Kids are going to do what their parents do. If they are over-consuming then more than likely their parents are as well.
IMO, a major problem with the overweight issue in society is that food is used to fill missing holes, mostly those of a
spiritual and pyschological nature. It is also about the time that is spent in actually eating the food. I got in the bad
habit of wolfing down every meal after I went through Army Infantry basic back in 90 and over the years the calorie burning
fell off but the eating habits didn't. It takes a lot of work to break that kind of habit. A lot of people basically eat too fast
and don't give their systems time enough to deactivate the hunger signals.
It is up to parents to monitor the kid's habits and to guide them in healthy and positive ways (as well as leading by example, which is the most important)
which include all aspects of their existence. Sticking kid's in front of television to keep them busy while they are toddlers usually
ends up developing a kid that has a need to watch tv all the time and I think without moderation of virtual environments you develop kids
that can't function well in non-vr or projected environments. I think that this is the reason for so many kids being prescribed Adderal and Ritalin
in order to keep them "calm". I think the most important way to handle these issues (too much immersion in video based play or watching, overeating and
the inability to function in group environments) is through guidance and moderation. It will take a holistic approach that I believe should include
meditation and quiet time for introspection without the constant onslaught of our media saturated world. I also think that kids have to be shown how important
exercise and outdoor/nature play is to a healthy mind and body.
After playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii and being amazed at its usability (and gameplay, WOWii!!)
I would like to see Nintendo build a personal computer OS. It seems like Nintendo always
keeps the user in mind from step 1 and end in the end they don't forget that they are users as well.
I would definitely like to see a Nintendo Phone. Their UIs are some of my faves.
Mac
Rob, after reading your last segment I was going to shoot you over an email thanking you for all of your and your team's hard work and character.
But I was sidetracked...
I have been reading Slashdot since 1997 and I have been a student, lumber yard worker, bookseller, father, IT engineer, NOC Director and for the last
three years an owner and engineer for my own IT Services company. I have read the site just about every day and it is just a kick ass amalgam of all of
the kind of stuff that I hold dear to my heart.
(I regretfully lost my original account and then I didn't bother trying to login for a few years (yes I'm a lurker) if you can find a badmotor@ix.netcom.com email
addy/account in the way way back machine, I would gladly swap it;-)
You guys have been critical in turning me on to new ideas that have paid real dividends (heart, mind and money). So keep on keeping on and know that I
deeply appreciate what you have done over the last ten years. I think the Rudyard Kipling poem, If, is fitting when it comes to walking the razor's edge
between your heart and the corporate abyss:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
The fact that an instance of malware is differentiated from a virus is ridiculous. The Symantec Corporate products are practically useless now where once I would suggest no other product. That included the server component, the exchange filter and the client side. Now, I am searching for a replacement as this year there have been far too many instances of malware hosing my client's computers despite up to date AV definitions. Even with web filtering in place it is not enough but many of my clients are to small to employ a decent filter like the Barracuda. Having to run multiple spy and adware programs as well as AV is beyond stupid and this has been going on for years. Does anyone run a decent suite or app that protects the desktop and can be deployed through a console or script? I was looking at testing Kapersky's suite but have not got around to it.
Mac
Is there an upgrade path from Windows 3.1 for Workgroups?
I'll have to vacuum up the 7 layers
of dust, grime and skin particles to access my floopy drives in order to load it but I'll have one
of my minions swap them out. He is an illegal alien so we don't have to pay him any overtime.
This guy wrote a special program for in DOS that I just can't live without and when
we tried to load Windows 95 it wouldn't run so we have been crossing our fingers ever since.
I'm hoping Vista will bring us new horizons!!!1
I can code html and format beautifully but I wasn't thinking of appearance at the time.
I just felt like sharing my experience regarding the Wii.
I shouldn't have even responded to the bad formatting post but we all have our ass on our shoulders from time to time.
There has been only one reply to my post that actually discussed anything that I mentioned originally.
Not that my writing should be included in the American literary canon but it seems that this site is overwhelmed
with cynicism, sarcasm and just plain meanness and getting slapped for not having my shoes shined pissed me off.
In the end I just ended up contributing to negativity.
