Eric, It's a huge learning curve, but you'll soon see light at ahead even before you know a lot. Get the book and start playing. You won't be sorry!
On 9/30/07, Eric B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Jim Canfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Eric B. wrote: > > site and got to chapter 4 or 5 and decided to take a break. Which is when > I > found AsteriskNow and TriBox and then started wondering if it was really > necessary / worthwhile to figure out all the intricacies of the application > if someones have already created the appliance version of it. In which > case, I was very confused as to the difference btwn AsteriskNow and TriBox. > > Thanks! > > > Last week I posed a similar question to the list as a "noob". > Specifically, I was curious why every one was so adverse to GUI > implementations. Like you, I entered the asterisk world quite > idealistic > and oblivious to what is actually required to create a functional system > (still am). I spent the good part of last week trying to make heads or > tails of the AsteriskNOW distro, but finally gave up in favor of a plain > jane Debian install with asterisk and wish I would have never wasted so > much time trying to figure out how the users.conf worked. > > <quote> > [TK]D-Fender - The users.conf is a flaming piece of sh**! > <\quote> > > I actually thought that was a bit harsh when I read it...turns out to be > quite accurate. Long story short, I'm learning to be quite comfortable > in > the CLI and finding myself more productive in nano (yes..nano) than I was > in the GUI. > > Good luck! > > > Thanks for the advice everyone. Will continue reading TFOT and get started! > > Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ > > --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
