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The base unit of electrical current, which is the rate of flow of an electrical charge. - Allen Weiner wrote: An acquaintence of mine, an 80 year old woman who lives alone, has just gotten her first computer. The only phone in her home is a wall-phone in the kitchen. Is there hardware (such as an adapter) available which would enable her to connect her modem to the phone line without having to remove the phone from the wall every time? A solution which does not involve installation of a second phone jack would be preferable.RadioShack has an adapter exactly for this purpose. Cat # 279-359Ivory, 279-414 White US$9.99--reed
PDAs are basically beefed-up organizers or toned-down laptops. They have small LCD screens, some form of pen or keyboard input, and software for organization, OCR, and contact management. Some have even more features, such as Web browsing or Internet e-mail. Most PDAs are designed to fit in one hand while you use the other hand for input. - IT managers are warned to be on the lookout to protect their company's reputation, as well as their users, from a new wave of spam aimed at stealing personal and financial information. The latest trend in spam and identity theft is called brand spoofing. The spam has no traceable return address and appears to be sent from a large company seeking information from its customers. Pretending to be a large business, say Sony, BestBuy or eBay, which has a relationship with the user, the spammers ask for critical password, user names and credit card information. It's both spam and identity theft. But now there's a heightened level of sophistication to the trickery being used to fool people into giving up critical personal information. And it has the potential to not only empty people's bank accounts but to sully a company's reputation. ''This is extremely dangerous,'' says Susan Larson, vice president of global product content at SurfControl Plc, a London-based Web and email filtering company. ''It's like organized crime on the Internet... They use the name of a large company and the idea is that with a large spam attack, at least some of the people receiving the spam will have done business with that bank or retailer or company. It gives it an air of legitimacy that is fooling people.'' Larson says brand spoofing spam is generally looking for account information, passwords, user names and credit card information. The spam recipient is usually asked to click on a link to a page that has been doctored up to look like an official company page, or they're asked to send a reply email with the requested information. ''The idea of being able to completely mask who you are, being able to blast emails to large numbers of people who might have a connection with these companies is all fairly devious,'' says Larson, adding that they first saw signs of brand spoofing in late February or March but it's since been picking up speed. ''They only have to get a very small hit to do some damage and make some profit on this one.'' But the damage isn't being limited to a consumer's checkbook. Ray Everett-Church, chief privacy officer for Philadelphia-based ePrivacy Group, Inc., says these new attacks are quick to damage a company's sacred name. ''Any time you have spam masquerading itself as coming from a legitimate source, it can severely damage the brand name being spoofed,'' says Everett-Church. ''This is a company's brand. This is their business... Anytime somebody is using your brand in a way they're not authorized to, it's a problem.'' Everett-Church says IT managers need to be aware of the earliest warnings signs that something is amiss. ''You have to be extremely vigilant in all of your customer-facing activities,'' he notes. ''Be on the lookout for reports of strange emails -- anything that might suggest your brand is being spoofed. If you receive strange bounced emails, a lot of attempts to visit a Web page on your site that doesn't exist, or if people go first to a page deep in your Web site without going to the homepage and navigating through, these are all telltale signs.'' Everett-Church recommends that IT managers sit down with business executives and compose an email to customers. They should warn customers of the brand spoofing problem and make them aware that they will never ask for people's private information or passwords via email. Warn them not to go to a Web site if they're not entirely sure it belongs to the legitimate organization. Educate customers about the company's normal practices, and give them easy-to-use feedback channels to report suspicious emails. SurfControl's Larson also recommends that IT managers make sure employees are educated about spam and fraudulent emails. ''IT managers need to make employees cyber security aware and spam savvy,'' says Larson, who adds that a recent SurfControl survey showed that 90 percent of IT managers do not do any employee education. ''Make them aware of the latest spam trends and make them aware of what information they shoul
Under SNMP, the management console is the computer or device that collects SNMP messages and stores them in the MIB. - SPYWAREHave you ever downloaded music online?When you surf online, do you get pop up ads?If so, there's a 94% chance your PC is infected with potentially harmfulSpyWare!Scan your PC now ABSOLUTELY FREE and see for yourself!http://reply2it.com/tr/stopspywareAre companies watching your online activity?Do you have dangerous "SpyWare" installed on your PC?If you're surfing online, there's a 93% chance you do!Scan your system now ABSOLUTELY FREE & Find Out!http://reply2it.com/tr/stopspyware
A cluster of computers connected to a high-speed private network, running Linux, FreeBSD, or another free OS, and using Beowulf software to function like a single massively parallel computer. All nodes in the system are dedicated to running cluster jobs, and do not function as client machines. A Beowulf cluster is designed for high speed over-reliability. Typically there is only one node that is connected outside of the - In article , Jeff Sutter wrote: Linc Madison wrote in message news:: Fortunately, there were some 'can do' politicos on the job, and three years later, we have our 7 digit dialing back, while industry is still playing the same tune. I'm perplexed why Linc would have us dial extra digits. You can implement a tech overlay without requiring 1+10D.No, you can't implement an overlay in California without 1+10D. Dialing7D in an overlay area is not allowed because it's not competitivelyneutral. You can't have 7D in an overlay area anywhere in the USA.You could do something like 10D for calls within the overlay area and1+10D for calls outside, but it's easier and less confusing just to say1+10D for all calls, since California doesn't have the "toll alerting"feature of "1+ means toll."Yes, you have 7D in 310, but you are also living with the Sword ofDamocles hanging over every