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The superflous subject line

Monday, November 15th, 2010

So it’s that time of the day again where I try to figure out which emails I missed in the last two hours is important, and which I can ignore till 17:00. And this is what my INBOX looks like:

Re:
Re: [Fwd]
Re: Attention Steven
Re:
Fwd: Re:
Re: MyOwnCompanyName

Needless to say. I feel violated. No, the above is really not a massive over-exaggeration. The truth is I just skipped a few (three or four) entries with sane Subject lines. And it’s been a good day seeing that there was only about 10 missed emails in the two hours.

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Gentoo: Converting no-multilib to multilib

Thursday, September 23rd, 2010

So it’s said that it’s not possible. Not supported perhaps, but definitely possible. Writing this here for reference, it’s also not supported in any way seeing that I’m not even close to what can even remotely be considered an expert in the field. I just figured someone else will run into the same situation, and might find this useful as a base to work from.
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Using asterisk as a RAS server

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

So I’ve got a client that has a need to have his clients dial into his network using ISDN. Right, so stagger a bunch of ISDN modems, use mgetty on them … yea yea. Figured I’d go the interesting route, get a few quad-port Digium ISDN PRI cards into a box (5 cards, => 5 * 4 * 40 = 20 * 30 = 600 odd available channels) and do this using asterisk.
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Asterisk – bri_net_ptmp

Thursday, September 16th, 2010

I recently needed to do some testing and required a bri_net_ptmp mode running on asterisk to connect another asterisk to. Needless to say, bumping into “How cool would it be if someone implemented this mode! For now, sucks for you.” is NOT fun.
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