{"id":305,"date":"2008-05-13T01:01:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/asterisks\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T01:01:25","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T01:01:25","slug":"asterisks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/asterisks\/","title":{"rendered":"Asterisks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As has been mentioned before in <a href=\"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/veghead\/vm\/690\/\">previous posts<\/a>, we don&#8217;t have a regular telephone service beyond our mobile phones and the plan is to use &#8220;asterisk&#8221; as a telephone exchange. For a large part of last weekend I spent time trying to get it working happily with the rest of our kit. All the time I was working on it, and failing to get it to work, I was relying on any incoming calls being diverted to a voicemail system belonging to our VoIP provider and so happily hacked away at all of the various byzantine configuration options. I managed to configure extension 500 to make the sound of monkeys screeching (one of the free sounds asterisk provides in its arsenal) whenever we dialed it. Being a phreaky geek I was excited about this because it showed I was getting somewhere. But after many hours of hacking I was still unable to make and receive calls from the outside world.<br \/>\nIt wasn&#8217;t until Sunday afternoon that I realised the truth: everything was working perfectly, except:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Outgoing calls were being dialed with no numbers, resulting in no sound and<\/li>\n<li>Incoming calls were being accepted and sent to the sound of screeching monkeys!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sorry to any folks who tried to call during that time.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight I was trying to find some suitably offensive music to download in the hope of subjecting telemarketers  to it, when I suddenly remembered that I own some really dreadfully shit music already! After a little searching I became aware of how utterly unpleasant some of my CDs would be as unsolicited hold music. Akie&#8217;s classic &#8220;Magic Troms&#8221; proved to be our favourite. Listen out telemarketers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As has been mentioned before in previous posts, we don&#8217;t have a regular telephone service beyond our mobile phones and the plan is to use &#8220;asterisk&#8221; as a telephone exchange. For a large part of last weekend I spent time trying to get it working happily with the rest of our kit. All the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}