With the high prices of many of the newer PBX systems on the market, an Open Source alternative may be the right fit for you and your budget. Especially if it can deliver as many feature rich applications as Asterisk is capable of doing.

What once was the primary method of inter-hardware communication, the serial port now seems to be considered more of a legacy form of communication as more applications are networked. However, I don't think I am the only one that still has the need to interface equipment or applications that only talk through the serial port.

Kerala IT policy envisions an inclusive knowledge society, but it still remains just words. There is no effort to implement the policy in any of the initiatives the government is taking. The recent incident is the tax filing application which mandates use of Microsoft Excel fomat for tax filings and the macro does not work with Free Software replacements like Open Office Calc.

Setting up SSL with Ubuntu 8.10 is a simple process but it does have a few gotchas that you need to be aware of. The setup has changed from 8.04. One issue is that the +CompatEnvVars is no longer used as it created a bug in 8.10 and you will have to enable the default-ssl site to get everything working.

RMS: « Clown plans to build a centralized Big Brother data base for all communication patterns in the UK, and give it to a private company.

Abuses are almost inevitable. Individuals will misuse the data and governments will misuse it. »

"As I mentioned before, I started working on the SeaMonkey UI for the toolkit download manager backend. In the last few days, I have progressed a lot on that, as one can easily see from the pushlog on the hg repository I created for backing up that work (and having the code out there if someone wants to test). Here's a current screenshot of my work: ..."

"...The basic plan is to have a small frame at the bottom of the editor which constantly updates with the number of words and keyword density. Highlighting will be controlled by a key combination and disabled when any other key is pressed..."

Potentially unmasking one of Microsoft's most aggressive Internet trolls