Author: sroot
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Coyote Frontier (Allen Steele) & Spindrift (Allen Steele)
Parts 3 and 4 of a series of 4 (why do I rarely get to read them in order?) Part 3, A distant colony grows following a revolution. Times are hard, technology they once took for granted is no longer available from mother earth. Isolation will not remain forever though, a new startship travels from…
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The End of Eternity (Isaac Asimov)
Imagine time travel was possible. Would changes in the past affect the present? Most books assume that is the case. However this book assumes that the controlers of time travel are not affected by changes to their history. They use this to constantly prevent the errors of history. What sort of errors? War, they can…
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VoIP – testing sipgate
I’ve been playing with VoIP for a while now. VoIP = “Voice over Internet Protocol” and it’s essentially using computer networks as your phone network. Skype is a form of VoIP. The one thing I have against Skype is it’s closed protocol that means only Skype things will work with Skype. The more open standard…