Sipgate and the Zoom 5801 ATA
Following on from my initial foray into SIP a couple of weeks back, I ordered a Zoom 5801 ATA from Expansys, so I could hook my good old-fashioned cordless p...
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The joys of shared houses…
Being an organised sort of person (and a sucker who can't say no), I tend to do a lot of the admin and paperwork for the house I share with a few friends. On...
A landline number without a landline: Sipgate Just Works™
Paying BT or Virgin Media £10-£15 per month for a landline telephone seems like a waste of money when I have a mobile phone contract which gives ...
Java programmers
I don't much care for Simon Willison's (or in this case, the person he's linking to's) implication that Java programmers are misguided fools in need of help ...
The internet doesn’t weigh anything, but it took forever to get here
On Monday 1 August, we moved into our new house. On Monday 22 August, we got an internet connection. Fortunately, I have a shiny Android phone with WiFi hots...
Slow outbound e-mail?
I'd noticed for years that sending outbound e-mail from Thunderbird to my server on port 587 took far longer than it should have - about six seconds of stari...
Dot everything
I read with interest the news that ICANN has approved the ability for companies to register .anything domain names (so KFC could register .chicken and have h...
Conspiracy theory of the year
Over lunch with some colleagues last month, the subject of why Microsoft is paying $8.5bn for Skype came up. "Simple", I replied, "for years, governments hav...
IPv6 support in Android
I'm pleased to report that (having fixed the IPv6 on my home WiFi), my HTC Desire S running Android 2.3 picks up an auto-configured IPv6 address on its WiFi ...
A smartphone named Desire
After years of thinking about it, and even writing about it, I've finally bought myself a smartphone. As I write, I'm coming to the end of my third week with...