Tomorrow I start a new job, technical support for a dedicated web hosting operation. Doing full-time phone support is hardly my dream job, but… This gets me back into my field of expertise. Unlike the job I left last week, which I’ll vent about some other time, this company pays a living wage and should […]
Archive for September, 2003
Moving On…
28Sep03WiFi VoIP Has Arrived
28Sep03The name Jeff Pulver is synonymous with Voice over IP. He co-founded Vonage, Free World Dialup, and the Voice On Network conference. One of Jeff’s latest ventures is pulverInnovations, which has recently launched the WiSIP — a $250 WiFi handset.
The WiSIP Mobile IP Phone is a next generation intelligent IP Communications device which adds SIP […]
EUU4 for Maestro
25Sep03Audiovox has released EUU4 for the Maestro. It’s shocking because (a) this is the first I’d heard of an EUU4, and (b) Audiovox is usually the last OEM to ship Pocket PC 2002 updates. The pop-ups on the Audiovox site didn’t seem to agree with my PC, so here’s a direct download link. [via Pocket […]
August Spam Stats
25Sep03Total spam dropped again, to 1299, with 7 misses (99.46%). False positives lept to 36, which can partially be attributed to my laziness in reclassification after upgrading to POPFile 0.19.1. In all, 41.8% of my e-mail for August was spam.
I’m satisified with POPFile 0.19.1’s classification performance, however, it’s overall impact on my system came as […]
Treo Woes
21Sep03After using my Treo 180 exclusively for about two months, I am about to retire it to the junk drawer.
There are not enough bad things that I can say about the Treo’s RF performance. My Treo seems to believe that a large chunk of Northern Miami-Dade and Southern Broward counties are GSM dead zones. […]
Treo 600 Launch Annoucement
17Sep03Orange has announced that the Treo 600 will ship next month in the UK, France, and Switzerland. Brighthand is reporting that Sprint will also launch the Treo next month, but that has not been announced yet. And there’s no word about US GSM carriers offering the 600.
I’m not too happy with my Treo 180’s performance […]
Defeating Bluetooth
15Sep03In other hardware annoyance news, last week I decided that Bluetooth would work on my PC before the weekend ended. About ten minutes later, Pocket PC Passion reported that Belkin finally released updated drivers. They aren’t the WIDCOMM 1.3 drivers that Belkin support had provided me with Beta releases for back in April, but I […]
The Guest That Never Calls First
15Sep03I’m expecting an important email this morning, so naturally I awoke to find Murphy lingering around my computer. My NT 4 VMware session was complaining that it’s DHCP lease could not be renewed, and Windows XP was telling me that a network cable was unplugged.
I fumbled around the back of my computer and unplugged the […]
