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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Enjoying digging into the Zed Shaw Python book.

How is this going, if you have this must interest you must have always been a developer at heart!

It's fun. With Thanksgiving and today (since we get the Friday after off), I've treated myself to this and actually playing some Everquest again (after a month's drought).

I do enjoy creating [things.] Much of the enjoyment from teaching came from creating music with the kids. I can remember when I wrote my little scripts for creating Exchange Online users, there was much joy with experimenting, breaking, and triumph.

My grandpa was a teacher and got me programming when I was 8, so I can definitely see how that personality profile would fit.

Something to check out is Crystal https://crystal-lang.org/

I have always liked Ruby and this just seems to be the next levelof that. Its fairly new but hundreds of contributors.

VOIP Supply actually ships a lot of Yealink from Texas as they are just reselling another distributors inventory. Because of that they arent the best price I have seen out there either. Baltic is probably better.

@wirestyle22 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@wirestyle22 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

@bigbear said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

Also noticing Spectrum in my area is suddenly upgrading speeds to 200mb and even 400mb x 20mb for free! Just over the past week.

My dad got that UBNT Amplifi unit and the speedtest kept saying 200mb, so he thought it was wrong.

This all immediately following Net Neutrality bill? Whats the catch?

It's a Trojan horse right before they throttle all of your content. Either that or they think you're cute and are trying to butter you up.

You know, my wifi has been crashing for the past 24 hours... its all just a conspiracy to sell more UBNT #deepstate

They just want to be physically connected with you

All a plot to sell more FrontRow Cameras, sold out for months I assume, havent seen a single person wearing one yet...

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Got a little XP for the cleric. Back to the Python book.

As in WIndows XP?

XP = Experience Points

@dustinb3403 said in FreePBX:

@scottalanmiller said in FreePBX:

@bnrstnr said in FreePBX:

@brianlittlejohn We used voipsupply.com

They had everything we needed and the price seemed right. If you create an account and login you'll see the better, non-MSRP, pricing.

We like them and they are local to us here in the Niagara region.

You live in Texas now don't you?

Where in the world is Carmen San Diego Scott Alan Miller lol

@dashrender said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

WOW - that's awesome!

It is funny, and their does need to be a law.

I just don't believe all these big companies have such big hearts that they there isnt some other reach around going on for some other agenda.

Meanwhile, why did the two closest Burger Kings disappear on me in the last 12 months? Now I gotta drive all the way to Springboro to get Whopper. They were also the fastest Burger Kings.

Having dealt with RDSH and understanding multipoint server I dont know why Microsoft insists on using these USB terminals.

RDSH would be much more ideal, running in the cloud. But 16Gb of RAM is only good for 10 to 15 every day users, from what I have experienced. He would need 64GB of RAM and hella good SSD disk configuration for the i/o.

The CPU share does amazingly well.

But yeah he is looking for a miracle. The more chrome/web/video you do the more demand on the system as well.

Also probably not even a girl...

Tineye image search returned Ghetty Images

https://tineye.com/search/43da6ae0b1922824443484950467f22e384d2ece/

@dustinb3403 said in FCC Net Neutrality Insanity Continues:

People are actively resigning from positions due to the amount of insanity that is taking place.

Think about that too, what about under served markets? Where are there no programs to bolster small ISP's to build out in rural areas?

The same people who mandate self driving cars will be the same people who somehow offer free transportation via self driving vehicles, one would imagine.

I need to find an old 90’s F250 to restore and keep ready to roll...

@kelly I have used it, it works. Just costs so much more than Vultr.

They do support FreePBX via their ticket system and you get a couple free modules, one of which just became more expensive.

But Vultr has been great...

Sucks that the lost the main booster, but still amazing launch...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16980954/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-middle-core-failed-landing

The Tesla car they launched will circle the Sun and make a pass afterwards by Earth and Mars

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-falcon-heavy-orbit-20180207-story.html

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Though the insurance thing do it, but why would drive the prices of insurance up?

Insurance on self driving will plummet as there is almost never a fault to pay out on. Insurance for those intentionally being risky will skyrocket as there is less and less excuse for it.

