Musings

Today I got regular mail from my ADSL ISP (Econophone): Swisscom is changing ADSL speeds and I have to choose my new connection speed. At the office, I currently have 1024/256 which I find is a great ratio for downloads and for keeping all my servers running and responisve. (This blog is served through that line). I pay 145 CHF / month which I find a reasonable price. Now Swisscom obviously thinks, that this speed is cutting into their leased line business, so that speed combination is no longer after October 1st. I have two choices: Downgrade to 600/100 for CHF 74 / month (which is unacceptable for servers) or downgrade/upgrade to 512/512 (for CHF 195 / month). The more interesting speed 1024/512 is priced at 245 / month. ...

I managed to close two projects last monday, successfully deploying a new release of a Notes based manual (remember the 15'000 links that needed to be changed) and the productive release of a relational database (with a Notes backed - no, don’t ask) on a corporate intranet. Almost everything went smooth, I have two rather satisfied clients, the two databases link together as they should - life is good! I have some more time to play around, thinking about what to do next. I’m juggling with a couple of ideas, there are some really interesting things that seem to develop - it’s going to be interesting times ahead. ...

DonDahlmann uber die Musikindustrie YES! Ich besitze 800 CD’s - ich habe jede einzelne davon gekauft. Ich hore viel Musik (dank dem IPod kann ich jetzt auch einen kleinen Teil meiner Sammlung mit mir rumtragen). Aber ich habe keinen Bock mehr jede CD ungehort zu kaufen. Ich mag die EMules und Kazaas dieser Welt. Aber wenn ich einen Künstler, einen Musiker hore, der Musik macht, der meine Seele beruhrt, der mir etwas gibt - dann kaufe ich mir seine CD - mit Sicherheit. ...

After over a day where no-one called me I finally persuaded two friends of me to give Skype, the “internet telephony program” a try. Installed, made a connection, started talking and nearly fell out of my chair. I use a Dell Inspiron 8200 Laptop with the built in mic and speakers. And the voice connection was absolutely clear, brilliant. No echo, no lag, no funny compression artifacts. The first call was with someone with a headset / mic and it was just gorgeous - better than ISDN. ...

Do you want to talk to me? Call me using Skype from the makers of KaZaa. Peer to peer Voice over IP (P2PVOIP - what an unwieldy acronym) My username on Skype: jenscfischer

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