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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask theBuddha, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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I have done a whole lot of PBX and VIOP work over the years for many businesses

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It's too bad ALS took that guy so young. It's great that he's still composing music, but that has to be a damned tedious task as it's all communicating with the eyes. They're doing a lot in this department, with eye tracking and even a brain implant that you learn to use. Though I'm not sure if that was out of testing phase or what...

And, yeah, I kinda figured you'd done both PBX and VOIP. I figured that'd be a good example that we'd both be at least a little familiar with. Even way back when, our phones had an LCD in them (or maybe an LED, it was a long time ago) that'd display a bunch of information. I dimly recall there being a bit of hassle getting CID passed to the internal phones. It was resolved, I'm sure. Fuck, that seems like a lifetime ago. I sold my company in 2007. I've been retired for 15 years.

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Yeah it really sucks when shit like ALS happens to someone and debilitates them and they have no control or no blame for it even happening. That is shitty.

I just thank god for Amphenol cables when I do that work. I dont want to have to run all those wires

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LOL I helped, as in doing the physical work, set up my first data center. It had an elevated floor and we ran cables and cooling through the floor. It was dirty, confusing, long hours, and expensive. It was on the first floor of an old factory, a woolen factory. The 2nd floor was not fit for use, but we had to hire a company to come in and clean it.

We did a lot of the cleaning on the first floor ourselves, hiring in day labor when we could afford it. See, as I said, it was an old woolen factory. That may not mean a lot, but Boston (and surrounding areas) were huge parts of the textile trade. So, imagine wool fibers - and lots of un-planed wooden surfaces. Now, scale that up to the size of a giant factory...

When we moved to North Carolina, there was still wool to be found in the joint. No matter how much it was cleaned, there was still wool hiding around the place. It was fucking horrible. The place in NC was built-to-suit (and like 8 million dollars, including the property) but was a much nicer place. That was our main office - which shouldn't be confused with the lab that was located elsewhere - in Winston-Salem, NC. It was in the business district and wasn't owned by us - it was leased. They also did the build-to-suit thing, but it was really remodeling an existing structure and adding a couple of things like a fence and a guard shack.

We got help from a company known as with our servers and workstations. They'd later sell to Compaq and were acquired by HP. HP continued to sell gear from DEC which we used to keep our existing infrastructure alive while we transitioned to a mostly Sun-shop. Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010, but I was retired by then. I have no fucking clue what they use today. I would expect it's still sticking largely with HP.

Holy balls, there's a fuck-ton of memories that just kinda wafted back into my head.

It was a lifetime ago.