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Here’s a pretty good write-up on how you can use Jingle with Asterisk for “calling” over Google Talk.
This is cool stuff.

• You could have calls coming into work (Asterisk server) ring your office phone twice and then try your office and Google Talk client simultaneously.
• You could get a call at home that your wife answers. She knows you’re not home, but sees that you are on IM. She could transfer the call to your laptop and the caller would have no idea that you are in a hotel in Las Vegas.
• You could put all your geeky buddies with Google Talk accounts on speed-dial.
• You could place calls from anywhere you have an Internet connection and route them through your Asterisk server at home.
• You could have Asterisk IM you with the caller ID of the person calling you.

Did you notice all of those points say “you could”? I have not tried this yet, but when I do, I’ll report.

Look for full Jingle support in Asterisk 1.4. Until then, you need this patch.

P.S. I wrote about Asterisk/Jingle/Google Talk in this earlier post when I first learned that it was being worked on.

Things like this underline the importance and difference between “free” (as in pizza) and “Free” (as in freedom).

What good does this “free” download do me? Trust me, I love “free,” but not if it means I have to use an O.S. that’s not “Free” or “free.” I guess that’s one way to drive people way from your site. How did I even end up at MSN anyway?!?

Seeing this makes me want to put into action my plans to revamp the Utah Open Source Planet. Wish I would have thought of it first :(

Looks like Digium gets funded. This can only mean good things for the development of Asterisk. It’s interesting to see that Digium has been in the black for a while:

Digium won’t disclose any specific data on its financial performance, but says it has been profitable since 2002, generating 100 percent growth in revenues each year since.

It takes one kind of vision to create a business around Open Source, but another to make that same business something *big*. Hopefully this first round of funding leads to the next big thing and makes a good thing even better.

However, the cynic in me doesn’t really care how they do. The code will always be there - in good times and bad. Is that wrong?

O.K. I’m over it. Go Digium! Support Digium! Buy Digium!

The humble server that I use to host a few (11) web sites is getting updated. It’s not going to be that big of a deal (99% idle instead of 97% idle).

The big deal will be the addition of Xen, LVM and RAID. I’m thinking about setting up a small domU that will act as a firewall. It will also run Apache as a reverse proxy and Postfix as a transport relay to the domains that will get their own DomU (3 currently). Normally I would also have it run Asterisk to avoid NATing with SIP, but since I switched to IAX with my voice provider, I don’t think it will be necessary.

Anyway, the lights might go out for a little while. Don’t be alarmed.

I generally don’t do a “cut and paste” blog from other people’s blogs, but this is *really* cool.

And I will not arrive empty handed. Of late I have been playing with FUSE. For the kids, I wrote beaglefs:

$ ./beaglefs joey ./query

$ ls ./query 14-38-39.jpg 2005-02-25.191427.txt img_0931.jpg img_1789.jpg 2004-10-14.112903.txt 2005-02-28.114211.txt img_0983.jpg img_1818.jpg 2004-10-29.122217.txt 2005-03-07.114103.txt img_1358.jpg img_2506.jpg 2004-11-01.112509.txt 2005-03-08.115321.txt img_1359.jpg img_2507.jpg 2004-11-05.140919.txt 2005-03-11.140838.txt img_1360.jpg img_2518.jpg 2005-02-03.120233.txt img_0179.jpg img_1768.jpg wolf.txt

$ ls -la query/img_1358.jpg lrwxrwxrwx 1 rlove users 60 2006-06-23 17:50 query/img_1358.jpg -> /home/rlove/images/nyc_20041210/img_1358.jpg $ fusermount -u query/

Mount a Beagle query as a filesystem. The filesystem contents are symlinks to the hit results (if curious, the images match via F-Spot tags). Imagine the possibilities!

Very cool. Good work rlove!

I post this on my blog cause Peregrine doesn’t take comments unless I’m “logged on” and I had it all typed up.
1) I thought you got the wordpress/https/smiley bug fixed. :)

2) I think there is a better way to do this mailman setup…

a) Alias with Mailman:
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The output of /usr/lib/mailman/bin/genaliases depends on the value of the `MTA’ variable in your mm_cfg.py. If you have Postfix there, it makes a file called /etc/mailmain/alias. I think it also runs postmap on it.

