Thank you dougal for pointing out this great post. My previous post came from del.icio.us, and I think with my aside type hack on my theme it looks cool; granted the actual post needs some customization, but I’ll just let the brains that power del.icio.us sort that out

• Bryan Clark
  (tags: gnome art)
• How To Become A Hacker
  (tags: articles hacking funny security)
• ThoughtFix on the Nokia 770: HOWTO: Bluetooth GPS and GPSDrive on the Nokia 770
  (tags: reference linux)

It’s a shame it’s not an important exam, but the satisfaction remains the same. I’m planning to make this year quite exam heavy so I don’t suppose I’ll see this again so excuse me as I revel in my own smugness !

I’ve been thinking hard (i.e. before I posted this), and really don’t think I’ve received 100% in a formal exam before; the results in the screen shot are for Cisco’s IOS Discovery Assessment, ok yeah there was only 13 questions but hey, 100% is 100%

Secure Voice over IP: Zfone

By Philip Zimmermann

Secure Voice over IP: Zfone

14 Mar 2006 - I’ve just released Zfone, a new product that takes a new approach to make a secure telephone for the Internet.

I think it’s better than the other approaches to secure VoIP, because it achieves security without reliance on a PKI, key certification, trust models, certificate authorities, or key management complexity that bedevils the email encryption world. It also does not rely on SIP signaling for the key management, and in fact does not rely on any servers at all.

I link to google all the time (e-mails, web pages etc), one of the annoying things is that the URL is getting longer and longer…

This is what I mean: Your friends looking for foobar, you know there’s loads on google, so you search for foorbar, you then forward the link which looks like this….
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2005-09,GGGL:en&q=foobar
nice… NOT ! (Look, it doesn’t even fit on the page properly !)
So here’s the same thing but shorter…
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=foobar
aah much nicer

I guess this post is mainly for me to remember, but hopefully it’ll brighten up someone else’s day to !

Cisco and Microsoft Collaborate to Enhance Real-Time Business Communications: Open standards, SIP-based enterprise solutions enable effective communications.

For years, people have said, this year, the next best thing will be VOIP ! Hummm, with these too big players taking an interest may be 2006 will be year of the VOIP !

Ok, so I’ve moved jobs, the first thing that’s massively different is that I can’t use Linux :’( - the new place has load of custom fat client windows apps (help-desk & crm) so I can’t dump windows.

Now this post isn’t a Linux vs windows rant, more, a note about how it’s effecting me. To start with, I’ve been using evolution for so long that I’ve actually forgotten how to use outlook !!!!!! Other stuff is IM & RSS readers, I’m using thunderbird because I can’t find a suitable replacement for lifera , and MSN it’s got adverts all over it, back to gaim I think !

del.icio.us is probably my most used online service (other than mail - of course )

I’ve just changed jobs, it’s going to be interesting to see how this effect’s my blog, it’s already held up the release of a new theme I’ve done (because I haven’t been able to finish the testing)… anyway it’s important to me to keep saving interesting stuff online, hence I mention del.icio.us !

I’ve moved to a cisco partner, type company thing, so you’ll definitely notice my tags including more & more cisco !

I hope some of the links are useful for someone else !