I feel that meaningful communications should address the message or "Don't Kill The Messenger", in this case, my affront to document aesthetics.
It's kind of like not listening to the ugly kid just cus' he's ugly.:P
However, I am compelled to take some time to format my posts as we plummet forward!
Wow, you could have read it in the time it took you to post that comment and you wouldn't have seemed like a total asshat and maybe you could have contributed to the dialog instead of wasting fucking disk space, our time and your brain cells. And no, i am too cheap for an enter key. Maybe you can clean my posts up for me since I'm busy doing something not useless.
CM
I completely agree with you. Sony just needs to go back to what they did with the Walkman and think about how that happened. My wife bought me a Walkman MP3 player and it is totally unuseable and not worth my time to try and make it work the way i want it to. I have an Atari as well and it is a hell of a lot of fun still. My oldest son, actually used to ruin every game cd that I had for the PC. We're talking about at least 20 cds so I definitely feel the same angst and the pain with running off of HD. Heheh. For some reason I was thinking that the Wii was going to go back and give you all of the Sega Genesis, SNES, N64, etc for free as part of the purchase but you have to do the points thing either with a loaded up cc or direct purchase. 1000 points for 10 bucks and with each game between 500 and 1000 points to download (more popular ones being more expensive it seems). I was slightly dissappointed but once again it went away quickly when you think about the fact that you now have the ability for the Wii to be a GameCube, SNES, N64, TurboGrafx and Sega system. I think the now old famous movie line, "if you build it they will come" needs to have an addition like, "if you build it and make it fun and your aren't a greedy bastard and you care about your customer then they will never stop coming" or something to that effect.
Thanks for the reply.
CM
I was just looking last night for some stats on sales. I have never been a console fan and I have been a PC Gamer since the IBM PC Jr. but the GameCube changed all that. It was the gameplay and the feel of the controls. I couldn't stand the X-Box or the PS2 hand controls after coming from a PC and was often owned by my kids in FPS which I still think is an exercise in futility on consoles. The GameCube changed that and I really began to enjoy titles such as the 007 and the family oriented games really brought my kids and I together where before we were isolated in our own little PC/console gaming experiences (not that I get much time for it anymore). When I saw the Wii advertised a few months back I instantly saw something that I had been looking for in a gaming experience and that was physical immersion. Of course it was all marketing hype and I would have to see it to believe it. I was also sick of hearing people talk about what a badass system the X-Box and X-Box 360 were knowing that it was nothing more than a crappy PC. I would say, "why not build your own gaming PC and get a really good experience with FPS games". "Well Halo 2 is awesome on the X-Box 360!."
I decided to check it out and played Halo 2 for a couple of hours at my in-laws house and to me Halo on the PC blew it away. Yes, the slick cases and "skins" and all of that marketing crap make it seem cool to my kids but it just irked me that it was in no way innovative but then you had to shell out immense amounts of cash for all the items to make it worth playing or owning such as a large hard drive, wireless nic, wireless controllers, headsets, x-box-live. And then PS3 was coming out with an even more expensive system with a HD DVD that could end up going the same way that the PSP's disc format (with movies) went and that is to the grave. Launching with zero titles that I would want on top of that. It seemed like they (MS and Sony) were trying to do what all the home-gamekit builders and outfits like alienware and others had already done a million times better but due to marketing would make you accept that you had to have it and that it was the greatest thing ever. It just pissed me off. I continued to follow the Wii and read about its concepts and Nintendo's approach to development and it just seemed very cool. So for the first time in my life I actually went and stood in line for a game-system on Black Friday with my kids. We ended up getting turned away at a mall Gamestop but I tried a standalone EB-games where in the dark hours of the am I found a group of 5 people waiting for the store to open. My kids and I were 6th in line. When we got in i asked them how many Wiis they had in stock, already knowing that I wouldn't be able to get one and already having decided that I wouldn't waste any more of my time as Thanksgiving livestock. The guy said he had 5 systems and I thought everyone in line was getting one. One guy ahead of me bought a PS3 and a Wii. I stayed in line anyway even though it looked bad and my kids were with me so it would be even more dissappointing for them as the excitement had been mounting for a couple of days. Well, this lady turns around to me and says, "You are going to get one". I kept wondering what she was talking about and lo and behold she was buying her grandkid a PSP. We stepped up and asked for the last Wii and he pulled the bag up with all of the the launch stuff in it and we were just totally jazzed. My oldest boy actually made the sound of angels heralding (cheesy movie/cartoon rendition) when they put the bag on the counter. The kids were off for Turkey Day and we spent the rest of the day having one hell of a time with the new system. I haven't had this much fun playing a game and feeling immersed since I first played the text version of Hitchhikers Guide on my PCJr. The new controls are just amazing and the design of the system both on the physical level and within the Wii menu was just completely sweet. I can really see this system becoming a cornerstone for family entertainment. My wife, who has never had any intere
As a user travels between coverage areas of either of these technologies the user transfers between "cells". All communications are in effect via cells. Either written (snail mail)(between post offices covering zip codes) or groups of people (circles of influence or cells of influence)by spoken word or via mobile phones which switch between transceivers regardless of frequency, protocol, badnwidth or popularity. I think cell phone still sounds pretty cool. Let's keep it.
