Windows XP End of Life (EOL) Retirement Dates

Windows XP End of Life

Microsoft Windows XP End of Life and Retirement Dates. History of Windows XP Retirement Windows XP, one of Microsoft’s most popular operating systems, officially reached its end of life on April 8, 2014. This marked the end of extended support, following the end of mainstream support on April 14, 2009. Over its lifecycle, various editions … Read more

PBXinaFlash Faxing easy installation script for Asterisk Faxing

This is an update to a previous article about adding faxing capability to a FreePBX Asterisk system. From a NerdVittles article they point to a script available from the PbxInaFlash site. Here is the summary: Go to the default source download folder and download the script cd /usr/src wget http://pbxinaflash.net/source/fax/fax.pbx Make the script executable and … Read more

Skype on Windows Mobile HTC cannot hear others

Using Skype, if you can make calls and others can hear you but you cannot hear them, check if your phone is on silent of vibrate.   Skype seems to use the same volume as playing MP3 or the ringing.   Turning up the volume fixed it for me after driving me crazy for almost … Read more

Cannot start Hyper-V virtual machines on Windows Server 2008 R2 after Reboot

Cannot start Hyper-V virtual machines on Windows Server 2008 R2 after Reboot

We have found a really annoying and recurring problem on some of our Windows 2008 R2 servers. The Hyper-V virtual machines will not start after a reboot. You cannot create or mount virtual drives in Disk Management. The problem seems to appear randomly after a reboot. The problem also appears to be related to either Adaptec … Read more

How to get 7-Zip to save its File Associations in Windows 7 and Server 2008

How to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2.       I have been asked a lot of questions about how to get the file associations to work with 7-zip in Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2.   The problem is you can go into the … Read more

What are the data rates for standard DS and OC services?

T-Carrier rates Trunk Carrier Level Line Data Speed Digital Signal Level DS0 Lines – 64Kbps DS0 1 T1 1.544Mbps DS1 24 T-1C (Bonded T1) 3.152Mbps DS1C 48 T2 6.312Mbps DS2 96 T3 44.736Mbps DS3 672 T4 274.176Mbps DS4 4032   Opitcal Carrier Rates (SONET) Optical Carrier Level Line Data Rate Synchronous Transport Signal OC-1 51.84Mbps … Read more