New Voip Provider? HELP!

I have to admit that I have been using Broadvoice for quite a while now. We even use it for the TechShow as well. They have served pretty well with only a few growing pains and problems early on. All would have been happy ever after if I hadn’t read a horrible Broadvoice review on […]

Installing elegance, Slackintosh 12.1

Long have I been a fan of Slackware. It’s a wonderful distribution, fast, clean and free of much of the bulk and cruft that plagues other Linux distributions. Lately, though, I have not had a Slackware box on which to play, and that has bothered me. My main server currently runs Ubuntu server edition 7.04 […]

TivoGrab Howto:

For those of you who are following the whole TivoGrab script, a friend, Russ Wenner, wrote a nice howto for the program: A Step-by-Step How-To on using the “TivoGrab” PHP script by Linc Fessenden (by Russ Wenner 8/14/08) 1. A few things you will need before you begin: a. You will need to make sure […]

Textification-Update

A quickie note about my use of the alpine email client lately. It came to my attention today that my emails were getting delivered with incorrect From and Reply-To addresses. Somehow alpine munges the smtp account holder user name you are using with the domain you specify in the config file as your default From […]

Textification

Because so many of you have asked: I mentioned last week on the show that I was digging once again using some text applications. Just for recap I am using screen, alpine, and bsflite regularly to get me going in the morning. Screen is a utility a person who uses the command line simpoly cannot […]

Practical Jokes

All I have to say is that at my house for as long as I can remember, my family have been big practical jokers, and if you are anywhere around us, you were fair game. This has followed me into adulthood where I have taken the greatest pleasure in playing jokes on my wife and […]

Raw speed

Last night I put an end to a year long era of procrastination – at least as far as my network access is concerned. When I moved into my new place a year ago I was faced with a hard decision as far as my access was concerned. I had my cable modem and server […]