Category Archives: Linux

My Life with Asterisk — Part 4

Posted on July 17, 2010 by Nosbig

With the challenges of Part 3 behind me, I was optimistic of the possibility of resolving the lingering issues with my phone system. One of the first pieces that I dabbled with was setting up paging and conference calls. When … Continue reading →

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My Life with Asterisk — Part 3

Posted on July 16, 2010 by Nosbig

At the end of Part 2, I finally have AsteriskNOW installed on my phone system hardware. Now, we have to get to the real work of configuring the system to actually do useful (and not so useful) work. My first … Continue reading →

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My Life with Asterisk — Part 2

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Nosbig

When we left off, I had finally decided to use AsteriskNOW and replace my hand-crafted dialplan with something more flexible and easier to modify. Before I could do anything else, I had to get the distribution installed. What follows was … Continue reading →

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My Life with Asterisk — Part 1

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Nosbig

So, I started using Asterisk a few years ago. I started working for a small IT company; my prime focus was on developing a sellable SMB phone system product. Unfortunately, the firm folded just as we were ready to launch. … Continue reading →

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Smoothing Off Some Rough Edges

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Nosbig

Lately, I have been spending some quality time again with my TC1000 from Compaq.  I purchased mine last year, along with two friends of mine.  We all have taken different approaches to making the tablets work well. I have been … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Services

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Nosbig

Yesterday afternoon, my girlfriend discovered a particularly large volume of voicemails on her phone, after having cleaned out her mail box just 36 hours prior.  She listened to several blank voicemails, as well as one from someone who wanted us … Continue reading →

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Starting a Podcast/Netcast

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Nosbig

I have been wanting to start a podcast for a very long time, inspired by what Leo Laporte does with TWiT and with what my parents did educating people. So, I spent some time thinking about a focus for the … Continue reading →

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Lingering Projects

Posted on March 18, 2007 by Nosbig

Over the course of the last few months, I have come across a few projects that I have not taken the opportunity to work on, and I really should. The following projects are on my short list of things to … Continue reading →

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Wireless Streaming Media Server

Posted on March 8, 2004 by Nosbig

Today, I am finishing up my Streaming Media Server. It will wirelessly share music streams and setting up in-house file sharing for my music.\n\nThe hardware included a Thinkpad 390E from IBM (333 MHz Pentium II, 192MB RAM, 6 GB hard … Continue reading →

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Windows 2000 == Unix? Does not compute!

Posted on November 13, 2003 by Nosbig

Sitting in my Windows 2000 class (a required course for my degree), the instructor talked at great length tonight about Active Directory, groups, roaming profiles, and permissions. While listening to him, I ponder, “What is exactly the point of running … Continue reading →

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