Feeling much better

Well its four days on and I am feeling much better. A big thanks to Katie.

Twitter

I just deleted my twitter username. Why? Because I don’t use it. Maybe if the SMS worked but to be honest I don’t think so. I just don’t see the use.

Ow Ow Ow!

Well the snip has occurred and I am very sore, especially after Jacqueline decided to shove Thomas the tank engine into my groin.
But up until then it wasn't too bad. Oh well a REALLY quiet weekend this one and no hockey. Sorry team!
Everyone can feel sorry for Sarah: She has the kids all weekend while I moan and act like a male with any sickness.

Initial SPA9000 Configuration

Well I now have an Linksys SPA9000 PBX (firmware 6.15). And I am going to try to make some notes to help others. First of all, there is a LOT of information on the internet that is wrong with the latest versions of the firmware. It is not hard or complicated to get up and running with the SPA9000 but you can do some really complicated things with it.

What hardware do I have?

I have a Billion 7404 modem router (firmware 5.73), I connect to 2 providers, one being IINET and some DECT phones.

Configuration

First of all I would recommend getting a SysLog Server on your PC. I recommend SysLog Watcher Personal Edition, its free and quite a good interface. This will mean you can see what's happening on the SPA9000 if things go wrong. This is

Billion 7404

There is a lot of stuff on the web about ports/firewall changes and complicated things like that. The fact is you just need to turn off VOIP. To do this you access the VOIP web configuration and disable SIP under general settings.

I also went into Advanced and switched the VOIP from WAN to LAN but I have no reason why, really just belt and braces.

SPA9000

I used the configuration wizard which runs on your PC. This is a download from Cisco and very easy to use. It allows you to setup one Line, configure the network and any clients. Once through the wizard, all I had to do was dial 9 to get an outside line and could make phone calls.

Advanced Additions

I have now setup the SPA with the fax using the second line and XLite on my computer as an extension. I used the web administration for this and the cisco manual.

Long weekend sick

Went for a walk an basically nothing else. I did buy the ugliest crocs ever for $10, I thought they might make good garden shoes.

Having a connected phone

One of the benefits of having a connected phone is you can get emails. But over time people find out this fact. The issue with this is the expectation that goes with it. Should I have to respond immediately?

I actually have done this to someone else and find myself in the “Why haven’t I had a response?” mode. Obviously this is really silly, email is meant to be quicker than post but not requiring an immediate response.

I wonder how social etiquette will go as more and more phones have email available.

Apologies to anyone I have badgered ;-).

Enabling MSDTC on Vista

System.Transactions are being used in this latest project and as a result you have to enable MSDTC. Heres the link:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753510.aspx