Emergintex

google search history beta in up and running. you need a google account to log into it. It lets you search (again) on your past searches.

at this rate google is expanding into the desktop lives of an average user. sounds like microsoft in early 80’s.

dont have much to write on google search tonite. am sleepy, but go ahead and check it out here

ok, got the vonage package today. as you open the package, you will notice a vonage cap included in the package. now thats a unique way to put more vonage ‘engineers’ out there on the road.past the cap, you will see the usual paperwork, user guides, and deals. past that layer you will get to the meat of it: the linksys rt31p2 broadband router with 2 phone ports (in my case atleast).

i am on a sbc-yahoo dsl package. off to the dsl modem, which also acts as a wireless access point for me (2wire home portal). switch off the dsl modem and in goes a rj connector from my phone to the phone 1 jack on back of linksys rt31p2. next i connect a ethernet cable from my dsl modem (ethernet port) to the internet port on rt31p2 router. power on the dsl modem, power up the linksys router. next i connect another ethernet cable from the linksys ethernet port 1 to my laptop network port, to access the linksys router at 192.168.15.1. i didnt have to do much there, and i went straight to the status tab to see phone line 1 registered and idle. I pick up the phone and get a dial tone, and dial to my cell phone. the status changes to ringing and i get connected on voip call.

i am not sure what helped me out, as my vonage experience is around 4 hours at the moment, so i am gonna play with the settings and tweak to optimal performance in both data and voice. also i remember that i set the mtu at 1492 instead of 1500 (default) in linksys config page.next up, waiting to do some international tests. so look out for that, right here!

windows installer 3.1 was made available by microsoft on april 11. it is now being delivered by windows update. some of the updates and features and fixes that are included in this release are here

……need that? leave a comment here and get a reference from me for your one month free when you sign up at vonage!

ok, i ordered the vonage package today. $24.99 unlimited us and canada. ironically i was not able to get rid of my sbc phone line as i need that to piggyback my dsl service (where is naked dsl sbc!!!). i just need to get rid of all the features on my sbc line and just keep it for dsl connectivity. got a number alloted instantly, which i tested by calling into and getting a voicemail. cool part is vonage emails you about incoming voicemails and you can listen to the voicemails online, anywhere,anytime. now that is moving forward.
more updates on setup and qos when i get my package.

JNI is a standard way to make native calls from your java applications. this flexibility lets you give freedom from writing code for some native functionalities which your java application wants to use. you leave the native functionality on the native platform underneath your java layer and you concentrate on your application code.
its a small set of programing interfaces, but has a little steep curve to learn, especially getting used to the datatypes made available to you by the interfaces and passing arguments between your java application and the native (c++ dll for example). yes, you can even load up java objects in your c++ code and access its methods. you are provided with an environment pointer that lets you access the vm under which this call was made.
now that is fun; to create & load up java objects in your c++ code and if needed return it back to your java application.
stay tuned for some sample code making native calls from java.

and there it is! the mighty sears tower, high up among other skyscrapers! oh yeah, i have to go down on my knees to get this shot from the boat. but came out good, aint it? 

thats us on a architecture cruise of chicago, along side the chicago river. it is always fun to go on this ride. lots of history and great architecture to see.

my last post talked about much of my sunday morning spent installing the web data administrator from microsoft and get it working with msde.
now as i am able to log into the web console and connect to my msde instance and a sqlserver 2000 instance on another machine, i can see some web access to my databases.
the ui is a typical web application. one thing that you note is absence of branding from microsoft in this product, naybe because its a beta product or more that that, its a by-product of some weekend code by someone on msde team.
the code itself looks non-production at the moment, as you experience lot of ‘application error’ pages while doing some basic stuff (like navigating to Logins section) which I was not able to consistently reproduce on different machines.
isnt it an attempt to mock oracle 10g’s web enterprise manager? can be. but if it is, then it has a long way to go. oracle web enterprise manager is much faster, neater and functionality rich. best part of oem is the svg powered real time graphs.
i guess i am gonna wait for a much stable version of web data administrator.