Author: Vic Cross

Lots of activity here over the last week or so.  I've now pretty-much officially given up the diskless PBX plan.  I've pressed the old dual-Athlon box into service as a VMware Server platform, and since it's running CentOS I decided to install Asterisk@Home on it and use it as the PBX (I was going to run an … Continue reading System changes

Is it me, or is somebody just not thinking?  It seems like Gentoo has a beef against monolithic packages like KDE and X.org.  The recent builds of these have been broken up into (as many as) hundreds of separate ebuilds -- in the case of KDE, instead of the monolithic kdepim for example, each package that came … Continue reading KDE 3.5 Gentoo ebuilds

I've bitten the bullet and decided that NPTL has been floating around for long enough now that it should be pretty-much shaken out.  So I've rebuilt glibc on enterprise (which was needing an update anyway) with NPTL enabled.  Now the fun will start!

Here's best wishes to Mothers everywhere that not only was yesterday nice, but every day!My Mother's Day effort for Susan involved the cooking of omlette on toast (I was trying for the rolled-up style like the hotel chefs do, but I used too large a pan so it ended up more like an egg crepe) … Continue reading Happy Mother’s Day

On most entries on Crossed Wires you will find an "Add Comment" link, allowing you to make a comment.  But trust me, as soon as I pick up the slightest whiff of blog spam it'll be switched off.Which will of course ruin a nice feature for everyone, but you bottom-dwelling blog-spamming scum-suckers don't give a fig … Continue reading Comments on Crossed Wires

Today we had a garage sale (well, Susan had a garage sale while I did Daddy-duty with Nicholas).  We sold a reasonable amount of stuff, including an outdoor table and chairs that's still sitting on the driveway because it's new owner hasn't returned for it.  My contribution to the event was the installation of directional signage -- … Continue reading Garage Sale!

I just discovered (well, I've suspected for a while but never actually confirmed it or did anything about it) that a lot of the web application software here was out of date.  I'd gotten a bit tardy with keeping the websites in sync with what I was installing via Portage...You see, when you use Gentoo's webapp-config … Continue reading Software update time

You've probably noticed the ClustrMaps hitmap I set up on Crossed Wires -- that's it on the left of the page.  It's nice to see hits on your web page from all over the world, but since most of them are me and will never grow in size...  🙂  Anyway, some of the dots have appeared in unexpected … Continue reading Decoding the hitmap

I'm setting up some of the VoIP booty I picked up in Singapore.  One of the items is the new Linksys-ised Sipura SPA3000 (will come in handy to provide an emergency power-out phone service that still works normally through the Asterisk rig).  I'm hooking it up to the analogue phone line that provides ADSL, so that we … Continue reading Goose Strikes Again