CM
Do you have any experience using Outlook with Exchange? I used to support Groupwise and Lotus and they both sucked compared to Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003)
I have been looking for a good OSS replacement for a while.
Do any of these actually compare if you do have real world experience with Exchange and Outlook.
I'm not being inflammatory just interested.
I agree with the guy who discussed Hula above. I have the same objection with trying to always "keep up with the joneses" with Samba as well. Why not build an alternative that is better, faster, and easier to install. I have a lot of SMB (Small-Medium Business not samba) clients and almost all of them run Small Business Server 2003 Standard. For the price and ease of management you can't beat it. I would love to see an open source/Linux Exchange killer but I think trying to be like MS is definitely the wrong direction. As I was saying before, we do the same thing with samba and the smb suite. Why not build a kick ass directory server that doesn't require a high level understanding of ldap (and chewing gum) and build something similar to the Novell Client, only create a Win32 installable that automatically joins up to the directory and gives you the same benefits that exist in a Windows domain environment. The reason people like SBS and Exchange so much is that it pretty much runs out of the box. It works great with client side Outlook and the OWA is kick ass.(Much better in Exchange 2003). We need to create a backend that has it's own "real time" client (that doesn't require you to use MAPI) and a good web access platform that gives you most of the functionality of a fat client.
I keep my eyes peeled for this subject area. Hula is very interesting as well. I installed it a few months back but I have not played with it that much.
I took my boys to see it and they had never been introduced to the books in any depth. I had them logged on and playing the old Infocom text game which I loved so much on my IBM PC Jr
and they thought it was cool as hell. I think that they did a pretty good job with the movie. I think the series deserves a larger treatment. In the vein of LOR or Star Wars but I don't think that will ever happen. The last shot of Douglas Adams and the dedication was pretty poignant though. This will introduce Hg2g to a whole new slew of fans. If that is all that it does it will have been worth making
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You can only have one inbound or outbound connection at one time on a particular analog line. You can organize all of the lines into one group, say group 0. Lets say you had 4 lines coming from the PSTN. You can group all of those lines together into a group and set them up for both inbound and outbound lines. If one is in use, say for an outbound call, then it will grab the next available line. You could only have a combination of inbound/outbound up to the number of lines that you have (to the PSTN/phone company). If you wanted to get a PRI or T-1 you would get 24 channels or lines to dial out on (expensive for small business). You can also set the system to trunk out via SIP or IAX to the net (to link to a public telephone provider service).
So yes, to repeat, you can make any combo of inbound/outbound calls up to the number of ports/pstn lines that you have.
Cheers!
Rolled out an Asterix PBX this weekend.
Snom 360 IP POE phones connected to Fedora Core 3 box (HP DC 7100) with two Digium FXO cards. VoIP from the desk sets to server then outbound PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). Used the Asterisk Management Portal front-end GUI so the local users could have complete control over the management of the system. All I can say is....sweet.
Isn't that kind of like thinking you were getting a real RC car for Christmas and then when you tore away the wrapping it ended up being one with a cord attached between the control and the car?
I've been ripped off!!!
Unless of course...those probes were using BlueTooth.
or
"The World That Should Have Never Happened"
All I know is the mere mention of the term VxD wants to make me scream.
"He then ran me around the rest of the group, and they showed me the other stuff they were working on. Ralph had written a new driver architecture called VxD. Aaron had done something astonishing (I'm not sure what). They had display drivers that could display 256 color bitmaps on the screen (the best OS/2 could do at the time was 16 colors)."
3.0/3.1 was allright but you could kill it when it was hosed and just be back at DOS...but then came...
The Ultimate POS
When we used to have to reinstall Windows 95 (which was quite often) in the early days
of the OS and you forgot to remove the USB Supplement you would be screwed. DOS screen after reboot:
"Windows could not combine VxDs into a monolithic file before starting.
Windows may not start or run properly.
If Windows fails to start, run SETUP again.
Press Any Key to Continue"
I can't even fathom the number of hours that my compadres andI in the IT world spent wasting our lives supporting the Windows 95 and 98 POS.
NT was a nice change but it still sucked, 2000 pretty good and stable but support for games and many 98 apps.
Windows XP was finally what they should have had back when they veered off the OS/2 path (in terms of stability and time to resolve tech support issues). 15 frickin years later!!!111
IMHO the ESR book has one of the best analysis of Windows, OS/2, Unix, and others that I have seen.
http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch03s02.h tml
And to think that I could have been spending my early days in IT doing something productive rather than baby-sitting a crappy OS makes me.....well...just a little angry.
I completely agree with the original thread reply's subject. Demand tort reform. But, Who will we demand it from? The Lawmakers? They are a majority of lawyers. "11 million dollars in legal expenses." It's sickening.
Slashdot Mirror
Kids are going to do what their parents do. If they are over-consuming then more than likely their parents are as well.
IMO, a major problem with the overweight issue in society is that food is used to fill missing holes, mostly those of a
spiritual and pyschological nature. It is also about the time that is spent in actually eating the food. I got in the bad
habit of wolfing down every meal after I went through Army Infantry basic back in 90 and over the years the calorie burning
fell off but the eating habits didn't. It takes a lot of work to break that kind of habit. A lot of people basically eat too fast
and don't give their systems time enough to deactivate the hunger signals.
It is up to parents to monitor the kid's habits and to guide them in healthy and positive ways (as well as leading by example, which is the most important)
which include all aspects of their existence. Sticking kid's in front of television to keep them busy while they are toddlers usually
ends up developing a kid that has a need to watch tv all the time and I think without moderation of virtual environments you develop kids
that can't function well in non-vr or projected environments. I think that this is the reason for so many kids being prescribed Adderal and Ritalin
in order to keep them "calm". I think the most important way to handle these issues (too much immersion in video based play or watching, overeating and
the inability to function in group environments) is through guidance and moderation. It will take a holistic approach that I believe should include
meditation and quiet time for introspection without the constant onslaught of our media saturated world. I also think that kids have to be shown how important
exercise and outdoor/nature play is to a healthy mind and body.
After playing Super Mario Galaxy on the Wii and being amazed at its usability (and gameplay, WOWii!!)
I would like to see Nintendo build a personal computer OS. It seems like Nintendo always
keeps the user in mind from step 1 and end in the end they don't forget that they are users as well.
I would definitely like to see a Nintendo Phone. Their UIs are some of my faves.
Mac
Rob, after reading your last segment I was going to shoot you over an email thanking you for all of your and your team's hard work and character.
;-)
But I was sidetracked...
I have been reading Slashdot since 1997 and I have been a student, lumber yard worker, bookseller, father, IT engineer, NOC Director and for the last
three years an owner and engineer for my own IT Services company. I have read the site just about every day and it is just a kick ass amalgam of all of
the kind of stuff that I hold dear to my heart.
