Category — computers

I’ve created an anonymous SMS site. I’m not sure whether it’s right to do though. I mean using this site, people can seemingly send SMS messages and make them appear to be from anyone else. Now there are thousands of humorous reasons to use this, or even for sending secret admirer type messages. But it’s also open being used for utter nastiness, setting up ex-lovers etc etc.

I’m just deciding whether to put the site live or not.

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I’ve spent a good chunk of today playing with OpenPBX, which is a fork of the Asterisk project. As far as I understand OpenPBX is aiming to be truly open source to make it more stable than Asterisk, which has some non open source codecs included, thus hopefully making it more stable. Well let me tell you now, it’s very stable for me…. stable in a non working state that is! Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s going to be great once I manage to get it working. The problem lies with the Digium card we bought. Digium support proved to be truly useless. I called them up, and seemed I knew more about the product than they did, and as I wasn’t using Asterisk, they offered me very little support and certainly wouldn’t take a look at our server.Â

Not perturbed I managed to compile the drivers manually after a while and it reports its up and running. However, now OpenPBX now fails to load, it reports an error initializing chan_misdn, returns -1. So now I’m in the middle of going through all the source code to trace the problem. Nightmare!

 On another note, I’ve just put a couple more photos of the garden up.

Anyone know of a good colocation provider? My current hosts are proving to be truly junk. They seem to have a policy of overloading their servers, so It’s about time I got my own server and shoved it somewhere. Of course cheap is good, but bandwidth would also be pretty nice.

Tried to register my bike as off the road, but as per usual these new fangled computer thingies chose not to work and decided not to recognise my “document reference number”. So I called up the automated telephone service, which also decided it didn’t love me. So now I have to find time to trek down to the post office and do it, or otherwise as the adverts keep reminding me, recieve an £80 fine.