Comments for Matt Schmandt http://www.theschmandts.org/blog Gentoo Linux - Asterisk Sun, 06 Jul 2008 01:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Podcamp Ohio by angelo http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2008/06/29/podcamp-ohio/#comment-176 angelo Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:04:26 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/?p=42#comment-176 I'm glad you had a great time and I wanted to thank you for helping out too! The last number I have is 166 registered guests, plus there are about 10+ missing name tags that we presume people took but did not sign them selves in. I would guess we nearly hit 180 throughout the day. What was amazing is how many folks were their the entire day. Could not have asked for better retention. I’m glad you had a great time and I wanted to thank you for helping out too!

The last number I have is 166 registered guests, plus there are about 10+ missing name tags that we presume people took but did not sign them selves in. I would guess we nearly hit 180 throughout the day. What was amazing is how many folks were their the entire day. Could not have asked for better retention.

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]]> Comment on Email notifications for missed calls in Asterisk by christendoc http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/05/email-notifications-for-missed-calls-in-asterisk/#comment-171 christendoc Tue, 27 May 2008 07:15:22 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/05/email-notifications-for-missed-calls-in-asterisk/#comment-171 [LATER] Oh, and one other bit: I had to pull the backticks off this line: `echo $BODY | $MAILCMD $SUBJECT $EMAIL` It's the payload line at the end of the script. If I'm just stupid and there's a reason for them, let me know. Thanks again. [LATER] Oh, and one other bit: I had to pull the backticks off this line:
`echo $BODY | $MAILCMD $SUBJECT $EMAIL`

It’s the payload line at the end of the script. If I’m just stupid and there’s a reason for them, let me know.

Thanks again.

]]> Comment on Email notifications for missed calls in Asterisk by christendoc http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/05/email-notifications-for-missed-calls-in-asterisk/#comment-170 christendoc Tue, 27 May 2008 04:59:39 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/05/email-notifications-for-missed-calls-in-asterisk/#comment-170 Howdy, Can't thank you enough for this little gem. Just started in on telephony (for fun and to feed the inner control freak, not professional). I kept looking at SIP providers to give email notification of missed calls, and no one did. So, I changed focus and sought a really lightweight PBX system (initially avoiding Asterisk) that had the feature. Alas :) this post of yours was about the only promising hit, so I spent a few days learning enough Asterisk to figure out where to plug your script in. It was a fun learn. I really fell for Asterisk in the process, and still think your script is just elegant and impressive -- surpising the Digium team left this out. Thanks again, friend. Howdy,

Can’t thank you enough for this little gem. Just started in on telephony (for fun and to feed the inner control freak, not professional). I kept looking at SIP providers to give email notification of missed calls, and no one did. So, I changed focus and sought a really lightweight PBX system (initially avoiding Asterisk) that had the feature. Alas :) this post of yours was about the only promising hit, so I spent a few days learning enough Asterisk to figure out where to plug your script in. It was a fun learn. I really fell for Asterisk in the process, and still think your script is just elegant and impressive — surpising the Digium team left this out.

Thanks again, friend.

]]> Comment on Recover documents from a corrupt Lotus Notes database by Priya http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/04/12/recover-documents-from-a-corrupt-lotus-notes-database/#comment-169 Priya Sat, 24 May 2008 09:02:29 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/04/12/recover-documents-from-a-corrupt-lotus-notes-database/#comment-169 I ran into a similar problem while attempting to copy one of my archive databases to another machine. The .nsf copy failed with a Cyclic Redundancy Check error. After none of simple remedies worked, I tried the Database copy utility offered by my Notes 7 client. I am not sure if it existed when the original entry was posted, but since this page was the first result in my Google search "lotus notes archive corrupt", I thought leaving this comment might be useful for other folks looking for a resolution. Select your database from the workspace, and invoke File->Database->New Copy... from the main menu. During the copy, I was presented with a few "I/O data error" messages, that I chose to ignore, and a copy was successfully created. The original size of the database, 2.09 GB, was reduced to 1.9 GB (a few missing documents), but I could thenafter copy the new .nsf file into a different machine, and open it from the Notes client there. I ran into a similar problem while attempting to copy one of my archive databases to another machine. The .nsf copy failed with a Cyclic Redundancy Check error. After none of simple remedies worked, I tried the Database copy utility offered by my Notes 7 client. I am not sure if it existed when the original entry was posted, but since this page was the first result in my Google search “lotus notes archive corrupt”, I thought leaving this comment might be useful for other folks looking for a resolution.

Select your database from the workspace, and invoke File->Database->New Copy… from the main menu. During the copy, I was presented with a few “I/O data error” messages, that I chose to ignore, and a copy was successfully created. The original size of the database, 2.09 GB, was reduced to 1.9 GB (a few missing documents), but I could thenafter copy the new .nsf file into a different machine, and open it from the Notes client there.

]]> Comment on How to find used disk space by rmaz http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2008/01/26/how-to-find-used-disk-space/#comment-96 rmaz Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:27:56 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2008/01/26/how-to-find-used-disk-space/#comment-96 I recommend using the free <a href="http://windirstat.info/" rel="nofollow">windirstat</a>. The 1.2 version still has a zipped version which requires no install. See the features listed on their website. I recommend using the free windirstat. The 1.2 version still has a zipped version which requires no install. See the features listed on their website.

