You can use any harware or software package that you wish, but Primus Technical Support only support the software and hardware that was shipped with your Primus DSL plan.

No. The Music Server software can play music through any Movie Player as well as through Music Players. You do not need any additional hardware to enjoy music with your Kaleidescape System once it is running the Music Server software.

Any popular email program, often called "email client software", will work. Two of the most popular are Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird may be downloaded for free at www.Mozilla.com.

We use the latest versions of the most widely used applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Trados, Adobe FrameMaker, PageMaker, Illustrator, Acrobat (PDF), Photoshop, Microsoft Publisher, Quark Xpress, Corel Ventura, among many others.

We have to maintain a dynamic and competitive hardware base and strive to stay on the cutting edge of current technologies. We currently use systems featuring Hyper-Threading Technologies. On the software side, we use the industry standard RedHat Linux. Our other servers utilize different operating systems depending on your needs.

Our servers are state of the art 2U Intel Dual XEON 2.6GHz, 2x512KB cache, 2.0GB ECC RAM, 2x80GB drives and Hardened secure Kernel. These extremely powerful servers use premium bandwidth; No DCJN bandwidth used. Reliability, extreme uptime and fanatical support is our focus and total obsession. The combination of 2U Intel Dual XEON 2.4GHz, 2GB ECC RAM servers and premium bandwidth, makes for an extremely reliable hosting platform.

A huge, custom built electronic device called the Soundtronic 8000. It is specifically designed to chew beats and loops at twice the speed of light. It has more than 4000 nanobytes of non-volatile DRAM, dedicated SPDIF controls and it's own domain switch. Here is a picture, the frequency fluxmodulator section operated by two of my genetically cloned technicians.

Our main site (www.thinkbroadband.com) runs on a Dual Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz Dual Core based server with 2GB of memory and 4 SAS 15 krpm drives participating in a RAID10 array with 2 hot spares. The front and back-end interfaces have been written by us and exclusively for our use. Our forums/message boards run on two Dell PowerEdge servers, the frontend a single Xeon 2.8GHz processor with 1.5GB of RAM. The backend database is run on a dual Xeon 2.

Software: WebCT, Respondus, Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Real Producer, Vegas, Dreamweaver, Flash, Freehand and many more instructional applications. Hardware: Windows Pentium 4 2.6 Ghz computers, Macintosh G4 computers, color scanners, CD-ROM recorders, color and b&w printers and drawing tablets.

RealOne w/NetMD Plugin (RealAudio/Windows only): RealAudio has announced a NetMD plug-in for their MP3/streaming media player software. The plugin can be downloaded from within the free version of the RealOne application (download) by following these instructions: Sonic Stage (Sony/Windows only): Supercedes OpenMG Jukebox (see below) as principal Sony tool for downloading audio to NetMD devices. Ships with 2003 portables (MZ-NE410, ... MZ-N10). OpenMG Jukebox 2.

My Online Home Inventory is implemented on state of the art hardware from Sun Microsystems. We're currently using a Sun Fire X4200 with two 2.6 GHz AMD Opteron 252 processors, 2 GB of RAM, and four SAS hard drives. We believe in generously specifying our servers, so we'll add more RAM, disk space, and CPU power long before we need it. Our software stack is also state of the art.

You would have to ask each company directly to get an honest answer. We suspect it is mostly paranoia due to software piracy. Many companies suspect their software will be illegaly distributed if not protected in some manner. There is strong evidence however that software without copy protection sells better in North America than copy-protected software does.

Tobias started with a Casio QV-R4 with 4 MegaPixels. He was pretty pleased with that CASIO which was his first digital camera. The display started to flicker after one year, and some buttons did not work properly, so he had to give the camera to the service once. On the 18th of August 2004 a television set fell from its cupboard and smashed the QV-R4 (yes, I know, that sounds stupid - but sometimes things happen you just can not explain).

For software I use webcam32, it handles all the live streaming video but can also send static images to an FTP site at regular intervals. For hardware I am running a pentium with Windows 98 and use an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro AGP video capture card with an 8mm video camera as input. My internet connection is Sympatico.

Software: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000 Professional, Windows ME, Windows XP home/office, and MacOS 8.5 or later.