12 feb 07 — Truman Boyes

spending some time cleaning up the harddrive by copying off some media files that have been hanging around for some time. i mostly have tv episodes in xvid that I bring on flights.

Just caught up with Prison Break S2E16. The series is still pretty good, although I hope they end it soon, its getting a bit long in the tooth.

Was checking out Amarok for Linux as a music player. Wow, linux audio applications have improved so much since I was a linux user. These days, I rarely leave the macbook pro running OS X, since I use it for work and at home. It just works, and all the applications that I need work great.

Also, I ordered another USA DID number for the house and setup the home asterisk (running 1.2.12 because of problems with 1.4) and peer’d up with Teliax. The cool thing is that Teliax supports almost all codecs including g.729 . The quality so far is great, and it really helps to be able to give my friends in USA a local number to ring. So I tweaked out a few things on the extensions so that instead of just ringing it will also answer and then play some music while the home extension is ringing.

For anyone who has a spare laptop hanging around, they actually make good little servers because for one, they are standalone, and secondly they already have battery backup. I opted to roll my own asterisk, primarily because I wanted to have more control over the system instead of just installing trixbox. I went with Fedora Core 6, Asterisk 1.2.12 and Asterisk Addons (btw, you need the add ons if you want to play mp3 audio on extensions).

Date: Feb 12th, 2007 · Comments RSS · Tags: news · osx

Originally published on truman.net. See the archived copy.