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Oricom IP7 USB Handsets
I just scored an awesome deal. 8 Oricom IP 7 USB handsets for $5 each, reduced from $50 at Harvey Norman. The sales staff could not believe their eyes when they saw me carting them off to the checkout!
This means that I can use them for our call centre when we get around to building [...]
Asterisk VOIP Servers at Generation
After a month of wrangling, we now have two Asterisk servers running between our two offices.
Our main server, located on a fat fibre connection manages our main connection to our VOIP provider - Faktortel.
It’s been an interesting challenge getting the two servers to talk together. In the end it was a NAT issue.
I have now [...]
Scoping your own Church Management Software - Part I
Generation Church has been going for almost two years, and until now we have relied heavily on third party software to manage our pastoral care database.
At the current moment we are using the excellent Excellerate church management software from Micro System Design. Originally developed by Pete Sciacchetano for Bethany World Prayer Center, Excellerate has been [...]
Flock 0.7 - Cardinal
Today I have been basking in the glory of Flock, definately the most awesome browser ever created. Based on Firefox, Flock is a Web 2.0 browser that allows you to connect to your blog and add entries, easily upload pics to photobucket of Flickr, and most importantly, manage your social bookmarks in del.icio.us.
The bloggers browser.
It [...]
Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 for Churches
Around July last year, our church made an investment that’s had a huge impact on how staff communicate. We bought a Dell Poweredge SC420 server running Microsoft Small Business Server 2003.
Prior to owning our own server, we relied on retreiving mail from our web server running Linux. We used POP3 or squirrelmail to check our [...]
Web 2.0 is doing my head in!
I can’t remember a time when more ideas have come to me than over the last two days. After launching techpastor.com I’ve been doing alot of research into Web 2.0. It’s a huge topic, ranging from pure tech to philosophical problems.
It’s doing my head in.
I feel like that deranged skitzo when I’m like this. When [...]
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