Archive for October, 2008



Howto Setup Emergency Queues with Separate Outbound PRI channel using FreePBX and Ring Groups.

One of our clients recently had a question about his system using FreePBX 2.5.1 and Asterisk 1.4 regarding using specific lines to reach staff.
He runs a support queue for his company. During the day he has a regular IVR with Call queues enabled to handle customer calls and direct them to the appropriate staff member [...]

Installing Habari Blog on Ubuntu Server to Replace Wordpress

You may have heard of Habari, you may not have. It’s yet another blogging software, written from the ground up to take advantage of all the latest technologies available. For this reason it’s not supported everywhere and probably is why you haven’t heard of it yet.
I think this software could replace Wordpress if done correctly, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Even Canucks can get Free Swag from Feedburner/Google! Got ours Today

Check it out, a couple fancy stickers and two fancy buttons with the feedburner logo. Hot!