Asterisk is a very powerful open source telephony platform. I’ve described how to install it and configure Google Voice with it in the past. Setup is quite complicated for a newbie to get started. I was never able to set it up to the point for me to connect to the Asterisk server using the read more
I already discussed how one can make [use](http://blog.nguyenvq.com/2010/10/30/google-voice-on-asterisk-with-an-auto-attendant-and-free-calls/) of [Google Voice](http://voice.google.com/) with [Asterisk](http://www.asterisk.org/) — the possibilities are limitless. However, all this requires a server running Asterisk. I recently explored how one can explore other options of Google Voice (or other VoIP services) without the use of a server. Since I own routers running tomato and read more
I use old laptops as my web servers at school. However, they really aren’t built to be running for so long, and I have disk problems on both of them. Amazon Web Services has a [free](http://aws.amazon.com/free/) usage tier for 1 year. After the 1 year, the micro instance cost about $.02/hr, which is still pretty read more
I recently changed my web server, and had to re-install Asterisk. I wanted to compile from source but I had an “input/output” error, which means either my drive is bad or I’m having issues with the kernel. SMART tells me my drive is OK, so I assume it’s the kernel. I found [this](ppa) that has read more
Learned how to do so from [this](http://www.voipuser.org/forum_topic_3621.html) thread. Modify the /etc/init.d/asterisk:
I’ve heard about [Asterisk](http://www.asterisk.org/) for some time now since using VoIP services such as [Google Voice](http://voice.google.com/), [Gizmo5](http://www.gizmo5.com/), [Sipgate](http://www.sipgate.com/) and [Skype](http://www.skype.com/). Most of these services allow you to receive unlimited phone calls for free; you just need to register the service using a sip client, such as [Ekiga](http://ekiga.org/) on Linux, [telephone](http://code.google.com/p/telephone/) on Mac OS X, [sipdroid](http://sipdroid.org/) read more
