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Monitor Revisited and other stories

Tristan

I want one!

I Hate My Neighbours

It's a good idea - I tried it last night! Someone has dragged one bin back in through the gate, and left it about 20 feet away from the shed. But it's only 28 hours so far - I will keep you posted!

Take the bins out, so as to avoid the stench... then leave them there. People will hopefully soon realise that the bins are not where they're meant to be.

Services charged by the hour. We will be billing you shortly.

VoIP Joy

Weirdo :)

Yay!

*runs around the room*

Unfortunately, I seem to have taken it a step further, and I've got my voice traffic on a separate VLAN to my client network, which is separated from the internet router via another router, which is also being the asterisk server. It's all getting rather silly :)

Another Infrequent Update

Nah, I'll do something much more complicated, like figure out how to make the whole thing interact with cacti, and then permission you ro access to a few graphs :)

I suppose you could get uptime and ps as well though....

uptime and ps should give a rough idea?

I'll do some stats for you on my asterisk box, which is a laptop running nothing other than asterisk and mpd. Not quite sure how I'll do this, but I'll figure out a way.

My concern over that is partly bandwidth, partly CPU/memory usage, and partly that I don't know enough about Asterisk at the moment to trust my ability to run my own phone service :p

How much CPU/memory does Asterisk use when idling, and how much when mid-call?

Need a headset before I can start to play with any of these things anyway :)

You know I'm just going to jump up and down and tell you that Asterisk can do your failover forwarding stuff for you. :)

Things I Learnt Last Week

I must admit, I only fixed some of the bugs in the module before I tired of trying to figure out the poorly written code :p

Keep meaning to finish the entry on the Wii - should be up shortly :p

Mark S

Heh.

Good laptop :)
Dumb datacentre staff, they need more coffee and less pr0n!
No one likes paying more, but you have to pay for quality right?
Haha, yes, no car for me - sux that it's cost so much.
Woo for fixing bugs in CPAN modules :D Communist ;)
Wii-ch jokes are Wii talking about?

How is the nose?

Birthday stuff!

Leela

Yeah!! Am I not the best girlfriend ever?!! And I fell asleep at the END! Because it just wouldn't end, and I had eaten a huge lunch and was tired!

So there!!

It's my Birthday!

Leela

Come on, we want to read more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
We wish you a merry Christmas,
And a happy new year!!

:)

Leela's First On-call, Richard's First Trip to the Garage, and Other Short Stories

Interesting, that's the price they quoted me! They told me to check the invoices for my service history to see if it had been replaced - if it hasn't, should replace it.

Yeah, I'd second that - the cam belt is cheap to buy, but quite costly to fit, but the cost of it going wrong is *huge*...

We had our cam belt and alternator belt done for about 150 quid all-in a couple of months back.

Bud

One thing not to put off is replacing the CAM belt if its due.

The Joys of Barclaycard

Hopefully! Although when I took it to the dealer they charged me something like £90/hour for the privilege of being told that they couldn't find anything wrong. This time I'm going to a local garage that was recommended to a friend by a taxi driver - they usually know what they're talking about, so fingers crossed!

Mark S

Ohh dear. There was some indian sounding lady calling us on Saturday late afternoon. "Hello could I speak to Dahir Espraguier please" WTF? Sorry, who? "Davhir Espraguasder" ... I think you have the wrong number... "Is this 012254....." I have no idea...
Got another call later, this time I asked who was calling "Haches Besay" ... ... OHH HSBC... from that I was able to figure out that she wanted to talk to David S in my house (the only HSBC customer). I went to get him, when I got back she'd hung up!!!

GAH! All the indians that can speak English good enough to provide service properly have been made into managers, leaving the poor speakers to actually do the talking.

Good luck getting your car sorted - hopefully they will just plug in the engine management console and fix your idling problem straight away!