Archive for 2005

Trying Asterisk

There are a couple of ways to try Asterisk The easiest is to download an ISO of a live Linux CD with Asterisk from AstLinux at http://www.astlinux.org Burn the ISO to CD-R (or compact flash) and reboot and you’ll have a working Asterisk system. You’ll need a USB or flash card to save your configuration, [...]

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Asterisk

Itoh-san was the first to tell me about the open-source PBX system called Asterisk. His company at the time was seriously thinking about changing from their existing Cisco IP phone network to Asterisk. Asterisk 1.2 released on Nov 17 2005. Available from http://www.asterisk.org/  

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Calling PSTN

fwdOut shows how to configure your Asterisk PBX to allow calls to PSTN phones via other Asterisk servers who have agreed to share their PSTN connections. InN return, you have to make your PSTN connection available for other users to call your local area. You get credit when someone uses your access point, this allows [...]

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Software Development Tools

Some interesting new development tools and platforms are available these days. Microsoft is providing beta versions of its Visual Studio 2005 Mono is an open source IDE for developing .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. from http://www.mono-project.com/ Grasshopper is a Visual Studio .NET plug-in which enables you [...]

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File Storage Sites

When email limits the size of files you want to send to someone, try one of these file transfer websites. http://www.filesend.to 5 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3 days retention http://okurin.bitpark.co.jp/ 250MB, 10 downloads, 5 days retention www.filebank.co.jp 10 files, 100MB, 5 downloads, 3days retention www.fileocool.com 100MB per file, 5 downloads, 7 days retention www.datadeliver.net 10 [...]

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Open Internet Explorer from MS-Access

Database Journal shows how to open a web page from inside MSAccess. Public Function UpdateOrderInfoWebSite() As Long On Error Resume NextDim objDoc As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer Dim sURL As String Dim lOrderID As LonglOrderID = Forms!frmOrder!txtOrderIDConst cURL As String ="http://localhost/Orders/Process.asp" sURL = cURL & "?ID=" & lOrderID sURL = sURL & "&SDate =" & Forms!frmOrder!txtStatusDate sURL = [...]

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Open IE from Access

From http://www.databasejournal.com/features/msaccess/article.php/10895_3505836_2Public Public Function UpdateOrderInfoWebSite() As Long<br /> On Error Resume NextDim objDoc As SHDocVw.InternetExplorer<br /> Dim sURL As String<br /> Dim lOrderID As LonglOrderID = Forms!frmOrder!txtOrderID</p> <p>Const cURL As String ="http://localhost/Orders/Process.asp"<br /> sURL = cURL &#38; "?ID=" &#38; lOrderID<br /> sURL = sURL &#38; "&#38;SDate =" &#38; Forms!frmOrder!txtStatusDate<br /> sURL = sURL &#38; "&#38;SID [...]

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Runing Access Queries

My favorite method for executing SQL, be it saved queries or raw SQL, is the Execute method of the Database object. You can execute a statement with a single line, like this: [code] CurrentDb.Execute “UPDATE titles SET price = price * 1.10″ [/code] In this case, CurrentDB references the currently open database. Alternatively, you can [...]

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Network Install at T-12

During WinXP installation, if you try to access a network share at T-12 then you get a “Workstation is not running” error. Starting the workstation service manually with net start workstation reports the service is already running. The the issue is that microsoft left out some info in the system hive so you need to [...]

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