[Asterisk-Users] * found in Iraq!!

[Dean Collins]

That's great.....it's a virus I tell you * is everywhere :)

Viva la asterisk.


Cheers,
Dean


> -----Original Message-----
> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
> bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Mark Phillips
> Sent: Friday, 3 June 2005 6:46 AM
> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] * found in Iraq!!
> 
> So I'm on the phone with an Army office in Iraq as part of my other
> paying job (I'm a radio journalist) and we got to talking about the
> technology I was using at my end to record our conversation (I called
> him from my * box) when to my total amazement he announced that they
> were running Asterisk around the camp.
> 
> It seems that the PBX they had shipped out from the US arrived in "kit
> form" and thus left them without facilities. One of their Civil
Affairs
> guys is a Linux Guru in his real life and so knocked something up from
a
> few scruffy PC's they had lying about. They are using Grand Stream
> phones that they have their relatives send them out.
> 
> Next time you are "throwing out" equipment perhaps you'd give the boys
> in Camp Slayer, Baghdad a thought. We know how under equipped they are
> and it seems that it doesn't just run to weapons/armour.
> 
> Salaam Aleichem!
> 
> --
> 
> Mark, G7LTT/KC2ENI
> Randolph, NJ
> http://www.g7ltt.com
> 
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