** Reply to message from Michael J McCafferty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:25:13 -0700
> U-verse Boy must have had feeling of inadequacy. As he left he fired > off a parting "Your stubborn dude". I'm not sure if you know this but when/if you buy into U-Verse, you buy into a Microsoft Windows based IP-TV system front to back. You know those big green metal boxes with electric meters on them in our neighborhoods? Those have the fiber running to them and inside those boxes are huge UPS's and some big Windows servers. They've been blowing up from overheating over the last couple of years but that's another story. You also get Windows in the settop box too and there's Windows running all the backend stuff too. I heard that Sun Micro tried to sell AT&T on their media server which can do thousands of video streams but because of a contract with Microsft, they'd have to run Windows on that server. Something to think about the next time a U-Verse boy knocks on your door and asks if you want their garbage. It can be fun tweaking with them though. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
