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Asterisk@Home and Sangoma T1 cards work together

I'm a big fan of asterisk and have a couple projects coming along nicely for it. But we use a sangoma T1 card and asterisk@home doesn't realy support it out of the box. Now asterisk@home isn't the only way to setup and install asterisk but for a Windows Dweeb like me, it's probably the easiest way to get 'er done. Here's a couple links that should help tremendously (and...

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Creating a Virtual Server 2005 Cluster

Server Virtualization is becoming a major item these days and is many companies are adopting it. I've heard storys all over the place from development to production, from guys using it to setup test labs of multiple servers using only a handful of boxes to companies replacing 700 physical servers with less than 350. For the hosting industry I believe this technology is going to...

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ASP.net 2.0 Commerce Starter Kit

Microsoft is clearly making an attempt at promoting opensource applications that use their tools and run on their platform, CommunityServer, DotNetNuke, and the starter kits are clear examples of this. I stumbled on the ASP.net 2.0 commerce starter kit last night and have to say it’s pretty darn nice. It’s the work of http://www.wekeroad.com and is just in it’s infancy compared...

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SQL2005 Express Edition, Free Free Free

SQL2005 Express Edition is Microsoft's follow up to MSDE2000. MSDE picked up tons of following and has been in use all over the place. Unfortunately for a web application it really didn't cut it and would be quickly outgrown. SQL2005 EE will replace MSDE and doesn't have the same 20 concurrent connections limitation that MSDE had. Here's the new limitations for SQL2005 Express...

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Free VS.net 2005 Books

Actually they’re Visual Basic 2005 -ebooks, but free is good Introducing Visual Basic 2005 for Developers: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/IntroTo2005/default.aspx Upgrading Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/staythepath/additionalresources/UpgradingVB6/default.aspx Hopefully we’ll see some C#...

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