I'm an idiot

[mdlbear]

I've just been reading a couple of articles in Infoworld about VoIP and Asterisk, and thinking how convenient it would have been to have had a VoIP connection between the Starport in San Jose and selkit's apartment in Vancouver while he was visiting. Could have saved quite a bit on long distance charges.

Sure, he and the Wolfling can use voice chat or Skype while they're apart, but I'm thinking more in terms of using it more as a cross-border bridge between the two landlines.

Aside to selkit -- check out Asterisk and the voip-info.org wiki.

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[chaoswolf]

I have been training him to use Gizmo. We've managed to get it working on my mac, as I still don't have a decent mic for my PC.

[mdlbear]

I'll try to remember to bring one home from work. I have one that I'm not using.

The advantage of Asterisk is that we could use two * systems as a bridge to the phone network on the other side of the border. So you could make a call from the house, route it over the internet to Selkit's system, and from there to the Canadian phone system. Or vice versa.