Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Dennis Little
This is a follow-up my original blog post here: Digium Confirms Major Issues with AA50 VoIP Appliance: Spotaneous Reboots and Memory Card Write-Lock, A Review Since I originally posted, I seem to have found a band-aid fix that is getting our AA50 through the days without spontaneous reboots and dropped calls in the process. I [...]
Filed under: Asterisk / Trixbox / Telephony, Business, Linux, SIP, Technology, Ubuntu, VoIP / Telephone | 4 Comments »
Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Dennis Little
Let me begin by saying that I am a big fan of Digium in general. All of their products that I have used thus far in several IP telephony / VoIP installations have worked tremendously well. Background: Doug and I recently integrated a Digium AA50 phone system appliance with Polycom IP telephones for a small [...]
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Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Dennis Little
Attention all techies! If you are not yet registered for the 2009 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference, today is the last day registration will be open! It was a great learning experience last year and promises to be the same this year as well. You can check out the schedule and register here: http://www.cposc.org/schedule
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Posted on August 1st, 2009 by Dennis Little
Just a quick follow-up on my previous post regarding the Linksys EG1032 and Openfiler 2.3: We have confirmed that the v3 of the Linksys EG1032 does work in gigabit mode on Openfiler 2.3 when provided with a gigabit uplink. I have also tried the EG1032 v3 with ESX 3.5 on a Dell PowerEdge 2600 without [...]
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Posted on July 12th, 2009 by Dennis Little
A friend and I have been experimenting with Openfiler 2.3 recently and tried the Linksys EG1032 v3 gigabit network card in an installation. While the card was not autodetected after an install was already made (we tried swapping cards and changing config), it does work with a new install of OpenFiler 2.3; we did not [...]
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Posted on June 27th, 2009 by Dennis Little
Several weeks ago, I wrote about how much more effective Hulu is than conventional TV at getting me to watch commercials. PC World recently caught on too and wrote an interesting article on the subject this week. It turns out that advertisers are paying 1.5 – 3 times more (per thousand viewers) for ads shown [...]
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Posted on June 21st, 2009 by Dennis Little
This is an update to my April, 2009 post about using Callcentric to receive incoming faxes. Back in April, I recommended using Callcentric’s fax reception feature as a cost-effective way to receive incoming faxes. In the past few days, I have had several people report that they were unable to send me faxes; both senders [...]
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Posted on May 13th, 2009 by Dennis Little
A friend of mine and I were interviewed about a week ago by Paul Krill from Computerworld and it looks like Google picked up the Norwegian version of the story first. What are your thoughts on Linux Certification? Read my thoughts and the Computerworld article here
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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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