Digital DawgPound

First post. Hi.
Just got a new BlackBerry at work. While I’m not normally much of a “mobile” guy, it’s an interesting little device. Word on the street today is that the government of India has successfully cracked the encryption that RIM uses on the BlackBerry network.
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i just have a quick idea that i want to put out there into the ether. if you dont know about OpenID, then you should really check it out. it is basically a decentralized authentication system. it lets you create an account somewhere once, and then it will let you log into anywhere else that [...]

there seems to be a shift in coding mentality of late. before i go any further, i would like to say that i am not counting all software companies. they are making products and they are doing their own thing. i’m talking about people who code for life. back in the day, people thought about [...]

It’s been a really long time since I’ve blogged…anywhere. DailyPhreak is through and I’ve been really busy lately, so I haven’t blogged over here in a long time. For anyone who cares - sorry. I just posted my 2600 article from this past falls issue, so if your antsy to read something, there ya go!
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Well, this last round of rolling outages and server problems were pretty much the problem that I was most worried about. It appears that BinRev has outgrown its server. Counting all of the sites on the box, we get over 15,000 unique visits per day. That equates to more hits than I [...]

Where is telephony headed in 2007? Well, here are my predictions! I thought this would be a fun little text file to write up every year from now on. I think it’ll be interesting to look back in a year from now and see how right or wrong I was!
Asterisk will become much more widely [...]

After testing out Trixbox I found out that Digium had started releasing its own Linux distribution through rPath, a company who specializes in customized Linux distributions for particular applications. I decided to give the distro a try and see what I thought of it. So I ended up downloading the Pound Key 1.2.1 ISO which [...]

So I was updating my home page earlier today, along with a bunch of other software here and there. I was “Hardening the system” as discussed on BRR #147 last week. Well, upon upgrading to the latest version, I suddenly got a parsing error on line 11 of my configuration file. Luckily, [...]

So, when I first read about it on /., I was enamoured by Coding4Fun. I already knew about knew about the Visual Studio Express Editions, so I thought “Wow, Microsoft is attempting to build up a user base of hobbyist developers who want to code stuff, regardless of the platform or the politics, as long [...]

I recently received my copy of InfoWorld magazine (a trade magazine for IT professionals) and was excited that it had a review of the new MS SQL Server 2005 in it. But before I got to that review, I read this “Editor’s letter” and felt the need to point out a few things.
The editorial [...]