Bad garbled GSM Sounds on Asterisk after upgrade

Turns out there’s a bug in the optimizations on the GCC compiler.  Previously, was running 4.1; an ubuntu upgrade took it to 4.2 however, the audio on any gsm messages (voicemail, intros, etc) all sounded garbled.  Anything wave played fine.A bit of googling...

Add SSH to Untangle

To add SSH to Untangle, simply enter the following at the console:update-rc.d ssh defaults/etc/init.d/ssh restartYou’re good to go now remotely.  Ensure you enable the local network if that’s what you wish via limiting statement in the /etc/ssh/sshd_conf...

Two Useful Tricks in Windows for Network

You’re working on a network and trying to find a device, but can’t remember the IP address and you don’t have NMAP handy…This is particularly significant when dealing with network printers, etc. The two useful sequences are:1. You may try...

Hack Bell Speedstream 5200 E242

Since I need to find this once a month or so…I’ve replicated it here…Original located at http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,11490618~mode=flatWell, I’ve managed to actually get Port Forwarding and other features working with the Speedsteam...

Disable SIP / IAX Helpers in Untangle

rmmod nf_nat_siprmmod nf_conntrack_sipsed -i -e "s/nf_nat_sip//" /etc/untangle-net-alpaca/scripts/modulessed -i -e "s/nf_conntrack_sip//" /etc/untangle-net-alpaca/scripts/modulesCopied here to find it easier since many threads on untangle forums...

DLink DES1228P Noisy

Update: 2008-12-18Back it went…too noisy and vlan doesn’t work as promisied.  Internally, vlan is fine.  Can’t get any tagged data from outside in it visible though.  Going to put another HP ProCurve in…the 1800-24G now, after loving the...

Fujitsu Toughbook

Panasonic have long touted the durability of their Toughbook series and having a couple of them across my client base, I can attest they do stand up to their claim.  That said, yesterday, my Fujitsu tablet T4210 got a durability test. Holding the laptop in front...

My rc.local file

After a few system reloads, this file is slowly stabilizing now.  It's designed to set up a box ready for VMware with vlans for a variety of test applications, etc.  In my case, off the switch, vlans 1 is the production, vlan 2-5 are the test...

Automount Various Drives in Linux

Ever find you're constantly adding/removing drives and trying to find which device is which..where it mounted…I was doing it often enough, couldn't remember especially when they shift due to the way linux boots and changes the partitionidentity…on...

VMWare and VLANS

After numerous articles on the web on using VLANS with VMWare, there's a general consensis that it works for some and not for others.  I fell into the "not" category.  After a couple days of searching, there's two issues apparent…1....