Here’s a list of pretty annoying hold music for your IVR’s – stolen from asterisk-users :)

Hold music Annie Lennox: Waiting in Vain Eurythmics: When Tomorrow Comes Moody Blues: Go Now PSB: Saturday Night Forever Pink Floyd: Time Tom Robinson: The Frozen Man Eurythmics: Forever Rolling Stones: Time Is On My Side Tommy Tutone – 867 5309 Kim Wilde – 36580 Blondie: Hanging on the Telephone ELO: Telephone Line Empire Records – Money (that’s what I want) Pink Floyd: Money Blondie: Call Me ELO: Ma Ma Ma Belle...

July 23, 2005 · 1 min · 130 words · Matt G

How To Mess With Crappy Customers – Phone Kill Switch

When I worked for this huge corporation at the desktop publisher desk, we used to have this guy who would come in, layout his lunch and use our courtesy phone to conduct business from. Needless to say, this wasn’t right. We kept asking him to leave, and he just kept coming back. Eventually I got tired of it, and decided to do something about it. Enter, the phone kill switch....

June 16, 2005 · 1 min · 174 words · Matt G

Ices & Icecast Howto for OpenBSD

Prerequisites: Icecast Ices MP3’s/OGG’s Unixish Operating System, In this case OpenBSD Although this howto is written for OpenBSD I’m sure it will work on any other BSD or Linux Operating System with a few modifications given to the instructions below. Please keep in mind that these instructions are by no means complete, or even guaranteed to work. I’m writing this from memory, so I might mistake some steps, but there is excellent documentation available through the use of Google or the Icecast/Ices site....

June 16, 2004 · 6 min · 1159 words · Matt G