RasterWeb!I think the only thing that makes me more sad than not implementing (or just plain ignoring) standards is when someone comes just that close to actually implementing standards, or even does implement some standards, and then completely ignores others, or does 90% of the work, or adds in their proprietary crap on top that makes it non-standard, and makes little babies cry.
And then there’s the whole lock-in thing, don’t get me started on that one!
Ok, you can’t actually be an “Eccentric Weirdo” and do you know why? Because while an eccentric and a weirdo may seem quite similar (and indeed they are) there is one big difference that separates them.
Money.
Yup, if you are weathly and act strange, you are eccentric, while those of us without overflowing bank accounts are considered weird.
It really is that simple. Are you an eccentric and want to become a weirdo? Just get rid of all your money! Any further actions that deviate from the norm will gain you the ‘weirdo’ label. Are you a weirdo wishing to become an eccentric? Find a way to get money! Once you have money any quirks in your behavior will be attributed to the fact that you are eccentric.
If anyone doubts me on this just send me large sums of cash and watch how I transform from weirdo in eccentric almost instantly…
So how do you decide which VoIP ATA to get?
(You know, besides the fact that you want one not locked to a specific company/service…)
There are ATA’s from voipsupply.com, and SIPhardware has a few as well. I’m sure there are others sources too…
I suppose much research is in order!
Due to a DNS change and an uncontrollable form, I was asked to redirect a form from one URI to another. The first attempt was using a redirect in an htaccess file, which failed because the variables being sent via the POST were lost… What to do?
A quick little Perl script with less than 10 lines of code took care of things. We just capture the variables, and convert the POST to a GET and then redirect the browser to the correct location, properly passing all variables in the query string.
And since Apache doesn’t really care what extension is used, as long as it’s defined, you can create script.asp which is really written in Perl running on Linux to redirect to script.asp on another server running Windows and IIS.
Fun!
Ok, I’m about to give some (minor) praise to Microsoft (someone alert Scoble!)
I’m sure some of you are forced to use something called “Outlook Web Access” which is a webmail implementation by Microsoft that connects to their Exchange Server product. Well, on the list of Supported Clients I think they could add Lynx!
I mean, I’m sure you don’t get all the nice stuff you get when using Firefox, and I’m sure when you use Firefox you don’t get all the nice stuff you get when using IE, but I was actually able to read mail.
Well, ok, I was able to read mail, but that was it. I could not send mail, or reply to mail, or anything else besides just read mail. They had to put in all sorts of funky Javascript controls to do fancy stuff like send and reply to mail…
But still, the mere fact that I could actually read mail using Outlook Web Access and Lynx is somewhat amazing…
(Oh, I take back the part about praise for Microsoft…)