I am French and hence understand fully yhe offer. 100MB is the bandwith, Traffic is unlimited. So you can kick it with 1 TB a month if you wish, they won't bark
I've been thinking about changing for one of them new MacBooks, but to be honest the new generation of Apple Intel powered notebooks don't overly impress me (same critics as in the review). What upsets me the most is the lack of autonomy; whereas the old iBooks held up to +5H, the new ones only last for 3.5H, not enough for a day's work.
I sure hope that the next generation of Intel Chips will consume less, so they can bump up the autonomy.
Sounds like you could use a Dedibox from http://www.dedibox.fr/ They Offer a dedicated server with 160GB of HD, your OS of choice, 100MB bandwith and unlimited data. You can SSH, FTP, VNC, whatever you want. How does that sound? Price is 30/month.
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If you had checked out the links you would have seen that Wengo has two clients: Wengo and OpenWengo WIth the latter (available on openwengo.com) you get a SIP client that you can configure to work with any SIP provider. So what are you complaining about? THey offer you a pre-configured client for their service, if you just want the client use their open-source FOSS software. What else do you want?
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Sorry I should have mentioned that the Linux FF extension is still Alpha and hence isn't listed on the front page. Thanks for posting the corrected link to the page. Wengo rocks for supporting such diverse platformes, hope you'll enjoy it as much as me.
Ok did not know that. I was under this belief because I had read something from Microsoft where they explained that 1080p games wheren't a reality because of HDMI limitations (besides CPU limitations) that restricted games to 30fps, whereas sport/racing games required 60 fps for smooth action. Forgot to put the FUD filter on when reading their story; thanks for your input!
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Wengo's had a Firefox multi-plateform (Mac, PC, Linux) and multi-architecture (x86, PPC) VoIP extension available for about 4 months now.
See it here
Wengo btw is my operator of choice here in Europe with top-notch voice quality and reliability with prices lower than Skype. Only problem is their inbound number is France only atm.
Did I mention that they have a working Gaim port?
I thought that one of the drawbacks of HDMI (besides HDCP...) was that 1080p could only be achieved at 30fps, not 60 like you claim; the bandwith is insufficient for that much data.
The recent annoucement of HDMI v1.3 is supposed to address this amongst other things.
Yes sending millions of emails is "free", and so is making unlimited VoiP, but Voip is less unlimited than emails, here's why.
When you decide to send an email to a group of people from domains A, B and C, where you have multiple recipients in domains A, B and C you only need to send server A one copy of the message with a list of the recipients it handles. The server then spawns copies of this message to all the mailboxes. Theoretically, you only need to make as many connections are there are domains in your distribution list. Moreover Spam scales well with bandwith. Meaning a large message will arrive faster with more bandwith, not so much with Voip where you have real-time delivery; i.e. think of Voip as a VCR vs downloading your TV shows as files.
What this means for Spit is that they need to make individual connections for each recipient (although I know of some email like systems, but that's another story). Also they need to connect with each recipient's server or terminal as long as the message is. What this means is that twice as many recipients will cost you twice as much in time and in bandwith for your spit message.
This fondamental difference is in my opinion a deterrent for any spammer worth his salt willing to reach thousands of recipients.
Spit doesn't scale well, spammers know that and will not pursue this activity as agressively as spamming.
What you are talking about (unknowingly) is called volatility trading. You can basically do this without borrowing any stock and with much less capital; simply execute this strategy with options (you will need to buy a combination of calls and puts and carefully chosen strikes for maximum leverage, but that's beyond the point of this post.).
Hate to nitpick but NYSE, NASDAQ and all aren't OTC markets, they are exactly the opposite; they are exchanges. OTC markets are for trades between two parties with no other party involved.
Yes I have a CFA (level 1 only though), why do you ask?:-)
Well they may already have. IPO money goes to the company issuing its shares. Once they are on the Nasdaq or NYSE they are on the secondary market; i.e. the shares you buy or sell are traded with the company itself but with some other chap who has the exact opposite view to yours. Hence those who had their Vonage stock converted in ordinary public shares already sold at $17, if they got ahold of these at lower price (or free as stock options) than they probably already have the Ferrari dealer on their friends list.
Sounds like you're in the market for a Nokia 6310i These babies were first introduced about 4 years ago. They have all the features that you've asked for. As illustration for this article you will see that on ebay (at least here in the UK) they command a respectable preium over much newer feature laden phones.
