4/19/2005
Asterisk & MythTV & Dell DJ
First, let me be another one of the masses that says Asterisk (or * as it’s called by the people in the know) without providing much detail. And secondly, MAN ARE MY EARLOBES SORE! That being said, on to the body of the post.
On the MythTV front, eradicator made 0.18 ebuilds in my absence and masked them I’ve heard complaints they don’t work and I’ve heard success stories. Personally for me, they broke the OSD. He says they work for him, but I can’t fault him. He did mask them. Basically, don’t complain if they don’t work, they’re not meant for mass consumption.
My Dell DJ is freaking awesome. Sound quality is pretty good, but then again I’m really not musically inclined (besides my attempts at the guitar). Everyone should get one… And Dell should give me 10% of sales for saying that. It’s constantly been with me and connected to me. My ears are even getting a little sore from the ear buds. But then again, all ear buds do that to me. It’s probably cause I don’t wear the things right. Oh well.
Asterisk is a Open Source PBX, used a lot with VoIP services. Which is what I used it for. Just testing and messing with it, I’ve set it up like a call center simply. Literally 5 min worth of work. I created voicemail boxes and a couple of soft phone extensions. I’ve had friends across the country install a softphone and give me a ring on it and the sound quality was great, even with my roommates bringing down my good name in the other room on Xbox Live getting into “no your mom” arguments with 5 year olds. They’re what we call simple.
emerge asterisk and give it a whirl. Asterisk’s Docs & Howto along with Asterisk Wiki. Or the lazy man’s approach, Asterisk @ Home.
I haven’t gotten everything that I want going with it. I’m hoping to integrate it into my father’s company’s phone system and maybe a few other neat things. Eventually maybe answering the phone line at my apartment. I’ll post details and links here eventually. I have managed to call Dell via asterisk and a softphone installed on my roommate’s machine to inquire about my laptop. Still waiting.
Well, off to take a Discrete Math final. Blah. Didn’t even bother studying. All practical sense crap.
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April 19th, 2005 at 7:42 pm
Neat, I have been starting to play around with asterisk too, do you know if you can use the web frontend on asterisk@home with just the normal asterisk package? Anyhow thank you for all the mythtv ebuilds, they have been great, can’t wait for 0.18 (I know, just a bugfix release). Good luck on that final. ciao!