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Chris Kranky
I’m depressed, just shoot me lord
So here I sit at this software company. Millions of lines of code, internal fighting all day long, development stuff that stretches into the far east, telecom providers beating us up to lower prices, we need more employees, it’s all complicated. We struggle to make money, we struggle to make our quarterly number, competition always [...]
Chris Koehncke
Fixing problems I do have
I wanted to rave about something I like for a change. Something that fixes a problem that I have every day, something I couldn’t live without and it’s not even telecom related. It’s friggin’ filling out forms and keeping track of passwords on websites. It’s called Roboform. It’s amazing the number of [...]
Chris Koehncke
Speeds n’ feeds
Everyone all excited about PaeTec’s acquisition of McLeodUSA. Not as much news about the looming issue that every CLEC is facing, access to the last mile. The CLEC’s argued, over 10 years ago, that they needed low cost rights to rent copper pairs to a customer premise while they built their own infrastructure. Well, 10 [...]
Chris Koehncke
Worthless wireless numbers
I’ve always questioned the need to gather huge samples of data to try and figure out what the average consumer is or isn’t doing. In fact, most of us are pretty average (though we hate to admit it). So I often find my own data represents the norm of the world. T-Mobile allows you to […]
Chris Koehncke
Wow – it just keeps getting better
Been playing with a really cool free service from Musicmenow.com. It deals with the issue of that tired old music-on-hold that we all endure so often in our day. It’s a real problem. Basically once you’ve signed up, Musicmenow technology jumps in whenever anyone you’ve called puts you on hold. Instead of hearing [...]
Chris Koehncke
Finally a good idea
I just love DNS (Domain Name System). It magical & elegant. On the surface, DNS does nothing more than translate the URL you type (www.something.com) to the IP address 67.133.24.145. But DNS servers are immensely scalable and the method by which information is based down into the internet is truly a work of art. I’ve […]
Chris Koehncke