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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....

Many sites Adsense monitization sites will try to sell you this information in their Ebook’s or through mailing lists or other such tactics. Instead, Optimized Advertising has decided to give it to you for free. One way that you can dramatically increase (or decrease if you’re not careful!) your CTR ratio using Google’s Adsense program is to simply enable the multiple color palettes option for your Ad Units. When you are logged into your Adsense control panel, click the Adsense Setup button located on the top Toolbar....

Many of us need to run Support Software to keep on top of client needs and requests, as well as remove some of the burden from our support staff. Because of this need, we are using Kayako SupportSuite for our helpdesk application. While setting it up, we noticed that the latest release has a little bit of an issue with fetching mail using google’s pop3 service. We haven’t looked into the problem too much, but we have noted that there is mention of it on the Kayako Forums that other users are experiencing the same difficulties....