I've been in IT nearly the same amount of time, and yes generally new hires are supposed to pick up using the office word processor/spreadsheet on their own time. Preference is given to prior experience.
However, switching existing software requires retraining even for relatively minor changes. That's always been done on the company's dime(e.g. IT payroll, outside classes, OJT), IME.
I found the SLA to be not so bad. It depends on the SIP clients you chose. In my case they are snom 360's, but which type of SLA are speaking of? The SLA done by assigning users to ZAP channels is very inefficient way of setting up a phone system.
Or are you referring to SLA appearance offered by the asterisk clients? The different phones you speak of may have different UI's to initiate the SLA appearance, however at the SIP level the transfers happens with re-invites which is nearly universal and not in any way asterisk's problem(other than handling it correctly of course). http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2976.txt
The goals of the Asterisk project seem alright but the developers seem to have it all wrong. Rather than focusing on the features users want and getting them right they are kinda hacking it all together and deciding it needs to be worked on later. Rather than making it run well on most systems, they sacrifice things to make it run on the 133mhz machine hiding in Edison's garage. I know making it light on memory is important as too much will make voice quality horrible but there comes a point when the user side of things has to be more important. In that long run on devoid of whitespace, I think I saw a complaint about asterisk not using enough ram. Or was it that it uses text based config files and not a gui?
My last gripe with Asterisk is that there are a few different people working on different versions all at the same time seemingly getting nowhere. Take Asterisk, elastix, FreePBX, OpenPBX, and whatever else may be out there and get all the devs to work together and get it up to something that feels mainstream and open source worthy. Asterisk is a great project but it's still got a ways to go before it's ready for massive rollouts. The only reason i'm setting one up is that the current BizFone system we have crapped out and has been crap from day one. Welcome to opensource, however I'll point out that of the PBX's you pointed out, Asterisk is the only one you need worry about. All the others are just different kinds of makeup you can apply to asterisk, like changing faceplates on your 360. Since there are regular and substantive updates to asterisk, I'm struggling to see your point.
No, I have long said I noticed the same type of traffic with no Vista present on the Peerguardian boards.
One method of increasing those types of hits is to use utorrent. You'll see haliburton and DOD type of hits regardless, but with maybe a 10 - 25% increase when using utorrent on that exact same torrent/time span.
I also see this types of hits from work where there is no vista, and no torrenting software.
According to freebsd-bugs, this one was fixed about a year ago. So either you're spreading FUD, which sounds possible from your obvious linux leanings, or you didn't describe the issue well enough(as another responder asked about that as well).
There is possibly another scenario here in that if the effects are reversible late enough, there may enough people in your situation who elect to get the "cure" who will be able to provide valuable feedback. It could be something very traumatic for a person, and very difficult to adjust to. On the other hand it could be something like being color-blind your entire life only to wake some morning to find the whole spectrum of colors and a new wave of positive experiences.
Before I say my view...I think you have a point and a very interesting perspective. But, before you tend in one direction or another you might consider your definition of good. See, you say good, but it's all relative. I had a friend who was sort of the troublesome sort and a good day for him is a day in which he didn't talk to the police or require stitches. My point is I can't know what it's like for you, and you can't know what it's like for me so the best scenario would be to find out from someone who's had both experiences.
Or another possibility is since I didn't RTFA I don't WTF I'm talking about.
ESPN's article headline....
Game 3 equals NBC's lowest rating ever for prime-time program http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs2007/news/st ory?id=2894490
The NHL is on life support. They have no choice but to get as many people to watch as possible. If this was the NFL it would be news, but the NHL is so desperate to get laid it will go to bed with anything.
We have a long way to go...case in point.
I agree, but I think it should be extended to other bad crimes like murder. We should also adopt lesser capital punishment, where only a part of a person is killed. E.g. a thief should have his hand chopped off, and DIU-offenders should have their liver removed. I saw similar laws in action when I visited Saudi Arabia, which really has a handle on crime. You could walk around freely without having to fear for thieves or beggars, and people were happy. I really think this would cut down on crime and make society a truly better place to live for our children. Sometimes I think humanity is starting to grow up, then someone slaps some sense into me.
