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Entries from May 15th, 2008

Found a great soft phone for Fedora — Twinkle

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Linux

The home page is twinkle. For Fedora, you can just install the ATRPMs repository following the instructions for yum found here. Then just yum it: yum -y install twinkle Dontcha just love Fedora? Anyway, it has all the major features except video conferencing and call recording.  Amazingly good for a free product.

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Mount a remote filesystem over SSH

May 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Linux

First of all I’d like to give credit to this site for the original material. Here are the instructions for Fedora 8 for brevity: yum install fuse-utils sshfs mkdir /mnt/sshfs groupadd sshusers chgrp sshusers /mnt/sshfs chmod g+w /mnt/sshfs Now you can add users to the sshusers group: usermod -G sshusers -a someuser and those users [...]

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GrandStream HT488 and FreePBX

May 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Linux

The BT488 has 2 major documented failures. Even when it works as a trunk, it does not pass Caller ID to the PBX. There is no known way around this problem. It uses “2-stage” dialing. That means when you dial “92815551212″ (9 for outside line + number) the BT488 picks up the call, plays a [...]

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