I just heard somewhere that...
Friday, November 21, 2003 by EventHorizon | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
...By 2006, Dial-up will be eliminated and ppl will have to switch to broadband...Is there any truth to this?
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Koasati
Reply #42 Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:06 AM
......... but you'll do, until a geek comes along.... 
Reply #42 Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:06 AM
| btw: I am not a geek |
joetheblow
Reply #43 Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:17 AM
Reply #43 Saturday, November 22, 2003 8:17 AM
I don't think it will happen any time soon. Soon meaning 2006.
That is allot of money they will not be getting if they chose this option.
Those who use dial up because the can't afford anything else just won't get anything else.
That is allot of money they will not be getting if they chose this option.
Those who use dial up because the can't afford anything else just won't get anything else.
IPlural
Reply #45 Monday, November 24, 2003 11:19 AM
Reply #45 Monday, November 24, 2003 11:19 AM
you know, it was almost 8 years ago that Novell started working on a network through the power lines and running into homes. They even had a small setup they traveled with to different Big Red shows. I remember they came up with the NDS and were talking about how great it was one month and the next month they were talking about running networks through homes elc cabling. I had a issue with both things and they really were put out by my suggestions.
1: the NDS will allow Business around the world to all join and fall under one Tree. I asked who would administer this Tree. They said Novell, I asked who was ready to hang their business out there for everyone in the world to hack at while someone else, even if it was Novell, had control of it?
2: Homes of the future will all be wired into the Internet and everything plugged into a socket will be net ready, Lights, TV's, you Oven and on and on. I asked who wanted the government to have the ability to either lock you inside your home or out of it on a whim? Also who was ready to have the kid's next door turn your Fridge off in the middle of the night spoiling everything in it because they got in trouble for throwing a party and think you narked on them?
Man, Rick pulled me to the side after that and asked if I liked being invited to the release parties and such because if I kept it up I would basically end up persona-non-grata. I told him to tell those that had him ask me this to pee up a rope and at that point I asked if they wanted my CNE certification's back, everyone was going MS anyways... I also told him that I felt that MS was going to take over the LAN market because of all the side line crap Novell was messing with instead of sticking to the core products which is what made them strong in the first place.
Rick now works for Microsoft, Novell does ok but does not have anywhere near the market share it once held and there have been times since then that it was questioned if Novell could or would survive another year... sad...
Novell Servers are more stable, faster and more secure with less down time than Microsoft has evern dreamed of being and yet they never seem to keep it all in one sock...
1: the NDS will allow Business around the world to all join and fall under one Tree. I asked who would administer this Tree. They said Novell, I asked who was ready to hang their business out there for everyone in the world to hack at while someone else, even if it was Novell, had control of it?
2: Homes of the future will all be wired into the Internet and everything plugged into a socket will be net ready, Lights, TV's, you Oven and on and on. I asked who wanted the government to have the ability to either lock you inside your home or out of it on a whim? Also who was ready to have the kid's next door turn your Fridge off in the middle of the night spoiling everything in it because they got in trouble for throwing a party and think you narked on them?
Man, Rick pulled me to the side after that and asked if I liked being invited to the release parties and such because if I kept it up I would basically end up persona-non-grata. I told him to tell those that had him ask me this to pee up a rope and at that point I asked if they wanted my CNE certification's back, everyone was going MS anyways... I also told him that I felt that MS was going to take over the LAN market because of all the side line crap Novell was messing with instead of sticking to the core products which is what made them strong in the first place.
Rick now works for Microsoft, Novell does ok but does not have anywhere near the market share it once held and there have been times since then that it was questioned if Novell could or would survive another year... sad...
Novell Servers are more stable, faster and more secure with less down time than Microsoft has evern dreamed of being and yet they never seem to keep it all in one sock...
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Reply #41 Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:56 AM
$$$$$$$ though...
Actually, that might be something Brad might want to look into doing as a second business. Starting small of course, but, I know that the Midwest is ripe for installations. You sell hardware from Clarion, Lucent, KarlBridge, BlackBox and others and of course the cabling, telescopic masts, and prefab mini towers. Set up data links to ISP's and other feeds into the net, or for busines networks with remote locations. Years back, 1995 - 1996, I was up at Annarbhor (spelling) at the University conneting some of the K-12 schools with 10 mbit Mircowave and Spread Spectrum Radio fall back when the weather killed the Microwave, to the University for Internet and also the AP classes at the high schools...
The state paid a large contract on it and it only took 5 days after the site(s) surveys where finished.
WIth the new SSR without need for line of sight, and a couple of repeaters you could go 50 miles or better so you could really get out to those in the middle of nowhere. Hell the company I ran product development and was lead engineer at has been down in Africa for the last two years installing this stuff everywhere. We did all of Nato's bases and most of the Military Bases connecting the 6, BX, MP's to Admin and the gates and on the AFB's the flight lines. Once your name is out there, contracts fall out of the sky from Education, Health, Government - Local - State and Federal services...
mmm.... anyway...
btw: I am not a geek