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A while ago David posted about how he switched to using FsckVPS over Linode. He showed that it was cheaper, faster, etc.

Today I saw this on Reddit. Take a look at the linked picture. Basically, it’s Fsck saying that it’s too hard to not store passwords in plaintext, and then an ( Read more... )

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I’ll be presenting on Asterisk at CHLUG tonight, so if you’re in the Cherry Hill (New Jersey) area, come on down! I’ll be presenting to what I think will be a mostly empty room, so if you have questions about Asterisk, tonight’s a good time to get them answered.

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The LoCo Team went to the Trenton Computer Festival on April 25th and 26th.

Here are some pictures (courtesy of Christina):


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Update Voicepulse replied in a comment to this post. Though my post was a bit venomous, they replied thoughtfully, and they’re considering GPLing their FreePBX module. Keep in mind, while the Freepbx module annoyed me, and the contract annoyed me, I’m still using their service, I’ ( Read more... )

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On Linux, Flash Media Server only supports Redhat. In February, Markus Bertheau posted a patch for FMS 3, so that it would run on Ubuntu. Based on that patch, here is a patch for FMS 3.5 . It’s patched in a similar way. From the installer directory, run:

patch -p1 < fms-3.5-ubuntu ( Read more... )

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ICQ just broke support for pidgin in Ubuntu. There’s a thread about it here, the patch is here. If you don’t want to apt-get source, apply the patch, and build it, you have the following option: if you are on Hardy, x86, and trust me a lot, I have the packages built here. I’ll ( Read more... )

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As I said in my previous entry, Best Buy didn’t sell the n810, and they still don’t. However, “Best Buy Mobile” does, and I finally found one with one in stock.

And it’s awesome!

In celebration, here’s a video of me doing a barrel roll.

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Haven’t written in a while.

While I didn’t get a gPC (not a Walmart fan, and it was underpowered), I did get the motherboard for the gPC. The motherboard, 1GB ram, decent microatx case, and 500GB hard drive set me back around 240. It’s much quieter than my previous server, and is ( Read more... )

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I’m currently working on the approval application for the NJ LoCo team, and part of it is giving actual evidence of what we discussed - this includes IRC logs. Unfortunately, I never set up a LoCo bot to log the meetings, so I’m currently going through my bip logs for relevant ( Read more... )

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Yesterday, I walked around campus with my Ubuntu shirt on, going to 2 classes over the course of 4 hours. During that time, I met 2 people that stopped and said “nice shirt!”, who also used Ubuntu, and were interested in the NJ LoCo team.

Therefore, what I think I need to do is ( Read more... )