From editor@telecom-digest.org Tue Jan 27 22:31:43 2004 Received: (from ptownson@localhost) by massis.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.6p2/8.11.3) id i0S3VgQ02973; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:31:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:31:43 -0500 (EST) From: editor@telecom-digest.org Message-Id: <200401280331.i0S3VgQ02973@massis.lcs.mit.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: massis.lcs.mit.edu: ptownson set sender to editor@telecom-digest.org using -f To: ptownson Approved: patsnewlist Subject: TELECOM Digest V23 #43 TELECOM Digest Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:31:00 EST Volume 23 : Issue 43 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks (Monty Solomon) Verizon Supercharged DSL for Additional Massachusetts Cust (M Solomon) Tivo Sells Shares, Stock Hits Six-Month High (Monty Solomon) CNET Digital Living Puts the Hottest Consumer Electronics (M Solomon) Re: Getting True, Important Security Updates from Microsoft (J Mattox) Re: New Virus Infects PCs, Whacks SCO (Steven J Sobol) Re: Overseas Toll Free Numbers (Stanley Cline) Re: Spoofing a "Bounced" E-Mail Error Message? (Jeffrey Mattox) Re: Linus Torvalds: SCO Is "Just Too Wrong" (Thomas A. Horsley) CLEC Question (procon) Re: Why SCO's McBride Declared War (noname) Re: Overseas Toll Free Numbers (John R. Levine) Norvergence is Hiring! (Joe Wineburgh) Re: Cablevision a Top Bidder For Wireless Licenses (Matt) Richard L. Kimsey Joins firstRain Advisory Board (PressReleaseNetwork) All contents here are copyrighted by Patrick Townson and the individual writers/correspondents. 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Geoffrey Welsh =========================== See the bottom of this issue for subscription and archive details and the name of our lawyer; other stuff of interest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:04:18 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks By Scott Fullam January 2004 (est.) Series: Hacks ISBN: 0-596-00314-5 352 pages, $29.95 US, $43.95 CA, £20.95 UK http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardwarehks/ http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hardwarehks/desc.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:17:27 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Verizon Supercharged DSL for Additional Massachusetts Customers Supercharged DSL Service Is Now More Available, Affordable and Accessible BOSTON, Jan. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Verizon customers in more than 30 towns across Massachusetts now have improved communications as the result of a $10 million investment the company has made in its local telecommunications network. In order to extend the reach of the company's super-fast digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access service to Massachusetts consumers and businesses, Verizon installed digital equipment in telecommunications terminals located in neighborhoods where DSL service was previously not available. This resulted in an increase of 180,000 DSL-qualified telephone lines in areas of Greater Boston, Cape Cod and Western Massachusetts, as well as in towns north, south and west of Boston. The company completed the project last month. During the past three years, Verizon has invested more than $2 billion in its network that serves Massachusetts. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40321806 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:21:55 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: Tivo Sells Shares, Stock Hits Six-Month High NEW YORK, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Shares of TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ:TIVO), a maker of digital video recorders, rose to their highest level in six months on Tuesday as the company raised $74 million in a secondary share offering. While offerings usually pressure share prices, analysts said they were encouraged by evidence that TiVo was raising money to finance its future growth. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40321610 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:28:12 -0500 From: Monty Solomon Subject: CNET Digital Living Puts the Hottest Consumer Electronics CNET Digital Living Puts the Hottest Consumer Electronics on Display in Eight-Room, Interactive Digital Home - Jan 27, 2004 01:33 PM (BusinessWire) SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2004-- CNET Digital Living Guides Consumers to the Ultimate Digital Lifestyle Based on Preferences and Budget Needs CNET, the trusted source of information for millions of personal technology buyers around the world, and a property of CNET Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNET), today announced the latest version of CNET Digital Living ( http://living.cnet.com ). Featuring an eight-room, interactive digital home, CNET Digital Living is the first editorial feature that lets users browse through product recommendations by expert, unbiased editors, in the context of an actual home setting, so they can learn how to build a digital home that fits their budget and lifestyle. Launched in October, CNET Digital Living addresses the challenge people face in figuring out how the overwhelming range of cutting-edge consumer electronics products can fit into their lives. The site combines its editorial expertise, the collective knowledge of its audience, and cutting-edge interactive