[asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help

[ContactTel Business]

Hehe i meant 15 but i knew one would spot that..
I was 17 in fact, left at 22, yeah demolition, construction, sniper, road
demolish, anti tank craters, and all the bells and whistles, 

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-
>>bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Jeff LaCoursiere
>>Sent: May-20-09 8:43 PM
>>To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help
>>
>>
>>So you were fourteen and a military engineer?
>>
>>j
>>
>>On Wed, 20 May 2009, ContactTel Business wrote:
>>
>>> Many years in telecom  and computer world is around 100 year in real
>>life..
>>> 10 years ago i was a millionaire in the dot com boom and 24 years old
>>with a
>>> P2 300 computer.., 20 years ago i was military engineer and running
>>on 3.76
>>> MHz 386's amber screens.. last year it was dual cores, today its
>>quad/opt
>>> cores, and tomorrow morning it's going to be quantum physics/organic
>>> computers and VOIP will be of the past, since Voice over Something
>>else will
>>> arrive.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You can't put a system and let it go for 3-4 years unless you don't
>>have any
>>> growth, ( new drives = new technology , IDE/SATA/ISCSI) new RAM/ NEW
>>CPU/
>>> etc all these need software upgrades eventually..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> As far as my personal experience i reformat my desktops /fully, semi
>>> annually, and all servers get a facelift every other month ( new glib
>>for
>>> new freeswitch updates, new ZAP hardware ? then you need new zaptel..
>>wait
>>> zaptel aka dhadi needs X, X needs Y.. and so on..
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>> ContacTel.COM
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>> [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of
>>Jonathan
>>> Thurman
>>> Sent: May-20-09 7:33 PM
>>> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
>>> Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Step-by-Step Asterisk and MeetMe Help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From the front page ( http://wiki.centos.org/FrontPage ):
>>>
>>> "What is CentOS?
>>> CentOS is an Enterprise Linux distribution based on the freely
>>available
>>> <ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/>  sources from Red
>>Hat
>>> Enterprise Linux. Each CentOS version is supported for 7 years (by
>>means of
>>> security updates). A new CentOS version is released every 2 years and
>>each
>>> CentOS version is regularly updated (every 6 months) to support newer
>>> hardware. This results in a secure, low-maintenance, reliable,
>>predictable
>>> and reproducible Linux environment."
>>>
>>> CentOS 4 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS4 ):
>>> "We intend to support CentOS-4 updates until Feb 29, 2012"
>>>
>>> CentOS 5 ( http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 ):
>>> "We intend to support CentOS 5 until Mar 31st, 2014"
>>>
>>>
>>> So if you don't want major upgrades for a while you might want to go
>>with
>>> the latest version.  To put it into Microsoft terms...  the minor
>>version is
>>> like a service pack.  So CentOS 4.7 is really a base lined version 4,
>>> service pack 7.  You get the new features in major releases (like
>>there are
>>> no more "smp" kernels in 5 to deal with)
>>>
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jimmy Ezell <jezell at hmhca.com>
>>wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:07:25PM -0700, Jimmy Ezell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> multi-processor machine  ( I had to remember to specify smp
>>>> for the kernel)
>>>>
>>>> I repeat: why bother with such an old system? Really?
>>>>
>>>> Recall the comment from the book. That book had nothing really
>>specific
>>>> to Centos 4. Why do you shoot yourself in the foot by
>>>> installing Centos4
>>>> now?
>>>>
>>>> (not to mention Zaptel)
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>>               Tzafrir Cohen
>>>
>>> Tzafrir thanks for the comments.  I am not done playing with this and
>>in the
>>> end I may well use newer software as you suggest.
>>>
>>> According to wikipedia CentOS 4.7 was released OCT. 2008 (7 months
>>ago) is
>>> that really consider that old?  I am looking to setup a phone system
>>that I
>>> would hope would not require any major software upgrades for many
>>years.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jimmy
>>>
>>>>
>>>
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