Another Infrequent Update

Woah! What's this, another update? Four posts so far this month, and we're only just into the last week. You are lucky.

As I have alluded to in previous posts, I have a Wii, which Leela bought me for my birthday. I feel I need to give it an entry of its own, because it's so utterly awesome - half of the entry is sitting in my drafts, but I just can't seem to get the other half finished. I will endeavour to post some more information shortly, but suffice it to say it is a lot of fun. All those who own a Wii can now nod in agreement, and send me their friends codes.

I have finally managed to find an excuse to do something interesting in my day-to-day work; I implemented a fancy Google map of tonbschl. I've also re-written my flash streaming media player (example here) - it's just like YouTube! Only without the angst-ridden teen cam whores. I have also written a nifty little postfix queue manager script, which I'll tidy up and put online when I get some free time.

My framework is still my biggest project at the moment; it's suffered from lack of time over the past few weeks, but the first release is now in sight. The URL dispatching system needs to support one more thing, the templating language needs a couple more features, and the relational database is still lacking, err, the relational bits. But the ground work is all done, it's just a matter of writing the code to glue it all together, and then it'll be time for testing. Exciting! This will be the 6th time I've actually finished it, but the first time I will release it. And, after about 7 years of on-and-mostly-off development, it at last has a name. Do keep an eye on my site; with several of my long-term projects nearing completion, I'm hoping the next few months will be quite interesting.

In other news, my car now seems to be fixed, and my nose is not really any better - I have my follow up appointment next week, so we'll see what they say. I also still seem to be quite good at FPS games, having come top in DoD:S on several rounds on several servers over the weekend. I don't like to brag, but then I did break 100 kills in a single match for the first time since my Quake 2 days. </smug>

I'm also in the market for a VoIP provider who offers an incoming landline gateway, with call divert and failover to landline and mobile - if anyone has any recommendations, do let me know and I'll add them to the list. I need a new number for work, so this has to be reliable. I have considered running my own asterisk-based forwarding system, but I don't think I'll have the bandwidth. My only question is, 01***/02** geographical, or 08** number - and if so, 0845, or 08-something else? If you were a potential or existing customer, would you really care - or even notice?

Comments

You know I'm just going to jump up and down and tell you that Asterisk can do your failover forwarding stuff for you. :)

My concern over that is partly bandwidth, partly CPU/memory usage, and partly that I don't know enough about Asterisk at the moment to trust my ability to run my own phone service :p

How much CPU/memory does Asterisk use when idling, and how much when mid-call?

Need a headset before I can start to play with any of these things anyway :)

I'll do some stats for you on my asterisk box, which is a laptop running nothing other than asterisk and mpd. Not quite sure how I'll do this, but I'll figure out a way.

uptime and ps should give a rough idea?

Nah, I'll do something much more complicated, like figure out how to make the whole thing interact with cacti, and then permission you ro access to a few graphs :)

I suppose you could get uptime and ps as well though....

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