Technology

Houston had a snow day. Most I’ve seen here in my life I think. Oh hey I’ve been getting at least a post a year here. It’s always a new years resolution to write more about my life, although it seems like I don’t make the time for it, even though I’m on the computer 50+ hours a week. Blog Updates Decided to refresh the layout again. Realized all the post images were mostly gone. Lots of refactoring, still using Hugo. Switched all the headers to YAML instead of TOML for readability and my own sanity. Fixed a lot of markdown warnings in the backend and removed some old posts I don’t like, there’s probably more too. ...

I’ve been having a lot of issues with older Yealink phones not working with pjsip and TLS. Keep getting busy, and end up setting taking the lazy road (and less secure), and setting old broken endpoints to use UDP instead. You can also downgrade the extension to SIP and sometimes TLS will work, but moving it to PJSIP just breaks it. For security sake, please set your phones behind a VPN if you’re going to register without TLS. I happen to be spending more time at the office lately and wanted to take my spare T46s up there to use, since I was on a Polycom VVX 310 or something (I can’t stand Polycom, I dont know why). When I happen to move my T46s over from home to the office, I had some free time and decided to fix it. ...

Background I have a django app that shows host links to internal employees, wanted to grab status from Nagios without having to go to a bunch of trouble screen scraping. Found this quick script from Alex Wright, and modified it to work where I can call it from a Django function, then I just loop through my models and match the json object to the model. Steps to deploy Upload file: status2json.py below in github script link to your Nagios4 server. You can put this in your /usr/lib/cgi-bin/nagios4 directory and chmod +x status2json.py ...

Or how I pretty much memorized IPSec tunneling

Moving email off of a private server to fastmail was pretty easy.

Thinking about moving email off to a private server.

Building a custom iSCSI target server based on Debian Linux. Will it work?

It’s amazing how long Linux server can run if you don’t patch them.

Okay .. So I know I’m the worst blogger ever…. But it’s been up 10 years! March 2013 was 10 years of blogging! Holy crap. Maybe I should write more, it seems like six months between posts!

Struggling with the right tools for the job.