Snafu Blog

July 20, 2009

Linksys SPA-941

Filed under: Asterisk, Technology — Ian @ 22:15

I’ve been playing around with a SPA-941 today, integrating it with my asterisk system (more on that later). It’s a really nice SIP phone, that beats the hell out of the Mitel phone I use at work and costs half as much money. Mind you, asterisk does a lot more than the Mitel exchange but that might be because the firmware doesn’t seem to have been updated for a while…

The SPA-941 supports four lines with the latest firmware, though I’ve yet to think of a use for three of them! Call quality is excellent, much better than what I get using an analog phone through a PAP2T adaptor. I’m going to play with some of the more advanced bits, like getting its directory to sync with LDAP when I get more time.

The best bit of the SPA-941? It comes with the 24 ringtone, a bonus of being part of Cisco!

July 19, 2009

All change

Filed under: Technology — Ian @ 12:14

It’s been a long time since I blogged anything, mainly because life with two small children doesn’t leave a lot of free time! I’ve recently been sorting out the snafu.org.uk domain to move it’s hosting and so it seems like a good time for a bit of an update.

For quite a few years snafu has been hosted by Dreamhost, who are an excellent hosting company, but with the change in exchange rates >$100 a year for hosting was becoming expensive. I also barely used most of the features they provided and the fact I’ve now got a small, low power consuming server at home it meant it really was a waste of money.
This means I’ve taken the route many people have and outsourced various bits and pieces to the cloud :)

The email for this domain is hosted for free by Google Apps (and you of course get the calendar etc. etc. thrown in). This blog is hosted by wordpress, which means I don’t have to keep patching it up to date. A small fee means I can use a custom URL. Any bespoke web stuff, of which there is little, can be hosted on my home server. All in all this means a saving of just under $100 a year, which is pretty good.

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