Archive for the ‘IT’ Category

Dealing with spammers

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

So I receive very little spam generally. In fact, most of my spam are from suppliers that don’t seem to be able to differentiate between “I want to receive your emails regarding quotes and invoices and stock availability on orders but I don’t want to know about your specials twice a day.”, so on the odd occasion that I receive real SPAM, I’m pissed. Very pissed.

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Live without version control …

Friday, November 21st, 2008

I made a large commit a few minutes back, and crazy as this may sound, I nearly sighed an audible sound of relieve! I’m not sure why this is – I managed most of four years of university without version control without an insane amount of harm done.

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3G, PINs, prompts and pppd

Monday, November 17th, 2008

A recent post by Quintin, and specifically a few comments regarding 3G made me think The primary advice to users looking to use 3G under Linux is to switch off the PIN on the SIM. Well, I’ve posted before on how to make 3G work … but Quintin’s post challenged me to take it to the next level…

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BLF, asterisk reloads and SIP Registry …

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Something which a number of clients has been complaining about is that the BLF lights on the GXP phones just stop functioning.  The stock standard answer until now has been “reboot the phone” … however, the calls keeps coming.  So what can be done to fix this more permanently?

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