HOW TO – Wireless Networking in the Developing World
Free PDF download “The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities continue to increase. By applying this technology in areas that are badly in need of critical communications infrastructure, more people can be brought online than ever before, in less time, for very little cost. We hope to not only convince you that this is possible, but also show how we have made such networks work, and to give you the information and tools you need to start a network project in your local community.” – [via] Link.
Brian McConnell on the 
Zerocool60544 in the AutoIT forums writes about a PC control project using a browser or cell phone “I use lego mindstorms’ motors, they don’t a lot of torque but I geared them down to be a little slower but stronger. The water bottles are the counter weights so their is always tension on the line. There are two motors on either side. (one near the closed position and one near the open position).” [
I’m going to try and get to ETel to check out this new JabPhone. Nat writes – “The Poly9 hackers who were at Where 2.0 in 2005, showed up at Emerging Telephony today with Jabphone, a service built on libjingle, Jabber, and Asterisk that lets you call out to regular telephone numbers from Google Talk. This is the power of open standards and open source, folks–they’ve been able to add the Skype Out feature to Google Talk without any assistance from Google.” [
Intro to SIP hacking slides from the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress “Within the last year VoIP devices and applications flooded the market. SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) became the industry standard although it’s still under constant development. VoIP networks converge with the PSTN and thus offer ways and means for new (and old) attacks. The talk gives a brief introduction on how various components in the VoIP universe interact. The main part deals with implementation problems within SIP in both end user as well as ISP site devices and applications.” [
Chris writes “After reading 
Sean was looking for a service that would automatically call his phone with a text to speech message at a specified time “I would like to be able to program my computer to call my cell phone or a regular phone with text to voice messages–eg reminders, important appointments or wake up calls and for pranksters…The catch is that the other person should not require the same software to receive the call. Anybody know of any software that does this univocally?” I found a web service that does this (some free and some fee) 
