April 19, 2005
the joys of asterisk
ahhhh, god bless asterisk! It's an open source PBX server. Bought a digium Pci PBX card off of ebay for $9. Not too shabby!
I'm still developing heavily, but feel free to call my room and check it out!
(216) 754-7583
The plan is to have it control my room (Control my room!) via voice commands (using Sphynx) and have Festival read dynamic menus.
I'll probably make a perl script to read my blog. super sweet.
Anyone want to hook me up with a software voip connection to the Case VO-IP server. I can hook asterisk up to it...and...call people. joy! That actually might come in handy when i move down to North Carolina this summer...that would save me from purchasing long distance. Otherwise, i guess i'll use Vonage.
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April 15, 2005
photo.case.edu
well, i think i have a summer project idea in mind. let me know what you think of it...if it's worthwhile, suggestions and tips welcome!
Here's the pitch!
Photo.case.edu is a gallery that allows CWRU students and faculty to upload digital photos to personal and public photo albums. Personal photo albums allow CWRU students and faculty to store and view their digital photos. In addition, personal photos can be set to be viewable by all or select CWRU users.
A collection of moderated public photo albums are available for events, topics, and interests and can be viewed by anyone on the internet.
The main page would present random public photos and ways of navigating to personal and group albums. An optional downloadable screensaver for Linux, Mac, and Windows clients would connect to photo.case.edu and display a random public photo images.
Now the tech...in no particular order!
The server would feature the Apache webserver, Linux, PHP, and MySQL. Due to the large body of possible users (including alumni...) the server would need to have a large amount of space (2 terabytes of SCSI raid-5, and upgradable). The authentication would happen against the LDAP. First time users would register, resulting in the creation of their initial gallery. Student groups wishing to create a gallery would be assigned virtual accounts to the secretary of the student group. (much much more on this later!)
The gallery itself is going to be designed around and with the PHP-Gallery 2
http://gallery.sourceforge.net/
I *really* want to do this screensaver idea. Use some OpenGL and make it very pretty (flip and rotate pictures like a Mac does...). One of the features of this photo.case.edu is going to be a "Poster Upload Album". CWRU people can upload their fliers to this moderated album to announce events happening around or near campus. These images will be feature frequently on the screensaver (1 poster per every 10 pictures?), free of charge. It's like postering around campus without all the pain, waste of paper (i'm sure Wade and fribley will be happy) -- plus more effective since your ad is in the student's room!
Now the question?
Where am I going to get the money for this beast of a server? Not sure. But I plan on designing it first on my little box and then giving the project to the university if it works. We'll see.
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control my room
Do you enjoy turning off lights while I try to study?
Does the thought of making my computer speak to me at 5am sound entertaining?
Come and check it out...
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