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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Data Recovery
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 [...]
The poor man’s KVM
So I’ve been seeing people post pics on their uber workspaces with 15 monitors spread out across their wall, etc. And I’m thinking, hey that’s cool, but I can’t afford that. Heck, I’m still trying to get rid of all the 15″ Packaged Hell monitors spread out around the building. Even if I could buy [...]
My Eee PC
Right after Christmas I purchased myself an Asus Eee PC. It’s what we call an Ultra Mobile PC(UMPC). It has a 7″ screen and weighs in at about 2 lbs. Let me just say, I love this thing. It comes installed with a customized version of Xandros that’s perfect for new users. Very SIMPLE. But [...]
Computers Ordered!!
I got to order some new computers today!!! I’m so excited!!! Because of budget cuts I haven’t replaced ANY computers this year. I hope I remember how to set a new computer up…
