We had a three-year payback on our CallManager system and are now saving several thousand dollars a year. Service is also better and we have in-house support and standardized phones/calling features across 20 sites.
We use RF-based keyboards and mice from Interlink Electronics in our board room and large auditoriums. They work great for us and do not require line-of-site. You can see the model we use here:
You can: place a string in the conduit as you glue them together, use a fish tape (thin, stiff metal or fiberglass wrapped on a reel) to push through the conduit to the opposite end, use a vacuum with a small spongy ball slightly smaller than the conduit, etc.
The option to turn off backscatter has been in their appliances for quite a while now. We use one to get all the extreme spam/AV e-mails before they get to any of our regular mail servers. It has worked great for us and we do not contribute to backscatter since all those options are turned off.
If it attaches to a power line, what would complete the circuit required to allow it to charge? It would be no different than a bird landing on one and not getting hurt because they are not grounded.
It is not quite that simple. They are talking about web-based proxies. To your filter/firewall, they look like any other website running on port 80 or 443. Those are a huge headache for sysadmins that are required to filter content in schools. It is basically a web script that can run on virtually any web server that allows you to input the web address you want to visit. It then retrieves the page requested and returns it to you. It is like fighting a hydra, you block one and two more show up in its place. Some filtering companies are working on filters that will catch all of these that use the same scripts, but that is just a band-aid until someone writes a new one.
EV1Servers has done a good job on mine so far. They have lots of options available depending on how much storage space, bandwidth, etc. that you need. You have full root control over your server. They recently merged with ThePlanet, but it does not seem to have affected anything.
Netware was awesome for that. We did all 20 Netware 6.5 servers in about five minutes total. Everything related to DST is stored in a text file. Novell even provided a script that would change them for you.
We have several Cisco 7920 wireless phones running. They run on regular 802.11g with no special features or extensions to the protocol. We have never had a single complaint about voice quality. Some are even on a local wireless network connected to our main site over a wireless bridge link, so their calls cross two different 802.11 networks before getting to our gateway.
I know of other sites that use the same phones for everyone with no complaints.
"Based on my resume, my experience, and my interview; are there any concerns that I will not be the right person for the job?"
Gives you a chance to head off any concerns or possible misunderstandings. I have never used it (same company for several years), but my wife has with great results.
Heh, well I haven't audited it myself. I work for a school system and want to be sure if I leave it somewhere that documents with sensitive info will be safe.
Wonder why they didn't test it against some of the other high speed flash drives? We use the Lexar Lightnings at work. They are rated about the same as this one. I haven't benchmarked them myself, but they are noticeably faster than any others we have tried, plus they come with very nice sync and encryption software.
All the most recent versions of Netware support native TCP/IP and come with Native File Access. The combination of the two should make it fairly easy to mount a Netware volume on a Linux box. Native File Access allows a Netware server to appear as an Appletalk server, an NFS server, or a Windows SMB server. We use the Appletalk setup at several locations and were able to successfully mount with the other two protocols during testing.
If you are connecting to an older server, it is possible to compile IPX into your kernel and use various utilities to mount a Netware volume. It has been years since we've done it that way, so I don't remember the specifics. It did work though, at least using RedHat. Hopefully it is a newer version of Netware though since it is much simpler.
Sounds like a config problem. For our Cisco system, you just transfer to *+extension to go directly to the extension's voicemail. There was no special configuration to do that.
We're rolling out to 21 sites (400 phones) and have had only a couple of small issues so far.
IBM is being investigated for something similar right now. Many school systems with large IBM projects had their funding frozen for the investigation. There are several other vendors as well.
You don't list what brand controllers you are using, but your problems are not typical in my experience. We are a 100% Compaq shop and use their SmartArray controllers with Novell Netware and Debian Linux. We've never had a controller failure and have only lost about 3 drives over the last six years or so.
I'm a firm believer that you get what you pay for with enterprise-class servers. You shouldn't expect Tier-1 reliability from servers that are built with commodity hardware. There is a reason that Compaq/Dell/IBM servers are more expensive.
We also haven't had any issues installing other than the default Debian boot disks not supporting the SmartArray controller. A custom set of disks took care of that though.
Oops, I originally forgot about Nortel and then remembered and went back to add it before I submitted. None of the Nortel resellers bid on our project anyway though, not sure why.
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We had a three-year payback on our CallManager system and are now saving several thousand dollars a year. Service is also better and we have in-house support and standardized phones/calling features across 20 sites.
Jason
We use RF-based keyboards and mice from Interlink Electronics in our board room and large auditoriums. They work great for us and do not require line-of-site. You can see the model we use here:
http://www.smklink.com/index.php?id=NDA0
You can: place a string in the conduit as you glue them together, use a fish tape (thin, stiff metal or fiberglass wrapped on a reel) to push through the conduit to the opposite end, use a vacuum with a small spongy ball slightly smaller than the conduit, etc.