(I regretfully lost my original account and then I didn't bother trying to login for a few years (yes I'm a lurker) if you can find a badmotor@ix.netcom.com email
addy/account in the way way back machine, I would gladly swap it
You guys have been critical in turning me on to new ideas that have paid real dividends (heart, mind and money). So keep on keeping on and know that I
deeply appreciate what you have done over the last ten years. I think the Rudyard Kipling poem, If, is fitting when it comes to walking the razor's edge
between your heart and the corporate abyss:
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
But make allowance for their doubting too,
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream--and not make dreams your master,
If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much,
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son!
--Rudyard Kipling
Thanks!
Colin
The fact that an instance of malware is differentiated from a virus is ridiculous. The Symantec Corporate products are practically useless now where once I would suggest no other product. That included the server component, the exchange filter and the client side. Now, I am searching for a replacement as this year there have been far too many instances of malware hosing my client's computers despite up to date AV definitions. Even with web filtering in place it is not enough but many of my clients are to small to employ a decent filter like the Barracuda. Having to run multiple spy and adware programs as well as AV is beyond stupid and this has been going on for years. Does anyone run a decent suite or app that protects the desktop and can be deployed through a console or script? I was looking at testing Kapersky's suite but have not got around to it. Mac
Is there an upgrade path from Windows 3.1 for Workgroups? I'll have to vacuum up the 7 layers
of dust, grime and skin particles to access my floopy drives in order to load it but I'll have one
of my minions swap them out. He is an illegal alien so we don't have to pay him any overtime.
This guy wrote a special program for in DOS that I just can't live without and when
we tried to load Windows 95 it wouldn't run so we have been crossing our fingers ever since.
I'm hoping Vista will bring us new horizons!!!1
I'll agree with you there.
:P
:)
CM
I rarely post.
I can code html and format beautifully but I wasn't thinking of appearance at the time.
I just felt like sharing my experience regarding the Wii.
I shouldn't have even responded to the bad formatting post but we all have our ass on our shoulders from time to time.
There has been only one reply to my post that actually discussed anything that I mentioned originally.
Not that my writing should be included in the American literary canon but it seems that this site is overwhelmed
with cynicism, sarcasm and just plain meanness and getting slapped for not having my shoes shined pissed me off.
In the end I just ended up contributing to negativity.
I feel that meaningful communications should address the message or "Don't Kill The Messenger", in this case, my affront to document aesthetics.
It's kind of like not listening to the ugly kid just cus' he's ugly.
However, I am compelled to take some time to format my posts as we plummet forward!
Wow, you could have read it in the time it took you to post that comment and you wouldn't have seemed like a total asshat and maybe you could have contributed to the dialog instead of wasting fucking disk space, our time and your brain cells. And no, i am too cheap for an enter key. Maybe you can clean my posts up for me since I'm busy doing something not useless. CM
I completely agree with you. Sony just needs to go back to what they did with the Walkman and think about how that happened. My wife bought me a Walkman MP3 player and it is totally unuseable and not worth my time to try and make it work the way i want it to. I have an Atari as well and it is a hell of a lot of fun still. My oldest son, actually used to ruin every game cd that I had for the PC. We're talking about at least 20 cds so I definitely feel the same angst and the pain with running off of HD. Heheh. For some reason I was thinking that the Wii was going to go back and give you all of the Sega Genesis, SNES, N64, etc for free as part of the purchase but you have to do the points thing either with a loaded up cc or direct purchase. 1000 points for 10 bucks and with each game between 500 and 1000 points to download (more popular ones being more expensive it seems). I was slightly dissappointed but once again it went away quickly when you think about the fact that you now have the ability for the Wii to be a GameCube, SNES, N64, TurboGrafx and Sega system. I think the now old famous movie line, "if you build it they will come" needs to have an addition like, "if you build it and make it fun and your aren't a greedy bastard and you care about your customer then they will never stop coming" or something to that effect. Thanks for the reply. CM
