Author: Vic Cross

The angiogram ended up being a bit late, but the result couldn't have been better: NORMAL!  That means that even the 30% blockage I had two years ago is now gone.  An excellent result!  Now I'm home and raring to get back into things.

Given a bit of time on my hands at the moment (see the last entry), I'm thinking about changes to the system environment at the Crossed Wires campus.  Current setup is way too complex, so some rationalisation is in order.  Out the door will go some things I'm using just for-the-sake-of-it, and some new things will probably … Continue reading System planning

So I managed to get myself back in hospital again.  Almost the same situation as the first time: bad gastro, leading to dehydration, leading to chest pain.  All is okay though; I'm in no danger, and the main symptoms were more related to heartburn than anything else!This time, all the cardiac tests were showing negative until just … Continue reading Singin’ the Angiogram Blues

Regular readers will know I have a youngster.  As the houshold geek, the responsibility for giving the little guy (and any siblings that might subsequently arrive) his initiation into the "online world".  Secure in the knowledge that this would be some years away yet, I postponed thinking about the problem.  Until I offered to get my nephews online, … Continue reading The Internet aint all that nice a place to be

I've been thinking about resurrecting the zCast.  If I do, it will not follow the same format as it had...A couple of episodes of the Leo Laporte/Steve Gibson "Security Now" podcast I've heard recently have been worth modelling; I'll just talk about how things work and stuff.  I'm not close enough to the zSeries action to be … Continue reading Return of Vic’s podcast?

As if I ever needed more evidence that my computers have personalities and conspire against me...  Yesterday I took the ISDN card out of eagle and moved it to majestic now that the build of Trixbox on majestic is stabilising.  As if to sulk, today eagle's power supply failed.I know that it was sulkiness, because it did … Continue reading More system weirdness

I must be the proudest Dad on Earth.  Well, me and every other father of a two-year-old I guess!  Nicholas is learning new things day-by-day, and continuing to amaze us all.  He has a fantastic memory with his storybooks, and his vocabulary is immense (even though his anunciation and diction is standard-two-year-old!).One of his favourite tricks at the … Continue reading Nicholas the amazer

It seems I messed up part of the network moves a couple of weeks ago, and as a result the Crossed Wires campus has been off the air for as long.  Basically I was not letting any external traffic through the firewall (the real description is more technical, but that's it in a nutshell).  So if you're … Continue reading Oops… We didn’t really leave, honest

Went looking for Asterisk@Home, and got bounced to something called Trixbox.  Seems they've just decided to rename the project -- maybe Digium got upset with them using "Asterisk" in their name, maybe they decided that "Asterisk@HomeOrOffice" didn't quite roll off the tongue so well...  Whatever the reason, what used to be Asterisk@Home now is called Trixbox.  There you … Continue reading Asterisk@Home is dead, long live Trixbox