I guess my point is that we have update managers for binaries, why can't we have something similar for docs? (Granted I know that many RPM/debs have their own docs) Why can't I add a random doc set to an update manager to keep up-to-date? Maybe this really isn't a problem looking for a solution.:-/
Oh please. Our system is "working" just fine. 95% of American's get plenty to eat (too much, including me). We get fresh clean water at a moments notice - even the poorest among us can get free clean water. We can even manage jobs for 30+ million illegal immigrants.
America has problems, but to spout revolutionary rhetoric over copyright laws is just as silly as the mountain men in Montana holed up with 100s of guns and 10 years of canned food. It's just that, rhetoric. Stop being an ostrich, a sheep - get involved, get your friends involved. Let your elected officials know exactly how you feel. You are but one voice, but one voice among many - motivate them.
Politics isn't just for the politicians, you know.
Um, 1984 was published. In the 70's Congress granted everything written after 1916 (or some such) an automatic 75 year copyright extension. 1984 isn't going to fall into the public domain until 2025 (75 years after Orwell's death).
So you can't email, you can certainly send documents securely over HTTP. I have customers who've routinely done this with payroll and PII data, including one very massive payroll company I've worked for.
The people giving this (PSTN) up for flakiness are the same as the people giving up landlines altogether for cellphones. The day is coming, the technology is here. The will to implement it to the final mile is all that is missing. No one is saying that your new VoIP line can't be powered from the CO on a circuit separate from your normal broadband. Just that once the broadband is in place (fiber or whatever), the sky is the limit.
Or since the telcos provide the phones and E911 bits, they could know that VoIP # 802.11b is coming from IP 440.002.000.000 which is attached to MAC address ABCDEFHIJKLMNOP at 19 Main St. Hicksville, USA.
This is so not a hard problem to solve. The only way it's a hard problem to solve is VoIP over 3G - you could be anywhere in a multiblock radius, possibly an entire city. With 802.11g, at worst you may have a 100' radius to find the person who's using your wifi who called 911.
That's another real risk. Someone pranks 911 using your wifi router and a VoIP phone.
I see issues, certainly. But mostly I just see an aging (paid-for) infrastructure, that needs updating, so we can have our gigabit to the door.
I wouldn't call the Interstate Highway System a boondoogle. It really opened up the country.
What *IS* to blame is the short-sighted lawmakers in this country turning rail access ways into bike-paths and parking lots and ripping up the rails. And for not making the rail right-of-ways about 30 feet wider *EVERYWHERE* a 100 years ago. But who can blame those guys for that, right.:-)
I've always wanted to take a giant 400' wide bull-dozer from Boston to Miami and repave I95 to 20 lanes, each way.
Excellent post. From reading the RFC I pulled this choice quote which I've been spewing all over this article's comments:
<quote> For example, one line of questioning that a Notice of Inquiry may pursue is how to continue ensuring appropriate protections for and assistance to people with disabilities in the transition to an IP-based communications world. </quote>
I think the FCC is indeed looking to do last-mile VoIP, and with it the commensurate move to IPv6. This may be the regulatory kick-in-the-pants we've needed to force the move. The technology is there - we just lack the will.
For example, one line of questioning that a Notice of Inquiry may pursue is how to continue ensuring appropriate protections for and assistance to people with disabilities in the transition to an IP-based communications world. </quote>
That seems to imply it's not the trunks - the FCC is talking about door-to-door in the RFC.
And fax machines? They need to die. A horrible death.:-)
<quote> For example, one line of questioning that a Notice of Inquiry may pursue is how to continue ensuring appropriate protections for and assistance to people with disabilities in the transition to an IP-based communications world. </quote>
That seems to imply to me that they're intended to have VoIP end-to-end, and not some half-baked backoffice based packed switched network (which in reality, we already have).
No one ever said you couldn't have some sort of wiki-style replicated documentation system on your machine. I routinely download the Java JDK/J2EE docs for every version, and some for bigger projects like Hibernate and Junit for my offline work. Why not have a system to make that easier?
It was indeed - the whole ranking idea... while nice, it just serves to not get players over to other mods, like Desert Conflict or AOW. That and a Barrett NOT one-shotting someone into complete oblivion? ugh. BF:2142 is horrible. BF2:SF was a damn good expansion. I like the "Team/Commander" aspect of the game, I just don't care for the ranking/unlocks.
Well, I've never run your 7000+ user systems, but for the 1500 user systems I have run, we have individual server outages frequently. Some hardware related, others simply Exchange 2003 going bonkers, and the client-side rarely manages to auto-migrate to the new server properly - outages are never transparent. I've been using Exchange since 5.5 and I've never been able to say it's "easy" to recover nor seamless to operate. Exchange 2007 may have changed that - I confess to never having run that particular version.
