Well, I DID do the initial install on UC (uncompensated overtime), because my management was not convinced to pitch our commercial pbx which was costing us $300/month. It took me two evenings of free time.
Well, I have run asterisk in a business environment for 3 years, and my TCO is 0. nada. zip. I use $169 Polycom SIP phones, pay NO licensing for any audio codecs, it runs on a PC that was once a desktop that we replaced as a result of desktop upgrades. So a pc unsuitable for a desktop runs my entire PBX, on Slackware 10.1, and with 0 downtime for 16 months. Asterisk just runs, and cheap.
for YEARS in the corporate environments I've worked in. Ever since their marketing campaigns based on FUD, or maybe it was Peter Norton stating that viruses weren't a threat to PC users, then saw that they were and started writing anit-virus software.
The government still uses Ada heavily in missle and guidance systems, and it is a very natural for a math major. Also, Ada will be around for a good while, so you can be competetive for at least 6-10 more years.
I'd LOVE to build an asterisk PBX to run a hotel. That would rock so hard. I'd done the design for an asterisk installation in that type of environment, but have never had the opportunity to deploy it. I'd highly recommend it if you want absolute total control of your PBX.
of the rights you want to retain, and what rights you'd expect a customer to want, then rank them from most important to least important. Then take these to an IP attorney. Seriously. There's too much case law around that deals with IP that you'll never get it right yourself. It gets harder when you sell software in other states.
Onboard, as in built into the MB, not taking up space in a PCI slot, and 0 configuration. I thought the requirements were obvious for commodity clusters, as bios POST screens don't go to serial ports, etc. You gotta set it up somehow, so why buy a card to stick in the machine? Just find a MB that has video and LAN onboard, and you're all set.
We typically build clusters that are NOT destined for a fancy, high end data centers, so 110 volts and a less dense configuration is essential. We build them into the skinniest mid towers we can, with 2 80mm fans in front and two fans in back. we use the baker's rack method and a hot isle/cold isle arrangement of racks. It's hard to find desktop cases without crappy fans in the sides, which are no good to us. Currently, the ASUS A7V400-MX and SEMPRON 3000+, 1GB DDR400 ram, and 120 gig ide hd is the choice. OnBoard NIC and video are essential to clusters, IMO. We'll be moving to SATA drives and gb ethernet onboard soon, but IDE's are dirt cheap right now. Coincidently, this is the same white-box web server we usually build.
My apologies. I tried to compile a web service a short time ago, and had difficulties. I went to the mono project and according to the class browser, the status of the Web.Services namespace in "needs implementation"
The prices weren't cheap either. Am I missing something?
Yeah, like.02 cents a minute US and extremely cheap international calls. I have asterisk running two remote offices in my company, and the price and performance vs. the Cisco Call manager I booted out are more than worth the headache of asterisk. And admittedly, asterisk is a huge pain in the rump, but managing it keeps me 733+
ASP.Net and Web Services (note the capitals in Web Services)are two different things, semantically speaking. What I 'm talking about is the System.Web.Services Namespace that allows SOAP based web services.
Lack of webservices is a major stumbling block for my development team. We'd love to be runnning on Mono vs..Net, but the lack of even a light at the end of the tunnel for web service integration is keeping LOTS of developers at bay.
Also, the list of dependencies to run monodevelop is astronomical. After my 7th or 8th trip to google to find some arcane dependency, I gave up. I think it's better if you are running gnome, but not much.
I totally agree that IAX2 is the next big protocol. We can't run SIP anywhere but on the local network due to several issues:
Security: SIP requires many ports to be open
IAX uses one port, and eve trunks multiple calls on one connection.
NAT: SIP does a terrible job traversing consumer firewalls.
Overhead: SIP - lots IAX2 lost less
ALso, I run 3 asterisk boxes in a production environment. uptime is measured in months
Personally, he always sounded like a bit of a hypochondriac prima donna, and I was anxiously waiting to be proven wrong.
I thought the same thing. Patrick has been so low-vis for so long, to come out so publicly with a bunch of Googled self-diagnoses is telling of another problem...
I did it in my office. I bought a Linksys WET11 (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid= 33&scid=36&prid=602) and hooked it up to my Cisco 7960 - Instant wireless VOIP, anywhere in the world 802.11 access is available.
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what person in their right mind would stick and earbud from some hard-legged dude in their ear? that is just gross
Well, I DID do the initial install on UC (uncompensated overtime), because my management was not convinced to pitch our commercial pbx which was costing us $300/month. It took me two evenings of free time.
