I would think it should be close enough - like you said,.. assuming it is like most companies.

I do have another fall back option.. just a matter of coordinations.. Former co-worker has the same laptop (it's his fault I bough this thing).. so push comes to the last line,..I might be able to get it from him.....

Maybe.

@Dashrender said:

Are you saying that I would skip ever talking to a sales person (until I'm actually read to buy) because the expectation is that I would get everything I would need from the forums consultants?

I'm saying that salespeople are not part of this process until you are past your design stage. Period. They do not add value but add risk and confusion. No matter what process you use to get your information (research, forums, hiring a consultant...) doesn't matter. What does matter is that salespeople and others who don't have a reason to help you or don't have the resources to help you should not be engaged.

There isn't an expectation that you will ever get everything that you need. That is a red herring. What matters is salespeople are not where you find what you need and you should never expect them to lead you in that direction. You should get advice from people whose interest is to help you, not from people with the explicit task of misleading you!

@Brett-at-ioSafe said:

The power brick is definitely the place to start but, the fact the fan runs continuously, makes me think it may not be the problem.

I would agree. Seems likely that it is something other than the power supply if the fan is part of the issue.

Celery, yes that stuff for rabbits and me it would seem.

Thank you for the recommendation @Dashrender

We don't allow access. It requires a written letter signed by the employee and their boss to be submitted to the board for approval. we have 2 users across a very large company as well. we also don't support anything users make with formulas or macros in excel.

@scottalanmiller I think of Snapshots as a quick point-in-time view... if something breaks, I can restore that snapshot in mere seconds, and I'm good to go.

If I have to pull a full image from a backup, it could take minutes - hours to restore that backup...

http://mangolassi.it/topic/6143/linux-lab-project-building-a-linux-jump-box/

It certainly wouldn't hurt to grab an older system and set it up to be your remote logging server for your ESXi infrastructure. It would at least give you something to look through while researching this issue.

Have you asked on the ESXi forums if anyone has any input on this?

I don't understand what you want to know.

@Mike-Ralston abbreviated a bit, but hit the basics.

Before you can do any routing, you define the trunk. Once you have that up, then you can worry about routing.

For Inbound routing, you have a few choices.

First you have to know if you need to even care about the DID the called dialed. If you do not, things get easy. You just create or edit the any/any inbound route and scroll to the bottom as noted to set the destination.

If you have to be more specific, then you need to first know how the number is being passed into your system. Using US dialing as an example, numbers come in the format NPANXXXXXX and the country code is 1.

Depending on the SIP carrier, the call may be presented to your PBX with or without the 1.
VoicePulse sends the DID with the 1 while VoIP.ms does not.

This can be important depending on how you want your routing to go.

You specify in the inbound route what inbound DID it will match on.
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You can additionally specify the the route matches on the CID of the inbound caller if desired for very fine grained routing. Somehow that annoying person also seems to get routed to Time and Temp? What? 🙂

You have a few other choices to make on the way down the screen, then you pick the destination for the calls that match the above two criteria.
In this case an IVR.
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Sure, but it would depend on your system in question. Which resource are you lacking? If you don't have enough CPU, then CPU will be your bottleneck. If you don't have enough RAM, then memory will be, etc.

PBXs handle whatever loads you design them to handle. With enough resources a PBX can handle millions of calls.

@johnhooks said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@johnhooks said:

I knew the workstation version was, I just didn't understand why they have a "server" version.

Server and workstation are just different sets of packages. Not different products. Server is the actual proving ground, the workstation isn't really a big deal since no one actually uses CentOS or RHEL as a desktop, that would be pretty silly in general. Fedora Workstation is the product that is actually used as a workstation. It is Fedora Server that is the actual proving ground for CentOS and RHEL.

I actually did use CentOS 7 as a desktop for a while, just to try it. It wasn't bad. I don't use anything strange, and was able to compile everything else I needed. Their gnome theme is pretty nice.

Thing is, if you used CentOS 7 that means that it was pretty new. But CentOS 7 will be one painfully old desktop by the time that CentOS 8 is getting close. Fedora updates every six to eight months, so their desktops are always current. So you are never looking at something outdated. CentOS 7 will be many years out of date when it is time to replace it.

RPi's are freaking awesome for learning linux or programming or electronics. When I see one my mind boggles at all the possibilities they contain. Like below, they're nothing special as far as a computer goes, but if they ignite your passion then I would consider that valuable and worth pursuing.

@Carnival-Boy said:

AFAIK all the registrars I've ever used have offered e-mail forwarding free of charge.

Good point, forgot about those. Most web hosting services do too (assuming that you have one already.)

I gave my friend the link hoping he'd post - I haven't spoken to him since last week. so I have no idea what they went with.

@Dashrender Darn.

How did they end up with a limitation like that? That seems crazy.

I had to hack the bios in a Lenovo T410 to change the wifi card.

What versions of .NET Framework do you have?
Also, something to try if you haven't already: dxdiag
Where did you install the graphics drivers from?

When you installed them, did you do a clean install or just paste over the top?

@Dashrender said:

If they are all on the same controller, why does rebooting affect the others? Isn't the controller suppose to managing that?

The point of auto is to have the AP detect what channels are in use around it and pick the best one. That will obviously be different each time any AP reboots. When the first one reboots, it will immediately affect the ones next to it as the signal drops and the unit around it detect a difference. Then once it powers back on, it has to detect what is around it and then determine what channel to use.

High density deployments are much different beasts than an office building with 3 or 4 AP scattered around for coverage.