After moving to China I ran into a few issues that got me to install a VPN. Namely: Latency. I frequently use SSH to access remote servers in US and EU and for some reason the latency here is terrible. Running SSH over a VPN seems to resolve this. A nice bonus is that idle […]
Read more..The Chinese like to share their movies in RMVB (RealMedia) format as opposed to Xvid or DivX. Not sure why it got to be so popular (I would prefer the more open Xvid), but the file sizes and quality it produces are quite good. A problem I ran into is that mplayer/vlc don’t seem to […]
Read more..AliPay is the Paypal of China and hard to ignore if you want to use websites like TaoBao (the Chinese eBay.) Unlike Paypal however, it requires ActiveX components or Firefox plugins to function. Getting this to work on Linux can be a pain if you don’t read Chinese. So here’s in English: Download http://blog.alipay.com/wp-content/2008/10/aliedit.tar.gz Extract […]
Read more..Links to outdated and potentially dangerous binaries have been removed. While eagerly installing Offline Gmail on my computers I ran into the fact the Google Gears is actually not available for 64-bit Linux. I managed to find a number of builds out there, but none that would actually work for me with Offline Gmail or […]
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niels / Software / #voip Quite a big update to the Asterisk Debian packages for Sarge, including some security fixes. Let me know if you experience any problems installing these packages. Hint for your sources.list: deb http://debian.peen.net asterisk/
Read more..niels / Software / #voip I’ve uploaded new packages that should solve the hangup problem in the bristuffed version. Let me know if it works for you. More information on the patch: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2006-May/152023.html deb http://debian.peen.net asterisk/
Read more..niels / Software / #voip By popular demand. You know the drill. /etc/apt/sources.list line: deb http://debian.peen.net asterisk/ UPDATE: packages updated to dfsg-2
Read more..Comparing web hosting packages is harder than it seems. When searching for the best deal there is a huge list of companies claiming to offer all the features you could ever want and more bandwidth than you need. Unfortunately, most of these offers are useless. The small print usually contains one or more vague clauses […]
Read more..niels / Software / #voip Of course this had to happen: I finish my 1.2.4 packages and the Asterisk team releases 1.2.5. Oh well, the Debian VoIP team will probably follow soon enough and so will I. When upgrading, make sure you choose the correct version of asterisk: asterisk-classic or asterisk-bristuff. Also, H323 support is removed and chan_capi is included […]
Read more..niels / Software / #voip A small update to the Asterisk packages: bristuff is updated to 0.3.0-PRE-1f a oneliner related to XS4ALL VoIP is included: http://www.asteriskguru.com/board/here-vp1519.html Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debian.peen.net asterisk/
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