Posts made by brianlittlejohn

@jaredbusch said in Yealink T4XG phones will not talk to FreePBX 14 over HTTPS:

Right I want some one to provision one of their T4XS phones to my FreePBX 14 instance from a factory default state.

I'm available to do that.

I just provisioned one of my phones from a factory state to my FreePBX 14 instance with https with success.

I have a t46s I can test for you this morning, taking the afternoon off!

@wrx7m said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brianlittlejohn - I am not ready. can I just get the instance and pick the specifics like upload my own iso tomorrow?

Yea, you can purchase the instance and have them set it up with whatever OS until you decide to upload the iso and reload what you want on it.

@dashrender said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@jaredbusch said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@scottalanmiller said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

@storageninja said in How to Grow from a One Man Operation to Two:

Expense/travel reimbursement policy - Small shops will balk at someone spending $30 on dinner. Large shops will not care about a $100 lunch. Small shops will force lowest cost fair rules on travel, and force discount carriers, and tickets. Larger shops will allow business class on long flights.

I'm seeing the opposite here. Small shop, doesn't blink at flight costs, dinner is always $100+, we can just request luxury apartments wherever they are needed, etc.

Meh, startup burning cash to attract the right talent. After startup phase this type of thing will typically change.

I agree. I've worked for several smaller companies, and they all had strick reimbursement policies. i.e. I can't have a rental car for SW next week - I have to use the shuttle. Meals capped at $35/day, etc.

The larger company I used to work for.. yeah, they didn't care - $100 dinner - no problem, etc.

I work for a fairly small company... they always told me just to keep it reasonable...

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@brianlittlejohn said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Anybody looking, Vultr has storage instances available in their LA datacenter

Woohoo! I'm not ready to buy, but I wanted to see their pricing. Thanks for the heads up!

I wasn't really ready to buy yet either, but jumped on it since it was available.

Anybody looking, Vultr has storage instances available in their LA datacenter

@rojoloco said in New Phone System:

@brianlittlejohn we had a cisco phone system when I started. Awful, but easy to add new phones. New system? It was like pulling your own teeth, and I have 10 bricked phones now.

Yea, I just ditched the cisco system we had... I wanted to try and avoid purchasing new phones, but too many features did not work for me to consider deploying it.

@rojoloco said in New Phone System:

The only advice I can offer is to ditch the Cisco phones and get anything else. They're more difficult to flash... they basically want to connect to a cisco phone system.

That is what I did... I tried the SIP firmware for one of the phones, it was awful.

@dashrender Bluray is in h.262 in a BDMV container...

I have great success with MakeMKV for blurays. It basically repackages the BDMV to MKV container. I also then reencode it into h.264 in an mkv container with Handbrake. (Optional, but I'll sacrifice the small quality difference I see for the substantially smaller file)

With SBS you use the built in wizards for everything. The SBS Wizard has a wizard to get a new cert put on the box.

I'm assuming he means Windows Small Business Server 2011, which is Windows Server 2008R2 and Exchange 2010.

@dashrender said in Online TV Providers:

@marcinozga said in Online TV Providers:

@dashrender said in Online TV Providers:

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@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

@marcinozga I was doing it on my phone.

Ok, that complicates things a lot, you'd need to kill cellular and GPS, and even then Wifi info can reveal your true location.

How does WiFi reveal your location short of something like Google Collecting it and the vendor checking wifi locations via this?

With Google collecting that stuff, personally I want to get a system that changes WiFi SSIDs monthly.

That's exactly how Wifi reveals it. Google, and probably others collect Wifi ssid, signal strength, and other metrics.

Well, that's easy to get around then. Just change your SSID, problem will go away for a while at least.

Not quite... everyone around you would have to change theirs too

@wrx7m said in Office 365 Plans - Mix Business and Enterprise?:

I wonder if it really makes a difference. I'll test it out tomorrow by deploying business premium and logging in with a pro plus licensed user.

My Business Premium subscriptions will not activate 365 Pro Plus, But Pro Plus subscription will activate 365 Business Premium.

@rojoloco said in Online TV Providers:

Sling and Hulu can eat many bags of dicks each. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, and of course Kodi are all wonderful.

I just can't watch live sports on Netflix, Amazon, HBO

I've switched a couple of times between Sling and PSVue. If you have fastest enough broadband they both worked well for me. I like the DVR with sling better than the one with PSVue.

Not while it is still in beta

Can't help you with that, never looked at doing that.

@dustinb3403 said in Yealink Suppliers:

The next question I have, and I'm sure to be ridiculed for it.

These phones with SfB firmware still act as phones first? Right Can be assigned an extension, DID, call flow, etc.

I received a couple of the t46G with skype firmware and was able to install the regular firmware on them... that is my only experience with anything for Skype4Business phone stufff

Never used these guys...

https://www.ipphone-warehouse.com/yealink-sip-t48s-sfb-ip-phone-p/sip-t48s-sfb.htm

But there is the T48S with SfB firmware.