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This afternoon I upgraded our Asterisk server from Ubuntu Gutsy to Ubuntu Hardy (8.04.1).

Hardy used the 2.6.24 kernel which the mISDN driver has some issues with. I tried the mISDN-1_1_7_2 and mISDN-1_1_8 which both failed to compile against the kernel.

I had to use the mISDN drivers from the git repository. Asterisk 1.4 includes the Chan mISDN drivers and these seemed to conflict and i upgraded Asterisk to 1.4.21.2. FreePBX configuration remained in place but in the new Asterisk version, the structure of /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf has changed.

It wouldn't listen to the astrundir and kept trying to create the files in /var/run which the user 'asterisk' had no permissions to do.

(Old asterisk.conf setup with FreePBX 2.4.0)

[global]
astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astagidir => /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin
astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk

(New asterisk.conf)

[directories]
astetcdir => /etc/asterisk
astmoddir => /usr/lib/asterisk/modules
astvarlibdir => /var/lib/asterisk
astagidir => /usr/share/asterisk/agi-bin
astspooldir => /var/spool/asterisk
astrundir => /var/run/asterisk
astlogdir => /var/log/asterisk

That pretty much solved it. Hope this helped someone.

After going to the drupal meetup in Johannesburg (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24383837792 ) - I always feel so inspired. Hence the blog entry and the tagadelic module running on the right hand side.

Your honor, exhibit A - the gun. Exhibit B - mother superior. I have no idea why she jumped the gun. Still. To this day.

In other conclusions and happenings - lost the POE port on my RB333 so I am having to split the network cable to hopefully still carry POE and 4 wires to carry data to another port. (yeah, sucks) - i think it was an act of God.

I think I officially prefer PS3 to xbox360. The xbox360 is pretty loud for a media center. There is a 80 gig ps3 bundle with MGS4 coming out in July to SA (according to animeworx). Will look at getting it there.

I also have a friend in the states bringing me back a new camera! (yay, last one got stone) - So im getting a Nikon D300 with 18-200VR lens. Then also an iPhone which i plan to hack to work on CellC. (well, thats the plan).

Oooh, and then just a punt for LSD - Linux System Dynamics (http://www.lsd.co.za) (gotta keep rankings up you know)

i just finished as a guest speaker at SANGONeT 2007 conference. Its a conference aimed at NGO's and I presented on using Google Earth and how by using overlays, Google Earth could be used promote the NGO's and their agenda. (that comes our wrong. You know what I mean).

I also met Rob Purdie (I hope his RSS finds this), and listened to his presentation on RSS, which was great.

Thanks to Matthew de Gale for the invite :)

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So i figure, if you leave something to long you'll never blog it. Thats what happened. So here are a bunch of random events that come to me as I write this, and then im leaving old stuff and will blog forthcoming attractions. that makes no sense.

LSD (my company) wins the Novell - Technical Resource of the Year Award for our work in data centers. This is a pretty good achievement and we hope to expand on this in this year.
Novell Reducation was an amazing party with a lot of drunkeness. haha. enuff said.
My body for life program is going pretty well. I think im about on week 6 or 7 and im down from 25% body fat to 21%. so im pretty excited about that. Wish i took those before pictures!
I have two submit two assignments for unisa due tomorrow (2007-04-09). ack.
The world is a vampire. (ok, i have no idea)
I am currently craving indian food. And at 5 I will be going to watch 300. I will give a report back.
I reached level 40 in WoW. Pity I dont have enough cash for my mount yet. sigh.

Thats got to be enough random crap for now. Take it easy guys.
Guy! Thanks for a cool party on Friday at your place. It rocked.