I was just looking last night for some stats on sales. I have never been a console fan and I have been a PC Gamer since the IBM PC Jr. but the GameCube changed all that. It was the gameplay and the feel of the controls. I couldn't stand the X-Box or the PS2 hand controls after coming from a PC and was often owned by my kids in FPS which I still think is an exercise in futility on consoles. The GameCube changed that and I really began to enjoy titles such as the 007 and the family oriented games really brought my kids and I together where before we were isolated in our own little PC/console gaming experiences (not that I get much time for it anymore). When I saw the Wii advertised a few months back I instantly saw something that I had been looking for in a gaming experience and that was physical immersion. Of course it was all marketing hype and I would have to see it to believe it. I was also sick of hearing people talk about what a badass system the X-Box and X-Box 360 were knowing that it was nothing more than a crappy PC. I would say, "why not build your own gaming PC and get a really good experience with FPS games". "Well Halo 2 is awesome on the X-Box 360!." I decided to check it out and played Halo 2 for a couple of hours at my in-laws house and to me Halo on the PC blew it away. Yes, the slick cases and "skins" and all of that marketing crap make it seem cool to my kids but it just irked me that it was in no way innovative but then you had to shell out immense amounts of cash for all the items to make it worth playing or owning such as a large hard drive, wireless nic, wireless controllers, headsets, x-box-live. And then PS3 was coming out with an even more expensive system with a HD DVD that could end up going the same way that the PSP's disc format (with movies) went and that is to the grave. Launching with zero titles that I would want on top of that. It seemed like they (MS and Sony) were trying to do what all the home-gamekit builders and outfits like alienware and others had already done a million times better but due to marketing would make you accept that you had to have it and that it was the greatest thing ever. It just pissed me off. I continued to follow the Wii and read about its concepts and Nintendo's approach to development and it just seemed very cool. So for the first time in my life I actually went and stood in line for a game-system on Black Friday with my kids. We ended up getting turned away at a mall Gamestop but I tried a standalone EB-games where in the dark hours of the am I found a group of 5 people waiting for the store to open. My kids and I were 6th in line. When we got in i asked them how many Wiis they had in stock, already knowing that I wouldn't be able to get one and already having decided that I wouldn't waste any more of my time as Thanksgiving livestock. The guy said he had 5 systems and I thought everyone in line was getting one. One guy ahead of me bought a PS3 and a Wii. I stayed in line anyway even though it looked bad and my kids were with me so it would be even more dissappointing for them as the excitement had been mounting for a couple of days. Well, this lady turns around to me and says, "You are going to get one". I kept wondering what she was talking about and lo and behold she was buying her grandkid a PSP. We stepped up and asked for the last Wii and he pulled the bag up with all of the the launch stuff in it and we were just totally jazzed. My oldest boy actually made the sound of angels heralding (cheesy movie/cartoon rendition) when they put the bag on the counter. The kids were off for Turkey Day and we spent the rest of the day having one hell of a time with the new system. I haven't had this much fun playing a game and feeling immersed since I first played the text version of Hitchhikers Guide on my PCJr. The new controls are just amazing and the design of the system both on the physical level and within the Wii menu was just completely sweet. I can really see this system becoming a cornerstone for family entertainment. My wife, who has never had any intere
As a user travels between coverage areas of either of these technologies the user transfers between "cells". All communications are in effect via cells. Either written (snail mail)(between post offices covering zip codes) or groups of people (circles of influence or cells of influence)by spoken word or via mobile phones which switch between transceivers regardless of frequency, protocol, badnwidth or popularity. I think cell phone still sounds pretty cool. Let's keep it. CM
They already have but don't know it. It's called the PSP.
Do you have any experience using Outlook with Exchange? I used to support Groupwise and Lotus and they both sucked compared to Exchange (5.5, 2000, 2003) I have been looking for a good OSS replacement for a while. Do any of these actually compare if you do have real world experience with Exchange and Outlook. I'm not being inflammatory just interested.
I piloted my X-15 Estes Rocket Model when I was 12....Where are my wings at!?!?!?!?
