Step 3: unfuck the SIP settings, then email both HR and their supervisor to throw them under the bus. Also covers your ass for step 4.
Step 4: Route the manager’s calls to a disconnected number. When they come knocking about their phone not working, tell them, “No, you should be able to dial out, unless someone changed the SIP trunk settings and didn’t tell me.”
Assuming you already have the IP phones, you need two things. A PBX server (for the VoIP stuff), and a SIP trunk with a block of external phone numbers.
Start with the PBX server software, there’s several free/open-source implementations. Once you’re comfortable with it and have internal calling good to go, then you can spend on the SIP trunk and number blocks.
Step right up and place your bets now, folks! What will be the tipping point for massive defederation? Will it be:
Snobby, vocal elitism from instance admins,
Retaliatory sanctions for anticompetitive actions, or
insufficient moderation of harmful or adult content?
I’m putting $20 on the third one, rampant porn bots will be the tipping point.
Wouldn’t be surprised if they got some personally delivered letters from the legal department of a big media company, given that they blocked visibility to some magazines on other servers.
Sounds more like poor self-checkout design.
All the stores I’ve been to with self-checkout require placing your just scanned item into the bag on a scale. If the weight change doesn’t match what it expects, it locks up and requires a store employee to check and clear it.
Downside is, it has problems with very light items.
They didn’t stop allowing 3rd party app usage per se, they just priced it so absurdly high that they all had to stop operating or get multimillion dollar invoices.
…Which is technically just killing 3rd party apps, thinly disguised under a layer of potential profit. Pretty standard soulless corporate practice.
Computer monitors should work too, and are more readily available. Just dig through the business oriented monitors and ignore the gaming ones, as cable providers aren’t really going to have anything that can take advantage of >60 fps display rates.
I agree, but I have this sinking feeling that the politicians above them are going to find some way to punish or force Fairfax County into compliance. They’ll probably slash education funds or replace the superintendent in retaliation.
SIP providers usually sell numbers in contiguous series for businesses. For example, if your company buys a block of 50 numbers, the SIP provider then allocates XXX-5100 to XXX-5150.
But since you’re keeping this strictly internal, you don’t have to worry about that.