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    Wed, 03 May 2006

    Nearing Zero

    Cartoons, many with a Science bent. Browse the Subject Gallery or in bunches of 10.

    My favorite is:

    nz017Environmental Scientists in the Wild West.[...higher res version...] (no deep linking).

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    au.pool.ntp.org - NTP for home / SMEs

    For machines at home, instead of configuring to use Monash's NTP servers, use a pool of public servers.

    To use this pool zone, add the following to your ntp.conf file:

    server 0.au.pool.ntp.org
server 1.au.pool.ntp.org
server 2.au.pool.ntp.org

    Of course, if you aren't in Australia, use the appropriate pool.

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    Bitsavers.org

    As of Feb, 2006 there are over 8818 documents containing over 830,000 pages in the archive.

    Would you like to help bitsavers? We're looking for documentation and software for minicomputers and mainframes, from the 50's to the 80's. email contrib at bitsavers dot org if you can help.

    Help Us Save What Bits Still Exist.

    Work on the bitsavers project has been going on now for over five years, and it is appears that very little software for minicomputers and mainframes has survived in machine-readable form from the mid-seventies and earlier. If you know of surviving software on 1/2" tape, paper tape, cards, DECtape, etc. from users groups or computer manufacturers, please contact us. Equipment is available to recover these bits, and in some cases can be brought on-site.

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    Monty Python's Completely Useless Web Site

    Welcome to the completely unauthorized, completely silly, and completely useless Monty Python web site!

    Contains information about Monty Python's TV shows: Monty Python's Flying Circus and And Now For Something Completely Different; and movies: Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python Live At The Hollywood Bowl, and Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.

    Includes stills, MIDI theme musinc, sound grabs, and/or scripts. Also a Forum with news and discussions.

    A wonderful resource!!

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    Voipbuster - the Free Calls Company

    Warning: These Web pages use a nasty Cross Browser marquee from Dynamic Drive that sucks all your PC's CPU time !!! Don't leave this site ticking away in a browser tab or two !!!

    Offers Free calls to landlines in many countries including Australia, and free VoIP-In numbers in e.g. United Kingdom. You need to install and run the Windows client to create yourself an account.

    " You can now make FREE calls to several countries. These calls are limited to 1 minute per call. If you want UNLIMITED calls to our FREE destinations please go to our website and buy 10 Euro worth of credit. "

    * Max 20hrs per month of free calls.

    Rates to other countries are e.g. 1 (Euro cent?) per minute to USA.

    SIP settings: 
    Username: 	Your VoipBuster username
Password: 	Your VoipBuster password
SIP/Proxy registrar: 	sip.voipbuster.com
Domain/Realm (optional): 	voipbuster.com
STUN server: 	stun.voipbuster.com

    Always dial 00 + countrycode + areacode + subscribernumber.

    ?? Test numbers

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    oztralia.com again

    I've re-subscribed to oztralia.com for inbound Fax-to-email (I've cancelled my 2nd Optus landline) and for testing Asterisk trunking.

    The web site hasn't improved much -- all the detailed information is still in the forums.

    Their plans have been simplified down to just two, plus added services.

    IAX Software

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    Whirlpool - Australin Broadband News links

    This post is to collect up VoIP links on Whirlpool.

    Forums - Internode
    Discussions about Nodephone, Billion 7402VGP and Sipura gateways ...

    Wiki
    Links to FAQs, including Wiki - VoIP Providers and Wiki - VoIP

    Forums - Voice over IP
    Includes General VoIP Information and Reference, How to unlock engin VoIP Box (Sipura SPA2000), Spa 3k dial plan (& 2k, linksys pap2 &c), VOIP Provider Wiki, Australian Asterisk VoIP Users Group, Forums - Voice over IP - Asterisk .

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    Asterisk@Home

    I installed V2.7 on an old IBM Personal Computer 300PL/. Asterisk@Home is an interesting IP PBX based on CentOS and chock-full of VoIP goodies.

    It does take a little while to get to grips with everything that is included, and work out how to drive it all.

    It is a IP PBX with SIP and IAX interfaces, rather than a SIP router. It wants to relay all the voice traffic as well as the signalling. This probably has a performance overhead, but does make gatewaying easier.

    I think the best setup guide is the "Asterisk@Home Without Tears - The Dumb-Me Guide" which is discussed at Whirlpool Forums - Voice over IP - Asterisk - Kickstart for Asterisk newbie.

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