(okay, so after fixing the blog now that I discover it's been down for two days, I might as well update it...) I'm in Poughkeepsie for a couple of ITSO projects. For the last week I've been working on the development of material for the ITSO's Workshop World Tour. I'm helping out with the "System … Continue reading Doing the New York thing
In case you weren't aware, I am a VoIP nutcase. I have an Asterisk phone system at home, and all the phones in the house are VoIP of some description (either real VoIP devices or analogue handsets through an ATA). While I haven't converted to VoIP as a replacement for PSTN, I have some connectivity … Continue reading Upgrading from Cisco
I've been struggling with setting up chan_mobile on my Asterisk system. For those fortunate enough to actually get it working, chan_mobile provides an interface for Asterisk to treat a mobile phone like a PSTN or VoIP trunk--when someone calls your mobile phone it can ring your desk phone or softphone, or you can use your … Continue reading Asterisk chan_mobile fail
I'm having a bit of an infrastructure redesign here at the Crossed Wires campus. Each time I have an outage (the last one was caused by a power failure) I learn a little more about the holes in my current setup and what I can do better. I'm implementing a router box on an old … Continue reading LDAP-backed DNS and DHCP…?
I was having a browse around the excellent Nerd Vittles site tonight, and stumbled onto a disturbing conversation about the removal of the Nokia SIP client from S60 Third Edition Feature Pack 2 (as used on recent phones like the N78 and N96). Nerd Vittles linked to this blog, which alludes to the possibility of … Continue reading Nokia SIP client: WTF?
Mark isgetting an internal server error on http://tinyurl.com/n5fgd9. I think I amgetting an internal server error too. Unless, of course, I don't get it. (The first result got fixed, this version (courtesy Google's cache) has the goodness.)
A spooky pic of Nicholas playing with an LED toy.
In part one, I described how I reconsidered device-and-user mode in FreePBX, and did the initial changeover. Read on to find out how I overcame a major issue with the configuration!I have an ISDN phone line coming into my Asterisk system. One of the indials is for our home number, the other is one I … Continue reading FreePBX device-and-user mode, part two
Buoyed by the success of a colleague I introduced to Asterisk and FreePBX a little while ago, I decided to have another look at the extension configuration mode I use on our system. Check this post for a recap of the FreePBX configuration modes and my first thoughts.Last time I looked at this I thought … Continue reading Revisiting device-and-user mode in FreePBX
Here is the new and improved (well time will tell about that, I suppose) Crossed Wires. Changing to a more mainstream blog engine will I hope allow me to provide a bit more function. I've adopted the Disqus comment system as the first improvement; I was unhappy about turning off comments on the old system. … Continue reading New blog engine
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