TOCPCs – The Elite Geeks Blog

Some things can be complex and complicated, others simple and obvious. Approaching the simple and obvious issues is easy, the solutions to them generally present themselves, or take very little consideration. Complex and complicated matters will always deserve careful thought and checking around every corner for what might be the ‘real’ solution, as opposed to [...]

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We had an assessment of the house done in November, this allowed us to determine where and what we could improve around the house. As expected, Solar Hot Water was a key recommendation. It was something we were considering eventually anyway, but the shock news came as he found the hot water system on the [...]

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Last night I moved an asterisk install from 1.6.0 to 1.6.1, and also upgraded addons. One of the issues that wasn’t mentioned anywhere noticable, but was found (in french.. ) was the extconfig.conf change. The log was flooding with error messages: [Dec  7 00:57:27] WARNING[1759] res_config_mysql.c: MySQL RealTime: Invalid database specified: asteriskrealtime (check res_mysql.conf) Of [...]

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After travelling 460KM today, I’ve discovered how annoying a hardware failure can be. My colocation box is a HP DL360, G3, so it’s not exactly bleeding edge, but it’s a fantastic server, does it’s job and does it reliably. Last night, we had a planned outage for just a short time to move the box [...]

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