Monthly Archives: December 2007

FreeSWITCH and Google Talk

One of the reasons I chose to spend time with freeswitch over yate was google talk integration. Was a good choice, I think, for more than just gtalk. The endpoint that talks to gtalk is mod_dingaling, and it’s not compiled by default. So to enable it, uncomment #endpoints/mod_dingaling from modules.conf in your source tree and [...]

FreeSWITCH and Voicemail

I updated my FreeSWITCH svn tree the other day and was surprised how much had changed. The configuration structure was completely rearranged. I had to start from scratch. Lots of new goodies, though. My VoIP provider has their own voicemail system that kicks in after 20 seconds, there doesn’t appear to be a way to [...]

Flashback

I just had a flashback. When I was in primary school, we had this cross country race with other schools in the area. The pace was full on, and a friend and I decided we’d walk. It was all bush, no one could see us and the teachers started to worry, we were taking so [...]

Freeswitch – Softswitch, Softphone, PBX

I’ve somewhat been following the development of FreeSWITCH, described as a softswitch, although I see they’ve added PBX to the description now. It’s still in beta, about to be released any day now(tm). It doesn’t have the features of asterisks out of the box, however, it’s extendable with javascript, perl, python, java, C of cause, [...]

Facebook

This really blew me away, follow the money… facebook Be careful kids.

Amazing Grace

One of my all time favourite songs (and bands). I remember first hearing this on the abc on some sports panel show, can’t remember the name, but they moved to a commercial channel and died soon after, grrr. I was hypnotised, it’s very deep and I’m not even a little religious. I can’t even remember [...]