Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Interview with an Honest Boss

by alec on October 18, 2005

One has to believe that Hallmark will pull this unfinished piece of work down quickly.  Get it while you can.

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Clinton Would Back Martin on Trade

by alec on October 18, 2005

Bill Clinton commented last night that he doesn’t think Paul Martin has any choice on the softwood lumber issue.  We have plenty of resources in this country besides lumber.  We should be pursuing a multi-pronged strategy on trade. Global warming, for instance, affects Canada greatly.  The annual fall display of leaves in Ottawa this year was terrible — the summer was too hot, and the cold didn’t come quickly enough.  Our climate is changing.  I, for one, would be in favour of an export surtax on fuel to any country with excessive SUV usage per capita energy consumption. 

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Aswath Rao on CALEA

October 18, 2005

I’ve been exchanging some email with fellow blogger Aswath Rao on the whole CALEA issue.  I wanted to share an excerpt from a particular message from Aswath with the rest of the blogging community, and so without further ado, here it is.  This is written in response to my post from yesterday. In any event, I am [...]

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World’s Smallest PBX

October 18, 2005

There you have it — Asterisk on the Gumstix SBC.  Having said that, it’s not actually doing anything with the media.  It’s a basic voice router, and that has been done before.  If you recall, IPTel had SER running on an iPaq at one point. 

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Alright, Already – I Give!

October 18, 2005

The latest market researcher to jump on the bandwagon,  iSuppli has forecasted 197.2 million VoIP subscribers by 2010.  Not 200 million, or 195 million, but 197.2 million.  Alright alright, I give!  VoIP is going to be big.  Thank you.

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Unlimitel: Customer Service Kings

October 18, 2005

Unlimitel is a regional VoIP carrier, operating a network stretching from Montreal Quebec to London Ontario.  At Iotum, we buy our VoIP connections from them.  I was chatting with Stephan Monette, the owner, earlier today.  I wondered why he didn’t support peering with SipPhone.  At 11:39 PM tonight, I was chatting with Andy Abramson, and mentioned [...]

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