The solution is to have a seperate number range for mobile phones like we have here in Australia.
It's simple, all mobiles, no matter where in the country start with an 04. Mobile charges are the same no matter where in the country (which is a bit of a rip off when calling from a fixed Telstra phone). And the receiver doesn't pay to receive calls. The other advantage is that the caller knows that they are calling a mobile just from seeing the number. And in the end it's cheaper, especially if the call is made from the other side of the country, since the caller only pays for the mobile call instead of them paying STD charges then you getting charged airtime on top of that.
In the end, paying for aitime might be better for bussinesses, but they can always get a 1800 number.
I agree... there was not one negative comment in that "review". Reviews should always list both pros and cons and if there are no cons then you should say so. Then again I am no English teacher. But I do know that QNX has it's cons... for one thing I have seen an ATM running QNX crash.
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Isn't there some sort of Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman in the USA?
There is also a Dinner, which sounds like a Trivial night. Their venue will be able to accomodate up to 300 people and some of the questions will be non-technical.
It's good to finally see something like this sooo close to home (well in my home city anyway). I hear about sooo many Linux Expos in the US that I can't get to and there was even one in Sydney. Now finally here is something in Melbourne!!!
And it is no Linux only, so it'll give me a chance to look into other alternitives. Although it's unlikely that anything would make me switch from Linux now! Although still I'd like to take a look at things like Mac OS X.
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, the only otherway to work it would be to use different ports for different sites. It works, but still has an unprofessional look.
We really do need a standard to hack into SSL to say what hostname it wants.
No, that isn't really a good idea. It is unprofessional and tells your client's customers that the hosting company is who they say they are but not the retailer.
Why not have some sort of header, like scripts have or use mime-types or something to call the package manager to install the package?
Apart from that, I haven't had any problems with debian packages and half the things that the author of that article wanted aren't neccisary in Debian.
I live in Australia where there are no guns and therefore it is harder for criminals to get hold of guns and you never see them. People are more likely to get threatened with a knife than a gun.
But I must say that I have never been burgeled while I have been home. Even here that is quite a crazy thing to do. For example I keep a maglite under my bed and it would be pretty painful to cop that on the head.
But also think about this. In Britian there are so few guns that the police don't carry them, they carry battons!
Oh and I've been burgeled twice at two different houses that I've been at and never has it been while I was at home and both times they forced entry.
That's funny because it was the government that originally funded Telecommunications in Australia.
First it was part of Postmaster's General, then that split in half to become Telecom Australia and Australia Post and then it was renamed Telstra and now that 49.9% of Telstra has been sold so the government has also allowed for Telstra to become a monopolly.
I don't trust Star Office in the hands of Sun. What was that commercial program that was trying to do the same thing is Wine? was it Wabi? or something that they bought and completely dropped?
The same thing could happen with Star Office. I don't see how having Star Office under a GPL would cost them anymore than having it as a free download on their website and having the source code available under their dodgy community license (did they ever do that?).
If they really want to hurt Microsoft then they should release Star Office under a GPL, that way at least parts of it could be used in other open source projects. But since that doesn't seem to be their intention they must have something evil on their minds.
While Linux's enemy is also Sun's enemy, Linux is Sun's friend. But as soon as that enemy (Microsoft) is gone then Linux will no longer be Sun's friend.
I'd charge at least several hundred grand for that!!! But I'd at least make sure that I get my $35 back... if they didn't pay that back then I'd get the media onto them for that!! And when the hand over the money tell them to port Microsoft Office to Linux so that I can get my dad to use Linux!!!
It's installer is great for advanced users and there are two derivitives that are easy to install (Corel and Stormix). I have heard that Corel is the easiest distribution to install.
Debian has been so danm good that I have no reason to remove it to try Corel or Stormix.
It never needs reinstalling and it upgrades really easily.
If you do: $ host -l -v -t any hotmail.com |less you'd find that there are millions of hotmail servers. Converting all these to NT 4 or 5 would be way to costly. Of course they could do it if they wanted to, but I'd doubt there is too much incentive to do it. And there is probably allot of software that they've written for Unix that would need to be ported too. It would all be a waste of time. Noy worth doing it for some marketing thing to say they use NT themself.
It's also funny because microsoft.com servers in the past have been using *nix... but more recentally I've seen NT 3.51 which makes sense because that was when NT reached the peak of stability (and has been going downhill ever since). But more recentally I've seen NT 5. But it seems to random, different servers running different OSes.
And what happened to the rumours of the port of IIS to Linux? I'm pretty sure I heard that in the press once.
