After having ordered my new phone, I forgot that I would have to order some storage for it. In order to download all of my email, I need a 1GB MiniSD card, so I’m going to get one from Newegg.com. Actually, I just submitted the order.
Anyway: the phone arrived at home today. Of course, I’m not home right now so I have to wait until I get off work to start playing with it.
And I can’t set up my email synchronization until the new card arrives. But at least I can get the basics set up.
I’ve finally ordered a new cell phone. My old one was getting hard to use – sometimes the buttons didn’t work, or it would answer for no reason when I was not near the phone.
So, I’m going with the Cingular 8100 – the non-camera version of the 8125. It’s a Windows Mobile 5 device and will be my first “smart” anything…
I hope I like it.
I’m seeing some strange things about Verizon suing Vonage over some aspect of Voice over IP technology – even as far as asking for an immediate “cease and desist” offering service to all their customers. Most analysts say that Verizon is gravely worried over the loss of many of their customers [myself included – although I certainly give them enough money for my Fios connection] to Vonage and other VoIP providers.
This concerns me since I’m a customer. What happens if they’re successful? They will kill Vonage. I doubt they’ll get all they ask for, but it’s still not good for the industry. No one even saw this coming – there were no earlier “confrontations” in which Verizon told Vonage to “stop or we’ll sue” or some such. If they succeed at taking Vonage out of the picture, it does not bode well for the other much smaller competitors out there. Then, I’ll be back where I was – stuck with Verizon and a monopoly.
I checked out Verizon’s competing service and for a begining, it’s not too bad – it’s even the same price as Vonage, but there aren’t near as many features. No “virtual phone numbers” and I didn’t see pricing for a fax line, either.
I guess we’ll have to watch and see…
I hate it when I “fix” something that was working just fine – and doesn’t work anymore. I did that to my email server. So, I can receive email just fine, but for those of you waiting replies… well, you’ll just have to wait a bit until I get home. Seems I can’t send. Funny thing is: I have no idea how this happened.
I’ve now been given access to the newest versions of both Vista and Exchange so I can continue my “experiment” and learning experience. Tonight, when I get home, I will download the newest build of both. Maybe then I can get things working the way I want them to.
Living on the edge is fun…
I have not been able to create the proper boot disk image for the next version of Vista, so I cannot perform the upgrade. I’m going to have to wait until I get the right image – which hopefully will happen soon.
In the mean time, I have more work to do on my Exchange server to make it “right”.
I’ve decided to upgrade to a later build of the new [not yet released] Windows Vista. I’ve been running the official “beta 2” version, but now I’m going up several builds to a more current build to see what happens. Maybe I’ll get some more stability out of my machine.
Or – maybe it will explode and smoke will come out of the speakers… just maybe.
Do you just love to work with X.509 Certificates? Well, I have just the job for you!
Actually, I’ve been learning a lot about certificates in Windows. This has been a long, but educational week at my customer. We are all learning about the different types of certificate authorities and certificates and templates, etc. I think we’ve got a handle on things now, but for a while there it was looking bad.
For those of you who don’t know, certificates are digital keys – they allow the encryption and decryption of information from one computer to another. And if you don’t care, well, that’s probably a good thing.
The servers both seem to be behaving since I patched and updated the web server and fixed my SMTP problems on the email server. I’m hoping that the web dificulties don’t show up any more.
As for the email server, more dificulties will likely crop up since I’m using beta software and will upgrade it periodically. I hope it won’t cause you any problems… like bounced mail or anything.
I now have the new version of Exchange up and running. I’m only having some dificulty with certificates (except for the OWA certificate) but all else seems to be working fine. OWA looks much cleaner and has more features like the Outlook client has. I quite like it. I also don’t have to refresh the page to know if I have unread mail show up in sub-folders like I had to previously.
Anyway: so far, so good even with the encryption obstacles.
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