Boy, I’m glad I wrote down directions for replacing a drive in an LVM mirror, because c0t1d0 just died on me. That’s right, the drive that I didn’t replace last time.
Keep in mind that I purchased this Sun server less than 4 months ago. I wonder if the assembly line workers at Seagate were smoking [...]
I can’t claim to be the first one to think that maybe PowerPoint is far too heavyweight of a tool for making presentations. In fact, Edward Tufte has said this before and in fact argues that PowerPoint makes people dumber. Having been at the receiving end of many sleep-inducing PowerPoint-driven presentations, I can heartily agree.
From [...]
More summaries from BSDCan 2006.
(Don’t worry, the summaries from the 2nd day of BSDCan are coming. I’m 1/4 of the way through, but I got distracted by the following toy!)
I borrowed a Cisco 7960 IP phone from work to test the feasibility of making the existing telephony infrastructure operate with Asterisk instead of Call Manager. To do this, I [...]
Conference summaries from day one of BSDCan 2006, which was held on Friday 12 May 2006.
I’m going to be posting a couple of journal entries where I will summarize the talks I attended at BSDCan 2006 last weekend. It might take me a little while to get through all the summaries, but eventually I’ll finish them all! I’m starting with Day -2 of BSDCan, i.e. 2 days before BSDCan really [...]
Silicon Graphics, Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. It’s a sad day for all SGI fans; many have said that SGI started going downhill when they decided to start selling Windows workstations.
I have fond memories of SGI workstations. It was on an Indy that I first surfed the World Wide Web at the [...]
Wireless device support — and indeed, wireless reliability — has been frankly awful in Linux up to this point. Even among the devices that work (at least some of the time), there are frequent problems. For example, my IBM Thinkpad T42 laptop comes with an IPW2200BG adapter that mostly works — except after suspend, when [...]
Some of my Asterisk-related questions (below) have been answered through my own digging:
There is a list of Asterisk commands on the VoIP Info Wiki.
The format of each exten => line is exten => name,priority,application().
I still don’t know what all the bundled sounds say, but the extra sound files package includes a readme that indicates what [...]
What a day — Rogers’ network was b0rked starting around noon, which meant that our office T1 connection flapped up and down all afternoon. It finally seemed to give out entirely around 4 p.m., at which point I think everyone at the office just headed home. Since I have my name on a ticket with [...]
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