Post archive for ‘How To's’
Make Asterisk use Gmail for emailing faxes
While Asterisk provides a simple way to replace sendmail when sending voicemails, the incoming fax portion of Asterisk is not so easily reconfigured. By studying how it handled an incoming fax from the Asterisk CLI I was able to find this perl script: /var/lib/asterisk/bin/fax-process.pl.
This script uses Net::SMTP to send its faxes as attachments via email. [...]
Configuring PBX in a Flash to use Rhino cards
If you are using a Rhino Equipment card as your pstn or digital interface to the telco, and need help setting it up on your asterisk based PBX, look no further!
This google doc has just the instructions you need. (thanks to James at Rhino for these great instructions!)
Also, as far as telco cards go, I [...]
Moving to Disqus for comments
I’ve been thinking about using Disqus for awhile now and finally decided to bite the bullet when I realized I just couldn’t get the features I wanted out of Mephisto’s built in comment system.
Setting Disqus up on your blog is easy enough, they’ve got automated stuff for the popular hosted blogging platforms, and easy to [...]
Running Mephisto (and other Rails apps) on Site5
There are a few steps in getting the latest Mephisto (0.8.2 at the time of this writing) working on the shared host Site5. As I’m writing this Site5 is upgrading all their servers to Ruby 1.8.7, Rails 2.2.2, RubyGems 1.3.1, and Mysql 5.0. Thanks to everyone at Site5 that helped, Ben, Beau, and the guy [...]