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Thanksgiving Message (2013)
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For the last 16 years, I’ve enjoyed Thanksgiving at my parent’s house in beautiful South Florida. Surrounded by family, the festive meal places family on the porch of the house, seated around an incredibly long table, with more food than one should eat in a single sitting.
For a few of those years, when I lived in South Florida, it was a quick drive from my place to the dinner table. Most of the years, it involves a drive down from Gainesville. Some years included a trek down from Michigan (snow and all).
Continue Reading »Robert Downey Jr. Quote
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Smile. Listen. Agree. Then do whatever the fuck you wanted to do anyway. — Robert Downey Jr.
Continue Reading »Kamailio at Astricon 2013
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Peter Dunkley, Olle E Johansson, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Fred Posner, and Klaus Darilion
Kamailio Behind NAT
Posted . ~5min read.
Using Kamailio behind NAT with centos and rtpproxy.
Continue Reading »Asterisk (The Definitive Guide) 4th Edition Review
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Fred reviews the newest book about Asterisk, the open source PBX.
Continue Reading »Facebook: I'm Breaking Up with You
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After years on Facebook, its time to delete my account.
Continue Reading »Marco Rubio Responds re NSA
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I recently wrote my state Senators and my representative to let them know I didn’t want the NSA monitoring my communications and that I did not want them monitoring any communications in such a blanket manner as currently done.
Basically, to monitor based on probably cause for specific suspects.
Continue Reading »John Spence: Five Keys
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Yeni and I have been lucky enough to get to know John Spence. John is an amazing business resource and fortunately (for us) lives in Gainesville. Even though his writings and talks are geared towards business success; his advice is perfect for life success.
Continue Reading »OpenCNAM for Asterisk cidnam lookup
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Long ago, in a world much different from today, one could check 411.com, anywho, and even google for Caller ID names. Those days are gone my friends. It’s slowly becoming a pay to play world…
I just played with a solution from OpenCNAM that was pretty freaking simple. There’s a negative — it ain’t free. The cost is nominal… $0.004/lookup. That means that $10 will get you 2500 lookups.
Continue Reading »FreeSWITCH 1.2 Book Review
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I’ve recently read the new FreeSWITCH Book from Packt Publishing. I’ve ordered a few books from them in the past (FreeSWITCH 1.06, FreeSWITCH Cookbook, OpenSER, etc) and generally find them to be a great source for open source software.
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