I have been managing Linux Virtual Servers for well over 10 years. I visited the AWS offering many times before taking the plunge. Their huge variety of server options, storage options, bandwidth options, etc made their offering very confusing. Since I did not understand which options I would need, I could not determine what costs to expect. […]
This guide briefly explains how to configure Asterisk PBX to send voicemail as an email with message as mp3 attachment and a text transcription via the IBM Bluemix Speech-to-Text API. I implemented the IBM service because Google has discontinued V1 of their Speech Recognition API and Google seems to charge for V2 of their API. IBM provides […]
These OSX startup key combinations are valid on a MacBook Pro (Early 2011). I had the misfortune of OSX 10.10 upgrade problems and had to use various commands to recover and perform a clean install of OSX 10.10. Startup Manager (Press “Option” key during startup) will let you choose to boot from a specific OSX volume, […]
Emails generated by our applications were displaying universal time instead of a user’s local time when viewed in Thunderbird. Our servers use universal time. The emails we send to our users include a date header with UTC. Other email clients automatically convert this to the user’s local time. I compared the date header in our messages to date […]
We maintain a small outbound Squid proxy/cache server for our VPN users. The Squid3 service on Debian 7 (Wheezy) died. When we restarted the service, it would immediately termiate with these errors: swap.state.new: (122) Disk quota exceeded FATAL: storeDirOpenTmpSwapLog: Failed to open swap log. Squid Cache (Version 3.1.20): Terminated abnormally. The Squid service runs in a […]