… or anyone else really, with a little trick to implement a black list and filter unwanted callers.
1. The BLACKLIST function
Asterisk implements a BLACKLIST function which can be used to…
If like me you get tons of telemarketers calls, there’s an easy way to get rid of them with a quick Asterisk hack. The following Asterisk configuration snippet will immediately send any hidden…
This post is meant to clarify a few key concepts about Unix filesystems such as directory permissions, hardlinks and symlinks.
Q: If I chmod 777 a file, can someone delete it ?
A: No. To…
MisterHouse is a fantastic home automation software with an impressive out-of-the-box feature set, and it only gets better if you know a bit of Perl.
You can conveniently set “modes”, which are…
In this post I’ll revisit the classical “how to remap caps lock into something useful” once again. In this post, I’ll show how to remap the caps lock key to have an extra Escape key, which is very…
The following sample Facebook desktop application exports your friends birthdays in a vCard file format. This file is suitable to be imported into your GMail contacts for example.
Here is the…
One of the common annoyances of copy-pasting on Windows is that it tries to copy-paste the formatting as well. This issue can easily be fixed by the following AutoHotkey macro, which will copy the…
Asterisk is a free telephony software. I’m posting here sample commented configuration files for reference purposes, hoping they will help you get kickstarted if needed.
This config sets up :
- SIP…
When written in base 16 (hexidecimal), this 1401 digit prime number found by Phil Carmody forms a gzip file of the C-source code that decrypts the DVD Movie encryption scheme (DeCSS).
4856507896573978293098418946942861377074420873513579240196520736
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