Voice Announcements via Modem

We have a PBX system through which it’s possible to make announcements, some of which I find myself making regularly.  Having an old voice modem lying about, I decided to program it to make regular announcements for me. Rather than dedicate a modem to voice announcements, I decided to share… Continue reading

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Hyper-V Serial Ports and Windows 2008

Unlike many other virtualization solutions, it’s not particularly easy to connect a Windows 2008 Hyper-V guest to its host serial ports.  Perversely, there are settings to connect the guest COM ports to “named pipes,” but there’s no way on the host to connect COM ports to named pipes.  (It appears… Continue reading

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SIIG Cyber Serial under Windows 2008, or getting old drivers to work

I’m in the process of “upgrading” a server from Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 server, and one of the things this server does is manage a few serial devices.  Therefore, it contains an old PCI serial board, but the manufacturer has since moved on to newer hardware, and hasn’t… Continue reading

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