Archive for: December 2004

Today, I powered down my own Asterisk server with no intention of turning it back on. While that might seem like a silly idea to a few of you in the audience, the primary reasons are two-fold:

1. I …

TechDirt brings up interesting question about whether or not a Mobile Phone to VoIP “bridge” is against the law. Wasn’t this how alternative long distance carriers flourished in the early days of the Ma-Bell breakup in the US, basically …

Usually on weekends, I’m taking the kids somewhere so my wife can “shop” or “get other stuff done.” Sunday, our entire family stayed home, which is the first time that’s happened in a long while. Jaden went down to his …

This week, I have gotten a couple of toys to play with:

Packet 8 Virtual Office, which is one of their DTA units along with a cool business phone. I just now plugged everything in and started looking …

One thing I’ve both lined and not liked about my migration from AT&T Wireless to Cingular is, well, their Online Customer Service.

Cingular’s Online Account Management (or OLAM for short) offered many more options than the AT&T Wireless Online …

This is photo proof to anyone who thinks there is never sunshine in the Seattle area.

McCormick Woods is a golf course community in Port Orchard, WA where I live. Now I don’t play golf–too expensive even for …

Last night I finally finished Voxilla’s Grandstream Configuration Wizard for the Budgetone-101 and Handytone devices. I’ve been working on it for a while actually, but finally got around to finishing it.

It uses the same backend that’s …

Last night, my wife and I got up several times with our daughter. That had to have been the worst night of sleep I’ve had in a while. To make matters worse, both my wife and I got the nasty …

Someone previously asked via a comment on a previous blog entry how to do VoIP over Dialup.

hey. PhoneBoy, can you just explain to me in detail how “VoIP over Dialup” works? what is an ATA device (could …

As part of my migration from AT&T Wireless to Cingular, I had to get a new phone. I ended up getting the Nokia 6230. While I will miss the qwerty keyboard on my Nokia 6800 or 6820, this phone …