“”Make no mistake, the level of morale for most
soldiers that I’ve seen has hit rock bottom,” said another soldier,
an officer from the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division in
Iraq.”
“The signs of discomfort seem to be growing beyond the military bases. According to a Gallup poll published on Tuesday, the percentage of the public who think the war is going badly has risen to 42 percent, from 13 percent in May. Likewise, the number of respondents who think the war is going well has dropped, from 86 percent in May to 70 percent a month ago to 56 percent.”
it’s amazing, when you really stop and think
about it, that it’s possible – with the help of a little elbow
grease – to get a full-featured pbx running on commodity hardware
thanks to
“To provide a brief introduction to Asterisk’s
capabilities, I will show an example that creates a very simple PBX
with two extensions and voicemail on each. There will be no
external connectivity to this PBX; we will simply be able to call
from one line to the other. This would allow, as an example, two
users to be in separate parts of the country but they could ring
each other’s desk phones. If the called party was unavailable,
voicemail could be left.”
so much for a relaxing holiday weekend. today i helped install an underground sprinkler system for my sister-in-law, i painted a room in the basement that we’re refinishing; i installed a bandwidth utility and finished putting cacti into production. and i ran 8 miles.
phew. as my grandmother likes to say, idle hands makes for the devil’s work.
it’s always educational and fun to someone like ray talk about trends in mobility and their potential impacts:
“If technology, molded into any of a variety of forms, can ultimately give us continuous awareness of the geo-location, activity, interruptability, and even potentially “state of mind” of those with whom we wish to “be close to”, what will it do to the nature of the nuclear family unit? The local community? The collaborative work team?”
“Certain companies had better start looking at
providing a whole load more features that can’t be transferred via
the standards they so crave – lest the CMS they charge for today
becomes a valueless commodity through their own success
tomorrow.”
“We will not be implementing or supporting the Blogger API 2.0. We apologize for having that out there in a semi-final looking spec for so long. We know it was frustrating for developers. But please forget that ever happened.”