The option to turn off backscatter has been in their appliances for quite a while now. We use one to get all the extreme spam/AV e-mails before they get to any of our regular mail servers. It has worked great for us and we do not contribute to backscatter since all those options are turned off.
Jason
Ah, just forget the whole thing!
If it attaches to a power line, what would complete the circuit required to allow it to charge? It would be no different than a bird landing on one and not getting hurt because they are not grounded.
It is not quite that simple. They are talking about web-based proxies. To your filter/firewall, they look like any other website running on port 80 or 443. Those are a huge headache for sysadmins that are required to filter content in schools. It is basically a web script that can run on virtually any web server that allows you to input the web address you want to visit. It then retrieves the page requested and returns it to you. It is like fighting a hydra, you block one and two more show up in its place. Some filtering companies are working on filters that will catch all of these that use the same scripts, but that is just a band-aid until someone writes a new one.
EV1Servers has done a good job on mine so far. They have lots of options available depending on how much storage space, bandwidth, etc. that you need. You have full root control over your server. They recently merged with ThePlanet, but it does not seem to have affected anything.
Jason
Netware was awesome for that. We did all 20 Netware 6.5 servers in about five minutes total. Everything related to DST is stored in a text file. Novell even provided a script that would change them for you.
Jason
I am still trying to parse "aims to compete with the realms Cisco routers and PBX". That phrase makes no sense to me.
That is Fry's happy song. The one at the end of the episode is "I Will Wait For You", lyrics here:
a it-for-you.html
http://www.lyricsdepot.com/andy-williams/i-will-w
The above poster is right, the lyrics make it even sadder.
You might be correct, I doubt we have ever had that many concurrent phone calls at once.
Jason
We have several Cisco 7920 wireless phones running. They run on regular 802.11g with no special features or extensions to the protocol. We have never had a single complaint about voice quality. Some are even on a local wireless network connected to our main site over a wireless bridge link, so their calls cross two different 802.11 networks before getting to our gateway.
I know of other sites that use the same phones for everyone with no complaints.
Jason
Since they are interviewing you, I expect they will be thinking about it anyway. Their response will give you a chance to clarify things.
Jason
I like:
"Based on my resume, my experience, and my interview; are there any concerns that I will not be the right person for the job?"
Gives you a chance to head off any concerns or possible misunderstandings. I have never used it (same company for several years), but my wife has with great results.
Jason
Heh, well I haven't audited it myself. I work for a school system and want to be sure if I leave it somewhere that documents with sensitive info will be safe.
Jason
Wonder why they didn't test it against some of the other high speed flash drives? We use the Lexar Lightnings at work. They are rated about the same as this one. I haven't benchmarked them myself, but they are noticeably faster than any others we have tried, plus they come with very nice sync and encryption software.
Jason
Yes, I still consider it the best game I've ever played.
All the most recent versions of Netware support native TCP/IP and come with Native File Access. The combination of the two should make it fairly easy to mount a Netware volume on a Linux box. Native File Access allows a Netware server to appear as an Appletalk server, an NFS server, or a Windows SMB server. We use the Appletalk setup at several locations and were able to successfully mount with the other two protocols during testing.
If you are connecting to an older server, it is possible to compile IPX into your kernel and use various utilities to mount a Netware volume. It has been years since we've done it that way, so I don't remember the specifics. It did work though, at least using RedHat. Hopefully it is a newer version of Netware though since it is much simpler.
Jason
Universal Service is for the Schools and Libraries E-Rate program.
Jason
Sounds like a config problem. For our Cisco system, you just transfer to *+extension to go directly to the extension's voicemail. There was no special configuration to do that.
We're rolling out to 21 sites (400 phones) and have had only a couple of small issues so far.
Jason
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It is the default in Outlook 2003 now. You have to specifically set what senders you want to see images from.
Jason
You don't list what brand controllers you are using, but your problems are not typical in my experience. We are a 100% Compaq shop and use their SmartArray controllers with Novell Netware and Debian Linux. We've never had a controller failure and have only lost about 3 drives over the last six years or so.
I'm a firm believer that you get what you pay for with enterprise-class servers. You shouldn't expect Tier-1 reliability from servers that are built with commodity hardware. There is a reason that Compaq/Dell/IBM servers are more expensive.
We also haven't had any issues installing other than the default Debian boot disks not supporting the SmartArray controller. A custom set of disks took care of that though.
Jason
Oops, I originally forgot about Nortel and then remembered and went back to add it before I submitted. None of the Nortel resellers bid on our project anyway though, not sure why.
Jason