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Fedora 10, a real treat

Installed Fedora 10 a couple of days ago and I must say I’m very pleasantly surprised. Install went smoothly as ever and getting everything up and running was pretty much painless. Here’s pretty much what I needed to do to … Continue reading

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Update to AsteriskJA because of changes of CallerID Lookup Sources

There was a change in recent module for FreePBX where the lookup source uri could not contain cid=${CALLERID(num)}. The fix for that is to change it to cid=[NUMBER]. See the AsteriskJA page.

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Automaticly blacklisting password attempts

I’ve tried quite a few methods to block password guessers from guessing passwords on machines that have open SSH, POP, IMAP… What I usually used was iptables and the recent module “iptables -m recent –help” if you are interested in … Continue reading

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New version of tv_grab_is for Icelandic program listings

I just finished updating my tv_grab_is script to use the xml interfaces which every Icelandic broadcasting company has. Continue reading

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Just Do IT!

Just discovered one of the most usefull apps I have come upon in a long time, Gnome DO! This program makes programs and actions in them really easy. I have for instance installed the pidgin plugin for it, I hit … Continue reading

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Gnucash scripts for kaupþing and landsbanki

Just re-added my gnucash scripts for importing data from Kaupþing XML transaction data and Landsbanki kredit card statements. Find them at /gnucash

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tv_grab_is updates, XML feeds available

I’m expecting to start work on changing tv_grab_is program guide grabber to utilize the new XML feeds from 365 (Stöð 2) and also using the XML from RUV in the next few days. Sadly Skjár 1 have not yet created … Continue reading

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Multihost load balanced SMS messages with gnokii

I am finishing writing a program called pysmsqueue that can manage to send SMS text messages through phones on multiple hosts or multiple phones on multiple hosts. There for handles load balancing, e.g. sending multiple messages at the same time. … Continue reading

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Recordmydesktop, desktop audio and video capturing on Linux

I just tried out recordmydesktop. It’s a pretty cool program that basicly does what it says, that is record my desktop. It also captures audio from mic and any music/sounds you are playing at the time of recording. Good for … Continue reading

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CallerID lookup script for Asterisk / Trixbox

I created a script, AsteriskJA, a while back which can fetch data from a website and use in a CallerID lookup source within Asterisk. This script utilizes the Icelandic online phone book, http://ja.is/. It is written in perl and I’ve … Continue reading

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