How do you know the network is outdated?

Or should I say the business is outdated? Just spoke today with some salesman that was at Fastweb (one of the largest Italian MAN providers that also gives NATed access to Internet)  to offer some software solutions. Skipping over the jokes and technical staff, here is the sentence important in this context: And then I say: - Yes, of course, but you see, this is the newest technology on the market, bleeding edge,...

Yet another thing I hate about computers

Sooner or later your slick new notebook is going to annoy you with fan noise and heat. You can even notice it is kinda slowing down. This is inevitable and you will have to open it up (usually happens after your warranty has expired, so no probs), carefully unscrew all these little shiny and black bastards hiding in mostly unexpected locations, scratch you head a hundred times to understand Chinese engineering mind...

Asterisk and Google contacts

So, now I’ve got this shiny new Milestone with Android 2.1 on board. And as a consequence of this fact, I have up2date contacts on google to sync the address book with. I also have a voicemail implementation on my own asterisk that sends me an email with wav attached in case of a missed call ( using voicemail “redirect” of the provider with my own number ). Why not to use both of these and get some...

Another free from Sun is no more

Once there was a way to open ODF (Open Document Format, read OpenOffice) docs in MS Office. You could get a free (as in beer) plugin from sun and open files. Not anymore. Although the Oracle site still, at the time of writing, offers the software for free with the tagline “Get it now: FREE”, users clicking through will find that Oracle are now charging $90, per user, for a right-to-use license for the...

Yes, I said that this will happen :)

Oracle has changed Solaris 10 license from “free to use” to “90 days trial” Expect trials for Java SE, MySQL and some “light” versions barely working you can get for free: Now, with its acquisition of Sun finalized, it seems that Oracle has appended this sentence to the license paragraph above: Please remember, your right to use Solaris acquired as a download is limited to a...