Archive > May 2007

First impressions with TrixBox

Today I installed our new office Asterisk / TrixBox server. It’s a little ol’ P2, but after dealing with dusty CD-ROM drives, and flakey old hard drives, I managed to get it up and running. I have to admit, up to that point, it was a bit of a pain in the ass. After installation, [...]

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PFSense doesn’t like USB keyboards or write-protection

I recently upgraded a client from a m0n0wall firewall to a pfSense firewall. Our primary reason for the upgrade was to allow him to save his config onto a USB stick, rather than the stiffy disks he was using, which suffered corruption.
It’s an elegant solution, because it also allows him (by way of two differing [...]

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Postfix / Amavis error: MIME::Parser: can’t open tmpfile

This post has moved to http://www.funkypenguin.info/blog/2008/03/01/quick-fix-amavis-error-mimeparser-cant-open-tmpfile

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WP-PHPList 2.10.4 released

I’ve released version 2.10.4 of my PHPList / Wordpress integration plugin. It can be found at http://www.funkypenguin.info/files/wp-phplist.2.10.4.zip. WP-PHPList allows you to run PHPList from within your Wordpress environment, like I do on Inspirational Journal.

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How to read the Business Warriors forums via RSS (in-depth)

Hi folks,
I’m a Business Warrior. Rather than explaining exactly what that is, pop over to the site and take a look. Use my links, and I’ll get the credit if you decide to sign up!
My favorite feature of Business Warriors is the forum - it’s active, dynamic, and friendly, and in itself is [...]

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Katherine Heigl looks a lot like Charlize Theron

My wife & I have been watching “Grey’s Anatomy“. Throughout the first season, I’ve been telling her how much “Izzie” (Katherine Heigl) looks a lot like local talent, Charlize Theron. Today, I found some evidence! Ha!

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The name on the other side of the lens

This morning, I took a camcorder with me to do duty at the boarding house. I wanted to record impromptu messages from the boys to “Mr G“, my good friend and mentor who taught at the school for 4 years, before emigrating to New Zealand.
As soon as I whipped out the camcorder, the boys had [...]

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