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Pidgin beeps
Boy, those console beeps sure are annoying. Good thing it’s a one liner to get rid of them.
(Pidgin is an open source, multiprotocol Instant Messaging Client.)
University of Illinois Endowment farms
This article makes one wonder if the University is forgetting it’s roots. Endowment farms may have been given to provide scholarships for students, but I also assume the donors thought the University would continue to allow local farmers to earn a living from the land. Switching to open bids and cash rent agreements may make the process more agreeable with State procurement laws and maximizes the income from the endowment, but it sure hurts the small family farmer. And it raises cash rents on surrounding land.
Vacation Spots: Conner Prairie and A Night at the Museum
The wife found a blurb in Good Housekeeping about a place just outside Indianapolis called Conner Prairie that gives kids a glimpse of early 19th century life on the prairie. She was wondering what a good way to remember to go visit once it’s a little more age appropriate for Robin. So, I’m adding a new category: Potential Vacation Spots and probably some subcategories based on recommended age groups.
Also included in the same section, A Night at the Museum at the Chicago Field Museum, best for ages 6-12.
Important Differences
< mgcp default-package hs-package < no mgcp fax t38 ecm < mgcp fax t38 inhibit < no mgcp fax-relay sg3-to-g3 < no mgcp explicit hookstate
There’s something important in there. Without those lines, a Cisco 3845 Voice Gateway controlled by Cisco Unified Communications Manager won’t answer inbound calls. With those lines, suddenly inbound dialing works. Amazing.
Knoppix on a USB key
I have to link to this howto, it just saved my butt when I needed to resize a linux partition on a CF card.
Game Fuel
PepsiCo finally came up with a flavor of Mountain Dew that even I can’t drink: Game Fuel. Either PepsiCo is assuming that the Halo3 marketing blitz tie-in will sell it, or gamer freaks like the taste of artificial cherry flavored cough medicine…
Cisco complaining and other things
I’ve been spending a good part of my time at work recently reading large amounts of Cisco documentation for Unified MeetingPlace, Unified Communications Manager (formerly Call Manager) and all the necessary parts and pieces that an enterprise needs to make those work. The most aggravating part of the reading has been finding that no one seems to ever do a “sanity check” on the documentation. For example, our technical engineers keep telling us that the MeetingPlace Network Backup Gateway runs on Windows 2003, even though the release notes for the most recent version say:
Network Backup Gateway must be installed on a 7800 series Cisco Media Convergence Server (MCS) with the Cisco version of the Microsoft Windows 2000 server operating system installed.
Also frustrating initially, very little of the pre-sales technical work seems to have been transferred to the post-sales technical group. Cisco claims to have made a serious effort is correcting this, but we haven’t had another conference call since our concerns got heard by the right people.
In a completely unrelated event, a coworker has joined the ranks of us bloggers, and she’s trying to write one entry every day. I also need to document my thoughts on the record US$100 million fine against McLaren for the Stepney-gate industrial espionage event in F1, but that really should be another post.
Silly, Silly vendors
Your DNS May Be EOL
So, I’ve gotten 2 separate notes from 2 separate vendors over the last couple of days proclaiming similar things. Recently, ISC has declared several older versions of BIND “End of Life“. These older versions are no longer supported and may or may not have security issues. But, if your boss gets one of these, you can be sure that he/she will forward it on to the technical people out on the pointy end of the stick to answer for. I hope you don’t even have to think twice, you shouldn’t be running this stuff anymore.
2007 Sweetcorn Festival
The 64th annual Sweetcorn Festival is over, we cooked 21 tons over 3 days. We ran out of corn every day, Monday earlier than other days. Monday was essentially a repeat of last year, the fences were rolled up and the steam engine was ready to leave by 4 pm.