I hate to say this but AT&T's Call Vantage is actually VERY good! I tried Vonage last year and had a lot of quality of service issues. Dove in again when AT&T CallVantage came available because, unlike Vonage, i had no out of pocket expense to start upwith them ( i lost about 70 bucks on the vonage thing after a 3 week trial)
The service is great, their web page manager is excellent and I am VERY VERY pleased with it!.Until 5/31 you can get the first six months for 20 bucks and after that it's 40 a month ( a little more than Vonage) but it is UNLIMITED calling.
Check it out, and quickly! if it's available it's your best shot.
Sorahl
I will not use my personal equipment for work purposes. they won't reimburse me for that use, so if they really need me to do something that requires the use of a device then they have to provide it to me.
Hey, i've been doing this since 1993 and I occaisionally have problems which usually end up to do with a DOA component. However last weekend I went sleepless over a problem that I never saw coming. I know some/all of you probably already knew this but I have never heard of it before.
I just bought a new mb/cpu plus some other stuff(vid card, dvd drive, network card) to rebuild our pastors computer. It was a Biostar mb and an Athlon XP 2.0 cpu plus a cpu fan. I mounted the cpu fine and the fan. put the board in the case and mounted all the new hardward plus the old stuff that didn't die in the meltdown (which resembled the "this msg will self destruct in 5 seconds" from MI). I turned system on, np, and started loading XP. I immediatly got a BSOD right after I hit 'enter' to install XP. Had an error bad_pool_caller. I kept getting this error (after removing all the old stuff, and then even the new stuff replacing it with others that I knew worked. I even put in another MB,CPU and fan that were exactly identical from my friend for whom I am also building a system for) and finally read about it. talked about caches. So I disabled all the caches in the cpu and I was able to install XP.........over 12 hours to do so but it worked. I knew nothing was wrong with the components because it happened with both mb's/cpus' etc. It had to be a setting but I was damned if I could find it.
Weekend ends with no sleep and monday arrives. I call up tech support from the ppl i purchase from. Within 2 minutes the guy asked me a question and was able to tell me what the problem was. The CPU fan was on the CPU backwards. the slot for the screw driver had to be facing the PS and not down the MB. He was right!!! Ofcourse he did say that there was a marking on the bottom of the CPU fan that wasn't there but it fixed it fine. Evidently with the fan reversed there was actually a gap between the cpu and the sink so that it was overheating.
Ok. Am I just stupid here? (don't really answer that....) Has anyone run in to this before or does everyone BUT me know about this????
This is actually why i love building these things:) It's always an adventure...
Sorahl
I am SO GLAD someone else saw the shadow of Sharpe in that scene!!!!:) But I don't think I can ever see Bean without seeing Sharpe, no matter what the role.
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I hate to say this but AT&T's Call Vantage is actually VERY good! I tried Vonage last year and had a lot of quality of service issues. Dove in again when AT&T CallVantage came available because, unlike Vonage, i had no out of pocket expense to start upwith them ( i lost about 70 bucks on the vonage thing after a 3 week trial) The service is great, their web page manager is excellent and I am VERY VERY pleased with it!.Until 5/31 you can get the first six months for 20 bucks and after that it's 40 a month ( a little more than Vonage) but it is UNLIMITED calling. Check it out, and quickly! if it's available it's your best shot. Sorahl
I will not use my personal equipment for work purposes. they won't reimburse me for that use, so if they really need me to do something that requires the use of a device then they have to provide it to me.
Hey, i've been doing this since 1993 and I occaisionally have problems which usually end up to do with a DOA component. However last weekend I went sleepless over a problem that I never saw coming. I know some/all of you probably already knew this but I have never heard of it before. I just bought a new mb/cpu plus some other stuff(vid card, dvd drive, network card) to rebuild our pastors computer. It was a Biostar mb and an Athlon XP 2.0 cpu plus a cpu fan. I mounted the cpu fine and the fan. put the board in the case and mounted all the new hardward plus the old stuff that didn't die in the meltdown (which resembled the "this msg will self destruct in 5 seconds" from MI). I turned system on, np, and started loading XP. I immediatly got a BSOD right after I hit 'enter' to install XP. Had an error bad_pool_caller. I kept getting this error (after removing all the old stuff, and then even the new stuff replacing it with others that I knew worked. I even put in another MB,CPU and fan that were exactly identical from my friend for whom I am also building a system for) and finally read about it. talked about caches. So I disabled all the caches in the cpu and I was able to install XP.........over 12 hours to do so but it worked. I knew nothing was wrong with the components because it happened with both mb's/cpus' etc. It had to be a setting but I was damned if I could find it. Weekend ends with no sleep and monday arrives. I call up tech support from the ppl i purchase from. Within 2 minutes the guy asked me a question and was able to tell me what the problem was. The CPU fan was on the CPU backwards. the slot for the screw driver had to be facing the PS and not down the MB. He was right!!! Ofcourse he did say that there was a marking on the bottom of the CPU fan that wasn't there but it fixed it fine. Evidently with the fan reversed there was actually a gap between the cpu and the sink so that it was overheating. Ok. Am I just stupid here? (don't really answer that....) Has anyone run in to this before or does everyone BUT me know about this???? This is actually why i love building these things :) It's always an adventure...
Sorahl
I am SO GLAD someone else saw the shadow of Sharpe in that scene!!!! :) But I don't think I can ever see Bean without seeing Sharpe, no matter what the role.