Wonderful - does that mean they will price it the same way Rogers and Bell Do?
Data on both is way over priced. All-you-can eat data pricing on T-Mobile is 25$ a month. On Rogers the closest they have is 25mb for 60$ a month (they call it all you can eat - the fine print says 25mb is an upper limit).
I also hope they get around the channel limit of GSM and CDMA. This "limit" was why they were overpriced to begin with. If they go with a new tech, I don't see much pooling of resources outside of their tower infrastructure - they are incompatible.
I've been burned by both these guys as their pricing has destroyed the mobile data market in Canada. Maybe they'll get it right this time?
First China was harvesting skin of executed political prisinors, now they can use them for fuel? I sense a shift in the political balance of power. I'm pretty certain if it works with Cats it works with people. Killer
Okay - allow me to dispel this popular urban myth. I've spent 12 years working in the Telco Industry. Specifically with the marketing and roll out of new products.
If you buy a phone in North America and it has a carriers name on it (ie. Cingular, Telus, Bell South, Bell Mobility, Rogers, etc.) that phone was subsidized. Period. Now the amount of subsidy depends on situation (new customer/customer retention), but any phone with the branding is subsidized.
Would we feel better if this was a SCO Newsgroup (with employee's of SCO) bashing IBM or Linus? Or if it was Microsoft Newsgroup bashing Google?
How about if they lie? Spread false rumours?
Seems pretty open and shut to me - slander pure and simple. The owner of the site was trying to portray himself as a impartial blogger about the industry - instead he is a shill for his own company. He started rumours, he lied, he slandered, he fed the fires of inaccuracy against his competitor. He will lose, and it won't impact a bloggers rights. Be honest, post the truth, and your fine. Slander someone - and you will sued.
The problem with PicoCell and Nanocell is twofold - cost and SIP Compatibility. What you want is something like this device from 2N. Voice Blue Lite
This device is supposed to cost about 3500$ USD (only reference I could find online), and creates a mini-gsm cell backed by a SIP provider. This device has been tested with Asterisk.
There are several services that allow free inbound calls from pstn - but require you to pay for outbound.
sipgate.co.uk - free inbound UK and German numbers
stanaphone.com - free inbound NYC and Area
messagenet.it - free inbound italy number
I have one asterisk PBX here in Toronto with inbound phone numbers in all of the above - I don't pay for a single one of the inbound numbers (I pay for local service thru Vonage).
This site has a lot of useful information on SIP providers and Asterisk http://www.voip-info.org
I remember the inside jokes - the burger summits - the friends and relationships.
Most of my oldest friends came from the BBS scene, I know couples that met on BBS's.........the BBS scene was more than the internet in its day. The internet is a global community - BBS's were a LOCAL community, which made things more personal - more friendly. BBS's were the seed of many technologies we take for granted today - email networks, online chat, multithreaded communications servers, etc. Ever wondered where emoticons came from?
I remember running PCBoard on OS/2 (my last BBS), and being amazed I could run 4 phone lines on a 486 - I remember writing scripts, ANSI ART, shareware, freeware, chats, SYSOP break thru's - ah the memories. Forgive the stream of consciousness - but viewing this flooded my head.
Thank you for the flash backs, and farewell to the BBS - you will be missed
It would be news for nerds if he'd died in the sack with a spokes model for RedHat.........or been assassinated by Bill Gates for software Piracy...........or if he'd managed to Run OSX on his PSP. He didn't - so it didn't get posted.
So presumably this is targeted at e-commerce users - presumably home users right?
What are the frickin chances an IP is shared by the same user during the same five minute window for a home user? So fuck the karma and take the smack back you ignorant prick. This has been covered hundreds of times - and I don't really want to pound the drum for the next 6 months - but rest assured it DOES work for the kind of aggregates e-commerce sites target.
WOW! I read Slashdot once a day, and even I saw this as a dupe.
Same article, alittle more more fud verbage.
So let me report a first, I'm proposing an opensource project called "YoDummbassUseGoogle" to be hosted by google (I'm sure they'd agree) which guarentee that at least 50% of the text and 100% of the links were unique within posts.
Oh yeah, and a mandatory "Think about the children" for the American Geeks.
New one - Canada Computers.com
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I have two favourites canadacomputers.com and factorydirect.ca. I have been shopping at both for years (they are local Computers stores to my area), and I find they generally beat the more established online vendors.
Whats interesting is they both have started selling online (US and Can). For the conspiracy theorists out there I don't have a connection to either outside that of a customer.
It used to be Debian was the distro you used when you wanted a minimal system with guarenteed security patches. It was the "reliable" server distro.
In the last 5 years the distro's availabile have expanded. Want a reliable server? - use Suse, want the latest and greatest of everything? - use Gentoo. Want a nice stable reliable desktop - use Ubutu.
