Monthly Archives: January 2005

Speaking of VoIP, anyone have a spare $67,140?

Russel Shaw of ZDNet as found the eBay auction of my dreams. Now I just need the funds for the VoIP cutover. Anyone want to make a tax-deductible donation to my school for this? I’ll need more than 100 phones, though - so make that an even $100,000, OK?

Phones, open source, and VoIP

I’ve been wanting to set up a test Asterisk box for quite a while now, but haven’t found any compatible cards cheap enough to justify giving it a try. I bought some MultiTech MultiVOIP gateways, hoping they would integrate with it easily, but there is not a lot of information out there on integrating [...]

Doing the Mambo - Website CMS thoughts

So, I’ve been growing more and more dissapointed with our current CMS the we use at the school for our website (PHP website). Don’t get me wrong, I don’t find anything really wrong wit it, but it isn’t as full-featured as I would have hoped it would be by now, and it runs [...]

MySQL security alert

An UDF Worm is attacking UNSECURED installs of MySQL on Windows. Am I alone in thinking that anyone who leaves the remote root password blank is kinda asking for it? My guess is is that it’s mostly hitting people’s dev machines, where they are not expecting to see any real traffic….
So anyways, it won’t affect [...]