I came across a situation where I needed to access the process table in Perl. The problem that i found was that the best accessor Proc::ProcessTable only retrieved an array. Since it seems fairly senseless to keep looping over an array to find the exact process id that I want, you may want to turn …
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Since I know I am not the first (or the last) to make a typo in logrotate and not catch it for a while…someone else must have been in the position of having to delete a lot of files in the same manner. I recently learned that, as usual, there is more than one way …
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Since I am now finally getting to play with MySQL Proxy, I am going to outline some recipes here that I have found/created/modified that may be useful to someone other than me. This is a recipe for profiling queries. It writes the information to the PROXY_LOG_FILE currently name mysql.log. It is a file that will …
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I have been compiling a list of the domains that one needs in order to send text messages to cell phones via email. As a huge user of Nagios, this is how I keep myself aware of the status changes. Below I have listed the carriers that I use most frequently. If you have any …
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I, like many other people working in a small company, have to fix problems and come up with solutions with cost at the forefront. I had to make many virtual machines appear from nowhere to create an environment in virtually no time at all. Since all I had was VMWare Server (for Linux), I started …
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Here’s another quick little Asterisk recipe that I threw together. It’s a handy because it only takes about 10 minutes to setup and is infinitely useful to the sales types. Just a note, this was done with Asterisk 1.4.8. I wanted to do a little in AEL just to get a feel for it. It …
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Many phone users just take for granted the service provided by the Telco called *69 (pronouced “Star six nine”). Since Asterisk is a telephony platform, it doesn’t just come with *69 built in. So if you want it, you have to implement it. To save you some time, I have implemented it with a few …
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Just prior to writing this, I think I was about ready to kill someone. Setting up this phone was probably one of the most challenging things I have done in a long time. So this will be my attempt to explain to other’s what I did and I will hopefully save some people some time. …
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I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to have to rebuild my company’s Asterisk server to prepare to have a backup. I took a slightly less powerful machine, installed Debian Etch on it and threw Asterisk 1.2.13 on it. The goal was to mimic the Asterisk configuration on its sister machine which was a Gentoo 1.2.10 …
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First off, get your mind out of the gutter. A joe job has absolutely nothing to do with what you’re thinking about. It’s email related and it can be a pain in the ass to deal with. What is a Joe Job? Joe Job is the term used to describe the act of forging bulk …
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