What exactly does this new release of Debian offer besides retro-linux creds?
Is it any coincidence that countries that engage in Police state tactics (and these ARE police state tatics) suffer economically? The stifiling of freedom and creativity simultanously stifles the economy. It happened in the USSR, it happened in China (low wages only goes so far) it happened in North Korea, it happened in Cuba, and now its happening in the US. Is it any coincidence that the US dollar has been falling steadily?
Hey if the yanks are nervous about this, welcome to Canada! Come north, we have health care and due process. You can be free AND safe.
I've been tasked with a similiar project. Budgets are thin, and alot of the conference attendee's are remote users.
I LOVE Skype, but it doesn't do video......so I tried Ineen. Let me say I absolutely adore Ineen......think skype with video. It supports upto 4 conferenced video users, and 10 (or more with multi hubs) conferenced voice attendees.
It works with PocketPC, OSX, Windows, and soon linux. This works with users on broadband (or faster), and just about every webcam we've thrown at it.
I've already used it successfully for meetings between Canada, India, the US and Singapore. Well worth the FREE download:)
I've been tweaking and updating my MythTV box for over 8 months now. Usually a tweak here, a tweak there. Would I call the process painfull? No, but then I like hobbie projects. I've played with just about everything under the sun (Windows MCE via MSDN, SageTV, MediaPortal, MythTV, Freevo etc), and Myth was by far my favourite.
I work from home, and simply don't watch TV without it. DVD Playback is perfect (Props to Xine) with Dolby Digital Sound, DVD Imports are perfect with Dolby Digital Sound. Do you need a keyboard or mouse? NO! (USB UIRT is pretty good). Heck, I even get HDTV with Dolby Digital Sound using the PCHD3000. There are plenty of sites out there with details on setup.
For those of you risking it PLEASE consider Gentoo - its a little more painful for setup (no GUI install), but WORKS. Knopmyth is a nitemare, Debian Sarge is worse, Fedora is out of date half the time. Take the plunge.
First thing I thought of was hmmmmmm I want Fish in there.
Imagine a standard aquarium with the PC occupying the bottom third of the tank. Fill the bottom third with mineral oil.
Fill the top two thirds with Water and put in fish. Assuming we keep surface area of the glass is enough to keep the heat in control, the fish could live a long happy life.
I may experiment with this.......oil and water don't mix - so the fish should be fine - right?
I've had a PBX at home for 2 years now.....look around any old office building thats getting renovated - you'll find at least two PBX's getting tossed out.
Nortel Cics or Mics are the most common, they work great, have zero noise/fans. Autoattendant (on most models - or with the Star Talk Flash), voice mail, Fax reroute etc. Great little systems, why go Asterisk?
I love all tech - just cause it's old/experienced don't abandon it.
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I call bullshit - my MythTV has not been rebooted in over 2 years.
Reliably? I've got two hardware encoder cards receiving cable (PVR 250's for those in the know), and two HD3000 cards getting HDTV free from Buffalo.
My MythTV has been nothing but reliable, it took two days to setup, and has been happily churning ever since.
File Server, Web Server, Mail Server, etc. I've tried everything else (Windows Media Center, BeyondTV, SageTV, MediaPortal, etc), nothing could match the feature set and Reliability of MythTV.
Take your knee, and jerk it back to reality.
For those who are curious:
- AMD 2800 w/784mb of Ram
- 2 SATA 200gb HDs, 1x300, 1x250 HD IDE
- 2x Hauppauge 250PVR's
- 2x HD3000's
- NVIDIA Video Card - everything else onboard MB
Microsoft is very good at selling called Software Assurance. When you buy SQL 2000 (as an example) you can buy software assurance at the same time (in 1 year chunks). Software assurance provides you with free upgrades for its term.
If software assurance costs 15% per annum (it can cost less depending on your pricing aggreements), its very well possible that buying sql 2005 today with software assurance is cheaper than waiting for the "final" product at a higher license point.
It strikes me that this is really about MS buying beta testers, and pushing forward the quarterly numbers.
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This flow of bad puns is inducing me to change my current. Keep it coming and that electrical course I took in college will finally be useful.
Resistance is futile, you don't have the capacity to resist.
Wonderful - does that mean they will price it the same way Rogers and Bell Do?
Data on both is way over priced. All-you-can eat data pricing on T-Mobile is 25$ a month. On Rogers the closest they have is 25mb for 60$ a month (they call it all you can eat - the fine print says 25mb is an upper limit).
I also hope they get around the channel limit of GSM and CDMA. This "limit" was why they were overpriced to begin with. If they go with a new tech, I don't see much pooling of resources outside of their tower infrastructure - they are incompatible.
