Beware ZDNET on VOIP
A couple of weeks ago someone posted a link to a some ZDNET VOIP resources to a mailing list that I read. The link (here) brings up a page called ZDNET News At The Whiteboard where there are posted some…
VOIP Uptake By Trixbox Users Rising
Kerry Garrison of Fonality appeared on The Voip Users Conference Friday December 21 to address the recent fervor over the matter of Trixbox implementing a script to automatically send system details back to Fonality. Kerry did a good job in…
H-P T5700: A Few Words in Praise of Something Small
One of my major mania's is catching on. Josh Richards just blogged about trying Askozia on an H-P T5700 thin client. These are great little devices. I was so lucky to stumble into a source about 18 months ago. A…
CPU Requirements For Transcoding To/From G.729a
During the VOIP Users Conference call on December 14th someone made some claims about the ability to handle G.729a encoded calls on various platforms. The comments revolved around the significance of cpu cache when dealing with the G.729a codec. Also…
A Gift Idea for the VOIP User
When it comes to holiday gift giving my wife has to ask me for a list. Otherwise she knows that she has no hope of getting me anything techy that I'll actually appreciate. In some ways, for those of us…
A Tale Of Woe….And Cordless Phones: Part 1
I was trying to not write this, but week upon week the trouble persists, and my search for a cordless phone continues ad nausea. This entire story I've now told to several people who hazarded to ask, "what's wrong?" So…