[Gllug] Is this a silly idea - VOIP telephony with Asterisk?

John Winters john at sinodun.org.uk
Sun Feb 12 17:16:01 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 16:32 +0000, Andy Farnsworth wrote:
> Simon Morris wrote:
> 
> >On 11/02/06, John Winters <john at sinodun.org.uk> wrote:
> >  
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >I have this in mind as well - although I'd rather just hang both of my
> >handsets off of the SIPGate service. If I go for an Asterisk server I
> >plan on using Asterisk at Home which has some very nice web-based admin
> >tools thrown in as well as reporting etc
> >
> One caution on using Asterisk at Home... it will wipe your primary hard 
> drive completely with no warning so be sure you are ready for this when 
> you boot the CD Image.

To be fair, it does give a warning, although it just gives one and
doesn't go on to say:

Are you sure?
Are you sure you're sure?
Are you sure you're sure you're sure?

It would be fairly easy to miss if you weren't expecting it.

John

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