Comments on: Another Dell with Asterisk, Dude: Introducing the Orgasmatron III for Dell’s New PowerEdge T100

By: Anthony

Anthony — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:47:30 +0000

Would I be able to get a Rhino R24FXX-EC Modular PCI card in the T100/105 ? http://www.rhinoequipment.com/R24FXXcard.html

[WM: I don’t know. Check the forums or check with Rhino.]

By: Salv

Salv — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:59:11 +0000

I have a 5V analogue PCI card which will not work on a Dell T100 or T105 server which only support 3.3V PCI slots. Will the Orgasmatron III work with a Dell PE840 server with an E4600 2.4GHz processor, 800MHz FSB, two 250GB cabled hard drives connected to the onboard SATA controller, and 2GB of 667MHz DDR2 RAM? [WM: Sorry I don't have a PE840 to test. You might want to post this question on the PBX in a Flash forum.]

By: Duke

Duke — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:28:58 +0000

Will the Orgasmatron III work with the Dell PowerEdge T105 w/ Dual Core 1216 Processor 2x1MB Cache, 2.4GHz Opteron?

[WM: So long as it has a SATA drive configurable as /dev/sda, it should work fine.]

By: FishFilet

FishFilet — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:36:04 +0000

I am surprised we have not seen a build of Orgasmatron for VMWare. That way it would be hardware independent. Sure you can’t use any cards but I am using Piaf in a VM right now and it seems to run fine. VMWare ESX3i is free now so this would be a great solution.

[WM: We’re workin’ on it. Stay tuned. 🙂 ]

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 02:53:45 +0000

Can I install O_III into VMware? merely to fiddle with it until hardware comes back on sale. [WM: Haven't look at VMware in a while but, unless you can set it up with a SATA drive, the short answer is "no" without a lot of MondoRestore tweaking.]

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:58:48 +0000

lastly (for now probably)

What’s the ‘best’ way to set this up to simulate YouMail.com ‘s ability to set a custom voicemail greeting based on caller-id-number?

[WM: Sounds like a good project. We’ll take a look.]

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:52:36 +0000

Isn't Dual Core Pentium a space heater and power sink? (I'm not concerned about the environment, only the power bill) Will O_III work on the everex or does it take advantage of the considerable greater power of this dell making it unsuitable for lesser machines? Is there anything in O_III requiring this system in particular or could it be loaded on a spare Core2Duo 3Ghz/2gigs? [WM: Great questions, but they're better suited for the PBX in a Flash Forums. Come join the fun!]

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:49:04 +0000

Would you be interested in adding "Untangle" to the mix so the device need not hide behind NAT, but be attached to switch

inet – switch – NAT – stuff
inet – switch – O_III

By: jbh

jbh — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:55:12 +0000

doh! – I think I just found the answer:

http://pbxinaflash.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2895&highlight=raid

Perhaps "RTFF" will be added to the lexicon ;o)

By: jbh

jbh — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:44:34 +0000

Apologies if this is a stupid question …I’m not very technically knowledgeable (!)

Dell in the UK don’t seem to be selling the exact spec of the T100 specified for the O-III. Only Xeon processors, for example. Does this mean the O-III is not a goer on this hardware?

Also – and I suspect I am asking a doubly dumb question here – do I need the "SAS 6iR Internal RAID Controller Card" if I want RAID 1 to work, or will the operating system take care of that for me?

thanks

[WM: Not stupid questions at all. The processor shouldn’t pose a problem but a RAID controller would unless you know a lot about Mondo. This restore expects your drive partitions to be named sda1, sda2, and sda3.]

By: Tom Schmitt

Tom Schmitt — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:03:48 +0000

I tried to use the T100 disk set on the SC440 but is did not complete sucessfully. I am still running Org II on the SC440 for now.
Has anyone else been successful at this?
Thanks
TomS

By: mikel

mikel — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:54:43 +0000

In europe hp sells an hp prolaint ml 110 g5 for 200€, it would be great for the orgasmatron IV

By: Keen

Keen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:00:13 +0000

Hi,

I’m interested to install PiaF in my virtual machine (OpenVZ) running CentOS, is there any better way short of doing what this page mentioned: http://chrisschuld.com/2008/11/installing-pbx-in-a-flash-piaf-on-an-openvz-vps/

Given that all your install instructions uses the ISO method, is there any easier way, like a tarball, or rpm as I’m using CentOS already…

[WM: See this post.]

