Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-26 Thread Philip Prindeville
Lee Jenkins wrote: Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:51:10 -0500, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to reboot my desktop xp box daily for it to run well. I haven't rebooted my XPSP2 in months, and I let it run 24/7, with a bunch of apps open at all times. And

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-25 Thread Lee Jenkins
Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:51:10 -0500, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to reboot my desktop xp box daily for it to run well. I haven't rebooted my XPSP2 in months, and I let it run 24/7, with a bunch of apps open at all times. And this is a 300E no-name box. If

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-24 Thread Vincent
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:27:10 +1300, Matt Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems strange to make this comment (i.e. higher uptime) in a conversation about porting zaptel to windows. I don't think it is. I wouldn't use Windows for big iron, but provided the hardware + drivers are reliable, and

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-23 Thread Matt Riddell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:47:38 +1100, Paul Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm - you could just buy a SPA-3000/3102/3666/etc. Thanks but I prefer PCI cards. Less cables, less power units that can burn, less mess :-) It seems

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-17 Thread randulo
On Dec 15, 2007 6:06 PM, Michael Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When an Asterisk appliance and associated phones can compete with a Panasonic KXTG-4000 (or similar) on terms including price, ease of use reliabilitythat's when Asterisk for every grandma, aunt, uncle counsins (who never

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-17 Thread Michael Graves
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:18:08 +0100, randulo wrote: On Dec 15, 2007 6:06 PM, Michael Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other aspect of this question is that more and more, like computing in the cloud and storage in the cloud, VOIP in the cloud is taking over. How many people now have unlimited

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-16 Thread Paul Hales
You nailed it Randy! When an Asterisk appliance and associated phones can compete with a Panasonic KXTG-4000 (or similar) on terms including price, ease of use reliabilitythat's when Asterisk for every grandma, aunt, uncle counsins (who never finished high school) will be viable for

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-16 Thread Paul Hales
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 11:33 +0100, Gergo Csibra wrote: Friday, December 14, 2007, 5:47:38 AM, Paul wrote: Umm - you could just buy a SPA-3000/3102/3666/etc. What is SPA-3666? The special red model. PaulH ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-15 Thread Dovid B
Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a 32 bit extension and graphical shell, for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. Line of the year

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-15 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Dovid B wrote: Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a 32 bit extension and graphical shell, for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system, originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. Line of the year

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-15 Thread Michael Graves
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:30:09 +0100, randulo wrote: It's funny, but though I think nothing of having a linux box as a pbx, on 24/7 for years, I can't imagine using windows this way. I think there's little or no market for this whereas if there were a fanless, diskless embedded solution for just

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-15 Thread Steve Thomas
For this market, people don't want anything complicated. I would imagine the software equivalent of a run-of-the-mill answering machine. Which has existed, in one form or another, for years. I was using a voice enabled faxmodem a decade ago to answer my phone. The software that came with it

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-15 Thread Time Bandit
Which has existed, in one form or another, for years. I was using a voice enabled faxmodem a decade ago to answer my phone. The software that came with it (don't remember the name, but WinFax also does/did this) even allowed for a simple IVR, for mailbox selection and whatnot. The only things

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Gergo Csibra
Friday, December 14, 2007, 5:47:38 AM, Paul wrote: Umm - you could just buy a SPA-3000/3102/3666/etc. What is SPA-3666? -- Best regards, Gergomailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 02:55:39AM +0100, Vincent wrote: Hello I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Is the Zaptel/Zapata combo too *nix-centric? No. The current zaptel is Linux-centric.

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Graves
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:01:49 +0100, Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:50:28 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, there just might be, take a look at this...: Ah yeah, forgot about $angoma ;-) I'll restate this as: No card for home/SOHO use, ie. in the $50-100 range for the single FXO port

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Lee Jenkins
Doug wrote: At 19:55 12/13/2007, Vincent wrote: Hello I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Is the Zaptel/Zapata combo too *nix-centric? Thanks. Windows is a half-baked, dying OS

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread mgraves
or Sangoma hardware is not a problem. And, after all, you get what you pay for in most cases. Michael Graves mgraves at mstvp.com o(713) 861-4005 c(713) 201-1262 sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] skype mjgraves FWD 54245 Original Message Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Vincent
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:47:38 +1100, Paul Hales [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm - you could just buy a SPA-3000/3102/3666/etc. Thanks but I prefer PCI cards. Less cables, less power units that can burn, less mess :-) ___ --Bandwidth and Colocation

