The streetlight outside of my house burned out yesterday. Those sodium lights will shine dimly when they are about to quit, and this one has been doing that for quite some time. It was no surprise to walk outside last night and see it dark.
There is a form on Progress Energy‘s website you can use just for this. Click here to Report Streetlight Outage, and then file this info under “more useless information.” 🙂
Asterisk Links
This is a collection of links and resources I’ve collected regarding the Asterisk PBX system. It is by no means an exhaustive list. 🙂
If you are looking for assistance in implementing Asterisk in your organization, contact Siteseers at 919.277.0123.
Regards,
Mark Turner
Siteseers Inc.
Asterisk Presentation!
I presented an Asterisk presentation to the Triangle Linux Users Group on Thursday, August 11th 2005 at Red Hat’s worldwide headquarters in Raleigh. I showed how Asterisk can provide you and your business with world-class telephony. I’ll post a link to my presentation soon.
Reflashing Packet8 DTA-310 terminal adapters.
Strom Carlson has cooked up an easy way to reflash your Packet8 TAs so they can work with Asterisk. I’ve tried it and it works. It offers more features than Packet8’s own, unlocked ROM.
This reflashing method still doesn’t stop the Packet8 TA from using silence suppression (RFC-3389), which Asterisk does not yet support. Thus, you will still experience dropped audio when using this remotely.
If anyone knows of a way to solve this last nagging problem, please let me know.
Asterisk PBX
John Todd’s Asterisk config pages
Asterisk Gateway Interface (AGI)
Asterisk Cookbook
Asterisk-perl home
VoIP Providers
Hardware Providers
Sipura (beware of Sipura phones)
8×8
Note: If you have a Packet8 8×8 DTA-310 you no longer need, email me at packet8 at siteseers dot com. I may buy it!
Misc. Software
Festival and Asterisk
Festival and Asterisk, part II
Festival speech synthesis
VoIP-Info Wiki
Update 04 Apr 2005: Garrett Smith at VoIPSupply.com has pointed me to his VoIP newbies forum, where those new to Asterisk can exchange information.
(I have no connection to VoIP Supply other than having once purchased some fine Polycom IP 500 phones from them.)
Dear birds,
I wish to bring to your attention the new bird feeder located outside my office window. I know that winter is a tough time to find food so I am happy to assist. Therefore, you may consider my bird feeder to be open for business.
Note the high-quality, sturdy plastic construction. It is surely capable of supporting the weight of three, possibly four birds at one time. And look at the dual trays! You can feed in bliss without worry of another bird knocking you off your perch. No waiting!
Also please note the quality of food. Unlike inferior bird feeders in the area, this one is well-stocked with the finest shell-less sunflower seeds. One would typically need a tedious flight to California to enjoy these succulent seeds, but no more! I bring them to your doorstep, fresh!
This amazing feeding spot is located nicely above the range of neighborhood cats, also making those battles with pesky, raiding squirrels a thing of the past. It has all a bird could possibly desire in regards to a fine meal.
Please take this invitation to visit this bird feeder, and please bring your friends. We look forward to hosting you.
Regards,
Mark
(who’s feeling a little slap-happy
from being a sales engineer)
My brother Al turns 35 today. Happy birthday!
I turn 35 on Wednesday and was thinking there was some milestone here that I couldn’t remember. Then it occured to me: I can now legally be president. Woohoo!
I just signed up for Earthlink high-speed access, deciding to exercise this wonderful idea of competition. Overall, I’m pleased with things, but one thing is surprising: the amount of spam I have in my recently-created mailbox.
This account was newly created, not shared with anyone, not posted at any site on the Internet. Details of it never left Earthlink’s network, as far as I can tell. I never even logged into the account to check email. Yet, there are about ten spam messages in my inbox!
It seems the spammers have someone working on the inside, or some other way of detecting accounts as they are created. My old RoadRunner account stayed relatively quiet for the whole time I had it. I’m glad I operate my own mailserver, where I can control what mail gets through…
This has been sitting around my inbox for a few weeks. Thought I’d post it in light of yesterday’s Iowa caucus.
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DEMOCRAT
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
You feel guilty for being successful.
Barbra Streisand sings for you.
REPUBLICAN
You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none.
So?
SOCIALIST
You have two cows.
The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor.
You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his cow.
COMMUNIST
You have two cows.
The government seizes both and provides you with milk.
You wait in line for hours to get it.
It is expensive and sour.
CAPITALISM, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
You sell one, buy a bull, and build a herd of cows.
DEMOCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
The government taxes you to the point you have to sell both to support a man in a foreign country who has only one cow, which was a gift from your government.
BUREAUCRACY, AMERICAN STYLE
You have two cows.
The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours the milk down the drain.
AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, lease it back to yourself and do an IPO on the 2nd one.
You force the two cows to produce the milk of four cows. You are surprised when one cow drops dead.
You spin an announcement to the analysts stating you have downsized and are reducing expenses.
Your stock goes up.
FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike because you want three cows.
You go to lunch and drink wine.
Life is good.
JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
They learn to travel on unbelievably crowded trains.
Most are at the top of their class at cow school.
GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You engineer them so they are all blond, drink lots of beer, give excellent quality milk, and run a hundred miles an hour.
Unfortunately they also demand 13 weeks of vacation per year.
ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows but you don’t know where they are.
While ambling around, you see a beautiful woman.
You break for lunch.
Life is good.
RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have some vodka.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You have some more vodka.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
The Mafia shows up and takes over however many cows you really have.
TALIBAN CORPORATION
You have all the cows in Afghanistan, which are two.
You don’t milk them because you cannot touch any creature’s private parts.
Then you kill them and claim a US bomb blew them up while they were in the hospital.
IRAQI CORPORATION
You have two cows.
They go into hiding.
They send radio tapes of their mooing.
POLISH CORPORATION
You have two bulls.
Employees are regularly maimed and killed attempting to milk them.
FLORIDA CORPORATION
You have a black cow and a brown cow.
Everyone votes for the best looking one.
Some of the people who like the brown one best, vote for the black one.
Some people vote for both.
Some people vote for neither.
Some people can’t figure out how to vote at all.
Finally, a bunch of guys from out-of-state tell you which is the best-looking cow.
NEW YORK CORPORATION
You have fifteen million cows.
You have to choose which one will be the leader of the herd, so you pick some fat cow from Arkansas
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION
You have millions of cows
Most are illegal
Arnold likes the ones with the big tits
Kewl discovery of the day: WKNC now streams in MP3 format. There are two choices for listening, low-bitrate and medium-bitrate. The high-bitrate stream is limited to the kollege kiddies, unfortunately.
Then again, I COULD just bring in my portable stereo and tune in that way, but that’s just too low-tech for me.
mt.net was offline this afternoon for some much-needed hardware upgrades. It’s now on a peppier platform, capable of withstanding the relentless assault of mt.net readers. 🙂
I made the switch last night from RoadRunner to Earthlink. All it took was a phone call. The Time Warner tech did everything while I waited. My cable modem rebooted and in two minutes I was an Earthlink customer. Didn’t even have to get a new DHCP address.
Now I’ll enjoy $30/month for six months of Internet service and then $41 afterwards. Plus, Earthlink is public hotspot-friendly.