I agree with the guy who discussed Hula above. I have the same objection with trying to always "keep up with the joneses" with Samba as well. Why not build an alternative that is better, faster, and easier to install. I have a lot of SMB (Small-Medium Business not samba) clients and almost all of them run Small Business Server 2003 Standard. For the price and ease of management you can't beat it. I would love to see an open source/Linux Exchange killer but I think trying to be like MS is definitely the wrong direction. As I was saying before, we do the same thing with samba and the smb suite. Why not build a kick ass directory server that doesn't require a high level understanding of ldap (and chewing gum) and build something similar to the Novell Client, only create a Win32 installable that automatically joins up to the directory and gives you the same benefits that exist in a Windows domain environment. The reason people like SBS and Exchange so much is that it pretty much runs out of the box. It works great with client side Outlook and the OWA is kick ass.(Much better in Exchange 2003). We need to create a backend that has it's own "real time" client (that doesn't require you to use MAPI) and a good web access platform that gives you most of the functionality of a fat client. I keep my eyes peeled for this subject area. Hula is very interesting as well. I installed it a few months back but I have not played with it that much.
Yes, I too am a proponent of the Trial By Combat mediation method.
woot!
I took my boys to see it and they had never been introduced to the books in any depth. I had them logged on and playing the old Infocom text game which I loved so much on my IBM PC Jr and they thought it was cool as hell. I think that they did a pretty good job with the movie. I think the series deserves a larger treatment. In the vein of LOR or Star Wars but I don't think that will ever happen. The last shot of Douglas Adams and the dedication was pretty poignant though. This will introduce Hg2g to a whole new slew of fans. If that is all that it does it will have been worth making
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You can only have one inbound or outbound connection at one time on a particular analog line. You can organize all of the lines into one group, say group 0. Lets say you had 4 lines coming from the PSTN. You can group all of those lines together into a group and set them up for both inbound and outbound lines. If one is in use, say for an outbound call, then it will grab the next available line. You could only have a combination of inbound/outbound up to the number of lines that you have (to the PSTN/phone company). If you wanted to get a PRI or T-1 you would get 24 channels or lines to dial out on (expensive for small business). You can also set the system to trunk out via SIP or IAX to the net (to link to a public telephone provider service). So yes, to repeat, you can make any combo of inbound/outbound calls up to the number of ports/pstn lines that you have. Cheers!
Rolled out an Asterix PBX this weekend. Snom 360 IP POE phones connected to Fedora Core 3
box (HP DC 7100) with two Digium FXO cards. VoIP from the desk sets to server then outbound PSTN
(Public Switched Telephone Network). Used the Asterisk Management Portal front-end GUI so the
local users could have complete control over the management of the system. All I can say is....sweet.
This is how the Death Star got started.
Isn't that the shipped that crashed and burned in
Flash Gordon?
Isn't that kind of like thinking you were getting a real RC car for Christmas and then when you
tore away the wrapping it ended up being one with a cord attached between the control and the car?
I've been ripped off!!!
Unless of course...those probes were using BlueTooth.
or "The World That Should Have Never Happened" All I know is the mere mention of the term VxD wants to make me scream. "He then ran me around the rest of the group, and they showed me the other stuff they were working on. Ralph had written a new driver architecture called VxD. Aaron had done something astonishing (I'm not sure what). They had display drivers that could display 256 color bitmaps on the screen (the best OS/2 could do at the time was 16 colors)." 3.0/3.1 was allright but you could kill it when it was hosed and just be back at DOS...but then came... The Ultimate POS When we used to have to reinstall Windows 95 (which was quite often) in the early days of the OS and you forgot to remove the USB Supplement you would be screwed. DOS screen after reboot: "Windows could not combine VxDs into a monolithic file before starting. Windows may not start or run properly. If Windows fails to start, run SETUP again. Press Any Key to Continue" I can't even fathom the number of hours that my compadres andI in the IT world spent wasting our lives supporting the Windows 95 and 98 POS. NT was a nice change but it still sucked, 2000 pretty good and stable but support for games and many 98 apps. Windows XP was finally what they should have had back when they veered off the OS/2 path (in terms of stability and time to resolve tech support issues). 15 frickin years later!!!111 IMHO the ESR book has one of the best analysis of Windows, OS/2, Unix, and others that I have seen. http://catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch03s02.h tml
And to think that I could have been spending my early days in IT doing something productive rather than baby-sitting a crappy OS makes me.....well...just a little angry.
I completely agree with the original thread reply's subject. Demand tort reform. But, Who will we demand it from? The Lawmakers? They are a majority of lawyers. "11 million dollars in legal expenses." It's sickening.