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Download Shoretel Web Dialer Here

Using these tiny scripts you can dial your Shortel phone by simply clicking a web page link. I believe Shortel is selling something a product like this. All I am asking for are links back to this page or to www.timberlinedealerships.com.

See install.txt for full notes. I am using Shoretel 6.1 on a XP workstation on IE7 and it works fine for me.

What this program does for you is registers tel: and callto: so that they can be dialed straight through to your shoretel deskphone.  It also adds right click dialing to selected numbers from web pages.

Please do not link directly to the file on this server.  Instead link to this web page.

Zabbix is a complex monitoring tool that allows an administrator to easily view the state of the network. Easily view, that is, once it is set up completely.

At the time of this writing Zabbix has no RPMs to download for CentOS. I made mine with two scripts. It could have been one script if I wanted. getsvn and make_zabbix are the two scripts. Place both in the same empty directory and run getsvn. Update your release number so rpm -Uvh works. You can get some of the files needed by make_zabbix from a src.rpm on a similar platform. Fedora has a 1.4 src at a mirror. Use midnight commander open the src.rpm, navigate to CONTENTS.cpio and extract zabbix.spec, zabbix-agent.init, zabbix-logrotate.in, zabbix-server.init, and zabbix-web.conf. 

Now copy zabbix.spec to zabbixsrcrpm.spec and edit zabbix.spec. Before the make line add these lines:

make dist
# copy tar.gz file for src.rpm
cp %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz ../../SOURCES
# move in src.rpm .spec
mv ../../SPECS/%{name}srcrpm.spec ../../SPECS/%{name}.spec
cd ..
tar xvfz %{name}-%{version}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
cd %{name}-%{version}

What this does is create a few more missing files like include/dbsync.h and creates a tar.gz file. This tar.gz file is what will be used for the src.rpm. It is also extracted in the same build directory and the spec file for the src.rpm is moved in place at this point too.  When your src.rpm is completed you can also run rpmbuild –rebuild zabbix*src.rpm and it should compile correctly.

File: getsvn

#!/bin/tcsh -f

set NAME=zabbix
set VER=1.4.1
set TARGZ=$NAME-$VER.tar.gz
set old_dir = `pwd`

# increment rpm numbers so rpm -Uvh works
nano zabbix.spec
nano zabbixsrcrpm.spec

svn co svn://svn.zabbix.com/branches/$VER
mv $VER “$NAME-$VER”

cd “$NAME-$VER”

aclocal -I m4
autoconf
autoheader
automake -a
automake

cd old_dir
tar cvfz “$TARGZ” “$NAME-$VER”
rm -rf “$NAME-$VER”
./make_zabbix

File: make_zabbix
#!/bin/tcsh -f

set TARGZ=zabbix-1.4.1.tar.gz
set RSPEC=zabbix.spec
set RSPEC2=zabbixsrcrpm.spec
set F1=zabbix-agent.init
set F2=zabbix-logrotate.in
set F3=zabbix-server.init
set F4=zabbix-web.conf

cp “$TARGZ” /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
cp “$F1″ /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
cp “$F2″ /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
cp “$F3″ /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
cp “$F4″ /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES
cp “$RSPEC” /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
cp “$RSPEC2″ /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

set old_dir = `pwd`
cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba –clean –rmsource `basename $RSPEC`

mv /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/zabb* /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/zabb* $old_dir
rm /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/`basename $RSPEC`

I have found a few programs to relatively securely encrypt email and files. One of those is the GPG Gnu Privacy Guard.

So now that you’ve decided to converse by email, you’ve learned that every email you send can be stored forever on some obscure server your email made its way through.So what do you do now?Simply, encrypt.

One tool, GnuPG, is a GPL licensed encryption engine. It doesn’t do anything by itself. However when combined with a few other tools Outlook integration is only a few steps away. I used Gpg4WIN from gpg4win.org. It includes the whole suite of tools needed to interface Outlook and the GnuPG encryption engine. The site is a German site and the included documents are in German so I chose to download the light package without documents. If you look around you can find an English manual.

After installing you will need to generate a key using your name, email, and a good pass phrase using the GNU Privacy Assistant, GPA for short. Don’t loose your password. You will need it.

For secured communications with an outside party, that party must also have GPG software installed and you must exchange your public keys. Once you install their key on your computer you can encrypt emails automatically using a combination of your key and their key.

The second thing Gpg4WIN does for you is it allows you to sign your email against your public key. It is recommended that you email your public key to just those you communicate with and to avoid posting your key to the public key servers as it is possible for spammers to harvest emails from them. The easiest way to email your key to open up the WinPT Key Manager, right click on your key, and select send key to mail recipient.

Outlook Express needs a plug-in running in your system tray when you wish to sign or encrypt emails. You can download gpgoe from wald.intevation.org/projects/gpgoe. Only message bodies are encrypted with this plug-in, attachments and subject lines are not encrypted. To automatically encrypt attachments, use Sylpheed-Claws instead of Outlook Express. This program is included in the Gpg4WIN download but is not installed by default. The party on the other end will also need to run something other than Outlook Express to automatically decrypt your emails with attachments.

Encryption can be thought of like a lock on a door. It keeps the honest people out. As computers become faster and given enough time and processor power any encryption key can be broken. If security is of the utmost concern then don’t use a public method of communication. The key is here is to consider the cost of breaking in verses the payoff.