Forget WordPress, Facebook, Google, and all that Web 2.0 crap… remember Gopher? Actually, I never got a chance to really use it, which is why I set up my first Gopher home, perhaps 15 years too late. For those of you so inclined, and still armed with a Gopher client, go to Gopher site sdf.lonestar.org, path /users/keymaker. Those of you with newfangled "World Wide Web Browsers" like NCSA Mosaic, you’ll have to use this ugly URL.
Long live obsolete Internet technologies!
I haven’t had much of a chance to write about technology issues recently; quite frankly, not a lot has been happening that has interested me. Sure, Apple has announced a new MacBook that’s really thin, but, as usual, it has the 100% Apple markup over anything sensible. I mean, $3,000 for a notebook? I know that $1,000 of that is probably to pay for the solid-state drive, but I’m not even convinced that such technology is really necessary. I contrast this to a $500 Acer Eee laptop that would more than meet my needs! (Too bad the name is retarded, kind of like the Nintendo Wii)
Enough about Steve Jobs’ latest money printing scheme; I want to talk about telephony again. I went to a TAUG meeting tonight on the topic of integrating DECT with SIP. DECT is one of those technologies that has been around for a generation but has largely been ignored in North America; only recently has there been any uptake. Most people (myself included, at least up until about 4 hours ago) don’t even know that cordless phone systems that you can buy at Best Buy use DECT – okay, the example I linked to is a bit unfair since it says “DECT 6.0″ right in the headline, but you get the idea. My friend Brian had a set of these in 2005 but I wasn’t any the wiser that it wasn’t just a regular WDCT set on the 2.4 GHz spectrum.
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