Today I took a break from my Mambo and Asterisk work to attend a regional coordination meeting. Had some interesting discussions on a variety of topics – including one on Learning Management Systems (LMS). A variety of software was discussed, including Blackboard (which we currently use), Educator (used by Florida’s virtual schools?), and Moodle. Moodle [...]
This week’s Computerworld has an interesting article on VoIP security. The article states: “NIST made nine recommendations for implementing VoIP in a secure manner. For example, the report calls for IT managers to build logically separate voice and data networks. Another recommendation is that “if practical,” PC-based VoIP softphones shouldn’t be used in deployments in [...]
After browsing the list of Live Linux CDs this morning, I started wondering if there were live distros of Asterisk or sipX. After a little googling, I came up with the Asterisk Live! CD. It’s put together by Andy Powell, the author of the original Getting Started With Asterisk guide. So far, I’ve downloaded it [...]
From the MamboForge site: Patches are available for Mambo Version 4.5.0-1.0.9 and Version 4.5.1a at http://mamboforge.net/frs/?group_id=5 to counter a vulnerability within Mambo. All administrators of Mambo sites are encouraged to upgrade at their earlist convenience. New installations can use the 4.5.1b release, which incorporates these security fixes. Tweet
Neat resource – lists a boatload of rescue CD’s available. Lets you sort by purpose or size. I found a couple that are quite useful. KnoppMyth is a great way to get MythTV set up on a box, and the Trinity Rescue Kit has saved me from a couple of crashed hard drives and forgotten/corrupt [...]
I had one of those ‘eureka’ ideas this morning and it goes something like this… Background first: Out of the roughly 500 phones in place in my district, I’m replacing 2-3 a month. This doesn’t surprise me as they’re now hitting about 6 years of use, and all of the analog phones (2/3 of the [...]
I had one of those ‘eureka’ ideas this morning and it goes something like this… Background first: Out of the roughly 500 phones in place in my district, I’m replacing 2-3 a month. This doesn’t surprise me as they’re now hitting about 6 years of use, and all of the analog phones (2/3 of the [...]