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.
Recent Comments