The next installment of Dial a Phony that-would-be-a-Telephony, but since it rhymes with Melanie, I have to use the former as a title. Today’s focus is a company called “bvoip”. Gotta make sure the case is right for “stylistic” purposes…
This company’s web presence doesn’t really describe what they really offer of the “bloggy” site. (In comparison which this site and The Museum of Telephony has 20x more static pages than what this company has called my site a “blog” for…)
How my Netgear firewall became a piece of stone was I didn’t listen to the F.B.I. Being a native New Englander, the Feds have a reputation, especially in the Boston office for aiding and abetting in keeping Whitey Bulger, the notorious mobster to stay loose in Boston for a number of years. Whitey was in the news for years and years, till he got captured in 2011, found guilty virtually on all counts in 2013 to passing away the day before Halloween of this year.
Not that I don’t trust the Feds, but if the agency couldn’t keep a mobster off the streets, how should I take their intel that there was malware being transmitted over the Interwebz and to just restart the firewall to clear out the bad bug? When you hear the F.B.I., it is about the whereabouts of a Most Wanted person, not that there is malware, logically wouldn’t that be the responsibility of say Homeland Security? I did not take matters seriously, and didn’t take their warning seriously. And, it goes that I knew this device was End of Support later to be End of Life because Netgear decided to pull the plug on development in 2017, nearly a year after I acquired it new. Not only that I also was starting to try out other firewalls. As I didn’t take the threat seriously, I was left to these alternative firewalls, with the hope that I would use it for another year, giving me time to migrate.
In today’s installment of people claiming to respect one of the oldest social mediums in the form not just being hip, but to peeve on it at the same time.
The Missouri company called PhoneWire.com is the offender. The Instagram account not only ripped content w/out consent from me, but also Joe from Chicago, behind the joetheucxguy.com site (or “blog”.)
Starting soon, since it’s a hip thing lately to shame people who do wrong things (such as lying about defunct companies or industries such as On Premise voice systems being the “end”) as part of the deficiency of the Internet, to CALL THEM OUT in a new feature called Dial a Phony.
Telephony does not work because it’s pronounced like Stephanie. We want to make sure that people are well aware of the proper phonetics.
I’m writing this with a bit of a kicking myself in the balls for not learning this sooner.
I do not support non profit Open Source Software (OSS) anymore. For years, I have remained highly skeptical, and now I am fully against using any software that doesn’t pay taxes into our society. (I am not open to debating why not, and if anyone comments and attacks me personally, or even tries to threaten me, I will take your IP address and report it to your LOCAL authorities for criminal punishment.)
One of the things in 2018 that turned me away was how much consolidation in the Unified Communications front in OSS world. (Look at Freeswitch switching corporate sponsors and the infamous merger of Free PBX and Asterisk, which was the former’s offspring or “fork” in the coding world.) OSS touts themselves to be more open by having “peer reviewed” investigation of code. You mean “group think” right? What about accountability such as sustainability and looking at the long term? Oh wait, they are just as notorious as commercial software with a lifecycle.
Of course OSS today is the “freeware” or “shareware” of the new Millenium , if you want more features, you have to pay for it right? OSS also stands for Free Open Source Software, but the reason why I stuck to OSS was you’re seeing a LOT more commercial support or free software that requires an unlock situation whether it’s a free community login or some key that will always keep free stuff to a minimum (VMware) or what have you.
So how is it any different than the commercial software?
I don’t see much differences especially when Microsoft’s visual looks, has looked cheap (err it looks like Linux some days); and given how the cloud has degraded the “power user” (thats-a-me) what difference does it make?
I am also sick and tired of the lectures that for profit companies are evil and they aren’t caring and they are solely making money. So what do you do, the FOSS programmer – live in your parent’s basement and not make any buck for a living? Nothing is ever “free”!
When you hear someone say “It’s free and open source”, it should be treated as an oxymoron because most “free and open source software” requires someone to compile the code to make the app work. Most often its a defensive mode by the open source community to keep “non technical” people out of using technology; a tactic known as calling “users” indirectly as “computer illiterate people” a page out of the IBM tech playbook back in the 1950s.
