February 10, 2004

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A Night Of Hoops

I got back tonight from watching the Wolfpack defeat the Seminoles in basketball. This game was notable in that it was Hallie‘s first basketball game. My parents also joined us (in fact, they got us our tickets. Thanks again!)

While the “T-shirt toss” was happening during a timeout, I ranted to my mom about how an oil-change company shouldn’t sponsor giveaways that will likely become oil rags. That moment, the seat got brighter as a spotlight shone down. The crowd around me began to yell, and a rolled-up T-shirt bounced off the head of the guy in front of me and into my lap!

Look for my “oil rag” to be worn on important game days, like Sunday when we knock Dook down a few notches.
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SIPpidy Do Dah

I finally found a Linux SIP user agent that will work with Asterisk behind firewalls. It’s Vovida’s Sipset.

Most Linux UA’s are crap, and this one is only part-crap. It hogs the soundcard and doesn’t release calls. It has no DTMF, or phone book. It’s bare-bones, to say the least. But at least it can surf through NATted connections. And it’s native Linux.

I had fun with it today, making Greg‘s phone ring with a the touch of a mouse key. (Man, I love to torment Greg. As if his work life wasn’t tough enough already.)

I’ve located Red Hat 9 RPMS for Sipset, which is a must, considering that compiling Vocal is a mysterious process. Vovida’s idea of package building is wack.

Some day I’ll find a decent Linux SIP phone which doesn’t require 300 MB of KDE dependencies (a la kphone).

The Eisenhower Ten: “This Letter Will Constitute Your Authority”

President Eisenhower sent ten letters to private citizens, giving them enormous authority over the economy and society in the event that “the bubble went up.” The Conelrad website has collected these letters, known as The Eisenhower Ten and posted most of them.

Thus the idea of “shadow government” was born. For a while, nine unelected individuals were walking around with authority to take over the government. Check out the list of would-be leaders.

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