It's easy to treat a silly slogan on a coffee mug as little more than just a few words designed to evoke a wry grin from a slightly antisocial co-worker. Sometimes it can take on a deeper meaning, if you let it.
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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 written an XML app to display rain radar images from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on the screen of a graphics-capable Cisco IP phone. It seemed like it would be simple to do, and I couldn't work out really why no-one had done it. Well it wasn't hard to do, but I can see … Continue reading BOM Radar for Cisco 7970
Since I have a few Cisco phones around here, I've played with XML apps. I have written a timezone calculator, an LDAP phone directory lookup utility (which hooks into the "external directory" function of the phones), an app that uses Qantas' WAP interface to get flight arrival/departure information, and the obligatory RSS reader. They work, … Continue reading Cisco XML apps: things made of fail
I had pretty much forgotten about improving on the Power over Ethernet progress I mentioned previously. A couple of weeks ago I bought another 7970 that I successfully converted to SIP to run in the study, and I was considering buying a few 7961s or Linksys PoE-capable phones to use in other places. However, I … Continue reading PoE again: this time, success!
Crossed Wires 