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[unixronin]

The battles with the mice continue, with the purchase of two new traps of a type they haven't yet had the opportunity to figure out.  (Traditional wood-and-wire mouse traps are useless; the mice steal the bait and leave the trap still set.)  After today's shopping trip I also have a couple new pairs of pants, giving me a grand total of five pairs I can actually wear without acute discomfort, counting my suit.  I also have another set of orthopedic shoe inserts, which lets me get a second pair of shoes into action without having to swap inserts around every time I swap shoes.  (Truth to tell, I could probably use *something* for my motorcycle boots, too, but it's a damned fine line between being able to walk in them without hobbling and not being able to get the boots fastened.)

I mentioned that I had an interview Friday with a telephone-switching company called Tekelec in RTP (technically Morrisville).  The feedback I got from the recruiter Monday was that "they thought the interview went well.  They want to speak with one more candidate just to compare and then will be making a decision."  No further news since then, though.  If I don't hear anything more by Monday I'll ping the recruiter again.

Guess I'm going to have to bite the bullet and order more checks, seeing that I'm down to one.  I was kinda hoping my next check order would be from a different address.  Preferably not a North Carolina one.

In other news, my toe's healing well.  The second abscess seems to have just popped then closed right up.  I still wish there was someplace I could just buy a new foot and ankle, though.  "Actually, why don't you just swap out both legs from the knee down?"  I wonder how long it'll be before we'll be able to snip a tissue sample and just clone a new limb....  (Probably bloody never, if that bible-thumping imbecile in the White House gets his way.)

Oh yeah, and check out the new Logjam 4.4.0 release.  It rocks.  The magic-link feature in particular rocks much ass.

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[databeast.livejournal.com]

Used tekelec's equipment back at Qwest a lot, some nice features, quite a few gripes. Certainly not terrible equipment but far from divine. Their reps seemed fairly clued-in at least if my memories not playing tricks on me

[databeast.livejournal.com]

incidentally..

now I remember their deal once I checked them out

Their IP7 product (switching-system-7 telephony routed over TCPIP instead of pointopoint T1 links) was engineered at USwest Wireless (before the buyout) by the department I worked for. I was the guy handling the IP security side of this transit system.

I have a good few hours of into and stories I get tell you about this system, which was originally named SASSI.