Not ready to take the plunge just yet but I'm really close to going with Sage. The primary reason is that there will finally be a method of capturing Component video. Specifically, the HD channels we get on DirecTV! Hauppauge is coming out with this device in about…
A couple of years ago I went through a couple of iterations of CME to Asterisk integration. Since then we've been running fairly reliably with the Cisco 1760 router behaving purely as a SIP based gateway and Asterisk managing everything else. I've run our Cisco phones…
In my never ending quest to find an easy way to blog I'm trying Flock. I've always heard mixed things about it but I believe it supports Firefox extensions and that's always been one of the things I really like about Firefox. So, I&…
Ok, I get it. Cisco's long been seen as being a bit stodgy, especially when it comes to new product announcements. So, it was with great interest that I wanted to watch this self titled "viral marketing" campaign kick off today. Can someone call their own…
Discovered tonight that Cisco's Anyconnect SSL VPN client when used in Vista must be doing something with TLS instead of pure SSL. How do I know this? Had a Vista PC that could log into one ASA just fine but would always bomb on another. It…
I've found that one of my biggest reasons for not posting is that it's not easy. Well, I'm trying out WordPressDash now so we'll see if that makes a difference.…
Via Digg:  Trends in purchasing habits. The first graph is kind of interesting for the last column. But not terribly surprising either. The second graph is simply amazing. The adoption rate of new trends changed completely after the Color TV. Look at a graph like that…
Via CiscoBlog.com I've discovered PuttyCM. This act's as a wrapper for putty and gives you session management and tabs. It can do a bunch of other cool tricks like tiled windows and encryption of the configuration database. It's not quite as advanced as…