Web Conferencing - Video Conferencing - Net Meeting : Raindance
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Perl::Whitespace

$line =~ s/^\s+//; is supposed to get rid of all whitespace characters at the beginning of a line. I have been messing around for white a bit now scratching my head about why this is not working for me.

Finally I open the text file "as binary" to see the HEX codes for each character and I find that the "spaces" at the beginning of this line of my data file are NULL, that is "ASCII code" = zero.

So, NULL must not be defined in Perl as "whitespace." I assume it will only match the "blank" characters that have their own special escape character like \t \n and "space" (ASCII 32, HEX 20.)

Well I replaced s/^\s+//; with s/^\x00+//; and life is now good.....

If you read this (and I know at least a few of you are out there) leave me a comment if you can confirm what Perl defines as "whitespace" when matching on \s.

Windows XP::Task Scheduler::Network

Trying to get a "listener" program to run at startup from task scheduler. (this thing won't run as a service after all the messing around I've done trying that.)
Scheduler is acting weird on this imaged machine. It is not allowing me to "browse" to an EXE it only presents the registered applications. I can drag an EXE onto it but it won't let me edit the command line or input a "startup folder" which is blank and greyed out. And it just plain won't work.
After a long day I finally have it:
- got JT.EXE from Microsoft -- very user un-friendly. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/reskit/win2000/jt.zip

- found JTRUN.VBS that provides a more usable front end to JT.EXE at http://www.windowsitpro.com/WindowsScripting/Article/ArticleID/45148/45148.html

- modified and used the above to create a task on that machine with the correct startup folder. (My listener reads a parameter file from the current directory to determine what port to listen on.)
- setup the task to run logged on as a user with appropriate domain and local permissions.
- made exception in XP firewall for the listener. This allowed access locally, but not remotely. I actually had to make a port exception for that incoming port. I think this is because the listener forks a process to listen on the port. (this allows it to have more than one subsequent connection instead of closing down after a single connect session.) And I think the firewall exception is somehow now applying to the child process of the same name.

Setting up fax server with Brooktrout TR1034+P8H-T1-1N to receive faxes through TN464F DS1 board in Avaya Definity (has an amphenol connection.)

1. Brooktrout support said that Avaya sells a cable that would meet our needs. But Brooktrout did not know the current part number.
It is a 4 or 8 conductor cable that is amphenol on one end and RJ45/RJ48 on the other pairing 1&2 and 4&5
I believe we will need such a cable that is 25 ft long.
I was unable to find a part number in the short search I did.

2. Brooktrout support noted that a TA120 CSU pack is not necessary and will interfere.

3. Also Brooktrout support noted the settings that the fax board is looking for on the phone system side:
PRI configuration
The PBX should be the T1 clock master
Framing = ESF
Line Coding = BZ8S
Signalling = 5ESS, protocol=NI2
Channel 24 should be the D channel.
Channel 1-8 should be active for bidirectional communication
Channel 9-23 should be disabled/inactive
Incoming calls should start on port 8 and hunt backwards to port 1
On a call collision or Glare: the phone system should yield

Wi-Finally: Security that works: "The security of Wi-Fi has largely been a joke. Wireless vendors have routinely shipped their products with all of their security features turned off, rather than take support calls from end users when things didn't work. Fortunately, the pieces are now in place for you to have safe and secure Wi-Fi networking, wherever you may roam."

Outlook::Exchange::Network

Problem
Outlook uses UDP for messages notices. If there is filtering or errors sending the UDP packets Outlook may not refresh the new messages on your client until you click another folder or something to force a refresh.
Information
The Outlook Find feature and the new mail notifications do not work after you apply Windows XP Service Pack 2: "To turn on RPC Polling in Outlook 2002"