I am also defending acquiring AMERICAN-based vendors. I got f—d over by a Canadian company called CounterPath earlier this year acquiring a SIP softphone app for my legacy workstations to find out after burning $90 that it needs to be on an active WAN to work and not only that the software is going EOL after May 2019 because of a certificate that is expiring. This was not publicized in March while the package was still available to purchase and they gave me a notice in May, after burning this amount of cash for 2 licenses, and the support tech was like “well we told you a couple of times”, NO I only got a stern notice in May. I shouldn’t be lied like that and should get the Windows 7 and greater app for free because of this technical-person-like emotional manipulation support tactic is so far from bait and switch.
I waited too long because I had a life where I just didn’t have the time to set it up. The site doesn’t explain how the licensing works, while I did research prior to. And by the time I confronted their technical support, my PayPal protection lapsed.
Make sure you buy American software, and commercial grade, not some degrading “free” and complex software that only geniuses can figure out. Oh wait, they are in jail because they had raped children because only “technical people” do things that aren’t socially acceptable by law…
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For the end user level, SIP telephones can do cool stuff that couldn’t be done on “office phones” prior to.
One for the first time since ISDN, office grade sets can interconnect without the expense of a large PBX system. Some can work in Peer to Peer fashion. BUT, don’t believe in this entirely just yet.
They work in basic modes when it’s off the H323 network, if the Avayas, the Mitels and the Ciscos have “dual modes”. You have to toggle this in it’s basic configuration. Continue reading
For multimedia communications, a standard has been around called the Session Initiation Protocol or SIP. My sister platform, The Museum of Telephony, has explained this in a way that it’s an app-driven telephony like interface.
Originally for the fusion instant messaging or IM, video and voice calls, SIP became an international standard for basic telephony extensions (or “stacks”) for such technologies to work over the Internet. SIP is an open standard, in “theory”. As you read along, it’s going to become a cliche pretty quickly.
This isn’t telephony per se, and it gets extremely technical. And degrading men can act like fanboys of this technology too. Trigger warning! Link contains non-laymen content from an apparent misongyst!
I digress. Just bare with me.
Today is the day to vote because our geriatric Secretary of State believes “early elections” “cheapens” the elections (Union Leader, circa late 2016). BTW many department heads at the New Hampshire government is NOT elected by you. Save that for another day.
Just in case you are being suckered into vote an entire party, do know that is meddlign with the elections. In the jury system, they tell you not to rely your opinions on the media, well please refrain from voting based on what Sean Hannity, or any commentator on any cable network after midnight Eastern Time to 11:59 pm Eastern Time. Vote on what YOU believe that impacts YOU. Not your friends, not your family, not what you think should be the greater impact. People are selfish in real life, but selfless in the booth. The logic makes no sense.
Meanwhile I am very unhappy with our two parties (as well as the creepy carpetbagging Free Staters…)
Why the Republicans are a Joke
The Democrats are a Lost Cause
And a later time why cable news is dangerous to democracy
How the local media lacks holding the real power accountable
And why SB2 (the municipal “elections” destroys democracy in the form of enabling lazy voters.)
Celebrate the freedom of voting based on the responsibilities of voting for the right people based on what YOU believe and HANDLE the consequences if a pol is doing the WRONG thing despite acting as if he’s “RIGHT”.
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I couldn’t resist!
I mean, we have choices. Just like a decade ago; if you vote one way, there will be consequences, if you vote on pride, if you listen to the preaching and the preacher; you may be mislead. Follow what YOU believe. The reason why I am being very clear and firm is too many people are getting their views from a third party that is trying to MANIPULATE you. Do not let a talking head on air or on line make you vote. Especially if it doesn’t apply to you locally.
I’ve already expressed my views on politics in previous cycles, but lately it drives me nuts.
It’s also hard to talk about deep issues to family as well.
I am extremely fed up with the polarized society, that is not of the U.S., but New Hampshire specifically. It’s also not a Democrat or Republican issue. It’s actually more of the culture of #NHpolitics (since #NHpoli is too sexy of a hashtag like neighboring states…)