Psst, this is my own thoughts, not AT&T Wireless. I just work there. (;
Phones. 1. Nokia is rock solid, great battery life, and the easiest menu of them all. Get a 61xx model. 2. Nokia Faceplates Skinz.;) Dont like the 1 piece color? How about clear (imac), animals, metals, etc.. Check out http://www.phoneart.com. 3. Nokia, get the ear piece adapter. Makes it easy to drive or work on a computer. 4. Nokia has a few dozen ring tunes, the UK models can be programmed with private tunes. 5. Motorola StarTac will impress the babes, looks cool, but doesnt have the battery life.
Service 1. AT&T has the largest coverage area, with an extended roaming area for those who live in the back woods. 2. AT&T Digital One rate, you cant beat the price. http://www.att.com/onenet/ 3. Family plan, up to 5 phones, unlimited talk time to each other (Same calling area). 4. AT&T prepaid (For those with ok credit) 5. Sprint - Not bad, not great. Works ok, but limited coverage area.
Internet Phones Mitsubishi T250 with AT&T Pocketnet Service. http://www.attws.com/business/pocketnet/index.html Pocketnet has been out for 3 years. But LARGE Personal Launch date is a few weeks away. The Mistubisi T250 is the same siza as a Nokia, had the best display, with Indeglow backlight. 1. 1. The phone uses CDPD network (Largest Wireless data network, with your own IP) 2. Supports TML, HDML, WAP, WML, WMLSCRIPT. 3. Email, Pageing, Internet surfing, bookmarks, Pop email, Personal site to configure services. 4. PIM (sync with exchange, notes, domma delimited text files, etc..) and much more.
McCaw offered to buy Iridium. Iridium turned McCaw down. Not enough money for investors.(No, it wasn't broadband) Iridium says it cant find any buyers. Iridium just doesn't want to sell cheap, rather file for bankruptcy. Now they want to burn the business. If I invested, Id rather have 1/2 of my money than none.
The courts/investors bought bankruptcy, lock, stock and barrel.
Its been 2 weeks now since I ordered.. I bet its the new "Crippled" model..
1. Charge back on credit card. 2. File complaint with attorneys office of this bait and switch tactic. 3. Report them to B&B 4. Offer to send it back IF they pay fedex to pick it up. ??? 5. Sue in small claims court. (Hey, I'm salary, take a day off work) (: ??? 6. Post experiences on Montleyfool then go down the list on http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance_ and_Investment/
What I want is something that can record Mpeg2. Humm, Tivo does, now If I can just move the files to my personal linux box. Burn a CD with Simpsons on it. (:
I'm the person that runs the Uplink servers for AT&T. (Uplink = Phone.com phone gateway software)
AT&T is doing it right. We don't use phone numbers for subscriber IDs. Thou I do tend to use phone numbers for my test phones. Phones never talk to any web site directly, they use a proxy agent. The IP that is logged shows the agent IP, not the cell phone.
Alot of posts bashing sprint. Just some quick information about Sprint vs. AT&T Wireless. Sprint uses on their own network and charges per kilobyte of SMS traffic. AT&T has roaming agreements with other cdpd carriers. (Larger coverage area) AT&T also has an unlimited usage plan.
As for the phones being usable. They are not over hyped. You can view html web sites, but hdml and wap/wml/wml+ sites are native to the phone. (No translation needed.) Some of the interesting things you can use them for, Email, Info services (news, stocks, sports scores, phone book, fax, games), customized apps (Server status, ping, traceroute, circuit testing...), e-commerce (flowers, food, movie tickets), and on and on.. One of the hottest usages are for dispatch customers. Check your next delivery, pickup, work order, etc... At work we can access our Exchange server to read our email and view our calendars. (This is priceless in a large company.)
Most configuration for phones are done with a personalized web site. You use your personal computers web browser too setup your Email, Bookmarks, Calendar (sync to your exchange, notes, schedule+, etc.) Hookup a special cable to your internet phone and make your laptop wireless. If you just want the one piece wireless solution, get a sierra wireless air card (pc card).
You need to think of the internet phone as a PDA. Extend your office, have quick access to your information. The biggest mistake I see people do is try to replace their laptop.
IMHO,
-Brook Harty (All comments are my own and not the opinion of AT&T Wireless.)
PS. Whats the largest IPO ever? AT&T Wireless.
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Mccaw wanted to buy Iridium, but motorola stepped in and wanted billions more for stock holders and bills. (Smooth move motorola...)
Now Mccaw can wait a year, its contracts are up and go with a nice little boeing spinoff for 1/3rd the price.
