Category Archives: JDI
Asterisk for the novice
We switched to VOIP : Our old PBX was lacking features, and the prices for phones went sky-high. I purchased an Asterisk EuroISDN card, and some Aastra phones. Some lessons I learnt the hard way : A GUI If you … Continue reading
A new PBX aka playing with Asterisk
We started out with 1 employee back in 2001. Now, we have 11. We started out with a Siemens PBX, and one ISDN-2 line. That Siemens has 8 digital ports, and 1 expansion slot. That slot has been taken for … Continue reading
Migrating from Xen Citrix to RHEV
Since I’ve got fed-up with all Citrix bugs (operations that het stuck on locks, resumes not working, etc) and the fact that the’re probably going to drop Xen in favor of Microsoft Hyper-V we are going to migrate to RedHat … Continue reading
PHP and the reasons why we consider switching
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Booting a > 2 TB partition using EFI
When our new storage server arrived last week, I wanted to skip use EFI t0 boot this system. It requires en EFI capable system, which this Intel server mobo is capable off. The CentOS installer doesn’t grasp an GPT partition … Continue reading
We’re at Maildir now
As noted in this posting, we migrated to Maildir. It went relatively smooth, and faster then anticipated. I’ll be posting the code to the actual migration script (41 lines of PHP code), and the code code to the milter that … Continue reading
Moving from mbox to maildir
I’ve decided that it’s time to move from mbox to Maildir. Mailboxes are getting larger every year, and so serverload continues to increase. During scheduled maintenance the end of March, I’m converting all mailboxes to Maildir format. I’ve run into … Continue reading
Finding a new editor
We, at JDI, are used to working in vi. When we started 11 years ago, most IDE’s wheren’t existant, and with 3 people with their own OS and configuration developing locally wasn’t an option. So we just shelled in, vim’ed … Continue reading