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Vincent
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:51:10 -0500, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to reboot my desktop xp box daily for it to run well. I haven't rebooted my XPSP2 in months, and I let it run 24/7, with a bunch of apps open at all times. And this is a 300E no-name box. If your PC is so unstable,

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Philipp Kempgen
Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:51:10 -0500, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to reboot my desktop xp box daily for it to run well. I haven't rebooted my XPSP2 in months, and I let it run 24/7, with a bunch of apps open at all times. And this is a 300E no-name box. If

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Vincent
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:30:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, consider the potential market size for people, the DIY sorts, who would have Asterisk in their homes. Precisely: The home/SOHO market is huge, and providing an IVR + PCI card combo for Windows for, say, $200, would probably

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Ron Joffe
On Friday 14 December 2007 14:43, Vincent wrote: OTOH, having to run a separate PC just to handle calls from a single POST line AND having to install Linux + Asterisk on this thing... It'd have to be an appliance (which I haven't seen avaiable in this price range). Didn't you just define an

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 20:38 +0100, Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:51:10 -0500, Lee Jenkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to reboot my desktop xp box daily for it to run well. I haven't rebooted my XPSP2 in months, I also have no problem with the stability of Windows XP

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Hans Witvliet
On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 22:21 -0600, Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2007 19:55:39 Vincent wrote: I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Because nobody has done it yet. The real

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Michael Graves
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:43:05 +0100, Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:30:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said, consider the potential market size for people, the DIY sorts, who would have Asterisk in their homes. Precisely: The home/SOHO market is huge, and providing an IVR + PCI

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:01:49AM +0100, Vincent wrote: On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:50:28 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, there just might be, take a look at this...: Ah yeah, forgot about $angoma ;-) I'll restate this as: No card for home/SOHO use, ie. in the $50-100 range for the single

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread Vincent
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:34:04 -0600, Michael Graves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, the market is potentially huge...for a packaged solution. If all it takes in plugging the PCi card in their PC, and running setup.exe, it's no worse than installing a printer. I would imagine that the standard

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-14 Thread randulo
It's funny, but though I think nothing of having a linux box as a pbx, on 24/7 for years, I can't imagine using windows this way. I think there's little or no market for this whereas if there were a fanless, diskless embedded solution for just under $200 that came configured with the account (IAX

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Doug
At 19:55 12/13/2007, Vincent wrote: Hello I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Is the Zaptel/Zapata combo too *nix-centric? Thanks. Windows is a half-baked, dying OS that in essence is a

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread thg
Doug wrote: At 19:55 12/13/2007, Vincent wrote: Hello I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Is the Zaptel/Zapata combo too *nix-centric? Thanks. Windows is a half-baked, dying OS

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Prindeville
Doug wrote: At 19:55 12/13/2007, Vincent wrote: Hello I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Is the Zaptel/Zapata combo too *nix-centric? Thanks. Windows is a half-baked, dying OS

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Tilghman Lesher
On Thursday 13 December 2007 19:55:39 Vincent wrote: I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Because nobody has done it yet. The real answer is probably more along the lines of that there's no

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Vincent
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:21:50 -0600, Tilghman Lesher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is likely to be a very strenuous job to port the framework and all of the drivers. Too bad, because there doesn't seem to be any PCI card for FXO/FXS available for Windows.

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread thg
Vincent wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:21:50 -0600, Tilghman Lesher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is likely to be a very strenuous job to port the framework and all of the drivers. Too bad, because there doesn't seem to be any PCI card for FXO/FXS available for Windows. Erm,

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Vincent
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:50:28 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Erm, there just might be, take a look at this...: Ah yeah, forgot about $angoma ;-) I'll restate this as: No card for home/SOHO use, ie. in the $50-100 range for the single FXO port model.

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Philip Prindeville
Tilghman Lesher wrote: On Thursday 13 December 2007 19:55:39 Vincent wrote: I was wondering why there doesn't seem to a Windows version of Zaptel, making the Digium and its clones unavailable for a Windows PBX. Because nobody has done it yet. The real answer is probably more along

Re: [asterisk-users] [Zaptel] Why no port to Windos?

2007-12-13 Thread Paul Hales
Umm - you could just buy a SPA-3000/3102/3666/etc. PaulH On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 05:36 +0100, Vincent wrote: On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:21:50 -0600, Tilghman Lesher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is likely to be a very strenuous job to port the framework and all of the drivers. Too bad, because