Yes I use iPhoto 6 but it still has some old demons. Worst of all is the not so open Library XML file. There is one which is on clear text (somthing like iAblum.xml, I'mnot using a mac atm), but that is only a reference file for other applications to read iPhoto's library. iPhoto has it's own *binary* library file which you cannot edit. It became very frustrating to me as of ltely where I subscribed to a bunch of photocasts in iPhoto to try out the feature and after deleting them (the subscription) the import Rolls stay ther, impossible to delete. I have browsed through the directory structure deleting meticulously all the file from the photocasts but to no result, they still show up.
iPhoto is nice and glossy but if and when it breaks you are left shitless because of its limitations.
Before you ask, yes I have rebuilt, re-indexed the library a few times since to try to fix the problem. No-show. Applecare says I should re-format. Yeah right, 7K photos tagged that will need a re-do..
Yes I know that other commercial vendors have previously released commercial apps for linux, but this step by Google is pretty bold; they are the first commercial software vendor to deliver a Linux application for the masses (acrobat reader doesn't count guys..)
Linux for the masses has been suffering from the "chicken and egg" issue. Sure there is some awesome quality free (beer, speech etc.) software out there for Linux, but Windows and Mac still benefit from some must have (photoshop and al). As far as my dad is concerned, he would happily give up his XP environment for Linux and rid of the Symantec yearly fee and al but not without prying Picasa from his kung-fu grip. As a Mac user I must say that iPhoto isn't cutting it (weird structure directory and al). Picasa rocks and I would gladly give away a nut for it to work on Mac.
Now if Adobe would move their lazy a*s and get Photoshop up and running on Linux we would have another great day.
My geeek peers, do not underestimate the persuasive powers of all these little apps and how they contribute in maintaining Microsoft's steel grip on the desktop market.
Come to think of it, I'll have to try this out and show it to my dad. This could very well be the last drop that makes the bucket spill.
While we may get all the new shiny phones here in Europe, 3G and other data plans are priced so high that nobody uses them (as opposed to the US where you typically get unlimited bandwith).
FYI, I am with Orange in the UK where I am charged £4 for 4MB per month (that's about a Slashdot page per DAY!).
I went to the Netherlands for week-end and unfortunately needed to lookup a few things on my PDA while over there, I totalled £60 for almost 5MB (that's USD 100 for you guys).
So I won't be streaming 24 and al from no mythbox to my cellphone.
T-Mobile launched web-n-walk which they sell as unlimited usage for £30 except you can't use it for P2P (duh), but excludes as well any IM (!!) or VOIP usage.
I hope data-plans are next (after roaming charges) on the EU's commission list of but-rape things to fix.
Let's take away for a second all format and technical questions for a moment, ans let's suppose that their format play nicely on/with other players; i.e. A from iTunes is equivalent to A from Google. Let's look at the problem from an economic perspective.
Say you have two songs available A and B. A is in high demand and B is an oldie which sells low volume.
on Itunes, A and B are sold for the same price: 99c On Gogles Music Store (GMS), A is priced at $1.19 and B at $.79.
If I am a consumer, I will always buy from the cheapest source; so I will buy A from iTunes and B from GMS.
Now if you are Apple or Microsoft you understand this very quickly and you want to make you formats incompatible so that A from itunes != A from GMS. In economic terms you remove all substitute products.
What I would like to know is how somebody like Google with no hardware penetration will overcome this. THey sure as hell are not going to use Micosoft's tech, and Apple won't play fair.
So what's left for Google? A new proprietary DRM format as they use for their videos atm. I don't know about you, but I can *bear* watching videos on my computer rather than iPod/PocketPc whatever because pf the screensize advantage, but I sure as hell enjoy most of my music on the go.
Sounds to me like Google is brewing their own little digital equivalent of Sony's stillborn UMD medium for PSP movies.
Oh, Google please hire some designers for your media store, Google Video is a disgrace.
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Jason,
I am French and hence understand fully yhe offer. 100MB is the bandwith, Traffic is unlimited. So you can kick it with 1 TB a month if you wish, they won't bark
I've been thinking about changing for one of them new MacBooks, but to be honest the new generation of Apple Intel powered notebooks don't overly impress me (same critics as in the review).
