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I drew four network diagrams before finally figuring out how I was going to hook things up at home. I really wanted something to provide QoS to the VoIP phone adapter, and ended up borrowing a Linksys wired router (BEFSR81) that does port-based QoS. Doing QoS in Linux is really, really scary, and I wasn’t […]

Bell finally showed up at 3pm and wired up my second pair in about 30 minutes. Boy, did the tech really not want to talk to me at all. Thanks Bell, for wasting an entire day of my time. I figured I wouldn’t have to be around, and the tech only knocked on the door […]

Now that I no longer fear the big, bad world of security systems, I opened up the box in my basement with the security system’s guts. And looky looky, what did I find but the ADT default programming sheet the installer left, all nicely folded up (click for larger, readable version): While it doesn’t tell […]

We’ve been slowly catching up on some outstanding movie watching. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang – A pretty funny, quite quirky Hollywood murder-mystery. Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer take turns trying to steal the show from each other. They’re both quite excellent in this flick, which kept me laughing throughout. Everything is Illuminated – 10 […]

How – I say – How did I ever live without How’d They Vote? These awesome, amazing, wonderful people keep track of how MPs vote and what they say in the house! It’s as if CPAC had a searchable index. How else would I know that my current MP spoke and voted against the same-sex […]

So I ended up on the pre-release list for the Pepper 2.1 software. The new apps and features are there, and the pad is a whole lot more responsive in general. But what I was really looking for were pre-build development libraries and include files, and I sure did get them. I compiled FCE Ultra, […]

Pretty much sums it up for me.

I’ve amassed a whole lot of information about my security system over the last few days. I’m starting to feel better and better about switching to VoIP and ensuring that my system will be able to communicate. First off. my “ADT Focus 32” system is really a close of the DSC Power832, which is very […]

I’ve discovered NextAlarm.com. They can monitor virtually any existing security system, via phone OR internet, for $14.95/month or $8.95/month if you pay a year up front. Even though those prices are in US dollars, it sure beats the utter living crap out of my bloody ADT contract. Next step: find out whether or not I […]