Our shop is a little bigger than ours. I had the same problem when deciding what to use. I finally went with a combination of sql-ledger and vtiger and it's actually working out quite well. Of course since there are two main apps there is some redundancy but not too bad. The tiger is for standard sales use and monitoring sales persons progress plus our website is setup to run off of it's products dynamically displaying info and pics of products that meet a certain criteria plus generating invoices the salesmen can work with. sql-ledger comes in to handle true accounting level type of transactions and history. vtiger at some point is supposed to support postgres at which point I intent to at least partially integrate the two at least on the inventory level to reduce redundancy, but it's certainly tolerable at the current level it's at. No different that using QB plus some other type of CRM software plus I get a lot more functionality. I have vtiger and our main site setup with phpthumb so our sales manger can quickly market products on hold or reduced for clearance plus vtiger mass marketing integration is good. Not the greatest, but they have much planned so it'll only get better.
As a Vtiger user, we are quite aware it is based of off Sugar. Vtiger has more functionality than Sugar(at least in the areas for our small/medium retail business) in addition to being fully open.
Vtiger runs on php 4 too. Yet you have throughly evaluated it?
I highly recommend doing some research before operating the keyboard.
That's basically the decision I reached when evaluating CRM solutions when I started with my company 6 months ago. After quite a bit of struggle(vtiger isn't perfect by any means ex see the php code which generates invoices) we finally got a product that is usable and functional. Now if they just get Postgres support done...
http://www.sql-ledger.org/
Now you don't need QB and can write your site to query the Postgres DB. There are also several OSS CRM packages each having their own strengths. vtiger is one...compiere another, opentaps another...compromises have to be made using virtually any software and the OSS CRM's/ERP's generally make their money helping you customize. Of course there are more issues here, but see it's OSS...you can fix it yourself. And even if you can't and require paid support, you can least count a moral victory by not perpetuating what's wrong w/ our current system.
No, the music is worse today. Modern artists are able to succeed while being less talented because they can bring other forms of entertainment into the package. Of course, to an extent it's always been that way, but it's growing because of the complexity of our culture. I do however understand your base point and mostly agree with it, but I'm not sure how anyone can make the argument recent music isn't any worse relative to the top 40 at any given time. Have you heard an extended amount of recent music? I can only assume you haven't if your making assertions like that.
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I've been in IT nearly the same amount of time, and yes generally new hires are supposed to pick up using the office word processor/spreadsheet on their own time. Preference is given to prior experience.
However, switching existing software requires retraining even for relatively minor changes. That's always been done on the company's dime(e.g. IT payroll, outside classes, OJT), IME.
There is a silver lining to every cloud.
That's one of oldest trolls/meme's around here. http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1391352
Or are you referring to SLA appearance offered by the asterisk clients? The different phones you speak of may have different UI's to initiate the SLA appearance, however at the SIP level the transfers happens with re-invites which is nearly universal and not in any way asterisk's problem(other than handling it correctly of course).
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2976.txt The goals of the Asterisk project seem alright but the developers seem to have it all wrong. Rather than focusing on the features users want and getting them right they are kinda hacking it all together and deciding it needs to be worked on later. Rather than making it run well on most systems, they sacrifice things to make it run on the 133mhz machine hiding in Edison's garage. I know making it light on memory is important as too much will make voice quality horrible but there comes a point when the user side of things has to be more important. In that long run on devoid of whitespace, I think I saw a complaint about asterisk not using enough ram. Or was it that it uses text based config files and not a gui? My last gripe with Asterisk is that there are a few different people working on different versions all at the same time seemingly getting nowhere. Take Asterisk, elastix, FreePBX, OpenPBX, and whatever else may be out there and get all the devs to work together and get it up to something that feels mainstream and open source worthy. Asterisk is a great project but it's still got a ways to go before it's ready for massive rollouts. The only reason i'm setting one up is that the current BizFone system we have crapped out and has been crap from day one. Welcome to opensource, however I'll point out that of the PBX's you pointed out, Asterisk is the only one you need worry about. All the others are just different kinds of makeup you can apply to asterisk, like changing faceplates on your 360. Since there are regular and substantive updates to asterisk, I'm struggling to see your point.
You forgot to mention the standard usage of mod points -- If you disagree with post, technical merits aside, hit it with a -1 or greater *troll* tag.
*BSD and Linux are "Free as in Speech", not "Free as in beer"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_as_in_beer
No, I have long said I noticed the same type of traffic with no Vista present on the Peerguardian boards.
One method of increasing those types of hits is to use utorrent. You'll see haliburton and DOD type of hits regardless, but with maybe a 10 - 25% increase when using utorrent on that exact same torrent/time span.
I also see this types of hits from work where there is no vista, and no torrenting software.
According to freebsd-bugs, this one was fixed about a year ago. So either you're spreading FUD, which sounds possible from your obvious linux leanings, or you didn't describe the issue well enough(as another responder asked about that as well).
