Re: Network-controlled power switches/relays?

Web power switch has a secure web API. I think there is a Android App. I use a C# API myself... pretty simple code. Gerry Gerry Hull, Owner Telosity.com -- Cloud-based Communications Solutions Consulting

Re: Network-controlled power switches/relays?

Use these all over the world. Have three in the arctic. Work great, inexpensive! Network ping restart. https://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html Gerry On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:33 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > Anyone have any experience with

Re: Videoconferencing rundown.

The commercial videoconferencing market is very alive and well, with many multinationals employing huge systems from the likes of Cisco/Tandberg and Polycom. Desktop video is just starting to become big in the corporate world -- probably because these big video companies want to try an extract the

Re: Videoconferencing rundown.

Slightly OT to this discussion, but fyi: I have a HD audio conference server in the cloud that any of you are welcome to use: The caveat is that you must access it with a SIP URI. whate...@conf.telosity.com It will generate a on-demand conference based on a unique URI. so, for example,

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

Those are either clients or, protocols -- I presume you meant H323, not 232... You will be hard pressed to find an off-the-shelf OSS product that works well for videoconferencing. Vmukti was around for a while, but they seem to have gone commercial. Freeswitch is an awesome softswitch. The

Re: OSS Video Conference solution?

the pipe and box with some horsepower, you should be able to have N-party conferencing. I'm presuming your not expecting HD-quality video, though good 720p should be achievable. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote: Those are either clients or, protocols -- I presume

Re: Options for hosting servers in my basement?

I have 5 virtual machines boxes on www.chicagovps.net. They have a 1GB Ram/10GB Disk/1TB traffic VPS for $5.35 a month, less than the cost of electricity to run a server at home. (Also, they have a 2GB/2TB xfer offering for $7.00 a month). They have all the popular distros and you have full

Re: Thinkpad repair?

I have three X61s and two X40s in my family... I love Thinkpads! I have found ebay to be an excellent source of parts, for short money. The other day my nephew's X40 died; the battery would not charge even with a new battery and a good power supply. So, I figured something had died on the

Philip Sbrogna Service...

donations are accepted at either · Reading is Fundamental, Inc 1255 23rd St, NW Suite 300 Washington, DC 20037 www.rif.org · Cathedral of the Pines 10 Hale Hill Rd Rindge, NH 03461 - Regards, Gerry Hull Telosity.com Nelson, NH ge...@telosity.com

Re: Linux has won

In overall computing OS shipments, Linux has surpassed Microsoft a very long time ago. Microsoft embedded OS is a very, very small part of their business. 99% of MS OS business is Desktop and Server OS shipments. I believe they still have a commanding lead in the desktop, but Linux is certainly

Re: question on l on equipment for a local fiber installation

. Gerry Hull *Amateur Radio W1VE | Nelson, NH USA | ge...@telosity.com | www.w1ve.com | www.getscores.org Tel: +1-617-CW-SPARK | Skype: gerryw1ve | SIP: ge...@w1ve.com * Sighttp://www.wisestamp.com/email-install?utm_source=extensionutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=footer On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 1:22 PM

Re: OT: CDMA Repeaters/Booster

Interesting. My friend in Vermont had a similar experience with his first amplifier... It was DOA. I happened to have my own amp with me when visiting him, and proved the issue was simply a bad amplifier. He got a replacement, and for both GSM and CDMA, it is working very well. Gerry On Fri,

Re: OT: CDMA Repeaters/Booster

I have experience with both mobile and fixed amplifiers and systems. Most of what I use is from a company called Wilson. For the mobile, they have a cradle with a built-in 2w amplifier, a coax feed and a little mag mount antenna which goes on the roof of the car. I commute from Nelson to

ACEswitch 180 software?

Hey folks, I picked up an ACESwitch 180 8-port managed GB switch for very short money on ebay... The problem is, it does not have the default password! From what I read on the web, you can only reset using software via the console port. This switch is obsolete, so nothing available on the

Re: Recommendations...

Results so far: I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit on my X61, followed by Virtualbox 3.2.4, with a Windows 7 vm. After much Googling, I still have a couple of PITA issues. - After every host reboot, it seems that the kernel vboxdrv driver goes away. I found lots of people reporting this

Re: Recommendations...

