VoIP Tech Chat

Dear Comcast,

Comcast...Cares?

I am leaving you this note on the fridge because I can’t bear to face you.  I can’t bear seeing the look in your eyes when I tell you that it’s over. This off again, on again blamefest has come to an end. I was always there to support you financially, but you never reciprocated with the kind of love, the kind of consistency I needed in my life.

This isn’t easy for me. As I close this chapter in the book that is yet to be finished, I know I will look back on our times together with some hints of fondness. I am sure we will cross paths again, someday. I hope that we can smile, exchange greetings, show each other a base level of respect and courtesy.

I have taken the liberty of leaving all of your things at your office, so, aside from this note, this is goodbye.

Or is it…

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What? Where?

On Sunday December 29th, Level3 Communications, one of the largest IP transit networks in North America and Europe, suffered an outage affecting sites such as ESPN, Amazon, and CNN. Noticeable missing from Level3? Any official acknowledgment or discussion of the incident; and an outage that disrupts ESPN on a Sunday will definitely be noticed.

When one of the largest internet backbones shows trouble, there are two ways to handle the situation (after fixing the issue of course). The first would be what we here call the “Duck and Cover” method (sometimes referred to as the Vinnie Barbarino approach). In this method, the company either makes no mention of the incident or does a classic Vinnie impersonation… such as:

Concerned User: I think there’s an outage.
Level3: What? Where?
Concerned User: I think there’s a problem with the network.
Level3: I’m So Confused. 
(mugs to the camera and audience goes crazy)

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Carbon footprint reduction has come to technology in a big way — even Dell began marketing towards the green movement. Green is the new black.

Recently Network World reported that Linux consumed as much as 12% less power than Windows 2008 on identical hardware. Now of course, hosting that server in a data center designed for a farm of high heat, high performing servers may thwart your green goals, but as we learned from Bill Murray… baby steps is a great way to start your journey.

In this week’s voip cast, we have a special guest in Fred’s studio — Patrick!! Patrick joins Fred for a face to face voip chat with topics covering Tom Petty, Kid Rock, Earth Day Birthday, and a hammer.

Did you know that Paula Abdul had a hit with Rush, Rush? Not Fred, he lost a hammer thinking it was Hush, Hush.

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