Cisco 7945G and SIP with Asterisk

I've been trying to get a 7945 with SIP to work with Asterisk and it just doesn't want to register.  Turns out the SIP load of 9.2.1 is broken, at least for asterisk.  I've reverted to 8.5.4 and it seems…

Yes! Sandy Bridge free ESXi Hypervisor with VT-d is a go!

Everything's working great so far with a few exceptions I can live with.  I have 5 VM's running, mostly lightweight stuff, including my security camera system.  For that I'm using Win XP and feeding the PV-149 CCTV capture card through via VT-d.  Video streaming…

More on the Nortel 1535

Got PIAF purple installed and patched over the weekend.  Setting up two of the 1535s to register and do video calling was pretty trivial. There's a little bit of lag in the video but it's not too bad.  I also called the test numbers and there…

PIAF, VirtualBox and the Nortel 1535 phone

Wow, it's been a while.  I scored some of the Nortel IP 1535's thanks to NerdVittles and this gives me a good opportunity to try to upgrade my Asterisk system to the latest and greatest version.  Naturally I want to go with PIAF and they just…

GarageBand, Podcasting and GTalk

Well, I guess I better get a post in for the month of November.  Ugh, it's been a long month.  Anyway, fiddling with free podcasting tools and methods and I discovered some updates in Snow Leopard that are pretty cool. I little while ago on Leopard I found…

Google and voice...and video....and IM

There's been a lot of noise lately about AT&T and Apple and Google not playing nice together.  The latest is AT&T carrying on about Google Voice blocking rural numbers because their costs are so much higher.  Ok, that's kind of crappy, but…

Arc Solutions takes it personally...

I can't say I blame them.  I'm sure there are some very qualified programmers at Arc that are proud of their product.  My experience was less than stellar. So, here's what I'll offer.  It seems there might be a new version out.…