Ausnahmsweise mal ein deutschsprachiger Eintrag. Ich las soeben, das am Wochenende hier in der Stadt zwei Tankstellen ausgeraubt wurden. Man vermutet, das es in beiden Fällen der gleiche Täter war. Warum ich das erwähne? Der Artikel sagt, beim ersten Überfall hätte man eine dreistellige Summe erbeutet, beim zweiten eine vierstellige. Die Pointe?

Today is May 25th, also known as Towel Day. Everybody knows "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe". I spare you the quote about towels. You probably know that. But here are two from a completely different project:

The system of life on this planet is so astoundingly complex that it was a long time before man even realised that it was a system at all and that it wasn't something that was just there.  

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

They're from "Last Chance to see", a companion book to a BBC radio series, a documentary about endangered species Douglas Adams made together with zoologist Mark Carwardine.

Have a nice day. And don't forget your towel

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As stated in the first part of this two part "series" one of the drawbacks of the approach to run an ECR script for every outgoing calls is the special dialing prefix to use. This part describes how to circumvent this restriction. Note: If you haven't read part 1 I suggest that you read it before continuing with this one.

If you ever wondered what the touch screen is made for on your mobile phone this is the answer.

Sometimes customers ask if it's possible to let SwyxServer execute an ECR script for outgoing calls. The short answer is:

No, that's not possible. ECR scripts run for incoming calls to SwyxWare users only.

There's a longer answer to this question with a result you might not expect...

This blog is not about Wallace & Gromit, it is instead about a nice day in the city of London I'd spent yesterday. I am on an "ECR for Developers" training at the premises of MTV in Surrey, London and used the chance to arrive one day early do visit the National History Museum. Beside the Science Museum it was still on the list of museums I wanted to visit.

It is Friday afternoon and weekend is really close. So, it's time for the Friday fun !!!

Swyx has officially launched their Technology Partner Programme  (short: TPP) this week. From now on you will find a constantly growing list of applications, SIP Devices and SIP Providers being listed on the TPP web page

• http://tpp.swyx.com

People often argue that open source software is much more secure because anybody can review the source code and find problems. That be not possible with closed source software like Windows. A nonsense argument.

Theories are valid until a counter-example is found.

Do you remember this from Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe?:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

You can now experience that a little bit. Microsoft released a preview of it's WorldWide Telescope software. But don't try this at work. You probably won't get anything done today

A long weekend is coming plus I'm on vacation next week. I will not travel, but stay at home. I plan to use the sunny weather to ride my bicycle a little more than just the daily ride to and from the office. In addition to that I plan to read the new book from Douglas Hofstadter:

The German translation had been released recently.

To help all people working in IT and Support to have an easier workday, the following instructions should be sent out to all the users in your organization.

Back in the office after almost a week in Dortmund. As always it was a real pleasure visiting all the Swyxies again. They really make you feel like 'family'. A lot of work is put into future development of SwyxWare, but I am not going to look to the future, it is time to step back into the past.

I am back in Dortmund with a couple of partners that are using these fine sunny days inside the Swyx Training room (I feel so sorry for them ;) )

In my daily work I use VMWare Workstation (6.0.2 at the moment), because it makes it much more easy to switch between various SwyxWare versions^*).

For a long time I had the problem that sometimes a Windows guest in VMWare reports an IP address conflict after resuming. Our IT guys told me a long time ago, that proper releasing and leasing of IP addresses via DHCP works much better with VMWare than in Microsoft Virtual PC. On my system it seem to not work at all.

After yet another week, and with good help of Labour Day, I finished the terrace. For those who care, here is a photo of the result.

I am ready for the summer now...