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Sep/10

July 2007 MacBook Pro Battery

My notebook is over 3 years old and it’s holding up to the test of time fairly well with the exception of the battery. I have taken a screenshot from CoconutBattery to illustrate my point: It holds such a small … Continue reading

15

Sep/10

Netgear WNDR3700 Thoughts

I bought a Netgear WNDR3700 to replace the shoddy DLink DIR-615 that came with our cable service and it has holding up very good. I was even approached on Twitter from a DLink representative but he was unable to solve … Continue reading

01

Sep/10

Kick A Linux User Who’s Logged In

In command line type in who or w will list all the users who are currently logged in. To log them off type in the following: pkill -KILL -u danny where danny is the username. If ‘danny’ was logged in … Continue reading

26

Aug/10

Change Default Crontab Editor

To change the default crontab editor type in the following command: export EDITOR=nano Change nano for your preferred editor. Crontab editor

19

Aug/10

FreePBX – Common Voicemail Box

Overview I have several extensions on my Asterisk / FreePBX box but currently only one landline. Ring groups solved the problem of one incoming call ringing multiple handsets but there was only one official solution to sharing voicemail. Voicemail Blasting … Continue reading

11

Aug/10

How To Start Oracle Enterprise Manager

Specify the SID export ORACLE_SID= Start the enterprise manager emctl start dbconsole How to start Oracle Enterprise manager

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Aug/10

Adding Outgoing Skype For SIP To FreePBX

Overview Skype has allowed other PBX software to connect to Skype using the standard protocol SIP. This is a good start to opening up Skype’s network to what is used around the world however it still lacks some features which … Continue reading

01

Aug/10

Tethering HTC Desire With Ubuntu 9.10

I read that Ubuntu 10.04 detected the HTC Desire automatically so I tried it on my EEE PC running Ubuntu 9.10. Plugged the USB cable in, set it to Internet Mode. a few seconds later Ubuntu reported it was connected. … Continue reading