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Last week I passed the exam for Ericsson’s IP Essentials certification.

Even though this is the first of several IP related certifications, DO NOT LET THE NAME MISLEAD YOU!  Being the initial certifications […]

In July 2011 I passed the exam (4A0-100) for the Alcatel-Lucent NRS-I (Network Routing Specialist I) certification.

The exam requires fundamental knowledge of IP networking and routing protocols along with […]

My latest HA gadget arrived and I immediately discarded the installation manuals and dived in!  I replaced the front door handleset and deadbolt with a new one made by Morning Industry, Inc.  The new handleset is nifty in that one can not only lock and unlock the deadbolt the usual way – by key from the [...]

I am finally done with re-wiring and tidying up all the wiring for my home automation system.  Over many years as I expanded or added a new gadget to the system I would often run the cabling in some sort of expedient fashion which lead to quite a spaghetti mess of wires.  So last weekend I [...]

Finally decided to use the email notification feature in AstLinux, but it wasn’t as easy to get it going as I thought.  In theory one should just have to specify your email address for notifications in your voicemail.conf file like any other Asterisk setup and also configure your email server for whatever Linux distribution you’re [...]

I’ve tried to blacklist a few annoying numbers by adding them to the AstLinux blacklist, but it didn’t seem to work.  It’s not that I’m anti-social, just seems like for some reason the wife holds me accountable for any telemarketer calls we get.  Apparently the web GUI for Astlinux does have a tab to enter [...]

I’ve been using Asterisk, the IP PBX software, since shortly after it came out, but for the last few years have been using AstLinux.  I like AstLinux because it’s able to run on the WRAP or Seokris hardware platforms which have no moving parts and use very little power.  These little embedded IP PBXs are [...]

Yesterday I passed my exam for the CWTS (Certified Wireless Technology Specialist) certification.  The cert comes from the CWNP group and is primarily focused on 802.11 (wifi) specs, installation, and troubleshooting.  I got 88% for most of the subject areas expect for Radio Frequency (RF) Fundamentals which I got 100%.  Since I have a lot [...]