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Blogging is a pain in my a$$
The good news is that the blog has been on its best behavior and is now allowed out of my basement. If it starts misbehaving, I’ll put it back in its cage.
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Load balancing SIP across Asterisk with BIG-IP
Topology Participating hosts * 1x BIG-IP VE * 1x Debian Squeeze “Provisioning Server” serving DHCP, TFTP & DNS * 3x Nortel/Avaya 1120E hard phones flashed to SIP1120e04.01.13.00 * 2x Debian Squeeze + digium asterisk packages: $ grep asterisk /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://packages.asterisk.org/deb squeeze main deb-src http://packages.asterisk.org/deb squeeze main DUNDi *CLI> module reload pbx_dundi.so *CLI> dundi show…
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SJCARS blog
The San Juan County Amateur Radio Society (SJCARS) has created a blog. I’m excited. http://sjcars.wordpress.com/
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Rokey-Tobu
This maneuver consisted of holding someone’s hand and patting it while assuring them that someone who has experience responding to emergencies would be there soon.
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Taking a position at F5
Hello readers, I recently finished a contract with Liquid Web helping them to build their cloud computing system. The next adventure will be with F5 as a Product Management Engineer. I’ve been hearing good things about F5 hardware since 2000 when Matt Fisher talked up the Big IP he had been using. My friends in…
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Debian on Sheeva Plug internal NAND flash
After a bit of work, I got the sheeva plug working the way I wanted it to. First of all, I grabbed a spare 1G USB flash disk I had laying around and installed Debian squeeze to it by following tbm’s instructions here: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/install.html After debian was installed to the USB disk, I removed it…
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R.I.P. Anna Lillian Clothier
Old news, but worth noting. Clothier, Anna Lillian Anna Lillian Clothier – Pueblo Chieftain – February 8, 1998 – Reno County, Kansas – Anna Lillian Clothier, 93, died Feb. 5, 1998, at Pueblo. She was born July 2, 1904, at Kansas City, Kan., the daughter of John and Della Lally. A Pueblo resident for 54…
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Putting new radios up in Everett
I’m happy to note that we’re putting up new radios in Everett. The plan is to provide free but limited Internet access to neighbors and sell service to those who need a “fatter pipe” as the kids say. We’ve been running a repeater for over a year now. It doesn’t provide access to the Internet,…
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blog optimizations
Thanks to some recommendations from Jeremy, Pierre and Jeff, this blog should be running a lot less slowly. I’ve installed memcached, set up wordpress plugins, tuned apache MPM parameters, tweaked iptables and tc rules and beaten on the blog with load testing scripts. It seems that it will now reliably handle around 10 concurrent requests…
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RCW 26.04
I would prefer that Chapter 26.04 RCW considered anything conforming to the definition of “Domestic Partnership” in SB 5688 qualified as a “Marriage”, but the fact that SB 5688 exists is enough to for Hannah and I to complete a “Marriage License” and formalize our arrangement with the state. We should throw a party or…