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Asterisk 1st review

- There is another alternatives, like openSER which works only as a SIP server , no IAX supports as far as i know and not a PBX.
- There is also openPBX which is a fork of Asterisk due to some license issue related to that Asterisk is a dual license " GPL, Digium License] AFAIK, but i didn't give both a real try and time.
it's a full package, very computable with each application within.
Give it a try or u can get Asterisk@home " TrixBox " and give it a try..
- Not easy to configure.
- Most of GUIs dose not support all the configurations configurations.
- AFAIK dose not support Video conferencing till now "1.2.x stable release"
Asterisk is an Free/Open Source Virtual IP PBX and VOIP server which supports lots of VOIP protocols like SIP,H323,IAX,IAX 2 and more protocols also it support using analog and digital likes like T1/E1 via using special hardware produced by many vendors including the sponsor for the Asterisk project Digium which founded by Mark Spencer the original author of Asterisk.
Also Asterisk considers a very powerful and very cheap PBX system, since it support amazing features like call recording,IVR menus,call transfer, call picking up, park calls, music on hold, passing caller ID,caller ID name look up" in case your PSTN is a SIP provider and supports Name ID " or you can use it locally by creating a lookup database, blocked numbers, voice conference, video , text chat and it supports having SQL databases as a backend for configurations and CDR. This is not everything. Also it can be the only PBX you use, you can integrate asterisk to any analog PBX system.
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openMSX

With openMSX you can run your favorite games / programs you used to play with 15 years ago or may be more . it supports disk images , cartage images and cassettes tape images.which is amazing i think i still have some cassettes taps i can digitize them to wav and use it."If it`s legal"
what really I like a lot about openmsx the great support for many MSX brands. you can get the System ROM for any MSX computer and run it with openMSX. as you can see in the screenshot i'm running MSX2 with Philips Machine. you can get another ROM for another machine and run it also.
I think one day we will have emulators to our x86 machines while we or our children will be using something like ZsxX29990 ;-)
it dose`t have save feature or dump for current session.
openMSX is a MSX , MSX2 and MSX2+ emulator. for people who don`t know what is MSX . It is a old computer since the early of 80's and check this link to know more about MSX systems
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DamnSmallLinux Snapshots
The most amazing point about this distro is its lightweight.
Firstlook at Firefox packed with DSL can't interpret arabic pages very well.
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ISPconfig a free cpanel replacement
It works :)
free and easy to setup
try it :)
not supported on gentoo, supports limited server varieties.
Just came across this article on newsforge, and thought all those people asking about cpanel might find this useful.
http://mobile.newsforge.com/mobility/06/01/02/1434241.shtml?tid=49
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Propel ORM! Cross the relational bridge to the object-oriented wonders!
What is propel?
Propel is a full-service object persistence and query toolkit for PHP. It allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and querying data. You might already have heard of this technique, but under a different name, like Data Access Objects (DAO) or Object Relational Mapping (ORM). It's a port of Apache Torque (see links section below).Compiere:ERP & CRM for the small-medium Enterprise
- What is ERP?
Enterprise resource planning systems (ERPs) are management information systems that integrate and automate many of the business practices associated with the operations or production aspects of a company.
- What is CRM?
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DidiWiki a personal wiki that is truly wiki wiki !
Best thing is that you don't need to install mysql databases, webservers, php, etc.. And if it was packaged as an RPM installation it would have been much easier to install. Yes, I can here some of you, *urpmi phpwiki* on MandrakeLinux installs a full featured modular PHPWiki with all its dependencies. I did this before and didn't work like I wished, I had to edit some config files outside my home directory. Plus, I don't like having my data hidden somewhere in a MySQL database. I will not learn SQL to learn how to manipulate my data. Sorry, to much overhead for me.
