Posted in General on Aug 20th, 2010 No Comments »
It has been a couple of months since I installed Trixbox 2.6 in our house. I don’t know how I lived without it. Some VoIP providers offer some of the features that Trixbox gives me, but I like doing them myself. I love being able to blacklist numbers, record calls and have music on hold. [...]
Posted in General on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I received 8GB of Crucial RAM for my work Optiplex 745 today and when I installed it, Aero stopped working on Windows 7. Memtest86 also would lock up whenever you test. Weeeee! Why can’t anything be simple? After doing some reading, it looks like Dell PCs (at least the business line) only fully support Dell [...]
Posted in General on Sep 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I tested my PBX a couple of days ago. It is almost ready to be deployed. I am ready to get it installed and start using it.
Posted in General on Jul 30th, 2009 No Comments »
If you needed anymore proof to not click on URLs in emails read this story. This story talks about a flaw in SSL (the secure protocol used be websites) that allows a hacker to fake a secure website and your browser will not warn you about it. Meaning, they can have a secure site that [...]
Posted in General on Jul 22nd, 2009 No Comments »
I am in Schaumburg, IL taking a Cisco class at Global Knowledge. It is the last class I need to take to prepare me for my certification tests. The instructor is knowledgeable, but I forgot how boring class was. It is from 8:30 am to 4:00 pm of lecture and labs. It is a little [...]
Posted in General on Jul 9th, 2009 No Comments »
This morning I was able to get the setup on the Exchange server to complete. I have since restored everything. Wow, what a pain this all was. I am very glad it is over. I was dealing with Microsoft support on this one and I wasn’t impressed. I am very glad that I had backups [...]
Posted in General on Jul 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Well I have been trying to successfully rebuild my Exchange server for 4 days now. I get to the configuring part and it errors out on one particular Exchange task. I am a little frustrated to say the least. I have a case opened with Microsoft so hopefully they can figure it out.
Posted in General on Jul 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
Maybe some of you have noticed that my mail server is down. This weekend, the hard drive died and I haven’t received the replacements yet. I have ordered two new hard drives and a RAID card. That way if it happens again the server will still run. I am a little lost without my email.
Posted in General on May 20th, 2009 No Comments »
After “deciding” to use Asterisk yesterday, I was talking to a friend and he pointed me to Trixbox. Trixbox is based on Asterisk but has a lot of cool things and installs in appliance mode. Basically, it looks like you install the product and it installs Linux, PHP, MySQL, etc. Can’t wait to try it.
Posted in General on May 19th, 2009 No Comments »
I have started reading about Asterisk the open source PBX. I am installing it at my house. Since I have Vonage I can use Asterisk to connect directly via a SIP trunk. This way I will not have to use the Vonage adapter. Katherine doesn’t see the purpose of this project. I think I just [...]
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