RaqBuntu?

Maybe not.  After poking around to find a way to recompile the AsteriskNow kernel I gave up.  rPath has a rather convoluted way (to the neophyte) of managing kernels.  So, I figured, let's try Ubuntu following the instructions for getting Debian 3.1 to work.…

Revolution

I can't decide if I want to get Ron Paul's new book, Revolution, a Manifesto .  As you can see from my previous post I like a lot of what Ron Paul says but he's a bit flakey at times.  Or rather, he can come…

Decisions

I was working on the AstRaq (yes, that's what I'm calling it) last night and I'm struggling with my limited knowledge of the guts of Linux.  For a long time I've used TrixBox and it's worked fine for me.  I&…

Nice RAQ

I'm now the proud owner of a Cobalt RAQ 3 and a 3i.  The 3 will be Asterisk and the 3i will be my firewall. So far I've updated the flash in the 3 using these instructions and no problems.  Now I'm working on…

My (not so) refined palate

I wish I could say I have a refined palate but the truth is, while I think I can distinguish flavors I had a very hard time identifying them.  However, I had the opportunity to do some pseudo taste testing with the help of Ang doing the blind preparation.  She…

Pirelli blows

The Audi A3 came with Pirelli P-Zero tires.  Let me just say, they sucked.  They were always pretty bad but the last couple of months they had become very loud.  Recently the threads(!) started showing in the middle ridge.  So, looked for a deal and got…

MWI...MWI...

I might be giving up on the dream of using Asterisk purely as VM for a Cisco CM/CME based system.  Why?  MWI.  From what I've found the only way currently to make MWI work in this scenario is to bash it together with custom scripts and cron…