You probably know IDM, which is the company who created the famous UltraEdit (just to name this one). Recently, they changed their licensing system, from a simple username/serial to an online activation with login/password. What are the benefits for the user? Virtually none. What are the bad news? Let’s see…
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Freeswitch over NETMAPped VPN
I’ve made a configuration with Freeswitch and a VPN connection that could help other, so I post it here. The network configuration is: two local networks (192.168.0.0/24) using one gateway for each network. The two gateways are connected through a PPTP VPN, and use NETMAP to map from their local 192.168.0.0/24 to the VPN addresses 172.16.X.0/24 (and vice versa), X being different for the two local networks of course. This way the Freeswitch network is accessible via 172.16.1.0/24 and the other network (with the phone on it) is accessible via 172.16.2.0/24. A little schematic to be clear about it:
172.16.2.0/24 — 172.16.2.1 (gateway) 192.168.0.1 — 192.168.0.2 (phone)
(VPN)
172.16.1.0/24 — 172.16.1.1 (gateway) 192.168.0.1 — 192.168.0.5 (Freeswitch)
In this configuration, the phone can be accessed either locally with 192.168.0.2 or by the two networks with 172.16.2.2 (thanks to the NETMAP rules). In the same way, Freeswitch has the local IP 192.168.0. but can also be reached via the VPN address: 172.16.1.5.
Main difficulties were to: 1) make phone and Freeswitch use the VPN addresses instead of “probed” local ones, and 2) make the phone be recognized as an internal member, and as such a “default plan” user (and not just the “public plan” like external members do).
Make your own Ratatouille for your Spica
Samsung Galaxy Spica is a low-end phone but quite good anyway. Not enough, according to a team of developers at Samdroid.net, who decided, after having created a 2.1 Android ROM, to take Froyo on this device. And even better, to make the famous mod CyanogenMod on this very same device, even if its support is … Read more
WhiteSmoke, it’s time to open a window…
If you don’t know WhiteSmoke, it’s because you never heard about them. If you know WhiteSmoke, you’ll hear a lot from them… and precisely you’ll hear a lot of promotional offers and many other good deals… even if you already bought the software! Here’s a little story of a company who hasn’t got enough of your money…
UEStudio Update Checker
UEStudio is a great editor, but it lacks an auto-check for updates. Here is a simple little piece of software that you can put into your Startup group that will check for a new version of UEStudio on every Windows reboot.