Force mouse capture in VMware client

VMware vSphere  and VMware Workstation allows seamless mouse movement between your physical and virtual machines. In most situations this is a desired behaviour, but sometimes you may want mouse cursor to be captured inside a VM. For example, I was testing Windows 8 as a virtual machine and it's much easier to navigate Metro edge UI when mouse cursor is captured inside virtual PC. Also can be beneficial for gaming.

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Linksys SPA VOIP phone rejects calls from Skype SIP Trunk on Asterisk

Setup

  • Asterisk Trixbox 2.6 Server
  • Skype Connect SIP trunk to accept incoming Skype calls
  • Linksys SPA and Cisco SPA VOIP phones

Issue

Incoming calls via Skype to some Linksys / Cisco IP phones get rejected. Asterisk debug show following reason :

-- Called 715
-- Got SIP response 406 "Not Acceptable" back from 192.168.6.19
-- No one is available to answer at this time (1:0/0/0)

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Asterisk (Trixbox) hangs on "recordingcheck" and drops calls

Issue

Asterisk (TrixBox) server is not functioning properly. Internal calls working fine, but external incoming and outgoing time-out and fail. Looking at Asterisk Command Line Interface (CLI) output (connect with asterisk -r) noticed unusual behaviour:

Normally when incoming call is received, Asterisk outputs number of executed actions into CLI and receiving phone starts ringing in less than a second. On this occasion, however, Asterisk was stopping at following line and hanging for about 7 seconds:

VERBOSE[29592] logger.c: -- Launched AGI Script /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/recordingcheck

Then, if caller was still on a phone it would go to:

VERBOSE[29602] logger.c: -- Launched AGI Script /var/lib/asterisk/agi-bin/dialparties.agi

It would be stuck there for a few more seconds and eventually call would be dropped. In fact occasionally receiving handset would actually ring (probably long after caller has hanged the phone).

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Increase Joomla Media Manager Upload File Size Limit

Joomla Media Manager default Upload Limit is 10MB.
Joomla Media Manager default Upload Limit is 10MB
This can be changed:
  • Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7: Content > Media Manager > Options > Maximum Size (in MB)
  • Joomla 1.5: Global Configuration > System > Maximum Size (in bytes)
If you try to upload file which is too large, you should normally get the following error:
This file is too large to upload.
This file is too large to upload

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