Category Archives: ubuntu-au

Phil Colbourn Writes About The Youtube Blackout

On 02/03/2008, at 10:30 AM, phil colbourn wrote: Last week Pakistan Telecom was ordered by their government to block access to youtube. They did this by re-directing routes containing the youtube addresses to an internal dead-end. A mistake was made that advertised this to their peer and thus the remainder of the internet. The IP [...]

I Have A New Office

Just got a new office. An Eee PC (JB HiFi had them for $450), and a 3G wireless internet connection (5Gigs/month for $39/month). Not really sure how much time I’m going to get out of it with the usb wireless modem connected, I’ve been told the modem sucks the juice. Got a bit of experimenting [...]

Remotely Upgrading RHEL to Ubuntu

We were given a server to play with to do whatever we wanted, hosted in a US data centre. It was running RHEL 4.x, I could have worked with that, but it didn’t look like it was on a support contract, I wasn’t able to update it, anyway. I thought about trying to convert it [...]

FreeSWITCH and Google Talk

One of the reasons I chose to spend time with freeswitch over yate was google talk integration. Was a good choice, I think, for more than just gtalk. The endpoint that talks to gtalk is mod_dingaling, and it’s not compiled by default. So to enable it, uncomment #endpoints/mod_dingaling from modules.conf in your source tree and [...]