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From time to time I get asked if we scandinavians do understand each others languages. They are quite similiar, even if we of course have a lot of different words.

But to answer this question once and for all, I would like you all to watch this video. It explains very well how the situation is.

It is subtitled in Norwegian so that our Danish friends will also understand

Help, we need help... Part 1  / Part 2

Today, 14th of december 1972, Eugene Cernan was the last person to walk on the moon. He achived that on the Apollo 17 mission.

Just so you know, walking on the moon is sooooooooo 70's

Time for a little joke to help you through the last day before the weekend.

A lady had been married three times, but still  a virgin. How is that possible, one of the friends asked her?

- Well, she answered, the first time I married a eighty-year old, but he died before the wedding night.

- The second time I married an officer of the navy. But on the wedding night the war started and he never returned.

- The third man I married was a Microsoft Windows developer. All he ever did was to sit by the bed and tell how wonderful everything was going to be...

At last the first step to take swyx-forum to the next level is completed. During the last months the site has become a huge success. A lot of Swyx users and entusiasts have visited the community and quite a lot have registered and used the forum as well.

So after establishing itself as *the* independent place on the Net for Swyx resources, we want to step up and take it to the next level. So what will the next level be? We want to extend the site with a review section. At the moment we will use the Wiki, and the first review is published now. It takes some time to write a good review, and since all of us have full time jobs and none of us is reporters, we have to test and try the format a little bit.

Anyway, we are quite confident that reviews in general and Swyx related reviews will make the site an even greater resource for Swyx related information.

So, if you have the possibility, please feel free to write your own tech-review and post it in the Wiki. We will also very much welcome any...

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I missed my friday blog entry, but since Tom wrote his from the office next to mine I made that count for the both of us

As Tom has reffered to already he is on a visit in Oslo, so we have been working closely for the last couple of days. Tom is our official Hitchhiker, so we just had to add some entries into his Guide. I guess he will write about it later, if he is not too traumatized.

The entries will be rakefisk, lutefisk and multekrem... These are all traditional Norwegian dishes, and Tom had the oppurtunity to try these, and I can tell you that they are not 'mostly harmless'. If you ever been to Norway, you might have tasted the brown cheese that we are so proud of. If we can do that with cheese, just imagine what we can do to fish

I must be honest to you, Tom tried it and that makes him quite brave, I live here and never tasted it. That food is the reason it just took a second for the Norwegians to welcome pizza and hamburgers when we discovered that they existed.

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For all us hardcore Swyxers, christmas is coming early this year. In the end of November the next generation of SwyxWare, version 6.10, is scheduled for release.

At the moment a lot of us is busy with running the beta of 6.10. And I want to give you all a short summary of the experience so far.

The major improvements in this version are.

The possibility to use a remote SQL Server, 2005 Express or the real thing SQL Server 2005. All the user and systems files (with the exeption of recordings) will now be stored in the database and not in the file system. SwyxIt! is no longer bound to a Windows User Account. DCOM is not longer used, so a pure Swyx login can be used. If you want to, Window authentication may still be used. Mobile Extension Manager. This new server component adds the possibility of a new kind of parallell call to an external device. A review of this feature will be published later. Swyx SIP phone; S315. Swyx will release an entry level SIP-based phone with...

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Well, I would've liked to wait until friday with this one. But in the blastingly fast mediaworld of the Internet, it would probably have been seen by everyone at that time. It has been on YouTube for more than a week now

But this is too good to be missed; Top Gear, the BBC motor show, arranged a race between a car and a jet-fighter. Why? Because they could!

Watch it here: Bugatti Veyron vs Eurofighter Typhoon

This week someone brought my attention to a british artist that make some incredible pavement chalk-drawings.

By distorting the image he is drawing, when seen from a certain viewpoint, they will appear as beeing 3D.

Please have a look at his webpage, and be amazed: Julian Beever

Well, do not worry. I am not leaving the Swyx-scene, but I have been leaving Dortmund after a very pleasant stay at Swyx HQ this week. And no, I did not eat all the fish! But do you have any idea about how difficult it is to think of some funny headlines?

First of all, I want to thank Tomer Welligson a lot for taking excellent care of us these days, and also all the others putting all their effort into this as well. Thanks to Uwe, Martin, Sebastian, Stephan, Michael (all of them), Dirk, Rolf and all the other I managed to meet running around in the corridor. Yes, we even had a glimpse of Günter Junk, but we did not dare to disturb him from his telephone call ;)

Tom Wellige and myself outside the Swyx HQ in Dortmund. 

