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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 […]

Not Alone

January 24, 2009 - Gnome , KDE , Life , Linux - by admin - No Comments

Well, it’s nice to see that I’m not alone in my recent decision to change…

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. […]