Category: Computers

Changing OES DHCP Range

May 21, 2010 - Computers , Geek , Novell , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

Recently we were in the unfortunate position of running out of IP address in our DHCP pool. The Novell DNS/DHCP Management Console will give you a handy utilization % for your subnet, but will not tell you how much of your allocatable pool is in use. As a result, machines […]

Sure/Smartie LCDProc

December 22, 2009 - Cars , Computers , Cool things , Geek , Land Rover , Linux - by admin - 3 Comments

Recently I’ve been looking at getting a computing device into the Land Rover. Short of buying a full sized 7″ touch screen, I opted to go for a slightly cheaper £20 4×20 LCD display. This was more to be proof of concept, and give me a starter to work on, […]

Lost your APC UPS?

November 10, 2009 - Computers , Technology , Work - by admin - No Comments

I was in a sticky situation this weekend. I had casually set up one of our APC UPS RT 5000 units to use DHCP to get a statically assigned address. However, I hadn’t implemented Option 43 on the DHCP server and the APC management card had fallen off the network. […]

Tagged: apc ups sysadmin

Asterisk Jabber Call Notifications

January 5, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , Geek , Technology , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

The other evening I busied myself with tweaking Asterisk to do some more geeky things. One such item was where I configured it to send a message to my Jabber account every time there was a call to a particular extension. Great for call logging, integration, and general user friendliness. […]

A Reason to Hate Cisco

January 4, 2009 - Asterisk , Computers , VoIP - by admin - 1 Comment

Last week I ‘accidentally’ bought a Cisco 7911 phone on Ebay. My bid was low, the device was missing a few bits, but I still thought I wouldn’t get it. Suffice to say… I’ve just written this piece on how to load the SIP firmware onto a Cisco 7911 phone. […]