Well I’ve already run into my first problem getting Asterisk working seemlessly with our old Samsung DCS, and I’ve managed to get the problem resolved as well. The problem was when making or receiving calls between the two phone systems if the caller on the Samsung side hungup first, Asterisk did not detect a [...]

We finally reached a point in the remodelling of the new offices that I was able to run network cable. I also got the wireless bridge setup, and then I was able to plug in a phone and make a call through the Asterisk server.
So all the hardware is in place, now it’s just [...]

I was chatting in the SMUUG (Southwest Missouri Unix Users Group) IRC channel from my favorite IRC client irssi, and someone posted a link to vimpress. That’s right, I can now post my WordPress blog entries directly from vim, my favorite editor and yours.
Now if that ain’t geeky enough for you, I don’t know [...]

I think I mentioned earlier that I’ve gone back to school at Colorado Technical University (CTU).  So that means I’m going to have to write lots of papers, and at CTU those papers have to follow APA guidelines (http://www.apastyle.org/).  At this point 75% of the time I’ve spent writing my first paper was trying to [...]

Last week I sent a hard drive in to Gillware (http://www.gillware.com) for a friend of mine to get his data recovered and I’m happy to say that they were able to recover the hard drive 100%.  I was able to load the restored data on to a new hard drive and the system booted back [...]

After running dd for about 24 hours I only managed to copy about 900KB.  Then the drive started making a clicking sound, so I’ve concluded that recovering data from this hard drive is beyond my skills.  I may be able to do it if I had the necessary hardware and a clean room, but I [...]

Many people are surprised to find out that I don’t have a degree.  Since I’m so brilliant they just assume…
Anyway, I had some health problems my freshman year of college, also got married and had our first child, and life just got busier.  So here I am ten year into my IT career with no [...]

A friend of mine, and former boss, who owns a local retail shop called me yesterday and told me he thought the hard drive in his server was dead, and they havne’t been doing backups.  I paused for a moment and considered referring him to someone else, but decided to go ahead and see what [...]