I'm pretty new to Asterisk. I had to setup an Asterisk server at work interfacing with ISDN and as such using an ISDN card. How do you connect the Asterisk server to the normal telephone system without doing that? I mean, I still want to be able to call normal phones. The phones on my works network are Cisco SIP phones, that part I understand.
You routinely use databases that large during development for your web-projects? Phew... That's some heavy development stuff you do....
I run a postrgesql server + apache + SQLLedger on a Duron 800MHz with 512Meg RAM. Works just fine. Sure the database isn't huge, but it's not a problem for what it does.
Is that powerful enough for Asterisk? The O'Reilly "The future of telephony" says "Hobby system - No more than 5 channels - 400 MHz x86, 256 MB RAM". Ah, yes, indeed it is powerful enough. That said, how do you connect your phoneline to it? You do have to call in somewhere.
You should check your PC. My wifes PC is a 6 year old P-IV and works just fine in day to day operations with XP Pro SP3. We run Firefox with flash and it isn't a problem.
Now, my Asus EEE PC 701 4G is a bit on the slow side running Debian Lenny, but it remains usable.
I've used XP Pro SP2 on a P-III 600MHz machine and while not stellar it was definitely usable. (It had 512Meg RAM, that's why it ran ok... less would have been a nightmare)
Personally, I think you have other problems with your PC. That or, you have a way better machine at work and you're too used to that speed.
2+GHz P4s/512Meg are commonly found in dumpsters/recycling centres by now.
You're advocating spending 200$ for a system (Base purchase + Graphics card) where 300$ gets you a more capable *new* system. Also, you conveniently forget that P-IV class machines typically have AGP slots and those are hard to get these days. Your link goes even to a PCIe graphics card which is absolutely useless in these kind of machines.
Believe me, I'm a dumpster diver.... Spending 50$ on a dumpster diven machine, is pretty much the maximum I can recommend. More gets your quickly in the domain of "new computers" or "capable second hand computers". Usually, combining two or more dumpster diven computers gives you one capable machine (and a bunch of spare parts)... and that entirely for free.
I am? Please tell me why God in his allmightyness, couldn't just forgive men without a blood-sacrifice of his son-and-himself? Wouldn't that just make more sense, and be actually genuinely "Good".
The trick is always to put yourself in the shoes of God. Your son stole cookies from the cookie jar? Appropriate punishment: He will be expelled from home and all his children will have eternal torment.... Unless, they submit to you and love you!
No parent would do that, and for all intents and purposes God is our parent according to the bible. So after years of OT cruel guy, God decides to become loving and fine and dandy... Just love him, any you're salvaged. Yes, his human form needs to be sacrificed for the sins of humans to be absolved. WHY? He's almighty, he can do whatever he wants, including that weird concept of "forgiveness" (What we should do, but He is unable to do so)
The Bible, bot OT and NT are so full of flaws that a perfect being wouldn't ever have written it. It's BS... you know it, you just haven't looked deep enough.
Slavery still is present in the NT. Women still aren't seen as full humans and must obey men. Besides, what is the crucification of Jesus, if not human sacrifice? (Sure, god-as-human-but-still-human)
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The internal Windows Firewall is adequate for most uses. Especially that most people these days are behind a router (yes, yes, I know router != firewall).
You're right about teatimer
acrobat... ouch, I let people install their own choice of security exploit
The thing with Acrobat Reader is that most people eventually come accross a PDF and will download it. As I said, the substitutes don't work once they start using forms and signing. That it isn't stellar on security, well, you do allow your users Windows Mail/Outlook Express... Ahem...
I don't put on thunderbird, most users prefer windows mail/outlook express, or so I have found.
Yes, but keep in mind they will come back to you when there is trouble and saving data from those programs is no laughing matter. That's even ignoring the security issues. Another problem is hotmail users. To allow Thunderbird to interact with hotmail is a pain (but possible!). Usually, I set up the full shebang, so they don't even have to setup their IMAP/POP3/SMTP settings because I'll do it for them. Again: I can do this because they're not customers but acquaintances or friends. I don't see how Windows Mail/Outlook Express is better than Thunderbird. What it has is name recognition and that's about it. As I said, I have the luxury to inform my users.
I have NEVER seen a vid CCCP won't play
Well, neither have I for K-Lite Video Codec Pack.:-P
Oh, and indeed.... A USB Lan is useful, but then I usually still have a few USB Sticks lying around, just in case it is one of the *censored* NICs that don't work with standard drivers.
That's pretty much my scrap-paper / bookshelf analogy. The larger paragraph is, however, what it makes clear. It does require some explaining. Some users have the attention span of a squirrel.
And that one is extremely hard to explain. The closest that I can do to explain this is compare RAM with short-time memory and Storage with long-time memory. Alas, most people have problems understanding that too.
I've also tried scrapbook (RAM) versus bookshelf with books (Storage).
Nothing seems to really get it through, even if you try to explain it without analogies. The problem here is that the concept of RAM is too hard to grasp and the the terms MegaByte/GigaByte are linked to Storage in their minds.
Yes, so I thought too back in the day.... However, when I started looking into it I found out I was wrong. Read up on how ADSL works..
