I love it when, almost by chance, I find something new. I decided yesterday to look at FLOSS-based router distributions. I've been using IPCop for a while, as an easy way to create a VPN to another location. Unfortunately, IPCop failed my latest requirement: 802.1Q VLAN support. So I went surfing and found an absolute … Continue reading Zeroshell: network services distro
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Okay, I'm sure it's not really like that. I'm ashamed to admit this one bit me, though: ORDB, which 16 months ago called it quits but has still been online and more-or-less functional, decided last week to false-positive all queries (a mailing list thread on the issue can be seen here. Harsh, but fair--I do … Continue reading ORDB: “If I go down, I’ll bring you down with me”
In part one I mentioned how I was considering using Google Talk as my main chat ID. As it turns out, I talked myself out of it pretty quickly after I delved into using Google Talk to connect to MSN and other services as I do now with my own Jabber server. While there are … Continue reading Jabber and Google: part two
I reactivated an idle Google account the other day. A friend of mine from the Netherlands invited me ages ago but I never really did anything with it until I discovered that a Google Mail account can be used for other Google stuff as well, including Google Talk. I read that Google Talk is based … Continue reading Jabber and Google, part one
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!
Never thought I could get this excited about something to do with a Windows server! But there it is -- one of my SLES 9 test servers is now supporting logons from a user account stored in Active Directory, with no Samba in sight!Before you say ANYTHING, this is not an indication that the Crossed Wires … Continue reading Active Directory accounts on Linux
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