Asterisk exemplifies the best and worst elements of an open source project. The best being this is an awesomely powerful, infinitely configurable robust piece of software that is free and can replace otherwise extremely expensive proprietary systems. It is power to the masses in that a small company can have a comparable phone system to a big corporation that spends tens of thousands of dollars.
The worst is that there is a very steep learning curve. Configuration of both hardware and software is complex. While the documentation is thorough, it is not oriented towards the first time set-up.
Taken as a whole, though the good outweighs the bad, and it is worth investing in learning about it. This is great package. Tanks to the people who have been working on it, esp Mark at Digium.
I kind of have the inverted problem. I'd like a portable storage device that I can dump images to from a digital camera when I don't have access to a laptop or PC. I started searching and came across some pretty interesting devices. 20/40/60/80 GB mp3 players with built in flash card reader.
Weird thing though, is I can't find any reference or review of these devices elsewhere. The site calls them "Voxdrives". If you look at the images, they say "X2Drive Pro". Googling either of those doesn't seem to return anything relevant though. Has anyone heard or have any opinion of these things? $211 for 20GB would beat loading up on flash ram, and you get the bonus of having MP3 playback. Are there any other devices out there like this that have built-in flash card readers?
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The worst is that there is a very steep learning curve. Configuration of both hardware and software is complex. While the documentation is thorough, it is not oriented towards the first time set-up.
Taken as a whole, though the good outweighs the bad, and it is worth investing in learning about it. This is great package. Tanks to the people who have been working on it, esp Mark at Digium.
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The website had the name of the device wrong, it is the Vosonic X's-Drive Pro. Hre is the manufacturer site:
http://www.vosonic.co.uk/
I kind of have the inverted problem. I'd like a portable storage device that I can dump images to from a digital camera when I don't have access to a laptop or PC. I started searching and came across some pretty interesting devices. 20/40/60/80 GB mp3 players with built in flash card reader.
http://www.xpcgear.com/mp3player.html
Weird thing though, is I can't find any reference or review of these devices elsewhere. The site calls them "Voxdrives". If you look at the images, they say "X2Drive Pro". Googling either of those doesn't seem to return anything relevant though. Has anyone heard or have any opinion of these things? $211 for 20GB would beat loading up on flash ram, and you get the bonus of having MP3 playback. Are there any other devices out there like this that have built-in flash card readers?
thanks!