ADSL is not fully digital at all. It splits out the frequencies used for voice and then utilises the frequencies not used by voice. If I explain it to a layperson, I usually tell them it's like having a bunch of modems running in parallel.
I live in Luxembourg and I have never seen them either. That said, they seem to be genuine. At the manufacturers site Micro&Soft and Linux. Perhaps they are sold in Switserland (.ch)?
I am not contradicting you... Ubuntu is easy. However, did she have Flash, Java and DVD playback up and running after the install? I don't think so...
Yes, I know that's not hard, and I know Ubuntu will ask you when you try to access one of these things, but still... I want to avoid such "scary" messageboxes. So, I install that stuff before giving the Ubuntu PC to someone. Reduces support calls to me.
That's what I call "setting up a Ubuntu system": guess the usage pattern of the user and make sure everything is there.
But you're right: installing Ubuntu can be done by someone with an IQ of 75 who can manipulate a mouse and can click "Next".
Yes and no....Personally, when I setup an Ubuntu system, I make sure everything is installed in such a way that they do not have to install Flash/Java/Codecs.... That isn't in the base-install. Granted, it's not much work, but if you give an idiot these instructions, he will get an unusable-in-his-eyes system because his favourite online flash games won't work.
Every woman thinks all other women are pretty much the same and that they themselves are different and unique.
Made me think of the song called "Wenn sie dich fragt" by Roger Cicero. (The song is in German)
The song starts off with the following words:
Hey mein Freund, du bist schlecht gelaunt!
Deine Freundin stresst, das kenn ich auch!
Denn du und ich haben eigentlich
beide fast genau die gleiche Frau.
Rought translation:
Hey, my friend, you're in a bad mood. Your girlfried stresses, I know that too! Because you and me have actually pretty much exactly the same woman.
Oh, and for the political correctness crowd: this song is stock-full of stereotypes. Pretty much all of his songs are.... He does have a lot of success in Germany, mostly with women. Guess women are able to laugh at themselves after all.
telling your spouse that "you look fat in those jeans" is not going to net you any karma points.
No, but a few nights on the couch. Where nobody will tear away the blankets, and since the couch is in the living room, I can watch TV until I fall asleep. The fridge with beer is also closer....
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I'm pretty new to Asterisk. I had to setup an Asterisk server at work interfacing with ISDN and as such using an ISDN card. How do you connect the Asterisk server to the normal telephone system without doing that? I mean, I still want to be able to call normal phones. The phones on my works network are Cisco SIP phones, that part I understand.
You routinely use databases that large during development for your web-projects? Phew... That's some heavy development stuff you do....
I run a postrgesql server + apache + SQLLedger on a Duron 800MHz with 512Meg RAM. Works just fine. Sure the database isn't huge, but it's not a problem for what it does.
Is that powerful enough for Asterisk? The O'Reilly "The future of telephony" says "Hobby system - No more than 5 channels - 400 MHz x86, 256 MB RAM". Ah, yes, indeed it is powerful enough. That said, how do you connect your phoneline to it? You do have to call in somewhere.
You should check your PC. My wifes PC is a 6 year old P-IV and works just fine in day to day operations with XP Pro SP3. We run Firefox with flash and it isn't a problem.
Now, my Asus EEE PC 701 4G is a bit on the slow side running Debian Lenny, but it remains usable.
I've used XP Pro SP2 on a P-III 600MHz machine and while not stellar it was definitely usable. (It had 512Meg RAM, that's why it ran ok... less would have been a nightmare)
Personally, I think you have other problems with your PC. That or, you have a way better machine at work and you're too used to that speed.
2+GHz P4s/512Meg are commonly found in dumpsters/recycling centres by now.
You're advocating spending 200$ for a system (Base purchase + Graphics card) where 300$ gets you a more capable *new* system. Also, you conveniently forget that P-IV class machines typically have AGP slots and those are hard to get these days. Your link goes even to a PCIe graphics card which is absolutely useless in these kind of machines.
Believe me, I'm a dumpster diver.... Spending 50$ on a dumpster diven machine, is pretty much the maximum I can recommend. More gets your quickly in the domain of "new computers" or "capable second hand computers". Usually, combining two or more dumpster diven computers gives you one capable machine (and a bunch of spare parts)... and that entirely for free.
I am? Please tell me why God in his allmightyness, couldn't just forgive men without a blood-sacrifice of his son-and-himself? Wouldn't that just make more sense, and be actually genuinely "Good".
The trick is always to put yourself in the shoes of God. Your son stole cookies from the cookie jar? Appropriate punishment: He will be expelled from home and all his children will have eternal torment.... Unless, they submit to you and love you!
No parent would do that, and for all intents and purposes God is our parent according to the bible. So after years of OT cruel guy, God decides to become loving and fine and dandy... Just love him, any you're salvaged. Yes, his human form needs to be sacrificed for the sins of humans to be absolved. WHY? He's almighty, he can do whatever he wants, including that weird concept of "forgiveness" (What we should do, but He is unable to do so)
The Bible, bot OT and NT are so full of flaws that a perfect being wouldn't ever have written it. It's BS... you know it, you just haven't looked deep enough.
