Over the past week or two, I’ve heard about VoIP a bit more than usual, first with Adrian of Beat FM doing his thing over VoIP from Lis­more with FireFly/Freshtel, and then a lit­tle later, when Steve asked if I could join a convo with a guy called Dave to pro­vide some gen­eral Linux advice, as Dave had just installed the Aster­isk PBX soft­ware on a box (or, if you’re Steve, “com­puter”) and needed to SSH into it.

So, awareness/interest cat­a­lysts are there. I’d looked/heard about the Aster­isk soft­ware some time ago, but sort of wrote it off as not quite worth the effort. More recently, how­ever, we’ve been try­ing to get gen­eral ICT stuff sorted for the new place of res­i­dence, in a way that’ll let us cut costs a lit­tle. Read the rest of this entry »