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Registering SIP phones from an outside location to your Asterisk Server

With Asterisk, it’s easy to register the IAX phones from an outside location when your asterisk server is behind a router/firewall, but doing the same with SIP requires a bit of work.  It may or may not work out of box.  Here is a quick guide to get you started if you are attempting to [...]

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Primus talkbroadband with Asterisk

So I have an asterisk (Trixbox Asterisk 1.2.21) installed and working very well with a Sangoma A200 4 port FXO card and a Sangoma A102D 2 port T1/E1 card.  Due to some cost-cutting, we got rid of the PRI connected to the A102 and opted to put that FXO card in use.  After getting a [...]

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Drupal: Adding a “More from this author” block using CCK author field

Problem: Show a “More From this author” Block on nodes of specific types without using the $uid variable provided by Drupal. Let’s assume that you don’t want to use the “Posted by: username” on your stories/nodes, but rather you have your own CCK field setup to display the name of the author.  Now this CCK [...]

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Drupal — the design errors that just won’t go away!

Recently, while designing a site in Drupal using the theme acquia prosper (awesome theme, very customizable, gives a lot of control without you needing to go deep into theme css files or sub-theming), I just happened to fumble upon a few things that just wouldn’t go away.. ah the hours wasted! Well if this can [...]

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Good Looking Burgers — What’s the secret?

Well here’s an interesting movie to watch

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Pranav Mistry – Sixth Sense

This is just awesome! This type of technology will revolutionize the world as we know. I’m sure the applications are great, but what boggles my mind is how smart this young fella is.  Watch the video and enjoy:

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Drupal Updating / Upgrading

Updating or Upgrading Drupal is not an easy task.  Compared to WordPress, where the updating is simply a mouse-click away, Drupal requires you to do certain things that can take a bit of time in extremely extensive sites.  I recently had to update my Drupal installation from 6.12 to 6.14 Now this being my first [...]

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Drupal 6 Installation issues

Drupal 6 requires php directive “register_globals” to be off.  This is not always the case depending on your hosting environment or even your own requirements as Drupal may not be the only thing residing on your virtual server. There are several work arounds for the issue if you come across an error during installation asking [...]

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Open Source CMS Comparitive Analysis

Are you looking for an open source CMS? There are way too many systems out there and everybody has its own choice, providing their own pros and cons about the various systems out there.  I came across a nice report which I felt like sharing with others who may be visiting these open source demo [...]

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Mysql – Appending data

Problem: Appending data from one table to another table where duplicate might exist. Solution: A simple “Insert into table2 select * from table1″ query will give errors saying “duplicate records exist”, to go around it, the following query should do the job: INSERT INTO MASTERTABLE SELECT * FROM NEWTABLE WHERE NEWTABLE.`UNIQUEID` NOT IN (SELECT `UNIQUEID` [...]

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