Lazy Geeks Blog

Continuing with our screencasts, we have a short How-To on installing the Power DNS Recursor (pdns-recursor) package as a way of getting around certain DNS issues in Asterisk.

When Asterisk loses connectivity, it can also affect the likes of PSTN fallback, not to mention Asterisk just outright behaves funny with DNS at times. The pdns-recursor package I’ve found works better than the likes of dnsmasq.

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Starting off a new line of Screencasts, we have the first one on securing the default Elastix WebGUI passwords. This may seem obvious but many people only do *half* the job, leaving their system totally wide open when they port-forward TCP 443 so it’s publicly accessible.

See for yourself by going to your Elastix system and adding this in to the URL:
/admin/

You will see yourself presented with a new login box. Type in “admin” as the Username & Password.

Many people don’t know, or don’t change the Unembedded FreePBX password, so we will show you how to fix this issue.

This is the first of hopefully many screencast tutorials.

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I’ve had my iPhone 3G for 1 month shy of 2 years now, and it’s been a brilliant phone. Admittedly I had it replaced after 3 months because the GPS on my first one was horribly inaccurate, however the whole replacement process was superb: Full phone replacement in under 2 hours of dropping the device off! When I bought the Nexus One, I waited first for the iPhone4 to be officially released. Everybody had seen engadgets breakdown of the new look, and it does look slick, but I wanted to know about the OS and other features before deciding on a new iPhone or a Nexus One. How did I decide? Here’s some of the reasons:
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It’s happened to everybody at some time or another, you wish you could go back to yesterdays system. You make a change and delete some IVR menu you shouldn’t have but can’t remember how it was setup so you can’t recreate it.

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The advent of the internet has meant that the transfer of information happens almost instantly. Emails exchanged, businesses updated, news crosses the globe in seconds, more people can work from home, global offices are brought together. It’s a beautiful thing.

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So after being a Microsoft user since back in the days of MSDOS & Windows 3.1, and I’ve been using Linux on and off for the last decade now. I’m still not a fan of Mac Zealots in any way, shape or form. They piss me off no end, and I don’t have time for their nonsense and superiority.

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When you want to on-bill “customers” of any description for Calls, A2Billing really is the best solution. Having investigated several others, it appeared that A2Billing was not only incredibly flexible, but extensible, and should be able to do just what I need. The problem lies in getting it setup. Considering this wasn’t a “standard” request, I decided to enlist the help of Joe Roper. He had been very prompt with Forum answers, but because of the uniqueness of the situation I felt it best to go for Paid Support.

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Yes, that’s right, if you’re using Google Apps for your Domain, you can now enable Wave domain-wide! Best part is it’s totally free, and very easy to dive right in!

Google Wave has been in private-beta status since Google I/O 2009, and one year later it’s being opened to the public.

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Yes, it’s been announced as predicted:

http://webmproject.blogspot.com/2010/05/introducing-webm-open-web-media-project.html

All I can say is well done Google, they’ve truly done the right thing and could have single-handedly helped to preserve the future of video on the web! They’ve also hit the ground running with a very impressive list of people backing the format, such as:

nVidia
Intel
ARM
Qualcom
Adobe Flash platform
Opera
Mozilla / Firefox
CORE Codec
AMD
Logitech and more!

Why is this all so important?

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Having explained this now 5x in the last 24 hours, I decided it was time to blog about it.

This post summarizes why NZ broad band doesn’t “suck”, why FTTH isn’t going to solve what your problems are, and what you can do about it in the mean time.

It’ll also explain to you how “The Internet” works, here in New Zealand, as well as giving you some figures to compare us against the rest of the world.

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