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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).

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Robert Downey Jr. Quote

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Smile. Listen. Agree. Then do whatever the fuck you wanted to do anyway. — Robert Downey Jr.

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Kamailio at Astricon 2013

Posted . ~1min read.

Kamailio at Astricon 2013 Peter Dunkley, Olle E Johansson, Daniel-Constantin Mierla, Fred Posner, and Klaus Darilion

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Kamailio Behind NAT

Posted . ~5min read.

Using Kamailio behind NAT with centos and rtpproxy.

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Asterisk (The Definitive Guide) 4th Edition Review

Posted . ~3min read.

Fred reviews the newest book about Asterisk, the open source PBX.

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Facebook: I'm Breaking Up with You

Posted . ~3min read.

After years on Facebook, its time to delete my account.

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Marco Rubio Responds re NSA

Posted . ~2min read.

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.

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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.

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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 negativeit ain’t free. The cost is nominal… $0.004/lookup. That means that $10 will get you 2500 lookups.

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FreeSWITCH 1.2 Book Review

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FreeSWITCH book

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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