Then in your main.cf you would add “alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases, hash:/etc/mailman/aliases.” This way, Mailman takes care of its own aliases. Make a new list - it just works!

b) Going Virtual:
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If they are virtual domains then you have to take the extra step of adding them to the mm_cfg.py as such:

“POSTFIX_STYLE_VIRTUAL_DOMAINS = [’domain1.tld’, ‘domain2.tld’]”
“add_virtualhost(’domain1.tld’, ‘domain2.tld’)”

Then when you add new domains it will add them to a file with only mailman’s virtual settings. Let Postfix know about them by adding this to your main.cf:

“virtual_alias_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/virtual, hash:/etc/mailman/virtual-mailman”

Let me know if that screws you up. It’s been a while since I’ve done it.

Later - Gabe

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The first time I fired-up Linux, it was Red Hat 7. Both Linux and I have come a long way since then. I’ve been faithful to Red Hat for some time now.

• Red Hat 7
• Red Hat 8
• Red Hat 9
• Fedora Core 1
• Fedora Core 2
• Fedora Core 3
• Fedora Core 4
• Fedora Core 5
• Other CentOS and RHEL versions for my servers

I always knew that RH and FC were the right distros for me. I aways came back after testing others. Well, that has changed.

Ubuntu has won me over. What do I like about it?

• One disk installs for desktop or server.
• Server and desktop that share a common base. (FC becomes RHEL - not the same)
• Clean Gnome desktop.
• Polished feel.
• 5 year support on the LTS.
• Many other small things.

I’ll keep-up on CentOS and Red Hat because I’ll need to know them when working in other environments. I may even go back to them after checking out RHEL 5. I really dig Red Hat and think they are one of the best Open Source companies out there. I just feel that Ubuntu gives me more of what I want right now. Somehow, I can’t help felling disloyal :)

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the positive feedback from readers of the Utah Open Source Planet. I hoped that it would be a cool place for UT’s Open Source hackers to learn something more about each other and interact a bit. It seems that it has done just that. People have taken partial ownership of the site and consider it part of the community. I think that’s great. Thanks to everyone who participates and allows their feeds to be picked up here.

It seems that the best way to get people to notice the Planet (and your feed) is to link to it from your blogs. Have a look at the top 10 ways readers get here:

1. 458 - google
2. 289 - bloglines.com
3. 277 - halls.lug-nut.com
4. 115 - blog.josephhall.com
5. 110 - blog.mecworks.com
6. 107 - pthree.org
7. 106 - fozzilinymoo.org
8. 95 - planet.gnome.org
9. 61 - blogs.gnome.org
10. 45 - gundy.org

Planet citizens are second only to google in bringing new readers to the UOSP. Please consider blogging about UOSP if you have not yet done so. Also, a blog-role is a great place to link to the Planet.

Those of you who don’t have your headshot to me, stop being shy|lazy|forgetful. We like putting names to faces. Don’t worry, I think everyone hates their hackergochi. Get me a picture with good lighting for best results.

Lastly, those of you who read and have not added your feeds - get on the ball! We want to hear what you’re hacking on (BSD, Linux, Life… whatever)! I personally know several people that are conspicuously missing from the Planet. How about the guys in southern Utah? Where are you? Where are all the Novell hackers? What about the guys at Linux Networx? How about Xmission guys? I’d like to see the Open Source centric companies show up in numbers (see Guru Labs for an example).

I guess that’s it for now. Thanks again to all those who make UOSP fun to read!

Well, last night I finally installed Suse 10.1. It’s the same as ever for me - there are things I love and things I hate. Foremost in the “things I hate” is YaST. I wanted to update some software and found these options under the “Software” section in YaST:

10 options is way to many. Let’s look at the choices that I would have to explore before doing the equivalent of an “apt-get update.”

• Online Update
• Software Management
• Online Update Configuration
• Online Update Setup
• System Update

I know they do different things, that’s the point. Can’t this be simplified? Make it so I don’t have to discover what is going on. I really like the “Software Management” option. Isn’t that what I’m already doing here in YaST?
Don’t worry Suse users. I’ll come out with a list of “things I love” soon.