For any small ISP types interested in setting up a development Speech Server 2007, Marshall at GotSpeech has described his experiences with the AudioCodes MediaPack MP-114 2FXs. I was thinking about buying the AudioCodes box, even if it doesn't have very good support but then I found this offer from Paracon and Dialogic.
As I mentioned before, I've had very good experiences in the past with Cantata tech support and as they're now part of the new Dialogic I'm hoping that Dialogic tech support will be good. From the sound of Marshall's experiences, good tech support might be an important component of a media gateway.
The first step I'm planning to take is to install Speech Server 2007 on a virtual machine. This will let me experiment with various setup options and configurations and the cool thing about VMWare is that there is a snapshot feature that will allow one to revert to an earlier configuration. I can use the snapshot feature to select an option, then if it doesn't perform as expected, I can revert and try a different option. I expect this to be a relatively painless way to learn how to configure OCS/Speech Server 2007.
On a slightly political note, I have just now read that Blackwater operatives in Iraq are not covered under any laws. Not military/DOD, not civilian/DOS, not Iraqi. Doesn't that make them unlawful combatants?
I'm about a third of the way through "Song of Susannah", Stephen King's second-to last novel in the Dark Tower series. The series has taken a bit of an odd turn and I'm not sure I like it. I do like the"there are other worlds than these" concept of endless variations of our world all on a spindle ended on one end by the Dark Tower and on the other end by the Rose, where the afterlife is, in many cases, just a transition between these worlds and where time is no more fixed than is the currents of the sea. I liked imagining that this vision was true, "suspending my disbelief", as my sophomore high school English teacher liked to say. In this second to last novel, Stephen King threatens to take this from me by making the story a variation of "all in a night's dream". I'll have to see how the book turns out. I hope he's leading me on a false path.
I had an heated discussion with our network administrator just now about the best strategy for backups. I had created a scheduled job that does some database maintenance and the backup and have been running this stored procedure for several months. The NetAdmin just purchased a new backup solution, very fast transfer rates, and (without talking to me) a sql agent for it as well. Now he wants me to disable the backup component of my scheduled job. However, I like knowing that the backup completed, knowing that I have tested the configuration with restores and that it works and knowing that I can execute it at will without invoking the NetAdmin's help. I suppose that we can use the backup agent as well as the standard SQL backup but I'm a little peeved that I wasn't consulted and do feel that if we use the agent we will need to test it with a restore before we turn off the backup portion of the scheduled job.
We had our first snow of the winter on Sunday and our neighborhood is white with snow. My kids were very excited but I was reluctant to let them play too long in the snow as my oldest son seems to be catching a cold. It's nice that we have snow. I'm afraid what with global warming and all that my sons aren't going to see as much snow as I did when I was a boy. As a child, winter was one of my favorite seasons, with sliding, skiing, snowmobiles and snow forts.
As I mentioned before, I've had very good experiences in the past with Cantata tech support and as they're now part of the new Dialogic I'm hoping that Dialogic tech support will be good. From the sound of Marshall's experiences, good tech support might be an important component of a media gateway.
The first step I'm planning to take is to install Speech Server 2007 on a virtual machine. This will let me experiment with various setup options and configurations and the cool thing about VMWare is that there is a snapshot feature that will allow one to revert to an earlier configuration. I can use the snapshot feature to select an option, then if it doesn't perform as expected, I can revert and try a different option. I expect this to be a relatively painless way to learn how to configure OCS/Speech Server 2007.
On a slightly political note, I have just now read that Blackwater operatives in Iraq are not covered under any laws. Not military/DOD, not civilian/DOS, not Iraqi. Doesn't that make them unlawful combatants?
I'm about a third of the way through "Song of Susannah", Stephen King's second-to last novel in the Dark Tower series. The series has taken a bit of an odd turn and I'm not sure I like it. I do like the"there are other worlds than these" concept of endless variations of our world all on a spindle ended on one end by the Dark Tower and on the other end by the Rose, where the afterlife is, in many cases, just a transition between these worlds and where time is no more fixed than is the currents of the sea. I liked imagining that this vision was true, "suspending my disbelief", as my sophomore high school English teacher liked to say. In this second to last novel, Stephen King threatens to take this from me by making the story a variation of "all in a night's dream". I'll have to see how the book turns out. I hope he's leading me on a false path.
I had an heated discussion with our network administrator just now about the best strategy for backups. I had created a scheduled job that does some database maintenance and the backup and have been running this stored procedure for several months. The NetAdmin just purchased a new backup solution, very fast transfer rates, and (without talking to me) a sql agent for it as well. Now he wants me to disable the backup component of my scheduled job. However, I like knowing that the backup completed, knowing that I have tested the configuration with restores and that it works and knowing that I can execute it at will without invoking the NetAdmin's help. I suppose that we can use the backup agent as well as the standard SQL backup but I'm a little peeved that I wasn't consulted and do feel that if we use the agent we will need to test it with a restore before we turn off the backup portion of the scheduled job.
We had our first snow of the winter on Sunday and our neighborhood is white with snow. My kids were very excited but I was reluctant to let them play too long in the snow as my oldest son seems to be catching a cold. It's nice that we have snow. I'm afraid what with global warming and all that my sons aren't going to see as much snow as I did when I was a boy. As a child, winter was one of my favorite seasons, with sliding, skiing, snowmobiles and snow forts.
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