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| Can anyone recommend a good book for getting to grips with Asterisk?
(www.asterisk.org).
I know there are alot of online resources but sometimes I want to read a
book.
thanks
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| Ralf Janssen 2005-08-28, 5:45 pm |
| Here is a good one:
Asterisk and IP Telephony
BY Paul Mahle
ISBN 09759992-0-6
Mahler, P.S.
Copyright 2003, 2004 by Signate, LLC.
<me@privacy.net> wrote in message
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> Can anyone recommend a good book for getting to grips with Asterisk?
> (www.asterisk.org).
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> I know there are alot of online resources but sometimes I want to read a
> book.
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> thanks
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| Phil Thompson 2005-08-29, 2:45 am |
| On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:43:07 +0200, "Ralf Janssen"
<ralf.janssen@t-online.de> wrote:
>Here is a good one:
it is a book but I'm not sure its "good". I would borrow it but not
buy it.
Phil
--
Remember - Global Warming is only a weather forecast :-)
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| Ralf Janssen 2005-08-29, 5:45 pm |
| Phil,
it depends, on what angle you see that.
In my point of view it's the best you can get until O'Reilly will publish
their new ones.
Kinf Greetings out of germany
Ralf
"Phil Thompson" <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 23:43:07 +0200, "Ralf Janssen"
> <ralf.janssen@t-online.de> wrote:
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> it is a book but I'm not sure its "good". I would borrow it but not
> buy it.
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> Phil
> --
> Remember - Global Warming is only a weather forecast :-)
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| Phil Thompson 2005-08-29, 5:45 pm |
| On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 19:39:03 +0200, "Ralf Janssen"
<ralf.janssen@t-online.de> wrote:
>In my point of view it's the best you can get
it probably is, I'm just not sure its good but like you say that's an
opinion.
The whole chapter devoted to a particluar cisco VoIP phone could IMO
have usefully been replaced with a really simple example configuration
"how to".
After reading the book I didn't feel I could setup a single VoIP phone
on an Asterisk system connecting to a single provider. The online
resources were better.
Phil
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Remember - Global Warming is only a weather forecast :-)
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| Phil Thompson <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote:
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> After reading the book I didn't feel I could setup a single VoIP
> phone on an Asterisk system connecting to a single provider. The
> online resources were better. ^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Given how shockingly badly written and incomplete voip-info.org is,
that's pretty damning of the book.
The ORA book looks to be well-written, although the sample chapter and
table of contents suggest it's more of an introductory text to get a
basic PBX going rather than anything advanced and interesting.
I would have loved to have had the ORA about 18 months ago when I
first started playing with Asterisk.
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There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the
money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world
should know; the third is that you can't think what to do with the long winter
evenings. - Quentin Crisp
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"Peter" <abuse@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Phil Thompson <phil.thompson@spamcop.net> wrote:
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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> Given how shockingly badly written and incomplete voip-info.org is,
> that's pretty damning of the book.
voip-info is only as good as the info people submit to it. And dont forget
for a lot of writers English is not their first language. Personally I found
it very useful at the start and now I try to add to it when I sort out a
problem that is not listed.
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> The ORA book looks to be well-written, although the sample chapter and
> table of contents suggest it's more of an introductory text to get a
> basic PBX going rather than anything advanced and interesting.
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Which is the problem with the signate book.
> I would have loved to have had the ORA about 18 months ago when I
> first started playing with Asterisk.
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My problem with mst books is that they are either aimed at new users or out
of date. That said the only ORA book that doesnt fit that description is
"Unix in a nutshell" I stell use my 9 year old copy on a weekly basis
Ian
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| Ralf Janssen 2005-08-30, 5:45 pm |
| Hi Phil,
> it probably is, I'm just not sure its good but like you say that's an
> opinion.
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> The whole chapter devoted to a particluar cisco VoIP phone could IMO
> have usefully been replaced with a really simple example configuration
> "how to".
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> After reading the book I didn't feel I could setup a single VoIP phone
> on an Asterisk system connecting to a single provider. The online
> resources were better.
Totaly Agree, you're right.
In the original case i guess the questioner needs something to store under
his pillow.
Take care.
Ralf
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