Tom’s Networking has a nice review of Asterisk@Home – it’s a nice read aimed at the tech literate who might be somewhat new to VoIP. If you’re looking for a live linux asterisk distro, Asterisk@Home is my personal preference.
I’ve been having fits getting zenworks imaging to work with Dell Optiplex GX280s and GX510s. I finally came up with a solution that works 100% of the time. Set the SATA drive to compatibility mode in BIOS, and use the… Read More »Zenworks Imaging boot cds
I’ve been very interested in the series Linux Journal has been running on NX. They describe it as: “a new technology that allows one to run remote X11 sessions across slow or low-bandwidth network connections. User experience with NX is… Read More »NX
Novell has recently “opened” their development of SUSE Linux, creating a project called Open SUSE To clarify what Novell means when it says it is “opening” SUSE, Mancusi-Ungaro says “SUSE Linux is already open from a code perspective. [It] has… Read More »Open SUSE
From the Google blog: Posted by Vijay Boyapati, Software Engineer “For some time now, the Google News team has noticed a steady uptick in feature requests for feed support. We are happy to announce that starting today you’ll be able… Read More »Google News RSS Feeds
I’ve been doing some research on K-12 Data Warehouses. At our most recent administrative meeting, data analysis was of big interest and I’m fairly sure that this is going to be one of our big pushes this year. So far… Read More »K-12 Data Warehousing
Just found out that there is a command – ExtendOEMPartition – in sysprep that will allow you to expand NTFS disk partitions. From the Microsoft site: Using Sysprep to Extend Disk PartitionsWhen installing Windows XP Professional, you might find it… Read More »Using Sysprep to Extend Disk Partitions
Tom Hoffman has an interesting post about free software being highlighted at NECC. All of the projects he mentions are worth checking out if you are not familiar with them: K12LTSP SchoolTool Cando Edubuntu A good listing of K-12 Open… Read More »Free Software in Education
It’s been a while since I talked about my demo of the Lightspeed box, and I wanted to give my take on it. The demo unit I evaluated came as a 1 U rack server, and setting it up was… Read More »My review of Lightspeed’s Total control
I came across this post on Joshers Weblog and it fixed a bunch of problems for me. Disabling the soundcard was a great help – I’ve been trying to get audio to work for about a month, and the solution… Read More »Sysprep across multiple machines