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Louisville InfoSec
Looks like I’m going to Louisville in Octover for the 2009 Louisville Metro Infosec Conferece. Thanks to IronGeek who provided me with a free ticket just for agreeing to participate in the CTF. I’ve got family close to Louisville so I’m going to try to make a vacation of it, but I’ve still got to work out [...]
My BoostBerry: Boost Mobile on a BlackBerry, with Browser and MMS working
Being budget-minded (read tightwad) I was excited to hear about Boost Mobile’s $50 unlimited plan. That’s unlimited voice, data, and text for $50/month. The only drawback is that it is slow, using Nextel’s IDEN network, and not the more modern 3G, but it’s definetly usable. Most of the phones available through Boost aren’t that great, [...]
RAID fail!
So right after we installed Windows on our Servers, a hard drive on one of the RAID sets died. So I replaced it, and a week later the replacement died as well. This made me think something other than the hard drive was the problem so I ordered a new RAID controller. However… We recently [...]
Goodbye Linux & Sam
This weekend we said goodbye to out Linux domain controller using Samba and OpenLDAP. We now have two servers running Windows Server 2003 with Active Directory controlling our network. The migration went pretty well except for a failed hard drive in a RAID array, but I had a spare and the backups were working properly, [...]
Asterisk and Samsung
We’ve been having trouble with our integration of an Asterisk server and our old Sasmung Prostart DCS. The two are connected via FXO ports on the Asterisk-side, connected to SLI cards on the Samsung-side. The problem involves background noise on the lines, lines not hanging up when they’re supposed to, and lines randomly diconnecting during [...]
First Asterisk Problem resolved
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 disconnect [...]
Asterisk Implementation almost done.
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 [...]
This blog is brought to you by vim
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 [...]
Gillware
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 [...]
Data Recovery Part 2
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 [...]
