August, 10, 2004 archives

the thing that fascinates me most about the traffic growth on this server is how much incoming bandwidth it chews. (mostly the result of having to pull down web content in response to ping requests on blo.gs, i believe.)

i finally enabled compressed content handling for the pings. apparently my install of php and libcurl finally caught up with the times when i wasn’t looking. now we’ll see what blows up.

does LWP really not have gzip or deflate handling? that seems very odd. i couldn’t find any other perl package that implements it, either.

i picked up a grandstream budgetone 101 to use with the sip (voip) server we have set up at work. i just plugged in the server, username, and password info, and now i can talk with my colleagues all over the world, without long distance charges. pretty nifty. (well, it will be more nifty once more of said colleagues also get their hands on voip phones, or headsets with a softphone.)

i do wish it was a dual-line phone that handle pots in addition to voip.

when i’m bored, i can dial the echo server number and talk to myself via a server in sweden, which has a pleasant perversity to it.