PIONEERS Lenny Is Back!

[mbellot]

But as the caption at the bottom says... "still runs".

Updating would be much less painful if there was a way to migrate things like trunks, extensions, in and outbound routes... But I know that comes with it's own pile of problems, which is why it's generally not possible.

I've been slowly adding the config info to my VB PIAF-Green system with the hopes of doing a config backup and restore to the real system (new HD with a fresh Green install waiting, the old Gold HD standing by when it all goes very wrong).

 

[markieb]

Lenny is very pleased with himself today
He took a survey and almost made an accident claim.
Turned out to be a very entertaining day after all lol.

 

[wardmundy]

If you liked Lenny, you'll love Gladys. She's 88. I may have to pay her a visit just to get some recordings.

 

[wardmundy]

 

[wardmundy]

Another couple of great Lenny calls on DSLReports.

 

[wintek]

Lenny buys a magazine subscription for my wife!

 

[visionlogic]

I've installed Lenny Encore ( http://nerdvittles.com/?p=6762 ) on my Incredible Pi. In doing some testing after setting up convert2mp3.sh and running it I get this error:

/root/convert2mp3.sh: line 13: /usr/local/bin/mime-construct: No such file or directory

SSH'ing into the Pi and checking "/usr/local/bin" confirms no such file.

I know next to nothing regarding linux and its various permutations. Is there an existing "mime-construct" that I can grab and place in "/usr/local/bin" in order to fix this error on the Pi?

Thanks

EDIT 1: After some searching, I used "sudo apt-get install mime-construct" to install from raspian. Now the script converts wav to mp3. However, no email is sent when I run the script. The only error is that the "--from" switch is unknown by mime-construct. Any ideas?


EDIT 2: Going back through this thread and using a change posted by Trimline2 at the top of page 4, and then using info about "mime-construct" and its switches found at http://search.cpan.org/~rosch/mime-construct/mime-construct , I made some changes to convert2mp3.sh as follows and it's working perfectly. Just thought I share my minuscule achievement with anyone else that might be playing with the Incredible Pi.

#!/bin/bash
# name of this script: convert2mp3.sh
# wav to mp3 and email the results to:
 
email="[email protected]"
subj="Lenny Recording $(date)"
 
cd /tmp/Lenny
for i in *.wav; do
if [ -e "$i" ]; then
file=`basename "$i" .wav`
lame -h -b 64 "$i" "$file.mp3"
rm "$file.wav"
/usr/bin/mime-construct --file-auto "$file.mp3" --to $email --subject "$subj"
rm "$file.mp3"
fi
done
 
# end of script

 

[visionlogic]

Got this call yesterday. Lenny gets pitched "FREE Black Bull" male enhancement for almost 10 minutes. The telemarketer sure wants his VISA/Mastercard number!

 

[mbellot]

Even tho I know the script by memory, I absolutely lost it when Lenny introduced his daughter into the conversation. My keyboard and monitor did not benefit much from the spray of Dr. Pepper.

Which one, Larissa or Rachael?

 

[marks]

I can't seem to get the ducks happening, is the recording missing?
for me the ducks are the highlight..


mark

 

[wardmundy]

Great payday loan for Lenny:

https://soundcloud.com/nerduno/pay-day-loan-for-lenny

 

[matthew]

Great payday loan for Lenny:

https://soundcloud.com/nerduno/pay-day-loan-for-lenny

Classic! Two machines talking to each other. I'd worked it out earlier in the conversation, but the end is a dead giveaway. There's some smart application writers out there.

 

[Mango]

Brian West, the author of the site, has given us permission to pass along the Lenny sound recordings.

Out of curiosity, how did you get this permission? He claims not to know anything about it.

 

[wardmundy]

Yeah. I saw that, and Brian sent me an email last night as well.

For the record, here was our original message thread in which Brian used the same email address as last night.
I've covered up our actual email addresses ONLY. Gotta love Gmail.

 

[Mango]

He must just have a lot on his mind and forgot about your conversation from last year. Happens to all of us.

 

[wardmundy]

tm1000: I appreciate your interpretation. I've considered that as well after someone else mentioned much the same thing. The only problem I have with that is the authorization was to use "those materials" whether you choose my interpretation or yours. Regardless of the choice, the Lenny side of the conversation was part of those recordings. In fact, it was all I happened to have. If I give you permission to use a recording, that would enable you to use portions of the recording as you see fit so long as the excerpts do not lead to confusion or a misinterpretation of the original work. That obviously is not the situation here.

Brian may have understood the request just as you have. While that is certainly possible, it's worth noting that others including yourself subsequently asked for the same thing which clearly put him on notice albeit after the fact. Despite the notice from others that there could be confusion, I never heard from Brian again until last night after the Reddit discussion. It's also worth noting that Brian only had the right to authorize use of the Lenny-side of the conversation in the first place since he was never the other party being recorded. Hopefully, this is merely an academic discussion since I've been led to believe that Brian now appears to be taking steps to "officially" license the recordings.

Finally, let me note that I obviously don't share your (legal) conclusion as to whether an email authorization can constitute a license. My legal opinion is that it most certainly can and, in fact, it did in this case. Otherwise, we wouldn't have produced the reworked Lenny application for Asterisk in the first place.

 

[wardmundy]

I've written to Brian for clarification on the permission issue. I'll let everyone know when I get a response.

I'm not a Reddit regular so this is all news to me as it is to many of you. Something prompted the love letters last night obviously, and I've asked Brian for an explanation of that, too. Because he wrote the ItsLenny app, I assumed Brian owned the materials. After all, he is in the open source business 24x7. His response saying it was OK to distribute the materials certainly confirmed ownership as far as I was concerned. You don't lend folks the car unless you own it.

As to the "Good Ole Ward lifted the files" comment on Reddit, let me clarify. All of the Lenny pieces were posted by someone (presumably not "Jay's friend") on DSL Reports. I downloaded the files. That same day I sent the email to Brian that I've posted above. Looks like it's time to crank up the Way Back Machine.

 

[wardmundy]

As of this afternoon, looks like the Lenny sound files still are on DSL Reports.

 

[Mango]

HI THERE BILLY MAYS HERE! HAVE I GOT A PRODUCT FOR YOU! URLs!

NO NEED TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT OF A WEBSITE ANY MORE! FOR FOUR EASY PAYMENTS OF $29.95, YOU TOO CAN PASTE A URL!

IT'S AS EASY AS THIS

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r28520567-Another-Place-to-Send-Spam-Callers (zip file removed, see link below)
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29230347-Updated-Lenny-code-and-prompts

 

[wardmundy]

From the horse's mouth...