Following up on my previous post on how to configure your PTCL Smart Link SIP account on asterisk, below is the configuration I used for PTCL – Just replace USERNAME and PASSWORD with your credentials. You will also need to
Amazing A380 Traffic
While logging ADSB traffic around my area [ ~ 150 NM+ Coverage ] – I recorded 13 unique A380 registrations in less than 24 hours. Below is a log for reference. REG Airline Date Squawk Type of Aircraft 9V-SKL Singapore
Howto :: LAMP Stack on Centos 7
Quick and Dirty install below! Install HTTPD sudo yum install httpd Start and Enable Boot-Startup of httpd sudo systemctl start httpd.service sudo systemctl enable httpd.service Install & Start / Boot-Start MariaDB ( A drop-in mysql replacement ) sudo yum install
Service Management Cheat Sheet :: CentOS 6 & 7
Below is a conversion document for Centos 6 to 7 Service Management! service systemctl Description service name start systemctl start name.service Starts a service. service name stop systemctl stop name.service Stops a service. service name restart systemctl restart name.service Restarts
Asterisk Config for PTCL SmartLink App
PTCL has recently launched an app called “SmartLink” , Which provides you access to your phone line over SIP , essentially providing landline access from anywhere. Since the land-line I have is only used for DSL and SmartTV, I wanted
Enable FaceTime on Your Middle-eastern iPhone/iPad
I was stuck with an iPhone purchased in the middle-east where Apple blocks FaceTime – Turns out that its just a matter of Carrier Bundles – Apple , from iOS 7 , started signing the carrier bundles , so they
Ham Radio & Hamsphere
Since I have some time on my hands these days and I am playing mostly with SDR ( Software Defined Radio ) – I decided to read up on Ham Radio as well – Picked up the For Dummies guide
Open VPN Installation on Centos 6.5
In a rush , so will jot down the steps only. You’ll need epel repo On CentOS 6 , that will be wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm sudo rpm -Uvh epel-release-6*.rpm Once that is done , 1. yum install openvpn easy-rsa 2. mkdir
Mikrotik :: Winbox for OS X
One word – Mikrotik’s Amazing! The only problem is that they don’t have administration utility for OS X – Which causes nuisance when you only have a MAC at hand for setting up the router / switch. I built a
OpenVPN Configuration
Below is the configuration i use for OpenVPN server , It supports user / password authentication,TCP mode and disables TLS which is not supported by Mikrotik ( atleast for now ) local IPADDRESS port 1194 proto tcp dev tun tun-mtu