Archive for: November 2004

18 November 2004

VoIP over Dialup, Redux

Filed under: Uncategorized - 18 Nov 2004

Aswath Rao wrote to me to provide me some corrected facts about my VoIP over Dialup blog entry.

Grandstream reference you quote states that the overhead is 54 bytes per RTP packet. I don’t think they have …

Why I blog about VoIP

Filed under: Uncategorized - 18 Nov 2004

A blog entry from Leonardo Faoro raised the question on his impact on blogging about VoIP. It’s a question I feel the need for answering myself.

In short, I think I have an interesting view on VoIP. Due …

17 November 2004

Crossover Office 4.0 Works On my Gentoo Box

Filed under: Uncategorized - 17 Nov 2004

Today, Codeweavers announced the availability of Crossover Office 4.0. The biggest thing was that I was able to get Crossover Office working a bit better on my Gentoo box, though it did involve recompiling a few things with …

16 November 2004

Blue on the Outside, Orange on the Inside

Filed under: Uncategorized - 16 Nov 2004

Blue refers to existing AT&T Wireless customers now part of Cingular. Orange refers to Cingular, pre-merger.

As you can see from this photo I took on my 6820 from the Kitsap Mall, my local AT&T Wireless, er, Cingular store …

14 November 2004

Dusk of AT&T Wireless, Dawn of the Orange Splat

Filed under: Uncategorized - 14 Nov 2004

When I was cleaning up the liquifying Haloween pumpkins off of my porch a couple of days ago, they were kind of like Orange Splats when they hit my garbage can, sort of like the Cingular logo. But that’s …

12 November 2004

About 30 pounds to go!

Filed under: Uncategorized - 12 Nov 2004

In my ongoing battle of my personal bulge around my waist, I have managed to get my weight down to about 225 pounds (102 kilos). Last time I weighed that, I was in high school. I am still doing Atkins, …

Consolidation in the VoIP industry

Filed under: Uncategorized - 12 Nov 2004

Andy Abramson thinks that, with regards to all the VoIP providers out there, that consolidation has to happen.

This is something I’ve lamented about before at least twice. Well, at least the fact that the providers …

10 November 2004

The Stick It Shall Always Be

Filed under: Uncategorized - 10 Nov 2004

While I don’t live in San Francisco, as a 49ers fan, I can’t help but let out a cheer at news that the voters of San Francisco said Candlestick Park will get back its proper name. To quote the …

IPKall and Outgoing-only Service Providers

Filed under: Uncategorized - 10 Nov 2004

IPKall, as I have written previously, provides +1 360 PSTN telephone numbers to point to any arbitrary SIP URL. This allows you to map a PSTN number to a Free World Dialup or SIPphone account. It also …

FCC Claims Juristiction over VoIP

Filed under: Uncategorized - 10 Nov 2004

All I can say is: it’s about time. A recent blog entry from Jeff Pulver summarizes a bunch of the press on the issue as well as an article on Voxilla, of course.

Based on the …

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