Slavery still is present in the NT. Women still aren't seen as full humans and must obey men. Besides, what is the crucification of Jesus, if not human sacrifice? (Sure, god-as-human-but-still-human)
That "NT is better" is just BS.
You're not living on the same planet I live it seems, because many many many people think that morality comes from some holy book.
Oh, and I find it frightening that this book advocates slavery, genocide, human sacrifice, rape amongst other genuinely terrible things.
[I was the AC... Somehow, I must have checked the Post AC checkbox]
The internal Windows Firewall is adequate for most uses. Especially that most people these days are behind a router (yes, yes, I know router != firewall).
You're right about teatimer
The thing with Acrobat Reader is that most people eventually come accross a PDF and will download it. As I said, the substitutes don't work once they start using forms and signing. That it isn't stellar on security, well, you do allow your users Windows Mail/Outlook Express... Ahem...
Yes, but keep in mind they will come back to you when there is trouble and saving data from those programs is no laughing matter. That's even ignoring the security issues. Another problem is hotmail users. To allow Thunderbird to interact with hotmail is a pain (but possible!). Usually, I set up the full shebang, so they don't even have to setup their IMAP/POP3/SMTP settings because I'll do it for them. Again: I can do this because they're not customers but acquaintances or friends. I don't see how Windows Mail/Outlook Express is better than Thunderbird. What it has is name recognition and that's about it. As I said, I have the luxury to inform my users.
Well, neither have I for K-Lite Video Codec Pack. :-P
Oh, and indeed.... A USB Lan is useful, but then I usually still have a few USB Sticks lying around, just in case it is one of the *censored* NICs that don't work with standard drivers.
I've just done this way too many times ;-)
That's pretty much my scrap-paper / bookshelf analogy. The larger paragraph is, however, what it makes clear. It does require some explaining. Some users have the attention span of a squirrel.
Hehehe.... Lovely.
Love the analogy... I just fail to see why the oven is any different from the food processor or blender. Not all food (data?) gets put in the oven...
And that one is extremely hard to explain. The closest that I can do to explain this is compare RAM with short-time memory and Storage with long-time memory. Alas, most people have problems understanding that too.
I've also tried scrapbook (RAM) versus bookshelf with books (Storage).
Nothing seems to really get it through, even if you try to explain it without analogies. The problem here is that the concept of RAM is too hard to grasp and the the terms MegaByte/GigaByte are linked to Storage in their minds.
Yes, so I thought too back in the day.... However, when I started looking into it I found out I was wrong. Read up on how ADSL works..
ADSL is not fully digital at all. It splits out the frequencies used for voice and then utilises the frequencies not used by voice. If I explain it to a layperson, I usually tell them it's like having a bunch of modems running in parallel.
I live in Luxembourg and I have never seen them either. That said, they seem to be genuine. At the manufacturers site Micro&Soft and Linux. Perhaps they are sold in Switserland (.ch)?
Yes, but I also do that for other operating systems ;-)
No... Most people I know do not have a TV in their bedroom. Must be a European thing, I guess...
Are you sure?
The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that it's all learned. -- Bruce Ediger
Point taken... Still, it would be massively underage-looking and I really don't think that would turn me on :-)
I don't think that he did sociological studies, but this and this, might indicate that he's right. Not exactly sports teams, but close enough.
I am not contradicting you... Ubuntu is easy. However, did she have Flash, Java and DVD playback up and running after the install? I don't think so...
Yes, I know that's not hard, and I know Ubuntu will ask you when you try to access one of these things, but still... I want to avoid such "scary" messageboxes. So, I install that stuff before giving the Ubuntu PC to someone. Reduces support calls to me.
That's what I call "setting up a Ubuntu system": guess the usage pattern of the user and make sure everything is there.
But you're right: installing Ubuntu can be done by someone with an IQ of 75 who can manipulate a mouse and can click "Next".
Yes and no....Personally, when I setup an Ubuntu system, I make sure everything is installed in such a way that they do not have to install Flash/Java/Codecs.... That isn't in the base-install. Granted, it's not much work, but if you give an idiot these instructions, he will get an unusable-in-his-eyes system because his favourite online flash games won't work.
Made me think of the song called "Wenn sie dich fragt" by Roger Cicero. (The song is in German)
The song starts off with the following words:
Hey mein Freund, du bist schlecht gelaunt!
Deine Freundin stresst, das kenn ich auch!
Denn du und ich haben eigentlich
beide fast genau die gleiche Frau.
Rought translation:
Hey, my friend, you're in a bad mood.
Your girlfried stresses, I know that too!
Because you and me have actually
pretty much exactly the same woman.
Oh, and for the political correctness crowd: this song is stock-full of stereotypes. Pretty much all of his songs are.... He does have a lot of success in Germany, mostly with women. Guess women are able to laugh at themselves after all.
No, but a few nights on the couch. Where nobody will tear away the blankets, and since the couch is in the living room, I can watch TV until I fall asleep. The fridge with beer is also closer....
You're right... It's all about timing :-P
Hmmmm... My wife needs to read more women magazines! Okay, except for point three... She would look underage.