Pay for a contract and you will get highly knowlegable engineers to solve whatever problem that crops up within the confines of the contract.
This is true whether the software in question is a based on closed-source or open-source. You need to find a vendor who will meet your business needs first; whether that solution is closed- or open-source should be a secondary consideration
Open-source software allows more businesses to get into the "Enterprise Software" business by using existing (Free) products that they're free to tailor to customer requirements, and the customer is free to find a new consultancy if the old one goes under / is bought out / starts to suck.
Since you're using SPA-1001M's right now, I'm guessing you want FXS-to-IP, not channel banks as other repliers have suggested. I googled for "24-port FXS" and the third link was this 24-port FXS-to-SIP adapter. VoipSupply even has a section header for "High Density Analog Adapters"
I'm actually kinda partial to Dr. Ferd's Wart Remover. It's only two-wire (how many grounded wall warts do you have?) and it has a nice big box on the outlet end so you can use a pad of double-sticky mounting tape to hold the mess together.
In places where I have a bunch of wall-warts hanging around, I like to use a Furman Pluglock power strip to keep then together and strapped down. I broke down and bought a couple of these when I got sick of having random things come unplugged in the pile of crap under/behind my desk, and they turned out to be a great buy. They're built like tanks, too.
This likely won't work either... the Nortel client, for example, automatically disconnects if *any* routing table changes are made after the client connects. Makes it a real pain to use networked printers at home, too.
...then install voltage dividers at each wall outlet
voltage dividers are a horrible idea -- your voltage will vary with load, and you'll be shedding that excess voltage as heat, so they'll be a lot less efficient than those wall warts. You could do something like this with solid-state regulators, and if you're clever/handy you could whip up plug-in modules in various common voltages... then you could market a nify geek-friendly wiring system
of course, this is probably wildly more trouble than it's worth, but it could be a fun project
You're dead on, but missing the bigger picture. The US isn't *that* great a cellular market... now, how many European carriers do you think want to be locked into Microsoft Tax for for all the content on their networks?
Actually, all the contemporary (anything 3G or a GSM since the V3/4/5/600) fully support standard SyncML synchronization via bluetooth, USB, or HTTP. Apple still hasn't gotten around to adding SyncML to iSync, apparently in favor of coddling various proprietary formats. Older Mot phones and most new ones will sync with USB using the old motorola format (may require some OS tweaking to get iSync to recognize the phone as a target), and rumor has it that the next major release of iSync will finally let Motorola phones (and any others with SyncML) sync locally with iSync or over the network with.mac.
You know, just about every Motorola phone that supports USB shows up in Linux as a TAPI modem, and supports the use of standard AT commands to make calls, manipulate the phone book, and send SMS. I would be extremely surprised if this one DOESN'T have these features. Software that uses this GSM-spec (open) interface is pretty rare, though, and I've never figured out why.
Newer Mot phones (esp those with bluetooth) support SyncML over USB, BT, or IP if your carrier supports it. Mot is an early adopter of the SyncML standard.
if you want to do something weird in Linux with your Mot phone, just download a copy of the GSM or 3GPP at-commands specs and start trying them. More often than not, they'll just work.
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
Well, if you're soft-encoding, you can choose any encoder you'd like. I'm not a Myth user, but it seems transcoding is only necessary because the test setup is streaming MPEG2 off of the hardware encoder.
having taken a vow of poverty, it's not at all unlikely that a particular Roman Catholic priest pays no income or property taxes
Roman Catholic priests aren't required to take vows of poverty, only nuns are. I doubt in this day and age they'd be bringing in a whole lot of money anyway, but there's nothing stopping them if it's a wealthy parish
keep finding more and more features that we don't need while ignoring the one feature that we all demand: reliable voice coverage.
Why does everybody think cell phone manufacturer's are the ones who are installing cell sites? I can make a simple voice phone if I want to, but it's not going to do anything at all to the number of cells in the field. Cell manufacturers take the radio performance of their handsets very seriously -- but that means precisely jack when there's no signal to pick up, or your carrier doesn't have a roaming agreement with any of the networks your phone can see
what are you doing with it? is it an active bluetooth connection for those whole 8 hours, or is it just idling waiting for connections?
