So, dlink makes an attempt to make a VoIP capable device. Unfortunately, their webinterface is horrible as usual (like all their other equipment I know of), not saving updated values, and just plain ugly.
Anyway. There’s also an option to provision these units. And, this is “very secure”, “using HTTPS”. No encryption / encoding on [...]

Great start in 2007: our SIP server kind of trashed itself. For some reason, SER keeps segfaulting during startup.
Now, this is not the first time this happens. Tried putting back an old backup, and even changed the clock to see if it was time-related. Unfortunately, it didn’t help me much. After 10 minutes I decided [...]

Oh shit. Apparently, it’s tradition here that companies buy one or more “Pagara’s”. My company had 5 of them, together with some other people in the same street. Fun to see everyone like little kids looking at the (big) boxes with explosives :)
Anyway, they started putting the stuff on the road, when the cops came [...]

Christmas is over, and everywhere you see people selling fireworks. Sometimes in stores, but mostly in a 40′ container, with some openings. And, it sells: a lot of noise during the day. And some pretty stuff too, in the evenings. Also, some companies have a yearly “event”, to give a big show. One of our [...]

or well, sort of. Sunday, we made a nice dinner for ourselves, a big piece of meat always does the trick! Unfortunately we could’ve picked better, but hey, it was fun at least ;)
On Monday we went to Fusions, where we had a lovely 3-course dinner \o/ Wasn’t too busy at the start, but in [...]

Work, work work, and more work. Possibly more after that. A little bit of chaos at the moment; everyone wants /their/ projects completed first, and expects every “little thing” that comes in between to get done as well. Noone can blame them, I guess, but there’s only so much my department can do at the [...]

.. was a lot of fun :)
We had dinner at one of our favorite places, and afterwards watched some movie (Freedomland) on HBO. Luckily the satellite keeps working, although I hate $company for shifting around the PPV channels :/. But anyway, can’t have it all, I guess.

So, I was in the car to work this morning, when suddenly some christmas songs play on the radio.
With a lot of sunshine and palmtrees around you, it just does not make sense. :)

As always, when you expect a nice quiet weekend, something will break. This time, one of our main links to the US decided to break down. Arcos went down Saturday morning. After making some troubletickets, we found out that there was a major outage on the Arcos ring itself. A big part of their network [...]

And another night of work. This time, the plan was to clean up one of the wiring cabinets. It really was a big mess, though no where near as bad as this (The picture is real, made a while back at our NL office). We got a fair bit cleaned up, and might only need [...]