Shot 28…
Hello hello, A few of us are currently in the kitchen battling with a centurion!
*shot 29*
(If anyone dosn’t know what that is A, Don’t come to uni, and B, allow me to explain:
Every minute, on the minute, you all drink a shot glass of beer *shot30* the idea is to get too 100 shots (100 mins) it may sound easy, as its only about 4 pints, but damn! its hard!)
So anyway, since the laptops in the living room (where we are) to do the 1 min recursive countdown, and play music, I thought I may as well get my blog upto date, as well as read some crazy new BOFH! *shot 31 and 32 somewhere in there*
Anyway, Today and yesterday (Mainly in the early morning, as iv’e been pretty nocturnal these past few days) *37* my focus has been on one of the things on my todo list.. VOIP!
(This post will be updated throughout the centurion! So thats all for now! (more on voip later, or maybe tomorrow) *38*
Back again!
im sure the ‘dings’ for each minuite are getting closer together, either way, I think we are all feeling the effects! Were now on shot 45! Anyway, VOIP, I have been looking into asterisk (*) which is a software PBX for the linux platform. It allows for all the standard pbx features (call routing, extensions, call transfer multiple trunks etc) plus voicemail, Automated attendants, queueing, and as its GPL’d there are a tonne of add in modules. It supports SIP and AIX2 Voip Trunk protocols (amongst others) and then inbound and outbound routes based on anything from caller id, to incoming line, or serial port (for POTS ‘Plain old telephone system’ lines… (you do need a seperate (80 quid) voice card for that tho))
So yeah, i’d suggest you try it out if you need a small-medium pbx. Im just using it at home, but its great, because as I will be moving out of student halls soon, my phone number will stay with me wherever I am, and I dont need to pay BT a line rental :D
Im using a VOIP company called ‘voiptalk.co.uk’ to buy the IAX trunk credit. (This gives you setting to route calls through a IAX asterisk trunk… to the POTS (ie 0161 xxx xxx - standard phone numbers
(mobiles too)) for really cheap prices (1.2p/Min UK Landline, 11p/min Mobile UK) which I didn’t think was bad.
Anyway, if your interested have a gander. (Search for ‘trixbox’ its asterisk packaged up in an easy to install Linux distro, based on CentOS, with built in web gui (freepbx) and call routing manager)
//Matt
PS. Me and Joe beat the hell out of the centurion, stopping at 138 out of sheer ‘This is getting tedious now’-ness Not really sure what the fuss is about :P good fun tho!