe to begin with) that decide to cut time from the QA process to make the deadline.
The reasons for "falling behind schedule" and all those other fun things that go into bad project management have been discussed before so I won't even mention it.
Besides, there's no push for businesses to either adopt single-sign-on services, or for customers to want it.
Businesses require flexibility when it comes to user authorisation and profiles that 3rd-party services cannot offer.
Wow -- you really haven't been paying attention. Passport was AUTHENTICATION only (WHO you are) and not AUTHROIZATION (what you can ACCESS). Partner sites could always control what Passport users had access to.
Also, there is a very real need for this type of technology. Case in point: Companies who partner/outsource various business functions to 3rd party providers. For example, my last company I worked for (*cough* Big 4 *cough*) had 3rd party providers for travel bookings, 401(k), etc. While they didn't use Passport, they implemented another technology solution to share AUTHENTICATION data with the partner site so that employees did not have to log in twice (or more) during their Session to complete their daily transactions.
You'll also see this SSO/Affiliate/Federated technology being used to SSO people between different websites/infrastructures of HUGE corporations where each business unit is maintaining their own infrastructure and user stores. Hell, ATT/Cingular could create SSO between their two infrastructures using this -- same company (now) and 2 different sytems.
MS gave SSO a black-eye with Passport. Many, many, many different types of companies are looking to integrate authentication data between systems while still "owning" their user's data.
Not sure if anyone saw this or not on Friday. Powell wrote an interesting Op-Ed (yada yada -- free reg required --yada yada) piece for the NYT on Friday the 3rd.
The quote I found interesting was, "Even so, there are important limits placed on the F.C.C. Our rules do not ban indecent content entirely; they merely restrict its broadcast during times in which children are likely to be in the audience, namely from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Courts have consistently held these rules constitutional, accepting that the government has a compelling interest in protecting children from inappropriate material."
If you think about it, all these fines and issues have basically been for "daytime" and "primetime" programming and not for "late night" shows.
Don't get me wrong -- this PTC group is ruining my bad television! Parents need to control what happens to their kids. JUST TURN OFF THE DAMN TV.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe it keeps people from saving the images directly to their local HD and printing them from there? There are probably better ways to do this but just a thought...
What you don't seem to realize is that this is purely AUTHENTICATION and not AUTHORIZATION. IMPORTANT: Each party is responsible for maintaining what a user can do on their own site ONLY. This is only a way of verifying identity information across infrastructures. If you revoke the user on your site they can no longer get in.
Also,You do not have to issue ANYTHING new. This works with existing user information (if you want).
However, your point that "I'm supposed to set up my system to trust your sign-on system that vouches for your identity and provides me with user information. Well, how do I know how to trust you? What kind of security, identity checks, and validation routines did you implement? Do you have a system for revoking id's? Do you have a system for checking for bogus id's? Etc, etc, etc." is right on target. There needs to be a verification process between the parties that the processes and procedures are in place to secure the information to an accecptable level -- whatever that may be.
A two banks have completely different requirements than a loose collection of websites.
I bought a pair of Etymotic ER-4P a few years ago and can not imagine using anything else. The sound quality is nothing short of amazing and I can use them as ear plugs on airplanes (to drown out the screaming kids around me)...and no batteries to worry about either!!
The only bad part is the price ($330) -- they've actually gotten MORE expensive (up $30) since I purchased my pair. Considering how long I've had them (2+ yrs) and how often I use them (everyday) they have been a great purchase.
Besides, the white ear buds not only suck -- they aren't "cool" either (according to Wired)
Another new search engine I've found to be useful is Vivisimo
Their search results seem almost as good as google but they've managed to catagorize their results into subgroups. They also have a nice little seach tab addition for Mozilla or searchbar addition for IE (similar to google)
Well, if you get a tri-band "world" GSM phone it works in 90% of the rest of the world where there is GSM coverage.
My SE T68i worked all over Australia and Europe when I traveled there AND everywhere ATTWS has coverage (or roaming agreements) in the USA (which was getting larger and larger each month).
Seems like it was compatible "with most of the rest of the world" to me...
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I setup my GC account a year or more ago. It's pretty slick for the most part. I have GC forward my incoming calls to my free Gizmo (http://gizmo5.com/pc/) SIP soft phone or SIP desk phone depending on whether I'm on the road or at my home office. For my friends I also have it ring my cellphone/homephone.
I was also able to have GC import my Outlook address book (before they removed the feature) so all my contacts are already loaded.
The nice part is that ALL calls are in-bound to me (so far) so I essentially pay nothing (if sent to a phone other than my cellphone). If I need to make a call I can make it through my GC Address Book. There are even some free apps floating around that let you quickly dial your contacts or a phone number without having to log into the GC website.
