Consider briefly this PBX network design: Originally, google voice was connected to the cloud server hosted at digital ocean. Things ran great for a while, but I didn't like having that server being the point of connection with google voice. The only reasons gVoice is integrated to the…
I don't like being prompted for passwords every time I turn around. I log into my desktop from which I adminster a lot of systems. The last thing I want is to get double authentication prompts on every system I touch (once to login and again to sudo)…
I have a media center PC running mythbuntu with plexmediaserver. This is only because it was originally mythbuntu, but I have since come to prefer plex and I'm too lazy to reinstall it as straight ubuntu. Recently I tried to upgrade it, but ran into a problem: Preparing…
I recently rebuilt my asterisk cluster as I migrated my primary node from RackSpace to DigitalOcean. I take opportunities like this to review configurations and security. Something I had done before was integrate google voice with asterisk, but it hadn't been working for a while. With the migration,…
I've wandered many paths in technology. I never wanted to be a professional programmer because I perceived the focus to always be on quantity > quality. Aside: recently, my brother shared an excellent article with me that illustrates some of the aspects of professional programming that I fear;…