From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from spaceymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CAEA10A69 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:53:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from tdsdeb (unknown [168.103.85.95]) by spaceymail-a6.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8F39CA7CB for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 07:53:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <206B508E0D4F401B9B5F8A598E07F113@tdsdeb> From: "Tyler Littlefield" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <1BD1C30706B746E6A9BA025AB37C8493@brentpc><20090716221652.GA18261@csy.ca> <20090717144851.GA23499@braille.uwo.ca> Subject: Re: configuring asterisk:cheap phone? Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:53:26 -0600 Organization: TDS MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5579 X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tyler Littlefield , "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:53:34 -0000 hello, I use the apt package, though I wouldn't do that on a production server; it's dependencies make no sense at all. It wants xserver for asterisk, weird. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry D. Cudney" To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 8:48 AM Subject: Re: configuring asterisk:cheap phone? > Hi all, > > It looks like there are a number of people here who are using or are > interested in voip. > Asterisk has a steep learning curve and I wouldn't recommend starting > into it if you are only going to use it for a short time. ON the other > hand, if you can justify the time to learn it, using straight asterisk > 1.4/1.6 is very accessible for us bliind users. All configs are text > files. Once you get a handle on it, setting up new phones/lines is very > quick and easy. If you are using Debian, there is an asterisk apt package > that does quite nicely fo rthe base asterisk installation. > I have not looked at the numerous graphical configuration systems (like > pbxinaflash or trixbox). Perhaps some of you who have used some of these > could comment on their accessibility using commandline tools/speakup. > How many people here have asterisk (or other voip server) running that > we could maybe set up a "blinknet" based on iax2 (or even sip)? > > Let's all thank Kirk for his liberality in not restricting postings here > to just speakup-related topics! > > --terry > > -- > Name: Terry D. Cudney > Phone: 705-812-4949 > SIP: 5000@cudney.homeip.net > E-mail: terry@octothorp.org > > Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... > having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. > > Tired of technology? Check this out: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup