There I was, standing in the Paris Gare de Lyon looking like an idiot staring at the trains on the platforms. I was about to experience my first trip on TGV! I took a few photos then loaded my gear on the train (big bag in the luggage space at the end of the carriage, … Continue reading Travel update: On to Montpellier
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I listen to a few netcasts from Leo Laporte's TWiT network. For a while about 18-24 months ago a few shows on the network were sponsored by VISA, flogging their fraud protection capabilities. "Safe, Secure, VISA" was something I heard ad-nauseum a while ago (and started hearing it again recently, as I listen to old … Continue reading Safe, secure, terrifying, VISA
When last you heard from me, I had arrived in my Amsterdam hotel. The weather was a bit rainy, so I postponed the planned orientation walk and caught a bit of a kip, had some dinner, and made sure I was ready for the presentation the next day. I'm not going to talk about the … Continue reading Travel update: Riding the rails of Europe
Time to fill in a little bit of detail from my travel so far. I arrived in Amsterdam on Sunday morning, and decided that rather than get bounced by the hotel trying to check in too early that I'd fill in some time at Schiphol Airport. While I was there I had a chance to … Continue reading Travel update: Arriving in Europe
This post comes to you from the Cathay Pacific lounge in Hong Kong airport. Around 8 weeks have passed since my last post, and I'm pretty disgusted with myself at how little (read: not at all) I blogged when I was in the US and China. In fact, by the looks of things the site … Continue reading Back in the saddle again…
(okay, so after fixing the blog now that I discover it's been down for two days, I might as well update it...) I'm in Poughkeepsie for a couple of ITSO projects. For the last week I've been working on the development of material for the ITSO's Workshop World Tour. I'm helping out with the "System … Continue reading Doing the New York thing
In case you weren't aware, I am a VoIP nutcase. I have an Asterisk phone system at home, and all the phones in the house are VoIP of some description (either real VoIP devices or analogue handsets through an ATA). While I haven't converted to VoIP as a replacement for PSTN, I have some connectivity … Continue reading Upgrading from Cisco
I've been struggling with setting up chan_mobile on my Asterisk system. For those fortunate enough to actually get it working, chan_mobile provides an interface for Asterisk to treat a mobile phone like a PSTN or VoIP trunk--when someone calls your mobile phone it can ring your desk phone or softphone, or you can use your … Continue reading Asterisk chan_mobile fail
I'm having a bit of an infrastructure redesign here at the Crossed Wires campus. Each time I have an outage (the last one was caused by a power failure) I learn a little more about the holes in my current setup and what I can do better. I'm implementing a router box on an old … Continue reading LDAP-backed DNS and DHCP…?
I was having a browse around the excellent Nerd Vittles site tonight, and stumbled onto a disturbing conversation about the removal of the Nokia SIP client from S60 Third Edition Feature Pack 2 (as used on recent phones like the N78 and N96). Nerd Vittles linked to this blog, which alludes to the possibility of … Continue reading Nokia SIP client: WTF?
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