How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Installing ADA (Asterisk Desktop Assistant) on Elastix

May 11, 2010 Chilling_Silence Elastix.org Blog

Formerly SnapANumber, ADA is now offered by Digium. However, the first thing that you’ll notice is that it was written for their Asterisk Business Edition. That’s great if you have ABE, but not so good if you’re one of the millions of installs out there that uses vanilla Asterisk. This guide presumes you already have […]

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2 ADA, Asterisk, dialplan, digium, Elastix,

Why VP8 matters

May 10, 2010 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

This post was made prior to the Google IO conference which is May 19 -> 20th, and as such things may change after this date. VP8 is potentially a game-changer in the realm of both streaming, High-Definition, and mobile video devices. It also has the potential to help in the killing of Adobe Flash, and […]

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1 Adobe, Apple, Browsers, Compression, Flash,

Migrating a windows user profile directory

May 7, 2010 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Many times I’ve found myself wanting to do this, and only just recently learned how to. If you’ve disconnected from a Domain for example and are now part of a workgroup but want to retain your existing “setup”, or perhaps you’ve got yourself something like an EeePC 900 and your C: Drive is running out […]

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Using the Patton SN4554 for ISDN with Elastix

May 6, 2010 Chilling_Silence Elastix.org Blog

For any business migrating to SIP, the Patton SN4554 is a brilliant way to bring two ISDN lines (4-channels) in to their new PBX system, especially considering you don’t have to break open your PBX Server to install a PCI card. This basic How-To shows you how to set it up to work with your […]

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0 Elastix, ISDN, Patton, SN4554,

DIY FreeSWITCH & FreePBXv3 from LiveCD

April 23, 2010 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

This is a bit of a follow on from my previous post: http://chillingsilence.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/initial-thoughts-on-freepbxv3-and-freeswitch-vs-asterisk/ Everybody is starting to talk about FreeSWITCH as the next big PBX software (Amongst other things), and FreePBXv3 is shaping up to be a damn fine GUI. The more I use it, the more I start to like FreeSWITCH as a progression […]

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19 Asterisk, Debian, FreePBX, FreePBXv3, FreeSWITCH,

How-To: Hotel Management System for Elastix

March 18, 2010 Chilling_Silence Elastix.org Blog

Two blog posts in 24 hours? We’re on a roll here! Based off PIAF’s Hotel Management System, we’re going to make some minor adjustments to have this work with Elastix. This is a brilliant Hotel Room Management system with the ability to restrict the calls from Ext’s when they are not checked in, per-second billing, […]

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0 Asterisk, check in, check out, Elastix, Hotel Integration,

Initial thoughts on FreePBXv3 and FreeSWITCH vs Asterisk

January 14, 2010 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

As I’ve been testing out FreePBXv3 with FreeSWITCH, I figured I should blog my experiences, as they’ve been surprisingly pleasant! After I got notification on the Elastix Beta mailing list about FreePBXv3, I was stoaked to learn it’s been released, even in an unfinished form! I went looking a while back for a FreeSWITCH GUI […]

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17 Asterisk, Elastix, FreePBX, FreePBXv3, FreeSWITCH,

What you never knew that you needed to know about Broadband and Fibre to the Home

December 16, 2009 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

With the government investing NZD$1,500,000,000 into this “Ultra fast broadband” Fibre-Optic network, you’d expect them to have good reason for it right? You’d also expect people would generally back the idea of it, and know why we, as a country, need this infrastructure investment. If only that were so! Communications and Information Technology Minister Steven […]

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0 ADSL, Broadband, Fibre, Fibre to the Home, FTTH,

My thoughts on the WDTV Live

December 14, 2009 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Yes, I’ve had my WDTV Live for a while now, and have had several requests for my thoughts on them. They’re priced very nicely, mine cost $229 + GST on my account with PBTech. Just make sure you search for “WD TV Live”, and not “WDTV” or you’ll get the regular one without a LAN […]

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6 HD, HDMI, High Definition, Media Player, MKV,

PC / Router failing? It might be overheating

November 24, 2009 Chilling_Silence How-To's / Guides / Tech info

Yes, with the advent of summer, and more sunny days, hardware *does* fail. I just recently fried two sticks of RAM, as I pulled them out of my PC they were so hot I burned my fingers. Serves me right for having so many Hard Drives in there without thinking about fans. You may be […]

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4 blue screen, bsod, everest, hanging, Overheating,

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