To anyone who might have looked at the photo gallery at some time, it has moved! You'll now find it at http://veejoe.net/gallery. Sorry for any trouble! It also hasn't been updated for a while, but this will be changing as well.The newer version of the software I'm using has RSS support, so if you want to stay up … Continue reading Photo gallery moved
Author: Vic Cross
Okay, not computer hardware, but I don't have a category for trains (hmm, might have to fix that...). News from France early this month that the TGV set a new rail speed record of 574.8 kph!Of course some anti-Francophiles just have to mention that they couldn't break the overall speed record for a train, which still … Continue reading Go TGV Go
Following-on from a discussion on the Linux Australia mailing list, Melissa Draper has commented on her blog on the effectiveness of WoM (word-of-mouth) as a marketing technique for Linux. She raises Apple as a counterpoint to the "WoM is worthless" argument; Apple having spent (possibly) billions of traditional marketing dollars on Macintosh to achieve roughly the … Continue reading Word-of-Mouth for Linux marketing?
LIVE from Dicky Beach, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, it's the Crossed Wires Holiday Show! Jokes aside (particularly at the name of the venue, which is actually named after a shipwreck... oh dear, not getting much better is it) we're on our "summer" holiday. Caravanning on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Beautiful... well, after the heat in the van's canvas annexe... … Continue reading Holiday time
Susan and I went to a wedding yesterday -- one of Susan's cousins, who I'm sure many in the family, including her own mother, thought would never get married. The ceremony was quite formal but quite quick... Being held at St Stephen's Cathedral in the city, quite likely one of the more popular wedding venues, time … Continue reading ${DEITY} bless digital photography
I've had a good productive few days with system things recently. Probably the biggest improvements have been on the phone system.The cutover to Trixbox changed a lot of how we worked with the phone system -- and not all for the better. Losing LDAP caller-id lookup and other features was a bit of a PITA, and honestly … Continue reading Making the phones work right
I fixed my Planet mod that creates the hackergotchi <img> tags in the RSS feed. So Dudes, if you've got a hackergotchi and want it in your Planet entries, let me know!
I gave up my former desktop machine to use as the new combined Asterisk/MythTV system. This means I've been using various machines scattered about the house to do home system stuff, and it's a bit frustrating. At the time I commandeered the other machine, a system based on Core 2 Duo was the most likely contenderto replace … Continue reading I’m really quite confused now
After a hiatus that has lasted since I first cut the phone system over to Trixbox (probably a year or more), LDAP caller-ID name lookup is working again on my Asterisk system! A lot easier to maintain than the original version I implemented ages ago, too. A bit of PHP code does the trick! I'm using FreePBX … Continue reading LDAP Caller ID again!
The new consolidated Asterisk machine has been running well, but a recent outage shows the potential folly of (still) using Gentoo as a server base.The new machine was not in any of the Cacti graphing, so I decided to set it up on Friday night. net-snmp had been installed, but I must have removed it in … Continue reading Joyeux Asterisk
Crossed Wires 