And as for the MS wireless project, its using AT&Ts cdpd network. (Formally Macaw)
Teledesic wont start operation till 2004 or so. (64Meg/sec download baby, oh yeah)
AT&T will have GPRS 128K wireless (per channel) by summer 2002. They are installing the network today.
If anyone read that article on IBM porting linux to the S/390 would know this is a PERFECT solution. If you missed it here is a quick overview. The S/390 runs virtual machines. You can run (I think 14000 linux machines) on a S/390. All machines are indepent of each other, and if you mess one machine up, just install from a image file. (Sweet) The S/390 was a perfect solution to someone that runs a server farm. (Hint, CompileFarm) Its also cost effective when you consider 1000 i386 boxes or 1 s/390. (Hint, 5Nine anyone?)
Missed the S/390 being used in the article, but sounds like a good idea. -Brook Harty
These companies sell "Nothing" and are worth billions. The only reason they are worth money is they have a monopolistic hold on services. (Well netsol still has 90% of domain names)
Verisign sells the illusion of "Security". Network Solutions sells a 1 second database update.
Only in America can companies that sell nothing, and have the worst customer support be worth billions.
If your going to build a Linux box check the supported hardware. Even Win2K doesnt support everything. I bought some cheap 100mbit cards with the tulip.c drivers. The floppys even had linux drivers.. I was just lucky, your millage may very.. -Brook Harty
There are still alot of legacy hardware/software that will not be upgraded. How many of you guys are still running dos, win311 or os/2 boxes? Would it be nice to hook a linux box up to that network?
NetBEUI was nice when you had a small office with a few machines and needed a quick and easy lan to setup. It still is the easiest way to setup a few windows machines to share files or printers.
But for me, its TCP/IP and a DHCP server.
One last thought, since its easy to setup, maybe it would be good for Home Stereo Equipment. No IP, just NetBEUI the linux(mp3?) box.
Brook Harty -IronWolve- Tribes, UT, Half-life.. No time to code!
As a html coder that started in VI, I can tell you that Netscape has had problems with HTML. And when IE entered, writing pages with standard HTML that would work on both, took alot of effort.
OFF Topic and Flame bait tags? Bull.. The current group of moderators should be tar'ed and feathered.
I suggest you read "Post funny comments" as acceptable posts in the moderator guide lines...
Problem is that most kids dont learn how to type correctly. With kids starting at around 4 years old, we might want to start keyboarding classes in elementry school.
I taught myself on a c64, hands on wrong keys, but I used all my fingers. This made my highschool keyboarding class even harder...
My old keyboard is a m$ 1.0 natural with the letters worn off. Might switch to a new 3.0 now that they arrow keys are fixed.
-IronWolve- (Playing tribes at a Ping Pong server near you..)
Ive been thinking of getting one of these for awhile. Either that or a 2 part keyboard. Only thing about keyboards is I keep moving my right hand to use the mouse...
People will choose hardware because of linux/bsd support. ABIT knows this. Good for them. Other manufactures should learn from this example... (Ehem, Intel...)
Now just just give me thier tools and drivers for RedHat. Thanks!;)
1. Username/password authentication is a standard authentication scheme. Just dont let 400 people use the account at once. 2. Server side security.. The only thing you can do on a hacked account is add CDs. 3. Privacy concerns... So you send a few things to MP3.com. IPv6 will use MAC addresses, your IP address IS logged, and your email is not private.
I wish the RIAA would let MP3.com come out with new technologies. But then, Evil megacorps are everywhere.
Sun Microsystems claims to be a leader in system reliability and more reliable than Windows. WTF? The article compares the reliability of Sun Hardware vs. MS Windows. Lets compare my car's uptime against my PC while playing games?! I have multiple sun E4Ks, and U2's with uptimes of over 2 years. I wont even let a windows box in my production environment... E-Commerce via ms SQl... Yeah, most e-commerce off the shelf packages/kits are for windows. But if you specialize your software, you are most likely go with a *nix flavor os. Muli-vender that offer availability guarantees for Windows platforms.. I can get an guarantee with anyone. - "You can shit in a box and put a Guarantee on it, You are just buying a Guaranteed piece of shit."
The whole article was written by marketing monkeys.. Source via Netcraft...
AOL another multi-billion dollar company has to use opensource and free programmers to code a browser? Sheesh......
Side note.. I use IE5.1, Its FAST, stable and its skinable. Its user interface needs work.. Netscape crashs too much but it UI is Perfect. Mozilla is still in the works, its UI is the worst I have ever seen.
Slashdot Mirror
Phones.