What upsets me the most is the lack of autonomy; whereas the old iBooks held up to +5H, the new ones only last for 3.5H, not enough for a day's work.
I sure hope that the next generation of Intel Chips will consume less, so they can bump up the autonomy.
Sounds like you could use a Dedibox from http://www.dedibox.fr/
They Offer a dedicated server with 160GB of HD, your OS of choice, 100MB bandwith and unlimited data.
You can SSH, FTP, VNC, whatever you want. How does that sound?
Price is 30/month.
If you had checked out the links you would have seen that Wengo has two clients: Wengo and OpenWengo
WIth the latter (available on openwengo.com) you get a SIP client that you can configure to work with any SIP provider. So what are you complaining about? THey offer you a pre-configured client for their service, if you just want the client use their open-source FOSS software.
What else do you want?
Sorry I should have mentioned that the Linux FF extension is still Alpha and hence isn't listed on the front page.
Thanks for posting the corrected link to the page.
Wengo rocks for supporting such diverse platformes, hope you'll enjoy it as much as me.
Ok did not know that. I was under this belief because I had read something from Microsoft where they explained that 1080p games wheren't a reality because of HDMI limitations (besides CPU limitations) that restricted games to 30fps, whereas sport/racing games required 60 fps for smooth action.
Forgot to put the FUD filter on when reading their story; thanks for your input!
Wengo btw is my operator of choice here in Europe with top-notch voice quality and reliability with prices lower than Skype. Only problem is their inbound number is France only atm. Did I mention that they have a working Gaim port?
I thought that one of the drawbacks of HDMI (besides HDCP...) was that 1080p could only be achieved at 30fps, not 60 like you claim; the bandwith is insufficient for that much data.
The recent annoucement of HDMI v1.3 is supposed to address this amongst other things.
Civil servants *flash* (i.e. full frontal nude exposure) their colleagues
Yes sending millions of emails is "free", and so is making unlimited VoiP, but Voip is less unlimited than emails, here's why.
When you decide to send an email to a group of people from domains A, B and C, where you have multiple recipients in domains A, B and C you only need to send server A one copy of the message with a list of the recipients it handles. The server then spawns copies of this message to all the mailboxes. Theoretically, you only need to make as many connections are there are domains in your distribution list.
Moreover Spam scales well with bandwith. Meaning a large message will arrive faster with more bandwith, not so much with Voip where you have real-time delivery; i.e. think of Voip as a VCR vs downloading your TV shows as files.
What this means for Spit is that they need to make individual connections for each recipient (although I know of some email like systems, but that's another story). Also they need to connect with each recipient's server or terminal as long as the message is.
What this means is that twice as many recipients will cost you twice as much in time and in bandwith for your spit message.
This fondamental difference is in my opinion a deterrent for any spammer worth his salt willing to reach thousands of recipients.
Spit doesn't scale well, spammers know that and will not pursue this activity as agressively as spamming.
What you are talking about (unknowingly) is called volatility trading. You can basically do this without borrowing any stock and with much less capital; simply execute this strategy with options (you will need to buy a combination of calls and puts and carefully chosen strikes for maximum leverage, but that's beyond the point of this post.).
FUD is a big volatility driver in the market.
Hate to nitpick but NYSE, NASDAQ and all aren't OTC markets, they are exactly the opposite; they are exchanges.
:-)
OTC markets are for trades between two parties with no other party involved.
Yes I have a CFA (level 1 only though), why do you ask?
Well they may already have. IPO money goes to the company issuing its shares. Once they are on the Nasdaq or NYSE they are on the secondary market; i.e. the shares you buy or sell are traded with the company itself but with some other chap who has the exact opposite view to yours.
Hence those who had their Vonage stock converted in ordinary public shares already sold at $17, if they got ahold of these at lower price (or free as stock options) than they probably already have the Ferrari dealer on their friends list.
Sounds like you're in the market for a Nokia 6310i
These babies were first introduced about 4 years ago. They have all the features that you've asked for. As illustration for this article you will see that on ebay (at least here in the UK) they command a respectable preium over much newer feature laden phones.
Yes I use iPhoto 6 but it still has some old demons.
Worst of all is the not so open Library XML file. There is one which is on clear text (somthing like iAblum.xml, I'mnot using a mac atm), but that is only a reference file for other applications to read iPhoto's library.
iPhoto has it's own *binary* library file which you cannot edit.
