Archive for April, 2006

Embedding Lua 5.1 in Asterisk 1.2.7.1

Saturday, April 29th, 2006

I’m sure I had something in mind when I started this and no doubt it’ll come to me once I fill out some callbacks so I can do more from the lua side than call “ast_log”. I still need to figure out a reasonable way to allow the lua side of things access to [...]

Victimization ratio

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

ghostweather -> Berkun blog -> next-microsoft: Victimization ratio

Number of Problems you are powerless to solve
= Victimization Ratio

Total Number of Problems you are impacted by

Feeling powerless to resolve something you see as a serious problem sure is frustrating. What can one do?

Ignore it — the least likely to work out, since it’s still there [...]

Upgrading my Debian machine from from Linux kernel 2.4 to Linux kernel 2.6

Friday, April 7th, 2006

Important new information I learned:

One can have LILO boot Linux to single user mode by adding “single” to the end of the image to use e.g. LinuxOLD single — this turns out to be important when…
Linux 2.6 uses LVM 2 (only), so you need to have upgraded to LVM 1.x BEFORE you fire up [...]

[placeholder for winning team]

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

From: Amazon.com
Subject: [placeholder for winning team] Wins the NCAA Tournament!

Dear Amazon.com Customer,
Congratulations, [placeholder for winning team]! As someone who has purchased sports-related products, we thought you should be the first to see our selection of NCAA championship products.

Amazon.com trying to say they don’t care who actually wins the NCAA Tournament? Or an amusing [...]