If I recall correctly, Social Security was originally supposed to be a *suppliment* to retirement, not retirement.
It seems to me privatizing Social Security is the same as Social Security (automatically extracted from your paycheck), except private accounts are used. The private accounts will likely have a greater return on investment than standard Social Security. Given enough time people won't want old Social Security.
What I'm saying is that Packet8 and Vonage only allow you to connect their little cisco box to their service. All you get on the other side of that box is a POTS jack. Now why would I want to connect my VoIP enabled PBX to a POTS line when, in theory, I could connect it directly to Vonage over IP?
Only a few providers allow for this. VoicePulse is one that is Asterisk friendly. That means that I could setup a box, connect a bunch of VoIP phones to it. Then the box could makes calls to the PSTN via VoicePulse.
Asterisk supports digital phone lines too, but why go through the trouble of getting a voice T1/PRI line when all you need is an IP line?
Hacking the password (if it was possible) out of the little cisco boxes and hooking up your own VoIP equipment is grounds for termination of service at Vonage and Packet8.
I would like to know which of the services allow a user to connect their own hardware.
For example, Voicepulse allow a user to connect an Asterisk box to their servers. No problem. This allows for a local PBX, instead of a Centrex style system that most provide.
Anyone know of large providers that allow connecting your own switch?
As soon as I heard about the AT&T/Cingular merger I wondered if this ment that Verizon would buy SprintPCS within 2-3 years. Just like AT&T and Cingular both use GSM, Verizon and SprintPCS use CDMA. What would be really interesting is if Nextel, SprintPCS, and Verizon merged. What would Cingular think?:)
He wasn't following UN resolutions. If he was we wouldn't have found missiles that he wasn't supposed to have, amongst other things.
Latest polls in Iraq show that they *do* want a democracy. One of the nice things about Saddam paying lip service to Islam over the years and basically running a secular government is that the majority of the people want a secular government. One of the nice things about trying to do this in Iraq is that the populace is relatively well educated for the region. For these reasons, it's likely that democracy would work better in Iraq than Afghanistan! No wonder the crazies are fighting tooth and nail in Iraq.
The younger generation in Iran want the same thing. We've been watching these movements over the years in Iran, hoping that things will turn someday. It was even covered on TV news magazines a few years ago about how Westernized the younger Iranians are becoming. We now have Iran basically surrounded. We have then surrounded by democracies! What a brilliant strategy! This will hopefully put pressure on the Iranian leaders to keep in line and allow the younger generations to move forward in building a Iranian democracy.
This isn't going to happen overnight, it might take 10 or 20 years, but it's worth it!
The UN violations weren't just about WMD. Now we find out that they had explosives that were supposed to be destroyed, but the UN inspection group allowed it anyways because they were convinced Saddam would only use them for mining, etc. That might have been true, but he still wasn't supposed to have them.
Violated their national soverignty? Technically it was a cease-fire. The cease-fire was good as long as they followed the UN resolutions. Obviously they didn't. Hussein apparently asked us to invade, despite Frances assurances to him that they'd block any attempt.
After 10 years of violating UN resolutions it was the right thing for us to do. We know why certain nations were against us in this. Hussein had them on the take. How was Bush supposed to proceed? Some nations wouldn't budge for some unkown (at the time reason). Now we know, and Bush made the right decision.
You are completely right that hate will take time to fade. It's not going to fade in an environment like Afghanistan had. Providing a place were a true economy can grow. Providing a democracy can give an environment where the hate can fade.
Is everyone sure that the war was a bad idea? It seems to me trying to stabilize the region is a good idea. Previous attempts haven't worked very well and have just created an environment that creates terrorists.
The best way to fight terrorism is to build an environment where people don't want to be terrorist. Putting in a democracy (the majority of Iraqi's want a democracy) could have long term effects on the region. The ecomony will certainly improve due to the fact that the sanctions have ended. We won't know how well the plan will work for 10 or 20 years.
Bush took a risk. I like that fact that he didn't contiue with the same old policy of containment. Real change is what was needed. Let the people have some sense of self determination.
Personally, I think the longer term vision is to put pressure on Iran by putting in a democracy in Iraq. Bush always put this under the heading of stabilizing the Middle East. Iran is another big problem country. Some people are starting to talk about this idea now.
"The receiver requires at a minimum a 100 MHz 486 IBM PC with 640k RAM."
So it seems to be possible. Someone posted the GPSTk link to the GnuRadio mailing list with the hope of eventually getting GnuRadio the ability to do advanced processing of GPS signals.
I'm not a GPS expert... am I missing something here?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this software is very important. This is the software that normally runs inside the GPS, not for drawing maps, but interpreting the GPS radio signals and calculating the lat/long numbers. Why would this be useful? Well, say, you take a project like GnuRadio and make your own GPS receiver. GnuRadio can demodulate the signals and convert it to data. This software would allow you to take the data you receive with GnuRadio and do something with it.
It seems to me that this is first time that code like this has ever been published under an open license.
It's been pointed out in other places that it was Unocal and the Clinton administration that supported the land pipeline. Later the Bush administration opposed it and supported an alternate approach. The pipeline was never built and probably never will be.
So, you are mis-informed. Hmmm. It seems people are getting the wrong impressions from this factual movie. How could that be?
It's great that they're lowering the amount of smoke for environmental reasons. BUT I have to vent a little! Who the heck cares about the people that were stupid enough buy a house across the street from Disneyland! They're worried about ash? MOVE!!! I just don't get it.
Sorry to follow up with my own comment, but now that I think about it IBM's GPFS uses IP inside a SP cluster to do the same thing. I'm not sure if this is masterless or not. I'm pretty sure it does use their DLM, but may require a master node to handle the IO to the hard drive.
IBM has a Linux version of GPFS now. So they've moved the filesystem out of the SP cluster.
IBM has a new filesystem called Storage Tank that lets the clients directly access the remote hard drive. I'm note sure it's truely masterless though since the master "hard drive" is actually a computer that may handle logic beyond normal SAN logic. For example, I can't run Storage Tank on a Firewire hard drive shared between Linux boxes.
Could someone confirm my example???
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The difference is how it tries to solve the problem. NFS works over IP and access files at the inode level. This requires the server system or device to be running RPC and the NFS protocol. Most network filesystems work in a similar way. You have servers and clients accessing the servers via some protocol.
Now imagine a filesystem designed for servers that allows them to access the filesystem at a block level directly via the shared bus. Let's say a parallel SCSI buss (or any bus that allows more than one host, e.g. iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Firewire). Imagine how fast it would be to access a shared disk over Fibre Channel! The problem is that if two servers mount the filesystem at the same time it would normally currupt the filesystem. People with SAN's (Storage Area Networks) solve this problem by making mini virtual hard drives and setting ACL's on them so only one host can access that virtual hard drive at a time. This could lead to a waste of space.
GFS solves the SAN problem by using a Distributed Lock Manager (DLM). No one host is the server of the filesystem, but writes/locks are coordinated via the DLM. Now multiple hosts *can* share a virtual hard drive or real block device and not corrupt the filesystem. If a host dies, no problem, there is no server for the filesystem!
Let's give an example. Say you have a firewire enclosure. Now plug that firewire hard drive into two computers. This, by the way, may still require a patch to sbp so that Linux will tell the enclosure to allow both hosts to talk to it at the same time. Now that the hard drive is talking to both computers you could run GFS on it and access the data at the block level by both systems. Now start serving email via IMAP (load balanced), *both hot*, no standby. Now kill a box. IMAP still works. No remounting, no resycronization.
Pretty amazing if you ask me! This technology is pretty rare. IBM has GPFS. SGI has Clustered XFS. Both are pretty expensive. GFS? RedHat just re-GPL'd it! Microsoft? Ummm. I think they are just now getting logical volume management.
GFS also has nice features like journaling (kinda required for this sorta thing), ACL's, quotas, and online resizing.
Actually George W. Bush tried to get into the oil business, but the Texas oil market fell apart. I think he knows just as much as anyone the economics of oil.
Another post pointed out that the oil companies now bill themselves as "energy companies." I don't think that is purely for PR reasons, they know that eventually they will go out of business unless they diversify.
"And, needless to say, any of this sort of stuff is highly unlikely to happen under the leadership of Shrub & Co, what with their ties to big oil..."
Ummm. Let me speculate a bit. If bio-fuel is oil-like, wouldn't an oil company be interested in it? They are already dealing with the stuff. With this they don't have to buy it from some far off land and ship it here. They don't have to drill and explore for it. They simply feed it! That sounds like a great deal for an oil company.
Big oil seems to be the boogey-man. It's just a business like any other business. If the economics change, they will eventually have to change. You don't think that if some cost effective way to make oil was developed they wouldn't jump on it like white on rice?
It all comes down to economics. Right now fossil oil is still relatively cheep. They could try to fight the economics, but why?
Wow, this sounds very similar to a company I worked at called zKey.com. We started on a centralized system, but we were moving to a federated system. I haven't gone through all the Liberty Alliance stuff, but it sounds more like what zKey.com wanted.
The difference was that we wanted to build cool software on top the the preference system. Software that would help with business travelers, etc.
I'm a Christian, and I say bring it on! A Christian shouldn't have anything to fear! Any "body mark" that could be a *requirement* for global commerce just means that the Bible's predictions are right and the Christian can rejoice that the end is near. Yay!
Again, why should I be afraid???
Just to be clear though, I'm not saying *I'm* going to *sign-up* for one.
Can you imagine if Internet email had to be provided by only a handful of companies? Bad idea right? Why is IM any different? This is why Jabber is such a good idea. Anyone can setup a local Jabber server. Jabber servers will route Jabber messages between them.
If there was some way to get ISP's to start setting up Jabber servers for their users, then people wouldn't be dependent on Microsoft's whim's.
The strategy I'm taking is to use the RedHat high end products for running commercial applications (like Oracle). For everything else, standard RedHat is fine. The developers like that RedHat keeps pace with the new stuff they're working on.
The advent of http://www.fedora.us bodes well for the future. I expect to see more 3rd party support for the RedHat standard package. That's the nice thing about RedHat finally opening up their devel process.
At worst, you could just take the standard distro that RedHat bases their advanced products on and use the security patches from the advanced on the standard distro. For example, install RedHat 7.2 and install any patches from the currently support advanced product. The only thing is that you'll have to rpmbuild --rebuild the src.rpm's as they are released.
I really like RedHat's way of doing things. I like their python based configuration programs. I like/etc/sysconfig,/etc/profile.d, etc... very modular.
And who'd 've thunk... RedHat is basicallly IPv6 ready out of the box. I didn't notice that until recently. Very easy to setup 6to4, radvd, etc. Even Mozilla is compiled with --enable-ipv6. Thanks RedHat!
Do these patents effect anything that SCO licensed to Microsoft? If IBM wins, preventing SCO from shipping products, what products will Microsoft be prevented from shipping? Will Microsoft have to license patents from IBM?
Microsoft payed SCO to license something, what was it? Does IBM's lawsuit effect this license? If SCO can't ship products if IBM wins their lawsuit, what products will Microsoft be prevented from shipping?
Disney seems to get a lot of grief, but it does seem that they are able to take some risks every once in a while. Disney said they'd never release their animated classics on DVD, but they did (and they've made a lot of money on them). Disney feared VHS/DVD, now they embrace it. Disney fears the Internet, but now it seems they are trying to embrace it.
Do a search on "Moviebeam" and check out what else they're up to. Moviebeam is a TiVo like service that beams digital movies over the broadcast airwaves (encyrpted of course) to a set to box. The box stores something like 100 movies that a person can purchase for viewing on demand.
Disney gets a lot of flack, but at least they experiment.
Recently Rawhide had Eclipse and Tomcat in it. I was pleasantly surpised to see Eclipse running on ppc Rawhide! It looked like they were running it against gcc's java, but after reading that article I was possibly mistaken. Did anyone else look at the Rawhide version of Eclipse?
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If I recall correctly, Social Security was originally supposed to be a *suppliment* to retirement, not retirement.
It seems to me privatizing Social Security is the same as Social Security (automatically extracted from your paycheck), except private accounts are used. The private accounts will likely have a greater return on investment than standard Social Security. Given enough time people won't want old Social Security.
