{"id":41,"date":"2004-10-25T07:24:48","date_gmt":"2004-10-25T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/the-future-of-wireless-voip-and-computing\/"},"modified":"2004-10-25T07:24:48","modified_gmt":"2004-10-25T13:24:48","slug":"the-future-of-wireless-voip-and-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/the-future-of-wireless-voip-and-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"The future of Wireless, VoIP and Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Cringley has an excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/cringely\/pulpit\/pulpit20040930.html\">article<\/a> on the future of VoIP, personal PBXs, community PVRs, and WiFi access.<br \/>\nExcerpts:<br \/>\n1. &#8220;&#8230;There is no desktop PC in Andrew&#8217;s house. Instead, he runs a Linix thin client on a Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 Linux PDA. Somewhere around is a hefty Linux server running Asterisk Open source VoIP software PBX&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n2. &#8220;&#8230;The Zaurus equipped with a tri-mode comm. card is a WiFi phone through the PBX. Walking outside the house the phone automatically converts to the local mobile phone carrier. At office it&#8217;s back to WiFi on office VoIP PBX and also connects to the home PBX. At Starbucks, it&#8217;s WiFi phone&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n3. &#8220;&#8230;Andrew&#8217;s server runs MythTV an Open Source DVR application, storing more than 30,000 TV episodes, movies and MP3 files&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\nBob Cringley wrote this famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0887308554\/internettoday0d\">book<\/a> long before the dot-com rush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Cringley has an excellent article on the future of VoIP, personal PBXs, community PVRs, and WiFi access. Excerpts: 1. &#8220;&#8230;There is no desktop PC in Andrew&#8217;s house. Instead, he runs a Linix thin client on a Sharp Zaurus SL-6000 Linux PDA. Somewhere around is a hefty Linux server running Asterisk Open source VoIP software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}