We learned a lot about what is going on at the moment. Hosted Swyxware is coming along and also the Beta of 6.10. We will try to make some reviews about the MEM (Mobile...

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If your daily conversation contains a lot of LOL, BRB, CYAS and similiar expression, then this is the book you should bring to church this sunday....

I just upgraded my favourite mediaplayer to version 5.5. A new skin is available and some neat features. I just noticed than when Winamp 5.5 jumps to the next track in the playlist, while in the background, it will notify me with a pop-up in the down right corner. Just like when new e-mails arrives. Cool.

I have not used this blog for very much personal stuff. But this time I just want to write about something I am looking forward to a lot. Even if I have worked with SwyxWare for almost three years soon, I have just been to Dortmund once, and at that time I knew nobody at Swyx.

That has changed, thanks to the forums and the T.A.G. meeting I have met some Swyx employees and I have contact with Tom (the forum admin) almost every day. Uwe I met at the T.A.G meeting and then again when he visited Oslo this summer.

So I am really looking forward to visit Swyx HQ next week. I will come to Dortmund on monday evening and leave thursday evening.

I expect it to be some nice mix of business and pleasure (you know, doing business can be a pleasure ).

So all Swyxies, you are warned. If you see some crazy Norwegian running around in your offices next week, do not worry, it will only be me trying to shake hands with all of you.

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I just learned this really nice prank. Try this on one of your co-workers and enjoy.

1. Make a screenshot of the desktop of the machine.
2. Use this screenshot as the desktop background image
3. Move all the real icons....
4. Enjoy when your co-worker tries to launch a program clicking on the background image....

Works best if the user has a looooooot of icons on the desktop.

It is friday all over again. Time to find out what to do in the weekend.

Have you ran out of people to add as friends on facebook or businesspartners to add to LinkedIN? Then you should use the weekend to start getting closer to the enemy. You can do that on arsebook.org, the anti-social network where you can get in touch with all the people you hate....

Have a not so nice weekend everyone

Curious about iPhone? Read what the four big US players (competitors) think about Apples new hype.

The iPhone Three Months In: What the Competition Thinks

This is exactly why we should respect Apple. They are in a position that makes even the competitors without any other option than to play along with the media-hype.

I would love to see an article were Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and Alcatel-Lucent all had to answer some questions about Swyxware! That would have been a national holiday in Swyxville

Time for this weeks friday blog-entry.

Do you have around 28 000 dollar and nothing to use them on? Why not buy this computer keyboard?

Xynergi SLK Keyboard

It might work with SwyxIt!

I just read an interesting article by Ross O'Brien on the VON Magazine web-site about VoIP as a Hosted Service.

You can read it here: Hosted VoIP for the Enterprise

Working closely with TSP's in Norway it is quite clear that SMB is accepting the concept of voice as a hosted service. Hosted SwyxWare from Swyx is a good step to get Swyx technology into this market. At the moment we have a Beta-test site in Norway for Hosted SwyxWare and I must say that it looks really promising.

I am really looking forward to see what kind of impact Swyx is able to do in this segment.

Let's get in the mood for the weekend! The weekend is all about laughs and fun, right?

Some may have seen this video before, but it is funny every time, so I post it here.

This is a tribute to all the Germans struggeling to learn a foreign language ;). Enjoy.

Video on YouTube: German Coast Guard

Remember my blog-entry about the infrastructure loss in Sweden? Well, friday last week, something similar happened here in Norway.

South of Norway experienced some problems when a fiber-cabel owned by Telenor was damaged during some construction work. Some basestations for the GSM network and a network used by banks failed due to the damage.

So what about resilience? For some reason it did not work even if it has been implemented.

If you read norwegian you can read about it here: Kabelbrudd hos Telenor rammer Telemark 

Microsoft wants to control not only your desktop, but now it seems their heading up for you frontshield as well. According to a patent application found at US Patent & Trademark Office Microsoft is applying for a patent for a interactive automotive userinterface using the car window as a display, like the HUD in airplanes.

Seems that the term crashing windows will have a whole new meaning.

Our life, or to be more correct, our memories from life is now a matter of bits and bytes. How to protect yourself from digital Alzheimer.

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Paul Graham is a man with some provocative ideas. At least if you are a big software house and work in the traditional way.

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Ok, my todo list for today is quite long. A lot of traces to be sent to Swyx and setting up some evaluation servers for new possible resellers..... But when I got this e-mail I just new that it had happened!

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