August 20, 2008 by ted.

I was at work today and mentioned I was going to be working on the Voice track rather quickly. One guy mentioned, “There is more to life than studying and taking tests”.

I guess I get bored too easy. Let’s see, watch TV all night, or get to do something that’s intellectually challenging? You have to take breaks or you get burned-out, it has happened to me. That’s what weekends are for. Shoot, I love playing computer games and going out to the movies, but Mon-Thurs is all business for me. Come on, that’s very reasonable.

I’ve been doing Voice all day long at work for the last year, so this is going to be very helpful for me. I’m hoping for a quicker turnaround for the Voice (6 months at the longest). I’ve got to take the Voice written soon, so I need to look over the Cisco website to make sure I’m solid. I’m probably going to bypass the professional level certs for this one… I would rather focus on lab time.

IPExpert will be getting my business once again.

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September 26, 2007 by ted.

I recently bought some Cisco IP phones off of ebay so I could start my own VOIP lab at home. I purchased a 7940G and 7912G to start out with. The 7912G wasn’t too big of a pain; I basically had to reset the phone to factory defaults (no big deal thx to documentation online–and it already had SCCP). Well the 7940 was a different story. It was configured with MGCP firmware with a non-default password. I ended-up trying the two recovery methods on Cisco’s site. Needless to say, holding “#” while resetting didn’t work (it’s meant for SIP phones) and the “**#” didn’t work either (as it’s meant for SCCP phones). I was left wondering how I was going to get my 7940 working.

After google failed me, I came across this link

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