@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
i call it OS because we burn the ISO image and boot from it and we get an OS over a hardware not over a software
Lots of people call it an OS, but it is not an OS. What you are describing is a hypervisor.
lol, i saw your long debate in spicework with the other guy about "hypervisor VS OS"
@scottalanmiller said:
ESXi Free is completely free. Many SMBs use just the free version. However, you really should never use the free version, or hardly ever. The value to VMware's product is completely in its expensive, non-free versions.
Why are you looking to learn VMware instead of HyperV or XenServer which are both completely free for all versions and far more appropriate for an SMB and nearly any company implementing a new virtualization program today.
Make sure you read this: Is VMware Done in the SMB?
thank you very much for your suggestio, i will have a look on these technologies as well
@scottalanmiller said:
@IT-ADMIN said:
first of all can i use this OS for free
Just a point of clarity, ESXi is a hypervisor, not an OS. An OS is what you install on top of the hypervisor.
i call it OS because we burn the ISO image and boot from it and we get an OS over a hardware not over a software
Hi everybody
i want to try an EXSI and learn about the virtualization technology, but first of all can i use this OS for free or should i pay for a license because i heard that they have a free limited version ???
@scottalanmiller said:
What is the difference between a real DID and a virtual DID? How can one tell a "real" from a "virtual" phone number?
yes there is only one ISP in qatar (landline not wireless), we have vodafone but they provide only 4G wireless internet connection, as for wired internet connection only one company (the government)
@scottalanmiller said:
What is the difference between a real DID and a virtual DID? How can one tell a "real" from a "virtual" phone number?
i mean by real number: a phone number that has a format similar to the phone number format provided by the telephone company (ex : 44552233)
and the virtual number is a weird phone number that differ from the local phone number in terms of how much digits, first extention ......
@scottalanmiller said:
This is a big matter since it is more effort than if you were running the PBX yourself. This undermines all of the value of having someone handle the VoIP for you.
not big matter at all, because what i need is only record calls, and i was doing it successfully for a couple of days ago but because of some reasons the recording server stop record the full call, it record only the internal part of the call, and there are other software that do recording without any issue (i tried them) but they are not free,
now i'm trying to fix the bug in this free software by compiling the last version, if it dosn't work we will buy that commercial software (the last option)
@scottalanmiller said:
Why are you happy that it is the ISP doing this, instead of a competent VoIP vendor?
because here in qatar there is only one internet service provider,
you will say to me why you don't subscribe with a voip provider in another country, i will response by saying that the management want real DID (i mean a phone number that resemble the normal phone numbers of qatar 8 digit), a foreign VOIP provider will provide you with virtual DID, also we will have both internet and voip on the same line, in opposition to what we have now, we have a dedicated internet line and a dedicated trunk line for voip
the only matter that i have now is how to record the shit calls, i will tried to move to linux and get thing to work
i can drink my cup of tea and our ISP take charge of our voip service 
especially we had a previous bad experience on having a voip server on premise (low bandwidth, VPN between 2 remote location ....) we end up having it hosted on our ISP, (between us i'm happy that they do that, lol)
the matter is the core business in our company rely on phone calls, kind of call center, so the management believe that relying on staff to manage something crucial is risky, so they delegate this to our ISP, so that they can feel safe because the guaranty that they offer to ensure a better VOIP service is more than i can offer,
cuz we dont have a dedicated IT team that can manage this headache of voip, so we decided to delegate this to our ISP, they set up everything for us
anyway i will contemplate upon what you said because really i need time to figure out how to do that
thank you very much
unfortunately we dont have another option
yes, but the problem our VOIP server is hosted UCM by our ISP, and they don't offer recording feature,
@scottalanmiller said:
What is making you want to use this software?
because it is the free software that i found, all other call recording software are very expensive!!!!!
the mention this in their website 
Getting the source code
Download the latest source code from sourceforge:
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/oreka/svn/trunk oreka-svn
how i can access the directory in the SVN???