Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
So I am working in the datacenter on Monday, and I am tracing out the power leads for the main router. I cannot quite see what is in use on a power strip, because I moved servers off of it to another rack, but left the power cables in place.
We ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
One of my duties as a sysadmin for Wikimedia is to install our ssl keys for our https servers. Now, this is something that is fairly easy to do, and once you do it once, doing it later is simple. However, I found the first time I did ...
Posted in HowTo, Linux, Technical, Ubuntu | 5 Comments »
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
I put in a bug report with Digium about the voicemail system in Asterisk sending out corrupt emails when caller id name information is corrupted, rather than parsing it as 'restricted.' That was on May 29th, It is now June 2nd, and they already gave me a patch.
I am ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
So I had to roll Wikimedia over to a new account with Teliax. It seems the old account was on the 1.0 portal, which means no e911 service. That alone was a good reason to move it over, plus the old portal sucks. The new one is ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
So my nifty Asterisk 1.5 server is up and running great for Wikimedia. In fact, so great that the 48 hours I set aside to implement it were too much, I had it up, and all the phones upgraded in 6 leisurely hours. Of course, every phone system ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Ok, it really is not on fire. However, I am having an issue with my Teliax service that, if there was a fire, I would be pissed off about it.
Well, I would be pissed off there was a fire, and I would also be displeased that when I called ...
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