I am expecting self driving cars to start including the insurance, did you see Volvo's new "Care" plan.

Still cant figure out if its financing or just a rental agreement...

https://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/new-models/xc40/care-by-volvo?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Volvo_General_Exact&utm_term=volvo+care&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkrzU-rbx1wIVBQRpCh3lUwGpEAAYASAAEgLLc_D_BwE

The only way to find out is to focus the might and power of ML onto a single channel and...

Sigh. Even a large community of IT folks are no match for millions of millennials being click-bated every minute by a screen cap with some exposed cleavage.

@jaredbusch said in Sangoma Buys Digium:

@scottalanmiller said in Sangoma Buys Digium:

@jaredbusch said in Sangoma Buys Digium:

Interesting to see the financials of Digium. Fiscal 2017 net loss of $4million. Most recent quarter breakeven.

Under the terms of the agreement, Sangoma expects to pay a total purchase price of US$28 million on a debt-free and cash-free basis, subject to customary working capital adjustments. The purchase price consists of US$24.3 million in cash and 3,943,025 Sangoma common shares (representing US$3.7 million based on a ten (10) day volume weighted average price of $1.2214 per common share). Digium generated approximately US$30 million in revenue in its fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, with consolidated assets (net of cash) of approximately US$11 million, no debt and a net loss of approximately US$4 million. Further, for the most recently completed quarter ending June 30, 2018, Digium is operating at about EBITDA breakeven.

Their internal offerings weren't that good, and they don't "make" anything themselves which didn't make a lot of sense.

I though Digium used to make some cards for FXO/FXS.

But yeah in more recent history, their only product has only been Switchvox, and some (I assume) rebranded phones.

Switchvox looked so futuristic about 10 years ago when I was selling Allworx phone systems. Feels like it hasnt been updated at all since then. Have always liked their phones myself but they also need an update. I hope this goes somewhere fruitful.

The biggest thing would be whether they maintain two product lines or merge teams/products. With 3CX upsetting all of their resellers and going direct to customers it is interesting times.

I have sent this out a lot this year. I am careful to remind friends and family to backup their extra RAM to a USB drive in case they need to reload their system.

@travisdh1 said in MangoLassi Monthly Wrap Up October 2017:

@bigbear said in MangoLassi Monthly Wrap Up October 2017:

@travisdh1 said in MangoLassi Monthly Wrap Up October 2017:

@jaredbusch said in MangoLassi Monthly Wrap Up October 2017:

@bigbear said in MangoLassi Monthly Wrap Up October 2017:

I actually like these videos and have them added to my subscribed for my tv in my home office.

Glad it's still happening.

Would be really cool if ML had a weekly cast like vuc.me with other people chiming in

We could use Zoom.us for a video meeting or something.

Hrm, no Spreed.me server running in the lab? Seems easy to setup, just haven't gotten around to it myself yet.

Can you H264 in using that?

What's the video encoding have to do with anything? So long as the computer has access to a camera, it works. Or are you referring to a video phone? Likely just need to be able to follow a link to join on any device.

Yeah, to dial in from video phone all lazy-like

I dont know if you are referring to your Microsoft partner, in which case - WTF?

I had a billing issue once where I was waiting for the new biz credit card and didnt want to pay with my personal card. If you call, on the phone, and explain to billing support, they will keep you active.

In my case I called after the expired period, they had me back online for another full 30 days.

How many users?

@scottalanmiller said in Signal Group Chat:

@bigbear said in Signal Group Chat:

Signal goes beyond that. But it provides an entirely integrated diaper experience if you turn it on.

Did you really mean to say diaper? If so, I have no idea what that means in this context.

Dialer

No coffee here yet

I don’t have a problem with a telegram. I just know that it is not as secure as Signal...

https://moxie.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/

@ivan-palii I ponder what the hell is going on with youtube. For example, at least a week ago there were only 2 or 3 videos regarding Yealink T5 series phones. I cant imagine NO ONE else has uploaded a video with some tags to the new models, unboxing them etc.

I was actually going to upload some video myself (since I am going to be distributing/reselling yealink and was curious to see how long I would take to get to the top results.