Nope, not what I'm looking for.
What I'm saying is that Packet8 and Vonage only allow you to connect their little cisco box to their service. All you get on the other side of that box is a POTS jack. Now why would I want to connect my VoIP enabled PBX to a POTS line when, in theory, I could connect it directly to Vonage over IP?
Only a few providers allow for this. VoicePulse is one that is Asterisk friendly. That means that I could setup a box, connect a bunch of VoIP phones to it. Then the box could makes calls to the PSTN via VoicePulse.
Asterisk supports digital phone lines too, but why go through the trouble of getting a voice T1/PRI line when all you need is an IP line?
Hacking the password (if it was possible) out of the little cisco boxes and hooking up your own VoIP equipment is grounds for termination of service at Vonage and Packet8.
I would like to know which of the services allow a user to connect their own hardware.
For example, Voicepulse allow a user to connect an Asterisk box to their servers. No problem. This allows for a local PBX, instead of a Centrex style system that most provide.
Anyone know of large providers that allow connecting your own switch?
As soon as I heard about the AT&T/Cingular merger I wondered if this ment that Verizon would buy SprintPCS within 2-3 years. Just like AT&T and Cingular both use GSM, Verizon and SprintPCS use CDMA. What would be really interesting is if Nextel, SprintPCS, and Verizon merged. What would Cingular think? :)
Not stabilized yet. Just like Germany wasn't stabilized for a while after the WW either.
He wasn't following UN resolutions. If he was we wouldn't have found missiles that he wasn't supposed to have, amongst other things.
Latest polls in Iraq show that they *do* want a democracy. One of the nice things about Saddam paying lip service to Islam over the years and basically running a secular government is that the majority of the people want a secular government. One of the nice things about trying to do this in Iraq is that the populace is relatively well educated for the region. For these reasons, it's likely that democracy would work better in Iraq than Afghanistan! No wonder the crazies are fighting tooth and nail in Iraq.
The younger generation in Iran want the same thing. We've been watching these movements over the years in Iran, hoping that things will turn someday. It was even covered on TV news magazines a few years ago about how Westernized the younger Iranians are becoming. We now have Iran basically surrounded. We have then surrounded by democracies! What a brilliant strategy! This will hopefully put pressure on the Iranian leaders to keep in line and allow the younger generations to move forward in building a Iranian democracy.
This isn't going to happen overnight, it might take 10 or 20 years, but it's worth it!
The UN violations weren't just about WMD. Now we find out that they had explosives that were supposed to be destroyed, but the UN inspection group allowed it anyways because they were convinced Saddam would only use them for mining, etc. That might have been true, but he still wasn't supposed to have them.
Violated their national soverignty? Technically it was a cease-fire. The cease-fire was good as long as they followed the UN resolutions. Obviously they didn't. Hussein apparently asked us to invade, despite Frances assurances to him that they'd block any attempt.
After 10 years of violating UN resolutions it was the right thing for us to do. We know why certain nations were against us in this. Hussein had them on the take. How was Bush supposed to proceed? Some nations wouldn't budge for some unkown (at the time reason). Now we know, and Bush made the right decision.
You are completely right that hate will take time to fade. It's not going to fade in an environment like Afghanistan had. Providing a place were a true economy can grow. Providing a democracy can give an environment where the hate can fade.
Is everyone sure that the war was a bad idea? It seems to me trying to stabilize the region is a good idea. Previous attempts haven't worked very well and have just created an environment that creates terrorists.
The best way to fight terrorism is to build an environment where people don't want to be terrorist. Putting in a democracy (the majority of Iraqi's want a democracy) could have long term effects on the region. The ecomony will certainly improve due to the fact that the sanctions have ended. We won't know how well the plan will work for 10 or 20 years.
Bush took a risk. I like that fact that he didn't contiue with the same old policy of containment. Real change is what was needed. Let the people have some sense of self determination.
Personally, I think the longer term vision is to put pressure on Iran by putting in a democracy in Iraq. Bush always put this under the heading of stabilizing the Middle East. Iran is another big problem country. Some people are starting to talk about this idea now.
