Jacken’s Blog

I wrote about this earlier on the power shift of information because of blogging. In a Slashdot posting they write about an Forbes Magazine article crying foul about bashing on blogs. How people attack corporations on their blogs. Companies like Microsoft, Kryptonite etc.

It’s pretty funny actually. In a world where corporations/money has learned all [...]

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It’s been a long time since I looked forward to a program as much as I do with Apples Aperture. I’ve tested C1 Pro and Raw processing with Adobe Photoshop, but none of them feels like they fit in to my workflow habits. The only thing that worries me is that it doesn’t look like [...]

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My 7 year old son, Groucho and I was sitting around at dinner talking about war. He wondered if I ever been to war. I told him that I would probably not fit in well in an army. But I told him that I would be better as a resistant fighter or a spy. So [...]

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The last couple of days, I’ve been reading about a software called Second Life. So I signed up and downloaded the Macintosh client. And the Macintosh client is really bad. I don’t have a fastest Mac in the world, but on a dual 1Ghz G4 and a ATI Radeon 9600 with 128 mb of video [...]

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As soon as you mention the word VoIP, everyone responds with “Skype?” This immediately gets me into an discussion why people should not use Skype. The fact that your computer is used as a link to route traffic, much like BitTorrent. That it is based on a proprietary protocol, only known by Skype, so [...]

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I helped my friend Micke to set up an Asterisk@Home PBX server today. But when setting up Free World Dialup FWD, we had some problems. First I forgot to enable IAX in the account setup. After that, dialing out worked, but we could not dial in to his FWD number. To connect we use an [...]

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Asterisk: The Future of Telephony online from O’Reilly Media. They have released it under the Creative Commons license. This means that you can download the book here for free. But it also means that you should buy the book here. Now you have the downloaded pdf version for quick searching, and the nice feel of [...]

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After setting up my Asterisk@Home server and done all the configuring to get all lines and extensions up and running, it was time for recording the Digital Receptionist messages. My first stab at it wasn’t that great, let’s face it, I’m no voice-over announcer. I wanted a little more professionally sounding recording. So I started [...]

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I have just added adds from Chitika. They can do targeted ads just like Google AdSense, but in the Google AdSense contract you are forbidden to use that with another ad company if they use targeted ads. But there’s a way of manually add the stuff that’s supposed to show in the ads from Chitika. [...]

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