tech poet

I always use the quick add feature of Google Calendar to add events, that way I can type in things like "Call with Jack Tuesday morning at 9" and an event is added. Today I figured I'd paste this directly from an email: Blake has a meeting in Houston on Tuesday. We need to change the staff meeting to Wednesday. I was thinking 10:00 if that works for you. It seemed like a long shot, but it worked! It made an event on Wednesday at 10 am, I was surprised and then realized that in the future these sorts of things will be parsed from your email automatically and you'll simply accept them into your calendar. I like!

It seems that since around Asterisk 1.4.26.2 the Nagios contrib plugin check_asterisk has stopped working for the "iax ping" feature. I turned on iax debugging in Asterisk and did a packet capture. Seems like the only reason why it worked was because it sent a 0x06 REJECT frame and Asterisk would reply with invalid. I changed it to send a 0x1e POKE request and submitted a small patch to fix this in the plugin. I seriously doubt the Nagios Plugins team will do anything with it since there's no upstream maintainer and it's in the contrib directory so here's the patch: --- check_asterisk.pl 2009-09-24 03:13:56.000000000 -0700 +++ check_asterisk.pl.changed 2009-11-01 13:10:06.000000000 -0800 @@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ my $iax_timestamp = "00000000"; my $iax_outbound_seq = "00"; my $iax_inbound_seq = "00"; -my $iax_type = "06"; #IAX_Control +my $iax_type = "06"; #IAX_Control +my $iax_frame_value = "1e"; #POKE s...