Re: AAH replacement...

2006-11-29 Thread Ben Bodley
I installed the new 1.4 beta and the new AJAX gui.. its actually pretty damn nice! Links: Screenshots - http://www.asterisk.org/node/111 1.4 Install - http://astrecipes.net/?n=216 GUI Install - http://astrecipes.net/?n=217 - Original Message - From: Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Deathly quiet ...

2006-10-02 Thread Ben Bodley
Nick Rout wrote: > > > I just wonder if its a topic more suited to the chch robotics group? Just > > a suggestion mind you. > > Sounds like something worth looking in to. I've tried some mailing list links that resolve to your website but no cigar, do you have any working ones?

Re: Deathly quiet ...

2006-10-02 Thread Ben Bodley
Wesley Parish wrote: > On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 20:22, Roy Britten wrote: > >> On 02/10/06 19:17, Ben Bodley wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure about this month's meeting as I am away, but sometime in >>> the future I could demonstrate using Linux for

Re: Deathly quiet ...

2006-10-02 Thread Ben Bodley
Wesley Parish wrote: > Just to stir the pot, who's doing what for this next meeting? > > Wesley Parish > Hi Wesley, I'm not sure about this month's meeting as I am away, but sometime in the future I could demonstrate using Linux for embedded electronics. I have various dev boards, gadgets, and

Re: PABX

2006-10-01 Thread Ben Bodley
Don Gould wrote: > > > Steve Holdoway wrote: >>> What is wrong with the Nortel solution? Must be serious to >>> consider an >>> upgrade after 2 years! >> >> ...apart from the cost, closed source, arrogance ( if they're the >> same as they were in the Netherlands anyway )? >> >> Not much, really.

Re: PABX

2006-10-01 Thread Ben Bodley
Chris Hellyar wrote: > I don't want to publicly slander Telecom, seeing as I've already named > them as the vendor, so I wont go into detail. In the vaguest of terms > there were some compromises in the design and implementation. > > I signed off on the spec, so I was/am part of the problem in the

Re: N to N-1 NFS Mesh

2006-06-08 Thread Ben Bodley
> > Question 4 > == > > I would like to roll out a standard (rich) set of packages onto each > machine, apart from going clicketty-clicketty in synaptic, what is the > easiest way of installing lots and lots of Ubuntu systems? > 1. Set one machine up the way you want it 2. dpkg --get-se

Re: Clustering.

2006-06-06 Thread Ben Bodley
> > Preprocessing, splint and linking and unit test steps are all on the > source machine and not distributed. > > What if I roll out the new distro with a clustering file system and load > balancing job queuing and.? Would a clustering file system really help here? distcc is a good hack t

Re: blogging software...

2006-06-01 Thread Ben Bodley
> > I meant exactly the opposite to the way you took it. I thought you'd have > gathered that from the fact that I was answering you less than 30 minutes > after you posted, in which time I'd made a new virtual host, updated my dns > server, downloaded the software, created the database and ins

Re: blogging software...

2006-05-31 Thread Ben Bodley
>> >> Ben > Blimey, that took a lot of installing! Just waiting for wordpress.org to > come online for some new themes. > > Thanks for that one. > I guess it does depend on distribution, package management, along with the inevitable custom tweaks of the odd config file. LAMP is pretty well su

Re: blogging software...

2006-05-31 Thread Ben Bodley
Steve Holdoway wrote: > Can anyone suggest any decent software to set up a blog? It's for some > friends of ours where mum+9yo son go wandering around Europe for a few > months, while dad stays back here. None are particularly technical, so it > must be pretty easy to use and update ( text+pic

Re: scripting retrieval from a cookie authenticated site.

2006-05-30 Thread Ben Bodley
Nick Rout wrote: > From my reading of man wget, theoretically this should work: > > 1. open site in firefox, which authenticates and stores a cookie > > 2. use firefox's cookies.txt file to retrieve with wget: > > wget --quiet --load-cookies cookies.txt http://www.site.com/forums.php -O - > > J

Re: Communications costly?

2006-05-29 Thread Ben Bodley
> > I don't have cable so I can't definitively test but I'm pretty sure you > should > have less latency to local peering points than ADSL (although Telstra doesn't > usually peer so that might not mean much). > > VoIP is great, on the proviso that you have a decent connection and a decent >

Re: Communications costly?

2006-05-29 Thread Ben Bodley
Steve Holdoway wrote: >>2. Go mobile >> >>Drop the landline, move phone plans to talkzonezero [49.95], get a >>shitter B/T mobile and jury rig VOIP via. 3rd mobile using asterisk. >>Possible savings: $45 + $6 + $10 cheaper internet + $20 mobile plans, >>Problems: VOIP delay? Still locals dialing i

Re: Communications costly?

2006-05-29 Thread Ben Bodley
>> >>However the cap is a real problem here. Voip is useless if running torrents >>with the massive 128k upstream bandwidth. Capped it'll just be useless. I would go with a 10Gb cap 2M up, 2M down? This enough? > > > Yep, but cable is 2Mb up and you can get 512k upstream ADSL now (although >

Communications costly?

2006-05-29 Thread Ben Bodley
Hi Guys, I'm just re-evaluating communications at my house, which I also work from daily, and was interested in thoughts regarding any cost savings and improvements. Requirements: Phone in/out Fax in/out Interweb [10Gb min] 2 x mobile phone Current setup [costs monthly]: Phoneline (Telecom)

Re: linux demotivators

2006-05-28 Thread Ben Bodley
Friendly humour for a Monday morning.. To be honest, trying them all has been a benefit to me, and I have found a good fit for the way I work and play. That, IMHO, is how to get a *perfect* distro. Dont listen to anyone else. Try them all and see what fits. Ben Nick Rout wrote: > moving to ub

Calling any web mapping hackers...

2006-05-10 Thread Ben Bodley
Interesting NZ site for any programmers/hackers amongst the group, I'm sure integration with GPS on an old linux laptop wont be far away ;) V. sim to google API.. Free developer keys.. http://api.zoomin.co.nz Ben -- www.teknique.co.nz "Solutions for the real world" E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: +6

Re: SUSE 10.1 released Thu

2006-05-09 Thread Ben Bodley
Nick Rout wrote: > On Wed, 10 May 2006 06:10:37 +1200 (NZST) > Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>I watched Suse 10.1 being demonstrated at LinuxTag in Germany. >>http://www.linuxtag.org/2006/en/home/aktuelles.html >> >>The animated graphics are awesomly good. Seeing the different ac