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DEL.ICIO.USDon’t believe it
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Warning. A dangerous new virus is circulating that not only causes your computer to explode but also ruins your lawn.
You’ve gotten them - e-mails too ridiculous to believe. But half your friends believed them and passed them on as gospel.
This article - from PC World - on the top Web hoaxes and pranks is good reading.
If you have a favorite hoax to pass along, feel feel.
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By PatrckB
May 9, 2007 7:57 AM | Link to this
The best virus warning I got was about the dreaded Gullibility Virus.
*Internet users are urged to examine themselves for symptoms of the virus, which include the following:
The willingness to believe improbable stories without thinking. The urge to forward multiple copies of such stories to others. A lack of desire to take three minutes to check to see if a story is true.*
I’ve passed this on to everyone I know :-)
By Gael
May 9, 2007 5:51 PM | Link to this
Bill, I need direction. Do you know of a web site that in layman terms, or high level, explains how VoIP works both from end user and telephone company network perspectives? All I find are either too wordy or too complex in explaining. Thanks!
By PatrckB
May 9, 2007 6:30 PM | Link to this
Gael, the problem in trying to understand VoIP is that VoIP is a marriage of two complex technologies: telephone technology (voice AKA telephony - the “v” in VoIP) and network technology (the IP in VoIP). That then makes VoIP not just double-complex but a quadruple-COMPLEX technology. What glues it all together is a mish-mash of protocols. And they all interrelate. On the telephony side, you have call-setup, call-monitoring, and call-teardown protocols. On the network side, you have IP routing protocols and Quality of Service protocols. It all gets highly technical real fast. It’s a wonder it all works at all. Which is why it has taken longer for companies to fully embrace it because it has just been in the last few years that the vendor products have been stable enough to be enterprise-grade. It really is about as complex as rocket science.
Patrick