I've been burned by both these guys as their pricing has destroyed the mobile data market in Canada. Maybe they'll get it right this time?
First China was harvesting skin of executed political prisinors, now they can use them for fuel?
I sense a shift in the political balance of power.
I'm pretty certain if it works with Cats it works with people.
Killer
Okay - allow me to dispel this popular urban myth. I've spent 12 years working in the Telco Industry. Specifically with the marketing and roll out of new products.
If you buy a phone in North America and it has a carriers name on it (ie. Cingular, Telus, Bell South, Bell Mobility, Rogers, etc.) that phone was subsidized. Period. Now the amount of subsidy depends on situation (new customer/customer retention), but any phone with the branding is subsidized.
Would we feel better if this was a SCO Newsgroup (with employee's of SCO) bashing IBM or Linus? Or if it was Microsoft Newsgroup bashing Google?
How about if they lie? Spread false rumours?
Seems pretty open and shut to me - slander pure and simple.
The owner of the site was trying to portray himself as a impartial blogger about the industry - instead he is a shill for his own company. He started rumours, he lied, he slandered, he fed the fires of inaccuracy against his competitor.
He will lose, and it won't impact a bloggers rights. Be honest, post the truth, and your fine. Slander someone - and you will sued.
Before commenting it ain't possible read the link/page I posted. Here are the instructions for setting it up with Asterisk:
w ith_asterisk.html?
http://www.2n.cz/news/press_releases/voiceblue_
Have a nice day
The problem with PicoCell and Nanocell is twofold - cost and SIP Compatibility. What you want is something like this device from 2N.
Voice Blue Lite
This device is supposed to cost about 3500$ USD (only reference I could find online), and creates a mini-gsm cell backed by a SIP provider. This device has been tested with Asterisk.
The use of a bot wasn't the underlying crime. The crime was the theft of items perceived as having value and selling those items.
h _prog.htm so they have laws on the books to prevent theft (even theft of data).
Consider Japan has a cyber police unit http://www.npa.go.jp/cyber/english/policy/hightec
This guy broke the law - he stole items with a perceived real world value and sold them.
Open and shut.
There are several services that allow free inbound calls from pstn - but require you to pay for outbound.
sipgate.co.uk - free inbound UK and German numbers
stanaphone.com - free inbound NYC and Area
messagenet.it - free inbound italy number
I have one asterisk PBX here in Toronto with inbound phone numbers in all of the above - I don't pay for a single one of the inbound numbers (I pay for local service thru Vonage).
This site has a lot of useful information on SIP providers and Asterisk http://www.voip-info.org
I remember the inside jokes - the burger summits - the friends and relationships.
Most of my oldest friends came from the BBS scene, I know couples that met on BBS's.........the BBS scene was more than the internet in its day. The internet is a global community - BBS's were a LOCAL community, which made things more personal - more friendly.
BBS's were the seed of many technologies we take for granted today - email networks, online chat, multithreaded communications servers, etc. Ever wondered where emoticons came from?
I remember running PCBoard on OS/2 (my last BBS), and being amazed I could run 4 phone lines on a 486 - I remember writing scripts, ANSI ART, shareware, freeware, chats, SYSOP break thru's - ah the memories.
Forgive the stream of consciousness - but viewing this flooded my head.
Thank you for the flash backs, and farewell to the BBS - you will be missed
It would be news for nerds if he'd died in the sack with a spokes model for RedHat.........or been assassinated by Bill Gates for software Piracy...........or if he'd managed to Run OSX on his PSP. He didn't - so it didn't get posted.
This is critical research - intel needs that much power for its next generation mobile processor.
Oh boo hoo NAT is in the way.
So presumably this is targeted at e-commerce users - presumably home users right?
What are the frickin chances an IP is shared by the same user during the same five minute window for a home user? So fuck the karma and take the smack back you ignorant prick. This has been covered hundreds of times - and I don't really want to pound the drum for the next 6 months - but rest assured it DOES work for the kind of aggregates e-commerce sites target.
Let me answer.........short answer........no it doesn't make you evil - it makes you lazy.
The exact same thing can be accomplished without a cookie by evaluting your logs and reviewing what pages are requested in what order from what IP.
Cookies by themselves are open to abuse by people that don't understand their implications.
Cookies won't go away, but I refuse to use them
WOW! I read Slashdot once a day, and even I saw this as a dupe.
Same article, alittle more more fud verbage.
So let me report a first, I'm proposing an opensource project called "YoDummbassUseGoogle" to be hosted by google (I'm sure they'd agree) which guarentee that at least 50% of the text and 100% of the links were unique within posts.
Oh yeah, and a mandatory "Think about the children" for the American Geeks.
I have two favourites canadacomputers.com and factorydirect.ca. I have been shopping at both for years (they are local Computers stores to my area), and I find they generally beat the more established online vendors.
