VoicePulse in NYC is pretty awesome. They have a four trunk, $11/mo deal that is really great. I use that for my home line (yes, I have an Asterisk PBX for home use) and a lot of businesses that can work within the four trunk limit use it. They scale up from there but at four trunks they are unbeatable.

I was listening to Patricia Barber.

11 degrees right now but hitting 30 later today here in NY.

@ajstringham said:

@Dashrender I know. I'm on a home account. Ok, I think I just answered my own question. They will block requests being sent on those ports to your IP but if you are the one requesting they don't block them. pounds forehead

That's how a normal firewall works. You home firewall does the exact same thing.

Can't remember now who owed it to me. Obviously their advertising failed!

It was bound to happen. Voice controls are a big part of mobile devices. I still have not enabled Siri though.

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller And that's what everyone is saying. I'm getting different stories from higher ups though. They say it works with UT's O365 but they are using some sort of weird relay and I'm not sure what it is. Going to have to look into it some more.

It's a relay, plain and simple. We know that that works. "Using a relay" is a term of "it's not supported." That means that you have to build a proxy email server that handles Office 365 on UT's behalf because UT doesn't support it. It's like how 12 year old's are "able to drive a car" meaning "they can be a passenger in a car that someone else drives."

@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller I am going to have to look into that. I'm not sure how you'd go about doing that on a UT box...

Last I knew, it wasn't supported.

If all you did was change the port, how could it be using TLS? Unless you are turning TLS on, it's off.

@Reid-Cooper Yes TED has some great stuff.

This is a deliciously refreshing mango lassi:

I had a Raspberry Pi that was supposed to have been shipped to me long ago but it never arrived.

The 360 is the best of the recent platforms. Tons of great games.

Congrats on getting mentioned!

I used Panda a little a decade ago. Was never that impressed.

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And the cabling rack:

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