It became very frustrating to me as of ltely where I subscribed to a bunch of photocasts in iPhoto to try out the feature and after deleting them (the subscription) the import Rolls stay ther, impossible to delete.
I have browsed through the directory structure deleting meticulously all the file from the photocasts but to no result, they still show up.
iPhoto is nice and glossy but if and when it breaks you are left shitless because of its limitations.
Before you ask, yes I have rebuilt, re-indexed the library a few times since to try to fix the problem.
No-show. Applecare says I should re-format. Yeah right, 7K photos tagged that will need a re-do..
Thanks Apple.
Yes I know that other commercial vendors have previously released commercial apps for linux, but this step by Google is pretty bold; they are the first commercial software vendor to deliver a Linux application for the masses (acrobat reader doesn't count guys..)
Linux for the masses has been suffering from the "chicken and egg" issue. Sure there is some awesome quality free (beer, speech etc.) software out there for Linux, but Windows and Mac still benefit from some must have (photoshop and al).
As far as my dad is concerned, he would happily give up his XP environment for Linux and rid of the Symantec yearly fee and al but not without prying Picasa from his kung-fu grip.
As a Mac user I must say that iPhoto isn't cutting it (weird structure directory and al). Picasa rocks and I would gladly give away a nut for it to work on Mac.
Now if Adobe would move their lazy a*s and get Photoshop up and running on Linux we would have another great day.
My geeek peers, do not underestimate the persuasive powers of all these little apps and how they contribute in maintaining Microsoft's steel grip on the desktop market.
Come to think of it, I'll have to try this out and show it to my dad. This could very well be the last drop that makes the bucket spill.
Very exciting days!
While we may get all the new shiny phones here in Europe, 3G and other data plans are priced so high that nobody uses them (as opposed to the US where you typically get unlimited bandwith).
FYI, I am with Orange in the UK where I am charged £4 for 4MB per month (that's about a Slashdot page per DAY!).
I went to the Netherlands for week-end and unfortunately needed to lookup a few things on my PDA while over there, I totalled £60 for almost 5MB (that's USD 100 for you guys).
So I won't be streaming 24 and al from no mythbox to my cellphone.
T-Mobile launched web-n-walk which they sell as unlimited usage for £30 except you can't use it for P2P (duh), but excludes as well any IM (!!) or VOIP usage.
I hope data-plans are next (after roaming charges) on the EU's commission list of but-rape things to fix.
Oh.. *that* application..
My first thought was to remove Windows. Works everytime
Linspire is Debian based.
And ClarkConnect (not represented here)should be under RedHat Entreprise Linux.
Pictures here
Now what we really need is Virtualization software to let us run XP in a window, or a compatibilty layer to run applications ala WINE
Let's take away for a second all format and technical questions for a moment, ans let's suppose that their format play nicely on/with other players; i.e. A from iTunes is equivalent to A from Google. Let's look at the problem from an economic perspective.
Say you have two songs available A and B. A is in high demand and B is an oldie which sells low volume.
on Itunes, A and B are sold for the same price: 99c
On Gogles Music Store (GMS), A is priced at $1.19 and B at $.79.
If I am a consumer, I will always buy from the cheapest source; so I will buy A from iTunes and B from GMS.
Now if you are Apple or Microsoft you understand this very quickly and you want to make you formats incompatible so that A from itunes != A from GMS. In economic terms you remove all substitute products.
What I would like to know is how somebody like Google with no hardware penetration will overcome this. THey sure as hell are not going to use Micosoft's tech, and Apple won't play fair.
So what's left for Google? A new proprietary DRM format as they use for their videos atm.
I don't know about you, but I can *bear* watching videos on my computer rather than iPod/PocketPc whatever because pf the screensize advantage, but I sure as hell enjoy most of my music on the go.
Sounds to me like Google is brewing their own little digital equivalent of Sony's stillborn UMD medium for PSP movies.
Oh, Google please hire some designers for your media store, Google Video is a disgrace.
Silly me.
CMS is obviously the acronym I am most familiar with.
Ah yes that's right, Salshdotters need to always use Wikipedia as reference guide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joomla
Thanks, that looks great. I'll definitely invest some time in knowing Gobo better.
Anychance this would make it's way to mainstream distros like Ubuntu?