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, but [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
So today I fired up the backed up VM that I’ve been using rsync to sync to all week, with the script from my previous post, and it fired up and worked beautifully. The VM server in question is Ubuntu 7.10, with Samba+LDAP configured as a Windows NT-style Primary Domain Controller, and the main file [...]
So I’ve been evaluating our backup procedures. Of course I’d like to go ahead and buy some software and do it all proper, but the $$’s not there, so I’m just trying to improve the free solutions we have at our disposal. So browsing around the IntraWeb I found some more info about [...]
OK, we haven’t had a Geek Day of Service in a while, mainly because of budget reasons, but also because of some reorganization of our staff structure, and some overall evaluation of every ministry at CHCC. A lot of the changes being discussed all year are happening now, and all the restructuring of staff [...]
Technical Preview 5 of Samba 4 recently came out. So I’ve downloaded it and will try to install it on an Ubuntu virtual machine running on VMWare. And because I’m such a nice guy, I’ll let you share the experience with me.
I’m starting with a basic Ubuntu Server 7.04 Feisty Faun configured as [...]
I’m making some virtual machines in VMWare to load on my servers. I’m upgrading all the hardware and moving everything to virtual machines. We’ve been having some trouble with our network as the result of a crash a few months ago. Our server crashed when I was performing an upgrade [...]
There’s been so much talk about SAN’s lately, and I knew my budget would never allow me to purchase one, so this week I built my very own iSCSI SAN.
I put together a system with an AMD Athlon64 X2 AM2 3800+ with 2GB DDR2 800 RAM, a 20GB IDE HDD for the OS and 4 [...]