So I’ve encountered a strange exploit being attempted against the VoIP system I maintain. Its not actually against the softswitch, though, but rather against the end customer’s ATA. We first saw this particular exploit three or four months ago, and its a rather strange, but at the same …
Continue ReadingAfter I posted Google Protocol Buffers Where Have You Been All My Life, I started thinking about the …
Continue ReadingSo two weeks ago I discovered Google’s Protocol Buffers, and I have to ask, where have you been all my life?
The project I was working on requires speed and scalability, both vertically and …
Continue ReadingI’ve been writing code in PHP for a long time now, both for my own projects and as a freelancer. I’ve seen well written code and truly horrific code and everything in between. Much of the work I’ve done for my personal projects has been using a framework that I’ve built and …
Continue ReadingI’ve been working heavily with VoIP for the last couple of years, and every few months I find myself looking at SIP soft phones again. I haven’t really used them at all under Linux in a long time because none of them quite fit my needs or are as good as the ones available under Windows. …
Continue ReadingSo, in the last 3 weeks I’ve done a lot with MythTV. Most notably, I’ve finished the frontend system that is connected to our TV. There was a lot of trial and error, frustration and an entire system replacement, but its now up and near perfect.
So, a week and a half ago Comcast got …
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