1. Nokia is rock solid, great battery life, and the easiest menu of them all. Get a 61xx model.
2. Nokia Faceplates Skinz.
3. Nokia, get the ear piece adapter. Makes it easy to drive or work on a computer.
4. Nokia has a few dozen ring tunes, the UK models can be programmed with private tunes.
5. Motorola StarTac will impress the babes, looks cool, but doesnt have the battery life.
Service
1. AT&T has the largest coverage area, with an extended roaming area for those who live in the back woods.
2. AT&T Digital One rate, you cant beat the price. http://www.att.com/onenet/
3. Family plan, up to 5 phones, unlimited talk time to each other (Same calling area).
4. AT&T prepaid (For those with ok credit)
5. Sprint - Not bad, not great. Works ok, but limited coverage area.
Internet Phonesl
Mitsubishi T250 with AT&T Pocketnet Service.
http://www.attws.com/business/pocketnet/index.htm
Pocketnet has been out for 3 years. But LARGE Personal Launch date is a few weeks away.
The Mistubisi T250 is the same siza as a Nokia, had the best display, with Indeglow backlight.
1. 1. The phone uses CDPD network (Largest Wireless data network, with your own IP)
2. Supports TML, HDML, WAP, WML, WMLSCRIPT.
3. Email, Pageing, Internet surfing, bookmarks, Pop email, Personal site to configure services.
4. PIM (sync with exchange, notes, domma delimited text files, etc..) and much more.
IMHO,
---IronWolve---
Iridium turned McCaw down. Not enough money for investors.(No, it wasn't broadband)
Iridium says it cant find any buyers.
Iridium just doesn't want to sell cheap, rather file for bankruptcy.
Now they want to burn the business.
If I invested, Id rather have 1/2 of my money than none.
The courts/investors bought bankruptcy, lock, stock and barrel.
1. Charge back on credit card._ and_Investment/
2. File complaint with attorneys office of this bait and switch tactic.
3. Report them to B&B
4. Offer to send it back IF they pay fedex to pick it up.
??? 5. Sue in small claims court. (Hey, I'm salary, take a day off work) (:
??? 6. Post experiences on Montleyfool then go down the list on
http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Finance
Well ok, just really 1,3, and 4.
-IronWolve-
Humm, Tivo does, now If I can just move the files to my personal linux box.
Burn a CD with Simpsons on it. (:
-IronWolve-
* Linux its not just for PCs anymore.
Costco has stereo/4head for 79 bux.. But it doesnt play my DVDs. ;)
The unit does look pretty sweet thou. GPL and linux drivers..
-IronWolve-
Did anyone post a mirror? Slashdotted already.
M$ is using AT&T's cdpd service for its wireless needs.
I'm the person that runs the Uplink servers for AT&T. (Uplink = Phone.com phone gateway software)
AT&T is doing it right. We don't use phone numbers for subscriber IDs.
Thou I do tend to use phone numbers for my test phones.
Phones never talk to any web site directly, they use a proxy agent.
The IP that is logged shows the agent IP, not the cell phone.
Alot of posts bashing sprint. Just some quick information about Sprint vs. AT&T Wireless.
Sprint uses on their own network and charges per kilobyte of SMS traffic.
AT&T has roaming agreements with other cdpd carriers. (Larger coverage area)
AT&T also has an unlimited usage plan.
As for the phones being usable. They are not over hyped.
You can view html web sites, but hdml and wap/wml/wml+ sites are native to the phone. (No translation needed.)
Some of the interesting things you can use them for, Email, Info services (news, stocks, sports scores, phone book, fax, games), customized apps (Server status, ping, traceroute, circuit testing...), e-commerce (flowers, food, movie tickets), and on and on..
One of the hottest usages are for dispatch customers. Check your next delivery, pickup, work order, etc...
At work we can access our Exchange server to read our email and view our calendars. (This is priceless in a large company.)
Most configuration for phones are done with a personalized web site. You use your personal computers web browser too setup your Email, Bookmarks, Calendar (sync to your exchange, notes, schedule+, etc.)
Hookup a special cable to your internet phone and make your laptop wireless.
If you just want the one piece wireless solution, get a sierra wireless air card (pc card).
You need to think of the internet phone as a PDA. Extend your office, have quick access to your information. The biggest mistake I see people do is try to replace their laptop.
IMHO,
-Brook Harty
(All comments are my own and not the opinion of AT&T Wireless.)
PS. Whats the largest IPO ever? AT&T Wireless.
Mccaw wanted to buy Iridium, but motorola stepped in and wanted billions more for stock holders and bills. (Smooth move motorola...)
:)
Now Mccaw can wait a year, its contracts are up and go with a nice little boeing spinoff for 1/3rd the price.
And as for the MS wireless project, its using AT&Ts cdpd network. (Formally Macaw)
Teledesic wont start operation till 2004 or so.
