Ramblings
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Watching thousands of Euro go up in smoke
The locals in Germany seem very fond of fireworks. As 2019 was rung in, fireworks were going off across Hรถchst all through the hours leading up to midnight. From ~2345 until ~0045, I felt sorry for any dogs, or people who have PTSD that can be triggered by loud noises – it was an absolute…
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Indexing my books – part two
VBA is a horrible thing to work with; mostly because the development environment (if you can call it that) built in to Office 2013 stinks. You get lovely errors like “Access denied” when using the HTTP request component, or “-91”. So, with a lot of looking things up on StackOverflow and other sources, I’ve re-written…
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Indexing my books
I’m currently packing books into boxes, in preparation for January, when I expect to be moving out of this apartment and in to a house a little way up the road. It occurred to me that it’d be nice to have an index of my books – at least the titles. I’ve borrowed a barcode…
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Banks and security requirements
I’m in the middle of opening a bank account with KBC, and I’m both sadly amused and annoyed with them. Let us start with their security verification questions when creating an account. Rather than rant, I shall quote the National Cyber Security Centre in the UK. If your security question asks for a fixed piece…
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Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part drei
So, DISA, direct inward system access. Plenty of documentation, sort of, on the ‘net about how to get FreeSWITCH to do it via editing XML. However, if you’re using FusionPBX, then you’re actually writing to a Postgres database, which is compiled to XML on the fly (I think) when FreeSWITCH does something that would access…
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Adventures with FreeSWITCH and FusionPBX part deux
At the end of the last installment, I’d been dealing with unavailable servers (turns out they were moving between datacenters, and there didn’t seem to be any announcement of this), and compiles that refused to compile. I decided to cut my losses for a bit, and move on to getting functionality like inbound calls working.…