Archive for March, 2006

The Pragmatic Programmer Quick Reference

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

The Pragmatic Programmer is one of those books I bought eons ago which seemed infinitely useful and have never really had the time to dig into between going to work and working on my CS degree. Luckily there is a quick reference guide which summarizes the points in said book.

Lingo VOIP Azatel Router: Resetting To Factory Settings and Firewall Rules

Monday, March 27th, 2006

This entry is mostly useless if you’re a regular reader, but I thought it might help someone else out there once it gets indexed via Google.

To reset the Lingo Azatel Router, plug in a phone to the L1 jack and enter the following code:

*#26845#

This will reset the router back to the factory settings.

Also, to allow it to make calls behind a firewall, you will need to open the following port ranges (I assume it needs both UDP and TCP, but I’m too lazy to sniff the network to make sure):

  • 1024-1030
  • 5060-5065
  • 10000-20000

more keywords for teh google’s, please ignore:

lingo voip password reset factory settings firewall open ports azatel primus

Unix Standards: Should I use UNIX or Unix?

Monday, March 13th, 2006

I came across a good article via del.icio.us at IBM developerWorks titled “Standards and specs: Not by UNIX alone” which talks about the various Unix standards including POSIX, as well as why most people who know software development well prefer working with Unix. Another interesting tidbit covered is the difference between UNIX and Unix which I’d always wondered myself, but had never got curious enough to research on my own time.

Expect to see more Unix and OS related posts in the coming weeks as I’m taking an Operating Systems class at the moment which I’m quite excited about– I’ll be writing a long paper and giving a presentation on the architecture details of FreeBSD for my class, and I’d imagine a lot of that content will end-up here in some shape or form.

How To Quickly Integrate Reactor into Coldspring

Monday, March 6th, 2006

It took me a bit of digging around before I was able to find this information, so I thought it might be worth writing a quick post about. Doug recently updated the Reactor factory and provided an example of how to integrate it into Coldspring. I would imagine at the time of writing, you will need the latest version from svn ( svn export svn://alagad.com/reactor/trunk via CLI) rather than the current downloadable release. This was actually a different way to do it than I’d seen before, so I’m glad I took some time to look around rather than just trying to do it myself.

Given that both Reactor and Coldspring are still works in progress, don’t be surprised if there ends-up being a better way to integrate them at some point– I just thought I’d post a quick entry about how to get it up and running quickly.