I'm happy that Google is *finally* doing something with the technology. I'm willing to give Google Voice a shot once my account gets the upgrade.
Along the same lines -- Is it so hard for these guys to use the MS provided plugin?
Damn good question!!!
Looks like the new FCC chairman is trying to change that and thinks that competition is good (??).
Check out this article -- FCC Preparing To Smooth The Way For TV Services By Phone Companies
No clue if it's true or not - I'm just hoping I have a better choice someday than Comcast or *gasp* *choke* Qwest!
IIRC (from way back in my PoliSci classes in college) high voter turnout is considered "bad" for the incumbent (regardless of political affiliation) as it is an indication of greater voter dissatisfaction. The theory goes that happy/satisfied people don't get out in large numbers to vote... but unhappy/dissatisfied people do.
Of course, the apathetic people just don't give a rats *ss and stay home as well.
Wow -- you should not talk about Sun ONE because you obviously don't know what you are talking about. What version of Sun ONE did you use? 4.x from 1999? You information is not correct at all and badly outdated.
As of iPlanet 5.1 (before re-branding) you could do 2 way multi-master replication (with schema replication, etc etc etc) and with Sun ONE 5.2 (post-rebranding) you can do true attribute-based multi-master replication.
eDirectory has a MAJOR fault where the thread processing a BIND attempt goes to sleep for 3sec to prevent brute force password attacks. In a high traffic environment, 3sec is a damn eternity. Oh yeah, the morons at Novell decided that this is hardcoded into the product and cannnot be disabled
AD is a total joke. Don't even talk about using it in a *real* production environment. Most of the shit is badly documented and is not used by serious retail consumer sites.
You are 100% correct that the eDir replication robustness is the best in the business. If you are serious about a true multi-datecenter environment that is replicated in real-time over a WAN -- eDir is great. Also, the eDir admin console is light years ahead as well -- but who the hell ever uses the GUI to admin a production Directory server??? Sun ONE has EVERY command available via the command line -- and some that the GUI can't even comprehend.
For pure read speed -- not many products can touch Sun ONE when properly tuned (allidthreshold, indexes, etc).
Sorry -- took me a while to find the links -- It is true no matter how much you don't want to admit it.
A380 behemoth takes to the skies
"In May last year, the planned deployment schedule suffered a knock-back when Virgin Airlines postponed delivery of the A380 until 2007 - a year later than planned. The company cited difficulties in kitting out the aircraft, and added that "delays in airports - particularly that of Los Angeles (LAX) - preparing to receive the enormous aircraft are partly behind the decision", as we reported at the time."
Also -- $20 million in changes to allow Airbus at LAX
And to prove it's just not a US issue -- one more for ya!!
Emirates to bulk up on its flights to Auckland
"Auckland International Airport plans to spend $NZ27 million ($24.8 million) on upgrades so it can handle A380s."
What no one has mentioned yet is that there is only 1 or 2 airports that have a terminal/jetway/runway configuration that can support this mammoth aircraft!
I can't find the link right now but LAX and other US airports (probably other worldwide ones as well) are going to have to spend millions of $$$ to convert their existing gates, etc to handle these things.
Who do you think is going to be willing to pay for this? Boeing's strategy of using smaller, more efficient jets do not require an overhaul of the major terminals...
Obviously you are talking about replication agreements that can only be defined at distinctive branch points in your DIT (ie, OUs). The more rebust Directories can do replication on an attribute level (Novell eDir comes to mind but there are others).
Bottom line: It's very 1995 to create your DIT based upon location or department. I've worked with more than 1 Fortune 10 company that had several million entries in a Directory with only a handful of branches in their DIT. Think about having to move users in your directory every time they change departments or your company re-orgs..It is a HORRIBLE way to design a DIT.
Cost, Time and Quality and you can only have 2 out of the 3.
For instance, you can have a project done fast and cheap but the quality will be lacking. Or you can have a project done correctly and quickly but it will cost you a fortune!
QA is part of that "having it done correctly" piece that most companies tend to cut out. Most companies can only grasp the Time and Cost factor and fail at the whole "Quality" component when doing pre-project analysis. I do not have enough fingers to count the projects I've witnessed that have been running behind schedule (which is usually a BS timeframe to begin with) that decide to cut time from the QA process to make the deadline.
The reasons for "falling behind schedule" and all those other fun things that go into bad project management have been discussed before so I won't even mention it.
Besides, there's no push for businesses to either adopt single-sign-on services, or for customers to want it.
Businesses require flexibility when it comes to user authorisation and profiles that 3rd-party services cannot offer.
Wow -- you really haven't been paying attention. Passport was AUTHENTICATION only (WHO you are) and not AUTHROIZATION (what you can ACCESS). Partner sites could always control what Passport users had access to.
