The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
By including support for Intel telephony products Digium will be abel to provide a version of Asterisk that supports more advanced digital telephony features.
Intel Gets Inside Asterisk with New Drivers
Digium and Intel have partnered in an effort that will see the professional version of Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, run on Intel’s building blocks and be supported on Intel’s Dialogic and NetStructure products.
Some good comments about clickers and educational feedback. It is not clear just what the person looking for the OS clicker is really looking for here.
Slashdot | Building an Open Source “Clicker”?
“The problem is this: a clicker system requires…clickers. What I need are remote controls that have a minimum of 6 buttons (for users to select options with). The sticking point comes when a button is pressed — the remote must send the option choice, as well as a unique ID specific to the remote, so the clicker software can distinguish between different students. “
MySQL Stored Procedures: Part 1
A stored procedure is simply a procedure that is stored on the database server. MySQL developers have to date unthinkingly written and stored their procedures on the application (or web) server, mainly because there hasn’t been an option.
Microsoft Cancels September Patch Day Update
Microsoft Corp. late Friday cancelled plans to roll out a solitary bulletin with patches for a Windows flaw, citing an unknown “quality issue.”The software giant announced on Thursday that a single “critical” bulletin would cover a wormable vulnerability.
During last-minute testing, however, researchers at Redmond flagged some problems with the update.
“Late in the testing process, Microsoft encountered a quality issue that necessitated … additional testing and development [of the update] before it is released,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Ziff Davis Internet News.
Third Annual State of Play Conference on Law and Virtual Worlds to Examine ‘Social Revolutions’
Participants will explore social interaction, collective action in massively multiplayer online games on October 6-8, 2005 at New York Law School
When I heard these rumors last week I assumed that it was just somebody’s idea of a bad joke. What does eBay get for its money? A non-standard geek infested VOIP phone system? Why? I getthat eBay could build all sorts of nifty VOIP apps to helps its business, but come on $2.6 billion? Just download Asterisk and go to town. I hope thgere is more to this story.
Slashdot | eBay To Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion
“It’s not a rumour anymore. BBC News online reports that eBay will pay ‘half the amount in cash and the other half in stocks to create an unparalleled e-commerce and communications engine’.” The $2.6 billion purchase would give eBay access to the VoIP market, of which Skype claims it has 2 million users online at any given time. BBC speculates that eBay will use Skype to allow sellers and bidders to communicate via voice; I have also heard that live auctions a la Sothebys might also be a possibility. Also reported at Wall Street Journal (registration), New York Times.“
Well, I got this out the door today. We went from concept to product in right around 6 months. I suppose I should say I not we since I did the actual development myself.
In a nutshell, Classcaster is a turn-key blogging, podcasting, audio-blogging, telephony solution aimed at education (that is CALI’s mission after all). Yep, on this one system you get a blog, podcast ready, the capalbilty to call in posts, RSS2 feeds with enclosures, an embedded Flash player, automatic generation of posts once a call is complete. Pretty cool. Next is an ISO version so you play along at home:)
www.cali.org – CALI Spotlight
CALI is excited to announce the immeadiate availability of Classcaster. Classcaster is a course blogging and podcasting system that provides faculty, librarians, and staff of CALI member schools with a new way to interact with students and communities. A Classcaster blog provides authors with tools for posting not only traditional blog articles but also tools for podcasting and sharing any documents and/or files with students and communities. Members of the CALI community interested in using Classcaster should first visit the Classcaster FAQ for instructions on using the system.
Looks like Duke is getting into this big time. Thanks to Patty for posting this to teknoids.
Duke Podcasting Symposium :: September 27 – 28, 2005
Duke University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the first-ever academic symposium on podcasting from September 27-28 of this year. The two-day event will feature a hands-on podcasting workshop, as well as panel discussions of the economic/business, legal, political, journalistic, and cultural impacts of podcasting by bringing together prominent members of the podcasting community with policymakers, scholars, and media experts.
Here are some links to info on what is going to on live in New Orleans.
Hacking Firefox: Speed Up Your Browser
Hack it, tweak it, and make it scream down the information highway. This chapter covers several of the much-touted hacks that you will find on the Internet, as well as some other less popular but very useful hacks. You will get the skinny on the what, how, and why of them. More important, you’ll see how to customize them to fit your current setup and situation. The primary method of hacking for this section is adjusting key hidden preferences.