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September 2006

There were 19 posts published in September 2006 (this is page 2 of 4).

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Ego and Engineers

Excerpts from The Dilbert Principle by Scott Adams Ego-wise, two things are important to engineers: a) how smart they are, b) how many cool devices they own. The fastest way to get an engineer to solve a problem is to declare that the problem is unsolvable. No engineer can walk away from an unsolvable problem […]

in Journal, Technology | 3 Comments

Asterisk, Fax and more

Alright, I am spending too much time with Asterisk these days. It’s fun to work with it, but it can be quite frustrating at other times. My latest problem is faxes. I am using spanDSP and the RxFax and TxFax applications. Everything compiles alright, but the whole Asterisk crashes when either of the applications are […]

in Technology | 4 Comments

Thunderbird Addressbook with MySQL backend

We have a pam_mysql based centralized authentication. We used LDAP earlier but dropped it in favor of MySQL because we are much more familiar with it and we could easily build or integrate other systems around it. This choice has led to a few complications though. One such is address book integration with this database. […]

in Technology | 10 Comments

* is ok in an email

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address According to RFC 2822, the local-part of the e-mail may use any of these ASCII characters: Uppercase and lowercase letters (case insensitive) The digits 0 through 9 The characters, ! # $ % & ‘ * + – / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~ The character “.” provided that it […]

in Technology | 1 Comment

Reliance NetConnect on a Mac

Lot of posts related to Mac lately! Today, I wanted to get online from home and thought of hooking up my Reliance phone via the data cable. The rconnect software works well on Windows and Linux, but I was not sure about Mac. So I plugged one end of the cable into the phone and […]

in Technology | 2 Webmentions | 150 Comments

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