- fast
- small
- few dependencies
- Very easy to install
- flat text files under the ~/.didiwiki directory
- easy to edit
- integrate and use with other tools, only some bash knowledge needed
- easy to backup
- you can change this directory, see README
- Optional Gnome front-end
DidiWiki is not the best wiki software. However, its a very nice easy to install and easy use wiki. Which, I think, creates a low barrier for adoption of this kind of ad-hoc personal productivity software. And this is the purpose of this review, to encourage you to try and experiment with using a wiki for organizing your life, projects or whatever. Since, some may be wiki-shy to edit public wikis and thus fail to realize their potential, a personal hidden wiki for you to keep track of whatever that makes you busy would be more inviting.
In general wikis are one of the best inventions that appeared on the web lately. Coupled with the idea of structured text, which makes it easier to edit. Currently, the downside is, nearly every wiki uses its own syntax for structured text. Which makes it hard to remember if you are frequently using several kinds of wikis. Hard to migrate from one wiki software to the other. Complicates things if you like to write in your wiki first before posting to a blog or another wiki. I hope bodies like the W3C would create a structured text standard for wiki developers to adhere to. I did complain about this before here
Other personal wikis
- Instiki - A small wiki written in Ruby
- A complete list at http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PersonalWiki
- no revisions
- no back-links
- search is case sensitive
- not based on templates
DidiWiki 0.5 is an extremely fast and easy to run personal desktop wiki. It is written in C and is only 25KB. It is comes with built-in webserver, syntax similar to kwiki ,standards compliant output. If you can do the installation routine bellow you will have a nice small personal wiki running. <!--break-->
tar -zxvf didiwiki-0.5.tar.gz cd didwiki ./configure make make install # as root Point your favorite browser to http://localhost:8000
Tips for using a personal wiki
Write down first, organize later
Should I create a separate page for this idea, should I put it with other things. etc.. Don't bother thinking about how to organize your wiki. Wikily write it down, later on you can think of how to organize it. A personal wiki follows no rules, only yours and you will formulate them down the road.
Only use one date format.
This will help you searching for pages that mention specific days, months or years. I personally use the ISO date format so I can sort a list of events.
Go mobile
Put it on a Handheld or a USB memory chain.
More tips and user experiences with personal wikis here
Arabic
Didiwiki uses !UTF8 by default. Which means there is no encoding hassles.
Concerning RTL you will have to drop a custom style.css in the ~/.didwiki/ directory.
Goto http://localhost:8000/styles.css copy all the contents of this page in your favorite text editor then append the following line:
div#wikidata {direction: rtl;}
save your file as ~/.didiwiki/styles.css
Since there is no way to create CamelCase Arabic. You will have to force links, but Didiwiki doesn't allow forcing links to more than a single word try doing this instead:
[شخص_خجول_مجهول]
Security
Security is probably the most important issue in Didiwiki. Although, wikis on the web are made for anyone to read and edit. A personal wiki is not the same you don't want your personal TODO list or contacts for everyone to see. It provides no security in this domain, your data is in the open. For anyone to misuse, laugh at, tamper with at port 8000. But as far as I know there are no other wiki software that provides such level of privacy.
If you have a firewall and its your own personal desktop, with no one you don't trust logged in, then there is no need to freak out.
DidiWiki should have optional password authentication, and the ability to change ports. Fortunately Matthew Allum, DidiWiki's author plans to add this in the future:
Fortunatly Matthew has lots of ideas and plans for didiwiki.If you really do want to run one publically with SSL, http auth etc one way you can do it is sit it behind an apache reverse proxy. I do intend to one day add http auth to didiwiki itself.
Fire Fox
when i'm at work and stucking on M$..there nothing better than use Fire Fox for surfing the net .
- Tabing , tabing , tabing specaily when comparing to M$ IE ..
- FASt
- Pop-up Blocker
- extended RSS support
- enhanced security
- improved IE compatibility.
- new Find toolbar
Till now nothing .But when i used it some times under M$ it get Rarely extensions problems..but this is nothing Comparing to common and repeated IE problems .
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