Google Voice forward to Asterisk PBX

I recently started at a new place of employment and wanted to port my cell number over from Sprint which my old employer used. This was okay with them so I ended up porting the number to my Google Voice account. I wanted to forward it to a new DID that I would get with a SIP provider and run my Asterisk PBX from that.

I then got a new phone from the employer and installed a Android SIP client on it. Registered the extension to my Asterisk server and started some testing.

Well sometimes the calls work fine, and sometimes Google Voice ends up just sending the call to the Google Voicemail. I wanted to fix this problem, and I believe I have found the solution if your trying the same thing.

On your incoming route in Asterisk for your Google Voice number, you need to setup a wait period. In the incoming route screen of FreePBX there is a field that allows you to wait before picking up the call. I changed this from an empty default field to 2 seconds.

I then checked the box above it to enable Signal RINGING.

It took me a while to figure this out, but I now have my incoming Google Voice number coming to my Asterisk server, hitting the incoming route, then an IVR, then to various extensions and ring groups.

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How to Setup Postfix

I sold the PowerEdge 2950 server tonight, been trying for a while. Hope you enjoy the server as much as I did man!

But he asked a question that I’m sure a few other people could use a little help on.

I have Postfix installed but how can I get it to really be a mail server for a domain?

Well this is actually not all that hard, but does require some setup in DNS.

First you need to login to which ever control panel you use for your domain name record management. (If you run your own BIND server I doubt you need this help anyway.) Check to make sure you have an `A` record that your domain name points to an IP address of the server (or public IP of router to route inside a network) something like ” `archaicbinary.net` POINTS TO 000.000.000.000 “.

Second we need to make a `MX` record with the same name as the domain name for which you want after your @ address. So email `@archaicbinary.net` this would just be `archaicbinary.net`. The value of the `MX` record will be the same hostname of the `A` record you created before.

Third for just this testing purposes the `priority` of the `MX` record value can be say `20`.

Save your changes and let the DNS records get updated to all the servers (this could take up to 10 days for really old, slow out of the way DNS servers).

You should be able to telnet to the A record on port 25 and get your mail server as long as it’s running and the ports are mapped if you use a NAT type setup. This tells us our A record is working.

You can then run any of the online SMTP online tools to test your DNS and SMTP servers setup to make sure things actually are reaching your server.

Please remember that hosting a mail server on a dynamic + public, provided IP address from most ISP’s in the US will usually get caught as spam.

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Winamp Scripting Support

I’ve been using this code to control Winamp in the Carputer setups. Thought it might help some others who have not found this site yet.

http://www.pretentiousname.com/gen_scripting/index.html

Just a Winamp plugin that allows you to control Winamp actions through scripts or any language that create objects in Windows attached to registered dll files.

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Archaic Binary BBS

Still up and running!
Just a status report.

Moved both servers (all nodes) to use NFS instead of Samba mapped drive in Windows 2000. Moved entire database and files to NAS. I’ll be looking for problems with this setup for the next few days. This change should fix nodes 2 and 4 from the massive slowdowns they receive when pulling the data over the network from the server containing nodes 1 and 3. All servers pull from a central NFS server now, and all seem equally responsive.

Current message networks include: Local, Fidonet, Scinet, Agoranet, Micronet, DOVEnet and AdventureNET.

Current door games include: Arrow Bridge, Arrow Bridge II, Barren Realms Elite, Darklands, Darkness, Dog World II, DoorMUD, Exitilus, Falcon’s Eye, Falcon’s Honor, Kannons ‘N Katapults, LORD (Legend of the Red Dragon), LORD (4.08 Beta), LORE, NetHack, NetRunner, Trade Wars 2002, Usurper.

League Games: (6) Arrow Bridge II, Barren Realms Elite, Falcon’s Eye, LORD.

Nodes: 4
Users: 75
Conferences: 119
Messages: 8888
File Areas: 15

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NOVO7 Fire Android Tablet

Back on November 9th, 2012 I placed an order for two Ainol-Novo 7 Fire 7″ tablets. The tablets arrived from China yesterday (December 3rd, 2012). The shipping was actually very fast, shipped out on Saturday and received on Monday. The wait was because they ran out of the IPS touch screen components.

Upon opening the package I also found that they sent me a free 7″ tablet sleeve and HDMI cable an unexpected but nice find.

The tablets are quite nice for the $179.90 price tag. The specs are the same on their website:

OS: Android 4.0.4 support Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update
CPU: Dual Core AMLogic AML8726-M6 1.5GHz
GPU: Dual Core Mali 400*2 3D
RAM: 1GB DDR3
Storage: 16GB
Shell Material: Metal
Bluetooth: Yes (Bluetooth 2.1)
Screen: Capacitive Touchscreen, 1280*800 IPS High-Resolution Screen
Size: 7 inch
Resolution: 1280*800 Pixels
Visible Angle: 180°
Gravity Sensor: 3 Axis
Flash: Support Flash and HTML 5
Google Play (Market): Yes
Dual Camera: Front 2.0 Megapixels,Back 5.0 Megapixels Auto Focus LED Light

The tablets came packed very well and secure with foam and in a tightly taped up box. Along with the power adapters and usb cables. (This tablet can charge from the USB port as well as a barrel plug charger connection)

As for the tablet hardware, the camera could use some work, it’s sensitive to light and takes a few seconds to fully focus. The speaker has a slight popping sound when the tablet goes to sleep, and the vibrator feels a little odd, but works fine.

The screen is beautiful though at its 1280×800 resolution in a 7″ package.

The default applications that came installed and are not able to uninstall (without root) include a few Chinese applications including a keyboard app, and some other multimedia applications and a web browser, English ES File Explorer, and some others. Most of which can be disabled in the Android Settings.

I purchased the tablets for children in the family and I’m sure they will enjoy them despite the few slight flaws.

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