Archive for March, 2004

voip

by Devesh on March 25, 2004 in Techy / Geeky with Comments Off

i’ve been reading a little about voip (voice over ip) today. have been stuck on skype with regards to pc2pc calling, which got me thinking further…

i’m sure this has been developed commercially, but i’ve been wondering what would it take to simply get a phone server/gateway setup on someone’s pc in bombay. the idea is, i can use a pc2pc client to call his/her computer in bombay, which inturns routes the call to the phone and dials out to a local number i specify… and i end up speaking anyone else on a normal phone, with just a local call charge on my friend… hmmmmm…

i didn’t goto work today… just had to take a day off… was so displaced the whole day. just relaxed, played halo (again!) on the xbox, installed redhat linux and then formatted the drive again :- as i couldn’t find support for my netgear usb modem… yeah i “can” connect using the ethernet card, but i use that to connect to the xbox as i used xbmp… so, no!

oh and if anyone here is thinking what to gift me, ever (you don’t need an occaision for a gift do you?), have a look at my amazon wishlist :-)

i’m getting a subtle headache now, guess i need to make myself some good cuppa coffee and read.

sagar asked me to read this a few days ago… “who moved my cheese“, so thats what i’m reading since the past 2 days… i usually read in the trains on the way way back from work… but since we’ve moved offices from north sydney to the city, i never get to sit on the train on my way home and i hate standing and reading :-

me off to read. g’night!

experiment with line art

by Devesh on March 24, 2004 in Techy / Geeky with Comments Off

day before i was playing with photoshop, and got caught up in the middle of figuring out how to derive line-art from real-life photographs.

after zillion variations, i came up with this

looks nice to me :-)

productive days

by Devesh on March 24, 2004 in General with Comments Off

phew! yesterday and today have probably been the most stressful days i’ve seen since a long time (@work).

at work today, we had a very big seminar/luncheon for clients to release our new disaster recovery, high availability offering, along with ibm… myself and kayte we at work until 11pm last night so basically i worked at a stretch for 17.5 hours, which included only about 1/2 hour for lunch where i had just a sandwich :-

anyways all our efforts paid up today at the seminar and it was a successful event :-)

on a lighter side, ritesh( ) is having a string of bad days going on… firstly the webhost i suggested to him didn’t really live up to his expectations. secondly, a few days ago i had snail-mailed him a dvd with heaps of appz which included lindows, the os he’s been anxiously awaiting to install… well, all the files on the dvd work, except the lindows iso :- so now i’m sending another cd tomorrow again to him. hope that works!!! chill monty bhaiya, life hai, jee lo jee lo :-)

d been downloading “wishmaster 4 – the prophecy fulfilled” since the last 2 days, seems like it’s finally done :-) so tonight i’ll fall asleep watching this :-)

it’s weird, lately i can’t seem to get any sleep unless i don’t put some flick on the tv and then i tend to fall asleep midway… i mean, i used to be a person who couldn’t sleep even if a candle was burning in the room… and now i need this excessive emmision of light from the tube and the sound to humm me to my dream land!

ungh… i’m tired, i’m exhausted… i want to sleep…. but i wanna see the movie too… and oh yeah… i’m hungry too :-(

so cereal it is for dinner :-)

good night world

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