Tools like Asterisk@HOME and FreePBX make the process of configuring an Asterisk box incredibly easy. They have pretty web-based user interfaces, downloadable modules, and generally just make things easy to do. If anyone has managed to get a package to run freePBX on OpenWRT sorted, I’d love to hear about it. Until then though, it’s all done through the files. Which is not as difficult as you might imagine, once you get the hang of it.
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I’ve been running Asterisk on my desktop for about a year now. A few months ago I acquired two Accton MR3201A’s configured for OpenMesh using OpenWRT. I finally got around to installing Asterisk on one of them a couple of weeks ago, and this is a record of how I did it.
To give you an idea of the size of the MR3201, her is a picture of one
Yes, that little box really is running a full-blown PABX
Anyway, enough of that, how to set it up
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Two days to go before I have to spend 20,000 hours on a plane, and I’m getting a cold. It isn’t The Flu, this is an important distinction. I am not getting the flu.
We went shopping this morning, just some last minute things, Australia/US power adapter and a USB flash card reader. I also got a 4GB SanDisk Extreme III CompactFlash card for the DSLR.
And most importantly, a box of Codral Cold & Flu tablets, for the Cold that I’m getting, since I am not getting the Flu.
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So Yay!
My gallery2 gallery is “integrated” with WordPress. Which means that those pictures on the right of the page are grabbed straight from the gallery. Apparently, I can also stick a picture in here
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I’ve had to push myself to start a new blog for the HOPE conference, I’m not sure why, but it seems like a good way to keep a record of where my head is while I’m there.
Since I have a LiveJournal and Blogger Account that I don’t use, I started thinking about why I’d bother setting up another blog - which I probably wouldn’t use either. I don’t like the fact that my other blogs are hosted somewhere else by someone else, someone who could quite arbitrarily cancel them, change them or even decide that my thoughts are not appropriate for their service. So it had to be a blog that is hosted on my infrastructure, or at least infrastructure that I am paying for.
So what blog software to use? It had to be open source, easy to use, easy to set up and generally not have me screaming at it whenever I wanted to do something. After much consideration (at least 5 minutes) it came down to a choice between b2evolution and WordPress. WordPress won, so I installed it, easy, less than ten minutes.
It failed the 5 minute test - anything bad in the first 5 minutes and I switch to option 2. Can you believe that it has virtually no built in plugin search, download and install capability? I have to ftp the what to the where and do thingamy to the file, then refresh the page to make it work, then click activate? Fuck Off!
So bye bye WordPress, hello b2evolution.
It failed the 5 minute test too. Ugly ugly ugly default admin interface. Not intuitive. Menus don’t work in opera. I couldn’t even find the bit where I get to change the theme to something prettier.
Back to WordPress, which at least looked pretty enough. So I decide to search the online pluginny stuff.. First I tried PlugInstaller, which I installed. I tried to use it to install another plugin, which it couldn’t. So maybe it was a bad plugin, maybe I’d done something wrong, try again with a different plugin. Some crazy message about no files in the plugin directory…
Move on to One Click Plugin Updater - this one works. I still have to go and search through 2500 plugins to find what I want, but at least I can install them fairly easily now.
So anyway, welcome to what is my first and quite possibly last post on my new Blog….
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You’d think that making a virtual machine these days would be easy. I already use VMWare to run a XP machine for testing. But like everything else, I prefer to avoid proprietary technology - even if it is free.
So what are the alternatives?
Well XEN is supposed to be the next big thing, except I don’t have a processor that supports Intel Virtual Technology - or whatever it’s called. So I can’t virtualise without running a modified OS.
Run VMWare and XEN I hear you say; I considered it, but I can’t build the kernel monitor modules while XEn is running.
Getting Xen runnning was an interesting exercise, I think it’s time to move onto QEMU and see how I go there.
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Yesterday, I bought a Linksys PAP2T 2 port analogue telephone adapter. It is the beginning of my asterisk box. Now to build the box itself. at the moment, I’m planning to build it on a VM, since I imagine that 2 extensions and a couple of trunks can’t be that resource hungry. I’ll probably end up being proven wrong.
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I got a call from the camera shop today. I didn’t actually answer it, so I didn’t actually speak to anyone. I did get very excited when I realised I had missed a call, and then recognised the phone number. You see I’m waiting for my new camera to arrive. I bought my minolta system about 8 years ago, and have been waiting for a digital SLR which will use my lenses since digital SLR’s became a decent thing to have. They’ve finally done it.
Anyway, back to the phone call. I listened to my voicemail with much anticipation, only to discover that in fact, the shop had recieved a camera which was their demo model, and would I like to come in and play with it while waiting for mine to arrive…..
Sad again.
I won’t start to sing the praises of the 7D yet, I haven’t used it, in fact I haven’t seen one, but according to minolta it does lots of cool stuff.
More to come.
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So here we are now, entertain us. Or probably more likely, since I’m writing, I should be entertaining you…
Well, for a first post, you probably won’t get much. Sorry.
I think I may have held off on creating a blog for long enough, it’s not that I think I don’t have anything interesting to say, in fact I know that I don’t. It’s more that I believe that I will need more discipline to do this than I believe that I have. I guess I’ll find out.
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