Jacken’s Blog

I helped a friend of my wife to set up a wireless network for their PCs. I got everything to work, but holy mother of god, what a nightmare to do support on a Windows system. I was just glad that the machines run long enough to be able to install all the drivers [...]

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While watching some old stuff I recorded on my Dreambox, I found an old episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the guest was Donald Trump. Leno is auctioning out a motorcycle for charity. A guest (a blond bimbo who’s name eludes me) sold a kiss to the audience for $500 for charity, which [...]

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Update:The code below does not work in Asterisk 2.0b4 or newer. I will update with instructions on how to get it to work in those versions. Thanks to Dan for pointing this out.

Update:I have changed the code for the remove part. It now requires a key press to accept the number to delete.

I have [...]

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I found this article that tells you how to get an account that gives you free calls to the US with your Asterisk server. And it works great! I called my old friend Martin and talked to him without any problems. And I realized that this is the first time I called him since he [...]

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The first R-rated film I managed to get into was a film about an Science park getting infected by virus, I can still remember my disappointment, after going around for a week thinking about how much cooler R-rated films where. Anyway, the next film blew me away. It was American Graffiti. At the time [...]

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I found this tip at MacOSXHints today. The new version of Macromedias Flash Player version 8 is much faster than earlier versions. So go upgrade here for faster surfing on your mac. Unfortunate that it took this long for them to release something useful at last.

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We had our annual gentlemen’s dinner this weekend. Herman and Kalix had really worked hard this time. Due to Hermans old connections they where able to borrow a restaurant kitchen to prepare the food. They worked for two days preparing the different dishes. People started to drop in at noon on saturday, helping out with [...]

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I’m thinking of changing my black list message on my Asterisk PBX. But I’m wondering if this is a bit much?

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I’ve told earlier about my dentist adventures, and what a man I am, pulling out part of my tooth with a plyer myself. Here’s an update how my dentist appointment unfolded today. Today I had to pull out the rest of my tooth. So I got the anesthetic, and then started to puke in the [...]

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I’ve just finished watching the BBC series called Extras with Ricky Gervais. After seeing The Office, I just thought that you couldn’t top that, but Extras manages to do that! Incredible.

Now I just need to write a script for Mr Gervais and Larry David to make the ultimate TV series.

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