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Verizon Caught Blocking VoIP Traffic
I was just on a phone call with a new customer who is setting up multiple retail locations. The reason for the call was their backup network wasn’t working. Whenever they tested the Verizon 4G LTE Wireless connected to Cradlepoint modem backup network, the phones would not be able to make or receive phone calls. Their IT staff was on the line and they were running Wireshark and grabbed a PCAP that seems to show that OnSIP at 199.7.175.101 was responding to their request with a “500 Server Error”. The actual text was: SIP/2.0 500 Server Internal Error Warning: 399 sipalg “Internal Error” Call-ID: b876f6fb4aad25a55546217e07dd4f82 CSeq: 47 REGISTER From:…
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Remove Bitnami Logo in Amazon Lightsail
Amazon Lightsail is their new low-volume Web hosting environment. One of the options for Lightsail is to launch with WordPress. This site is on Lightsail with WordPress in an Linux environment. When you first launch a WWW Site, you get a “Bitnami” logo on the bottom right corner of every page. This is convenient at first to allow you as the site administrator to log in to your new WWW site to make posts like this. However, once you get the swing of things, that logo is a blight on your otherwise lovely WWW Site. Luckily, it’s very easy to remove the logo. Log into AWS and into the Lightsail…
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Zen and the Art of Business
Yin and Yang I’ve worked out for pretty much my entire life. I played football and basketball in high school and football in college. Working out meant pushing yourself: more reps, more weight, faster laps, more distance. My mentality was one of pain makes gain. Until, that is, I started yoga. I’ve now been practicing yoga for going on 16 years. When I first started I had the same mentality. If I couldn’t reach a certain pose, it was because I wasn’t working hard enough. I would push myself into a pose and still not get there. It wasn’t until one of my instructors started to stress the yin and…
Unconventional Management
