You Get Something When Someone Else Lets It Go

I was reading the serial novel in Chitralekha magazine this morning. The Author – Kajal Oza Vaidya has a unique writing style. She expresses feelings of various characters in the story profusely – delivering on the twists and excitement of a weekly episode at the same time. One of the characters of the story – […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]