Here’s a quick shot of our little mini datacenter..

Tonight we decided we’d had enough of VMWare Server 2.0’s issues and shakiness. We started getting the following error, because as it turns out (we’re stupid for not thinking of this ahead of time – lesson learned) VMWare server beta’s have an expiry date, along with it’s bugs. Today we started getting this error: “VCommand error: This product has expired.” This box holds some Asterisk Development stuff and some other Dev systems that we couldn’t really have go down on us....

Up until a few days ago, I don’t think it was possible to reboot a Cisco 7960 or Cisco 7970 remotely, unless you are using Cisco Call manager software. Great, where does that leave us Asterisk users? The other day I was fortunate enough to be contacted by Dave Gibbons who was also tired of dealing with Cisco to try and find a method to do this. He’s gone ahead and made a script that remotely “pushes the buttons” on the phone so it will automatically reboot with a simple command line utility....

Here’s a little howto on merging multiple apache log files when you are migrating servers or want to consolidate your logs into one place. This works on ubuntu and debian, but your mileage may vary on other OS’s. Here’s the howto: Login to old server scp old log files over, to the admin home directory, in /logs # scp -r /home/username/logs/ <username@yournewserver>: If copying multiple directories, and you want to call them something other than logs do this:...

Have you ever wondered how you could access your external hostnames, internal to your network connected via wifi, mobile devices or just plain old desktops? Today we found out we needed to. Our mobile devices require the use of external hostnames to sync data against. And it’s nice being able to use our external hostname for Outlook Web Access, and debugging internally. For example: Billy wants to visit http://www.mycompanyname.com Billy can’t because that particular site is hosted off the external IP of the network he’s on....