Archive for June 2009

Adempiere , Asterisk and Ekiga

June 8, 2009 Adempiere, Ekiga, Sip One comment

Michael Judd setup an asterisk system for adempiere community to use. once the accounts for people are created you can access it using a voip softphone or a hard phone.

With the service we can currently conference, and call extensions for free. Mike have the servers located in data centre in London which has plenty of bandwidth. (1,000GB/month) he has some inbound UK numbers which can be routed through different call groups and queues. You can schedule timezones and only route to certain extensions at certain times of the day (so as not to wake you up at night).

Currently, there is no outbound calling (as that costs money), but he can add additional telephone numbers for different countries and route them directly to you.

People who want to join the system will be able to call and transfer calls to each other – so this could be used as a collaboration tool for support.

Mike is presently looking for other interested parties to try this out – please contact michael dot judd at akunagroup dot com if you are interested.

I have tested it using Ekiga on 256 Kbps bandwidth from Airtel Broadband services , it works well some screen shots below

account settings i have done in Ekiga

service:
username:
password: (same for voicemail)

You can try the following numbers:
102 – Mike Judd
304 – Satyag
# – Directory
*43 – echo test
*60 – speaking clock
411 – Directory dial by name
*97 – voicemail

You can try other sip clients from this Sip software list and report to mike how things are working at your end

PYTHONSTARTUP == .profile

June 4, 2009 python, tips No comments

When you use Python interactively, it is frequently handy to have some standard commands executed every time the interpreter is started. You can do this by setting an environment variable named PYTHONSTARTUP to the name of a file containing your start-up commands. This is similar to the .profile feature of the Unix shells.

This file is only read in interactive sessions, not when Python reads commands from a script, and not when /dev/tty is given as the explicit source of commands (which otherwise behaves like an interactive session). It is executed in the same namespace where interactive commands are executed, so that objects that it defines or imports can be used without qualification in the interactive session. You can also change the prompts sys.ps1 and sys.ps2 in this file.

If you want to read an additional start-up file from the current directory, you can program this in the global start-up file using code like if os.path.isfile(‘.pythonrc.py’): execfile(‘.pythonrc.py’). If you want to use the startup file in a script, you must do this explicitly in the script:

import os
filename = os.environ.get(‘PYTHONSTARTUP’)
if filename and os.path.isfile(filename):
execfile(filename)