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 I can figure, while I’m on hold in their call queue, Asterisk has dumped me in to hold and I can’t get out. If I stay on long enough for a tech to pick up, they either hear nothing or my hold music and hang up. Free beer goes to anyone who can identify and solve this issue, meanwhile I have developed a workaround. Continue reading »
Oct 152007
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 an occasional `aptitude update && aptitude upgrade`. Laptops, however, are an entirely different story. As you can see in the photo, we live with a creature that is essentially a heat seeking missle bent on killing laptop computers. Sure it was funny the first couple times, but amusement quickly turned to horror when I saw that she can actually crash Linux. All my base are belong to her.
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