Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Why Sony, why?

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I absolutely adored my Sony Ericsson K800i. What a phone; everyone's had one or used one at some point. Given that they're quite long in the tooth now, you'd be hard-pushed to have not come across someone that had/has one. So when the K850i came out, I was quite eager to ...

Speex causing Asterisk headaches

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

Many people already know that I dabble with Asterisk on a daily basis. Our Linux distribution of choice here at work, also happens to be Gentoo. Now, when updating Gentoo's 'world' package base, you do get some problems occassionally. This is a downside to being 'on the cutting edge' and, it's ...

Ubuntu 8.04 ‘Hardy Heron’

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Like many Ubuntu nuts, I've recently upgraded my work and home systems to the latest and greatest release: 8.04, code-name 'Hardy Heron'. And as per the usual, I updated a little early. Not quite at beta this time; I managed to subdue the upgrade itch until a few days before the ...