Archive for October, 2006

supervised disconnect on PSTN lines

It’s funny how sometimes you have a technical problem that you think is only attributable to your own (possibly crappy telephony) setup, but later on you discover that the problem is quite common. For example, today on the TAUG mailing list, someone complained about their Zap (analog) channel never being hung up by Asterisk particularly [...]

static vs. dynamic content: a footnote

My colleague Blake recently wrote an article on the occasion of the decommissioning of NewsDelivery, a dynamic content display engine that until recently ran all the news stories on CBC.ca. I can’t speak for any of our alumni, but I think all of us at CBC.ca have learned one lesson:

Large websites should never, ever use [...]

TTC control centre tour

Last night I had the rare opportunity to be given a tour of the Toronto Transit Commission’s Control Centre. The tour was organized by the East Toronto Chapter of the Professional Engineers of Ontario, of which I am a member.

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