Right, so it’s Sunday evening and Quintin just made an entry about send-notify. This immediately made me think of non-root users and ACPI and how I had a script on my previous laptop that popped up notifications when battery state changed. And so inspiration set in and I decided it’s time to redo that hack and publish it. (more…)
Archive for the ‘IT’ Category
ACPI based battery state notifications
Sunday, January 16th, 2011The superflous subject line
Monday, November 15th, 2010So 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.
Using asterisk as a RAS server
Thursday, September 16th, 2010So 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, 2010I 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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