Ah yes. FreeBSD, where they tell you to 'cvsup' and 'make world' to fix just about any problem that you encounter (yes, even the RELEASE version). And instead of the Linux 'kernel of the week' you get the 'FreeBSD cvs of the hour'. No thanks. FreeBSD just changes too fast for my taste.
The twisted pair wires in the ground for your telephone service is a "natural monopoly". The coax in the ground for your cable is "natural monopoly". The pipes in the ground for your water and sewer is a "natural monopoly". The wires that deliver your electricity is a "natural monopoly".
However, telecommunications service, television entertainment, water purification, sewer treatment, and electric generation is NOT a "natural monopoly". If the feds had ANY smarts at all, they would break up Verizon and all the other large phone companies into a company that owns the wires in the ground and a company to provide televommunicaitons services over the wires the lease from the "last mile" provider.
Having more than one girlfriend or boyfriend (or both) is more common than you might think. I don't mean cheating. I mean everyone knows everyone else and we all get along. One form of this is called polyamory.
No your message is complete BS. I've done what is described several years ago. We read the tarrifs and ordered the lines based on the USOC (basically the phone company "part number"). We used Paradyne DSL and MVL modems and Pairgain cards in our DSLAM. Our NOC was about 1 block from the phone company office in the downtown area. Our customers were all in the downtown New Orleans area.
We did this at ICorp about three or four years ago using Paradyne equipment. Worked great when you could get BellSouth to install the lines correctly. The biggest problem with this idea is that the phone company does not make any guarntee as to what freq the line will be able to pass. We did have good luck with it, however.
"What kind of orbit is that exactly that it stays on the sunny side? Not geosynchronous since that follows the same global spot around."
Same orbit as the moon.
Sounds like a great box, but it needs IPSec tunneling support (where the router tunnels your lan to a corporate IPSec box) and it needs to work with non-Net2Phone VoIP servers.
Heck, I'd be happy just to find a cheap box that can act as a NAT and IPsec box. All the cheap NAT routers that I've seen support, at most, IPSec pass thru so you can use your PC to create an IPSec tunnel to your corporate LAN, but the router itself doesn't support being an IPSec client.
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With Telocity DSL you are connected 24/7 (duh!), get a static IP address, are able to run "personal" servers, and in BellSouth areas is about $50/month. Of course, if you abuse the service, I suspect they'll yank your service. For an extra $10/month they will give you extra IP's and some silly firewall service too. They are not perfect (they had some really horrible problems about a month ago), but they are not too bad.
I usually look at how long the warrenty is, since I expect it to break shortly after the warrenty ends.
My nifty telephone with backlit display, decent speaker phone, etc. had to be repaired once while it was under the "extended" warrenty, and then died after that expired. Lightbulbs are constantly failing, my internet service goes down more often than Monica, my housemate's car is always needing something repaired, the power isn't too reliable, the nice shiny new UPS that I bought blew up this weekend after having it for less then three months. Hard drive failures, motherboard failures, monitor failures. My housemate goes thru CD-RW drives frequently, he gets a few VCR when the warrenty ends because that's when it breaks.
Yes, there are some things like guns and airplanes that must be reliable, but most things need to be designed to break so you'll buy a new one. --Eric
We need to break up the local phone companies into two pieces - a piece that owns/maintains the local loop (and the central office) and a piece that provides dialtone. Regulate the part that owns the local loop and let the part that provides dialtone become unregulated. Use the rules and regulations for the breakup of AT&T as a model for how to seperate the two pieces. It is very, very expensive to put wires/fiber into the ground. The local loopsIS a natural monopoly, like cable, power, gas, and water service.
--Eric
I would be happy to pay more for QoS if it would mean that my packets would have a higher priority than someone else's packets. Ya know what? Nobody can offer me a QoS from my apartment to Slashdot or Yahoo, or www.dilbert.com. *THAT* is the reason nobody is willing to pay extra for QoS. Yes, I know that from my apartment to Slashdot traverses several networks, managed by several companies. I don't care. If they can't offer end-to-end QoS, then I don't want it. --Eric
"Or are you in favor of taxing the same gains twice?"
Well, gee, that happens already! The company gets taxed on it's income, the employee gets his income taxed by fed taxes, state taxes, unemployment tax, social security tax, then when the employee buys something it's taxed by sales tax, maybe tobacco tax, or luxury tax, or booze tax, then when you die it's taxed AGAIN. This is a heck of a lot more than "double taxation"
--Eric
I'll have to see if BellSouth has a better package. I currently have a "block the blocker" service, which doesn't catch "unknown number" calls. It was my understanding that that was as good as it gets, since if someone calls from some rural area that doesn't support caller id, they assume it's an OK call.
The FCC has a consumer information site at http://www.fcc.gov/cib/. It includes information on slamming and other FCC related consumer information topics.
