Broadvoice sucks

In my opinion anyone looking for a VOIP provider should stay away from Broadvoice for the following reasons:

* Emails to support@broadvoice.com never get answered. (at least none of mine have)
* Service is spotty. Sometimes your calls just stop working for no reason even though your device is registering with their server. Also sometimes you can't hear the other caller and sometimes they can't hear you.
* "features" suddenly stop working. You can email support, but they will never answer.
* Calls to support end in a fast busy most of the time... You never reach a human.
* when you do call support the music on hold is the worst music that you have ever heard.
* When broadvoice has a major outage they don't credit your account. You pay even if their service does not work for no fault of your own.
* Their voice quality has gone down hill (I have 1mb down and 300k up reserved specifically for broadvoice and MRTG shows my QOS never falls below this for my sipura. It's not a bandwidth problem on my end.)

My crappy motherboard gave out.

My crappy motherboard died. I have an Epox 8rda3+ that will not stay turned on for more that 30 seconds. I checked the power supply with a volt meter and it is steady and strong. Then I checked the caps and notice that they are all bloated. The tops of the capacitors should be flat, but not on my crap for motherboard. The top of the caps are round. I have computers that I still own from way back and none of them have ever had this problem. This motherboard is maybe a year and a half old, if that.

I will never ever buy another Epox motherboard. In my opinion Epox motherboards are all junk and Epox sucks.

/etc/localtime

A recent emerge using ~x86 removed my /etc/localtime. I am not sure how it happen or why but the file was just gone.

A quick ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern /etc/localtime made everything happy again.

Death kneel of the 10th amendment

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." -- 10th amendment to the US Constitution

Read the latest usurpation of states rights in the name of the "commerce clause" in the constitution:
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/04pdf/03-1454.pdf

The US government via act of congress can make possessing any item a federal crime. I forget why it took a constitutional amendment to outlaw alcohol and then another amendment to make it legal again.