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by spiffytech
Thu Mar 02, 2006 12:25 pm
Forum: Tech Show Discussion
Topic: How to make asterisk work?
Replies: 8
Views: 6619

What was it like getting hardware for the computer tower to support the phone calls? Anything especially special needed? Is it very expensive? I know that Vonage provides an ethernet -> phone adapter with their service. Does that change anything? I'll look into your provider and see if they'd work f...
by spiffytech
Wed Mar 01, 2006 1:58 pm
Forum: Tech Show Discussion
Topic: How to make asterisk work?
Replies: 8
Views: 6619

How to make asterisk work?

My company is trying to get a PBX working, and I's thinking about using Asterisk. I's wondering, with your experience with that, what does it take to get it up and running? What's the easiet/most reliable solution? How about managing extensions? Is there any ISP/phone company stuff needed to make it...
by spiffytech
Tue Feb 14, 2006 12:35 pm
Forum: Tech Show Discussion
Topic: Google apps coming to linux
Replies: 15
Views: 9462

I enjoy using Picassa in Windows, and an glad to see it coming to Linux (provided it's an independant binary, not a deb or rpm file, which limits what distros it works on). But, more importantly, it paves the way for future Google apps.
by spiffytech
Thu Dec 29, 2005 12:34 pm
Forum: Tech Show Discussion
Topic: High quality Torrent file: MP3 or Ogg?
Replies: 28
Views: 17056

Why not just host the WAV files? That way everyone can encode it however they want.
by spiffytech
Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:36 am
Forum: Tech Show Discussion
Topic: What do you use live CDs for?
Replies: 15
Views: 13585

I use Linux live CDs on my work laptop. It has XP on it, and I can't install Linux on it. However, Linux is faster and more reliable than XP for me, and I like to use it at school. I usually use knoppix because it supports my wi-fi out of the box. However, I have not yet found a liveCD that will all...
by spiffytech
Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:25 am
Forum: LVLUG Discussion
Topic: Shutting a laptop
Replies: 1
Views: 9280

Shutting a laptop

Can anyone tell me how to get my laptop to come back to life after I shut the screen? I've tried probably a half-dozen Linux LiveCD distros on it, and when I shut the screen with any of them, and reopen it, the power never returns to the screen unless I manually restart the laptop with the power but...