: On 06/18/2010 09:24 AM, Gerry Hull wrote: Results so far: I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit on my X61, followed by Virtualbox 3.2.4, with a Windows 7 vm. After much Googling, I still have a couple of PITA issues. - After every host reboot, it seems that the kernel vboxdrv driver

Recommendations...

Folks, I just picked up an Lenovo X61 laptop the other day for a very good price. This 3lb unit is a dual-core t7...@2.6ghz, 4GB Ram and 100GB disk. I want to run Linux as the core operating system, and use VMWare to load Windows for my Windows work. I was thinking of Ubuntu 10.04. My

Re: Recommendations...

This is why I LOVE this list -- lots of great feedback. I'll go w/64-bit (trying it w/the live-CD first), and probably Virtualbox. BTW, I bought the X61 for $250, in mint condition, from Craigslist. Pretty good deal for a decent dual-core box. Thanks! Gerry On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 2:08 PM,

Re: We need a better Internet in America

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[OT] Any IPhone Developers on this list?

At my day job, we are looking for a consultant to do some IPhone development. We have some very interesting biz apps we are working on. If you do this kind of work, or know of a good developer located in MA/NH, please reply to me off list. (Yeah, I know about ZCo.) Gerry ge...@telosity.com

Re: managing DNS

I' a big fan of dyndns.org; I also use www.zonedit.com, who have been excellent over the past 10 years or so... From their FAQ: How can I backup/download my zone files? If you want to back up all ZoneEdit DNS data for a given zone, use named-xfer: named-xfer -z atreju.com -f atreju.com.txt

Friend of a friend looking for a VOIP/Asterisk Engineer/Consultant

and queries, and small applications : PHP, Python, MySQL etc. If you or someone you know is interested, please contact: Fred Hopengarten, Esq. hopengar...@post.harvard.edu Six Willarch Road * Lincoln, MA 01773 781.259.0088 FAX 419.858.2421 Regards,, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com

VOIP vs POTS was: Re: [semi-OT] alternatives to FairPoint in Nashua?

It's seems that some here still believe VOIP is not aot a good alternative to having a POTS line. I've run a consulting biz, and my home phone service, for 5 years on pure VOIP. I have 59s reliability, and, in general is costs much less than the bundled services provided by broadband companies.

Any Mono Developers on this list?

I'm a .Net guy whose starting to come over to the other side... At work, we need to leverage a lot of C# code on Linux so we are looking at Mono again... It looked to be in sad shape a while ago, but now seems to be picking up steam. A lot of stuff we have are services/daemons. so no UI issues

Re: Fairpoint files for Chapter 11

learned anything from this fiasco, they must do better with do diligence, and stop listening to marketing folks. Gerry On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote: Do you guys know that Fairpoint

Re: Linux Android Phone coming to Verizon

Part of what we do at work involves the mobile development space. What I'm going to like the Android is the common development platform. If you are coding a Java app for a Blackberry -- is it for the Curve, Storm, Bold, etc,etc CDMA or GSM? You have to have all the phones and plans and code

Re: Fairpoint files for Chapter 11

Do you guys know that Fairpoint does not offer an SLA on Business DSL? Not in NH, Not ever. Can you imagine that? My local ISP has been (temporarily) buying a bunch of DSL from Fairpoint. When a (large) number of DSL lines went down, FairPoint could not find the customer data on the ISP!!! After

Re: Asterisk / VOIP for small business

Hi Greg, I hope Fonality has removed the fact that they have a daemon with root access in PBXtra, which phones home. There has been a lot of press about that in the past. My previous employer had Fonality for a while... but they swiched to a non-phone-home version of Asterisk. I guess I'm a bit

VPN over SSL /w UDP?

