ESXi and the DL380 G2
Well, it works. But I can't find a way to get the fans to do anything but go at full blast. That might be ok for a noisy data center but it's not ok for my basement. Flipping back to Server 2003 and VMWare…
VMWare Guest copies and NIC's
Simple note about losing the NIC when you copy a VMWare guest. If you "copy" the image it creates a new MAC address. Ubuntu 7.10 figures you installed a new NIC and it sets up ETH1. That means ETH0 stops working. Ok, so I…
Finally, Sage introduces the new HD Extender
I've been waiting for Sage to bring out a new extender for months. I've been prepping the DVD library, getting the network ready. I just didn't want to move too far ahead unless they had the HD Extender back. It'…
Asterisk trunks and order of precedence
Well, I've learned something that should have been painfully obvious. I had the following configured for that SIP trunk to the Cisco router I mentioned: context=from-internal allow=ulaw disallow=all dtmfmode=rfc2833 host=192.168.169.2 insecure=very ipaddr=192.168.169.2 port=5060…
488 - Not Acceptible Here
I went forward with the Server 2003 R2 install and then added VMWare Server 2.0. Trixbox installed very easily and quickly and I added chan-sccp-b using these instructions. It all went together very well and once I remembered all the places my old config files had old…
Finicky Server 2008 and ESXi
I've been trying to install either Server 2008 x64 or ESXi on my ECS motherboard. It has a GeForce chipset, 4gb ram, Pentium e2180 and a SATA drive attached to the onboard controller. ESXi doesn't like the controller but that seems to be a…
Noisy GSM follow up
I think I might have read this somewhere but I'm not sure now. Anti-static bag over the iphone works wonders! And it still receives calls so it's not like it's a faraday cage! It's goofy looking and it'…
GSM sure is noisy
Prior to getting the iPhone a little more than a year ago I had been a long time Verizon customer. I still miss their excellent East Coast network. The switch from CDMA to GSM brought an unwelcome addition. Noise. Noise in all kinds of speakers.…