Whats interesting is they both have started selling online (US and Can).
For the conspiracy theorists out there I don't have a connection to either outside that of a customer.
It used to be Debian was the distro you used when you wanted a minimal system with guarenteed security patches. It was the "reliable" server distro.
In the last 5 years the distro's availabile have expanded. Want a reliable server? - use Suse, want the latest and greatest of everything? - use Gentoo. Want a nice stable reliable desktop - use Ubutu.
What exactly does this new release of Debian offer besides retro-linux creds?
Is it any coincidence that countries that engage in Police state tactics (and these ARE police state tatics) suffer economically? The stifiling of freedom and creativity simultanously stifles the economy. It happened in the USSR, it happened in China (low wages only goes so far) it happened in North Korea, it happened in Cuba, and now its happening in the US. Is it any coincidence that the US dollar has been falling steadily?
Hey if the yanks are nervous about this, welcome to Canada! Come north, we have health care and due process. You can be free AND safe.
Ineen is skype like, has been around awhile. Works thru firewalls, similiar voice quality to Skype - whats the big deal?
http://www.ineen.com/
*ducks*
I've been tasked with a similiar project. Budgets are thin, and alot of the conference attendee's are remote users.
:)
I LOVE Skype, but it doesn't do video......so I tried Ineen. Let me say I absolutely adore Ineen......think skype with video.
It supports upto 4 conferenced video users, and 10 (or more with multi hubs) conferenced voice attendees.
It works with PocketPC, OSX, Windows, and soon linux. This works with users on broadband (or faster), and just about every webcam we've thrown at it.
I've already used it successfully for meetings between Canada, India, the US and Singapore. Well worth the FREE download
http://www.ineen.com
I've been tweaking and updating my MythTV box for over 8 months now. Usually a tweak here, a tweak there. Would I call the process painfull? No, but then I like hobbie projects. I've played with just about everything under the sun (Windows MCE via MSDN, SageTV, MediaPortal, MythTV, Freevo etc), and Myth was by far my favourite.
I work from home, and simply don't watch TV without it. DVD Playback is perfect (Props to Xine) with Dolby Digital Sound, DVD Imports are perfect with Dolby Digital Sound. Do you need a keyboard or mouse? NO! (USB UIRT is pretty good). Heck, I even get HDTV with Dolby Digital Sound using the PCHD3000. There are plenty of sites out there with details on setup.
For those of you risking it PLEASE consider Gentoo - its a little more painful for setup (no GUI install), but WORKS. Knopmyth is a nitemare, Debian Sarge is worse, Fedora is out of date half the time. Take the plunge.
First thing I thought of was hmmmmmm I want Fish in there.
Imagine a standard aquarium with the PC occupying the bottom third of the tank. Fill the bottom third with mineral oil.
Fill the top two thirds with Water and put in fish. Assuming we keep surface area of the glass is enough to keep the heat in control, the fish could live a long happy life.
I may experiment with this.......oil and water don't mix - so the fish should be fine - right?
Dupe or not, I still like the concept.
I've had a PBX at home for 2 years now.....look around any old office building thats getting renovated - you'll find at least two PBX's getting tossed out.
Nortel Cics or Mics are the most common, they work great, have zero noise/fans. Autoattendant (on most models - or with the Star Talk Flash), voice mail, Fax reroute etc. Great little systems, why go Asterisk?
I love all tech - just cause it's old/experienced don't abandon it.
I call bullshit - my MythTV has not been rebooted in over 2 years.
Reliably? I've got two hardware encoder cards receiving cable (PVR 250's for those in the know), and two HD3000 cards getting HDTV free from Buffalo.
My MythTV has been nothing but reliable, it took two days to setup, and has been happily churning ever since.
File Server, Web Server, Mail Server, etc. I've tried everything else (Windows Media Center, BeyondTV, SageTV, MediaPortal, etc), nothing could match the feature set and Reliability of MythTV.
Take your knee, and jerk it back to reality.
For those who are curious:
- AMD 2800 w/784mb of Ram
- 2 SATA 200gb HDs, 1x300, 1x250 HD IDE
- 2x Hauppauge 250PVR's
- 2x HD3000's
- NVIDIA Video Card - everything else onboard MB
Microsoft is very good at selling called Software Assurance. When you buy SQL 2000 (as an example) you can buy software assurance at the same time (in 1 year chunks). Software assurance provides you with free upgrades for its term.
If software assurance costs 15% per annum (it can cost less depending on your pricing aggreements), its very well possible that buying sql 2005 today with software assurance is cheaper than waiting for the "final" product at a higher license point.
It strikes me that this is really about MS buying beta testers, and pushing forward the quarterly numbers.