Feb
04
2012
0

Fedora 14 PHP daemon error

I’m using PHP to create a daemon(system process) that listens for request to dial outbound calls from a Asterisk based dialer.  Before I even got started I got the following error: Many websites suggest recompiling PHP or installing ‘php-posix’, which isn’t in the Fedora repo. After some searching I found that ‘php-posix’ is part of [...]

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Oct
16
2011
0

Asterisk: How to Install Queuemetrics and Qloader

Queuemetrics is by far the best Call Center software Linux.  My only complaint might be that Java is huge resource hog when it parses the Asterisk. ‘/var/log/asterisk/queue_log’.  Luckily Loway provides an excellent PERL script called Qloader. Today we will walk through installing Queuemeteics,MySQL,and Qloader daemon. My installation instructions are basically a quick rundown of the excellent infomation [...]

Jul
17
2011
0

AT&T takes Billions from US Tax Payers while Imposing Download Caps

For AT&T it’s another day, another dollar…  or rather billions of dollars. Your’s, collected from taxes and deficit spending.  I read a article on cnet about AT&T’s justification of ‘download usage caps’.  AT&T General Counsel Wayne Watts reasoned the need for caps like this,  “It is hardly surprising that the general counsel of Netflix, a company [...]

Jul
03
2011
0

BASH script to logout Dynamic Agents

This is a simple script for logging out Dynamic Agents in Asterisk.  The most common use would be to logout Agents automatically each day in case they forget or are on PAUSE.  Edit the “LOGGEDIN” variable below to match the correct length of digits.  By default it is three,  ’SIP/…’. You can add as many or [...]

Mar
28
2011
0

How to migrate a QEMU – KVM image to a Physical Machine(PC)

Virtualization and cloud services are great!  Everyone wants to move services to web space, but little is written about migrating to physical hardware.  Even though virtualized environments are ideal for labs(at least from cost and organization stand point). Open Source QEMU-KVM provides an excellent set of tools through libvirtd/virt-manager.  I use virtualization for test lab [...]

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Feb
07
2011
0

How to Configure Anonymous Web Surfing on Linux with Tor

Tor is a Open Source distributed network of virtual tunnels for the purpose of anonmity online.  Here is a excerpt from their site describing the mission of Tor: Ongoing trends in law, policy, and technology threaten anonymity as never before, undermining our ability to speak and read freely online. These trends also undermine national security [...]

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Sep
06
2010
0

How to use PHP to reboot a Poycom SIP Phone

I’m knee deep into writing Voice Provision .04(VP4) for VoiceIP Solutions.  Why write another Asterisk GUI?  Because the Trixbox and Elastix software is way to convoluted and makes customization difficult.  They are not well documented and don’t attribute credit back to Asterisk or Digium. Standard Asterisk scripting and basic macro’s are easier to setup, maintain, [...]

Jul
30
2010
0

Gone fishing

Savelono.com was down for three days this week(July 27th-30th).  The Vitual Machine that host the site crashed likely due to a traffic spike.  My apologies for the down time.  I was fly fishing in Idaho.  For the rest of the week you may read savelono.com free of charge.

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Jul
16
2010
0

Resample MP3′s for Polycom Ringtones with Audacity

A customer of VoiceIP Solutions sent me this useful tutorial for re-sampling Polycom Ringtones.   If you have an MP3 you like, it can be re-sampled for use with a Polycom IP SIP phone!  The procedure is pretty straight forward, Install Audacity with yum or your favorite package manager, re-sample the track, then edit the [...]

Jul
02
2010
2

Fedora 13 mount Error Solved

I recently upgraded to Fedora 13(and was quite pleased) only to discover my backup SATA drive would not mount.  I got the generic, ‘mount: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or /home/matt/backup busy’ error message.  Hours of googling and one reinstall later I solved the problem. Goals of this Post: – Fix SATA drive mount error: mount: /dev/sdb1 [...]