A whole new world of TLAs I don’t understand (Or, Josh wants to install VoIP/Asterisk)

Over the past week or two, I’ve heard about VoIP a bit more than usual, first with Adrian of Beat FM doing his thing over VoIP from Lis­more with FireFly/Freshtel, and then a lit­tle later, when Steve asked if I could join a convo with a guy called Dave to pro­vide some gen­eral Linux advice, as Dave had just installed the Aster­isk PBX soft­ware on a box (or, if you’re Steve, “com­puter”) and needed to SSH into it.

So, awareness/interest cat­a­lysts are there. I’d looked/heard about the Aster­isk soft­ware some time ago, but sort of wrote it off as not quite worth the effort. More recently, how­ever, we’ve been try­ing to get gen­eral ICT stuff sorted for the new place of res­i­dence, in a way that’ll let us cut costs a lit­tle. Read the rest of this entry »

# by Josh on January 18th, 2005 Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
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Routed routers and CSS

Today con­sisted of mis­cel­la­neous fun and frus­tra­tion, most of it revolv­ing around assorted pieces of tech­nol­ogy. I’ve decided that my hard­ware took offense at my fail­ure to let them know I was going away for a few days, and as such, it is all refus­ing to work. Read the rest of this entry »

# by Josh on October 5th, 2004 Tags: , , , , , , , ,
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Bayesian this!

I just cracked 6000 spam mes­sages.  I can’t wait until I start run­ning my own mail server locally; I really really really want to see how much using all that sam­ple mate­r­ial will stop dead!

Per­haps when iiNet bring their iiSLAM’s to Kens­ing­ton, NSW… and if they keep the “test­ing” unlocked backchan­nel enabled!  Haha, sym­met­ric “A“DSL — Got to love it.

In other news, I’ve decided that I prob­a­bly won’t be both­er­ing with mod_rewrite on this iter­a­tion of the web­site, because I think it’s going to get dumped some­time in the near future any­way… that said, Google actu­ally seems to be index­ing down to my perma­links with­out any dif­fi­cul­ties anyway!

I’m cur­rently fail­ing to see the ben­e­fit of using my own news/blog script over some­thing more advanced, and would pre­fer to invest time in other projects (specif­i­cally, to enhance and extend the con­tent man­age­ment sys­tem to bet­ter sup­port CSS, XHTML, seman­tics and improve authen­ti­ca­tion and user man­age­ment, amongst many other things) rather than re-doing what’s been done before, and bet­ter, with­out see­ing any real tan­gi­ble ben­e­fit for it.  And yes, I do know there are bet­ter, more advanced, more usable (open-source) CMS offer­ings out there.  Inte­gra­tion of fea­tures offered by those prod­ucts is some­thing that is being explored, but until that is fea­si­ble, devel­op­ment of this one will continue…

Despite what­ever nasty things peo­ple might have to say about Word­Press, the more I see, the more I like, so nyah.

At the minute, design and stan­dards are some­thing I’m far more pas­sion­ate about, anyway.

# by Josh on August 28th, 2004 Tags: , , , ,
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