Also, there is a very real need for this type of technology. Case in point: Companies who partner/outsource various business functions to 3rd party providers. For example, my last company I worked for (*cough* Big 4 *cough*) had 3rd party providers for travel bookings, 401(k), etc. While they didn't use Passport, they implemented another technology solution to share AUTHENTICATION data with the partner site so that employees did not have to log in twice (or more) during their Session to complete their daily transactions.
You'll also see this SSO/Affiliate/Federated technology being used to SSO people between different websites/infrastructures of HUGE corporations where each business unit is maintaining their own infrastructure and user stores. Hell, ATT/Cingular could create SSO between their two infrastructures using this -- same company (now) and 2 different sytems.
MS gave SSO a black-eye with Passport. Many, many, many different types of companies are looking to integrate authentication data between systems while still "owning" their user's data.
Not sure if anyone saw this or not on Friday. Powell wrote an interesting Op-Ed (yada yada -- free reg required --yada yada) piece for the NYT on Friday the 3rd.
The quote I found interesting was, "Even so, there are important limits placed on the F.C.C. Our rules do not ban indecent content entirely; they merely restrict its broadcast during times in which children are likely to be in the audience, namely from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. Courts have consistently held these rules constitutional, accepting that the government has a compelling interest in protecting children from inappropriate material."
If you think about it, all these fines and issues have basically been for "daytime" and "primetime" programming and not for "late night" shows.
Don't get me wrong -- this PTC group is ruining my bad television! Parents need to control what happens to their kids. JUST TURN OFF THE DAMN TV.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe it keeps people from saving the images directly to their local HD and printing them from there? There are probably better ways to do this but just a thought...
What you don't seem to realize is that this is purely AUTHENTICATION and not AUTHORIZATION. IMPORTANT: Each party is responsible for maintaining what a user can do on their own site ONLY. This is only a way of verifying identity information across infrastructures. If you revoke the user on your site they can no longer get in.
Also,You do not have to issue ANYTHING new. This works with existing user information (if you want).
However, your point that "I'm supposed to set up my system to trust your sign-on system that vouches for your identity and provides me with user information. Well, how do I know how to trust you? What kind of security, identity checks, and validation routines did you implement? Do you have a system for revoking id's? Do you have a system for checking for bogus id's? Etc, etc, etc." is right on target. There needs to be a verification process between the parties that the processes and procedures are in place to secure the information to an accecptable level -- whatever that may be.
A two banks have completely different requirements than a loose collection of websites.
I bought a pair of Etymotic ER-4P a few years ago and can not imagine using anything else. The sound quality is nothing short of amazing and I can use them as ear plugs on airplanes (to drown out the screaming kids around me)...and no batteries to worry about either!!
The only bad part is the price ($330) -- they've actually gotten MORE expensive (up $30) since I purchased my pair. Considering how long I've had them (2+ yrs) and how often I use them (everyday) they have been a great purchase.
Besides, the white ear buds not only suck -- they aren't "cool" either (according to Wired)
Well, since Trillian stores all msg logs at .log files (which are really just text files) -- the Google Desktop should be able to search them, right?
One of the GD preferences is to search "Text and other." Anyone know what "other" can be?
Wow -- I can't even tell you how wrong you are.
A simplified history lesson for everyone
1) PwC spun off their MCS group (think large ERP/system implementations..e.g. Accenture) to become PwC Consulting
2) PwCC rebrands itself "Monday"
3) IBM Global Services buys Monday [insert horrible markeing jokes here]
PwCC/Monday was ~ 35K (I think) employees.
PwC STILL HAS OVER 130K EMPLOYEES.
PwC is the largest of the Big 4 Audit firms.
IBM does not "own" anything of PwC.
Anyone know of anything similar for Sirius instead of XM?
So true, so true!
I worked on a project for DCX in the US and Germany for a short while. Daimler is definitely the "mother ship."
Absolutely! I couldn't agree more. I work at a large company that will not even consider an applicant unless that person has a 4yr degree.
I've had 4-5 friends contact me for a job and I couldn't help them because they didn't have a degree.
Another new search engine I've found to be useful is Vivisimo
Their search results seem almost as good as google but they've managed to catagorize their results into subgroups. They also have a nice little seach tab addition for Mozilla or searchbar addition for IE (similar to google)
Well, if you get a tri-band "world" GSM phone it works in 90% of the rest of the world where there is GSM coverage. My SE T68i worked all over Australia and Europe when I traveled there AND everywhere ATTWS has coverage (or roaming agreements) in the USA (which was getting larger and larger each month). Seems like it was compatible "with most of the rest of the world" to me...