ROAD TRIP!!!!!

Posted at December 27th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

ROAD TRIP!!!!!, originally uploaded by markwwalling.

Alex & The UFO

Posted at December 27th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

Alex & The UFO, originally uploaded by markwwalling.

I don’t know who likes it more: me or Alex…

Christmas 2008

Posted at December 26th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

Christmas 2008, originally uploaded by markwwalling.

Christmas 2008

Posted at December 26th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

Christmas 2008, originally uploaded by markwwalling.

Christmas 2008

Posted at December 26th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

Christmas 2008, originally uploaded by markwwalling.

Maggie Mae

Posted at December 26th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

Maggie Mae, originally uploaded by markwwalling.

Over the river and to grandma’s house we go

My new “killer app”

Posted at December 11th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

Its actually not new, nor is it new for me, but this use is a first for me, and its pretty cool.

The original VPN client that was supplied on my work laptop was a piece of junk. It would redirect all traffic out the VPN, even traffic bound for vmnet interfaces, which made software testing a pain in the behind. When I got my new laptop this summer, the VPN client couldn’t hold a connection… After 3 tickets, and as many weeks waiting for the tickets to be answered, they finaly told me to beta test their new Juniper powered client… I love it. It adds its routes to Windows’ routing table, then gets out of the way, and even lets local traffic escape out by default! This means I can finally print to my printers with out stringing up USB cables, and now that I cleaned off my desk, I installed synergy… So now I can use my big pretty monitor, and my laptop’s big pretty monitor (17″… no it does not fit on an airplane tray table.).

I’m in heaven…..

Also, Slackware-12.2 was released at some point in the past 48 hours, but I’m sure you heard that elsewhere.

Asterisk and Slackware 12.1

Posted at December 7th, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

I upgraded my Linode to Slackware 12.1, at the same time doing a kernel upgrade, and upgrading Asterisk to version 1.4.22. When I did this, I discovered that the prompts sounded like crap. The actually call quality was fine once it was connected to my ATA at home. It also did not effect tt-rickroll, a gsm I encoded at home using a gstreamer/sox script, music on hold, or playback of actual voice mail files (the prompts were still messed up). This puzzled me for days…

Eventually, after rebuilding the Asterisk package, switching from ztdummy to dahdi_dummy, manually extracting the sound files, and giving my phone number to some #linode guys, I stumbled on this post to asterisk-users, which referenced this post. These posts said that the problem lied in the fact that I was using gcc-4.2, which had some optimization bugs. Turns out that Slackware bumped gcc from 4.1 in -12.0 to 4.2 in -12.1. With an enormous amount of skepticism, I rebuilt the package using “DONT_OPTIMIZE”, and wouldn’t you know, it worked!

New website

Posted at December 2nd, 2008 by Mark Walling and has no responses.

So, I went and redid my website, again. I struck a middle ground, using WordPress as the backend, and created a custom template to match the rest of my website.

Lets see if I can last longer with this one.

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