[WM: Funny you'd mention that. See this thread.]

WM: Nice!

There have been many efforts over the years to move the state capital from Juneau to somewhere on the highway system, but these efforts have gone nowhere largely because it would kill Juneau.

When Palin was governor, she got a lot of flack within the state for conducting much of the state’s business from Anchorage, including holding legislative sessions there, and not requiring some of her government officials to move to Juneau, as previous governors had done.

Though no Palin fan myself, I do think you do her and all Alaska governors a disservice with your comment about the ‘ “leadership skills” of someone governing … in a place as isolated and uninhabited as the great state of Alaska.” That isolation doesn’t mean that the governorship doesn’t require leadership skills. Most people don’t think of the difficulties that arise in such a state. Scattered population in small bush villages that are inaccessible by road are just as much the responsibility of the governor as the population in the major cities. Overseeing such things as Medicaid is different in a state where the state must not only cover costs of medical care itself, but also transportation and lodging costs, and to even get to a doctor, a patient may spend a whole day (or two) traveling, having to take a snow machine, bush plane, and airliner. The education needs of a small one room schoolhouses in the middle of nowhere must be met just as much as the 100-school district in Anchorage.

But as for the quitting early thing, I’m with you there.

[WM: We visited Juneau, Sitka, and Ketchikan. It looked like all of them would be dead without cruise ships. At least until the cruise ships appeared, statehood appears to have all but killed Ketchikan's major source of income: prostitution. As for leadership skills, you're certainly correct. There is plenty to manage in a place like Alaska. But those problems have very little to do with most of the major issues confronting our country. Palin's divisive comments aside, I'm glad we at least agree that managers who quit when the going gets tough have no place in state government much less national politics. Just my $.02, of course.]

How was your VOIP access on the iPad out and about?

[WM: Where there was WiFi access, VoIP connectivity with the iPad through our PIAF server in Charleston was fine. But there's no 3G service to be found in Juneau, Sitka, or Ketchikan. And AT&T's Edge "service" was next to worthless.]

example:
username: 701
password: ?
server: my server’s ipaddress

[WM: Use your password for extension 701. It's stored in FreePBX in the secret field for that extension.]

[WM: http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7857 ]

I’m a programmer (I previously worked for Fonality), and heavily use Asterisk, Freeswitch, and other platforms in my work.

For source hosting (both open source and closed source), I prefer to use github (http://github.com/).

They provide an unlimited amount of storage, filehosting, statistics, version control (git or svn), issue tracker, wiki, etc., all for free. They also have an awesome website, great community, and automatic approval process. So, unlike sourceforge, you don’t have to submit a projcet for approval, you just create a new one instantly.

Anyhow, I’d highly recommend using them if you are looking for a good version control hosting website.

[WM: Thanks for your comments. GitHub is certainly another option although only open source hosting is free. Other hosting plans start at substantially more cost than many commercial web hosting sites. Users might also want to carefully review the GitHub terms of service which grant the site owners unlimited discretion to terminate accounts and delete account contents "for any reason at any time." Not my favorite kind of relationship, but others might be of a different view.]

Any ideas?

[WM: If it ain't broke... ]

require “/root/twitter.lib.php”;

Needs to be changed to the path your twitter.lib.php actually is in (obviously I guess). I untar’d the package both as root and without and as you point out, since Mac’s don’t have a root folder it gets unpacked in the user’s directory.

Seems to be working now though. Thank you!

[WM: Problems have been reported with CentOS drivers and the EEE PC so we wouldn't recommend it unless you really know a lot about installing missing drivers in CentOS.]

[WM: Haven't tried that combination. It's worth a try. You'll know if it works. ]

this is the command on instructions:
mysql -uroot -ppassw0rd -e “select id,data from asterisk.sip where id=’701′ and keyword=’secret’”

error message:
ERROR 1045 (28000) access denied for user ‘root’@'localhost’ (using password: yes)

please help…..! thanks!

[WM: Make sure your MySQL root password is passw0rd with a zero.]

[WM: CounterPath didn't actually develop X-Lite. They bought it from the actual developer. The only version that they "developed" was the beta which has disappeared thanks to a time-bomb in the code. Suffice it to say, we've parted company with CounterPath, business practices that make us hold our nose.]

[WM: Works fine as long as you indicate that it is running Asterisk 1.6.2 so that the extensions_custom.conf setup can be adjusted appropriately.]

[WM: Bronze is Asterisk 1.6. If you're using Incredible PBX and chose the Asterisk 1.6 option, you should be fine. If you manually installed Google Voice, then you'll need to change the piping | characters to commas in extensions_custom.conf and restart Asterisk. 64-bit shouldn't matter.]

[WM: No reason to run update-source on a new install of PIAF 1.7.5.5. And none of these scripts update FreePBX which can only be upgraded within the FreePBX GUI... also not recommended. Our rule of thumb: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" unless you really, really need some special feature.]

[WM: update-source brings previous versions of PIAF current with CentOS. update-fixes handles any patches and security issues. Very different than the trixbox methodology.]

[WM: Gold has an obscure SIP vulnerability, but Silver has DAHDI. So you get to choose your own poison. If you're going to expose SIP to the Internet, you're probably safer with Silver. That doesn't necessarily mean it's as reliable as the Gold version. Time will tell.]

Apparently the Nexus One is dead.

I compiled an incredible pbx here at home, now I’m looking for a good wifi/cellphone (that is not an iPhone) to take advantage of it. Any new suggestions?

[WM: Nexus One will live on. Just won't be marketed by Google any longer. Sprint's HTV Evo 4G would be our next pick. And, there's a new one from Samsung coming soon.]

[WM: We're obviously not in a position to vouch for the security of someone else's distribution. You might want to post this on their forum.]

[WM: Anyone is free to change the extension numbers to whatever numbers best meet your needs. That's the beauty of open source.]