Infinite Improbability Driver

During my travels today I ran across a rather mature-looking hosting system.. VHCS (”Virtual Hosting Control System”) is a control panel software for shared, reseller, virtual and dedicated server management.
I’ve seen a couple hacks to make it work on Gentoo, and I’ll probably give it a shot and let you know how I make out..

Ack! Missed my bus to get to work!

Here are a few projects I visited (some new, some old) while ’surfing’ this morning.. SourceForge and Freshmeat are good mmkay?

• Tor - provides a distributed network of servers (”onion routers”). Users bounce their communications (web, IM, IRC, SSH, etc.) around the routers. This makes it hard for recipients, observers, etc. to track the source of the stream.
• Squid Proxy for Onion Router - can significantly reduce the latency experienced when using the onion router network for web browsing.
• DSPAM - is an intelligent, adaptive spam filter capable capable of learning what spam is and isn’t based on each user’s individual email behavior. It is designed for both system-wide filtering and third party integration.
• Stunnel - is designed to work as an SSL encryption wrapper between remote client and local (inetd-startable) or remote server.
• PerfParse - facilitates the storage and analysis of binary performance data produced by Nagios and produces high-quality accurate graphs of live data from standard Nagios plugins.
• Gnu Hosting Helper - is a web hosting management package. This package provides tools to manage many of the aspects of a hosting environment. It also provides a client utility to perform tasks that a client needs such as managing email accounts.
• Asterisk PBX - is a complete PBX in software. It runs on Linux and provides all of the features you would expect from a PBX and more. Asterisk does voice over IP in three protocols, and can interoperate with almost all standards-based telephony equipment using relatively inexpensive hardware.
• AMP Asterisk Management Portal - project to bring together best-of-breed applications to produce a “canned” (but fully functional) turn-key small business phone system based on The Asterisk Open Source PBX.
• IBS - ISP Billing System is an accounting service for ISPs that supports Prepaid VoIP/DialUP/Lan services. It also supports VoIP Call Detail Recording with radius accounting.
• Liquid Weather++ - is a superkaramba theme and desktop applet for displaying weather information and forecasts. You need superkaramba to run it and the kde desktop. It displays weather information in a compact and easy to read format - it’s pretty too.

See the updated post here.

So, our building was doing fire alarm testing today.. I hope it’s done because it already woke me 6 or 7 times.. I like how it was conveniently scheduled for “between 9am and 5pm” .. because I’m sure there’s no one else on night shift in our building, and if there was, we never liked sleep that much anyways.
Shaw was hear yesterday, and as we expected, found nothing wrong.. He made all of our cables 2 inches shorter, (as have the last few shaw techs visiting here) tested it and said everything should be good, and that he’s had a few similar complaints downtown in the past few days.. and will have “maintenance” look into it. Oh well.. not like we expected them to fix anything anyways.

Several times today our upload on the shaw connection has been flaking out.. just called them and first after deciding the computer attached to the cable modem was the problem admitted that the upstream rates for the modem were “downright nasty” and we will get yet another visit from a Shaw tech.

I’m pretty sure he’ll show up, find nothing, tighten some connectors and leave saying “good luck”.. as has happened several times before.. but we’ll see.

Burn was saying their cable has been messed as well, and even though they called shaw before we did.. they got a Tuesday appointment..

So, I just realized AlexisOnFire is playing at Red’s here in Edmonton tonight.. and it’s all sold out.. has been for weeks.. I really enjoy their music and would love to see them live. Here’s a Poster for the concert.

Oh Well.. Maybe Next Time.

So, the blog is coming along nicely.. getting everything settled and learning the new bells and whistles of RT 3.1… I am playing with a new skin engine, so that might appear here shortly. There will be some more updates when I’m done working, the queue is keeping me at bay at the moment.