Seriously trivial thoughts
My VOIP phone service ViaTalk recommended I disable SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) on my router for better performance. I did a little research and it appears that the primary purpose for this is to prevent DoS attacks which seems like overkill on a home router. Anyways, disabling didn’t seem to improve my VOIP service, but …
Well, the ViaTalk service got put through it’s paces the last couple days…by my wife ;-) I wanted to see if she would notice the difference and did she. The problem we are seeing is that it sometimes takes 30-45 seconds to connect on outgoing calls. Much longer than our analog phone line. I think …
I don’t own a Kindle, nor do I intend on buying one; however, I just ordered my first Kindle book, “Daemon” by Daniel Suarez. I’ll be reading it on my iPod Touch. I scoff at anyone that thinks the Touch (or iPhone) can’t be someone’s main Kindle eBook reader. These people are either A) old; B) …
Got my Linksys PAP2T VOIP box from ViaTalk a couple days ago and AT&T *finally* turned on the call forwarding feature I ordered–2 DAYS?! C’MON! LAME! Anyways, I forwarded my landline number to the ViaTalk number and unplugged my landline…hopefully for good. All my home calls should now route through ViaTalk. If there are no …
You gotta love the Japanese (yeah I’m one!). Check out the SEXPOT ReVeNGe line of T-Shirts touted as the “Japanese New Punk Style”. Not sure why they are being sold by a Japanese CD site, but hey, I guess clothes and music are closely connected. They are about $30US which seems a bit high, but …
It’s still unnatural, but still no compelling reason to go back to mousing righty style. Not dealing with the pain in my right index finger is nice. There have been unexpected consequences, however. I’m having to learn to do things that I normally don’t do with my right hand like drinking coffee. In fact, a …
With the maturing of web technologies like Flash and AJAX, web apps are suplanting the need for desktop apps more and more. PC Mag’s March issue recommended the Firefox extension FireFTP on their Best Free Software list so I decided to check it out. Well, it has all of the features I need including SFTP …
I’ve been looking for a way to ditch my $70/month land line and a neighbor made the switch to Magic Jack, so I decided to try it. Basically, you get a USB adapter that you can plug any standard phone into. I had a heck of a time getting it to install. It’s basically like …
Anyone that reads my blog knows that I’ve been agonizing over getting an ebook reader. I nearly got a Sony Reader a few weeks back, but just couldn’t swallow the $400 price tag for a single-purpose device. I’ve been hovering over the Kindle 2 Buy button as well ;-) The real reason I wanted either …
I’ve been searching for the phone to replace my aging N95 and after watching this demo of the Palm Pre, I’m sold. I was a long-time Palm fan from the Palm Pilot days which my last Palm device being a T|X. I’m so happy they are back with something cool and quite frankly the Pre …