Here’s another quick little Asterisk recipe that I threw together. It’s a handy because it only takes about 10 minutes to setup and is infinitely useful to the sales types. Just a note, this was done with Asterisk 1.4.8. I wanted to do a little in AEL just to get a feel for it. It…

Many phone users just take for granted the service provided by the Telco called *69 (pronouced “Star six nine”). Since Asterisk is a telephony platform, it doesn’t just come with *69 built in. So if you want it, you have to implement it. To save you some time, I have implemented it with a few…

Just prior to writing this, I think I was about ready to kill someone. Setting up this phone was probably one of the most challenging things I have done in a long time. So this will be my attempt to explain to other’s what I did and I will hopefully save some people some time.…

I was lucky (or unlucky) enough to have to rebuild my company’s Asterisk server to prepare to have a backup. I took a slightly less powerful machine, installed Debian Etch on it and threw Asterisk 1.2.13 on it. The goal was to mimic the Asterisk configuration on its sister machine which was a Gentoo 1.2.10…