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As evidenced by the fact most of my linux posts are tagged with Gentoo, I run a source-based linux distribution.  The only reason for that these days is because it’s what I’m used to.  I’ve been running Gentoo since 2002 or 2003.  I’ve thrown it on almost every piece of equipment I can, from a P166 to my quad Athlon II.

While I recently switched my wife’s laptop over to Ubuntu to make it easier for her to manage, I haven’t tried running another distro full time on anything save one.

I’m the proud (?) owner of an NSLU2 aka SLUG that I occasionally power up for random nonsense.  I’ve finally gotten around to upgrading it from lenny to squeeze.  While I could cross-compile everything on another computer, I find it just easier to use Debian’s precompiled ARM binaries.

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While I’m still working on getting the on demand record feature to work in Asterisk, this will work as a manual method.

watch -n1 “asterisk -vvvvvrx ‘core show channels’ “

This will show the channels/calls in progress.

In another window (just because it’s easier), log into asterisk using “asterisk -r” and run

mixmonitor start ${CHANNEL} ${FILENAME}.wav

This will save your recording under /var/spool/asterisk/monitor.

I’m still trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong that the *3 command isn’t working (Following http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/2741-how-to-record-phone-calls-using-asterisk/)

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Tags: asterisk, linux, record call

Building the latest mesa from source
EXTRA_ECONF=”–enable-shared-glapi –enable-gallium-egl” emerge -qv1 mesa

[ebuild R #] media-libs/mesa-9999 USE=”egl gallium gles llvm motif nptl openvg* -bindist -classic -d3d -debug -pic (-selinux) -shared-dricore -wayland” VIDEO_CARDS=”r600 -i810 -i915 -i965 -intel -mach64 -mga -nouveau -r100 -r128 -r200 -r300 -radeon -savage -sis -tdfx -via -vmware” 0 kB [1]

this is because of this:

http://www.mail-archive.com/mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org/msg08552.html

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=1251e1df0f5d4bc81c80c4c2d61c0a5f9b8b759a

This was updated in the X11 overlay, but the EXTRA_ECONF trick can come in handy later.

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Tags: 9999, ebuild, gentoo

If it’s not obvious, I’ve moved my blog from a self-hosted environment to WordPress.com’s hosting.

So far, my opinion is “meh”.  I’m already missing my custom environment and am chafing under the limitations provided here.  It does fit in my current budget though.

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Davmail is a java-based gateway for Microsoft Exchange to standards-based protocols.

While I didn’t write the original ebuild, I did write an init script and config and modify the ebuild to run as a service for Gentoo.

Give it a whirl, it’s working for me so far.  Bug 351417.

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I’ve updated my ebuild for the CrystalHD card to reflect not only updates upstream but what I’ve learned through reading sources and other bug reports.

Given I’ve just been creating snapshots from particular days, I had originally opted to use a date-based scheme for the ebuilds.  I read through a bug report (here) that shows how upstream is referencing the version.  That makes sense.

Since the big focus is to get the library and firmware into the tree, I opted to move and rename the library to x11-libs/libcrystalhd.  My reasoning is the module is already in the kernel sources and can be compiled from there.  What other programs will be looking for is the library to compile against.  So, from crystalhd to libcrystalhd it is.   The ebuild still optionally installs the kernel module, which is still my preferred method.

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Nothing like waiting 24+ hours for a RAID5 array to finish growing.  Thankfully, the array is still accessible while it’s growing.  That won’t hold true when the file system itself is expanded, but I don’t think that will be take as long.

My biggest fear is a power outage while it’s growing.  My UPS has been acting up lately and shutting down on its own.  I think it’s the batteries, but I’m not sure yet.  So for now, I’m living life dangerously.  Thankfully, the weather is mild without worry of high winds or anything that should take out the power.

Adding the new drives has brought to light my need for a proper case for my server.  At present, I’m using a 10? year old Antec tower.  It’s fantastic and roomy, but as I’m expanding my storage space, it’s becoming too small.  It feels odd to say that since it’s one of the largest cases I’ve ever owned.  So, now I’m looking at a new case.  The one that has caught my eye is the Norco RPC-4220. At 20 hot swappable ports, it has plenty of room to grow.  I’d be able to move my Myth recording array over and actually eliminate an always-on machine at the same time.

Before that though, I probably should get my UPS looked at.  I doubt that they’re meant to be user-serviceable, aside from replacing the batteries, but I’m going to give it a try.

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