As for email storage - I've never worked for a company that offered more than 100MB of email quota for "line-users" and up to 500mb for C-level execs and special usage exemptions. You will always have people moving mail to their desktop. Tell me, do you offer 4GB quotas for email? That's what I have at the moment, and that's with fairly aggressive deletion policies.
If you're not using Exchange for it's workflow features, it's overkill for email - but there's very little option for replacement email/calendaring right now if you've made the decision to standardize on Outlook.
Like I said, I like it (it's made me a lot of money over the years) - but for email it sucks. Maybe I'm just taking out my Outlook frustrations on Exchange - Outlook is a pretty poor email client, IMHO.
You get a really powerful system if you use Exchange for more than Mail and Calendaring, but most places I've seen don't do that. You can do powerful workflow systems in Exchange, CRM, etc, but all 99.9% of Exchange deployments use it for is Calendaring and Email. And for that, it's pretty expensive, and pretty bad. I've run 1000 user, single server, systems on Netscape Mail and sendmail/postfix (I know, bad idea), and have had to replace them with 3-10 server Exchange deployments. Exchange DR isn't all that hot either. DRing a bunch of mbox/maildir folders is 1/100th the effort. Anyway, maildir doesn't get you Calendaring, hence...
I'd argue it's a toss-up between Exchange and SQL server for Microsoft's best product ever.
Disclaimer: I used to write a lot of Exchange workflow apps.
I've been a big user of BSH ever since it came out, and before that a hacked Rhino/Spidermonkey fan for building system automation components that were scriptable via javascript.
These nets work because the pirate boat sails over them and their measly 200hp engine gets fouled in them. They won't work against giant boats with 14' props and 8000hp. Actually, they might. I think the things are a stupid idea - best to have a dozen men with shotguns plugging the pirates as they climb over the rails.
Except if you can afford a BOFORs to compete with my.50 BMG and the fact that I have the high ground, then you probably aren't going to be in the piracy business. And as a captain, if I see a boat with a real-live set of BOFORs mounted on the prow, I'll just heave to and shoot them as they come over the rail.
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That's not Billion, that's 3.1 TRILLION dollars - almost a 3rd of the US GDP.
For the newbs:
1000 Thousand
1000000 Million
1000000000 Billion
1000000000000 Trillion
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315569260,000 Trillions!!
Where's the -1 Astroturfing mod? :-)
Ask everyone who switched to Vonage.
I guess my point is that we have update managers for binaries, why can't we have something similar for docs? (Granted I know that many RPM/debs have their own docs) Why can't I add a random doc set to an update manager to keep up-to-date? Maybe this really isn't a problem looking for a solution. :-/
Oh please. Our system is "working" just fine. 95% of American's get plenty to eat (too much, including me). We get fresh clean water at a moments notice - even the poorest among us can get free clean water. We can even manage jobs for 30+ million illegal immigrants.
America has problems, but to spout revolutionary rhetoric over copyright laws is just as silly as the mountain men in Montana holed up with 100s of guns and 10 years of canned food. It's just that, rhetoric. Stop being an ostrich, a sheep - get involved, get your friends involved. Let your elected officials know exactly how you feel. You are but one voice, but one voice among many - motivate them.
Politics isn't just for the politicians, you know.
Um, 1984 was published. In the 70's Congress granted everything written after 1916 (or some such) an automatic 75 year copyright extension. 1984 isn't going to fall into the public domain until 2025 (75 years after Orwell's death).
So you can't email, you can certainly send documents securely over HTTP. I have customers who've routinely done this with payroll and PII data, including one very massive payroll company I've worked for.
Fax machines need to die.
The people giving this (PSTN) up for flakiness are the same as the people giving up landlines altogether for cellphones. The day is coming, the technology is here. The will to implement it to the final mile is all that is missing. No one is saying that your new VoIP line can't be powered from the CO on a circuit separate from your normal broadband. Just that once the broadband is in place (fiber or whatever), the sky is the limit.
Or since the telcos provide the phones and E911 bits, they could know that VoIP # 802.11b is coming from IP 440.002.000.000 which is attached to MAC address ABCDEFHIJKLMNOP at 19 Main St. Hicksville, USA.
This is so not a hard problem to solve. The only way it's a hard problem to solve is VoIP over 3G - you could be anywhere in a multiblock radius, possibly an entire city. With 802.11g, at worst you may have a 100' radius to find the person who's using your wifi who called 911.
That's another real risk. Someone pranks 911 using your wifi router and a VoIP phone.
I see issues, certainly. But mostly I just see an aging (paid-for) infrastructure, that needs updating, so we can have our gigabit to the door.
How about all that dark fiber they're rumored to have bought up?
http://www.voip-news.com/feature/google-dark-fiber-050707/
I wouldn't call the Interstate Highway System a boondoogle. It really opened up the country.
:-)
What *IS* to blame is the short-sighted lawmakers in this country turning rail access ways into bike-paths and parking lots and ripping up the rails. And for not making the rail right-of-ways about 30 feet wider *EVERYWHERE* a 100 years ago. But who can blame those guys for that, right.
