VoIP (SIP), XS4ALL and Asterisk
by My ISP (XS4ALL) is currently providing its clients with 1 or 2 optional VoIP numbers. I would’ve never imagined I would be setting VoIP up at home, but the mythical convergence box in my living room has VoIP capabilities — so why the hell not? (Why does a dog lick its balls?)
As VoIP calls are [...]
Amarok: Re-discover your music
Introduction
Yesterday I was upgrading the KDE and noticed the media player ‘Amarok‘. I did look at this a long time ago but forgot all about it. Actually, when I saw the package I initially mistook it for the Amusing Mis-use Of Resources….
Amarok’s main screen while playing media; the right panel showing the playlist and [...]
On smell-technology…
It’s amusing to see how ‘new’, almost magical technologies get embraced with so-much naivety. Slashdot has this little blurb about an article in the New Scientist on ’smell-technology’;
“Simply point the gadget at a freshly baked cookie, for example, and it will analyse its odour and reproduce it for you using a host of non-toxic chemicals. [...]
Hardware: SmartJoy Dual Plus USB adapter
Yesterday, the SmartJoy Dual Plus USB adapter arrived by snail-mail. I ordered that thing so I could use the good old PS2 controllers in stead of buying a new set of joysticks to play games on the PC.
The adapter with 2 pads plugged in. If you’re wondering about the semi-transparent white plastic wrapping around the
controllers’ [...]
Windows Server more reliable than Linux?
LOL this (Dutch) is what you get if journalists simply repeat other peoples words and don’t do their own research. The article compares UNIX and Windows servers, and somewhere it says that ‘the reason for the longer downtime on Linux servers is caused by the lack of proper documentation.
Lack of proper documentation?
Ever compared Windows API [...]
