Archive for the 'Technology' Category

Coming of Age: Voice-over-IP

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

The battle is won. Voice-over-IP is here to stay. With all major PBX vendors (namely Avaya, Nortel, Siemens and Ericsson) and network equipment makers (namely Cisco, Huawei, UTS) offering voice-over-IP based solutions to the enterprise market. It is pretty clear that the world is ditching traditional RJ-11 PSTN-like telephone systems for voice-over-IP (over RJ-45 UTP) […]

ABS-CBN To Go Digital

Sunday, November 12th, 2006

In this interesting Manila Standard Article, one the country’s largest broadcasters, ABS-CBN (DZAQ), is baring plans to introduce Digital TV (DTV) to the country.

Lopez said ABS-CBN planned to set up DTV boxes in areas where signal reception of Channel 2 is weak. Potential DTV market includes Valenzuela, Bulacan, Rizal, Cavite and Laguna. “This will […]

In Search of Relevant OJT Work

Sunday, November 5th, 2006

I just bumped into this Ask Slashdot post about a kid inquiring about good technology OJT opportunities. His major worry is about getting a job that involves clerical, sales or non-technical related work. This is definitely a relevant worry. We have to admit that sometimes companies do not have the time and resources to invest […]

PC Magazine Philippines Best Technology Magazine in the Philippines

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

While I was browsing the web and reading blogs of people about the recently concluded SEO Philippines meeting last Sunday at the Fort (which I missed), I bumped into a post by Jayvee Fernandez about PC Magazine Philippines being the best local tech mag according to a readership survey by Synovate Media Atlas released on […]

3.4 Billion Reasons for the Government To Go VoIP

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

A number of people have been talking about the latest buzz in cyberspace which is currently Voice-over-IP or VoIP. I blogged (Government to Go All VoIP) a PICS meeting I attended where this was discussed. In that meeting, Commisioner Ramon Sales mentioned how impressed President Macapagal-Arroyo with VoIP technology as it powers the local call […]

Another Asterisk TCP Patch

Friday, September 22nd, 2006

Nigel Roberts of nobiscuit.com found another bug in the Asterisk TCP code. Here are the updated patch that fixes this problem: [1.2.12.1] and [SVN trunk]. The bug was a broken if-then-else statement. Grrrr…
By the way, the symptom of this problem is that Asterisk slows down into a mush when doing a “reload”.

Computerized Elections in the Philippines?

Thursday, September 21st, 2006

Dr. Manalastas (Doc Mana) has this lengthy and interesting discourse about Computerizing Philippine Elections with Free and Open Source Software and the Internet. I agree that healthy dialogue about this topic is very very important. I commend Doc Mana for giving it a serious amount of thought. The first paragraph aptly describes his main point […]

Transport Mis-match Fix for TCP Support and Asterisk 1.2.12

Friday, September 15th, 2006

I just finished installing and testing a patch to fix a transport mis-match bug in my previous Asterisk 1.2.10 TCP support patch. This patch was also updated to support the latest release of Asterisk which is 1.2.12.1.
This bug causes Asterisk to not identify the transport type of a particular client request properly. This causes clients […]

TCP/TLS Support Patch for Asterisk 1.2.10 Released!

Monday, August 21st, 2006

This patch allows a SIP client that supports TCP and TLS to connect to an Asterisk Open Source SoftPBX server. This is to allows clients to have a secure signaling path to the server. This feature, together with SRTP, will provide secure voice communications with Asterisk.
I grabbed that latest Asterisk TCP/TLS support patch from […]

Preliminary Gaim Support for ENUM!

Friday, August 18th, 2006

I did a quick hack to add ENUM resolution to GAIM. This is done when a user is being added into the system only. So after the user is added, the correct IM specific ID is used. Right now, I only support Yahoo Messenger translation. However, it should be trivial to add support for other […]