I've always wanted to take a giant 400' wide bull-dozer from Boston to Miami and repave I95 to 20 lanes, each way.
Excellent post. From reading the RFC I pulled this choice quote which I've been spewing all over this article's comments:
<quote>
For example, one line of questioning that a Notice of Inquiry may pursue is how to continue ensuring appropriate protections for and assistance to people with disabilities in the transition to an IP-based communications world.
</quote>
I think the FCC is indeed looking to do last-mile VoIP, and with it the commensurate move to IPv6. This may be the regulatory kick-in-the-pants we've needed to force the move. The technology is there - we just lack the will.
For example, one line of questioning that a Notice of Inquiry may pursue is how to continue ensuring appropriate protections for and assistance to people with disabilities in the transition to an IP-based communications world.
</quote>
That seems to imply it's not the trunks - the FCC is talking about door-to-door in the RFC.
And fax machines? They need to die. A horrible death.
From TFA:
<quote>
For example, one line of questioning that a Notice of Inquiry may pursue is how to continue ensuring appropriate protections for and assistance to people with disabilities in the transition to an IP-based communications world.
</quote>
That seems to imply to me that they're intended to have VoIP end-to-end, and not some half-baked backoffice based packed switched network (which in reality, we already have).
I read the PDF/RFC. It specifically mentioned broadband and Voice over IP. I don't think the FCC is looking to keep this just in the BackOffice.
IPv6 and enforcement against ISPs who chose to prevent users from running their own services.
No one ever said you couldn't have some sort of wiki-style replicated documentation system on your machine. I routinely download the Java JDK/J2EE docs for every version, and some for bigger projects like Hibernate and Junit for my offline work. Why not have a system to make that easier?
It was indeed - the whole ranking idea... while nice, it just serves to not get players over to other mods, like Desert Conflict or AOW. That and a Barrett NOT one-shotting someone into complete oblivion? ugh. BF:2142 is horrible. BF2:SF was a damn good expansion. I like the "Team/Commander" aspect of the game, I just don't care for the ranking/unlocks.
And I *REALLY* miss the VSS.
Well, I've never run your 7000+ user systems, but for the 1500 user systems I have run, we have individual server outages frequently. Some hardware related, others simply Exchange 2003 going bonkers, and the client-side rarely manages to auto-migrate to the new server properly - outages are never transparent. I've been using Exchange since 5.5 and I've never been able to say it's "easy" to recover nor seamless to operate. Exchange 2007 may have changed that - I confess to never having run that particular version.
As for email storage - I've never worked for a company that offered more than 100MB of email quota for "line-users" and up to 500mb for C-level execs and special usage exemptions. You will always have people moving mail to their desktop. Tell me, do you offer 4GB quotas for email? That's what I have at the moment, and that's with fairly aggressive deletion policies.
If you're not using Exchange for it's workflow features, it's overkill for email - but there's very little option for replacement email/calendaring right now if you've made the decision to standardize on Outlook.
Like I said, I like it (it's made me a lot of money over the years) - but for email it sucks. Maybe I'm just taking out my Outlook frustrations on Exchange - Outlook is a pretty poor email client, IMHO.
You get a really powerful system if you use Exchange for more than Mail and Calendaring, but most places I've seen don't do that. You can do powerful workflow systems in Exchange, CRM, etc, but all 99.9% of Exchange deployments use it for is Calendaring and Email. And for that, it's pretty expensive, and pretty bad. I've run 1000 user, single server, systems on Netscape Mail and sendmail/postfix (I know, bad idea), and have had to replace them with 3-10 server Exchange deployments. Exchange DR isn't all that hot either. DRing a bunch of mbox/maildir folders is 1/100th the effort. Anyway, maildir doesn't get you Calendaring, hence...
I'd argue it's a toss-up between Exchange and SQL server for Microsoft's best product ever.
Disclaimer: I used to write a lot of Exchange workflow apps.
Try moodle, or contribute to OpenGoo.
I've been a big user of BSH ever since it came out, and before that a hacked Rhino/Spidermonkey fan for building system automation components that were scriptable via javascript.
I say bring it on.
These nets work because the pirate boat sails over them and their measly 200hp engine gets fouled in them. They won't work against giant boats with 14' props and 8000hp. Actually, they might. I think the things are a stupid idea - best to have a dozen men with shotguns plugging the pirates as they climb over the rails.
Citation? Or just more "America is bad, fuck America" rhetoric?
I'm very interested - I'm ignorant of the area, so I want to know more!
Except if you can afford a BOFORs to compete with my .50 BMG and the fact that I have the high ground, then you probably aren't going to be in the piracy business. And as a captain, if I see a boat with a real-live set of BOFORs mounted on the prow, I'll just heave to and shoot them as they come over the rail.