Last time we discussed registering multiple trunk lines from a provider using our Asterisk server. As yet, we have no way of making calls, nor any device to receive incoming calls on. Our two trunks are, at the moment, pretty useless. This time then we’ll talk about how to configure some local endpoints. These are… Read More »
FussyLogic is a small business. I run it from a home office. Most of my incoming phone calls are to my mobile; but I want to have a landline presence for the business too. It’s not cost effective to pay for an additional land line from BT just for those rare landline calls. I choose… Read More »
For some insane reason, Google seem to think that the market app should get constantly larger and larger with every update. In essence, it’s a customised web browser — it’s making requests to a server and displaying the appropriate page. Why on earth it’s twice the size of an actual browser, I do not know.… Read More »
Those little letters next to your signal bars? They tell you what the connection type is. What possible use the manufacturers think they are, I have no idea. I’m an engineer, and I have no idea what the relative speeds of the various data modes are on my mobile. For example, is “H†better than… Read More »
There are times that I despair of the world. Reading this review of the Raspberry Pi was one of those times. We fired up Debian (the most beginner friendly of the official options) and the media center and came away slightly bemused. Each suffered from its own strange limitations and collection of glitches that leads… Read More »
Awww, didums. In one particular instance, a leading open source map was compared against a professional TomTom map, and shown to have a third less residential road coverage and 16% less basic map attributes such as street names. Worse still, it blended pedestrian and car map geometry, and included ‘a high number of fields and… Read More »
Microsoft Delivers a Blow to Open Source with Visual Studio 11 When I read this headline, I thought, “oh, oh, Microsoft are going to try and compete with the open source compiler by giving away Visual Studio 11â€. After all, they’ve got the money for it, and charging developers to write software for your operating… Read More »
Here’s the thing about spammers: they send millions of emails. They are able to do so because the marginal cost of sending is very small. I have heard it said that if they get one hit in a million, then they can be in profit. Some fools repeatedly suggest that a charge per email is… Read More »
Do you have an Internet-enabled phone? Are you with O2 (or one of the companies that piggyback their network, like Tesco, Giffgaff, etc)? Then they’ve been giving out your phone number to every web site you visit while using mobile data. O2 customer Lewis Peckover recently discovered that when you’re browsing over 3G on O2,… Read More »
I mentioned a while ago that I was becoming unhappy with Google’s attitude to openness with Android phones. I felt that I would end up rooting and installing a more open ROM at some point. That point has arrived; triggered by Google automatically upgrading Google Market on my phone, using up the tiny bit of… Read More »