Archive for June, 2008

June 30

Critical Bug Fix: Asterisk 1.4.21.1 Released

Posted by jj
Filed under Asterisk | No Comments

It was just announced that Asterisk 1.4.21.1 has been released.
This release contains a fix that solves lockup issues discovered in the 1.4.21 release of Asterisk. All users running Asterisk 1.4.21 should upgrade to avoid deadlock issues.

June 25

About Time for A Change

Posted by jj
Filed under NuFone, VoIP | 5 Comments

Things are finally changing for the better in both my personal and business lives.
As for the personal side of things I will be getting married to Krystina Patterson on July 26th, 2008 in an outside ceremony here in lovely Northern Michigan. If you happen to be in the neighborhood, feel free to […]

June 20

NuFone: Worst Provider Ever…

Posted by jj
Filed under Asterisk, Flamewar, NuFone | 9 Comments

This really grinds my gears™
Apparently the worst provider ever award goes to NuFone… Well, at least according to this blog post.
This is yet another person who has chose to slant his experiences with NuFone in order to promote service from another VoIP Provider. Anyone else see a trend?
For the record, his trouble ticket was […]

June 17

A New Timing API for Asterisk, Silencing Digium Critics

Posted by jj
Filed under Asterisk, DAHDI, Digium | 4 Comments

Russell Bryant has post details of a new timing API for Asterisk:

Starting with Asterisk 1.6.1, you will no longer need DAHDI installed at all to get proper timing in Asterisk. There is a new timing API, and there are already two implementations. There is a DAHDI timing interface (res_timing_dahdi) and another (res_timing_pthread) that has no […]

June 6

Amazon.com Down

Posted by jj
Filed under Amazon | No Comments

Since about 1pm Eastern I have been getting:
http/1.1 Service Unavailable
…back from Amazon.com.
However, my S3 account and EC2 instances are still functioning as expected.