Home VoIP System Part 1: Provisioning the phones
2020-06-13 23:54 by Ian
A HOWTO for preparing the VoIP phones for re-use.
Home VoIP System Part 0: Introduction and materials
2020-06-13 23:50 by Ian
Building a home VoIP intercom/paging/control system.
Three-minute history of telephony
2014-11-11 12:44 by Ian
This is something I wrote for some coworkers in an effort to describe why the telephone signalling system is full of what appears to be arbitrary cruft and inconsistency. I thought it might be worth poasting.
Cloning CompactFlash Cards using WinHex
2009-07-05 12:16 by Ian
A procedure for making byte-for-byte copies of CF cards. Written while working at a camera repair shop that needed this capability, but it’s also useful for lifting partitions from a development system using a conventional hard drive and dropping them onto a CF card for operation in a finished condition (after appropriate edits).
My first custom MediaServer
2009-05-16 00:04 by Ian
This was the first serious media server I built. I built it into a home-made acrylic case.
Recovering data from a damaged hard drive
2008-12-30 04:32 by Ian
Recovering data from a damaged hard drive is like rebuilding shattered glassware without knowing what it originally looked like.
Mounting a MySQL database from a ram drive in slackware
2008-12-27 21:49 by Ian
My little 1GHz VIA EPIA board now runs a DB that will saturate the NIC. By running the database from files located in a RAM drive, hard drive speed is no longer a limiting factor in database performance.
Western Digital gets blugeoned with a class-action lawsuit
2006-07-05 12:23 by Ian
Western Digital just gave into a class-action suit because consumers and lawyers don’t understand how computers work.