Tommy Bottens blog

ari – asterisk rickroll improved.

Even though the idea is brilliant, I did not like the way the original was implemented. I came up with this solution while rewriting our company's dialplan in Lua. So naturally, you will need the pbx_lua interpreter. You also need the music by Rick Astley himself. A preformated .gsm file can be found here. I use pbx_spool for .call files. extensions.lua: function rickroll() app.answer() app.background("rick") sleep(math.random(180)) file = io.open("/var/spool/asterisk/outgoing/ric...

All things cat

All systems administrators are well familiar with the concatenation tool 'cat', and some also know of the variants such as 'tac', 'supercat' and even the improved cat - 'dog'. A few more or less useful listing of concatenation tools: cat - the basic concatenation tool. supercat - Introduces coloring and can be used for syntax highlighting. tac - reverse cat. dog - improved cat. Can fetch the newspaper (http streams) hungrycat - Removes bytes as it concatenates leaving the file empty once co...