One of the NOC guys at work IM’d this afternoon to say that several people were laid off today, including my current manager and the Robosapien. Times must be getting tough…
I’m in the process of moving to another department, it’s my day off, and I’m not at all attached to this company anyway, so no […]
Archive for August, 2004
Lay-offs
31Aug04i-Mate Smartphone 3
31Aug04I just got word from Sound Solutions that they’ll be shipping the i-Mate SP3 from their UK office in mid-September and their US office in mid-October. They’re taking first-come, first-serve pre-orders now for US$450 + shipping (your choice of UK or US). With the MPx100 officially cancelled and my strong desire to switch back […]
iMac G5
31Aug04The iMac G5 is official and shipping in mid-September. The highlights are: All-in-one, behind-the-LCD widescreen design. 400MHz DDR RAM, 64MB GeForce FX 5200 Ultra, mirrored VGA output, SATA drives, optical audio output, optional internal Bluetooth, slot-loading optical drives. $1299 for the base 1.6GHz / 533Mhz FSB 17-inch model with Combo drive, $1499 for 1.8GHz / […]
Robosapien
31Aug04Gadget Madness reviews the Robosapien and dresses him up in pimp clothing.
I saw a stack of them at Costco last week for $70 each and decided that I had to take one to work. Getting the sucker out of the box was a serious ordeal — under no circumstances should you give one of these […]
VOIP Linkdump
29Aug04Haven’t posted much about PDAs and Smartphones lately because I’ve been spending much more time on VOIP-related sites. For the past year or so I’ve been following Asterisk, a powerful PBX platform that do just about anything — from providing voicemail for a busy household on up to elliminating long-distance calls between a multi-national corporation’s […]
VOIP’d
29Aug04My Cisco 7960 arrived yesterday, unfortunately with Cisco Call Manager firmware. Getting the SIP firmware requires a support contract, and while a CON-SNT-CP7960 typically costs a whopping $8 it is not something you can just buy on a Sunday morning and be up and running by the afternoon. Cisco may seemingly be the Internet, but […]
Gmail Invites
29Aug04I have six eleven nine six four no more Gmail invites available. Leave a comment with your correct email address in the address box if you want one.
Yummy
27Aug04Fedora has been kicking my ass the last few days. First I installed Fedora Core 3 Test 1, and every time I tried yum -y update or up2date they would churn for a while and either complain that it couldn’t resolve a dependancy, or they would drop some errors about missing / corrupt headers and […]
