Brent’s Thoughts

i have been setting up the Teleyapper Nerdvittles Script at work on our Asterisk server and was really surprised that there was no web interface for putting entries into it.  Since they recommended using phpadmin to enter numbers and I knew that would never fly I wrote a little cgi script that would work for it.

You can download it at the bottom of this post.  You should be able to just plop it and proccgi into your /cgi-bin directory on your webserver, take the .txt off of the end of it and edit the block starting at the fourth line.  There you can set the DNS entry for your asterisk server, set the account used to login to mysql, set the password for mysql, and set the database used by teleyapper.

The scipt does require proccgi to work as it is written in shell.  I have attached my copy that is compiled for 32 bit Linux.  If you need it compiled for something else, or just don’t trust me then you can use the above URL to get the source.  It is easy to compile if you have gcc on your box.

Callees CGI Script

proccgi

**EDIT** After I posted this to a thread on Nerdvittles site, it looks like they might add it into the distribution of Teleyapper.  So that is pretty cool.

I thought I had already put this up here, but a search didn’t show it.  If you need the USB drivers for it here is a set.

jvc_gr-dv500u_xp

I uploaded some new pictures of Julie from this spring.

Julie’s First Spring

Some of my favorites:

There are also some new quick ways to get to the pictures.  On the right there are some new blocks.  The first one is just a random image from the gallery.  The next one down shows the three most recent pictures added to the gallery and the last new edition is the gallery tree on all the way at the bottom.  It allows anyone quick access to whatever part of the gallery they are wanting.

Have fun.

It seems like here at work we have quite a little collection of Engrish examples. Lamar brought this one in the other day and I thought I would share.

Engrish Remote Manual

We have been moving parts of the district over to a central VoIP phone switch located in our office at the Board of Education. It does put a importance on our servers staying up since if they are down the phones out at the buildings are effectively paper weights. That shouldn’t be a problem though as we are near a 99.9% uptime (only 8 hours of down time a year) on our equipment.

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We recently got a TE220 with onboard Hardware Echo Cancellation from Voipsupply.com for the price gouging cost of $1,150.

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I was all excited since we have had lots of reports of echo on our lines and I was glad to get the district to pay for the add on card for it. We needed to get the PCI-E aspect of the card, but they didn’t have to spring for the Echo Canceller. So I rebuilt my server onto a new machine and got everything lined out. I couldn’t find a straight answer on what I needed to have in zapata.conf in terms of the echo options. Right now I have them off.

I was getting errors in dmesg about a missing firmware for the card, but I let that go at the time because I figured that the trixbox install that I have has the zaptel drivers on it from Digium. Wrong.

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Taken from bash.org:

<Nukleon> the greek “hell” was cold
<Nukleon> like the norse
<@amz> the christian hell is also pretty cold, compared to its heaven
<Nukleon> uh
<Nukleon> wut?
<Nukleon> heaven is bliss
<@amz> it has liquid sulfur in it, so it can’t be over 400 celsius… on the other hand, the bible describes the sun in heaven shining like 7 suns, each 7 times as bright
<@amz> which gives an estimate of 2000-3000 celsius

That was just too interesting. I had to post it.

USPS this one is for free. All I ask is that someone from there posts a comment here saying it was a good idea.

I have a new system for you that will increase your good will from your residential customers by a ton. It will also show that you really care about people and not bulk mailing companies.
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We have used Monoprice at work for a while and I knew that they had good prices on cables and such. The real kicker though was when I recently purchased a surround sound receiver from Best Buy. I am planning on mounting the the rear channel speakers in the corners of our living room up next to the ceiling.

I looked at the speaker mounts at Best Buy and was shocked that they were around $40 for a pair of mounts. It was shocking because I had already seen them on Monoprice for around 4 dollars .

I wonder if Best Buy would price match those.

The other Brent Norris who is a author and living in Hawaii has apparently changed his website from BrentNorris.com to Brent.fm and has the .com redirecting.  This has removed that site from the Google rankings and thus left me as the number one result for a search for Brent Norris.  Now if only someone would actually search for that, it would be awesome.