Never take anything for granted

I was just pulling me hair on a very weird vsftpd permission issue. No matter what increasingly odd combinations of umask, local_umask, file_open_mode etc.. I tried I was not successful. Then I read “Or isn’t a restart of vsftpd enough?” in a forum and first thought something along the lines of “Newbie, this is not [...]

Same old, same old

One of my first IT-related mistakes that had visible consequences was leaving a disk in the floppy drive of a server in 1996. Powerfail => reboot? Nada, was stuck on a missing OS screen. I adopted the policy of setting up bios to boot from the systemdrive prior to anything else right after this encounter. [...]

Mediant and leading zeros

Ever wondered how to reliably add the correct prefix to incoming VoIP calls on a AudioCodes Mediant? Turns out it’s quite easy. On Routing => General Parameters, add “Add NPI and TON to calling number”. This will give you a prefix of XY<incoming number> with obviously X == NPI, Y == TON If your incoming [...]

Why a blog?

It is no blog! I do not intend to press my opinion on the poor sods that randomly find this website. Then again, I just as well might. If I do, it will be very technical – hopefully.