On my phone activating bluetooth reduces the standby time from around 3 days to 2.5-ish -- it's not really a noticable difference. It's plenty fast for MIDI's and general data transfer, but mp3 transfers (2-4MB) take a bit too long to be practical. I'm told it has the fastest bluetooth stack currently in a mobile phone, but I've never seen any hard numbers to back that up.
disclaimer: Yes, I like bluetooth, and I like 3G... so shoot me:)
If it's like my cell phone, it's a crippled form of GPS. The phone can receive signals from the GPS constellation but it doesn't have the electronics required to decode and process them.
That's usually only the case of cdma phones. UMTS and iDen phones with "GPS" usually have full-fledged GPS receivers, but what you can do with that data varies from phone to phone. Many iDen phones have a menu option to turn on an NMEA data stream on the phone's serial port... though you can't do NMEA and data at the same time.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that Motorola phones do feed back audio from the microphone to the speaker when in a voice or video call on the handset or headset. This occurs because early AMPS units did not do this and users always thought the call had dropped because they couldn't hear anything in the earpiece. I would assume other phone manufacturers do this as well.
There's also "comfort noise" (essentially white noise) generated by most cell phone networks to emulate the "sound of the line" of a land-line phone for the same reason: most users thought that no audio meant the call was dropped. Aggressive noise suppression makes this effect worse.
That depends on whether you're in 3G coverage or not... if not, why the hell hasn't anybody mentioned the Siemens S55 yet? it's all phone (no camera or crap) with a good bluetooth implementation. It seemed awfully sturdy to me, too. You'll probably have to order one from someplace crazy, though; I haven't seen them for sale at retail in the US. If you like clamshells and/or toys, the Motorola V600 is going to be out RSN, and that's a pretty rockin' phone. They finally updated the V.60 -- it's a metal-shell color cameraphone with lots of goodies.
Now, if you *can* get 3G coverage, the only reasonable option is the Motorola A835. It's the only GSM/GPRS/UMTS phone on the market right now (except it's predecessor the A830, which is awfully clunky) and it has great data capabilities. Also has IRDA in addition to bluetooth for those with older laptops. it's a little bit, but it's good and sturdy with a *surprisingly* long battery life. It also has crazy-huge multimedia support.
He's a government employee; I'd expect that if they wanted his communications to be secure, they would be. I'm sure they have all kinds of nifty toys that are provided to those they think need them.
Depends on the make of the car. BMW, for example, only makes key information available to dealers... who only cut keys when you provide proof of ownership. I actually had to bring in my actual title (no photocopies) and they made a copy of the title and my ID for their records -- for keys for a '90! Sucks to pay $35 for a key, but given crap like the parent I think it's worth it.
If it's NCO the collections agency, and *YOU* are the debtor they're after, you've probably got them nailed.
Third-Party collections agencies (professional debt collectors) are bound by federal law called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This stipulates that they cannot disclose any debt to anyone but the debtor and the creditor; hence, the stonewalling until they find out who you are. Even telling somebody that they know who you are can be a violation, since how would they know you if you didn't have a debt in collections?
This is, however, beside the point. The kicker is that the FDCPA prohibits a collector from incurring expenses to the debtor in attempt to collect the debt -- more to the point, they cannot call collect or on a cell phone. I've done work for collection agencies before and they're very careful to make sure they never contact a debtor on a cellular phone, since that allows a debtor who knows "the act" to create a legal morass that's more trouble than its worth.
You might as well tell them who you are. If you're not the one they're looking for, they'll take your number off the account and leave you alone. If you *are* the one they're looking for, you can make a stink and they may write off the debt as uncollectable.
One I can come up with is "if busy, present a callback function (Call back in 30 seconds? Yes/No)"
Every Motorola phone I've used (v.60, 280i, T720, v70, A830, others) have a "retry?" prompt when a call fails (line busy, network issues, etc). if you select "yes," the phone will do its own little redial thing and sound your call alert when it's successful.
So... if the line you're calling is busy, just hit retry and put the phone back in your pocket. The next time it rings/vibrates its the call you tried to make earlier connecting.
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I think the key point of your argument was this:
Pay for a contract and you will get highly knowlegable engineers to solve whatever problem that crops up within the confines of the contract.
This is true whether the software in question is a based on closed-source or open-source. You need to find a vendor who will meet your business needs first; whether that solution is closed- or open-source should be a secondary consideration
Open-source software allows more businesses to get into the "Enterprise Software" business by using existing (Free) products that they're free to tailor to customer requirements, and the customer is free to find a new consultancy if the old one goes under / is bought out / starts to suck.
