I was using Outlook on a laptop when it crashed. Restarting it produced this: That didn't look good. I started it in safe mode. No go. I went to another machine, and Outlook crashed there, too. Looks like a bad email … [Read more...]
Restoring files after a HD failure
With the bad disk in the recycle bin (with a half-inch hole drilled through the platters) it was time to start restoring the data. During data restoration, it is possible to destroy your backup. You have to be careful here. The first, and to my way of thinking the most … [Read more...]
A hard disk failure
A week or so ago, I saw this message from the RAID controller on my Dell T7600, which is my main machine: I figured either the drive would fail completely or it wouldn’t. I could replace it before it failed or wait for it to fail, which might be a long time. That didn’t … [Read more...]
AT&T IPFlex – lessons learned
After five or six months of trying, the AT&T IPFlex system is now working with my NEC PBX. In this post, I’d like to review what went wrong, how we made things work, and what should have happened in a perfect world to make the installation quick and easy. I’m hoping that … [Read more...]
Tightening up the VoIP firewall
Now that voice is working, I set out this morning to button up the VoIP firewall nice and tight. It was already set up to block all WAN to LAN traffic except SIP and RTP to the PBX. I set up rules to allow traffic from the PBX's two IP addresses to the WAN, and block all other … [Read more...]
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