Road Trip

My 1966 Frankenstang in 1992 at the Kansas and Colorado border on Hwy 50/400

Skate Land - RIP

InnoMedia Fax Configuration - enabling T.38

At this point you've probably come to the conclusion that trying to fax over your VOIP network isn't going to work reliably and that you need to set up Fax over IP.  If your network has an InnoMedia MTA, enabling the T.38 fax relay is relatively easy.

The InnoMedia box has a static IP of 192.168.99.1 that you can connect to with a web browser or telnet, but to do the changes necessary you will have to telnet in.  Set up a static IP on your laptop (192.168.99.100, 255.255.255.0 worked for me) and plug into the LAN port on the back of the InnoMedia box with a normal ethernet cable.  I used Terminal on my Mac so if you use Putty there may be settings that I'm not aware of that need to be changed.

telnet 192.168.99.1

default username: Admin

default password: password

type "D1" to enable debugging

type "Th" to change fax settings

default password here is: InnoMedia

type "21" (this number may be different, but it is whatever 'T.38 fax settings' is under)

1 to enable/disable

do you want to configure all channels? (I put in "N" because I knew which channel the fax was on)

input channel number (in my case "1")

"y" to confirm

type "w" to save configuration

type "If" to check if enabled

type "D0" (that's a zero) to disable debugging

type "E" to escape

That should do it!

The InnoMedia boxes are probably something that your service provider is supposed to configure, but I've had no luck even getting a call back from our provider when asking about FOIP.  Apparently they don't believe it's an issue or they don't want to mess with it or they don't have a clue what I'm talking about.  Whatever the case, this made a drastic difference in reliability and hopefully may save you some headaches.  Now if I can just figure out how to do this on an Adtran Total Access 900 series...

The LUE Map

Karl von Mueller, a writer and active treasure hunter in the '60s and '70s, is the source of most of the information concerning the LUE map.  The map is most likely bullshit, because of it being mostly from a single source, who also wrote under at least four different names, with his real name being Charles Dean Miller.  Some of his writings even have instances of himself writing in third person about himself, but using a different name.  For example, an article featuring a picture of himself captioned as Deek Gladson, but the article was written by him under the Karl von Mueller pen name.  Von Mueller claims the map was given to him by Bill "Hardrock" Hammond, but provenance of the map cannot be proven and there is really no way to verify that it even existed before von Mueller first published it in 1966.  The map has also been published in several different versions.  The annotated map pictured above is from an unknown internet source, but RAM Publishing, owned by Garrett Metal Detectors, reprinted unannotated versions in 1972 and 1979.  The original 1966 map, as far as I can tell, looks like the following:

The text supposedly accompanying the 1966 map was: "The LUE Map which will perplex treasure hunters for years to come.  Only two people have bee able to decipher it and they will never be able to carry away all of the incredible treasures that are revealed by the map.  Others will seek, and few will find; and the trovers will be committed to eternal secrecy when they learn the cryptic and shibboleth horde of all hoards on the American continent.  True sign experts will find the ultimate in challenges in this key to a natural Fort Knox.  Redrawn exactly from the IAYAYAM Key."

In a 1969 issue of National Prospector's Gazette von Mueller claimed that the original map was owned by a man who lived in or near Phoenix and the map had been in his family for years and seen by many people.  Again in a 1969 issue of NPG it was reported that a man near Farmington, New Mexico claimed to have the original and again in 1969 another man from Rialto, California reportedly made the same claim.  In 1971 in Treasure of the Valley of Secrets it was reported that Hardrock Hammond "had come into possession of" the LUE Map and "several of us" were copying it before it was returned to the owner.""

According to a guy named Boyd Jolley, who claimed he got this information from von Mueller, LUE is from the first three letters of three, apparently invisible, words on the map.  Lloro (crying or tears in Spanish), Urraca (a proper female name derived from a Latin noun meaning magpie, or thief, in Spanish, also the name of a mesa in northern New Mexico), and Enterrari (enterrari isn't a word, but enterraria is a Spanish verb meaning inter, bury, or entomb).  Some hypothesize that this means 'Urraca cries because she is buried', but this is dependent on the nuances of Spanish grammar.

Researchers of the map have speculated that there is a monument or possibly the Rio Grande Pyramid at or near the site.  "No existing town or city has any relationship to the LUE except by coincidence."  "105 degrees 12.5 minute longitude parallel" which runs down the middle of Colorado and New Mexico.  Some have claimed there is a "grid plot" and some think cache numbers 5, 7, 11, 15, and 23 are referenced on the map.

Medicine wheels - According to von Mueller, possible connections can be found in an article in the January 1977 National Geographic article titled "Probing the Mystery of the Medicine Wheels.".  Approximately 170 medicine wheels are known to exist and they are all in the northern US and southern Canadian plains.  The Vermillion Canyon site in Brown's Park in northern Colorado is one of the most southernmost known sites.  Some of the sites have been in use for approximately 5000 years, while others seem to have been built for a single event.  They are considered sacred to natives and it is unclear if they serve any purpose other than use as a ceremonial and celestial instrument.  The radiating lines can be associated with soltice events, as well as pointing to the location of the rise of select stars  It seems highly unlikely that this is in any way relevant to the LUE.

Raising Maximum Upload Size in Moodle

I'm posting this because I looked for clear directions on how to do this and could find none. So here goes. If you are using Moodle you have no doubt encountered the default 2mb upload restriction. You have probably also had requests for importation of courses created in other systems (Blackboard). Moodle will import most of the course content from an exported Blackboard course. However, a Blackboard course of any size will be greater than the 2mb upload restriction set by default in Moodle. So, the first thing you will need to do to successfully import a Blackboard course is raise the Moodle upload limit to something more reasonable like 50mb or so.
Here's how I did it:
The upload size limit is set in two places - php and Moodle.
To change maximum upload file size in php:
sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
change post_max_size to 50m
change upload_max_filesize to 50m
exit nano and save the php.ini file
reboot the box

In Moodle
Go to Site Administration>Security>Site policies
Change Maximum uploaded file size maxbytes to something like 50000000 (this actually works out to 47.7mb which was close enough for me)

The one final error I encountered when trying to import (restore) a course from a Blackboard export was that I needed the "xslt" libraries so php could understand the xml (hold on, I'm getting a case of tma). Adding these turned out to be simple but nonetheless, it took me a while to figure it out.
Here's how to do it:
sudo apt-get install php5-xsl
reboot the box
that's it! Back to your regularly scheduled programming...

Irish Proverbs

• You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
• It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
• A good laugh and a long sleep are the two best cures.
• You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
• Both your friend and your enemy think you will never die.
• Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools.
• Anything will fit a naked man.
• The only cure for love is marriage.

And my favorite: "He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday."

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