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Asterisk Training at Digium - Day 2

“Mind if I sit here as I wait for my to-go order to come out?”
“Sure, please…”, I said as I motioned toward the chair across from my table at Po-Boys Factory.
“So, where are you from?”, she asked.
Is it that transparent that I’m not from around here? Well…yes, of course it is, but the thought [...]

Digium Training in Huntsville, AL

The beauty of having a blog with no set purpose is the ability to write about anything I want. I don’t have to confine myself to tech articles, sob stories, essays or stories from my past.
Today, I write about a little something called *.
Asterisk is an open source PBX that runs on top [...]

SQL Injections are fun!

Here is a good read that I found on the internet about SQL Injections.
HP has a nice tool available to scan your sites for such vulnerabilities.
http://www.communities.hp.com/securitysoftware/blogs/spilabs/archive/2008/06/23/finding-sql-injection-with-scrawlr.aspx

Vista 64 bit impressions

So, I took the plunge and installed Vista 64 on my new machine so that I could make use of all four gigs of RAM.
I had expected Vista 64 to be the OS of choice going forward, seeing as processors have been 64bit capable for quite a while now, but there is still a decent [...]

Firefox 2.0 shortcuts, tweaks and tips

With today’s imminent OFFICIAL release of Firefox 2.0, I thought I’d post some things to make everybody’s favorite browser faster and easier to use.
This is nowhere near a complete list of everything that is awesome in Firefox.
Keyboard shortcuts:

ALT + D (or CTRL + L) - selects the URL bar.
ALT + D (when in URL bar) [...]

Firefox 2.0 is officially out

This news is not official yet according to Mozilla, but the binaries for Firefox 2.0 have been posted on their ftp.
Official announcement to come tomorrow.
Link here: http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0/
According to an inside source, the code is pretty much the same as RC3. The only thing that really bugs me (although some people might like it) is the [...]