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I just received a little patch to my pmvcb from Tilman Schmidt. This patch add the support for the new ESXi syntax of snapshot.remove. You can download the last pmvcb from my Github page Thanks Tilman.

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Pdmenu is a menu system for Unix. It is designed to be easy to use, and is suitable for a login shell for inexperienced users, or it can just be run at the command line as a handy menu program. I just modified showdir.pl script in order to implement a small and minimal file browser for using pdmenu. You can add/delete file and directory and edit files. Some screenshot below: this is the pdmenu configuration file: you can download the showdir.pl script at: http://www.bertera.it/software/pdmenu/showdir.pl.gz. All files /usr/share/pdmenu/editdir.pl /usr/share/pdmenu/deldir.pl...

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In my previous post I talked about Layer 3 VPN feature of OpenSSH (starting from version 4.3). Now, I'm talking about bridged VPN or Layer 2 VPN. With this feature you can create a virtual network device that, through the encrypted tunnel, is connected on the same network segment of remote server. In fact the VPN acts as a network switch connecting local virtual device with remote device in same ethernet network. With this setup your SSH client will connect to remote server and start forwarding packet between local end remote TUN/TAP device. All packets are forward through the encrypted SSH tunnel. using...

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Using directmedia=update or (canreinvite=update in old-sytle configuration) in chan_sip.conf Asterisk sends SIP UPDATE request to refresh SIP session. If this UPDATE requests refers to an inactive call the phone reply with SIP/2.0 481 Call Leg/Transaction Does Not Exist. In this situation Asterisk continue in resending UPDATE and doesn't tear down the previous allocated channel. Using INVITE instead UPDATE (directmedia=yes) Asterisk correctly terminate the dialog. This little chan_sip.c patch (Asterisk 1.8.9.1 version) correct this behavior: You can download the patch at http://www.bertera.it/software/asterisk-stuff/asterisk-1.8.9.1-UPDATE-reinvite.patch Asterisk...

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I'm in this situation: a VPN to remote concentrator that load many routes to private networks, vpn server push DNS configuration via OpenVPN protocol (see --dhcp-option DNS in openvpn(8) ). The scope of this post is to explain how you can use remote DNS pushed by VPN concentrator only for certain zones. For accomplish this I used a local PowerDNS server and a little OpenVPN up script: When OpenVPN make the tunnel the up script create a custom forward-zones-file used by PowerDNS. The script insert in the custom file the remote zones and the dns server authoritative for these zones. PowedDNS...

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With a bit of code you can build a simple but powerful, single page, CMS using python, web.py and content stored in markdown files. 1) the application: application.py 2) main template layout: views/layout.html 3) content template: views/page.html 4) markdown contents: contents/home.md contents/info.md

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snom XML minibrowser web emulator project pages are online: http://snombrowser.bertera.it/

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You can try for a test: http://snom.bertera.it/phone.php?url=http://snom.com/minibrowser/wo.xml Edit: snom XML minibrowser emulator pages: http://snombrowser.bertera.it/

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During these days I have revisited the ciphron's snom phone xml minibrowser emulator. You can to use my emulator at: http://snom.bertera.it/phone.php You can download the source code on my github repo:  https://github.com/pbertera/snom-xml-browser You can find the original emulator at: http://blog.ciphron.de/2008/06/snom-xml-browser-emulator.html Edit: snom XML minibrowser emulator pages: http://snombrowser.bertera.it/

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A useful snipped of php code:

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