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Installing Debian GNU/Linux on a LaCie NAS
Since I recently set up Azathoth's 6th revision, I had the old LaCie NAS on a shelf, completely useless. I had to do something with it; however, the system which comes pre-installed on that thing is...
View ArticleCriminal incompetence
I have a lot of work to do, and many posts I'd like to write, but that will have to wait. I need to vent some frustration right now. I am currently on a systems administration mission where I need to...
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Toys
Just bought a few interesting toys: The ITDB02-4.3 module includes a 480x272 LCD screen controlled by an SSD1963 chip, a resistive touch screen controlled by an XPT2046, and a SD card slot. For now, I...
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A little progress
I managed to get the TFT screen working this afternoon. For now I'm using bit-banging both to initialise the board and access the framebuffer, the idea being to try and use it with the STM32F4's FSMC...
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RS232 != TTL
Ok, I've said it before, but repeating it one more time won't hurt: when it comes to electronics or hardware, I am completely ignorant. So, yesterday morning, I spent the best part of 3 hours trying to...
View ArticleStuck on the CS43L22
I have not been making much progress lately. I am trying to get the board to produce sound through its CS23L22 chip. So far, I've managed to: make it accept commands through I2C (which I know succeeded...
View ArticlePlaying with Asterisk (1/?)
The long term "plan" here at home is to switch over to VoIP for all phone calls. This includes getting rid of our old POTS phones, using softphones on the PCs, possibly buying hardware VoIP phones or,...
View ArticlePlaying with Asterisk (2/?)
Last time I managed to get a very basic Asterisk setup to work. Since then, I haven't had the time to really work on it, but I've made a few improvements here and there. Dial plan improvements In quite...
View ArticlePlaying with Asterisk (3/?) – A menu (sort of)
I wanted to try adding something that sort of feels like a menu to the dial plan. I am not sure that I will actually use one in the final setup, but it wasn't that much effort anyway. A menu (or...
View ArticlePlaying with Asterisk (4/?) – Voice mail
Even in the context of a home set-up, voice mail is a "must-have" feature. My idea is to have a set of voicemail boxes - one per person, and a global "family" mailbox. Ideally, local phones /...
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