When I first set up FreePBX, I was frustrated by the inability to create a voicemail user independently of an extension. It looked to me like an office system, where each handset was associated with an individual and had its own voicemail. In the end I created a few extensions that were not associated with handsets and … Continue reading FreePBX modes
Author: Vic Cross
We returned from holiday a little while ago -- we spent a week in Melbourne to visit family and friends. While it wasn't Nicholas' first time on a plane, it was the first he was able to get involved in (being a couple of years older than his previous plane rides).He took to the plane amazingly … Continue reading Holiday
In case anyone is curious, here's a status update on my music library debacle. I finally got to a point where I had a what should be a clean copy of my music repository on my NFS drive, and I just had to point iTunes at the cleaned repository...I was resigned by this time to losing … Continue reading Music library status
All I wanted to do was change the mount point that my music was exported on. A simple change from one path to another on my NFS server. What I've ended up with is a total train-wreck -- my library is in a shambles. I'm sure that in the past when I've relocated the library all I … Continue reading iTunes library mismanagement
From the television-viewing public of Australia: We applaud your attempt to bring us back from BitTorrent by airing popular US shows shortly after their original US airdates. However, your gesture is hollow and insincere as long as you continue to treat us as having no intelligence to make informed decisions about our choice of entertainment.We do … Continue reading An Open Letter to Australian Commercial Television Networks
Nothing visible at all (I hope) but I made some virtual site changes. Some internal applications were actually visible externally, and I've made a new virtual host to isolate that stuff to the internal network (yes, I know I could have done it differently, but switching virtual hosts was easier then the first method I planned, … Continue reading Website changes
I decided to go PoE to run a few of the phones. So far only the 7970 is using it, as the switch I got is IEEE 802.3af PoE (because I didn't feel like selling the motorbike so that I could afford a Cisco switch to run the older Cisco phones). Not one to let mere electronics … Continue reading Power over Ethernet for Fun and Profit?
I re-read my post about the iPod touch and realised I probably wasn't very balanced in the way I discussed it, particularly in light of the fact that I specifically said it wasn't going to be a ra-ra post. Maybe I've had a cooling-off period. 🙂 So, here goes with some of the negatives I can see... It … Continue reading iPod touch: Balance please
Here at the Crossed Wires Campus I've had LDAP at the centre of most of what the network does for quite some time now. User-id management, telephone directory (integrated into the phone system), automount maps, Samba domain database; I even had DHCP running with LDAP as a backend for a while. Most boxes in the house touch … Continue reading Authentication trouble
They've done it to me once more, those folks at Apple. In 2003, while I was in the US for a residency trip, I fell in device-lust with the third-generation iPod. I brought one home, and I'm still using it (on its original battery, I might add, although there's a bit of a telltale bulge developing on … Continue reading iPod touch: device lust
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