Archive for: November 2005

I just noticed today it’s been a week since I madly typed something in my blog. Maybe because I’ve been madly working and haven’t really had time. The past week or so my day job has me really busy. Have …

According to this article in USA Today, Cingular plans on dropping the Cingular name and adopt the AT&T brand. Whether this will be AT&T Wireless, AT&T Mobile, or AT&T something else isn’t clear.

On one hand, …

So there are a few posts about Skype being sold at Radio Shack. Personally, I don’t think it’s a great move–for Skype, or for VoIP in general.

I remember back in the mid-1990s playing …

I have two completely different lives–the life at home and the life I have when I travel for work.

At home, other than my stints upstairs working, it’s all about the family. My evenings and weekends are all about my kids.

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Well it took some work, but I’ve got it. The AWLC4030 from Airlink101. It includes an Atheros AR5212 chipset, which is supported using the madwifi drivers, which are included in many Linux distributions.

The version of …

Being that I’m in California at the moment, I make a pilgrimage to the Evil Frys(tm). This time, I have a reason: find a WiFi card that will work on my Red Hat Enterprise 4 box, use native drivers …

If you’re looking to “explore” different types of music based on your current interests, then Pandora is the way to do it. You type in some artists you like and it starts playing some music. As the songs come …

My son’s computer is an old PII 450Mhz with 320mb RAM. It was running Windows 98. Definitely on the wrong end of the washtub curve, but hey, it’s what I’ve got for him and I haven’t gotten around to getting

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Alec Saunders picked up on my lament why there was little “different” in the VoIP space and gave an excellent explanation why. And the answer is fairly obvious, though the reasons for it aren’t necessarily obvious.

One thing …

Andy has coined the phrase “ME TOO, ME ALSO, ME DIFFERENT,” and I think I’m starting to see why. Particularly in the VoIP space, there’s a lot of “Me Too” and “Me Also,” both in Products and Services. There’s …