Really? What about these projects then:
GPS and GnuRadio
and
OpenSourceGPS
The latter claims:
"The receiver requires at a minimum a 100 MHz 486 IBM PC with 640k RAM."
So it seems to be possible. Someone posted the GPSTk link to the GnuRadio mailing list with the hope of eventually getting GnuRadio the ability to do advanced processing of GPS signals.
I'm not a GPS expert... am I missing something here?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this software is very important. This is the software that normally runs inside the GPS, not for drawing maps, but interpreting the GPS radio signals and calculating the lat/long numbers. Why would this be useful? Well, say, you take a project like GnuRadio and make your own GPS receiver. GnuRadio can demodulate the signals and convert it to data. This software would allow you to take the data you receive with GnuRadio and do something with it.
It seems to me that this is first time that code like this has ever been published under an open license.
It's been pointed out in other places that it was Unocal and the Clinton administration that supported the land pipeline. Later the Bush administration opposed it and supported an alternate approach. The pipeline was never built and probably never will be.
So, you are mis-informed. Hmmm. It seems people are getting the wrong impressions from this factual movie. How could that be?
It's great that they're lowering the amount of smoke for environmental reasons. BUT I have to vent a little! Who the heck cares about the people that were stupid enough buy a house across the street from Disneyland! They're worried about ash? MOVE!!! I just don't get it.
Same thing goes for airports and train tracks!
Sorry to follow up with my own comment, but now that I think about it IBM's GPFS uses IP inside a SP cluster to do the same thing. I'm not sure if this is masterless or not. I'm pretty sure it does use their DLM, but may require a master node to handle the IO to the hard drive.
IBM has a Linux version of GPFS now. So they've moved the filesystem out of the SP cluster.
IBM has a new filesystem called Storage Tank that lets the clients directly access the remote hard drive. I'm note sure it's truely masterless though since the master "hard drive" is actually a computer that may handle logic beyond normal SAN logic. For example, I can't run Storage Tank on a Firewire hard drive shared between Linux boxes.
Could someone confirm my example???
The difference is how it tries to solve the problem. NFS works over IP and access files at the inode level. This requires the server system or device to be running RPC and the NFS protocol. Most network filesystems work in a similar way. You have servers and clients accessing the servers via some protocol.
Now imagine a filesystem designed for servers that allows them to access the filesystem at a block level directly via the shared bus. Let's say a parallel SCSI buss (or any bus that allows more than one host, e.g. iSCSI, Fibre Channel, Firewire). Imagine how fast it would be to access a shared disk over Fibre Channel! The problem is that if two servers mount the filesystem at the same time it would normally currupt the filesystem. People with SAN's (Storage Area Networks) solve this problem by making mini virtual hard drives and setting ACL's on them so only one host can access that virtual hard drive at a time. This could lead to a waste of space.
GFS solves the SAN problem by using a Distributed Lock Manager (DLM). No one host is the server of the filesystem, but writes/locks are coordinated via the DLM. Now multiple hosts *can* share a virtual hard drive or real block device and not corrupt the filesystem. If a host dies, no problem, there is no server for the filesystem!
Let's give an example. Say you have a firewire enclosure. Now plug that firewire hard drive into two computers. This, by the way, may still require a patch to sbp so that Linux will tell the enclosure to allow both hosts to talk to it at the same time. Now that the hard drive is talking to both computers you could run GFS on it and access the data at the block level by both systems. Now start serving email via IMAP (load balanced), *both hot*, no standby. Now kill a box. IMAP still works. No remounting, no resycronization.
Pretty amazing if you ask me! This technology is pretty rare. IBM has GPFS. SGI has Clustered XFS. Both are pretty expensive. GFS? RedHat just re-GPL'd it! Microsoft? Ummm. I think they are just now getting logical volume management.
GFS also has nice features like journaling (kinda required for this sorta thing), ACL's, quotas, and online resizing.
Now tell me Linux isn't enterprise!
Actually George W. Bush tried to get into the oil business, but the Texas oil market fell apart. I think he knows just as much as anyone the economics of oil.
