malcolmd November 29th, 2007

Howdy Digium AA50 Customers,

We dropped software release 1.0.3.3 onto the BE downloads portal Wednesday of last week, about 25 seconds before everyone left for the Thanksgiving holiday.  Ooh, so intriguing.  Let’s talk about what changed

First, you’ll notice those .bmp files in the downloads portal, those should be placed in the /var/lib/asterisk/sounds/phoneprov_configs directory on the unit.  You can wget or tftp them in or remove the CF and transfer them in.  With those in the proper location, your auto provisioning Polycom phones will now come up with the Digium|Asterisk logo.  Hooray!

Next, we fixed a bug with voicemail to e-mail.

We made sure voicemail to e-mail attachments were getting delivered to your mailboxes in regular WAV format.

The timezone files now get backed up when you take a backup.

NTP’s properly getting served to IP phones in the event that you’d defined an upstream NTP provider.

The phone auto provisioning system now gives Polycom phones the proper timezone offset per your AA50 configured timezone.

We addressed a nasty call forward triangulation issue.

Calls to Ring Groups where one member had set a call forward on their phone no longer follow that forward.  Hooray.

The unit won’t let you flashupdate to the app.ldr file.  We had someone ignore the request to upload the uImage file.  D’oh.

The Directory application now properly deals with multiple users of the same first or last names.

One of our preferred SIP trunking partners has decided to go another direction with their business, so we’ve removed them from the list.

And in my best Ron Popeil, “But wait, there’s more!”

Files over 1024 lines don’t blow up the file editor or get truncated.

 Ringgroups out to IVR menus now work, instead of breaking.

 ”Shoestring potatoes, shoestring carrots, there’s still more!”

We marged the Save Changes and Activate Changes into one less confusing button called “Apply Changes” - this is sure to be a big hit.

The Apply Changes button, formerly the Activate Changes button, now deals better, meaning it works just fine, if users decide to triple, quadruple, or even septuple-click the button.

And, finally, the timezone files were updated to the latest NIH release.

I flew all the way from Huntsville, and boy are my arms tired!

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malcolmd November 12th, 2007

When Mark started Asterisk as an open source project, one of his first means of promotion and support was to begin a mailing list.  From that humble list grew a number of other lists:  -dev, -announce, -commits, -biz, and about a dozen others.  Of them, the most frequented is the -users list.

Head on over to the list archives.  What do you notice?  You see that there have been postings made for a date that doesn’t yet exist, May of 2016.  Wow, that’s a long time off.

“Whooptie Doo, Basil, what does it all mean?” - Austin Powers

It means that their e-mail clients are misconfigured.  And, that once upon a time, way back in 2003, someone posted a message dated November of 2007.  And, for four long years that poor little message stayed by itself at the top of the archives, until this month.

So, it’s with a fond, reminiscent *sniffle* that I ponder these past four years.  New building, approximately 110 new employees, and a completely different VoIP and TDM marketplace.

“You’ve come a long way, baby.” - Fatboy Slim

Cheers.

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malcolmd November 6th, 2007

Aloha,

For all of you Digium HPEC users out there, we’ve made another update, this time to version 9.00.007, the James Bond release.  The previous release, 9.00.005, maintained a release number that wasn’t nearly as exciting.

Cheers.

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malcolmd November 5th, 2007

I woke up on Saturday morning and did the usual

1) Feed the cat.  He’s hungry and he won’t quit meowing.

2) Hit the treadmill.  I need to lose a few pounds, and it’s the best way.

3) Make my Slimfast breakfast shake.  See #2.

4) Check the Internets for any news I might have missed Friday night.

Most of the time, I miss pretty pedestrian stuff.  Microsoft squashes another company, Google acquires another company, Apple releases another whizbang product…that sort of stuff.

Well, this time, I missed something different.  Google news linked to an article that reported:

“Sangoma Casts Derision on Digium’s Annoucement of ‘Industry First’ Eight Port Telephony Card”

Dude, that is so sweet, not.  Let’s find out what the beef is.

“Not long after Digium announced its new product this week, Sangoma shot off an email to TMCnet alerting us to the fact that this “industry first” was in fact, achieved in November 2006, when Sangoma released its A400 card, an analog card that was the “first in the industry” to achieve 8 ports on one base card. The card starts off with a minimum of 2 ports on one blade, but is shipped in increments of 2, 4, 6, 8 or 12 per base card — and can expand even further, up to 48 ports, with a Remora expansion card.”

So, before I bring out my own fishing pole for casting derision, I’d like to point out that by this unit of measure, Digium first shipped our 24-port TDM2400P in December of 2005.  That’d be 11 months prior to November 2006 for the mathematically challenged.

That said, the Digium TDM2400P is a twenty-four (24) port card.  The Digium AEX800 is an eight (8) port card.  And, the Sangoma A400 is a twelve (12) port card.

Here’s why:

Waiter, I’d like a table for 8.

“Here you are sir, table for 12.”

I just wanted a table for 8.

“No, sir, a 12 seat table is what you really wanted.  We’re just going to leave these other 4 seats open and we’ll charge you gratuity since your table is over 8 seats.  Restaurant policy after all.”

No sir, I don’t like it.

or…

Used Car Sales Guy, I’d like a V-8 engine in my truck.

“Here you go sir, a truck with a V-12″

I only wanted 8 pistons.

“Right, you’ve got 8 pistons in this V-12, sir”

Yeah…but I’ve also got 4 more that I didn’t need and my insurance premium’s higher.

…

That’s enough fun, yes?  No?  Okay, just a little more.

Derision sounds like a fun word, and it makes for dictional cuteness; but, it means ridicule and mockery.  And, we wouldn’t want to be engaging in ridicule or mockery, especially if our premise was with fault, would we? 

Cheers.

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