Archives

Not Alone

January 24, 2009 - Gnome , KDE , Life , Linux - by admin - No Comments

Well, it’s nice to see that I’m not alone in my recent decision to change…

Asterisk Jabber Call Notifications

January 5, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , Geek , Technology , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

The other evening I busied myself with tweaking Asterisk to do some more geeky things. One such item was where I configured it to send a message to my Jabber account every time there was a call to a particular extension. Great for call logging, integration, and general user friendliness. […]

A Reason to Hate Cisco

January 4, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , VoIP - by admin - 1 Comment

Last week I ‘accidentally’ bought a Cisco 7911 phone on Ebay. My bid was low, the device was missing a few bits, but I still thought I wouldn’t get it. Suffice to say… I’ve just written this piece on how to load the SIP firmware onto a Cisco 7911 phone. […]

More progress

January 4, 2009 - Land Rover , Modelling , TR6 , Vehicles - by admin - No Comments

It’s been a busy few days, whilst I’ve had some time off. The Land Rover is progressing, slowly but surely. Bill has come up with a list of things that need done and/or purchased, and I’ve started making it happen. The roof has been loosened off all around the Land […]

PS3 and Matroska? Could be soon…

December 29, 2008 - Computers , Cool things - by admin - 3 Comments

Word is that the Matroska container format will be officially supported by DivX 7. Surely a good thing, as Sony have a deal with Divx to provide decoding software for the PS3. Maybe this will spell the end of having to transcode those ubiquitous MKV files for use on a […]