In violation of (my) reading of the FCC rules, most telemarketers make their equipment unable to pass caller id information to the phone network. Therefore, telemarketers show up as "unknown number" or something along those lines. These calls are not considered "blocked" by the local phone company and so to not get caught by services like "privacy manager", which only catch numbers with caller id blocked. --Eric
I use ReiserFS. It seems to be the most mature of the 4, seems to work well and is reasonably fast. I still don't use it on any production servers, but I'm close to migrating my come server to it (I already use it for my home workstation)
Sounds like a nice product. Too bad I can't use their web site (http://www.ire.com/) with Netscape Communicator 4.7 on Linux. Sounds like a great product.
MCI Worldcom is not one company, it's a collection of seperate companies squashed togather. Maybe someday they will be one company, but not now. How many IP backbones do they have? How many FrameRelay backbones do they have? (7 from what I recall reading somewhere). How many long distance backbones do they have? Sprint, at least, seems to have built most of what they have from the ground up, in a way that seems to be reasonably connected togather.
I, at least, don't want my traffic going over 4 backbones, managed by 4 different groups of people, and be told that I'm dealing with "one" company.
Is there any reason that someone could not build something similar to DeCSS using a Windows DLL for the actual CSS stuff? It would not be cross hardware platform, but it would at least be something.
I use Mandrake for all the systems that I manage (Mandrake 6.1, I'm not gonna upgrade 20 machines, most of them servers without X, unless there's a REALLY good reason). My problems with Mandrake are that SRPMS commonly don't actually compile, their QA doesn't seem to be the greatest (the IP alias bug in the initscripts package is an example, IMAP support in the PHP RPM was broken as another example), and some incompatabilities between versions. None of these are HORRIBLE problems, but they are all annoying.
I'll stick to Mandrake 6.1 with a custom built kernel and a few packages from 7.0 or 7.1 for now.
I disagree. Microsoft software has not gained market share from convincing one user at a time. It has gained market share by convincing management to use their product. The average user is using Windows or Office or whatever because that's the company standard software.
We need to start convincing management, the decision makers, that Linux/Unix based software is better, tell them WHY is is better, and to make it the company standard software.
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Ah yes. FreeBSD, where they tell you to 'cvsup' and 'make world' to fix just about any problem that you encounter (yes, even the RELEASE version). And instead of the Linux 'kernel of the week' you get the 'FreeBSD cvs of the hour'. No thanks. FreeBSD just changes too fast for my taste.
The twisted pair wires in the ground for your telephone service is a "natural monopoly". The coax in the ground for your cable is "natural monopoly". The pipes in the ground for your water and sewer is a "natural monopoly". The wires that deliver your electricity is a "natural monopoly".
However, telecommunications service, television entertainment, water purification, sewer treatment, and electric generation is NOT a "natural monopoly". If the feds had ANY smarts at all, they would break up Verizon and all the other large phone companies into a company that owns the wires in the ground and a company to provide televommunicaitons services over the wires the lease from the "last mile" provider.
Having more than one girlfriend or boyfriend (or both) is more common than you might think. I don't mean cheating. I mean everyone knows everyone else and we all get along. One form of this is called polyamory.
No your message is complete BS. I've done what is described several years ago. We read the tarrifs and ordered the lines based on the USOC (basically the phone company "part number"). We used Paradyne DSL and MVL modems and Pairgain cards in our DSLAM. Our NOC was about 1 block from the phone company office in the downtown area. Our customers were all in the downtown New Orleans area.
We did this at ICorp about three or four years ago using Paradyne equipment. Worked great when you could get BellSouth to install the lines correctly. The biggest problem with this idea is that the phone company does not make any guarntee as to what freq the line will be able to pass. We did have good luck with it, however.
"What kind of orbit is that exactly that it stays on the sunny side? Not geosynchronous since that follows the same global spot around." Same orbit as the moon.
Sounds like a great box, but it needs IPSec tunneling support (where the router tunnels your lan to a corporate IPSec box) and it needs to work with non-Net2Phone VoIP servers.
Heck, I'd be happy just to find a cheap box that can act as a NAT and IPsec box. All the cheap NAT routers that I've seen support, at most, IPSec pass thru so you can use your PC to create an IPSec tunnel to your corporate LAN, but the router itself doesn't support being an IPSec client.
With Telocity DSL you are connected 24/7 (duh!), get a static IP address, are able to run "personal" servers, and in BellSouth areas is about $50/month. Of course, if you abuse the service, I suspect they'll yank your service. For an extra $10/month they will give you extra IP's and some silly firewall service too. They are not perfect (they had some really horrible problems about a month ago), but they are not too bad.
I suppose we could just get rid of the moderation system, since so many people seem to thing it is "highly flawed".
