Tag: ASTERISK

If you had a nickel for every time you've had to reset a password because you were used to logging in automatically were out of luck when you had to reinstall an application, we're betting you'd have at least a nickel by now. Snadboy's Revelation is an unfortunately named application that makes recovering long forgotten passwords a snap. Sometimes. All you have to do is run the application and ...

Asterisk 1.4 is out for blood. Asterisk would like you to waddle toward the 1.4 release like a zombie, download it, then go rip your company PBX out of the wall, power cords and all and dash it upon the rocks below in the ravine. Asterisk is very cheap alternative to outdated and expensive systems for private branch exchange (PBX) telephone systems. The 1.4 release includes support for a unified ...

What do you get when you combine the Z-Machine text adventure engine with open source phone exchange system Asterisk? Zasterisk, a novel combination of voice recognition and text-to-speech that allows you to play Zork and other Infocom text adventures over the phone. Is this something anybody really needs? Well, duh, no. Is it pretty cool? Yes. However, I take no responsibility for the looks ...

I've been looking at Asterisk for a while, but didn't get into it because I just felt it was too complicated. Now that NerdVittles has posted up a complete, step-by-step how-to on installing and configuring Asterisk for the newbie. For those who don't know, Asterisk is a PBX (Private Branch Exchange) in software. It runs on Linux, BSD, and OS X and provides a wealth of phone options for your home ...