I've never heard of anybody switching from Microsoft to a Linux. Honestly.
At Home I have completely switched from Microsoft to Linux for my own personal uses (12 months ago). The Firewall/proxy here is Linux too.
Note: There is two windows computers in this house that I have no control of. They are my dad's and he won't switch to Linux untill M$ Office is ported. If it wasn't for me he'd probably using wingate on a win98 for the proxy.
I am also replacing the M$ Proxy at school with Linux. M$ Proxy is too bloated and does less than Squid which is way more powerfull and less bloated.
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AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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But AMPS has managed to remain in rural areas for the time being I think.
CDMA is eventually going to replace it completely but GSM will still be very common in cities etc.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
It's simple, all mobiles, no matter where in the country start with an 04. Mobile charges are the same no matter where in the country (which is a bit of a rip off when calling from a fixed Telstra phone). And the receiver doesn't pay to receive calls. The other advantage is that the caller knows that they are calling a mobile just from seeing the number. And in the end it's cheaper, especially if the call is made from the other side of the country, since the caller only pays for the mobile call instead of them paying STD charges then you getting charged airtime on top of that.
In the end, paying for aitime might be better for bussinesses, but they can always get a 1800 number.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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Melbourne, Australia
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AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
The windows version is 4.02, while this is 4.0b1 for Linux. The stable Windows version was 3.x when they started porting Opera to Linux.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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Melbourne, Australia
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AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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And it is no Linux only, so it'll give me a chance to look into other alternitives. Although it's unlikely that anything would make me switch from Linux now! Although still I'd like to take a look at things like Mac OS X.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
We really do need a standard to hack into SSL to say what hostname it wants.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Why not have some sort of header, like scripts have or use mime-types or something to call the package manager to install the package?
Apart from that, I haven't had any problems with debian packages and half the things that the author of that article wanted aren't neccisary in Debian.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
But I must say that I have never been burgeled while I have been home. Even here that is quite a crazy thing to do. For example I keep a maglite under my bed and it would be pretty painful to cop that on the head.
But also think about this. In Britian there are so few guns that the police don't carry them, they carry battons!
Oh and I've been burgeled twice at two different houses that I've been at and never has it been while I was at home and both times they forced entry.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
First it was part of Postmaster's General, then that split in half to become Telecom Australia and Australia Post and then it was renamed Telstra and now that 49.9% of Telstra has been sold so the government has also allowed for Telstra to become a monopolly.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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They might have fixed it by now though (I have not been back there recentally).
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
The same thing could happen with Star Office. I don't see how having Star Office under a GPL would cost them anymore than having it as a free download on their website and having the source code available under their dodgy community license (did they ever do that?).
If they really want to hurt Microsoft then they should release Star Office under a GPL, that way at least parts of it could be used in other open source projects. But since that doesn't seem to be their intention they must have something evil on their minds.
While Linux's enemy is also Sun's enemy, Linux is Sun's friend. But as soon as that enemy (Microsoft) is gone then Linux will no longer be Sun's friend.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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Melbourne, Australia
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Melbourne, Australia
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AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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Debian has to be the best!!
It's installer is great for advanced users and there are two derivitives that are easy to install (Corel and Stormix). I have heard that Corel is the easiest distribution to install.
Debian has been so danm good that I have no reason to remove it to try Corel or Stormix.
It never needs reinstalling and it upgrades really easily.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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(Danm the above site seems to be down all the time now =( )
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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It's also funny because microsoft.com servers in the past have been using *nix... but more recentally I've seen NT 3.51 which makes sense because that was when NT reached the peak of stability (and has been going downhill ever since). But more recentally I've seen NT 5. But it seems to random, different servers running different OSes.
And what happened to the rumours of the port of IIS to Linux? I'm pretty sure I heard that in the press once.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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I don't like Microsoft. But I wouldn't complain if Microsoft ported their software to Linux. It would give people more choice!!
a) M$ Office users could then use Linux as an alternitive OS.
b) Linux users could use M$ Office as an alternitive from Sun, Corel or Applix.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
At Home I have completely switched from Microsoft to Linux for my own personal uses (12 months ago). The Firewall/proxy here is Linux too.
Note: There is two windows computers in this house that I have no control of. They are my dad's and he won't switch to Linux untill M$ Office is ported. If it wasn't for me he'd probably using wingate on a win98 for the proxy.
I am also replacing the M$ Proxy at school with Linux. M$ Proxy is too bloated and does less than Squid which is way more powerfull and less bloated.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
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