Hey All, I'm running my asterisk server on a hosted VPS... I'd like to run a VPN from that server to home, so I can connect a bunch of UNISTIM Nortel phones (UDP on port 5000 for signaling, RTP for audio like SIP). This solves the issue that I can only run one Nortel behind NAT. So, I'm

Re: VPN over SSL /w UDP?

trunk, but it's all feasible... -Ken P.S.  Or, assuming the external box is being used for your PSTN uplink, you could just do the uplink, also, from your WRT54G -- always assuming, of course, that it doesn't involve a T1 or POTS card. On Fri, October 9, 2009 2:11 pm, Gerry Hull wrote: Hey

Re: VPN over SSL /w UDP?

ping time to my PSTN trunking provider POP (in the same data center, I'd assume). The hypervm control panel is a bit buggy, but I can deal with that. Gerry On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Ben Scott dragonh...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote

Motherboard/Linux recommendation for an i7-860 running Xen?

-- Forwarded message -- From: Gerry Hull gerry.h...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM Subject: Motherboard/Linux recommendation for an i7-860 running Xen? To: gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org Hey All, I have a friend who just went through a nightmare trying to get his

Re: Motherboard/Linux recommendation for an i7-860 running Xen?

in general! Gerry On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 09/29/2009 02:14 PM, Gerry Hull wrote: I have a friend who just went through a nightmare trying to get his i7-860 running Windows 7/64 or Windows Vista/64 on a Asus motherboard...  Thing would lock-up

Re: Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

Wow. I've been on this list for a about a year now, and am always impressed by the knowledge of this group. However, I simply cannot understand why you guys have to bash consumer products so much. I have a completely opposite opinion of Linksys routers. They serve a market. They ARE cheap

Re: Why Linksys routers are so cheap...

You are correct, Bill. I only buy WRT54GLs, which are still available widely on the net for about $50-$60. Thanks for the heads-up on the GS108T. I might be in the market. Gerry On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Bill McGonigle b...@bfccomputing.com wrote: On 09/22/2009 08:50 PM, Gerry Hull

Re: It appears that Cisco has decided to deep six the Linksys line...

Not at all... I was at Cisco Live! in SF last week. They are just re-labeling and repackaging Linksys... Typical marketing stuff which is a PITA for us! Gerry On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Alex Hewitt hewitt_t...@comcast.netwrote: Or at least they've made getting information on Linksys

DSL Alternatives to Fairpoint?

Hey All, I'm in Greenfield, 03047... using residential 7.1/768 dynamic-ip service for $51/month from Fairpoint Technically, it works fine... I'm less than 1000 feet from the CO building in Greenfield. However, Fairpoint as a company is a total mess. When I signed up for an account in

Re: Help - Cisco 7920 on my Asterisk box...

at 7:28 PM, Gerry Hull ge...@telosity.com wrote: I meant Star, not Start. Neither sequence works!! Sigh... The USB cable and software is ~$300... making the effort not worthwhile. Hopefully I'll find something. Your looking at the options that appear under phone settings after you try

Re: Help - Cisco 7920 on my Asterisk box...

I meant Star, not Start. Neither sequence works!! Sigh... The USB cable and software is ~$300... making the effort not worthwhile. Hopefully I'll find something. Gerry On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Gerry Hull ge

Re: Phones for Asterisk and single-pair old phone wiring?

My question is: What is your purpose for swiching to Asterisk (IP-based telephony)? Is it because you want high-performance end points (as you describe)? If so, you are only going to get those from either pure-IP sets, or a proprietary system such as the Norstar or other Digital set on standard

Re: Netgear now touting open source WRT-compatible wireless router

Or, Buy a used Cisco router on Ebay for around the same price, and get much more functionality (though much harder to configure). I have a 1720 and it does everything I want and more. Gerry On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Ben Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 10:38 AM,

Re: NearFest

nice NOS units) for cheap coin. Stop by if you want to chat about Linux or make a call... I should be there after 1pm on Friday... Typical spot is near the relaxation area. Gerry Hull, W1VE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug

Intro and Questions...

a custom distro, which will install the OS from an iso, an after initial boot, downloads the latest application code and install it. TIA, Gerry Hull Greenfield, NH [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email/sip) +1-603-547-4005 ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss

Re: comcast does it again Port 25

Hey Jeff, Why not use gmail's servers ? AUTH-SMTP works fine, and it's free. When I used to be on Verizon Business DSL w/dynamic ip, I would use gmail as my relay on my CentOS Asterisk box. Gerry (In Greenfield, on Verizon Biz DSL, never any port blocking) On 3/31/08, Jeff Kinz [EMAIL