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Using Screen to connect to a serial console

Not much to write about here.  You can use screen as a replacement for minicom. Who knew!?!?!  Screen will never stop amazing me with all the cool stuff that it can do.

screen /dev/ttyUSB0

To set the baud rate to 57,600:

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 57600

To enable CTS/RTS handshake:

screen /dev/ttyUSB0 57600,ctsrts

^a,k to end the session.
^a,i to check the status of [...]

Blacklisted Email in Amazon's EC2 Cloud

One of the major problems in having your systems in Amazon’s EC2 cloud is that the ip you get assigned is almost surely blacklisted with every major email blacklist  before you’ve sent a single piece of email (check for this using mxtoolbox.com).  I learned this the hard way when I started hearing the our registration and [...]

Cisco POE and Polycom phones

They just continuously flapped when ever they were powered by the 3550. Adding this line fixed the issue [...]