I’m Back…..
Yes, I am finally back after a 3+ week absence from just about everything computer related. I somehow caught a really bad cold that then got my sinuses infected and settled into my chest. The net result of all of this was that I just really didn’t feel like doing anything – especially things that required thinking. So no blogging, answering forum questions and no tweets. I pretty much just dropped out of site. Now I am way behind as my online life has been on hold for 3 weeks. Lots of catching up to do in the next few days.
But what better way to perk my interest and get back into the swing of things than with some new toys.
I ordered a Microsoft LifeCam Cinema HD webcam and I’ve got it installed. Now I need to start playing with it and really put it through it’s paces. I want to use if for doing video casts, training videos as well as use if for Live Meeting and Video calls with Office Communicator. I’ve tested it out in a video call but I believe there is something we have to set on the GotUC.Net OCS domain to do HD.
Brekeke SIP Server – I’ve downloaded this and have a license now I need to install, configure it and do an in depth evaluation of it. I may be using this in a a client project shortly so I want to gat familiar with it. Does anyone know where I can get a free SIP trunk to tie to this?
FreeSWITCH – this is another SIP gateway that I want to experiment with. I know several GotSpeech members are using it so I thought I would try it out and familiarize myself with it. The price is right and I understand that it is very extensible. Not sure when I can get to it but it is on my list of things to do.
While I was out I did manage a quick blog that Speech Server runtime is now supported on Windows 2008 Server. I’ll be trying that out shortly to see how well it works.
I still have some more VMs to create and some setup work that I want to do on my Virtualization Server Project so that is on my plate for this week or next.
As you can see I have lots to do so I guess the moral of the story is don’t get sick. Now I’m off to catch up on the GotSpeech forums and my task list.
As usual if you have comments or questions feel free to ping me. If you are using Office Communicator You can get me that way at marshall@gotuc.net.