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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 […]

Zattoo on Kubuntu 0804

February 15, 2009 - Linux - by admin - No Comments

Want to make Zattoo work on Kubuntu 0804? It’ll most likely fail silently, without spitting out any useful error information. Some chopping up of ldd /usr/bin/zattoo_player output reveals that it’s useful to run sudo apt-get install dbus-x11, at which point zattoo_player will start working.

2009 Todo

February 7, 2009 - Life - by admin - 1 Comment

Spurred on by mrben and Elwell, my ambitions for this year include… * Finish rebuilding the Land Rover * Finish restoring the TR6 * Sort out the MythTV situation in the living room (lack of acceleration on the TV-Out port) * Flesh out Asterisk to do more than just make […]

That’s not a brush…

February 7, 2009 - Land Rover , Technology - by admin - No Comments

This a real brush… It’s rated at 8500 RPM, but the grinder runs at 10,000RPM. Frighteningly fast, and slightly unwieldy due to the gyroscopic effect present. On a related note, due to such machinery, the replacement bulkhead is almost clean now. A touch more here and there, and it will […]

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 […]