The regionals of the ACM ICPC takes place every year around October. Today was that day for 2010. This posts just documents my experiences around the preperation leading up to the event, what went wrong, what went right, and some notes regarding AbacusCM.
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ACM ICPC 2010
October 16th, 2010
Gentoo: Converting no-multilib to multilib
September 23rd, 2010So 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
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
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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