business in the southern half of the areacode. The following scenario is possible:Let's say you have the phone number (310) 241-xxxx in San Pedro.October 1, 2003: CPUC announces dates for 310/424 geographic split.December 1, 2003: Permissive dialing begins. Your number can be reachedas either (310) 241-xxxx or (424) 241-xxxx.March 1, 2004: Mandatory dialing begins. Your number must be dialed asarea code 424. Calls to (310) 241-xxxx will receive an interceptrecording telling the caller to redial with area code 424.May 1, 2004: the prefixes that changed to 424 become available forreassignment in 310. Thus, someone dialing (310) 241-xxxx would simplyreach a wrong number, with no indication that your number still existswith only a change of area code.That's seven months from the date of the final CPUC announcement to thedate that your old number no longer works AND no longer gives anyindication of the correct new number.Those time ranges are the minimums, but the draft decision that theCPUC considered in June 2003 called for recycling prefixes on April 22,2004, less than 8 months after the beginning of permissive dialing onSeptember 5, 2003. (Obviously that schedule was not adopted, but it'sthe most recent specific proposal the CPUC has considered.)That's not at all what I call "can do" planning.In article , Steven Lichter wrote: If the NPAs had not been extended out of the country we would have had more then enough area codes.Not true. First of all, Canada has been included in the NANP numberingscheme from the very beginning. Secondly, even if you include Canada,the non-US NPAs are not a major factor in the life expectancy of thecurrent numbering scheme. There are only about 40 NPAs outside theU.S., and the 17 of those that are not in Canada represent a one-time-only expenditure of numbering resources. None of those 17 area codesis projected to exhaust in the foreseeable future. and when cellular was first on scene they should have been put into their own area codes;That would have helped, but what brought us to the precipice wasn'tcellphones or faxes or modems or any of the other customary scapegoats.It was the advent of landline CLECs, coupled with a scheme forallocating numbering resources that hadn't yet been adapted for the eraof local competition.There are three main reasons that the growth in new area codes hasslowed to a trickle. First, the allocation scheme has been overhauled,providing for LNP and thousands-block pooling, now reaching most partsof the country. Second, the "bubble" in the telecom sector has burst,leading to a dramatic consolidation of CLECs. Third, the generaleconomic slowdown has reduced overall numbering demand.www dot LincMad dot com / Telecom at LincMad dot comLinc Madison * San Francisco, California
This stands for the number 10 raised to the power of 100 (10^100), or a one followed by 100 zeros. - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37299-2003Sep19.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A37299-2003Sep19?language=printerwashingtonpost.comTraditional Phones Gain New RespectPower Failures Cut Cell SignalsBy Christopher Stern and Yuki NoguchiWashington Post Staff WritersSaturday, September 20, 2003; Page E01It wasn't until yesterday morning that Margaret L. Sullivan began tohave second thoughts about getting rid of her old plug-in-the-walltelephone and becoming completely dependent on her mobile phone at herFalls Church apartment.That was when she woke after the remnants of Hurricane Isabel hadpassed through the area and discovered her wireless Sprint PCS phonecould not pick up a signal.Cell phone towers need electricity and when the local power goes down,the towers switch to backup batteries and generators. But with so manytowers affected by the storm, mobile phone companies yesterday foundthemselves struggling to keep generators fueled and batteries charged.It was not just cell phone owners who had trouble. Families that hadbought newer cordless phones also had trouble getting dial tones afterthe power went out. So did businesses that had invested in fancyinternal networks.Traditional handsets, which plug into jacks in the wall, do not relyon the power company the same way that other household electricalgadgets do. They are powered by electricity that flows over thetelephone network. The phones work even if the power company'selectricity is cut off.Sprint spokesman Charles Fleckenstein said about 15 percent of thecompany's towers in North Carolina and Virginia were affected byHurricane Isabel and its aftermath. "We have lots of power outages,and we are trying to recover from that hurricane. We have lots ofsites that are down," Fleckenstein said.Sullivan, 32, said she had gotten rid of her traditional phone becauseshe liked the convenience of a mobile handset. But after this week'shurricane, "it makes you think, if it had been an emergency, I wouldnot have had access" to the telephone network, Sullivan said.For the past week, telephone companies had been warning customers tomake sure that they have a corded phone in the house in case of apower failure. Troy Turner, senior store manager of a downtownRadio Shack, said his shop recently experienced a surge in customerscoming in for corded phones. "It's something you have to have foremergency preparedness," Turner said.Verizon Wireless spokesman John Johnson said there also has been a runat retail stores on extra batteries and cell phone chargers that workoff car batteries."We have been advising customers to make sure batteries are fullycharged and to have vehicle adapters standing by," Johnson said.Depending on the model, some cell phones can stay powered for severaldays if they are in standby mode. Cell-phone batteries generally onlylast for a few hours when they are in steady use.Verizon Communications Inc., the main local phone provider in themid-Atlantic region, reported few phone service failures. In someareas, phone service was knocked out by a downed tree or a piece ofequipment failed because of water damage, said Eric Rabe, a Verizonspokesman.There could be more damage in flooded areas, but "a lot of theseplaces were evacuated and so we won't know until we cango back in," Rabe said.Verizon said it was able to maintain service for the vast majority ofits customers by using its own source of emergency power in 200regional central offices. In Virginia, 116 central offices usedVerizon's bus-sized generators to power the network, while another 25central offices in Maryland, and seven in Washington were ongenerators.Copyright 2003 The Washington Post Company*** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material the use ofwhich has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. ThisInternet discussion group is making it available without profit to groupmembers who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the includedinformation in their efforts to advance the understandin
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