vortex’s blog

I’ve recently been playing around with some of the great Cisco IP phone hardware, and recently I was able to pick up a 7961G at a good price from Ebay. Soon after, I grabbed a 7960G also for a good price too, but that’s a story for another day
Well, my plan was to [...]

Setting up my Asterisk box I was tired of hitting the voicemail button to test the server, so I thought i’d find something a little more comical to test with.
Ah ha! I thought, as I remember back to the classic episode ‘King Size Homer‘; where Homer’s goal was to weight more than 300lbs so he [...]

Recently I was offered the opportunity to review two PHP books from Apress, and from the list of options provided one that particularly struck my interest was the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla. Read on for more..

Last night before heading off to bed I decided to try Apple’s FileVault encryption on my MacBook Pro in an attempt to protect the data in my laptop’s home directory. Setup was simple and painless, and this morning I was presented with a login screen to allow me to login to my freshly encrypted home [...]

Not the SPAM you’re deleting from your Inbox every day, the SPAM that is comprised of Solaris, PHP, Apache and MySQL. These articles are for my own usage more than anything, but perhaps someone else will find it useful so I though I’d blog it.

so here I am posting this from the couch on my brand new Apple iPhone! Its everything I expected, its fantastic! Predictive text is great, but safari dost work with the wordpress wysiwyg editor. Does everything else incredibly well!