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Everybody should learn to play the ukulele! Its easy, cheap, and makes everyone smile… Unfortunately, they’re not readily available, so save yourself some time and shop online — tell him what you’re up to and he’ll set you straight. While you’re waiting on your uke, learn how to read tablature (yes, go through all the [...]

Finally getting around to reading Making Thing Talk, and can’t help but think in Python rather than PHP (publish via Django and you’re set). One of the early labs deals with displaying pseudo-realtime air quality readings (AQI) on a voltmeter. They go through a couple of pages of PHP to do a scrape — I [...]

Just finished the LNT (local number transfer) process to transfer our home phone number to a new ITSP — CallCentric is the new game in town for us. Vonage had been sitting at $34/month out-the-door price for all-you-can-eat VOIP service. Vonage was a great deal in the beginning, but our QOS/pricing relationship was all askew! [...]

A quick configure/make/make install can be had with Ubuntu 8.10 and the latest Asterisk 1.6 drop with the following minimal goodies (steeper requirements if you’re going beyond a SIP VOIP stack): apt-get install build-essential apt-get install libncurses5-dev apt-get install libssl-dev apt-get install openssh-server I’ve been using an old Sony Viao TX — don’t forget to [...]

Xtracycle published their wiki on the magic behind their revolutionary longtail design. Congratulations, hats off, wow, we’re not worthy, … Way to go, guys!

This is a summary of Ronald Lewis’ how-to efforts for creating a working asterisk server in the clouds… Why repeat it here? Ron’s staging his howto in Scribd! 8-( First, sign up for an AWS account and install Elasticfox in Firefox. With these in place (test it and make sure you can instantiate an AWS [...]

Definitely coulda spent some time working a load plan on this one… Low, wide load definitely rides better than tall, narrow — another tip from your Uncle Lar..

Accumulate during the week,  pre-packing, and load… All Dummied up and ready to go — what, you don’t ride your bike to the recycle center?

Throw down a quick Django stack with a Ubuntu JeOS default install and the following to finish ‘er up (more Apache U-isms here): sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install openssh-server sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-python python-django A Drupal stack is a bit trickier after repeating the first [...]

Did you run out of disk space again? Expanding your Win32 virtual disk partition isn’t that hard — here’s the quick and dirty (long story here): Use the VMware virtual disk manager to resize the partition (a .vmdk file is the larger of the component files in your VMware VM): vmware-vdiskmanager.exe -x 45GB myDisk.vmdk Use [...]