Another post pointed out that the oil companies now bill themselves as "energy companies." I don't think that is purely for PR reasons, they know that eventually they will go out of business unless they diversify.
Ummm. Let me speculate a bit. If bio-fuel is oil-like, wouldn't an oil company be interested in it? They are already dealing with the stuff. With this they don't have to buy it from some far off land and ship it here. They don't have to drill and explore for it. They simply feed it! That sounds like a great deal for an oil company.
Big oil seems to be the boogey-man. It's just a business like any other business. If the economics change, they will eventually have to change. You don't think that if some cost effective way to make oil was developed they wouldn't jump on it like white on rice?
It all comes down to economics. Right now fossil oil is still relatively cheep. They could try to fight the economics, but why?
Wow, this sounds very similar to a company I worked at called zKey.com. We started on a centralized system, but we were moving to a federated system. I haven't gone through all the Liberty Alliance stuff, but it sounds more like what zKey.com wanted.
The difference was that we wanted to build cool software on top the the preference system. Software that would help with business travelers, etc.
Thank you! I've always felt the same way! I don't understand people sometimes. This is a *good* thing for Christians.
;)
I'm not saying that *I'm* going to signup for the thing, but, hey, it's a *good* sign of things to come!
I'm a Christian, and I say bring it on! A Christian shouldn't have anything to fear! Any "body mark" that could be a *requirement* for global commerce just means that the Bible's predictions are right and the Christian can rejoice that the end is near. Yay!
Again, why should I be afraid???
Just to be clear though, I'm not saying *I'm* going to *sign-up* for one.
Can you imagine if Internet email had to be provided by only a handful of companies? Bad idea right? Why is IM any different? This is why Jabber is such a good idea. Anyone can setup a local Jabber server. Jabber servers will route Jabber messages between them.
If there was some way to get ISP's to start setting up Jabber servers for their users, then people wouldn't be dependent on Microsoft's whim's.
The strategy I'm taking is to use the RedHat high end products for running commercial applications (like Oracle). For everything else, standard RedHat is fine. The developers like that RedHat keeps pace with the new stuff they're working on.
/etc/sysconfig, /etc/profile.d, etc... very modular.
The advent of http://www.fedora.us bodes well for the future. I expect to see more 3rd party support for the RedHat standard package. That's the nice thing about RedHat finally opening up their devel process.
At worst, you could just take the standard distro that RedHat bases their advanced products on and use the security patches from the advanced on the standard distro. For example, install RedHat 7.2 and install any patches from the currently support advanced product. The only thing is that you'll have to rpmbuild --rebuild the src.rpm's as they are released.
I really like RedHat's way of doing things. I like their python based configuration programs. I like
And who'd 've thunk... RedHat is basicallly IPv6 ready out of the box. I didn't notice that until recently. Very easy to setup 6to4, radvd, etc. Even Mozilla is compiled with --enable-ipv6. Thanks RedHat!
Do these patents effect anything that SCO licensed to Microsoft? If IBM wins, preventing SCO from shipping products, what products will Microsoft be prevented from shipping? Will Microsoft have to license patents from IBM?
This could get really, really interesting.
Microsoft payed SCO to license something, what was it? Does IBM's lawsuit effect this license? If SCO can't ship products if IBM wins their lawsuit, what products will Microsoft be prevented from shipping?
Disney seems to get a lot of grief, but it does seem that they are able to take some risks every once in a while. Disney said they'd never release their animated classics on DVD, but they did (and they've made a lot of money on them). Disney feared VHS/DVD, now they embrace it. Disney fears the Internet, but now it seems they are trying to embrace it.
Do a search on "Moviebeam" and check out what else they're up to. Moviebeam is a TiVo like service that beams digital movies over the broadcast airwaves (encyrpted of course) to a set to box. The box stores something like 100 movies that a person can purchase for viewing on demand.
Disney gets a lot of flack, but at least they experiment.
Recently Rawhide had Eclipse and Tomcat in it. I was pleasantly surpised to see Eclipse running on ppc Rawhide! It looked like they were running it against gcc's java, but after reading that article I was possibly mistaken. Did anyone else look at the Rawhide version of Eclipse?