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[bryant]

Our VoIP/Asterisk tutorial is going much more quickly than the presenter expected. This is not unusual for first-time presenters. Asterisk is pretty interesting, but shows signs of being an open source project. Hm -- OK, some sample configuration file stuff:

exten => s,73,Playback(thank-you-for-calling)
exten => s,74,GotoIfTime(6:01-18:00|mon-sun|*|*?s,76)
exten => s,75,Goto(s,78)
exten => s,76,Playback(have-a-great-day-goodbye)

In theory, the template is something like exten => <exten>,<priority>,<application>(<args>), but it's been brutally extended into something that looks alarmingly like BASIC. See the line numbers masquerading as priorities? It looks like it was originally just a simple method of specifying extensions, but grew like kudzu. Soon there'll be m4 macros for building these scripts which masquerade as configuration files.

Comments

[kniedzw.livejournal.com]

Kudzu? *shudder*

You made me have visions of RedHat, you meanie.

It does look a little scruffy around the edges, though. Open Source PBX, eh?

[bryant]

It runs very nicely on RedHat! But scruffily.

So far the presenter has spent approximately no time at all talking about using Asterisk for any installation with more than 24 analog lines. This also does not bode well.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Bryant,

Your entry on 20x20 is messed up

[bryant]

Whups. Fixed.