Over the last week or so I've had some fun with a couple of Cisco IP phones. I can say fun because it actually was this time: not only did I manage to recover a 7960 from a bad firmware flash, but I unbricked my 7970!Via voip-info.org I found that a later release of the Cisco … Continue reading Cisco phones: To Brick And Back Again
Author: Vic Cross
I left for a short trip to Adelaide last night. I phoned home from the airport, and Nicholas didn't want to talk to me... but Chelsea did. 🙂 Susan phoned this morning to report that Chelsea had been ill all night. A hurried trip to the vet... Examinations and X-rays revealed that Chelsea had bone fragments lodged in her … Continue reading Goodbye, Classy Miss
Before yesterday, I had never run Google Earth. There, I've said it. Some might be surprised, but for some reason I had just never bothered to look at it. Because Sabayon Linux has it right there pre-installed, I figured I had to have a look.I like it. Actually, I don't think like is the right word. It's... remarkable? Fascinating? Incredible? I'm still looking … Continue reading Google Earth
My desktop Ubuntu system is/was a 32-bit build running on 64-bit hardware. I'd been looking on-and-off for a way to in-place upgrade an Ubuntu system from i386 to x86_64, but it doesn't look easy/feasible/worthwhile compared to a fresh install. So thinking that I was up for a reinstall anyway, I decided to check out whether Ubuntu was … Continue reading Sabayon Linux
...and the winner is: KVM! Why? Because as you read this, some of you will be thinking I'm talking about a keyboard-video-mouse switch, while some of you will be thinking I'm talking about Linux kernel-based virtualisation (still others are probably thinking of something else... what I don't know, but I reckon I can be sure that the … Continue reading The “Technology With The Worst Name Ever” Award
Read on if you've recently upgraded Jabberd2 and are seeing a heap of error messages about a database table that doesn't exist.I was getting these errors in my log, at a fairly cracking pace: jabberd/sm: mysql: sql select failed: Table 'jabberd2.status' doesn't exist I'd recently upgraded jabberd2, and the config now includes a "status" module. It … Continue reading Jabberd database error
I've always considered myself to be a FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open-Source Software) advocate and a participant in the Linux and Open Source communities. However, a comment or two on this blog have suggested to me that I perhaps have not been as community-minded as I ought.Just being a Linux or Open Source user doesn't make one a part … Continue reading Projects page announcement!
I was on eBay not long ago and happened across a listing for the WIP330 (big brother to the WIP300) for much less than local retail. I decided to take advantage of: a) the good price, b) the current strong position of the A$ versus the US$, and c) it was within 1 hour of closing … Continue reading Linksys WIP330 – another tale of hardware woe
I was disappointed to see that my site's image on ClustrMaps got a refresh... Probably not a bad thing really, as it was getting a bit cluttered, but it was nice to see where the hits are coming from. The old image is archived, if you click the image on the front page there are links available … Continue reading My ClustrMap got wiped
This blog is not a busy one, but it seems to attract at least a little traffic via search engines. Here's the latest of my infrequent analyses of my web server logs, brought to you by our good friends at awstats... but before I begin I'd like to humbly apologise to anyone whose search has brought them … Continue reading My web stats
Crossed Wires 