Joomla! site syndication http://www.pbnj-solutions.com 2008-11-23T11:23:18+01:00 http://www.pbnj-solutions.com http://www.pbnj-solutions.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-02-26T14:01:11+01:00 http://www.pbnj-solutions.com http://www.pbnj-solutions.com/communications/instant-messaging/military-grade-communications.html Having long been a proponent of Jabber (http://www.jabber.com) this announcement on TMC Net (http://visualvoicemail.tmcnet.com/enterprise-mobility/articles/18603-us-marine-corps-picks-jabber-mission-critical-communications.htm) is too interesting to ignore. The article even mentions SIP/SIMPLE which is the technology that bridges the Voice over IP (VoIP) and Instant Messaging worlds. For example, the current crop of Grandstream (http://www.grandstream.com) phones supports SIP/SIMPLE so text messages can be delivered directly to the phone. But wait, it gets more interesting, Jabber has an open architecture now embodied in the form of Internet standards such as XMPP (RFC 3920 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3920.txt) and RFC 3921 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3921.txt)), the very standards and code base upon which Google (http://www.google.com) built its GoogleTalk (http:/www.google.com/talk)! As a matter of fact, you can reach the author on via Google Talk because PBnJ Solutions' Jabber server is federated with Google's servers. The question remains then, does this make me an official of the Military Industrial Complex? I think not, but it does mean that PBnJ Solutions is familiar with, and can help you implement, military grade solutions to your business problems. Need a VoIP solution? Call us and we can help get your Asterisk server (http://www.asterisk.org) up and running; IM us and we'll move you off that myriad of adware riddled instant messaging services that turn your firewall into a swiss-cheese to a rock-solid Jabber server (http://www.jabber.org). We'll be glad to communicate with you in any way you'd like. text/html 2008-02-19T21:51:45+01:00 http://www.pbnj-solutions.com http://www.pbnj-solutions.com/voip/ways-to-make-phones-do-what-want-them-to/grandstream-custom-ringtones.html Most of the postings on how to get a Grandstream GXP 2000 to sound a custom ringtone when connected to an Asterisk PBX only get half the story right. This brief article attempts to set the record straight. Three pieces must fall into place: Ringtone sound files These files must be called ring1.bin, ring2.bin and ring3.bin respectively and must be downloaded to the phone. This typically entails placing them into the /tftpboot folder on your TFTP server alongside the configuration files for the phones. Phone Parameters Phones associate each of the three ringtones with a specific caller-id value. These caller-id values are controlled with parameters P105; P106 and P107 respectively. Pick appropriate caller-id values for each of the ringtones and move to the final step: Asterisk Dial Plan In the appropriate place in the Asterisk dialplan then, insert a line as follows: exten => s,n,SIPAddHeader(Alert-Info:\;info=Special) Where "Special" corresponds to the parameter value you chose to associate with the ringtone you want to use for that call. And that is all there is to it. text/html 2008-01-08T19:59:49+01:00 http://www.pbnj-solutions.com http://www.pbnj-solutions.com/noise/tips-and-tricks/sugarcrm-5.0-community-editions-portal-support.html With the 4.5 edition of SugarCRM's Community edition it was possible to activate the portal feature in the Administration System Settings panel and subsequently assign contacts their portal names on the Contact editing form. However, with the 5.0 release this ability to edit the portal related attributes of a contact has been removed from the community edition and, to make matters worse, the upgrade process has some logic to explicitly disable portal access for all contacts! Here I provide a few simple SQL statements you can use to restore portal access to contacts who used to have it, and also to add this feature to new contacts. text/html 2007-04-25T22:34:05+01:00 http://www.pbnj-solutions.com http://www.pbnj-solutions.com/newsflashes/company-news/website-rework.html After four years of service we are retiring our Movable Type based site in favor of a more dynamic design. Switching to Joomla! provides the engine to allow us to add customized data access to our growing customer-base including such features as site documentation and case management. text/html 2002-12-31T11:54:06+01:00 http://www.pbnj-solutions.com http://www.pbnj-solutions.com/news/latest/welcome-to-pbnj-solutions.html PBnJ Solutions is not your average Information Technology solutions provider. We aim to be not only your first choice when it comes to handling your basic IT needs but also your choice when all else fails. Our solutions are both simple and reliable. Please browse this site to get a sense for the range of Information Technologies we can help you with, or read more below.