“Linux Certifications: Hot or not?” (Computerworld)

A friend of mine and I were interviewed about a week ago by Paul Krill from Computerworld and it looks like Google picked up the Norwegian version of the story first. What are your thoughts on Linux Certification?
Read my thoughts and the Computerworld article here

How does Hulu do it? What Hulu taught me about advertising

A good deal of my TV viewing is done through Hulu. If you are not familiar with the service, Hulu is bascially a web-based television — allowing you to watch the latest episodes of a number of popular TV programs through your computer. To boot, they have quite an archive of old favorites too; I [...]

Working VoIP Softphone SIP Client on VMware Virtual Machine

A month or so back, a few members of Direct Brands‘ IT group presented to the Central PA VMUG (VMware User Group). The talk was focused on VMware’s View product and one item of special interest to me was how they got their SIP client software (soft phone) for Windows XP working on VMware View [...]

Best of FOSE 2009: My picks

Pat Wittle and I had the pleasure of attending FOSE 2009: day 2 yesterday at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in downtown Washington, D.C. We had the pleasure to take in some of the latest and greatest new technology available to government and the private sector. FOSE hosted several hundred exhibitors this year and [...]

PowerPoint Slides on LimeSurvey from CPLUG Talk

Thank you to everyone that came out to the CPLUG meeting tonight to hear Bob Igo and I talk about Magento /VirtualBox and LimeSurvey.
You can download my Introduction to LimeSurvey PowerPoint slides: HERE

Presenting @ CPLUG this evening: LimeSurvey Overview & Demo

I will be presenting an overview and demo of the LimeSurvey open source electronic survey software this evening at 6:30pm for the Central Pennsylvania Linux User Group (CPLUG); we meet at ITT Tech on Eisenhower Blvd in Harrisburg, PA. The meeting details can be found here if you would like to attend: CPLUG Meeting Details
Some [...]

VNC vs. NoMachine NX: NoMachine Wins Hands-Down

I have long-used VNC and variants (ie: TightVNC) as a way to access my Linux desktops. Comparing VNC to Windows’ Remote Desktop, I have never been happy at all with the way that VNC underperforms. This is of course due to the underlying differences in the way that VNC and RDP render screens, but that [...]

Feature Request: Automatic Email Attachment Check

Have you ever written an email, told the recipient to refer to the attachment and then clicked “Send” before making the attachment? I do it all the time and it probably makes me look like a giant idiot.
Would it not be great if your email client could check any outgoing email for phrases that might [...]

Follow-up: Brief Review of CallCentric VoIP (SIP) Service

This is a follow-up to this post.
CallCentric has been working great for outbound SIP trunking and customer support continues to be very responsive.
Unfortunately, CallCentric does not support oversubscribing direct-inward-dial (DID) numbers to single trunks / channels. This is a total bummer as it is often the case that a business has low simultaneous usage of [...]

Polycom SoundPoint IP VoIP Phone Default Admin Password

In order to change any advanced settings on your Polycom SoundPoint IP VoIP phone, you will need the admin password:
Username (this is case sensitive): Polycom
Password: 456