Archive for 2005

Moblogging with Wordpress 2.0

The default wp-mail.php file doesnt support attached images or files, at least in the v2.0 R133 version of Wordpress I’m using now. It takes a bit of work, but it is possible! Heres how…

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Metacrawler

Strange how Metacrawler is almost unheard of these days. Before Google, this used to be my favorite web search tool.

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Tiny Helicopter

At 6.9 grams, the smallest helicopter remote control in the world is incredible http://pixelito.reference.be/

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Customizing Wordpress

I’ve been keeping notes while I am setting up Wordpress. What I really want is to be able to post by email from my phone. Its been difficult, but it looks like its just about starting to work.
The hard part was getting a mail plugin to work with Wordpress v2.0.

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Installing Postie for Wordpress

I’ve been keeping notes while setting up Wordpress on my PC at home. What I really want is to be able to moblog – post articles from my phone. Its been difficult, but it looks like its just about starting to work. The hard part is getting the Postie mail plugin to work with Wordpress [...]

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Test for dementia

Below are four (4) questions and a bonus question. You have to answer them instantly. You can’t take your time, answer all of them immediately. OK?
Let’s find out just how clever you really are…

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Calling PSTN

fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. IN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]

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Testing the Asterisk PBX

I downloaded Asterisk@Home from http://asteriskathome.sourceforge.net
Note, in 2006 Asterisk@Home was renamed to trixbox
Its a large download, so allow plently of time if you have a slow Internet connection. You can install it on an old PC, or use a virtual machine. I have VMware, but you could also use the free VMWare Player and QEMU, or the free [...]

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Trying Asterisk

There are a couple of ways to try Asterisk
The easiest is to download an ISO of a live Linux CD with Asterisk from AstLinux at http://www.astlinux.org
Burn the ISO to CD-R (or compact flash) and reboot and you’ll have a working Asterisk system. You’ll need a USB or flash card to save your configuration, or you [...]

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Asterisk

Itoh-san was the first to tell me about the open-source PBX system called Asterisk. His company at the time was seriously thinking about changing from their existing Cisco IP phone network to Asterisk.
Asterisk 1.2 released on Nov 17 2005. Available from http://www.asterisk.org/
 

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Running Asterisk on Windows

This article shows how to run Asterisk on Windows by using the free VMware Player and QEMU emulator with the Asterisk@Home ISO (500Mb )

http://voipspeak.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=28
Btw you can download OS images preinstalled with a couple of applications for QEMU from http://www.oszoo.org/

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Two Softphones on LAN

If you have two softphones that you want to receive calls from the internet, set the ports as below then set your router to forward to each phone.

X-Lite 1:

Listen SIP Port: 5060
Listen RTP Port: 8000
Forward port 5060 to this PC.

X-Lite 2:

Listen SIP Port: 5061
Listen RTP Port: 8006
Forward port 5061 to this second PC.

If you have [...]

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Soft Phones

If your PC has speakers and a microphone, you can make phone calls by downloading a soft phone. Or you could replace your microphone with a USB phone, a phone that plugs into your PCs USB port.

Download software phones from SJLabs at http://www.sjlabs.com/sjp.html
There are packages for Telephony providers such as Vonage, VoiceGlo, Free World Dialup, [...]

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Useful Links

The main Asterisk website, put together by the web developers at Digium

http://www.asterisk.org/
Astrisk documentation project
http://www.asteriskdocs.org
http://www.asteriskguru.com
A wiki about all things VOIP
http://www.voip-info.org
VOIPSpeak has news and articles all about VOIP, including useful articles on step-by-step configuration of Asterisk@Home and building your own PBX
http://voipspeak.net
Digium provides hardware for connecting phones and phone lines to your PC, and suppport for Asterisk PBX.
http://www.digium.com
They [...]

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Calling PSTN

fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. InN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]

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Software Development Tools

Some interesting new development tools and platforms are available these days.
Microsoft is providing beta versions of its Visual Studio 2005
Mono is an open source IDE for developing .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. from http://www.mono-project.com/
Grasshopper is a Visual Studio .NET plug-in which enables you to use C# [...]

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File Storage Sites

When email limits the size of files you want to send to someone, try one of these file transfer websites.

http://www.filesend.to 5 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3 days retention
http://okurin.bitpark.co.jp/ 250MB, 10 downloads, 5 days retention
www.filebank.co.jp 10 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3days retention
www.fileocool.com 100MB per file, 5 downloads, 7 days retention
www.datadeliver.net 10 files at a time, 100MB, [...]

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Open Internet Explorer from MS-Access

Database Journal shows how to open a web page from inside MSAccess.
Public Function UpdateOrderInfoWebSite() As Long
On Error Resume Next
Dim objDoc As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer
Dim sURL As String
Dim lOrderID As Long
lOrderID = Forms!frmOrder!txtOrderID
Const cURL As String =”http://localhost/Orders/Process.asp”
sURL = cURL & “?ID=” & lOrderID
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Runing Access Queries

My favorite method for executing SQL, be it saved queries or raw SQL, is the Execute method of the Database object. You can execute a statement with a single line, like this:

<br />
CurrentDb.Execute &#8220;UPDATE titles SET price = price * 1.10&#8243;<br />

In this case, CurrentDB references the currently open database. Alternatively, [...]

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Network Install at T-12

During WinXP installation, if you try to access a network share at T-12 then you get a “Workstation is not running” error. Starting the workstation service manually with net start workstation reports the service is already running.

The the issue is that microsoft left out some info in the system hive so you need to edit [...]

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