Well, I have run asterisk in a business environment for 3 years, and my TCO is 0. nada. zip. I use $169 Polycom SIP phones, pay NO licensing for any audio codecs, it runs on a PC that was once a desktop that we replaced as a result of desktop upgrades. So a pc unsuitable for a desktop runs my entire PBX, on Slackware 10.1, and with 0 downtime for 16 months. Asterisk just runs, and cheap.
maybe the caps lock key should launch the spell checker for your medical poeple
for YEARS in the corporate environments I've worked in. Ever since their marketing campaigns based on FUD, or maybe it was Peter Norton stating that viruses weren't a threat to PC users, then saw that they were and started writing anit-virus software.
The government still uses Ada heavily in missle and guidance systems, and it is a very natural for a math major. Also, Ada will be around for a good while, so you can be competetive for at least 6-10 more years.
I'd LOVE to build an asterisk PBX to run a hotel. That would rock so hard. I'd done the design for an asterisk installation in that type of environment, but have never had the opportunity to deploy it. I'd highly recommend it if you want absolute total control of your PBX.
One MAJOR correction: The 800R DOES NOT have firewire connectivity. it has AES, lightpipe, and SPDIF
of the rights you want to retain, and what rights you'd expect a customer to want, then rank them from most important to least important. Then take these to an IP attorney. Seriously. There's too much case law around that deals with IP that you'll never get it right yourself. It gets harder when you sell software in other states.
Onboard, as in built into the MB, not taking up space in a PCI slot, and 0 configuration. I thought the requirements were obvious for commodity clusters, as bios POST screens don't go to serial ports, etc. You gotta set it up somehow, so why buy a card to stick in the machine? Just find a MB that has video and LAN onboard, and you're all set.
We typically build clusters that are NOT destined for a fancy, high end data centers, so 110 volts and a less dense configuration is essential. We build them into the skinniest mid towers we can, with 2 80mm fans in front and two fans in back. we use the baker's rack method and a hot isle/cold isle arrangement of racks. It's hard to find desktop cases without crappy fans in the sides, which are no good to us. Currently, the ASUS A7V400-MX and SEMPRON 3000+, 1GB DDR400 ram, and 120 gig ide hd is the choice. OnBoard NIC and video are essential to clusters, IMO. We'll be moving to SATA drives and gb ethernet onboard soon, but IDE's are dirt cheap right now. Coincidently, this is the same white-box web server we usually build.
According to CVS for PyMusique a workaround was checked in 12 minutes ago.
My thoughts exactly - 200 lines of code, plus 50,000 in the math and another 50,000 in the glyph libs, just to read a barcode? ahem.
My apologies. I tried to compile a web service a short time ago, and had difficulties. I went to the mono project and according to the class browser, the status of the Web.Services namespace in "needs implementation"
The prices weren't cheap either. Am I missing something?
.02 cents a minute US and extremely cheap international calls. I have asterisk running two remote offices in my company, and the price and performance vs. the Cisco Call manager I booted out are more than worth the headache of asterisk. And admittedly, asterisk is a huge pain in the rump, but managing it keeps me 733+
Yeah, like
ASP.Net and Web Services (note the capitals in Web Services)are two different things, semantically speaking. What I 'm talking about is the System.Web.Services Namespace that allows SOAP based web services.
Lack of webservices is a major stumbling block for my development team. We'd love to be runnning on Mono vs. .Net, but the lack of even a light at the end of the tunnel for web service integration is keeping LOTS of developers at bay.
Also, the list of dependencies to run monodevelop is astronomical. After my 7th or 8th trip to google to find some arcane dependency, I gave up. I think it's better if you are running gnome, but not much.
I totally agree that IAX2 is the next big protocol. We can't run SIP anywhere but on the local network due to several issues: Security: SIP requires many ports to be open IAX uses one port, and eve trunks multiple calls on one connection. NAT: SIP does a terrible job traversing consumer firewalls. Overhead: SIP - lots IAX2 lost less ALso, I run 3 asterisk boxes in a production environment. uptime is measured in months
Stallman needs to update and refresh his soap box material. His arguments boil down into petty semantics, which make him look like a doofus.
As a .Net developer myself, I endorse it over J2EE. Compatibility and ease of maintenance are the main benefits. The ./ community can't diss .net, just look at the Mono http://www.mono-project.com/about/index.html project. C# has actually gained pretty good legs as a language standard. It even has ECMA http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/sta ndards/Ecma-334.htm certification, which DOES mean something.
Personally, he always sounded like a bit of a hypochondriac prima donna, and I was anxiously waiting to be proven wrong.
I thought the same thing. Patrick has been so low-vis for so long, to come out so publicly with a bunch of Googled self-diagnoses is telling of another problem...
'Cause Sony's PC performance kinda blows vs. price
I did it in my office. I bought a Linksys WET11 (http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?grid= 33&scid=36&prid=602) and hooked it up to my Cisco 7960 - Instant wireless VOIP, anywhere in the world 802.11 access is available.