content to produce creative features such as "Gear Envy," "What's Your Style," and "Three I can't Live Without" -- all of which showcase the latest consumer electronics and how they enhance people's everyday lives. The new eight-room home lets users "walk through" three types of living rooms (high-end, cutting-edge, and budget), two home offices (telecommuter's office and family home office), a kitchen, a recreation room, and a master bedroom. Removing the mystery of product compatibility, each room features products that work with each other. As users mouse over the products on display, they can easily retrieve information on editors' top picks for each category, as well as guidance and advice on how to build and set up each room. In addition to the digital home, a new feature called "Wireless Way" provides a step-by-step guide to setting up the wireless digital home from start to finish. - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40322380 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:06:02 -0600 From: Jeffrey Mattox
Subject: Re: Getting True, Important Security Updates from Microsoft Please withhold my email address -- too much spam. Pat wrote: > [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: ... Truely, some links to URLs are > outrageously long and cumbersome to type in. As you know, some URLs > go on for eighty to one hundred characters in length, or more. Here's a site that allows you to enter a URL, any URL, even a massively long URL, and it gives you a relatively short "alias" to that URL that you can use in postings. http://tinyurl.com/ For example, here's one I just made. It will take you to the latest issue of the TELECOM Digest online: http://tinyurl.com/22juf For now and evermore! (Or as long as tinyurl.com site remains in operation.) Jeff [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Thank you for doing that, Jeff. I have an account with UNOIC which issues domain names on the fly; you come up with the desired name in the 'us.tf' area (or several other areas are available and they are instantly assigned, just as tiny URL. For instance, try http://patricktownson.us.tf or http://weatherforecast.us.tf which are two of mine recently created. They in fact are just redirects to elsewhere. Anyway folks, remember http://tinyurl.com/22juf as one way to read this Digest. PAT] ------------------------------ From: Steven J Sobol Subject: Re: New Virus Infects PCs, Whacks SCO Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:11:59 -0600 Joey Lindstrom wrote: > Monday, January 26, 2004, 11:20:00 PM, Monty wrote: >> A mass-mailing virus quickly spread through the Internet on Monday, >> compromising computers so that they attack the SCO Group's Web >> server with a flood of data on Feb. 1, according to antivirus >> companies. > Wow. The world's first genuinely-useful virus. Go figure. Yeah, except you know that Sue-Happy Darth McVader is going to go ballistic over this. Sometimes the assholes on our side irritate me more than the assholes on the other side. Whoever did this made a whole lot of innocent bystanders look very bad. JustThe.net Internet & New Media Services, Apple Valley, CA Steven J. Sobol, Geek In Charge / 888.480.4NET (4638) / sjsobol@JustThe.net PGP: C57E 8B25 F994 D6D0 5F6B B961 EA08 9410 E3AE 35ED ------------------------------ From: Stanley Cline Subject: Re: Overseas Toll Free Numbers Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Roamer1 Communications - Dunwoody, GA, USA Reply-To: sc1-news@roamer1.org In article , Michael D Sullivan wrote: > For what it's worth, when I dialed that number from my Verizon > landline here in Maryland, I got an interrupt and was cut off. Whether +800 works depends on your PICed LD carrier. The Big Three (AT&T, MCI, Sprint) work, but Qwest and Global Crossing do *not* work; the latter probably holds true for most smaller carriers as well. :( Stanley Cline -- sc1 at roamer1 dot org -- http://www.roamer1.org/ ... "Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a law against it by that time." -/usr/games/fortune ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 17:34:45 -0600 From: Jeffrey Mattox
Subject: Re: Spoofing a "Bounced" E-Mail Error Message? Please withhold my email address -- too much spam. Barry Margolin wrote: > And you're also probably correct that they don't care about cleaning > up their lists. Spam lists are valued by their size, not quality, even > though spammers often advertise (in spam!) how clean their lists are. Here's an interesting and detailed analysis of two CDs offered for sale (by spammers) that supposedly contain "clean" and "fresh" addresses. What You Get When You Buy a Spam CD http://rejo.zenger.nl/abuse/emailcd.php Summary: One would expect to receive a CD with lists of addresses that are cleansed of role-accounts, doubles, spamtraps, spamblocks and whatsoever in order to make a good impression. None of this cleaning was performed and it proves how polluted a collection of email addresses one would receive when taking up a spammer on such an offer. These CD's with addresses are of an extremely low quality. When all doubles (and triples, and ...) are removed from the lists, only 6,220,454 unique addresses remain. Which is 57% of the number of addresses the spammers claims. Two addresses even appear 14 times on the CD. Another notable thing is that there are more addresses that on the CD's twice than addresses with a single appearance. Over 60% of all