3G, PINs, prompts and pppd

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 …

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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A PC Can only do one thing at a time …

October 27th, 2008

Whilst the above is probably true, it no longer holds, most processors nowadays are at least dual-core, in other words, we can now do TWO things at a time!

Now, the above is the newest argument I’ve seen against VoIP systems such as asterisk! Can you imagine it?

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Webserver (apache) security

October 22nd, 2008

Generally my experience with apache has been very good. It’s a decent web server and works very well, is well supported and generally doesn’t suffer too many problems. For an ISP though, there are a few issues: php and other sub-processes/modues runs with the privileges of the apache user. So what is so bad about that?

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