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Quick Thought on the Flash Wars

This (very slightly modified) excerpt from an open letter by one of the clashing companies’ executives, is a perfect example of how both sides are trying to use the same basis for their arguments against the other side. Unless you … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Part 4 – Testing/Conclusion

(previous) Testing Now that we’ve got everything configured, all we need to do is test our setup. Dial your Google Voice number from a land-line or cell phone. This should ring your SIP phone. Try this a few times and: … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Part 3.2 – Asterisk Configuration Continued

(previous) Now the final, most involved part of the process: Configuring the dialplan. We’ll take this bit by bit, but if you’re not sure about what a particular line does, check out the Wiki at Voip-Info.org. Dialplan Basics First we’ll … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Part 3 – Asterisk Configuration

(previous) With Asterisk installed and sipgate and Google Voice configured, it’s time for the meat and potatoes of this whole thing: configuring Asterisk. safe_asterisk Before we get into the configuration, though, we need to make a quick security change. We’ll … Continue reading

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Roll Your Own: Asterisk + Google Voice = Free Calling

In an earlier post I promised a how-to for how I used Asterisk and Google Voice to get a Home Phone, so here goes… First of all, if you’re not much of the command-line tinkering type, and you have an … Continue reading

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