Creating Visual Asterisk Dialplans with APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional – Part I

Today we’re going to talk about an interesting program from APSTel Visual Dialplan, which enables you to create Dialplans for your Asterisk PBX in a visual method. This enables both new Asterisk users, and seasoned professionals to quickly and efficiently create Asterisk Dialplans. If you’d like to download APSTel Visual Dialplan Professional or Standard edition to give it a try yourself, please use these links. This article is the first in a series of four, describing the inner workings of the product, how to use it, some advanced features, deploying dialplans and finally a review on the product....

May 27, 2008 · 4 min · 829 words · Matt G

How to fix your hackable SSH on Debian and Ubuntu Servers

If you’re running debian or ubuntu, your ssh keys are vulnerable. Follow these steps to regenerate them and secure your box back up. apt-get update apt-get upgrade cd /etc/ssh/ rm ssh_host_dsa_key rm ssh_host_dsa_key.pub rm ssh_host_rsa_key rm ssh_host_rsa_key.pub ssh-keygen -t dsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key) ssh-keygen -t rsa (filename as /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key) /etc/init.d/ssh restart Comments Comment by Christopher DeMarco on 2008-05-15 15:11:28 -0500 This only fixes connections from this host to others. Inbound connections are still problematic!...

May 15, 2008 · 1 min · 120 words · Matt G

Adding TinyMCE to your ProjectPier or ActiveCollab Installation

Many of you are project managers, and may be using Activecollab or ProjectPier. We were tired of their lame editor, so we decided to add TinyMCE into our installed version, both for ease of client use, and internal use. The instructions are very simple. Go to ProjectPier, grab the latest version (or svn) Install ProjectPier as you would normally Install any custom patches or addons to project pier. Download TinyMCE...

April 19, 2008 · 5 min · 967 words · Matt G

Updated Ringtone for Polycom IP500 tutorial

wayyy back in the day we wrote an article about ringtones for polycom ip500/ip600 phones, which apparently is still quite popular on the internet. We received this from one of our readers today, as an addition to the previous article. Thanks Chris! I found your blog post on Polycom compatible ringtones recently. It is one of the top results when searching for such information. I would like to share with you and your readers a classic old ringtone I sampled from one of our company’s old AT&T MLS-12 phones....

April 15, 2008 · 1 min · 174 words · Matt G

SBS 2003 Disable Sync of Certain Offline Files like .PST or .MDB

Today I was noticing that some clients on the network were experiencing errors when users logged out and windows synced for them. In order to fix this, I had to do the following: TS to SBS Server Navigate to \\SBS\netlogon Edit the SBS_LOGIN_SCRIPT.bat file in this directory. It should look like: \\SBS\Clients\Setup\setup.exe /s SBS Change it to this: @echo off rem ================================================== rem rem Title: Login Script rem Author: The Author rem Date: April 4 2008 rem Description: Network Login Script rem rem ================================================== :SBS_SETUP rem Default sbs2k3 client setup \\SBS\Clients\Setup\setup....

April 5, 2008 · 1 min · 206 words · Matt G