Since you're using SPA-1001M's right now, I'm guessing you want FXS-to-IP, not channel banks as other repliers have suggested. I googled for "24-port FXS" and the third link was this 24-port FXS-to-SIP adapter. VoipSupply even has a section header for "High Density Analog Adapters"
or were you expecting something dirt-cheap?
I'm actually kinda partial to Dr. Ferd's Wart Remover. It's only two-wire (how many grounded wall warts do you have?) and it has a nice big box on the outlet end so you can use a pad of double-sticky mounting tape to hold the mess together.
In places where I have a bunch of wall-warts hanging around, I like to use a Furman Pluglock power strip to keep then together and strapped down. I broke down and bought a couple of these when I got sick of having random things come unplugged in the pile of crap under/behind my desk, and they turned out to be a great buy. They're built like tanks, too.
adding a host route or two resolves the issue.
This likely won't work either... the Nortel client, for example, automatically disconnects if *any* routing table changes are made after the client connects. Makes it a real pain to use networked printers at home, too.
voltage dividers are a horrible idea -- your voltage will vary with load, and you'll be shedding that excess voltage as heat, so they'll be a lot less efficient than those wall warts. You could do something like this with solid-state regulators, and if you're clever/handy you could whip up plug-in modules in various common voltages... then you could market a nify geek-friendly wiring system
of course, this is probably wildly more trouble than it's worth, but it could be a fun project
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You're dead on, but missing the bigger picture. The US isn't *that* great a cellular market... now, how many European carriers do you think want to be locked into Microsoft Tax for for all the content on their networks?
Actually, all the contemporary (anything 3G or a GSM since the V3/4/5/600) fully support standard SyncML synchronization via bluetooth, USB, or HTTP. Apple still hasn't gotten around to adding SyncML to iSync, apparently in favor of coddling various proprietary formats. Older Mot phones and most new ones will sync with USB using the old motorola format (may require some OS tweaking to get iSync to recognize the phone as a target), and rumor has it that the next major release of iSync will finally let Motorola phones (and any others with SyncML) sync locally with iSync or over the network with .mac.
You know, just about every Motorola phone that supports USB shows up in Linux as a TAPI modem, and supports the use of standard AT commands to make calls, manipulate the phone book, and send SMS. I would be extremely surprised if this one DOESN'T have these features. Software that uses this GSM-spec (open) interface is pretty rare, though, and I've never figured out why.
Newer Mot phones (esp those with bluetooth) support SyncML over USB, BT, or IP if your carrier supports it. Mot is an early adopter of the SyncML standard.
if you want to do something weird in Linux with your Mot phone, just download a copy of the GSM or 3GPP at-commands specs and start trying them. More often than not, they'll just work.
How well would the transcoding to XViD work when they have sacrificed the CPU to the encoding gods? Wouldn't the machine take a serious hit trying to record and transcode at the same time when they aren't using a hardware encoder?
Well, if you're soft-encoding, you can choose any encoder you'd like. I'm not a Myth user, but it seems transcoding is only necessary because the test setup is streaming MPEG2 off of the hardware encoder.
having taken a vow of poverty, it's not at all unlikely that a particular Roman Catholic priest pays no income or property taxes
Roman Catholic priests aren't required to take vows of poverty, only nuns are. I doubt in this day and age they'd be bringing in a whole lot of money anyway, but there's nothing stopping them if it's a wealthy parish
I always thought of it as a fox humping the IE logo, but maybe it's just me.
keep finding more and more features that we don't need while ignoring the one feature that we all demand: reliable voice coverage.
Why does everybody think cell phone manufacturer's are the ones who are installing cell sites? I can make a simple voice phone if I want to, but it's not going to do anything at all to the number of cells in the field. Cell manufacturers take the radio performance of their handsets very seriously -- but that means precisely jack when there's no signal to pick up, or your carrier doesn't have a roaming agreement with any of the networks your phone can see
I can do better than that....
it seems, though, that IE5 for Unix silently disappeared from the MS website a while ago. too bad; it still beats Netscape 4...
what are you doing with it? is it an active bluetooth connection for those whole 8 hours, or is it just idling waiting for connections?
