Penguins-On-Hudson is an advocacy program sponsored by Codefix Consulting to help promote Linux and F.O.S.S. (Free Open Source Software) in the lower Hudson River Valley.
When I wrote about building my own PBX, I mentioned that I set up Direct Inward Dialing (DID), a feature which allows virtual phone numbers to be routed directly to extensions while using shared trunks (phone lines). I figured out how to accomplish this after reading this discussion, but made improvements along the way.
I have a strange issue on my Asterisk box. If I call BroadVoice tech support using one of their trunks, I connect normally and hear the initial IVR, I press “1″ and hear “Your call is being transferred.” Then the weirdness starts: I remain connected, but I hear my own hold music. As near as […]
While I was cooking last night’s dinner, I made the mistake of leaving my laptop running, open, and unattended. Because ours is primarily a Linux household (my wife is a Mac user), I normally don’t worry much about the computers. The servers, devices, and desktops tend to chug along without needing anything more than […]
I finally built a red box, not the phone phreak device that generates coin tones for pay phones, but rather a Linux PBX which gives me the power and flexibility of a commercial grade phone system at a fraction of the cost. I call it a red box because the primary VoIP number I […]