Lately, it’s been very busy at the office. People planning stuff behind eachothers back, then complaining that $person did not do $planned_thing. Hopefully they’ll wake up soon, before it really gets out of hand ;)
Oh, and we had a visitor over from The Netherlands, which was quite fun! (If we die within the next few weeks, it might be because we tried some actual cooking ourselves..)
So, I bought a gift for Soosh: since her laptop was kind of “outdated”, I got her a new one ;)
After looking around on the island, I figured we’d be better off ordering online. The models I found were either very expensive, or a significantly older model (no DVD/CD writer, for example), or both. Luckily the SteveExpress arranged the “shipping”. I ordered the laptop, sent it to Steve in Miami, had Sunil take it with him in his suitcase, and Felipe did the last-mile-delivery to our house.
And now, one happy Soosh! Yay! :)
Today, our shipment of new antennas arrived. A good thing, except that it was about one 20ft container filled to the notch. Luckily we were able to make it fit in our already full storage room, after we made some “adjustments” to the shelves ;)
I wonder how long it’ll take to actually install more than 200 antennas. But that’s a detail.
For a few days now, hosting a particular site appeared to be quite stressful for the poor little box. Luckily, macTijn was able to put most of the data behind a proxy, at least saving some CPU for other stuff :)
However, due to being on Digg’s frontpage a few times, it still is a lot to handle: A load of ~70, tons of php processes running, etc. As soon as the link vanishes, everything turns back to ‘normal’. Since the “problem” seems to occur only while on Digg’s frontpage (and with the help of Google), I’ve found some workaround.
It’s basically an htaccess file that redirects all traffic from digg back to their mainsite. Still have to see the side-effects, but at least now the site works.
And! My box is alive :)
Well, Soosh got back last week, just haven’t found the time to blog about it. And, it’s good to have fun again :)
Nothing much to say now, just some fun remark the waitress made last night at our favorite restaurant: “Sorry, we’re out of menus, but you know them by heart anyway, right?”. And she’s right. Heh. :)
Hm, seems I haven’t posted that much, recently.
Anyway, Soosh is on a little holiday to The Netherlands, so I’m pretty much alone here. Thankfully she’ll be back soon ! :D
Who knows, maybe more updates will follow soon..
So, dlink makes an attempt to make a VoIP capable device. Unfortunately, their webinterface is horrible as usual (like all their other equipment I know of), not saving updated values, and just plain ugly.
Anyway. There’s also an option to provision these units. And, this is “very secure”, “using HTTPS”. No encryption / encoding on the client side, so you’ll end up putting the complete plaintext configuration online, without being able to control access to that. Some of their excuses:
.. and probably more to come. I’m currently far from impressed, especially since I noticed they didn’t do/use DiffServ. Well, actually, they claim to do it, and did gave me a firmware. However, the interface is (again) horribly broken, and packets still don’t get tagged properly.
This has an Inventel-vibe all over it again. Sigh.
Great start in 2007: our SIP server kind of trashed itself. For some reason, SER keeps segfaulting during startup.
Now, this is not the first time this happens. Tried putting back an old backup, and even changed the clock to see if it was time-related. Unfortunately, it didn’t help me much. After 10 minutes I decided I’ve had it, and migrated all users to Asterisk. Nice one-liner, worked like a charm.
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Thanks to dteq, it was a one-minute one-line migration. :)