Back on the good old days when I walked to school uphill both ways in a blizzard (true story!) Nortel sold a product called the SCS-500 which was an "open source" IP phone system When they went belly up a company called Ezuce came in and started reselling it. We stopped carrying it/supporting it years ago. Was looking around at other "sip based' phone systems to play with now that the market is shrinking and found Ezuce is still around and has an Open Source product called SipXCom. Anyone have any experience with it??
http://sipxcom.org/
Worth my time to play with it?

Excused. Turns out I know one of the witnesses in the civil case. Off to family reunion weekend

@scottalanmiller I'm droooling over that!!

When my first son was born, my dad gave us a hard cover printing of A Visit from St. Nicholas (Twas The Night before Christmas). On Christmas eve when we come back from church we all get into our Christmas jammies (admittedly,yep even Daddy too), lower the lights and do a very slow reading, complete with sound effects (sleigh bells on the door suddenly ring thanks to a piece of dental floss, that kind of thing). This year he's 4 and keeps asking me every night when we're going to read the Saint Nick book!

Windows Server in powershell is Clear-DnsServerCache

Prepping for our companies big move to colocation on Sat.

Having just completed our move a couple pointers:

1. Diagram your ideal layout, even if its a "stick Figure" drawing have some sort of guide
2. LENGTH OF POWERCABLES: Our power cables were WAY WAY WAY too long requiring us to do a lot of routing and rerouting, which in turn caused the back of the rack to be somewhat blocked which limits airflow. We are going to be purchasing short (2 and 3ft) lengths and redoing all the power.
3. LENGTH OF NETWORK CABLES: 6ft were too short in some cases, and 10FT were too long. We had to use more cable management which ends up wasting 2U of space. If you can, use some string and a tape measure on your existing racks to get an idea of how much length you'll need.
4. LABEL LABEL LABEL: In an ideal word, you put your stuff in the rack and never come back unless something breaks or its time to move to a new facility. Of course you are going to remember exactly what you did when you installed everything so when you come back 2 years later you remember exactly why that 1 server is in a separate switch port from the others. Take the time now to plan, and when installing label everything you can. This took a big chunk of our move window but will be worth it as I will be able to look and see which server that blue network cables goes to.

Happy Easter all, off to sunrise service then the commencing of the injestion of mass quantities of candy

Watching this thread as I just acquired a Dell R510 loaded with 2TB spinning rust drives, perfect for a backup target

Heading to South Carolina for friends annual BBQ/party. 12 hour car ride with the kids, followed by mass consumption, then 12 hour ride home.

and pictures, don't forget to take picture if you are racking the gear, easier to identify to remote support personal.
One thing I've done: we're reducing the number of servers in colo so I've been able to move to a color coded label on each one for remote hands-on to aid in identifying (Red labeled server, blue labeled server, etc)

I am in AMherst, NY outside Buffalo. We are doing Net Metering so there's no local battery storage or going off grid just "spin the meter backward" when our solar generation exceeds our usage. Our town was offering a "deal" where they wave the local permit fees (electrical and building) if you sign up by a certain date. Out of pocket it will be $12000 ish for the installs then tax incentives lower that to a little over $8000 if I remember correctly (paperwork's at home). My dad offered to pick up half the cost as our Christmas gift (he can't do solar where he is too many trees) as long as I give him access to the monitoring (Yeah, Dads level of geek sometimes exceeds mine, he still has a Data General running in his basement!)

@scottalanmiller We were looking at these back in the days pre vsan/storwind/"hyperconvergence" for one of our "mission critical 24*7" workloads. Butt-load expensive but the CEO at the time was just about to pull the trigger. THey did a live demo where they actually hot-swapped ram!

@minion-queen at least its not FoxPro!

last week I had to find a scrip in our etc folder that contained an IP address. Google Fu found the following:
grep -rnw '/etc/' -e '{put ip address in these quotes}'
If you know what the script contains, maybe a key word you could use this for finding it

APPROVED licenses getting purchased and we are on our way to the cloud

ProxMox comes to.mind, or run free HyperV but management can be tricky

Depending on weather, may head to Letchworth this week-end. @Minion-Queen we will be sure to wave as we pass NTG HQ

@EddieJennings Handle it now while you can. We did not and let's just say its the wild west trying to wrangle it all back in

Celebrating. Had my review and got a raise