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http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bugs/2
There is possibly another scenario here in that if the effects are reversible late enough, there may enough people in your situation who elect to get the "cure" who will be able to provide valuable feedback. It could be something very traumatic for a person, and very difficult to adjust to. On the other hand it could be something like being color-blind your entire life only to wake some morning to find the whole spectrum of colors and a new wave of positive experiences. Before I say my view...I think you have a point and a very interesting perspective. But, before you tend in one direction or another you might consider your definition of good. See, you say good, but it's all relative. I had a friend who was sort of the troublesome sort and a good day for him is a day in which he didn't talk to the police or require stitches. My point is I can't know what it's like for you, and you can't know what it's like for me so the best scenario would be to find out from someone who's had both experiences. Or another possibility is since I didn't RTFA I don't WTF I'm talking about.
ESPN's article headline....t ory?id=2894490
Game 3 equals NBC's lowest rating ever for prime-time program
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/playoffs2007/news/s
The NHL is on life support. They have no choice but to get as many people to watch as possible. If this was the NFL it would be news, but the NHL is so desperate to get laid it will go to bed with anything.
No one watches it anyway so what revenue are they trying to preserve?
What's up with the polar bear problem in Hudson Bay then? http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB11345 2435089621905-vnekw47PQGtDyf3iv5XEN71_o5I_20061214 .html
Our shop is a little bigger than ours. I had the same problem when deciding what to use. I finally went with a combination of sql-ledger and vtiger and it's actually working out quite well. Of course since there are two main apps there is some redundancy but not too bad. The tiger is for standard sales use and monitoring sales persons progress plus our website is setup to run off of it's products dynamically displaying info and pics of products that meet a certain criteria plus generating invoices the salesmen can work with. sql-ledger comes in to handle true accounting level type of transactions and history. vtiger at some point is supposed to support postgres at which point I intent to at least partially integrate the two at least on the inventory level to reduce redundancy, but it's certainly tolerable at the current level it's at. No different that using QB plus some other type of CRM software plus I get a lot more functionality. I have vtiger and our main site setup with phpthumb so our sales manger can quickly market products on hold or reduced for clearance plus vtiger mass marketing integration is good. Not the greatest, but they have much planned so it'll only get better.
What do you mean Vista is selling?
1 6 h -vistasales.html i d=aQ.oZSDrncbk&refer=us
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/18/15122
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/03/27/tec
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&s
You must mean why Vista is selling *at all* which is also related to issues other than security.
Hack me Super-Hacker...I'm at 127.0.0.1
You mean as in forcing a nation to adjust its clocks for no reason?
As a Vtiger user, we are quite aware it is based of off Sugar. Vtiger has more functionality than Sugar(at least in the areas for our small/medium retail business) in addition to being fully open. Vtiger runs on php 4 too. Yet you have throughly evaluated it? I highly recommend doing some research before operating the keyboard.
That's basically the decision I reached when evaluating CRM solutions when I started with my company 6 months ago. After quite a bit of struggle(vtiger isn't perfect by any means ex see the php code which generates invoices) we finally got a product that is usable and functional. Now if they just get Postgres support done...
http://www.sql-ledger.org/ Now you don't need QB and can write your site to query the Postgres DB. There are also several OSS CRM packages each having their own strengths. vtiger is one...compiere another, opentaps another...compromises have to be made using virtually any software and the OSS CRM's/ERP's generally make their money helping you customize. Of course there are more issues here, but see it's OSS...you can fix it yourself. And even if you can't and require paid support, you can least count a moral victory by not perpetuating what's wrong w/ our current system.
device=a:\dos\ramdisk.sys /kbtouse=xxx #Up to 32000KB
So Crates would be proud WYLD STALLYNS!
No, the music is worse today. Modern artists are able to succeed while being less talented because they can bring other forms of entertainment into the package. Of course, to an extent it's always been that way, but it's growing because of the complexity of our culture. I do however understand your base point and mostly agree with it, but I'm not sure how anyone can make the argument recent music isn't any worse relative to the top 40 at any given time. Have you heard an extended amount of recent music? I can only assume you haven't if your making assertions like that.
Since you've now learned the meaning of camel toe, perhaps you're interest in this http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/b/bobandtom17966/cam eltoe498813.html
I don't know the title or the artist but I think of it as "Ode to the Camel Toe". Set the Beach Boys Kokomo music.
Bill, Thanks for reminding us...again