April 19, 2008
Rex Backman from the Response Point team just posted this to the Response Point mailing list, and graciously gave me permission to blog about it here.
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If you have further questions please email Syspine @ sales@syspine.com. When placing your order with our distributor please reference promotional code SYSDEMO.
If you would like to talk directly to Rex and a couple of developers from the Response Point team, they will be in New Orleans at the SBSmigration.com conference in May, Mother’s Day weekend.
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April 9, 2008
AKA Best.Day.Evar
Today’s penultimate session for the 2007–2008 class of Leadership Tuscaloosa was…
How shall I put this?
TOTALLY FREAKIN AWESOME!
Big huge thanks to the local health and safety organizations who hosted us, including…
No, we didn’t get to fire any ordnance or discharge any rounds, but we got to see all of the following…
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A full walking tour of the county jail, including the maximum security wing
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Mobile command center
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Armored carrier for Special Response Team activities
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Bomb squad equipment, including robots
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Mobile forensic lab, including 360 degree laser imaging system for crime scene investigations
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Special Response Team (formerly called SWAT) equipment and tactics
We also got to…
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Perform emergency medical technician response for a simulated car accident
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Use a thermal imaging camera to pinpoint heat sources
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Put on a full suit of turnout gear, including a helmet, to…
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Work a fully energized firehose against a simulated fire target
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Simulate forced entry into a residence
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Field deploy a firehose (fully unrolled mine in a single toss, straight as an arrow…hella yeah!), then reroll for proper stowing
All while basking in today’s glorious 80 degree heat.
Did I say how FREAKIN AWESOME today was yet?
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April 7, 2008
No, I’m not talking about what passes for springtime in Seattle.
That’s what I think about Windows Live without Messenger. Kinda, well…depressing. Especially on a mobile device.
So all you emo kids can go get your mope on.
Windows Live for Windows Mobile has just been released…without Messenger.
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March 25, 2008
Why…a whole heaping heap of sugary goodness, that’s what!
Kinda like a pinata, except without a stick being swung wildly by a blindfolded kid like a crack addict beating a wino.
First and foremost, SP1 adds the long-awaited SIP trunking to Response Point. You will be able to configure VoIP based services for outgoing calls, in addition to the analog line support that has always been available with RP. The Response Point team has been working with a handful of VoIP service providers to assure a smooth configuration process.
Analog and VoIP services will each use a different dialing prefix, so users can easily specify which kind of connection they want to use for a given call.
Direct Inbound Dialing comes with SP1 too, adding the ability to send all calls to a particular number directly to a specific user or group. For Running Antelope, this feature will be like manna from Heaven, as it will be a key addition to the system here at the Funcave.
Some call reporting arrives in SP1 as well, which is an excellent feature for billing, tracking, troubleshooting, or just seeing if your employees are wasting time calling their boyfriends or girlfriends. It’s said to be pretty basic, but should do the trick.
Response Point Assistant also gets some sweet sweet lovin’ with SP1, adding both the ability to see the call status of all users on the RP system and to dial another RP user through an RP handset by clicking in the Assistant window. The click-dial feature stops short of being a true softphone, however.
According to the team, Service Pack 1 should arrive in an easy-to-use installer package, which is slated to drop later this summer. And easy is a good thing, right?
If you want more information, Richard Sprague from the Response Point team will be discussing RP and SP1 during the last third of the 10 o’clock hour tomorrow morning as part of Microsoft’s Small Business Summit-a-palooza.
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March 24, 2008
Well, not everyone on the team…
But I did get a chance to meet a few folks from the Response Point team for dinner last Tuesday night.
Bob Taniguchi, Veronica Buckley and Ben Brauer were kind enough to take me to the 0/8 Seafood Grill and Twisted Cork Wine Bar at the Hyatt Regency in nearby Bellevue.
We talked about a wide range of topics regarding Response Point, including SMB conferences, the SBSC program, virtualization, and system administration, nearly all of which I can’t tell you anything about thanks to my Wolfram & Hart-esque binding NDA with Microsoft.
But I can tell you that the team is serious about Response Point, and you should be as well. Definitely a More Cowbell kind of meeting, if you catch my drift.
Response Point is on the agenda for the Small Business Summit this week. Tomorrow from 10–11a PDT, in fact. If you have time for only one session from Small Business Summit, make it that one.
You won’t be disappointed. Assuming MS gets the whole “casting” part of the webcast fixed.
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