Category Archives: Slug

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 [...]

Accounting Packages

I’ve been searching for accounting packages lately for my IT business which is officially launching tomorrow (yay me), but has sort of been running for the last few years.
My dad is an accountant, and is a wiz at MYOB. So I thought I may as well give it a go, somewhat reluctantly. I couldn’t get [...]

How I Deal With Scrapers

Scrapers are a part of the internet, so rather than get angry, I get even. A scraper site is a web site that copies content of other sites and republishes them as their own content. I actually don’t have a problem as long as the scraper site leaves links intact, so it links back to [...]

In My Spare Time…

…When I’m not working on linux, I’ve been working on some websites. Mainly blogs, but also some ebay affiliate sites that are usually attached to blogs. I’m trying to get 30 up to start with, but I’m not very commited, I’ve got five going, oldest one is five months old. Once I hit 30, I’ll [...]

Trigonometry Blues

I’ve been stuck on this problem for a week. It’s for a solar funnel I’m working on (no, it’s not homework) I’m trying to workout an equation that solves theta given x and y.
The idea is to have the funnel as wide as possible (smallest theta) so sun hitting the very top of the funnel [...]

The Power Of The Beard

I started out listening to this tune (called Drifting), well, watching, too. Amazing technique, it struck me how relaxed he is in his shoulders while his hands are banging around. And the Beard!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ddn4MGaS3N4
I thought it was my favourite. Then I found this one, same beard.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dt1fB62cGbo
At first the melody was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t put [...]