Spent the rest of the evening on the VOIP platform, mostly going through the whole process of registering someone, setting up the hardware, testing that the hardware works, that they can call, that they can get voicemail, and little things like that. It did not go spectacularly well. I think many of the problems were caused by having a NAT router in front of the VOIP router, others were problems with the router refusing to download it's configuration file.
I've said it before, I'll say it again; VOIP is inherently less reliable than the PSTN. There's just so much deeper a stack of items required to be working at the client's site than are required for PSTN service to work. Relying on VOIP for 911 service just seems nuts to me. It's great for second-line service, but you just don't want to be worrying if a router configuration conflict is going to take out the phone just as the kitchen catches on fire.
Speaking of which, the stove's burner broke this morning. I was out talking with Rosey when I noticed extremely bright flashes coming from under the kettle. Turns out the burner was welding itself to the bottom of the kettle! It's the large front burner that broke. Makes it far more annoying to cook, as the welded-on kettle is right in the way.


Comments
2010-07-25 14:02
> and would have no Trac integ ration The trac-bzr plugin[ 1] seems to provide good integ ration between bzr and t [...]
2010-07-13 21:47
I've always been fascinated wi th the Asterisk AMI interface. So much so that I married tha t fascination with the [...]
2010-07-03 21:32
Yes, only references in dicti onaries are replaced, so hold ing references in lists, tuple s, etceteras keeps them alive.
2010-07-03 11:18
They hold references to remove and install?
2010-06-24 08:34
There's higher-level objects w hich are tracking what is repl aced (the actual Mock objects) . They hold references [...]
2010-06-24 08:23
I haven't tried it, but it see ms to me like this approach ha s one fundamental problem: If you replace all refs o [...]
2010-06-24 08:22
That's the "magic" that made m e go "ooh shiny"
2010-06-24 06:03
That's even more evil than the mock patch decorator...
2010-06-06 18:33
blush Oh.
2010-06-06 11:07
That's what the module does (a utomatically), but on a per-te st-run basis, and only for the process being tested (i [...]
2010-06-06 02:43
Maybe I'm missing something im portant here, but why not just write small scripts to mimic whatever dangerous utili [...]
2010-06-05 15:17
I thought about stubbing out t he python call to the process in the current process, but I want something which stu [...]
2010-06-05 14:47
Hmm... if Mock isn't flexibl e enough to handle mocking pro cesses adequately then I'd lik e to know how it could b [...]
2010-05-19 10:27
Hey, maybe it's a stupid new bie question, but where and ho w exactly should the patching of the core take place? [...]
2010-05-04 14:36
I used Qemu and VirtualBox pre tty extensively back when I wa s working for the OLPC, but mo st of the stuff we were [...]