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Client server technology came about when computers began to cost less. Mainframes are very expensive, and didn't give users much personal freedom. The client/server model promised to change that scenario, and it's much more popular today. Basically, a client computer with its own memory and hard drive communicates with a server whenever it needs data from the server. The client can run by itself without the server and co
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Client/Server - Phil Earnhardt posted on that vast internet thingie: The moderator's apparent compensation for promotion of a telecommunications product in the Digest is a conflict of interest.That's silly.Steve at SELLCOMhttp://www.sellcom.com Discount multihandset cordless phones bySiemens, AT&T, Panasonic, Motorola Vtech 5.8Ghz; TMC ET4000 4line Epicphone, OnHoldPlus, Beamer, Watchguard!Brick wall "non MOV" surge protection. Mini-Splitter log splitter!If you sit at a desk www.ergochair.biz you owe it to yourself.[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: No, he really was not being silly; heexpressed a legitimate concern. I hope I explained myself to hissatisfaction. If phone bills were the only thing in the world I hadto worry about, and Vonage was paying them all (they are, where VOIPis concerned) and they were slipping me a little extra on the side(which they are not) to tamper with the messages here and *only*print postive things about them and negative things (or nothing atall) regards their competitors then he would have a legitmate beef.And he would not know either way unless he asked, which he did. ButI have a lot of expenses and concerns in addition to my VOIP phonebills (which I could easily get along without if I absolutely had to).Speaking of VOIP phones, bandwidth issues, the squeeze I get on myLAN when the phone wants to talk while the cameras are FTP'ing, etcand such: I was downtown this afternoon to pay off my cable billand got into a discussion of this with the lady in the office. Shesaid, "how would you like a full meg instead of only 500 K *and*have your bill each month reduced by five dollars." Sure, who wouldn't.They now have a new package called 'Digital Internet' which insteadof the 60 channels of television garbage I get (and rarely watch) willgive me a couple hundred channels of assorted stuff *AND* a full megon the modem *AND* two converter boxes with remotes for the twotelevision sets I have *AND* no more 'monthly rental fee' for theMotorola cable modem. The total bill each month is about five dollarsper month less than I pay now. I told her all I was intersted in wasthe bandwidth on the cable and being able to listen to (variously)KRPS 89.9 from Kansas State University (NPR) or the Tulsa equivilentat 89.5 which are on Cable One free from their tower over on OakStreet. She said keeping the package I had and adding the extrabandwidth only would cost me ten dollars per month more. "Or wouldyou be willing to take all the above for five dollars per month less."I was not in a position to carry two digital converter boxes homewith me this afternoon since I was actually going over to Marvins toget some groceries. "How about if my guy comes over to see youtomorrow late morning and does it all for you?" Okay, I guess so.She taps on the computer and says, "okay its all on now, I justturned you on for the bandwidth. Everything will work the same asit always has since you like KRPS, and if you decide you want tostart watching television, you should find something on to watch."And guess who is going to start local phone service around here onthe cable? They are ... to quote her: "Southwestern Bell has alwaysbeen too big for their britches anyway, and we will probably be ableto meet or beat Prairie Stream prices, and have local number porta-bility, same as Prairie Stream or Vonage." I told her it soundsexciting; it really does. PAT]
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