Geekin’ Out: for the love of computers.
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Ideas for a new home Asterisk system
Here is a response from Hans Fugal, to my PLUG posting back in March 2007 – Distinctive ring – Mother-in-law logic (aka ex-girlfriend logic) – e.g. different messages or behavior depending on who’s calling – or even change the CID name for incoming calls to something more hip, for a finite set of numbers (or…
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PSI SSL broken with Ubuntu 8.04
Installing the package “libqca2-plugin-ossl” solved the problem
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Ubuntu Failed Install with (initfamfs) prompt
Before install, on the Ubuntu screen, press F6 and it will let you edit the kernel options. Add “all_generic_ide”
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Preventing infinite alert loops in Javascript
I found this code snippet which overrides the window.alert function to prevent an infinite loop. window.alert = function(s) { if(!confirm(s)) window.alert = null; }
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Google: Where oh where has my search result gone?
A few days ago I launched the Asterisk Voicemail for iPhone page. This received a lot of press in the Asterisk community and blogs. My site shot up to #1 for the search term “Asterisk Voicemail iPhone”. Now a few days later and my site is not even in any search results for those terms…
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ZiPhone 2.4 is stable
In previous posts, I’ve stated how unstable (but awesome) ZiPhone is. Well, the development cycle has slowed down and 2.4 is the best and most stable version so far. Grab it from here
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ASCII Art for your SSH logins
Here is a nice way to spice up your SSH logins. To create a cool ASCII art banner for your server, first start off by going here: http://www.network-science.de/ascii/ Type your server name into the text field. On the font choice, select “_all fonts with your text_”. Click OK to generate the ASCII art. Copy the…
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ERROR – Package download failed!
After installing 1.1.3 and all that goodness, everyone I’ve talked to has the error when downloading some packages from Installer. This is due to Conceited software moving a repository. You need to install Community Sources 2.5 or newer to fix this. However, you may not be able to because you are getting the same error…
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It’s time to upgrade your iPhones to 1.1.3
The software is called ZiPhone and it is the first true jailbreak for 1.1.3. It is now safe to upgrade to 1.1.3 http://www.ziphone.org/ I upgraded to 1.1.3 last night and it’s working great! Be careful though, ZiPhone is buggy!! ZiPhone 2.0 has a bug that will get your phone stuck at the bootloader ZiPhone 2.1…
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Want to upgrade to firmware 1.1.3? Think not.
Known 1.1.3 Jailbreak Issues: Ringtones stop working SMS Text Messages are out of order Installer gives you “Main Script Error…” Google Locate does not work Sync issues Caller ID doesn’t work Edge doesn’t work Third Party Apps don’t work such as Customize and Summerboad OpenSSH is not working anymore and cannot be uninstalled Bluetooth problems…