]]> Comment on Recover documents from a corrupt Lotus Notes database by Hub http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/04/12/recover-documents-from-a-corrupt-lotus-notes-database/#comment-34 Hub Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:17:08 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/04/12/recover-documents-from-a-corrupt-lotus-notes-database/#comment-34 This sounds very interesting. Unfortunately the link to the technote is no more working, and I cannot find this technote on Lotus IBM site. Do you still have the sample code? Thanks a lot in advance! This sounds very interesting.
Unfortunately the link to the technote is no more working, and I cannot find this technote on Lotus IBM site. Do you still have the sample code?
Thanks a lot in advance!

]]> Comment on Google Apps for your domain by angelo http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/08/08/google-apps-for-your-domain/#comment-27 angelo Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:01:38 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/08/08/google-apps-for-your-domain/#comment-27 The <a href="http://www.google.com/a/" title="Google Apps for your Domain" rel="nofollow">Google Apps for your Domain</a> has to be the most ideal set of web applications any web 2.0 type start up business would need. We at <a href="www.rawvoice.com" title="RawVoice" rel="nofollow">RawVoice</a> use it extensively. We are still using the free standard edition but we may soon switch to the Premier Edition. We had a situation where one of the partners deleted all of the financial E-mail when he resigned. Now that Google owns Postini, we are hoping they offer the E-mail backup service at a significant discount when combined with the $50 per year fee. Before we started using Google Apps, we were using Groove in order to synchronize our documents and spreadsheets and we had to manage our own Qmail E-mail server. Since we also use our server for web hosting, moving the E-mail off of that server was a no brainer. Once Google added the Writely service to Google Spreadsheets (now known as Google Docs), we quickly made the transition to Google Docs. I can't explain how frustrating Groove was, I am just glad I don't have to use it anymore. I am not sure if Google is using Qmail or not, but Gmail uses the same Qmail features. One of the most useful feature is the login+string. With Gmail and Qmail, you can take your login portion of your E-mail address and add a "+anything" to it. e.g. login+mailinglist1@gmail.com for signing up to mailing lists that you are afraid may end up sending you SPAM. It is quite useful, even for advertising campaigns or other E-mail tracking. The Google Apps for your Domain has to be the most ideal set of web applications any web 2.0 type start up business would need. We at RawVoice use it extensively. We are still using the free standard edition but we may soon switch to the Premier Edition. We had a situation where one of the partners deleted all of the financial E-mail when he resigned. Now that Google owns Postini, we are hoping they offer the E-mail backup service at a significant discount when combined with the $50 per year fee.

Before we started using Google Apps, we were using Groove in order to synchronize our documents and spreadsheets and we had to manage our own Qmail E-mail server. Since we also use our server for web hosting, moving the E-mail off of that server was a no brainer. Once Google added the Writely service to Google Spreadsheets (now known as Google Docs), we quickly made the transition to Google Docs. I can’t explain how frustrating Groove was, I am just glad I don’t have to use it anymore.

I am not sure if Google is using Qmail or not, but Gmail uses the same Qmail features. One of the most useful feature is the login+string. With Gmail and Qmail, you can take your login portion of your E-mail address and add a “+anything” to it. e.g. login+mailinglist1@gmail.com for signing up to mailing lists that you are afraid may end up sending you SPAM. It is quite useful, even for advertising campaigns or other E-mail tracking.

]]> Comment on Answering machine detection by Matt Schmandt http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/02/answering-machine-detection/#comment-24 Matt Schmandt Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:32:58 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/02/answering-machine-detection/#comment-24 The two most common ways to initiate a call is by either creating a call file or through the manager interface. A call file is a text file that you place in the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing directory. Asterisk monitors that directory and will process it within a second of putting the file in that directory. The other way is through the manager interface. Using that you send text commands to initiate a call. You can consider the manager port to be like a telnet port for Asterisk that you can send text commands to. I will post more on this topic in the future. In the mean time you can read more about it on the following links. http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+manager+API The two most common ways to initiate a call is by either creating a call file or through the manager interface. A call file is a text file that you place in the /var/spool/asterisk/outgoing directory. Asterisk monitors that directory and will process it within a second of putting the file in that directory. The other way is through the manager interface. Using that you send text commands to initiate a call. You can consider the manager port to be like a telnet port for Asterisk that you can send text commands to.

I will post more on this topic in the future. In the mean time you can read more about it on the following links.
http://www.voip-info.org/tiki-index.php?page=Asterisk+auto-dial+out
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=Asterisk+manager+API

]]> Comment on Answering machine detection by craigesmith http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/02/answering-machine-detection/#comment-23 craigesmith Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:59:05 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/05/02/answering-machine-detection/#comment-23 How did you initiate the call? How did you initiate the call?

]]> Comment on Notes 8 by Rich Waters http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/03/31/notes-8/#comment-9 Rich Waters Sun, 01 Apr 2007 15:22:12 +0000 http://www.theschmandts.org/blog/2007/03/31/notes-8/#comment-9 "Make sure you ask your Notes admin to make sure he doesn’t mind you changing your mail file design." Ask? whats the point in that :P There have been a lot of comments about performance in the beta forums and it sounds like there is still a lot of room for improvement... I really hope so! “Make sure you ask your Notes admin to make sure he doesn’t mind you changing your mail file design.”
Ask? whats the point in that :P

There have been a lot of comments about performance in the beta forums and it sounds like there is still a lot of room for improvement… I really hope so!

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