Category: Technology

Dear Siemens

May 23, 2007 - Internet , Technology , VoIP - by admin - 1 Comment

I have a Siemens C460IP phone at home, and so far I’m very happy with it. Very easy to use, lovely integration with Asterisk, and ideal for general usage around the flat. However, one thing bugs me, and that’s the lack of alphanumeric addressing capability in the phone book or […]

More VoIP

May 12, 2007 - Asterisk , Internet , Technology , VoIP - by admin - 2 Comments

To follow on from my previous post, I’ve gone about setting up SIP addressing like this for a very good reason. Other than the eventual demise of telephone numbers, I believe that larger VoIP networks will increasingly grow in size, whilst marginalizing the smaller networks. This is what happened to […]

VoIP

May 12, 2007 - Asterisk , Internet , Technology , VoIP - by admin - 2 Comments

Lately I’ve been poking around Asterisk and related VoIP stuff, and generally trying to make it work. I’ve (not) read my fair share of documentation, and it still seems pretty patchy. I’ve signed up for a free 0141 number from Sipgate and it seems mostly good. However, SIP addressing is […]

GDATA Provider

April 2, 2007 - Computers , Internet , Technology , Windows - by admin - 2 Comments

I’ve been hunting for a decent calendaring protocol system for a while now, and been investigating ITIP, IMIP, iCal, xmlrpc, caldav, and finally WCAP. Having initially settled on WCAP, as a result of having a fairly decent plugin available for Lightning, I set about trying to find a decent Calendar […]

Clippy Revisited

March 9, 2007 - Geek , Technology - by admin - No Comments

We should all be grateful that Microsoft never created or contributed towards Vi. For if they did, then surely this would be the outcome…