Cristian Livadaru's Blog

My personal view on things

I don't like running

When kids tell you the honest unfiltered truth

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Monday, August 26, 2019

What's the hurry

always on the run, always trying to be faster, loose less time, run, speed, don’t stop. But why?

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Monday, August 26, 2019

How to talk german in Austria

If you are learning german with the intent to come to Austria, be prepared for a little surprise …

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, July 5, 2019

FusionPBX and anonymous callerID

Some carriers might block calls if the call has no caller id in the sip FROM. I stumbled upon such an issue while forwarding inbound calls from FusionPBX to a cell phone number. The calls were rejected if they reached fusionpbx with anonymous as the caller id.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Doing FusionPBX Provisioning the right way

Reusing passwords is never a good idea and by default the fusionpbx setup would use the same user and password for all domains when provisioning.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Thursday, November 15, 2018

Install Mikrotik CHR on a XEN dom0

If you want to play around with mikrotik or a need a mikrotik CHR, you can install it on XEN and run it without any issues.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Friday, October 12, 2018

Transferring domains away from world4you

Domains transfers normally cause no downtime and no issues but if some registrar want’s to play rough it can definitely cause some headache.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Thursday, September 6, 2018

How to deal with phishing sites

I’ve been receiving some phishing mails aimed at Zimbra users. I could just delete and ignore them, but where’s the fun in that?

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Testing websites with cypress and GitLab CI - Part2

In the second part, I’ll show you how to set up gitlab CI to deploy your locomotive CMS App and run tests on it.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Testing websites with cypress and GitLab CI - Part1

Testing a web app is common practice but when it comes to simpler websites it is often overlooked which caused pain, pain which can be avoided by creating specs. Let me guide you through spec creation for simple web pages which we will then automate and have them run in gitlab CI.

Posted by Cristian Livadaru on Tuesday, July 24, 2018