I have long-used VNC and variants (ie: TightVNC) as a way to access my Linux desktops. Comparing VNC to Windows’ Remote Desktop, I have never been happy at all with the way that VNC underperforms. This is of course due to the underlying differences in the way that VNC and RDP render screens, but that [...]
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Have you ever written an email, told the recipient to refer to the attachment and then clicked “Send” before making the attachment? I do it all the time and it probably makes me look like a giant idiot.
Would it not be great if your email client could check any outgoing email for phrases that might [...]
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This is a follow-up to this post.
CallCentric has been working great for outbound SIP trunking and customer support continues to be very responsive.
Unfortunately, CallCentric does not support oversubscribing direct-inward-dial (DID) numbers to single trunks / channels. This is a total bummer as it is often the case that a business has low simultaneous usage of [...]
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In order to change any advanced settings on your Polycom SoundPoint IP VoIP phone, you will need the admin password:
Username (this is case sensitive): Polycom
Password: 456
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I came in to the office this morning to find all of our Polycom VoIP phones had the wrong time. Although the Asterisk server had been patched for the new daylight savings time (DST) rules, my sip.conf file had some incorrect configuration. I searched around the net and found a solution. Change your sip.conf file [...]
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Here is a simple bash shell script to run a process and automatically stop it after a set period of minutes / time. I use this in cron, so I will give my crontab entry first:
#in this cron entry: cd to /usr/local, run script_start at 3:00 pm M-F
#and kill it after 300 minutes if it [...]
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