Chris Farris - Geeklog

Geek to do

Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Chris Farris.
Categories: strange horned toads.

List of geek projects:

Rebuild my MythTV box using 0.20 and fixing some of the DB issues.
Rebuild Halsey to raid 1 the two 250GB drives and dump mp3s and system backups to the 300GB USB disk (or yank the old DDT drive)
Get rid of old computer crap on Craigslist
Write Legifax
Work on the SIP directory for the 7960 phones.
Find a BYOD SIP provider, port vonage #
Build an Asterisk Box, grok it
Build a SER box, grok it.
Get a 2M, join Gwinnett ARES before the Zombie War begins.

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Yet another Blog

Posted on October 1st, 2006 by Chris Farris.
Categories: strange horned toads.

So I’ve created this blog for two purposes. The first is a test bed to play with different wordpress themes and plugins. The second is to provide an easy way to post geek related stuff I do and have it indexed by search engines in the hopes of providing help to others who might be doing similar weird things with technology.

Don’t expect frequent updates or techno-philosophical discussions. The latter will get posted to Vital Powers.

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Nifty Little WP plugins

Posted on September 4th, 2006 by Chris Farris.
Categories: Wordpress.

LiveJournal CrossPoster allows me to selectively cross post entries in this blog an Vital Powers over to my livejournal.

Will suck down the ics file from Google calendar and display it on a page.

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Cisco 7960 Phones

Posted on September 4th, 2006 by Chris Farris.
Categories: VOIP.

So work has all these Cisco 7960 phones (ever see 24?) that are sitting in a box. Here are instructions for installing the SIP image and getting rid of the annoying SCCP image.

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