@Minion-Queen said:
You can install Chrome on the Mac side of things but that is very slow...
I find Safari to be slow and Chrome seems to work better for me. I find my entire MBP to be slo at times, though I blame parallels for that. I do not think Parallels plays as nicely as it could. I really need to buy a drive for TimeMachine use and create an image to restore form then wipe this thing and start over just to see if I have screwed something up.
@scottalanmiller said:
Netflix must be because of continuing Silverlight issues.
YouTube is HTML5 and should just work.
Last I knew, not 100% of YouTube was HTML5 yet, but I have not checked into it in like 6-12 months. Netflix really needs to get off Silverlight.
@minion-queen Netflix works just fine on my MacBook Pro. There is a Silverlight package for Mac that you have to get.
@NetworkNerd said:
Did you end up using the Dell ESXi ISO here or just the one you can download from VMWare? This is more for my own curiosity than anything. I had some issues on a Dell R510 recently and could only resolve them by using the Dell ESXi ISO.
Dell has an ISO? Seriously, I never bothered to look. I know these were installed 5.0 with the VMWare Free license originally. After buying Essentials a few weeks back, I simply downloaded the 5.5 ISO. Today, I installed it to the internal USB (32GB drive) and configured the 8 SFF 1TB drives I stuck in it as a RAID10.
This server is a T610. There is also a T410 running on 4x 500GB 3.5" drives in a RAID 5. I'll be migrating those VM's to the T610 next weekend now that I have room. Then I'll reconfigure that one too. Need to find a drive solution for it though since it has 6x slots for 3.5" drives and I only have the 4 hot plug chassis that are currently in use. Would be nice to reuse 2 of the 2.5" drive I just yanked since they were 500GB too.
@scottalanmiller in 1999 I was installing my 3rd NT server based Access control system. That is what pushed me from electronics fully into IT.
two down. the big one now going (SQL Server)
It's a gym and I did not stop walking to take the picture. That would defeat the purpose of being on the treadmill in the first place. Though even for a unstable picture, that one is kinda crappy.
@scottalanmiller there, post edited. must have been due to poor LTE signal at the time or something.
Grr attempted to post picture from iPad with that but it didn't.
@Joyfano said:
3 mins walk from home to work ..
I work from home if not going to a client site, so my only walking is on a treadmill. I could listen to podcasts I guess, but I usually, relax in a community while I walk.
If anyone is curious after all of this, my hourly salary, prior to paying taxes, insurance, etc. happens to be The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything
@Katie said:
What are the pros and cons of implementing an open-source PBX as opposed to a proprietary system?
I've worked in shops that ran Cisco Unity, and after that - Shoretel. I found Shoretel to be a great deal easier to learn over the Cisco system and had a fairly easy time administering it.
How do these compare to something like Elastix or Asterisk?
3CX is also a good solution, but it is not an open source one. I personally do not prefer it, but if you have a windows license to spare for a VM, it is quite easy to setup and not nearly as expensive as other options.
I use PBX in a Flash simply because I do not need the simplified Elastix interface and I want more up to date versions. If the Elastix team put more effort into staying updated I would use it everywhere.
You hit the nail on the head about the true cost of switching the phone system though. No matter what you go to, if it is not a true upgrade,you will have to redesign all of the call handling from scratch. The thing you need to validate with you upgrade is whether or not it is a 100% no reconfig needed upgrade. If there is time not accounted for to do something like that, then you just leveled the playing field again.
@Nic said:
@JaredBusch - do you go out and tell the whole world how much you make?
I do not exactly hide it, no. In fact I started a thread on it on that other site.
I hated school because it was boring. Refused to do homework and aced the tests, so I got out of highschool with C's. Went to ITT (what a waste) from 91 to 93 and then got a job as an Alarm installer for a local Alarm Company. I quickly specialized in Access Control systems because I was apparently the only person in the company with a brain that did not freak out when they had to use a computer to set things up. Access control systems grew from single door units to NT server and client based systems. I also grew out of the mom and pop shop to working for ADT.
I left ADT in 2000 to take a helpdesk job @ SBC (now AT&T (again)). The helpdesk job was for their newly spun off DSL division ASI Solutions. It was a regulatory separated company as a condition of the approval of SBC's purchase of Ameritech. I spent less than a year doing helpdesk work before getting offered to join a special project team to handle fallout and system automation. Spent the next 6 years doing that before getting blackballed by office politics and let go (and am now "not rehirable" ) from AT&T (no longer SBC) 2 weeks before my wedding in 2007.
Finally found work 6 months later for a 20k pay cut as the internal IT guy for a company making Easter grass. The IT administrator left the company 6 weeks later and they gave me the responsibility along with a whole $2k raise. I accepted it due to needing things like insurance and having a pregnant wife at the time. Spent 2 years at that company before movingon to the company I am with now.
Now I am a programmer, network administrator, SQL DBA, etc. Name it and I do it. I am not a specialist in anything, instead I know who to ask when I need help (looks at NTG (you are on my short list next time i need to outsource assistance)).
@Nic said:
@Aaron-Studer doesn't look like it, sorry
They probably wouldn't have a sales convo that way anyway (nor would anyone, since they'd probably not want to put negotiations down in writing).
I so much disagree/hate this kind of logic. I know a lot of companies try to be like that, but I can tell you if I purchased a package I would never hesitate to post the pricing. If you are going to have flexible pricing, you need to man up and accept that people will tell people about it. Not having negotiations in writing is silly as you will have to invoice me. I will have it in writing in the end.
@FiyaFly said:
Mind you that it is zoomed out, but is it supposed to do that or is it just me? I use Chrome.
If that is by design, it seems quite a bit odd, but something tells me it is supposed to display much differently
It does not always dump that bottom left tile down like that, but i see it that way often.
Been here a few days, but had not got around to this thread until now.
@FiyaFly said:
I was recently doing a PBX install for someone and they were using a Sangoma Gateway. At first, it looked pretty simple and straightforward. The instructions to configure it with Elastix were about as straightforward as can be. If only it worked that way...
I ran into many little obstacles that I didn't expect to see with this setup. First, we couldn't get a SIP account to register as the instructions told us to do. Then, fax information seems to be stuttering and not passing through the way it's supposed to. DTMF tones transmit in a way that is completely arbitrary to the settings that are mentioned. As icing on the cake, for some reason it felt the need to strip the first character of the CID off as well.
Am I just severely unlucky or has anyone else had troubles like these with gateway devices for a PRI?
I have never used these PRI gateways. I have only had to deal with FXO/FXS interconnections. I have read mixed reviews on the Sangoma brand. Generally, once up and working they are great, but sometimes people cannot make them work. Again I have no personal experience with them though.
