Category Archives: Recipes

Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) and PHP 5.4

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I was looking forward to trying out some of the new features in PHP 5.4 when I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 this morning. Unfortunately, Ubuntu decided to stick with 5.3 for this release. There is upgrade path available though via … Continue reading →

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Essential Windows Software for a Fresh Install

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

I get landed with new computers from time to time for colleagues, friends and family to install / set-up. Here is my list of essential Windows software for these. The first thing I do is a fresh install of Windows to … Continue reading →

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“Go Faster” Websites – Introducing Minify

Posted on March 5, 2012 by opensolutions

We’ve been minifying and bundling CSS and JS for years to ensure quick page loads of the applications we build. We’ve now generalised, documented and packaged the tool we use for this and released it under a BSD license so others can benefit. Continue reading →

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Asterisk with SS7 via Wanpipe, Dahdi and libss7 – with ISUP SAM support

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Barry O'Donovan

A howto on installing Asterisk with SS7 supported via libss7 on Sangoma hardware along with support for ISUP SAM messages. Continue reading →

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We’ve Released Some of our Nagios Plugins

Posted on October 26, 2011 by opensolutions

We create a lot of Nagios installations for our own systems over, for customer systems which we manage and as a service over at Open Solutions. We’ve written a lot of custom Nagios plugins over the years as part of this process. … Continue reading →

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