Dividing by zero and emotions

January 4th, 2009

Reading my feeds this evening I stumbled upon this which has two interesting parts.

1. The article talks about legally dividing by zero. Which is a bit of a in joke - but see: I told you so.

2. Discusses non-displayed human emotion. Read more…

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iNove theme bug

January 3rd, 2009

Ok so it’s not a bug but a design choice which leads to a display bug.

The current theme iNove uses a fixed width of 125 pixels on the CSS selector #menu li li a which for my Tutorials section doesn’t work. The titles are way too long. I’ve simply commented out the line in style.css. Which seems to fix it. Any problems let me know.

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Provisioning Linksys SPA9*2 Phones

January 3rd, 2009

I’ve just posted a new tutorial on how to do Bulk Provisioning of Linksys SPA9*2 SIP desk phones with tftp using xml configuration files. This works for both the 5.2.8 and 6.1.3a firmware for both the SPA942 and SPA962 (with or without the side car).

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Time to rhyme in 2009

January 1st, 2009

Geez that’s bad. But oh well. Happy new year to all. Etc… Etc… 2008 was pretty long in my opinion. It was definitely a full year; full of new experiences; and full of challenges personally and otherwise. But it’s gone now and we all have to start writing dates ending in 9 now.

I haven’t really, at least publicly, spoken much about some of the potentially bad things that happened this last year. And I don’t propose to now. I took opportunities that were presented to me in the past; quite some time ago now I guess; those opportunities furnished me with experiences that I am glad for. The long term strategy didn’t play out as planned: life is quick though; you can’t live for the long term strategy.

To quote Albert Einstein:

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Spontaneity and diligence are the keys. And for me that’s what 2009 is all about.

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Upgrade pfSense 1.2 -> 1.2.1 Notes

December 30th, 2008

I spent a few hours this afternoon upgrading some of the work firewalls, which run pfSesne, from v1.2 to v1.2.1. Which was released a few days ago. Here are my notes and warnings after following the Install and Upgrade documentation. Read more…

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Leap Second

December 29th, 2008

Just in case you don’t know. December is going to be one second longer than usual.

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Asterisk 1.6 Segmentation Faults at VoiceMail

December 29th, 2008

Just a brief note on segfaults when compiling Asterisk 1.6.0 (through to 1.6.0.3-rc1 and perhaps onwards). If you find that the Asterisk process segfaults when a caller starts to record a VoiceMail message then go back to the build step:

make menuselect
Compiler Flags -> DONT OPTIMIZE

And then recompile / reinstall.

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