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Build Your Own PBX
Kerbo writes "Kerry Garrison has written up a complete guide to building your own PBX with Asterisk@Home to create your own working PBX system. In the article, he shows how you can build a complete, working system for under $20 (assuming you have some old hardware laying around the house)."
Become a Millionaire with only $20, and another $999,980 laying around.
some old hardware laying WHAT around the house?
So now when people call me they can go through auto attendent hell just like the big companies.
You know, like alms. The key is the appearence of security, without ostentation.
Who do you get to be an expert to tell you something's not obvious? The least insightful person you can find? -J Roberts
Dude, that's just sick. Bury her already.
It's too bad that there isn't some sort of online database of acronyms.
Perhaps we could call it Acronym Search.
Or perhaps some sort of search engine.
Help I'm a rock.
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With Asterisk@Home, you simply need to download the disk image, burn it to a CD, and boot off of it.
- * Burn Asterisk@Home iso to a blank CD
Just a "minor technical detail", that last note. The way people don't RT*A around here, I'll bet in a day or two we'll see some late posts whining about their loss of data. (is that Darwin I hear?)* Boot your Asterisk PC with the CD and press enter
NOTE: This will erase all data on the hard drive of the PC!!!
Aw, com'on, don't tell me you've never just hit enter without REALLY reading the dialog box, right?
--Brandon / Split Infinity Music
(she's inflatable... shh, he doesnt know. he's still mourning.. hehehehe)
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Heh.. yeah. I knew what PBX was way back in the 80s before I was even in Middle School... Thank you Anarchist Cookbook!
Hey Folks,
We've got to be more careful - he's starting to ask questions. It's pretty important that he doesn't find out what else we've been keeping from him.
myke
Mimetics Inc. Twitter
I've already got a highly effective PBX firewall in place. It's called "leaving the phone off the hook", and it's very effective around dinner time to ensure we don't get snowed by phone calls to our teenage daughters.
Even better, it comes with a highly effective content filter. Callers with truly important news will, upon finding the house phone is engaged, call one of our mobile phones. However, teenagers, with their inherent lack of cash and memories of past confrontations with parents over mobile phone call costs, will instead retry the home phone approximately every 60 seconds. I can guarantee that, from the instant I replace the phone after dinner, it's never more than 60 seconds till it starts ringing again.
Aint nothing automatic about linux. It's somehow powered by the kinetic energy you expend by endlessly tweaking conf files.
I like your waffles. I buy as many as I can with counterfeit yen.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I'm dying, quick, what's the google keyword for 911?
You use this word, "geeks" in your post as if I'm supposed to know what it is. Are you all self-important that defining your words is beneath you? If you're worth your salt, you would have sold me on it so that I would consider your post worthy.
However, for your benefit, I hope slashdot institutes an auto-acronym feature. So that next time there's a story about a new BIOS (Basic Input/Output System), SCO (Santa Cruz Operation), IBM (International Business Machines), or even 3M (Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Corporation) you'll (you will) know what those acronyms mean.
Want to improve your Karma? Instead of "Post Anonymously", try the "Post Humously" option.
When I read the headline and noticed PBX I was thinking about Lego Mindstorms. Guess my mind was in bad weather to... as Mindstorms has a RCX not a PBX.
Or does it ??? lego pbx
How do I know if I'm interested in it or not if I have no idea what it is?
/. to tell you what you should be interested in :)
I'm guessing you already know if something interests you or not.
Or are you asking if you should be interested? Take my advice, kid--don't depend on
Especially if you are stripping the wire with your teeth at the time!
FreeMusicPush If you want to see more Free Music made, listen to Free
So you booted from an unknown ISO without reading the documentation first and it did something you didn't expect? And you're surprised?
You were probably luckier than you deserved to be, only losing a VM. It's nothing to do with being a n00b, lots of n00bs know to be careful before running unknown software...
Yes, it might happen to me one day but I'd be fully prepared to accept that it would be my fault for not being more careful.
Are all your knives labelled "Caution, may be sharp"?
+5 Informative?
Come on, moderators, this is the FUNNIEST thing I've read all day!