Category: Geek

Avaya Playtime

March 7, 2009 - Avaya , Geek , VoIP - by admin - No Comments

OK, so I got to borrow an Avaya 4610SW from work, as it would be faster to play with firmware via TFTP on my home network than it would be when using the business network. These are some notes… Turn off 802.1q – my network doesn’t do tagging. Grab the […]

Egroupware and SyncML fix

January 31, 2009 - Geek , Life , Linux - by admin - 1 Comment

Recently I acquired a HTC Touch HD, and in order to connect it to my eGroupWare installation, I purchased the Synthesis SyncML client to do the necessary translation. Now, Charlotte’s SonyEricsson has a built in SyncML client (which I’ll be playing with when back in the UK), but Microsoft didn’t […]

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. […]

DoF Courtesy of X-Modem

November 13, 2008 - Geek - by admin - No Comments

Whilst waiting for xmodem one day… I got very bored and had a shot at something involving depth of field. It’s a little digital pocket camera, so nothing fantastic.

Disable Compiz

November 11, 2008 - Computers , Geek , KDE , Linux - by admin - 4 Comments

Since KDE have ruined Kubuntu with KDE4, it’s time to use Gnome. However Compiz and glitzy pointless effects irritate me no end. A few quick commands will disable them for the current user… gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/metacity –type=string gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default /usr/bin/metacity –type=string The next time you log in, it […]