addresses appear twice, while only 28% appears only once. Jeff ------------------------------ Subject: Re: Linus Torvalds: SCO Is "Just Too Wrong" From: tom.horsley@att.net (Thomas A. Horsley) Organization: AT&T Worldnet Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:47:44 GMT > If anyone knows what's in Linux, it's Linus Torvalds. > ... > Torvalds explains why he thinks SCO is wrong. I don't know. At least for NFS I think SCO probably has a compelling argument they could make if they have the guts to make it with a straight face: NFS on standard unixes is without a doubt the most bug riddled, unreliable, data dropping, file corrupting, cpu hanging, resource sucking, subsystem ever coded by programmerkind. SCO could easily demonstrate that Linux NFS is just as sucky and prone to errors. How, therefore, could it possibly be equally bad if the Linux programmers didn't steal it? :-). >>==>> The *Best* political site >>==+ email: Tom.Horsley@worldnet.att.net icbm: Delray Beach, FL | Free Software and Politics <<==+ ------------------------------ From: paravant@excite.com (procon) Subject: CLEC Question Date: 27 Jan 2004 17:37:34 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Wanted to confirm this - CLEC (Competitive Local exchange carrier) is a company that competes with already established local telephone companies by providing its own network and switching capabilities. IT came about due to the telecom act of 1996 which encouraged competition among both long distance and local carriers. The act was passed in an effort to open the local market to competition. In November of 1999, the FCC established the Unbundled Network Element Platform (UNEP), which requires that incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs), among other things, to begin offering competitive companies access to their network elements on an unbundled basis at reasonable, nondiscriminatory rates, or Total Element Long Run Incremental Cost (TELRIC). My questions are - 1] Typically would it make sense for a CLEC to buy v/s lease from the ILEC? 2] What are examples of major CLEC - eg is SBC Telecom a major CLEC? 3] What is meant by collocation? and associated terms - Physical collocation, Virtual collocation, cageless collocation? 4] What are some of the transport alternatives of a CLEC? Eg what is meant by "Unbundled" dedicated transport and "Unbundled" shared transport. Thanks. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Here are a few answers; I am sure other readers will fill in the blanks. (1) Most CLECs lease from the telco of record in the community of service. (2) I do not know how to evaluate the word 'major'. (3)'Co-location' refers to the CLEC having their switching equipment at the same location as the telco of record in the community. For example, here in Independence, the SW Bell central office is at the corner of 6th and Maple Streets. The CLECs who have equipment in town have theirs in the same physical building. They are located in the same building, or co-located. Terms like 'cageless' and 'virtual' are sort of interchangeable. The CLECs have to put their switching equipment and/or computers, etc inside a locked (i.e. caged) area separate from that of Bell. Maybe other readers can tell you more. PAT] ------------------------------ From: noname Subject: Re: Why SCO's McBride Declared War Organization: ATCC Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 21:22:32 GMT In article , clj@panix.com says: > Monty Solomon writes: >> Online Extra: Why SCO's McBride Declared War >> Says the CEO about Linux: "It wasn't like we said, 'Oh, let's go find >> people and sue them.' It was a gradual enforcement of our rights" >> You have to give SCO Group ( SCOX ) CEO Darl McBride credit for one >> thing: He's got moxie. > First, in what way was it NOT like they said "Oh, let's sue"? Saying > that that isn't what they did doesn't change the fact that what they > did looks EXACTLY like that. > And no, I don't have to give Darl McBride credit for ANYTHING if I > don't want to. He can't make me, and siccing lawyers indiscriminately > won't change that fact. How did he end up in this universe without a > clue, anyway? I have a very low opinion of those who use the courts and our legislators to fatten their own pockets. McBride falls beneath my contempt because of this. SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on -- this is a calculated risk to try and inflate the value of the company. I highly doubt it will work because SCO's credibility has been severely inhibited by it's unwillingness to state exactly which lines of code are in violation, if at all. And in the 01/26/04 issue of eWeek I see that they've even testified before our congress critters that open source software is a national security issue. Their argument is that a scientist in North Korea could download Linux, install it on a bunch of machines and cluster them into a supercomputer for nuclear research. The congress critters to their credit, explained that if proper export controls were exercised this wouldn't be an issue. But let's face it, North Korea will get what it wants from Japan, not the U.S. I hope SCO goes down in flames for this one. ------------------------------ From: johnl@iecc.com (John R. Levine) Subject: Re: Overseas Toll Free Numbers Date: 27 Jan 2004 17:27:20 -0500 Organization: I.E.C.C., Trumansburg NY USA >> The number 011-800-4445-8667# when dialed from an Arlington, Virginia >> home telephone produced a US style ring, and after about 10 or 12 >> rings went to a recording identifying itself as Hilton Honors, ... Vonage gives me a fast busy, my ILEC gives a local intercept. In both cases, I suspect that it's because nobody's noticed that ++800 is a valid country code. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:19:28 PST From: Joe Wineburgh Reply-To: jwineburgh@yahoo.com Subject: Norvergence is Hiring http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=19344094 Sr Network Services Sales Representative Company: Norvergence Location: US-NJ-Northern Status: Full Time, Employee Job Category: Sales Use the employer's preferred method to send your resume - click Apply Now! 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To Apply you must email a copy of your resume to resumes@norvergence.com and fill out our online application @ www.norvergencehiring.com . ------------------------------ From: Matt Subject: Re: Cablevision a Top Bidder For Wireless Licenses Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:05:13 -0500 We see how did Cablevision did with Northcoast ....(/tounge in cheek) Monty Solomon wrote in message news:telecom23.41.3@telecom-digest.org: > NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - VOOM, the satellite TV service set to be > spun off from New York-area cable company Cablevision Systems > (NYSE:CVC), is the top bidder for licenses to build a U.S. wireless > video and data network, according to Federal Communications Commission > figures. > The network would use an emerging technology called MVDDS, nor > Multichannel Video Distribution and Data Service, which operates > within the same spectrum of broadcast frequencies as satellite > television services like DirecTV and DISH Network. But it is > transmitted from local microwave towers, allowing the broadcast of > local channels and two-way high-speed data. > Satellite broadcasters, who oppose the technology, say their spectrum > is too crowded, diminishing the quality of their product. > - http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=40310951 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 22:20:56 +0400 From: Editor (PressReleaseNetwork.com) Subject: Richard L. Kimsey Joins firstRain Advisory Board PRESS RELEASE NETWORK http://www.pressreleasenetwork.com Richard L. Kimsey Joins firstRain Advisory Board Telecommunications and Software Industry Veteran Brings Global Experience Developing Strategic Partnerships and Relationships to firstRain New York, NY - January 27, 2004 (PRN): firstRain, Inc., the leading provider portal enhancement technology, today announced the addition of Richard (Rick) L. Kimsey to its Advisory Board. Mr. Kimsey is currently the vice chairman of Trustfile, a business-tax filing company that simplifies electronic preparation, filing and payment of business taxes. Mr. Kimsey is an accomplished executive who has been a pioneer in the telecommunication field. Prior to joining Trustfile, he was President and CEO of TelePacific Communications, where he led this pre-IPO integrated communications provider through a high growth phase to one of operational excellence. He also served on the company's Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He joined the company from his position as President, Southeast Region for Sprint PCS, the largest all-digital and all-PCS nationwide wireless network in the United States. As leader of Sprint PCS' most successful region, Rick was responsible for a significant portion of the company's $6 billion in annual revenue, and directed the activities of over 3,000 associates. He was part of the original Sprint PCS start-up team that acquired the broadband licenses on which its operations are based. He joined Sprint PCS representing Cox Communications, a founding partner, where he had previously spearheaded Cox's entrance into the PCS industry. Prior to Cox, Rich spent six years with BellSouth where he was a key contributor and leader in the start-up of their cellular operations in the United States and Australia. "firstRain has developed solutions that enable enterprises to capitalize on their significant investments in Internet information," said Kimsey. "Leading corporations are already gaining tremendous value from firstRain's ability to leverage those assets more effectively, and I am excited about this opportunity to contribute to the company's strategy as it continues to grow." "We are honored to have a highly esteemed professional like Rick join firstRain's Advisory Board," said firstRain CEO Gaurav Rewari. "The experience he brings in developing strategies for growth-oriented, high-technology companies will be instrumental in helping us to deliver our powerful solutions to leading companies in key industries." About firstRain firstRain is the leading provider of portal enhancement technology. These solutions improve enterprise decision support by flexibly integrating and monitoring a wide variety of information, applications, and business events from the Internet and corporate Intranets which are delivered to individual users through dashboards, portals, hand held devices or to other programs via Web Services/XML interfaces. Its solutions deliver value to customers by improving their ability to react to new opportunities and enabling faster, better-informed decisions. firstRain is a private, venture-based company with headquarters in New York City. 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