If you’ve been away from the Raspberry Pi world awhile, welcome to the club. We began with the $35 Raspberry Pi when Eben Upton was literally making house calls. We got to meet Eben and his wife when he visited Charleston early on. But WOW have things changed. The Raspberry Pi 5 and the 500 keyboard version are powerhouses. And today we have a special treat for those of you that still have a RasPi 4 or 400 as well… Read More ›
Remember when all the bad guys purchased burner phones to disguise all their transactions. Well, there’s good news. Now they can use their modern cellphone and add a "Burner eSIM" for those pesky criminal activities. But there’s a silver lining for those of us that don’t traffic in crime for a living. An eSIM lets you add an additional phone line to your new Android phone or iPhone to assure cellular coverage when your primary cell carrier falls short. We… Read More ›
As you might imagine, we spend an inordinate amount of time wrestling with current cellphone offerings to find the best and the least costly options for the Nerd Vittles Fan Club. Today we’ll tackle a new wrinkle that should be especially enticing for those that frequently travel to a variety of locations in the United States with dramatically different cellular connectivity metrics. For example, in many areas of the North Carolina mountains, cell towers of one or two of the… Read More ›
Today marks the one-week anniversary of Debian "trixie" 13.5 bringing critical security patches and some minor stability updates to this new operating system. It also addresses a major Linux kernel privilege escalation flaw (CVE-2026-46333) affecting default installs of Debian 13 as well as critical kernel patches. Debian 13 "trixie" will be supported for 5 years with three years of full, standard support and two years of Long Term Support (LTS). With this new Debian 13.5 release, it seemed only fitting… Read More ›
What a difference a couple decades make from the original iPod to today’s Digital Audio Players. What was once a personal MP3 player is now a full-fledged Android device with functionality that was never once envisioned. Imagine a device for $50 that can not only play your tunes in virtually any format but can also stream music, audio, and video from all of the popular streaming services including Spotify, Audible, Deezer, Apple Music, Amazon Music, TikTok, and YouTube. Did we… Read More ›
Truth be told, our family is pretty much always on the go. I-95 and I-26 are our constant companions. So it’s no secret that internet connectivity is important to us. While traveling, my wife does volunteer work with a non-profit organization that requires her to work in the car while I chauffeur. And, when we arrive at our favorite destinations in three different states, we need reliable internet service for both my business and for hers. If you pretty much… Read More ›
In our previous article, we sang the praises of FusionPBX as the terrific GUI that was always missing from FreeSWITCH. Little did we know that a better mousetrap was hiding just behind the curtain. And today we introduce the third layer to our 3-Layer Cake, FS PBX. Some might call it a refinement of FusionPBX. We think it’s more of an enhanced feature set of the already rich offerings in FusionPBX. Technically, it’s a fork. More accurately, it’s a fork,… Read More ›
It’s been almost seven years since we first looked at FusionPBX and FreeSwitch. So we’ve spent the last couple months taking a fresh look at the platform and WOW! What a difference seven years make. We will hasten to add that FusionPBX is not a platform for folks that are new to the VoIP world or networking. For those users, the various flavors of Incredible PBX including the latest Incredible PBX 2025 and Incredible PBX 2027 for Debian 11 or… Read More ›
Ever since Eben and Liz Upton first introduced the Raspberry Pi to our Charleston community over a decade ago, the primary focus of their development team has been to encourage people of the world to learn about computers on an affordable platform. To this day, the Raspberry Pi 4B can still be purchased (if you can find one) for $35. Unfortunately, supply chain issues have taken their toll. If you prefer not to pay a premium for the Raspberry Pi… Read More ›
These past two weeks to celebrate the New Year, we’ve introduced Incredible PBX 2027 for Rocky 8 with AMD64-compatible hardware and Incredible PBX 2027 for Ubuntu 22.04 with AMD64 and ARM64 hardware support. Today we’re pleased to introduce Incredible PBX 2027 for Debian 11 featuring Asterisk® 20 LTS support until the fall of 2027. This release comes with full support for FreePBX® 16 as well as all the Incredible PBX goodies to which you’ve become accustomed. UPDATE: Proxmox image of… Read More ›
Last week to celebrate New Year’s Day, we introduced Incredible PBX 2027 for Rocky 8 with AMD64-compatible hardware. Today we’re pleased to introduce Incredible PBX 2027 for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with its ten-year life cycle to complement Asterisk® 20 featuring LTS support until the fall of 2027. Both new AMD64 releases come with full support for FreePBX® 16 as well as all the Incredible PBX goodies to which you’ve become accustomed. We also want to offer our thanks to the… Read More ›
Today we’re rounding out our Virtual Machine Trifecta with the introduction of Incredible PBX 2021 for VMware. If you haven’t already figured it out, virtual Machines are the future of server administration. Whether you prefer your own dedicated hardware or cloud-based resources managed by you or someone else, virtual platforms are the way to go. You get more bang for the buck out of your hardware by pooling resources for multiple tasks. VMware®, Proxmox®, and VirtualBox® make it easy. This… Read More ›
Now we’re getting down to the tough choices in VoIP softphones. You certainly need the Linphone app to make free SIP URI calls worldwide from your mobile phone. But you also need a softphone that connects to Incredible PBX® so that you never miss a traditional call to your home or office PBX. If you want tight integration with Asterisk® and FreePBX®, Clearly Anywhere is the hands-down winner, and you’ve still got until October 31 to take advantage of the… Read More ›
For those just beginning the Incredible PBX® 2020 adventure, start here for CentOS 7 or here for the Raspberry Pi. Once your system is up and running, you’ll be ready to kick the tires. And today we’ll cover 30 applications for Asterisk® and FreePBX® that are included in the latest and greatest Incredible PBX server. Now that you have some time on your hands, continue learning about this powerful platform by reading this documentation. If you still have questions, post… Read More ›
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