Timberline Employee Blog

I recently found out the Chrysler employee discount at Verizon isn’t too bad when I bought a new phone.

https://signup.verizonwireless.com/DaimlerChrysler/Daimler%20Dealership%20Announcement%20Page.pdf 

Royal Philips Electronics manafacutred the first compact disc on August 17, 1982. Also see the Philips news center.

How much of your collection is still on cassette tape, 8 Track tape, record, or magnetic wire?

Ok 25 years, and I’m still trying to write disk instead of disc. Perhaps I might have an excuse if I were actually trying to listen to all 200 billion CDs made in the last 25 years. If all CDs were music CDs, estimating an hour per CD that would be 913,242 CDs playing simutaniously, 24 hours a day, for the past 25 years. Even a percentage of a percantage is enough to drive one crazy.

If your attachments are nearing 10 megabytes or more, then yes they are too big. Many email servers only let messages of 10 megabytes or less through. File encoding also takes up some of this space so I use estimate 7 megabytes is what you’re left with.

One option is to tell Outlook Express to split messages up. There are a few pitfalls here. If the party you are sending to email client cannot recombine the message, you are left with several messages full of junk. If not all the messages come through you are left with junk too.

To automatically split messages:

1. Open Tools/Accounts, select the email account you want to change, and click Properties.
2. Click the Advanced tab
3. Under Sending, click Break apart messages larger than…
4. Enter 7000 kb for the break size. This is slightly less than 7 megabytes and is a good approximate number to keep under the 10 megabyte including encoding limit.
5. Save your changes.

Splitting is automatic. Test by sending yourself a large attachment.

Updated 9/28/2007

Shoretel 7 now offers wav ringtones on Shoretel IP phones.

It is a bit tricky to implement. First you will need a wav file in an approved format. I used Audacity for the sound manipulation. After you chopped up your sound bite to a small enough clip do the following to make it usable on the Shoretel IP Phones.

1. Select the whole track.
2. Click on Tracks/Stereo to Mono (if you have a stereo track)
3. In the bottom left Project Rate selection box select either 8000 or 16000
4. Now export. Click File / Export As / Wav and give it a name and place to live.

Now take this new wav file over to your shoretel server and find your ftp root directory. Create a folder called ringtones and drop the wav file there.

Important. Check to see you can ftp this back. Open your browse your ftp server and see if you can open this file. In Internet Explorer type ftp://”your server name or ip address” and search for the file you dropped in.

Find an IP phone you want to change and get its mac address. It is likely the first half starts with 001049.  Now back at the ftproot folder create a file called shore_<your mac addess>.txt.  For example, shore_001049012BF4.txt is a valid file name. Inside this file place two lines.

WaveRinger1 L/rg 1.1.1.1/ringtone/customexternal.wav
WaveRinger2 L/r1 1.1.1.1/ringtone/custominternal.wav

Replace 1.1.1.1 with your servers IP address
Replace customexternal.wav with the ringtone filename for outside calls.
Replace custominternal.wav with the ringtone filename for internal calls.

You must also check to see if you can open this file by ftp as well. You may have to go and change permissions to be able to see these files. If you can’t see it, your phone can’t see it either.  This is what was stopping me the first day I tried the ringtones out.

Do not change any other files in this directory. You could make your phone system not work if you change the wrong file here.

Consult your Shoretel 7 Administrator’s Guide lists how to change ringtones for all of your ST530’s, or ST210’s, etc., all at the same time and how you can assign sounds to ringtones 2-4.  Only one set of two ringtones may be downloads to a phone at a time.