The 6th incarnation of Elmer's blog
By including support for Intel telephony products Digium will be abel to provide a version of Asterisk that supports more advanced digital telephony features.
Intel Gets Inside Asterisk with New Drivers
Digium and Intel have partnered in an effort that will see the professional version of Asterisk, Asterisk Business Edition, run on Intel’s building blocks and be supported on Intel’s Dialogic and NetStructure products.
Some good comments about clickers and educational feedback. It is not clear just what the person looking for the OS clicker is really looking for here.
Slashdot | Building an Open Source “Clicker”?
“The problem is this: a clicker system requires…clickers. What I need are remote controls that have a minimum of 6 buttons (for users to select options with). The sticking point comes when a button is pressed — the remote must send the option choice, as well as a unique ID specific to the remote, so the clicker software can distinguish between different students. “
Great article with good links to articles about tech innovation, or the lack thereof, in legal practice. I think the implications for legal education are worth noting. As clients expect more use of technology in practice, firms will pressure law schools for more tech savvy graduates. And the 100+ year old style of teaching law in America ain’t going to cut it.
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The message is clear. Innovate or die.
So where does innovation in legal education come from? Well, all modesty aside, CALI is probably one of the best sources for innovation in legal education in America. Over the past 12 months we have released quite a few products and services to our members that, if applied, have the capacity to significantly alter the way legal education works. Adoption has been slow at best, but we keep pushing. I think that eventually pressure from students and employers will force law schools to get more involved in using technology in education and exposing students to more of the technology they will see in practice.
freshmeat.net: Project details for Palantir
Palantir is a client-server streaming system designed to transmit live video, audio, and data over a TCP/IP network. The server runs on a Linux box. The supplied Java client can display the live video stream as well as interact with hardware devices connected to the server. A native Windows client also allows full-duplex audio communications with the server.
BetaNews | AOL Launches Podcasting Site, Search
AOL on Wednesday unveiled a new podcasting section on its AOL.com portal, which highlights the best podcasts and a Podcasting 101 guide on how to get started with the emerging technology. Along with its hosted podcasts, AOL offers a search utility powered by iPodder.
Wired News: Killer Buzz Flocks to New Browser
Flock advertises itself as a “social browser,” meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promises to detect and authenticate all those user accounts automatically. It’s a clear attempt to be the browser of choice for the Web 2.0 user.
MySQL Stored Procedures: Part 1
A stored procedure is simply a procedure that is stored on the database server. MySQL developers have to date unthinkingly written and stored their procedures on the application (or web) server, mainly because there hasn’t been an option.
Slashdot | Google’s Blog Search
“Google BlogSearch beta is out. Clean UI, fast responses, not yet such a great index, but it is getting there. That’s what you should find in the much-awaited new Google service. Some say Technorati and friends have been having nightmares about this very day.“
Phillip @ MAKE:Blog linked to PhoneBlogger, which reminded me that there was a bit of activity in the getting voice on your blog a couple of year’s back (the PhoneBlogger code is almost 2 years old). Well to all of that you can add Classcaster. I think that CLasscaster may be among the few tightly integrated telephony/blogging/podcasting systems out there. Now if I could just get some folks to come and play…
MAKE: Blog: Post to your blog with PhoneBlogger and VoiceXML…
PhoneBlogger is a tool for publishing to a blog via a phone call. PhoneBlogger is an automated voice application that first asks you for info about which pre-configured blog you wish to post to. After collecting the necessary information, PhoneBlogger records your audio message. Finally, it posts a blog entry that links to the recorded audio.
Microsoft Cancels September Patch Day Update
Microsoft Corp. late Friday cancelled plans to roll out a solitary bulletin with patches for a Windows flaw, citing an unknown “quality issue.”The software giant announced on Thursday that a single “critical” bulletin would cover a wormable vulnerability.
During last-minute testing, however, researchers at Redmond flagged some problems with the update.
“Late in the testing process, Microsoft encountered a quality issue that necessitated … additional testing and development [of the update] before it is released,” a Microsoft spokesperson told Ziff Davis Internet News.