I usually look at how long the warrenty is, since I expect it to break shortly after the warrenty ends.
My nifty telephone with backlit display, decent speaker phone, etc. had to be repaired once while it was under the "extended" warrenty, and then died after that expired. Lightbulbs are constantly failing, my internet service goes down more often than Monica, my housemate's car is always needing something repaired, the power isn't too reliable, the nice shiny new UPS that I bought blew up this weekend after having it for less then three months. Hard drive failures, motherboard failures, monitor failures. My housemate goes thru CD-RW drives frequently, he gets a few VCR when the warrenty ends because that's when it breaks.
Yes, there are some things like guns and airplanes that must be reliable, but most things need to be designed to break so you'll buy a new one. --Eric
Sprint does not have a monopoly on wireless towers, the Bell companies have a monopoly on landlines. That is a key difference.
We need to break up the local phone companies into two pieces - a piece that owns/maintains the local loop (and the central office) and a piece that provides dialtone. Regulate the part that owns the local loop and let the part that provides dialtone become unregulated. Use the rules and regulations for the breakup of AT&T as a model for how to seperate the two pieces. It is very, very expensive to put wires/fiber into the ground. The local loopsIS a natural monopoly, like cable, power, gas, and water service. --Eric
I would be happy to pay more for QoS if it would mean that my packets would have a higher priority than someone else's packets. Ya know what? Nobody can offer me a QoS from my apartment to Slashdot or Yahoo, or www.dilbert.com. *THAT* is the reason nobody is willing to pay extra for QoS. Yes, I know that from my apartment to Slashdot traverses several networks, managed by several companies. I don't care. If they can't offer end-to-end QoS, then I don't want it. --Eric
A better idea would be to require managers that set impossible dealines to sleep as little as the people that have to meet the deadlines. --Eric
"Or are you in favor of taxing the same gains twice?"
Well, gee, that happens already! The company gets taxed on it's income, the employee gets his income taxed by fed taxes, state taxes, unemployment tax, social security tax, then when the employee buys something it's taxed by sales tax, maybe tobacco tax, or luxury tax, or booze tax, then when you die it's taxed AGAIN. This is a heck of a lot more than "double taxation" --Eric
I'll have to see if BellSouth has a better package. I currently have a "block the blocker" service, which doesn't catch "unknown number" calls. It was my understanding that that was as good as it gets, since if someone calls from some rural area that doesn't support caller id, they assume it's an OK call.
The FCC has a consumer information site at http://www.fcc.gov/cib/. It includes information on slamming and other FCC related consumer information topics.
In violation of (my) reading of the FCC rules, most telemarketers make their equipment unable to pass caller id information to the phone network. Therefore, telemarketers show up as "unknown number" or something along those lines. These calls are not considered "blocked" by the local phone company and so to not get caught by services like "privacy manager", which only catch numbers with caller id blocked. --Eric
I use ReiserFS. It seems to be the most mature of the 4, seems to work well and is reasonably fast. I still don't use it on any production servers, but I'm close to migrating my come server to it (I already use it for my home workstation)
Sounds like a nice product. Too bad I can't use their web site (http://www.ire.com/) with Netscape Communicator 4.7 on Linux. Sounds like a great product.
I don't play games, but my question is this: Are there any games out there that retail for $500?
MCI Worldcom is not one company, it's a collection of seperate companies squashed togather. Maybe someday they will be one company, but not now. How many IP backbones do they have? How many FrameRelay backbones do they have? (7 from what I recall reading somewhere). How many long distance backbones do they have? Sprint, at least, seems to have built most of what they have from the ground up, in a way that seems to be reasonably connected togather.
I, at least, don't want my traffic going over 4 backbones, managed by 4 different groups of people, and be told that I'm dealing with "one" company.
Is there any reason that someone could not build something similar to DeCSS using a Windows DLL for the actual CSS stuff? It would not be cross hardware platform, but it would at least be something.
I use Mandrake for all the systems that I manage (Mandrake 6.1, I'm not gonna upgrade 20 machines, most of them servers without X, unless there's a REALLY good reason). My problems with Mandrake are that SRPMS commonly don't actually compile, their QA doesn't seem to be the greatest (the IP alias bug in the initscripts package is an example, IMAP support in the PHP RPM was broken as another example), and some incompatabilities between versions. None of these are HORRIBLE problems, but they are all annoying.
I'll stick to Mandrake 6.1 with a custom built kernel and a few packages from 7.0 or 7.1 for now.
I disagree. Microsoft software has not gained market share from convincing one user at a time. It has gained market share by convincing management to use their product. The average user is using Windows or Office or whatever because that's the company standard software.
We need to start convincing management, the decision makers, that Linux/Unix based software is better, tell them WHY is is better, and to make it the company standard software.