[Hampshire] Softphone

2009-07-29 Thread Keir Whitlock
Hey Guys, We are using CISCO IP phones in the office here, and I was wondering if there was any good linux softphones anyone knew of that I could use straight on my laptop? I believe the protocol they are using is MGCP. Im not massively hot on IP telephony as you might be able to tell, but

Re: [Hampshire] Softphone

2009-07-29 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, The Cisco phones we use at work use Cisco Call Manager to control them and the SCCP skinny call protocol. They are 7900-series phones and the only two options (selected by which firmware binary the phone picks up by TFTP when it boots) I'm aware of are SCCP and SIP. If you have a Cisco

Re: [Hampshire] Softphone

2009-07-29 Thread Vic
Just read back my earlier reply... That's not to say that you haven't got MGCP to the phones - but a cursory search didn't turn up any phones that do that... s/any phones/any soft phones/ Sorry about that. Vic. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

[Hampshire] Running spotify under wine.

2009-07-29 Thread Jon Wilks
Hey everyone, I managed effortlessly to download and configure wine then install Install spotify.exe in about 10 minutes. This was in Fedora 10. Forgive my excitement but I have had problems in the past trying to get soundcards to work in wine and as a consequence havent bothered with wine in

[Hampshire] Book Reviewers

2009-07-29 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
Hi, Our contact at Apress has left Apress and we now have a new contact. I'm not sure when they will arrive but the long list of books we asked for has been promised to us. I'll bring them along to the next meetings as they arrive. The list includes: On their way to me now... Beginning GIMP: