January 2015

Asterisk on AWS Linux

Linux, Programming, Technology /

A couple of months ago I decided to move my company’s Asterisk PBX system from one of our physical data-center servers to Amazon’s AWS EC2 Platform. We had been using Trixbox since 2006, but the Community Edition of that product (Trixbox CE) is no longer being developed and is no longer supported. Since I was …

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How To Properly Test Batteries

Technology /

Testing batteries seems like an overly simple topic for a blog post, but unless you have a good quality battery tester, then chances are you’re not testing your batteries correctly. When testing with a multimeter, most people will simply take an open circuit voltage measurement from their cell. The problem with this approach is that …

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