The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) has proven to be an effective standard for Voice over IP (VoIP) systems, as it’s use in open source and closed source products is now relatively quickly displacing the H.323-based systems that preceded it. H.323 and its accompanying protocols weren’t necessarily bad, but they come out of the videoconferencing space… Read More »
Sandra and I attended the US vs. Costa Rica World Cup qualifier in Salt Lake City last weekend and watched the US easily beat Costa Rica 3-0. The US followed this win with another big win Wednesday night by putting together a simlarly convincing 3-0 victory against Panama in Panama. The US is now in… Read More »
Most of the reaction in the mid 80’s to the AT&T divestiture was that it was a diastrous mistake, a conclusion no doubt encouraged and reinforced by AT&T marketing and the legions of AT&T employees coached by their management. However, when a monopolist has beaten down its potential competitors for years and years, it takes… Read More »
My wife is in White Horse, Canada, this week with some of her family, because her late grandfather was named the “Pioneer of the Year” by the Yukon Territory Transportation Museum. The big ceremony is tomorrow. Her grandfather was a bush pilot famous for providing the first airmail delivery to the Yukon Territory and for… Read More »
Recently I posted about being one of the people whose personal information was potentially exposed due to allegedly lax security at Seisint (owned by LexisNexis (0wn3d by hackers)). Today a story appeared on Wired.com on the hackers who claim to have initiated the break-in. At first I was relieved to read that it was a… Read More »
Sorry if anyone reading my blog through an RSS or Atom feed had problems with it during the last few weeks. I upgraded to WordPress 1.5.1 a couple of weeks ago. Everything seemed fine, but then I noticed about a week ago that I was no longer seeing my own syndication feeds in Bloglines. The… Read More »
If you don’t live in California or you’ve never lived here, this post may not be very meaningful to you. Then again, maybe your State does something similar. For a long time, I’ve wondered what was the meaning behind the stickers I would often see in the rear windows of cars, typically in the upper… Read More »
While I have often heard about sandstorms in deserts, especially lately in Iraq, I’ve never seen a photo or video of one. While I can’t offer a video, here are some photos passed on by one of my relatives who is currently stationed in Iraq. Okay, now I understand why they make such a big… Read More »
After much gnashing of teeth, I got CVS running as a service on my laptop and am able to access it using the CVS client Eclipse plug-in. The key was finding this page posted, at least in part, by Glenn Robitaille. Without it, I suspect I would still be poring over the CVS and xinetd… Read More »
A few weeks ago, I learned that I was one of the few hundred thousand victims of Seisint’s carelessness in monitoring the users of their public and private data record aggregation service. Seisint is owned by LexisNexis, which is owned by Reed Elsevier. At first, LexisNexis thought 32,000 individuals were affected. Now the number is… Read More »