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            <p>Quadruple play is a favorite telco buzzword to describe the integration of Mobile and Fixed telephony with broadband internet plus television and their delivery through one network. It seems an appropriate term to describe the setup I have planned for my new home.</p>
            <p>Perhaps it's better to use the term quintuple play because Radio will also be over the network. This home network will be a mix of wired and wireless elements. The wired bits will use Cat 6 cabling and wireless of course will be Wi Fi. A security camera and intercom at the gate, several phones and of the macbook will be served through a wireless access point.</p>
            <p>An FXS to Ethernet adapter (also known as a VoIP interface to Analog Telephone) will be needed to connect the POTS to the network. The handsets will all be VoIP phones. I don't know a great deal about PBX systems, so I am going to set one up with software. Asterix is the most likely choice at the moment.</p>
            <p>The POTS will not be really pots either. It will be a Dialog CDMA phone, which is a 3G system. I haven't quite decided wheather to use Dialog WiMax or SLT ADSL for broadband. Wimax is faster and more expensive while ADSL is slower and cheaper. The drawback with ADSL is the long waiting list and SLT's lack of reliability. It's tough decision because my mobile phone (and the phones belonging to evey member of my family) happens to be a Dialog. The satellite television system will be through a Dialog subsidiary. It doesn't pay to have an over dependence on one provider.</p>
            <p>Television itself will be through a Tivo like system powered by MythTV or something similar. Heck MythTV is much better than Tivo. You don't have to pay anything. The fact that I don't watch TV except for the odd cricket match is totally immaterial. As a geek i have to do this.</p>
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            <p>he previous weekend I took my <a href="1251.html">Bigma</a> to Seru Kele. I had a little bit of fun managed to shoot a few good ones. before I bought this lens, I was told by several experts that 500 mm isn't really long enough for birding. I readily agreed with them, but then I get a 1.5x multiplication because of the Nikon D crop factor. That means the lense is a 75-750 lens rather than a 50-500mm</p>
            <p>Even so 750mm isn't really good enough if the bird small and is a fair distance away. It's pretty good for Comorants, Egrets, Pelicans and darters. Not so good for King Fishers, Pipits and Lapwings.</p>
            <p><a href="http://www.webquarry.com/~raditha/blog/archives/000955.html">Seru Kele</a> is a place in the dry zone with a few small lakes, lots of birds and few people. They are all interrelated. Obviously the dry zone is not as comfortable to live in as the wet zone and it doesn't have enough water to sustain a large population.</p>
            <p>There are thousands of small man made lakes scattered around the dry zone to help these people whose primary source of income is cultivation. Rice cultivation in particular needs a lot of water, followed by a dry spell before the harvesting season.</p>
            <p>Birds find paddy fields and lakes, specially ones that are just about to dry up, specially attractive.</p>
            <p>Also see : <a href="http://photos.raditha.com/">http://photos.raditha.com/</a></p>
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