What A Week On The Road!
This week has been crazed. I started out on Houston and had meetings in Waco TX, Dallas TX, Lawton OK, Austin TX. Not all of it was planned at the outset, and the planning was being done (so I thought)…
snom DECT Repeater Available For Order
As previously announced snom has made available a DECT repeater for their m3 cordless SIP phone system. This should further enhance the phones appeal. VOIP Supply has the unit listed at $133. Not cheap, but not unreasonable either. We've really…
Magic Jack, End Points & Cheap Minutes
There has been a little rumble of late in the blogosphere about Magic Jack. Ike Elliot had an good overview of the service here. And a little more here.
I first heard of Magic Jack literally a couple of years ago when visiting Durham, NC. It was the topic of conversation on an ABC radio talk show. The host was raving about cheap long distance calls using his PC, and paying $40/year for unlimited calling.
Ho hum. Cheap minutes. I don’t generally get worked up about such things.
SlimNAS, T5700 Thin Client & 2.5″ 250 GB Hard Drive
The new HD for my SlimNAS box arrived last Friday. So the time to rebuild my SlimServer system is fast approaching. Right now it’s running on a 2.8 GHz Pentium 4, but since I’ve abandoned the idea of the Inguz on-the fly room correction in software it just doesn’t need all that CPU power. Nor does it need to be making all that heat & noise.
However, I don’t expect that the simplest solution will work. The T5700 has a 44 pin connector for the flash “disk-on-module” that it normally boots from. A reader in Denmark has indicated that he had some trouble getting the small HD to power-up when connected here.
Garrett Smith, SIP Trunking & Packet8
Garrett Smith is right on the money in his appraisal of Packet8's new SIP trunking service. I wonder if anyone sees the paradox in this? A year ago when I was shopping around for a hosted IP-PBX I looked at…
Asterisk Where You Least Expect It
I'm on-the-road again the next few weeks. This week I have meetings in Burlington VT. That's just about as far from Houston as you can get up the East coast. The pity is that the northeast has been having Houston…