FOSE 2011 Government IT / Security Conference & Expo, 20% Discount Code

The top Government IT / Security Conference & Expo, FOSE 2011, is returning to Washington, D.C., July 19-21 with featured speaker Steve Wozniak. In past years, the vendor floor has been very good and I enjoy getting hands-on with the newest tech. The 400+ vendor  expo is free, and if you plan to attend the [...]

Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference Sponsorship Opportunities

If you or your business use Open Source Software, please consider becoming a sponsor of the Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference 2010: http://www.cposc.org/sponsorship The Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference (CPOSC) is seeking sponsors. Years past have proven that this is a progressive event, bringing together bright and influential minds in technology from all over the United [...]

See the latest in tech at FOSE / GOVSEC 2010 – March 23-25, Washington, D.C.

Last year, I had the pleasure of attending FOSE/GOVSEC 2009 in D.C. and I look forward to attending again this year. Last year’s exhibit floors were packed with some very nice gear and it was exciting to see emerging trends and get hands-on with some of the latest and greatest gadgets relating to gov’t information [...]

Taking Back Your Phone System with VoIP & Asterisk: an overview

I will be giving a short talk this evening for CPLUG on VoIP and Asterisk: “Taking Back Your Phone System with VoIP & Asterisk: an overview”. John will be talking about Dropbox and John Place will be giving us an overview of Rackspace Cloud. I hear that Ubuntu One will be discussed too. It should [...]

Follow-up: Digium AA50 Reboot Issues — A Temporary Work-around

This is a follow-up my original blog post here: Digium Confirms Major Issues with AA50 VoIP Appliance: Spotaneous Reboots and Memory Card Write-Lock, A Review Since I originally posted, I seem to have found a band-aid fix that is getting our AA50 through the days without spontaneous reboots and dropped calls in the process. I [...]

Digium Confirms Major Issues with AA50 VoIP Appliance: Spotaneous Reboots and Memory Card Write-Lock, A Review

Let me begin by saying that I am a big fan of Digium in general. All of their products that I have used thus far in several IP telephony / VoIP installations have worked tremendously well. Background: Doug and I recently integrated a Digium AA50 phone system appliance with Polycom IP telephones for a small [...]

Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference – October 17, 2009

Attention all techies! If you are not yet registered for the 2009 Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference, today is the last day registration will be open! It was a great learning experience last year and promises to be the same this year as well. You can check out the schedule and register here: http://www.cposc.org/schedule

Linksys EG1032 v3 works in gigabit mode on Openfiler 2.3

Just a quick follow-up on my previous post regarding the Linksys EG1032 and Openfiler 2.3: We have confirmed that the v3 of the Linksys EG1032 does work in gigabit mode on Openfiler 2.3 when provided with a gigabit uplink. I have also tried the EG1032 v3 with ESX 3.5 on a Dell PowerEdge 2600 without [...]

Linksys EG1032 v3 works on Openfiler 2.3

A friend and I have been experimenting with Openfiler 2.3 recently and tried the Linksys EG1032 v3 gigabit network card in an installation. While the card was not autodetected after an install was already made (we tried swapping cards and changing config), it does work with a new install of OpenFiler 2.3; we did not [...]

“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