Month: November 2021

Debian is what might be noted as a top level distribution. A distribution in Linux parlance is similar to a recipe. Let's look at that so that the rest of this makes sense. At the beginning of Linux since it was open and free it meant that you had to have some technical knowledge to make it work. To get it installed you would compile everything and build the OS. Everything was compiled. You configured everything. This was quite a burden so groups of people started their own recipe of sorts to make it easier for other to use Linux. Instead of you compiling it they did all that work and assembled it like a puzzle and then distributed the end result. These ultimately were turned into ISO files. ISO…

Even though Asterisk has a blacklist feature what we are trying to accomplish here is to find a good method of querying based on the name part the caller ID rather than just the caller's phone number. The purpose of the blacklist is to block a number you enter into the blacklist. If the number is there the system will either hang up on them or send them to purgatory. This works fine if the number is always the same. If the name is the same but the number changes (because the caller is spoofing the number) you'll get an endless number of calls from the same bad guys. If you enter each number into the blacklist your list will keep growing. Imagine a local business who's number has been…

To resolve this you have to go into settings and then system and reset to default. After a short delay it will return to the normal resolution. What happened is that after installing Arctic Zephyr Reloaded everything looked good. At this point I wanted to see how the ProjectM visualization looked while playing music. During the steps to get to that I hit the full screen button on my tablet which is set to control Kodi running on the chromecast. Nothing happened so I hit it again. This was hit at the wrong time. If you know anything about how Kodi works on windows and Linux if you press the full screen button on yatse (the remote control for Kodi) it will either put it into windowed mode or it…