Acrobat 9 does not display PDF in browser

This could be a problem after upgrading Acrobat Reader or running multiple versions of Acrobat. In my case, I have Acrobat 7 and Acrobat Reader 9 installed on the same machine.

I changed this key to 1 and it is fixed.

HKCU\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\7.0\Originals\bBrowserIntegration

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/406/kb406119.html

Creating music on hold for Mitel with Audacity.

The Mitel 3300 is very picky about the format of MOH files you can upload. First I find free music from somewhere like archive.org. Open the file with Audacity and convert track to mono. Change the Project Rate to 8000 Hz and then export as WAV (Microsoft) and U-law.

Update:

Check Ghost Notes for some interesting hold music. The artist gave me permission to use his stuff.

http://ghostnotes.blogspot.com/

Using old 50 pair phone cable for VOIP

I have a few hard to get locations for voip. Wireless is an option but it is bulky and requires wall power for the phone. There is plenty of old 50 pair phone cable. I took the first four pair from one cable and patched it into a POE switch. Instant power but no ethernet. I changed the switch port to 10mb and it works!!! Of course I will not be using this for data because of the 10mb limit.

Update:

This IP phone is still working on the 50 pair almost two years later!

smb_mount: mount failed to ubuntu/share :syserr = Broken pipe

I had a problem connecting to an smb share using osx. I found the fix below and all is well!

macbook:/$ ps -A | grep NetAuth
2028 ?? 0:11.22 /System/Library/CoreServices/NetAuthAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/NetAuthAgent
11282 ttys000 0:00.00 grep NetAuth
macbook:/System/Library/CoreServices$ kill -9 2028

After killing the NetAuthAgent application, everything works well again:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2131955&start=30&tstart=0