I have translated some more hackepedia articles to german over the last
few weeks and want to give you an update. Direct your browser to:
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german translations and see the following entries:
I made a smallish script that produces an .xml file that the grandstream
phone can grok for its telephone book. I didn't want to store this on
my SIP providers interface because I don't want to reveal the numbers
that I have stored other than when I dial them.
GRANDSTREAM PHONEBOOK GENERATOR V 1.0
1. ENTER PHONE NUMBER
2. DISPLAY ALL PHONE NUMBERS
3. GENERATE PHONEBOOK
4. EXIT
The script is too simple really. I could stick more effort into it but
then it wouldn't be my philosophy of being uber-lazy. Here is
the script.
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For the past 20 weeks or so a friend and I have been working weekly on a new
project. SVPradio is an Internet Radio
station for Stratford, Ontario residents and it broadcasts for 6 hours every
week (on wednesdays). While my friend DJ Jaz handles the organization and
sound I took care of the behind the scenes setup that an Internet Radio
station needs. Another friend of mine offered us his server for this which
was very nice. Our weekly traffic is still very low as we're not well known
yet but word is spreading surely as now the DJ'ing is done from the storefront
of Stratford's Compudoc. Here is a picture:
In this picture I believe you see DJ Wigs who does a drum-bass and jungle show.
All in all the people who make SVPradio happen are great and the shows are
always interesting. We always wanted to have SVPradio since our teenager years
and the name "SVP" was picked back then as well. What it stands for I'll leave
to your imagination as we don't want to reveal that yet. One fitting acronym
is "Stratford's very pretty". I'm looking forward to the next 20 weeks and
perhaps our listener volume will increase too.
Yesterday, I got my new sip phone. It's a Grandstream GXP 2100. I'm looking
forward to making it work, but it works already. The voice clarity is great.
Last week I signed up to sipgate.de for a sip account and I'm getting rates
of 1 cent per minute in Germany. There is a flatrate for this but I'll have
to see if it's worth it. Also I'm unsure whether I'm getting billed for
incoming calls, something I'll have to figure out.
I did a bit of programming today and turned on comments on the blog. You
can view them when you click on the articles themselves. No captcha yet
though. I hope you find this useful at all, I don't really but I'm willing
to take this next big step. Comments are restricted to 8000 bytes or
something so keep it short.
Today we purchased and downloaded Mac OS X Lion (10.7). Everything went
smooth. I finally got the Macbook to run in 64 bit mode too. Interesting is
that lion has a "pfctl" command. That's new!
I bought Snow Leopard for my dad yesterday. We installed it on his Mac Book
which has a Core 2 Duo processor. No files were lost but the only thing we
did was upgrade VMware Fusion from 2.0.8 to 3.1.3 which cost 30.70 euros plus
tax. I'm not sure we needed to upgrade the Fusion but it was a surety thing.
The intial update after installing Mac OS X 10.6.3 was a 1 GB update to take us
to 10.6.8 or something. It was quite a download over the 3 Mbps DSL but it
will be nothing compared to the Mac OS X Lion download that we'll be conducting
next week. :-).
No, the eagle has not landed. It was the US space shuttle Atlantis that
did land at Kennedy Space center a few days ago. There won't be any more
space shuttle launches and some people see this as an embarrasment for the
US. I don't see it that way but rather have been watching the reports
come in from companies such as SpaceX (Falcon rocket, Dragon capsule). The
reports are good and I saw a schedule the other day where we'll see a
Dragon capsule scheduled for docking with the ISS (International Space
Station). Looking back the shuttle has followed and haunted me in my
life, I remember the first time I heard about it when the Challenger
blew up upon launch. That was the first memory I have of the shuttle.
Not exactly a good one. At that time we had immigrated to Canada and
I learned that the Canadarm (the shuttles robotic arm) was Canadas
contribution to the shuttle. A decade and a half later I immigrated
back to Germany and not too soon after that the Columbia disintegrated
upon re-entry over Texas. Another haunting memory, but I can say that
whenever I migrated around the globe that a shuttle and its crew was
lost. My role models were German and Canadian Astronauts. Such as
Ulf Merbold, Thomas Reiter, Chris Hadfield, Marc Garneau, Roberta Bondar,
are some that come to mind. All of them flew on the shuttle I believe
as mission specialists and carried the dream to their respective nations
with stories of another state of being (in freefall/in space). So what's
next now that the shuttles don't rise anymore? Like I said Space X,
Russian Soyuz, European Soyuz and ATV, Chinese, Japanese and Indian space
rockets and a slew of other commercial carriers all striving for manned
space flight. And since most commercial manned space programs are
american it's not an embarrasment but another national hope/treasure.
The shuttle was prohibitively expensive and we need the cheaper alternatives
that are now up and coming. So with that I say "you did well ol' shuttle
fleet, now rest in peace", and I'm thrilled with the future on what's to
come.
In this picture I believe you see DJ Wigs who does a drum-bass and jungle show.
All in all the people who make SVPradio happen are great and the shows are
always interesting. We always wanted to have SVPradio since our teenager years
and the name "SVP" was picked back then as well. What it stands for I'll leave
to your imagination as we don't want to reveal that yet. One fitting acronym
is "Stratford's very pretty". I'm looking forward to the next 20 weeks and
perhaps our listener volume will increase too.
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