Category Archives: OSIA

Latest FreeSWITCH, PennyTel and Billion 5200N development

For a while now, I had not being using FreeSWITCH for my VoIP, but just logging into PennyTel directly with my Nokia E65. It worked OK, but the voice quality wasn’t as good as going through FreeSWITCH.
A month ago my old ADSL router died, so I bought a Billion 5200N to replace it. Since then, [...]

Snow Leopard Resolver

I recently upgraded to snow leopard and noticed some DNS weirdness. I couldn’t ssh to hosts defined in my local DNS, it wouldn’t resolve, but I could resolve them with the host command.
Turns out Snow Leopard made quite a few changes to the resolver, it no longer uses /etc/resolv.conf but mDNSResponder, at least for apple [...]

Nice File Server For A Small Office

I had a job come in last week for a linux file server to connect a few windows machines together, and a few printers. The client was exposed to a linux file server in a previous job, and wanted something similar.
It was a small business, with not much money to spend, and the server was [...]

Keeping Fresh

I wanted a few programming projects to do to keep juices flowing. I came up with two twitter ones, http://twitter.com/slugupdates and http://twitter.com/cityrailupdates. Inspired by Lindsay’s bushfire project.
They are both little python programmes.
slugupdates just waits for messages posted to the slug announce list, procmail carbon copies the message and pipes it to the programme, the [...]

Barrang’s Official Launch

Barrang officially opens its doors on the 19th of February, 2009.
Barrang is starting out primarily as a Linux Consultancy mainly targeting local small businesses in south west Sydney.
My primary target market doesn’t have a lot of money, especially in this climate, so I intend to provide maximum value to my clients by using [...]