So… what’s the deal? Will anyone come out and definitively say what the fate of VoIP is?

From what I’ve read, there are two distinct issues:

1. The ease of developing VoIP applications on Android, given the lack of a SIP stack.
2. T-Mobile’s shunning of VoIP over their …

It’s been a long month and a half or so. A bunch of new projects at work (and interviewing for a full-time position) and lots of school stuff, all on top of having my truck stolen, dealing with insurance and the police, and then recovering it, and dealing with …

• the life of a sysadmin.
• 9 Must-Have OpenOffice Extensions | MakeUseOf.com
• 5 characteristics of security policy I can trust | IT Security | TechRepublic.com

• Microsoft: We’re all ‘mixed source’ companies | Beyond Binary - A blog by Ina Fried - CNET News
• The dying embers of Microsoft’s IP claims against open source | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News
• Village Telco
• http://www.rowetel.com/ucasterisk/index …

Shawn Powers wrote an interesting article on LJ, Where Do YOU Send NetBook Users For Help?, which speaks about the myriad different distributions used on NetBooks (like the eeePC and its’ brethren), many of which are significantly different from the usual mainstream distros.

My comment:

From a vendor’s point …

• S. 3325 Passes Senate Judiciary | Public Knowledge

For quite some time, I’ve been frustrated with Blogger. First of all, its’ publishing system is horribly inefficient. As everything is static HTML, at this point, writing this blog entry alone will require it to re-publish approximately 6 MB to my server. Seems sort’a pointless. Not to mention …

Internet Security

So, this semester I’m taking a class on Internet Security. Our textbook is Management of Internet Security, 2nd Edition by Michael E. Whitman and Herbert J. Mattord. It seems pretty basic, and very much focused on the management side of things (as opposed to technical). The table …

I don’t know if I’m the only one experiencing this, but this is the third time in two days that I’ve gotten a 503 when trying to view my bookmarks on del.icio.us. This is posing a problem, as I use the service to keep my …

Unfortunately, my truck was stolen this past Friday while at work. I probably won’t be posting much in the neat future, as I’m going to be quite busy trying to get things back together (insurance, etc.) while also working and taking classes.