Asterisk SNMP with Cacti Howto upgraded for Asterisk 1.6 and Ubuntu!

Here’s an update to our popular article Asterisk 1.4 with SNMP and Cacti using a remote box. This howto will be a little different in that it will be using Asterisk 1.6, the latest in the pipeline for Opensource PBX solutions from Digium. This process should be a little easier than it was last time, however will sacrifice a little bit of the “cool factor” (ie: security, etc) because it will be running local to Asterisk....

October 28, 2008 · 14 min · 2804 words · Matt G

Howto Setup Permissions for Joomla on Plesk with Ubuntu

Most of the howto’s or tutorials we came across about this problem all mention to install suphp and run php as a cgi through it. We weren’t happy with this solution, so we did something different. Basically the problem is: Plesk runs apache as “www-data:www-data” while the users are “username:psacln”. So, uploading via sftp or ftp will work fine, but when you go to install something from the control panel in Joomla, it will be installed as www-data:www-data....

October 25, 2008 · 2 min · 310 words · Matt G

Remove Ubuntu Splash Screen from starting on boot

Here’s a simple way of changing your Ubuntu server so it won’t be using the splash screen. Great for seeing console, if you’re not using VESA or just plain being old school. first: # sudo nano /etc/grub/menu.lst look for # defoptions= quiet splash change it to – important leave the # in the line. # defoptions= now just run the grub updating tool and you’ll start up without the splash...

October 19, 2008 · 1 min · 75 words · Matt G

Quick Fix for Windows Mobile Devices with Connection Manager on Bootup

When you start up your Windows Mobile device (with a custom ROM) in Canada and probably some other parts of the world, the handy little wizard will tell you that there’s no operator in the database, with a message like this: "The operator does not exist in the database. Please contact your operator for the connection settings". If you want to fix it, just do this: Start->Settings->Connections->Connection Wizard->Menu->untick auto check

October 18, 2008 · 1 min · 70 words · Matt G

APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional Version 2 Run Through with Screenshots

Well, Here we are with a new APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard Editions release. It’s been a while, we just haven’t been able to find the time to post about this new release. We did post a brief news article citing the release notes from ApsTel but it never went furthur than that. You may remember our original articles on the subject, Part 1 Here, Part 2 Here, Part 3 Here and Part 4 Here....

October 16, 2008 · 3 min · 627 words · Matt G