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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

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

My father-in-law and I took Nicholas to the Brisbane Motor Show today.  What a great day out!  He absolutely loved it.  We rode the bus to get there, and he loves bus rides, but when we got inside and onto the show floor he was speechless!He loved the Lamborghinis, was in awe of the Audis, thought the Ferraris … Continue reading Brisbane Motor Show

I updated the Planet software that runs Dudeville tonight...  I can't really see much difference, but the one that's in Portage is two-three years old so I figured it needed updating.I did occasionally get problems with repeated posts when viewing the Dudeville RSS feed in Akregator, but that hadn't happened for a while.  Let's see how this … Continue reading Planets and hackergotchis

I read a blog post via Planet Ubuntu not long ago about using OTPs.  I had looked at things like OPIE in the past, but the idea of carrying around a pre-generated list of passwords was not so encouraging.  I changed my mind when I saw that ingenious folks have written J2ME midlets for running the password … Continue reading One-time passwords

I bought a new switch recently, partly because I got cheesed by having to run an extra no-name 10/100 switch plugged into the Netgear Gigabit switch simply because the Netgear doesn't talk to some of my NICs.  As well as some new Shiny, I got yet another reminder that the browser compatibility wars are far from … Continue reading Browser compatibility, the Linksys Way

It seems like a whole year since I blogged... 🙂  Best Wishes for the new year to all!  2007 has started fairly quietly for me.  The most interesting thing has been a weekend trip to Brisbane (yes, same one) to celebrate Susan's birthday, her new role at work, and, belatedly, our 10th Anniversary.I traded some credit-card-award-scheme points for … Continue reading Quiet…