Friday 19 November 2010

Attempted to add a cow-worker to a MSN (Windows Live) Messenger Group today.


When sending from within messenger, the invite went from my screen but never arrived.
Tried again from the group website and it said I couldn't invite him:


"This person doesn't allow invitations"


Turned out that his account needed setting to a Limited Profile, rather and Private.
Changed that, and was then able to invite him to the group successfully.



Wednesday 13 October 2010

AF Unmount Command Failed / AF Token File Missing

Using Microlite BackupEDGE getting the following error:

Command was: "umount /usr/lib/edge/system/mnt/af0"
Reason is AF Unmount Command Failed          

Setup all looks OK in edgemenu - default resource is:
 fsp!fsp0 (/fsp0) (Directory Resource) 

Using USB HDD as backup media, which can be mounted and unmounted without problems.

Found that the backup was actually going into the directory mentioned in the unmount command. There shouldn't be anything in that folder. Removed the contents and ran the scheduled backup.
New error :

Generic System Error
Reason is AF Token File Missing

Initialised the media - didn't help.
Make sure af0 is empty still.

Rebooted - errors gone, backup ran through OK.
Strange!

-update-
seems that removing the following file will negate the need to reboot and is likely the whole cause of the problem - this file is used to track the mount status. It gets 'mounted' even though the device isn't mounted, then it never attempts to mount and creates the backup in the folder, rather than the USB drive.

/usr/lib/edge/system/locks/af0.lck

You DO still need to initialise the media.

Tuesday 14 September 2010

Setting up SIPDROID for sipgate.co.uk

Install Sipdroid from the Android Market
Via the Menu button, enter Settings.
SIP Account Settings
Enter your SIP-ID & Password (found on Sipgate website here)

Change the Server to sipgate.co.uk - Job done.



Your spot at at the top should change from Amber to Green. You're connected!

You might want to change what data connections are used for running the SIP connection. Change/check that on Menu/Settings/Call Options.

Friday 12 March 2010

routes added to the routing table using the "route" command are purged when the computer is rebooted. However, if you use it with the “-p” parameter, you can make a route persistent. The route will not be deleted from the routing table upon restart.

route add -p [network address] mask [subnet mask] [gateway] metric [value]
eg:

route add -p 140.4.8.0 mask 255.255.255.0 140.1.1.242