On my phone activating bluetooth reduces the standby time from around 3 days to 2.5-ish -- it's not really a noticable difference. It's plenty fast for MIDI's and general data transfer, but mp3 transfers (2-4MB) take a bit too long to be practical. I'm told it has the fastest bluetooth stack currently in a mobile phone, but I've never seen any hard numbers to back that up.
disclaimer: Yes, I like bluetooth, and I like 3G... so shoot me :)
If it's like my cell phone, it's a crippled form of GPS. The phone can receive signals from the GPS constellation but it doesn't have the electronics required to decode and process them.
That's usually only the case of cdma phones. UMTS and iDen phones with "GPS" usually have full-fledged GPS receivers, but what you can do with that data varies from phone to phone. Many iDen phones have a menu option to turn on an NMEA data stream on the phone's serial port... though you can't do NMEA and data at the same time.
But in Soviet Russia, testicles... oh never mind.
Unfortunately, mobiles don't seem to do this.
I can tell you with 100% certainty that Motorola phones do feed back audio from the microphone to the speaker when in a voice or video call on the handset or headset. This occurs because early AMPS units did not do this and users always thought the call had dropped because they couldn't hear anything in the earpiece. I would assume other phone manufacturers do this as well.
There's also "comfort noise" (essentially white noise) generated by most cell phone networks to emulate the "sound of the line" of a land-line phone for the same reason: most users thought that no audio meant the call was dropped. Aggressive noise suppression makes this effect worse.
Most digital music players won't touch the things...
Maybe you need a newer player -- even my cell phone plays AAC's.
That depends on whether you're in 3G coverage or not... if not, why the hell hasn't anybody mentioned the Siemens S55 yet? it's all phone (no camera or crap) with a good bluetooth implementation. It seemed awfully sturdy to me, too. You'll probably have to order one from someplace crazy, though; I haven't seen them for sale at retail in the US. If you like clamshells and/or toys, the Motorola V600 is going to be out RSN, and that's a pretty rockin' phone. They finally updated the V.60 -- it's a metal-shell color cameraphone with lots of goodies.
Now, if you *can* get 3G coverage, the only reasonable option is the Motorola A835. It's the only GSM/GPRS/UMTS phone on the market right now (except it's predecessor the A830, which is awfully clunky) and it has great data capabilities. Also has IRDA in addition to bluetooth for those with older laptops. it's a little bit, but it's good and sturdy with a *surprisingly* long battery life. It also has crazy-huge multimedia support.
Looks like it was the Field Museum in Chicago [ref]
I'd further suggest that Md-doped would mean Mendelevium doped, not Mangenese doped... seeing as Md is mendelevium, not manganese.
He's a government employee; I'd expect that if they wanted his communications to be secure, they would be. I'm sure they have all kinds of nifty toys that are provided to those they think need them.
Depends on the make of the car. BMW, for example, only makes key information available to dealers... who only cut keys when you provide proof of ownership. I actually had to bring in my actual title (no photocopies) and they made a copy of the title and my ID for their records -- for keys for a '90! Sucks to pay $35 for a key, but given crap like the parent I think it's worth it.
If it's NCO the collections agency, and *YOU* are the debtor they're after, you've probably got them nailed.
Third-Party collections agencies (professional debt collectors) are bound by federal law called the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This stipulates that they cannot disclose any debt to anyone but the debtor and the creditor; hence, the stonewalling until they find out who you are. Even telling somebody that they know who you are can be a violation, since how would they know you if you didn't have a debt in collections?
This is, however, beside the point. The kicker is that the FDCPA prohibits a collector from incurring expenses to the debtor in attempt to collect the debt -- more to the point, they cannot call collect or on a cell phone. I've done work for collection agencies before and they're very careful to make sure they never contact a debtor on a cellular phone, since that allows a debtor who knows "the act" to create a legal morass that's more trouble than its worth.
You might as well tell them who you are. If you're not the one they're looking for, they'll take your number off the account and leave you alone. If you *are* the one they're looking for, you can make a stink and they may write off the debt as uncollectable.
One I can come up with is "if busy, present a callback function (Call back in 30 seconds? Yes/No)"
Every Motorola phone I've used (v.60, 280i, T720, v70, A830, others) have a "retry?" prompt when a call fails (line busy, network issues, etc). if you select "yes," the phone will do its own little redial thing and sound your call alert when it's successful.
So... if the line you're calling is busy, just hit retry and put the phone back in your pocket. The next time it rings/vibrates its the call you tried to make earlier connecting.