(64Meg/sec download baby, oh yeah)
AT&T will have GPRS 128K wireless (per channel) by summer 2002. They are installing the network today.
-Brook Harty
--
how about a +3
If anyone read that article on IBM porting linux to the S/390 would know this is a PERFECT solution.
If you missed it here is a quick overview. The S/390 runs virtual machines. You can run (I think 14000 linux machines) on a S/390.
All machines are indepent of each other, and if you mess one machine up, just install from a image file. (Sweet)
The S/390 was a perfect solution to someone that runs a server farm. (Hint, CompileFarm)
Its also cost effective when you consider 1000 i386 boxes or 1 s/390. (Hint, 5Nine anyone?)
Missed the S/390 being used in the article, but sounds like a good idea.
-Brook Harty
These companies sell "Nothing" and are worth billions. The only reason they are worth money is they have a monopolistic hold on services. (Well netsol still has 90% of domain names)
Verisign sells the illusion of "Security".
Network Solutions sells a 1 second database update.
Only in America can companies that sell nothing, and have the worst customer support be worth billions.
-Brook Harty
If your going to build a Linux box check the supported hardware. Even Win2K doesnt support everything. I bought some cheap 100mbit cards with the tulip.c drivers. The floppys even had linux drivers.. I was just lucky, your millage may very.. -Brook Harty
NetBEUI was nice when you had a small office with a few machines and needed a quick and easy lan to setup. It still is the easiest way to setup a few windows machines to share files or printers.
But for me, its TCP/IP and a DHCP server.
One last thought, since its easy to setup, maybe it would be good for Home Stereo Equipment. No IP, just NetBEUI the linux(mp3?) box.
Brook Harty
-IronWolve- Tribes, UT, Half-life.. No time to code!
As a html coder that started in VI, I can tell you that Netscape has had problems with HTML. And when IE entered, writing pages with standard HTML that would work on both, took alot of effort.
OFF Topic and Flame bait tags? Bull..
The current group of moderators should be tar'ed and feathered.
I suggest you read "Post funny comments" as acceptable posts in the moderator guide lines...
-Brook Harty
waiting for troll and flamebait tags to be added.
Ya know, I actually laughed when I read this. (: -IronWolve- Brook Harty
Problem is that most kids dont learn how to type correctly. With kids starting at around 4 years old, we might want to start keyboarding classes in elementry school.
I taught myself on a c64, hands on wrong keys, but I used all my fingers. This made my highschool keyboarding class even harder...
My old keyboard is a m$ 1.0 natural with the letters worn off. Might switch to a new 3.0 now that they arrow keys are fixed.
-IronWolve-
(Playing tribes at a Ping Pong server near you..)
Ive been thinking of getting one of these for awhile. Either that or a 2 part keyboard. Only thing about keyboards is I keep moving my right hand to use the mouse...
(Tribes - Playing at a Ping Pong Server near you)
ABIT knows this. Good for them. Other manufactures should learn from this example... (Ehem, Intel...)
Now just just give me thier tools and drivers for RedHat. Thanks! ;)
1. Username/password authentication is a standard authentication scheme. Just dont let 400 people use the account at once.
2. Server side security.. The only thing you can do on a hacked account is add CDs.
3. Privacy concerns... So you send a few things to MP3.com. IPv6 will use MAC addresses, your IP address IS logged, and your email is not private.
I wish the RIAA would let MP3.com come out with new technologies. But then, Evil megacorps are everywhere.
Later RIAA, gonna go beam-it over my dsl...
The easiest protection for CDR copying is overburning. Most CDR burners will not burn over 74 minutes. Many music cds are 75-76 minutes.
If you borrow a cd you could just rip/encode it..
5 times this week, Site gets /. then goes poof!
Nuf said, Mirror it.
WTF? The article compares the reliability of Sun Hardware vs. MS Windows. Lets compare my car's uptime against my PC while playing games?!
I have multiple sun E4Ks, and U2's with uptimes of over 2 years. I wont even let a windows box in my production environment...
E-Commerce via ms SQl...
Yeah, most e-commerce off the shelf packages/kits are for windows. But if you specialize your software, you are most likely go with a *nix flavor os.
Muli-vender that offer availability guarantees for Windows platforms..
I can get an guarantee with anyone. - "You can shit in a box and put a Guarantee on it, You are just buying a Guaranteed piece of shit."
The whole article was written by marketing monkeys.. Source via Netcraft...
Side note.. I use IE5.1, Its FAST, stable and its skinable. Its user interface needs work..
Netscape crashs too much but it UI is Perfect.
Mozilla is still in the works, its UI is the worst I have ever seen.