After months and months of fixing and testing the FreeSwitch community is proud to announce Version 1.0 today. Congratulation to all of us and everybody who took part in the effort.
A day like every other day. I start reading my email and again have to digg through tons of messages arriving via social or business networks suggesting cooperation on this or that. Most of them in broken english. Most of them from people whose native language is one of the languages listed in my profile. Another case of not done homework. If you want to contact me, wouldn’t it be basic good manners to check out my profile and see if you could write me a proper email in one of the languages you and I know best ? Wouldn’t it also save both of us a lot of time if you would first check out my corporate website to see if I am at all in your line of business or maybe a competitor or maybe for sure not interested at all ? Doesn’t it cross your mind that by not doing that you tend to create an initial opinion in my mind that you are just too lazy to do that and do not value my time at all ?
Strange.
So you have setup your Solaris/SXCE/SXDE/Indiana system and ran into problems. YAY there are irc channels to help. Just login to freenode and join #opensolaris #solaris or any of the language specific channels and start torturing people with questions. Oh, you get attacked and laughed at ? Now go figure …
The problem is easy. SUN, as strange as it tends to behave sometimes has put into public access tons and tons and tons of documentation. This documentation is available to everybody with a webbrowser and sometimes some patience at http://docs.sun.com/ . People will attack you or laugh at you if you did not even put any effort into reading up and solvin the problem yourself at all.
There is a simple reason for that. Close to everybody in those channels is working day in day out with the systems and trying to make his living administrating, developing with, on or in those systems. We all spent tons of our time working out things, reading documentation, attending training etc and we just can’t understand why it seems to be so hard for people to first use SUN’s excellent documentation site, than use google and only as a matter of last ressort torture people on the irc channels with their problems.
DO YOUR HOMEWORK before asking on irc, or you make life hard for the people that have really tricky problems and search for answes there, since they will also have to get through the opnion that they did not do their homework.
Just my 2c EUR, as usual …
While fixing penfires broken debian packaging I found out that the java xml parser used in openfire can’t parse DOS formattted files. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. Took me 4 days to find that problem. So now I ahve a functional openfire package. Will see if I can add it to my blogsite for interested parties to download 