By: digitaldoctor

digitaldoctor — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:37:44 +0000

Here's the Canadian Dell for $532 CDN. (2Gig, DVD)

By: Harold M

Harold M — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:31:20 +0000

One caveat for the T100 is to verify that it has the right kind of expansion slots for any PRI or other cards you may want to use. I noted that the T100 only has one of the older PCI slots, if you have need to use more than one PCI card you will be out of luck. Fortunately I have 4 PRIs on one card so no worries for me!

By: Reginald W

Reginald W — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 02:17:12 +0000

Ok. So I can "buy" O-III and install it instead of O-II and it should work? Cool. I’ll probably install O-II first since I have it and maybe wait until I am ready to go into production with PIAF and then do the O-III or whatever is the latest version at that time.
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I’ve looked on Cepstral’s web site and I didn’t see anything regarding commercial use of Alison’s voice. You keep mentioning non-commercial use. So what is the difference? Or is it only in the dollar amount of licencing/concurrancy (number of lines that the voice can be used on at one time)?
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Since I would be using this for business purposes, I would need to know whether it is cost effective to have Alison (or another voice) to use or just use the regular Flite or other voices for the system. Or my own voice if required.
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Thanks.
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Reginald W

By: Reginald W

Reginald W — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:13:14 +0000

Sigh. I join the parade too early again. Just got the SC440 from Dell and as I am busy with work, I haven’t even pulled it out of the box yet. I have downloaded the software but don’t have the Aastra phone or a POTS card as of yet and I’m already "obsolete." I was going to try to get this thing up and running between Christmas and New Years.
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Oh well. Thanks for the answer to Tom’s questions above. I’m hopeful that SUSHI will keep the SC440 up to date and be able to add any needed features in the future. I don’t want to buy another box at present.
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Couple questions though:
1) For connecting multiple POTS lines (4 lines min, perhaps 6 lines), is it better to go for a plug-in card or to get multiple SPA devices?
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2) Can PIAF handle incoming fax calls through POTS lines? Most everything I’ve read looks at fax receiving through VOIP.
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I’m looking at PIAF replacing an aging Key system box that only has a couple working phones left. I’d just as soon not buy extra old stuff to keep the key system going. I may keep it around for emergency use, just power it down and disconnect the phones.
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Sorry if this should be in the forums. Just haven’t gotten over there yet to post.
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Reginald W

[WM: Not to worry. The new Orgasmatron III build should be fine on the SC440… just not the other way around (with Orgasmo II on the T100). Faxing should be fine, if not better, with POTS lines. With 4-6 lines, I’d probably go with an internal card.]

By: Tom Schmitt

Tom Schmitt — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:10:14 +0000

Ward,
I purchased the Walmart special and the SC440. Will these be of no value or will you be offering additional releases that will work on either or both of these machines?

What are the problems with using the same backup for both the Dell sc440 and the t100?

Will the only use for them be to build from scratch a machine with all the features.

Would it be possible to create an upgrade script that takes a standard build of PiaF and have it install all of the items included in the III build?

This would allow anyone to create a similar system at any time – it would just take longer to build and install the system.
Thanks for all you hard work!
TomS

[WM: Let me try to answer your questions. As to the earlier builds, they still will work on the machines for which they were designed. New features can be added to those systems using our traditional scripts which are provided both at Nerd Vittles, Best of Nerd Vittles, and pbxinaflash.org. This is not a difficult process. Most of the installs can be completed in under a minute.

Keep in mind that these are snapshot images. So there is really no way to keep them current although SUSHI has been designed to keep them secure and patched. You raise an interesting idea which is whether SUSHI could be expanded to provide software refreshes and new software as well. We have been reluctant to do this because some people frankly don’t want all the bells and whistles.

There are some items in the Orgasmatron II build for the SC440 that could lead to issues on the T100. I’m being vague about it intentionally. Suffice it to say that, on the T100, you’re much better off using the Orgasmatron III build.]