Posted on May 7th, 2009 by Dennis Little
A good deal of my TV viewing is done through Hulu. If you are not familiar with the service, Hulu is bascially a web-based television — allowing you to watch the latest episodes of a number of popular TV programs through your computer. To boot, they have quite an archive of old favorites too; I [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2009 by Dennis Little
A month or so back, a few members of Direct Brands‘ IT group presented to the Central PA VMUG (VMware User Group). The talk was focused on VMware’s View product and one item of special interest to me was how they got their SIP client software (soft phone) for Windows XP working on VMware View [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Dennis Little
Pat Wittle and I had the pleasure of attending FOSE 2009: day 2 yesterday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, D.C. We had the pleasure to take in some of the latest and greatest new technology available to government and the private sector. FOSE hosted several hundred exhibitors this year and [...]
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Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Dennis Little
Thank you to everyone that came out to the CPLUG meeting tonight to hear Bob Igo and I talk about Magento /VirtualBox and LimeSurvey. You can download my Introduction to LimeSurvey PowerPoint slides: HERE
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Posted on March 10th, 2009 by Dennis Little
I will be presenting an overview and demo of the LimeSurvey open source electronic survey software this evening at 6:30pm for the Central Pennsylvania Linux User Group (CPLUG); we meet at ITT Tech on Eisenhower Blvd in Harrisburg, PA. The meeting details can be found here if you would like to attend: CPLUG Meeting Details [...]
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Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Dennis Little
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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Posted on January 10th, 2008 by Dennis Little
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 [...]
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Posted on December 20th, 2007 by Dennis Little
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 [...]
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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Dennis Little
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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Posted on October 29th, 2007 by Dennis Little
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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